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The Day After: Bot Back-Lash and the People Speak
In Hooper at the Home of the Copy-Bot, Libsecondlife HQ. Seemingly anti-libsl protestor actually staging an arch, tongue-in-cheek pro-Baba action; Baba himself made the sign years ago. By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk The day after hundreds of people shut down their stores and stopped creating the fantasy world for the Lindens to sell their [...]
Full StoryEddy Stryker Banned! Erm…Wait a Minute!
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Sources are playing the Herald like a violin : ) Who’s on First? Where is the *copy* of First??? But who is First’s Alt??? This is typical at times like this when there’s a Big Story and everybody is trying to stay on it 24/7 but it keeps getting [...]
Full StoryCopyBot: “Prim Dong Without Functionality”
Baba Yamamoto’s Bots: All Dressed Up And Nowhere to Go By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Tableau tonight is dark and closed to teleportation, with only one green dot on the island map. Usually the upscale boardwalk shopping sim built in the weather-beaten Cape Cod style has a dozen shoppers browsing the stores of some [...]
Full StoryCopyBot Store Closes; So Does Linden Thread
Photo by Wrestling Hulka By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk A subdued GeForce Go, a would-be bot vendor, closed her CopyBot sale operation in Manitoba this evening, surrounded by a seething mob shouting that she was ruining their Second Life, and concerned that if she did not close she would face consequences from the Lindens [...]
Full StoryHUNDREDS OF SL STORES SHUTTER DOORS!
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Dept.Hundreds of stores were shuttering their doors tonight all over the grid of Second Life in protest against CopyBot, a cloning agent devised by a reverse-engineering team called libsecondlife. which evidently did not go back in the box when its designers summoned it last night. Angry residents quickly pulled out [...]
Full StoryBots Back in the Box?
Baba Yamamota’s alt showing off his cloning capacity on Pi last night. By Prokofy Neva, Copy Desk After huge public outcry about the replicating facilities of a new toy created by the controversial libsecondlife, the bots have been put back in the box, Jesse Malthus, a member of the 88-member libsecond group announced today. In [...]
Full StoryClones Pwnd?
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Stepford Wives, Trumansville, and Crop Circles The other night I’m rattling around Juanita at the Flamingo Court/Motel of Last Resort taking the names out of the “locked” doors of all those customers who stay with us such a short time (hehe), when I get an offline email out of the [...]
Full StoryClone Drones
By Prokofy Neva, Stepford Wives and Trumansville Desk So I was flying around the Scion City sim last night, having missed the big party to launch the new car. I was convinced I’d find 717 traffic and 2 green dots — which I did. I startled a coupla kids at a drive-in movie in their [...]
Full StoryInternal Contradictions
Zee Linden, Newbie LL CFO, at Concierge Town Hall Tonight. By Prokofy Neva, Virtual Estate Desk As every good Marxist knows, the dialectic contains internal contradictions. We serfs tilling the soil in the land business in SL know this phenomenon in Second Life as, “How come the Lindens said one thing today, but said something [...]
Full StoryAnother Fake First
Your faithful correspondent outside the SLH Vendor in Grace, ready with a rolled-up copy of the famous real actual first virtual tabloid, ready to bop fake firsts. IM Prokofy to get yours today! By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Flak-Catching and Hypervent Harangues Oh, dear. Paging Uri, get on line, quick! You have to see this [...]
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