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Funnelling Newbies: The New Business Portals
At new AzureIslands Welcome area: helping others is helping oneself to a full roster of paying tenants. By Prokofy Neva, FIC 2.0 Watch Linden Lab finally officially announced today a plan that has been in the works for more than a year: funnelling the newbie sign-up stream to a dozen or so of their favourite [...]
Full StoryFear and Loathing in Second Life: The New Sex and Violence Policy
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk. Op-Ed. The new Linden policy on explicit sexual and violent material in Second Life is going to cause a total uproar. It was posted this evening California time at 6:00 pm, and not everyone may have noticed it. It is signed not by Robin Linden, who has signed the [...]
Full StorySpaight-Television Nuptials
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Walker and Destroy swept away on the highlands of Caledon. Walker Spaight/Mark Wallace, son of Mr. Wallace, of Louise, Second Life was married yesterday evening to Destroy Television, daughter of Christian Prior and SnoopyBROWN Zamboni of Sheep Island, and Annie Ok, of New York City. bushing Spatula, of libsecondlife [...]
Full StoryMissing Lindens: Where’s Cheerful $Larry?
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist, Reporting Live From the Sea of Omidyar Once again, I take up my lonely vigil on the unforgiving, rocky shores of the Sea of Omidyar, gazing out at the endless synthetic blue horizon now lit by that watery new MIT college start-up sun, with the chill in my soul echoing the [...]
Full StoryMeanwhile, Back in Brussels…
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Trans-Atlantic Subterranean Homesick Blues and Eurasianism NEE campaign website Just in case our European readers are feeling as if their worthy decadence in Second Life is being slighted, and they are coming across as a bunch of “net-nannies” and, in a reverse of Jean Kirkpatrick’s blast against the San Francisco [...]
Full StoryLINDEN CRACKS DOWN ON THIRD-PARTY BLOG!….THEN APOLOGIZES.
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs In an unprecedented and appalling action this evening sure to have major repercussions, Meta Linden, a new Linden born May 12, 2007, has informed a resident of Second Life that the chatlogs from Second Life she has posted on her own blog, a third-party site unrelated to Second Life, [...]
Full StoryToday In Second Life
By Prokofy Neva, Accumulator of Masses of Meaningless Statistics That Might Render a Clue, Somewhere o Actually, this post could be about any time in the last two years of Second Life, but who’s to know? o Inventory was borked. I had 12,427 out of 18,673 items. A guy got really mad at me for [...]
Full Story“No Worky”
By Prokofy Neva, Community AffairsMetaversal malcontents mashed-up in Maryport. Cory Linden held a town hall today in response to Project Open Letter, an initiative by Cristiano Midnight that claims already 3,805 signatures to a protest about Second Life’s poor performance. “No worky,” somebody commented on the Concierge Group at about 2 pm SLT. I had [...]
Full StoryHere Becomes More Like There
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Multiverses, Simulated Proofs of Concepts, and Badly-Thought-Through Soviet Central Committee Planning by Game Companies Once again, without any real public discussion, Linden Lab took one more step closer to becoming like its evidently envied competitor There today, as it instituted a new “Certification” system to issue what amount to [...]
Full StoryGriefer U
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs The Herald has been deluged lately with indignant complaints about weird goon goings-on in what is supposed to be an educational sim, Woodbury University. As usually with all the Eddie Haskelling and word-salad alibi-Ike sort of stuff involved, it’s hard to get at the truth — and as [...]
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