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Which SL Software is Best? – 4 Viewers Reviewed
An expert’s guide to SL client software – including the Nicholaz Beresford options4 great ways to a better SL experience! by JayR Cela, SL viewer connoisseur After living in the Second Life metaverse for 2 years, I have seen quite a few changes take place. Sometimes it seems to me the Lindens are hell bent [...]
Full StoryDutch Prosecutor Drops Second Life Ageplay Investigation
“child avi’s not realistic enough” Urizenus Sklar, Dutch Morality Desk As reported in the Herald back in February, a Dutch prosecutor opened an investigation into ageplay in Second Life on the grounds that representations of child sex are illegal in the Netherlands, even if children were not involved in the making of the porn. Ageplay, [...]
Full StorySecond Life as Temporary Autonomous Zone
By Urizenus Sklar Coming on the heels of the Linden’s recent excessively broad and vague definition of the “broadly offensive”, the hand wringing about the Leather and Lace Ball at the Second Life Community Convention got me thinking about Hakim Bey’s fringe culture classic, Temporary Autonomous Zones. Bey’s headline idea was how Temporary Autonomous Zones [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Romance me, damn it!
By Linda Loveless I’ll come right out and say it; I’m tired of men always gaming for my crotch! I used to give them the benefit of the doubt — giving them first, second, and third chances to show they were after something more. I *still* give them too many chances… my real life boyfriend [...]
Full StoryPardus Salome – Post 6 Grrrrrl
[Note from Justine Babii- I was at the Style Asia Fashion Show the other day and when I took the opportunity to scan the crowd I spotted Pardus in the front row. She's a fan of fashion and I am so pleased that she was willing to pose for us this week! Her avatar's beauty [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Linden Lab’s Weasel Worded Quasi-Assurances
Concierge customers: boycott Linden Lab’s ‘test’ of the Age Verification system by Inigo Chamerberlin Linden Lab and Aristotle’s Integrity – trustworthy Earlier today I received an eMail from Linden Lab – the text is reproduced below the fold. After reading the eMail all I could say was – excuse me? Am I missing something here? [...]
Full StoryGorean Radio in SL: Beyond AM, FM, and XM, there is BDSM
Community Radio Even a Kajira Could Luff by Urizenus Sklar, Media Mogul/Critic As the Second Life mediascape continues to diversify, a number of in-world radio stations have emerged. Of course such radio stations have been familiar to us at least since the days of The Sims Online, where there were a number of radio stations, [...]
Full StorySLCC Participants Impress Bears Fans and National Media
Herald tabloid sensationalism shamed by Linden church-picnic — SL family values rule, OK? by Urizenus Sklar, media critic Stung by recent media claims that Second Life is all about ageplay, gambling, gorean slavery, sex furniture, bdsm arms merchants, yiffing furries, vampires, vore, and gynophagia, Second Lifers struck upon an ingenious solution to the problem: Have [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Second Life Ethics
Gambling, sex, gender-bending, financial fraud: does real life morality apply in SL? by Victorria Paine A recurring theme in debates between SL’s denizens about any number of the “hot topics” that divide the community (gambling, sex, gender-bending, financial fraud, you name it) is a fundamental disagreement about what “rules” should apply to any of these [...]
Full StoryPixel Sumo Summer Grand Basho
Avatar Sumo Wrestling at its finest! by Ebenezer Pixel Pixel Sumo is having it’s Summer Grand Basho on Monday, 27 August at 6 am, 2 pm and 8 pm at Artificial Isle (174, 89, 26). The basho is three events spread over one day to allow maximum participation by SL citizens around the world. This [...]
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