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Auntie M Linden Looks Back Into the Future

by Auntie M Linden, noobie metaverse CEO Greetings all! Auntie M Linden here.  I’d like to wish you, your Gorean ‘families’, online mafia friends, alts, ex-partners, furries, and reformed griefers a happy and healthy New Year. As we come to the end of the year, I thought I’d share some of the wonders of Second [...]

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Post 6 Grrrl — Dreams Lightcloud

[A while ago a friend ofmine noted that my Post 6 people have generally longer been in world than thosebefore and I had to admit that I choose 'older' avis on intention. Though Ilove the innocence of newbies stumbling around and marveling the beauty andsometimes weirdness of a new virtual world, it is those with [...]

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Considering Other Grids — The Baba Yamamoto Interview

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk To gain some insight into the growing number of competitors to metaverse service provider Linden Lab, I visited Baba Yamamoto Saturday afternoon. Mr. Yamamoto has been involved in open source reverse engineering of the Second Life protocols for some time, is one of the administrators of the libsecondlife library, [...]

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Winter Magic by Black Swan

by Bunny Brickworks It'sthe time of the year that you open your closet and wonder what to wear to getinto the right mood for the holidays. Of course, it should be something sexy,glamorous and extraordinary. The only time of the year when even the grittiestNeko girls take off their tattoo layers and dive into the [...]

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Op/Ed: You Can’t Fix Stupid

Why are so many SL men total idiots? by Steve01 Denimore The comedian, Ron White, once said: "You can't fixstupid." He is right. Stupid is what many males in SL are. I know thisbecause I have many female friends who tell me about the idiot behaviorthey encounter from SL males. I have also seen some [...]

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Post 6 Grrrl — Clover Vella

[When Clover rezzed in front of me in this winter wonderland she calls her home, I could not stop and stare and that incredibly beautiful face. She looked like Mrs. Claus in her green and red dress and it was crystal clear she would be my Christmas Post 6 Grrrl. And during our photo shoot [...]

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Nicholas Mafia Hit Job Video Shocker!

Avatar killing, mafia webcam face painting documented on YouTube by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Christopher Cord's alt account puff Jigsaw a victim of gangland slaying?Sunday, a wise guy from the Nicholas Mafia dropped by the Herald offices with a tip about a YouTube video account of a cold-blooded Second Life avatar account killing. The [...]

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Op/Ed: Get A Life! Any Ideas Which One?

by Sigmund Leominster It’s incredibly easy to trawl through the Internet to find stories about virtual worlds and the Second Life experience. And the stories are typically centered on a pretty well focused set of topics: sex; sex with children; infidelity (sex with someone else’s partner); bestiality (sex with someone else’s pet); and general corruption [...]

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Post 6 Couple – Nimil Blackflag & Lucas Gerard

[If there is anything like a perfect SL couple then it is surely Nimil and Lucas, the creative masterminds behind LuNi Designs. They are wild and morbide, a little freaky and macabre but most of all they seem to be a wonderful team, both in their work and in their daily life. Though both of [...]

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Post 6 Griefer — N3x15

Candid conversation and explicit photos of former PN griefer [In what seems to be part of a public relations campaign by ex-griefer N3x15, Bunny Brickworks and I were recently able to conduct an in-world interview with the one-time PN leader, scripter, and troublemaker. As we marveled at the irony of interviewing a former PN leader [...]

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