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Alphaville Election Scandal Won’t go Away
The Alphaville Gazette, which is edited by SLH contributor and former AVG Press Secretary Ian is running a story to the effect that Jason Sim had posted an election-rigging confession in his user profile (since removed). Supposedly there was a Perl script that allowed one person to vote for Mr. President 264 time. Did this [...]
Full Storyi saw it: waiting for godot
–humdog last night i attended a performance of act 1 of waiting for godot at the diamond memorial theatre in Alphaville (TSO). if you haven’t got a ticket yet, see if you can get one because it is one of the most interesting theatre experiences i have had in a long time.
Full StoryProfanity no longer a reportable offense in tso, but what does it mean?
Most of you know that TSO has announced (well, Tigger has announced) that profanity is no longer a reportable offense. RB has editorialzed on his blog that this shows an outbreak of sanity at EA, since profanity reporting was principally just a tool used by griefers to ban citicisms that get fed up with their [...]
Full StoryGaming Open Market dumps PayPal for YowCow
As reported earlier, GOM has ceased transactions in all markets except Second Life. As of July 9, they are also dumping PayPal for the payment service YowCow. Apparently YowCow is being more helpful about payments for virtual goods.Meanwhile, this issue has generated a lot of heat on Terra Nova. Jamie Hale’s latest press release follows.
Full StoryGaming Open Market suspends trading after being defrauded
Our friends at Gaming Open Market have suspended trading in all game currencies except Second Life Lindens after being defrauded for $3K US by a buyer of ISK and SWG credits. As might be expected, it is the usual scam taking advantage of the fact that PayPal refuses to honor purchases of “virtual” goods. (Remember [...]
Full StoryOpen Letter from AV?s Home Designer: Keep Guard up Against TSO Hackers
Recent surges in hacking have led to many problems in The Sims Online. This is an issue I need to alert you people of. My account along with other Big Companies or ppl such as Lead artitect have been tampered with. It is vital that anybody playing The Sims Online should do the following. Do [...]
Full StoryEditorial: Friendship Web or Snooper Web?
EA/Maxis picks its spots to champion the privacy of its users. If, as was the case, a user claims to have beaten his 8 year old sister and put her in the hospital, well that?s a case where EA/Maxis has said that they can?t notify the police because it would violate their privacy policy. But [...]
Full StoryEA Tech Support with Ozzy!
By popular demand, following is that cartoon about EA tech support from the now defunct EAsucks.com.
Full StorySecond Life Real Estate Sales Picked up by Press
Seems like the sales of “real estate” by the Lindens (and the “taxation of it) are catching a lot of attention, starting with this Reuters article, and this meta-discussion on Terra Nova. I wonder what MMORPG Reuters was referring to with this remark: “The Second Life world is a little over a year old, but [...]
Full StoryGaming Open Market Rocks On
Even though Gaming Open Market has left TSO (and who can blame them!), we still like to follow their project. Following is their latest press release. One thing that caught my eye is that when version 1.4 comes onstream in Second Life they are going to have full service tellers. Nice. Rock on Jamie!
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