Archive for 'Interviews'

The Scribes of Gor

Long time Herald readers will recall our coverage of the Gorean community on TSO – In particular our interviews with Mistress Maria and her slave Toy, and our frequent reports from the Black Rose Castle and Mistress Julianna and her slave Mikal. All of these people are now in SL, and I recently ran into [...]

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‘R.I.P Ryan Dayton’ – Teenage ‘Air’ Profits (Part 1/2)

By Neal Stewart I’m sitting at a vacant, shiny blue conference table in a meeting room at the top floor of Dayton Technologies HQ. Through the heavily-tinted windows I can see birds flying above the swaying palm trees outside. On the floor beneath me is the freshly-built coffin of Ryan Dayton himself. It is a [...]

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Pushers Hit SL’s Streets as Diablo Cartel Declares Business First

by Gina Fatale Castiglione Ramona and Bebop Voxx of the Diablo Cartel Castiglione Ramona, Diablo Cartel big boss, had grown tired of seeing the proliferation of mom-and-pop mafias in SL, and requested a sit-down with the Herald to set the record straight on recent rumors of his griefing – and to boast about his brand [...]

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“Curse of the Burning Seas” Game To Go Beta

During a recent trip to the local tavern, Omega Groshomme spotted the Evil Spaniard Smigmee Pinkerton, lead-developer of “Curse of the Burning Seas”, sneaking out a back entrance. He draws his sword! The exchange is quick and Smigmee’s work with the cutlass is no match for Omega’s rapier. Smigee is reduced from ‘Strong’ to ‘Panic-stricken’. [...]

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Interview with “Hangin On” Producer Icon Serpentine

By Cienna Samiam With the advent of 1.6, streaming video is now a reality in Second Life. Theaters and mini-screens are rapidly becoming common across the grid, and everything from movies to animated shorts to comedy and more are finding their way into our virtual living rooms. Amongst the trickling stream of new media, there [...]

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Magellan Misses the Boat to Ansheland

by Walker Spaight Ansheland resident Iron Perth after a recent desert journey Though he was the first avatar to set whisky-stained sneaker on the moth-eaten continent to the north of the main Grid, intrepid explorer Magellan Linden seems to have missed the boat to a new sub-continent that sprang up earlier this week southwest of [...]

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Tricking Out Virtual Rides: SL Gets its First Aftermarket Performance Shop!

Yeah, you bought your pixilated Audi TT, or maybe you got that sweet Primouth Fury, but you want more than the factory engine that came with it. Thank gopod SL finally has an aftermarket performance shop where you can soup up your engines with some nitrous and other essentials. In this interview Rizzo Ramona introduces [...]

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Ad Astra, and Even Further, Maybe

by Budka Groshomme Second Life is in many respects an alternative life, a dimension one step away from the mundane reality that marks our daily grind. In here, in this expansive, magical world, there are lions and tigers and, oh my, such wonderful things to see and do. It occurred to me that perhaps I [...]

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Virtually In Love

The Herald is proud to introduce the writing debut of Second Life’s famous nostril-wrestling, Linden-pashing, fashion designer and all-round social butterfly – Aimee Weber. Aimee takes a look at spring-romance, in this that special time of year when, as my parents explained it, all the birds make sweet, sweet love to all the bees singing [...]

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Off the Grid with Walker Spaight: The Making of a Post Six Grrrl

Diamond Hope, Post Six Grrrl When I first met Diamond Hope she was standing in Walleye sim wearing shorts, white boots and a skimpy white halter top, a pistol strapped to her right thigh. A ribbon of thong peeked out from below her shorts, inviting my imagination. My imagination, I’m not ashamed to say, took [...]

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