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One Year Ago Today
Today marks the first anniversary of the banning of Urizenus from TSO. I’d call for a discussion, but some of us (me, Coco, AJ, Ian, DB, etc) have been debating it ever since. For those of you who weren’t around then, here is some reading for your next snow day: The New York Times: “A [...]
Full StoryIt’s a Bug Hunt: Dark Life Opens for Beta!
Long time residents of SL will remember an earlier incarnation of Dark Life — an EQ-styled kill-the-monsters-grab-the-loot game build within SL. It is now back and bigger and badder and better than ever, even if still in beta testing. Uri took a tour, bumping into Phillip Linden (killing giant bugs in DL, when he should [...]
Full StoryHentai Porn Removed from SL
Reached earlier today, Robin Linden communicated that the Hentai Porn placed in game by Sasami Wishbringer was offensive, in violation of the terms of service, and would be removed. We don’t know if the porn and porn vendors were removed by the Lindens or Sasami, but it has now been removed. A good move by [...]
Full StoryVirtual Child Porn in Second Life
Everyone knows that Child Pornography is illegal and everyone *should* know that it is wrong. But what about virtual child porn? — cases in which no real child is victimized in the making of the porn, but in which a child is represented as having sex with an adult. Or imagine an avatar that was [...]
Full StoryThe worst idea ever: Teenie Boppers to be Admitted to SL
The ugly rumors turned out to true. Robin Linden made the word official yesterday: teens 13-17 will be admitted to a separate grid of SL. What’s the harm you say? — if they have their own grid? Well… 1) Can you keep adults out of the teen grid?2) Can you keep adult animations out of [...]
Full StoryEA May be Reversing Position on OT for Employees
Randy Rueff, EA Senior Vice Presidet for Human Resources Having encountered a truckload of bad publicity for its brutal work hours and the virtual sweat shop conditions for its programmers etc., EA is now considering offering overtime to *some* of its employees, according to a story in today’s Mercury News. Usually a fountain of Orwellian [...]
Full Story666_Club: Satan’s Watering Hole in SL
Yeppers, darksiders, if you can’t get enough pentagrams, fire, brimstone, and great big strap-ons, 666_Club is the only place to be in Second Life. Pictures tell all. Hail Satan.
Full StoryEA to employ 500 in China. Jeff Brown: “it isn”t outsourcing”
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown According to this article in the Mercury News, EA is expanding its operations in China and may hire as many as “500 artists, developers, and programmers by the end of the decade.” In the face of all the recent whining from EA employees and their spouses about [...]
Full StoryEA to employ 500 in China. Jeff Brown: “it isn’t outsourcing”
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown According to this article in the Mercury News, EA is expanding its operations in China and may hire as many as “500 artists, developers, and programmers by the end of the decade.” In the face of all the recent whining from EA employees and their spouses about [...]
Full StoryOne Song’s Poker Table
Infamous land baron, strip club/escort service operator, and virtual arsonist One Song (aka Mr. Fairplay) has finished his long awaited poker table — and the result is one of the most complexly scripted single objects in Second Life. We have seen it in operation at The Edge, and at the Red River Valley Saloon. Following [...]
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