Archive for 'Miscellaneous'

Going to School with the AVH

Why go to college you ask? Until now there really wasn’t a reason, but now you can go there and study up on the exploits of Urizenus and his muckraking, madcap reporters, The Phantom, Humdog, IP Litium, Pat the Rat, Dana Grove, Deep Max, and all the rest. So far the Alphaville Herald is now [...]

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News From DG: Rival Gang War Continues…

By Dana Grove LLC continues to be the most powerful gang in Dan’s Grove. While the Triad Mafia is slowly growing, it is having difficulties keeping up with the numbers in LLC. Once again the leader of Triad, Bob Busch (aka Daniel Alfredson) money house Mad Cash, was hit with another trashing, this time by [...]

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Why do Griefers Grief?

There is a really interesting discussion of this topic over on Terra Nova. Can’t say I agree with most of it, but there was a really nice taxonomy of motivations for griefing by Chek Yang Foo, which follows.

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Papparazi Catch Simlebrities in SL

by Pat the Rat Alphaville Simlebrities can run but they cannot hide. Here our SL papparazi catch four Alphaville citisims on the lamb in the land of merry-go-rounds and really big trees. Can you identify them? Winner gets a date with the hottie in the lower left of the pic. Hint: guy in blue shirt [...]

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Alphaville Gazette opens shop — talks to Crystal’s River

Former AVG Press officer , money trader, and frequent contributor to The Alphaville Herald, Ian, is still several decades away from being the stylin’ mack daddy and media mogul that Uri is, but he has made a good start with the lauching of his blog, The Alphaville Gazette. His most recent post is a very [...]

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AVG seeks new veep.

The Alphaville Government is seeking a new Vice President to replace Paul Tulley, who recently resigned and formed a government in Mount Fuji. Check out the AVG web site for details.

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more about pets

the trade in pets continues. the pet lotto transfer store, marjoriex, proprietor offers the following four ways to trade in pets:

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in praise of bots

by humdog for uri: You Are My Sunshine why are there bots in tso? comments about bots in tso seem mostly limited to value judgments relative to their relationship with the tso rules, such as they are. i think that a case can be made the bots are necessary to the game, given the economic [...]

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op/ed: on scammers

by humdog i think there are a few things that are interesting about scammers, and i don’t see anybody mentioning them, so i will. scammers are interesting to me because they are somehow able to cleanly divide the values they hold “in game” from the values they hold “out of game” or as the rest [...]

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Back to the Drawing Board: Dan’s Grove New Voting System Turns into Mess

By Dana Grove Accusations and complaints arose during the primary voting in Dan’s Grove this past Saturday. Running in the primaries were LegolastheGreat, Lonnie Rodriguez, RAW, USAPresident, Eminem- and Afrin. In the past, citizens of Dan’s Grove used to vote on websites, too many were complaining foul play when using this method. A new voting [...]

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