Archive for 'Media'

Linden Lab Governance Team Blinks – Reverses Itself

Tizzers BnT brought back from the dead by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Tizzers at Fort Longcat A tense stare down developed between residents of Second Life and the Linden game gods earlier this week – part of a struggle over avatar naming rights and a series of preemptive account bans in the absence of [...]

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Chouchou — The New New Wave of SL Art

by lizsolo Mathilde

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The New New Wave of SL Art

Work that is more than just being clever by Aurel Miles It begins in a Wheatfield. I contemplate the land. A man sits down and says: “Hello Miss Miles. You are a very meticulous woman, I can see it in your work on your avi”(Long pause – during which MAN remains seated and I wake [...]

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LL Targeting W-Hat Goons?

Tardimal avatar maker hit with 3-day suspension for verbal abuse – on his own sim! by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk If Kyro Kilian is to be believed, certain Linden Lab employees may be running alt accounts or doing instantaneous favors for special friends by swinging the ban stick when the gameplay turns sassy. One [...]

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The Invincible Military’s Demise: Drama

by Vinzenz Fiertze The wars of many,the invincible crew,her army at the ready,Vanguards strength proves true.With insults some squeeze our necks,until our faces turn blue, but it seems that their armies names, we always outdo.They have no clue,What they have gotten into. Let us have a mighty spar,from parcels, regions, and sims afar.Put their pickled [...]

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Ode to a Hug Attachment

By Kris Dibou, Warrior Poet To show how much I love herIn the good ol’ SL wayI bought a hug attachmentAnd I put it on today I typed the slash and h-u-g andWaited for responseAs she raised her arms and moved in close;SL only taunts! For I became a poodle dog whoFound himself a leg;My [...]

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Second Life Herald Opens Lively Office

by Idoru Wellamn, staff writer Pixeleen Mistral today announced that the Second Life Herald is expanding it’s “always fairly unbalanced” coverage of the most vital virtual worlds’ news, by opening a branch office in Lively – internet advertising behemoth Google’s first step toward monetizing the immersive social experience. Ms. Mistral relaxes in a goth chair [...]

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Second Life Image Tarnished by Users?

RiversRunRed CEO warns against allowing residents to create 3D content by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk MIT Technology Review writer Brian White advises the metaverse that users may make “shoddy and even offensive content” if allowed to create in 3D worlds — sentiments echoed by the CEO of RiversRunRed Justin Bovington who praised internet advertising [...]

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AOL Tightens Belt, Massively Chokes Off SL News?

“Massively Staff” blogs for free at AOL properties after gaming writers are told to stop posting by Idoru Wellman, staff writer Techcrunch reports that AOL has savagely cut their blogging empire’s staff, chopping personel budgets up to 25% and telling writers to take a few weeks off while they wait and see if they have [...]

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The Pearl:Victorian Brothel/Promiscuous Mermaids

Inventory server mishap creates inseparable siamese-twin stories Something went horribly wrong when I put the prims holding the notecards for these two stories on Pixeleen’s piano at the Herald offices in Jessie sim – I crashed and when I relogged the prims holding the stories were fused – along with the stories! My interview at [...]

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