The Alphaville Herald

Edwards HQ Vandalized. Campaign Blames Virtual Republicans.

It’s bad enough having Fox News excoriate you for not staffing your HQ and calling on you to denounce virtual underage sex brothels, but now there is the problem of Republican griefers. According to an Edwards campaign worker, it was not pretty. Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second [...]

Fox News Discovers Second Life; Calls on Edwards to Denounce Virtual Underage Sex Brothels

Fox News political analyst and former AOL VP Kirsten Powers has posted a video blog calling for Democratic Presidential Candidate John Edwards to denounce some of his unseemly second life neighbors, including the “virtual rape fantasy clubs, virtual underage sex brothels and sadly unsurprising proliferation of porn.” Behold the video: An Excerpt from the blog [...]

Bunny the Huntress

by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate Bunny the Huntress Under the cloak of midnight Bunny stirsHer eyes accustomed to the darkAwaiting in silence, sleek and edgedSeeking her newbie mark Swiftly and surely the hunt is doneHer prey no longer in this simAnd on she goes through darkened woodTending her business, grim So beware, oh newbie, lest [...]

Russian Roulette

by Onder Skall, courtesy of Second Life Games After several hours we realize that there is just no way to kill each other here. My hatred for that bastard Rudy is as strong as his for me, but hatred alone won’t settle this. We quit blasting each other with useless push guns and look for [...]

Walking to the Metaverse

Photo by Brian. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Planets, Worlds, Universes, Multiverses, and A Metaverse Just One Stop Away When Jerry Paffendorf, futurist of the Electric Sheep, put out the word about a Metaverse Meet-Up and said it was in Brooklyn, I checked my immunization records, got out my passport, and put on some extra [...]

Plyqood #70: Prim’s Lament

Eavesdropping in SL – The Unbearable Weight of Erroneous Assumptions

by Fiend Ludwig According to Nick Yee, of Stanford University, and his colleagues, Second Life, and by extension other virtual environments, is an ideal place to test paradigms of real-life human social interaction. In the paper The Unbearable Likeness of Being Digital: The Persistence of Nonverbal Social Norms in Online Virtual Environments, Yee asserts that: [...]

Hell is Other People: The LA Times Gets to the Bottom of SL’s Growing Pains

If you are coming from the Feb. 22 LA Times article… I dunno…just know that we really really hate the Lakers. Or as we call them, the Hollywood Fakers. If you already read the article, then let me save you some trouble, and suggest that you use this link for sex, cybersex, and beyond. If [...]

Island Land Scamming, Anyone?

Former residents claim Valentines day eviction massacre in “The Tropicana” sim, hire SL/RL lawyer to arbitrate island land dispute by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk I met one of a rare breed Saturday. Joshua Sao is a 5 month metaverse resident who owns “The Tropicana” island sim yet cannot recall when he bought his island, [...]

Plywood #68: The Plytrix!