Archive for 'Clubs, Casinos, and Events'

Interview with PalmVegas Honcho Azno Simons

Sim owner uses off-limits casino to promote web gambling site -lures noobies with innovative automated SL cybersex classroom by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Azno Simons on duty keeping US Citizens out of the PalmVegas Casino Hoping to explore the motivations for an SL casino owner who sent out high profile press releases to media [...]

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Simulating A Gambling Crackdown

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Thursday Robin Linden stimulated metaverse simulated casino owners to come up with an acceptable euphemism for simulated gambling today with the announcement that the Lab will no longer “accept any classified ads, place listings, or event listings that appear to relate to simulated casino activity”. A few Second Life [...]

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Dark Siders Rejoice: Beyond the Void Announces Tour of SL Goth Clubs

by Nolan Void, Dark Places Bureau Beyond the Void Announces an in-world Concert Tour. Enough with the sensitive new age guys stumming their little guitars and whining about a little lag. Away with posers like Ben Folds and phakers like Jay-Z. Screw the losers pining away for that glorified wet dream for accountants known as [...]

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SHAME! Two Herald Reporters Jailed!

Disgraced Mistral and Breaker serve time in SLAB Prison by Denise Levertov, New Media Observer In a development sure to roil the metaverse journalistic scene, Herald Editrix Pixeleen Mistral and advice columnist Heartun Breaker were caught serving time in the SLAB Prison in Albata sim Thursday evening. Both journalists we captured on prison surveillance video [...]

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Fear and Loathing in Second Life, Part 7: The Sordid History of the Big Brother Fiasco, Day 1

[Readers of the Herald will recall our earlier reports on the disaster that was Big Brother in Second Life. Perhaps you *didn't* know that our faithful correspondent, Gideon Television was there, as a contestant! Well it is so. Today Gideon begins retelling (in day-by-day "blow"-by-"blow" fashion) the whole sordid tale. Sorry we didn't publish this [...]

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Not Quite On The Road: Motorcycling Undies of Doom

by Jimbo Quality [Editor's Note: Below, Jimbo Quality continues his Traveling With the Idiot series, in which at the moment he is attempting to spend some time racing virtual motorcycles. Even if you don't enjoy the story, we hope you appreciate the fact that we're doing a community service by employing the mentally challenged.--Walker Spaight] [...]

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Good Riddance: SL Says Goodbye to Dwelloper Awards

Uri and Prok do Some Last Minute Christmas Camping by Dow Jonas With the advent of camp chairs in the last month, Robin Linden’s announcement of the end of the Developer Incentive Awards (DIA), or the “Dwelloper Awards,” as they were dubbed, came as no surprise to most of the hundred-odd recipients of the cash [...]

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Roleplay or Landgrab? As the Elf Council Debates, only the Orcs Know for Sure!!!

Are these guys fugly or what? In the hall of mirrors that is Second Life, what does it mean when a band of plug ugly Orcs invite the peaceful elven folk to a game of combat roleplay? Is it all in fun, or does something more sinister lurk beneath the surface? Elven Queen Forcythia, seeing [...]

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Party On! The SLH is Turning Two!

Help celebrate at the second birthday party of that most august newspaper of cyberspace, the Second Life Herald! (And Jeff Brown thought we wouldn’t see our second month, tsk tsk.) Hosted by the illustrious _blacklibrary, located in Second Life‘s Furness sim, the Herald birthday party will commence on Saturday, October 22, at noon game-time (that’s [...]

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Getting Your Burn On

Walker confronts The Man There’s still one more weekend to go before the third annual Burning Life festival gets wiped from the face of Second Life. By now, of course, you’ve missed most of the virtual hallucinogens that were being handed out on the six Burning Life sims, as well as the wild cybering we [...]

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