Archive for 'Mafias, Gangs and Virtual Governments'
Jumpman Lane – The “Kang” of Second Life
Last week, well-known virtual world entrepreneur Stroker Serpentine threw in the towel on Second Life after a long running series of feuds with Linden Lab and the notorious Jumpman Lane. Mr. Serpentine announced his departure in a series of tweets that caused alarm among his friends at the news that he was apparently exiting the [...]
Full StorySLCC 2011 Drama!!! Avatar Identity: Privacy and Transparency in Social Media
Mysterious threats leads to last minute SLCC program revision – a pattern of harassment? The first indication I would be playing another round of Second Life as a real life alternative reality game came a few hours before the SLCC 2011 panel discussion on Avatar Identity: Privacy and Transparency in Social Media. I was eating lunch, [...]
Full StoryThe Artemis Fate Interview: Justice League is Unnecessary and Overzealous
Longtime SL resident asks Linden Lab for statement on anti-griefer groups’ limits by Robble Rubble [In Robble Rubble's exclusive interview with Artemis Fate, Ms. Fate - a respected class-of-2003 resident - points out that the Justice League Unlimited and similar anti-griefer vigilante groups are superfluous and attract exactly the sort of behaviors they claim to [...]
Full StoryCheergirl Allen Smacks Justice League Unlimited
Anti-vigilante war in Second Life escalates I’ve known Cheergirl Allen for years, but never thought of her as particularly active in the Second Life political scene. However, that changed recently – a development that cannot be good news for Kalel Venkman and his Justice League Unlimited faction. Cheergirl’s organizational skills and connections have never been in [...]
Full StoryInterview With Green Lantern Excelsior of the JLU
Green Lantern Excelsior in the Bronyville sim before Bronyville was deleted (file photo) This evening I chatted with JLU spokesman Green Lantern Excelsior hoping to discover why Kalel Venkman has been unwilling to discuss the JLU’s Brainiac wiki leak situation in anything other than heavily moderated forums. While Green Lantern could only speculate on Kalel’s [...]
Full StoryJacon Cortes Slams Justice League Unlimited!!!
Prime Minister of Antiquity: “It is the responsibility of Linden Labs to take action immediately” Former allies of the Justice League Unlimited are taking pains to distance themselves from Kalel Venkman’s vigilante gang as revelations of an apparent on-going program of Second Life player stalking and black ops continues to unfold. Over the weekend I was lucky [...]
Full StoryJLU Shamed – Green Lantern Excelsior Turns His Back on SLUniverse
Superheros “standing in front of a monkey cage and being pelted with waste products” For almost a week, a particularly ugly chapter in Second Life’s social history has been playing out on both theListSL.blogspot.com and the SLUniverse.com forums. While it is impossible to know if all the claims being made are true, the sheer body [...]
Full StoryShocking ‘Man-of-Steel’ Incident Mars SL SciFi Convention
Kalel “Steely Dan” Venkman griefed with his own path light prims I’m not sure why anyone would think it was a good idea to invite the Justice League Unlimited to the Second Life Science Fiction Convention 4 held earlier this month – and further compound the problem by placing the JLU plot directly next to the [...]
Full StoryGoogle+ Suspends Pixeleen Mistral – Nerfs Data Liberation Front
Exactly who owns my G+ social graph – and why won’t Google let me download it anymore? I was a relatively early Google+ user and spent the last few weeks adding friends to Google+ circles. In doing this I implicitly promoted Google’s seriously over-hyped circle-centric Facebook clone by sending invitations to friends. This was probably [...]
Full StoryBlack Cloud: “Brutal and Long Lasting” Mafia Wars Coming
I had just stepped off the plane on my way back to the Herald offices in Jessie sim after several weeks of intensive training on “The Bonnie Situation” – the newest Herald racing yacht – when my iMojowire 4 started buzzing. There was breaking news from a mysterious source who calls himself “The Black Cloud”. [...]
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