Archive for 'Mafias, Gangs and Virtual Governments'

And Then There Were 99,999,999: Virtual Candidate Drops Out

By Prokofy Neva, Political Affairs Desk Did anybody notice? In Lindenverse, we’re so surrounded by huge swathes of cotton wadding in the form of push-media coming from the white expanses of the newsless LL Blob, the Big Business corporate-speak press releases, the breathless paid-for blogola, the hyped, hyperventilating hypervents with their 39 avatars lagging out [...]

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Lindens Hit the Bottle After SLLA Assault on American Apparel

by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk Linden staffer (in dreadlocks) provides personal SL support for a potential business partner (in black and red) at American Apparel After spamming a number of the SL forums recently with demands for resident voting and consultation before major Linden decisions, SL resident Marshal Cahill told me Thursday, “We [...]

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A SecondCast Offer You Can’t Refuse

You will listen to SecondCast episode #23, or we’ll send our guest — Sim Mafia boss Marsellus Wallace — around to your plot to break your virtual kneecaps while you’re napping in that camping chair. A hilarious and informative look at the purported escapades of Second Life’s mouthiest mafia don.

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Tempest in a Sandbox

by Fiend Ludwig Alliance Navy Admiral Jim Herbst At little less than one year ago, the Alliance Navy was patrolling the sandboxes in Second Life, hitting back at the griefers who were disrupting the areas with scripted weapons, guns and profanity. Today, however, we find a very different organization. According to Alliance Navy Admiral Jim [...]

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New Crimes, New Punishments

The New Scientist is running an article in its May 20th edition all about crime and punishment in the virtual world — one of the Herald’s favorite subjects. In fact, most of the piece could have been ripped from the Herald headlines — and probably was. Of course, it features yet another interview with mafia [...]

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Attack of the Red Helix: Not So Good for the Jew

Photo by SuzanneC Baskerville, borrowed from SnapZilla The world hiccuped, shuddered and blinked again tonight as Second Life’s Grid was attacked by a new round of object spam, which Grid-griefers seem to have settled on as the most effective way of disrupting the virtual world. This time, it was wave after wave of self-replicating red [...]

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Marsellus Wallace on the Air

G’Day World, an Australian podcast hosted by Cameron Reilly of the Podcast Network, has a hilarious and revealing interview up with Second Life mafia boss (and occasional Herald correspondent) Marsellus Wallace, in which Mars goes into a surprising amount of detail about just how his SL mafia works (and how it used to work when [...]

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Blumfield Residents Get Their Doodle On

by Jeannedellalune Prudhomme, Special to the Herald Patch Lamington at his Doodle House in SL’s Blumfield sim BLUMFIELD — Sometimes a scribble is just a scribble. Other times, it’s a doodle and a way of life. So it is for Patch Lamington, preeminent SL doodler and popular founder of the Blumfield Residents Association (BRA). Patch, [...]

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Stratics Confirms Mob Management for SL Portal

The Herald’s continuing investigation into the nomination of a renowned mafia boss to manage the Stratics SL portal has revealed that the story is indeed true. Teresk of Stratics has confirmed to the Herald that Marsellus Wallace will be the new manager of the SL Stratics site, as indicated in the Stratics and Stratics News [...]

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Mafia Boss Gains Control of SL Stratics

In an ongoing investigation into the news that a Second Life portal was coming to Stratics, the Herald has learned some alarming news: the avatar chosen to manage the soon-to-be-launched Stratics site covering all things Second Life appears to be none other than renowned mob boss (and occasional Herald contributor) Marsellus Wallace.

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