Archive for 'Mafias, Gangs and Virtual Governments'

Jacon 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 [...]

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JLU 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 [...]

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Shocking ‘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 [...]

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Google+ 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 [...]

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Black 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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zFire Xue and Redzone Collide with Banhammer

Tuesday evening Soft Linden ventured in-world to delete zFire Xue’s merchandise after banning Mr. Xue from Second Life. Word spread quickly and a crowd of zf Redzone critics gathered at the empty Mad Sci City Shopping Mall to witness the historic event. When I visited, the sim had reached its capacity – 40 avatars slowly [...]

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zf Redzone Security Breached – SL Passwords Compromised?

Is Redzone playing guessing games with 2200 customers’ SL passwords? The firestorm of criticism surrounding the zf Redzone Second Life security system may be only the beginning of zFire Xue’s troubles. A shadowy group of Second Life hactivists claim to have breached the Redzone server’s security, gaining access to the server database and discovering cleartext [...]

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Plastic Duck Returns To Second Life!!!

Linden Lab reinstates iconic grid crasher’s account “Plastic Duck hasn’t returned, Plastic Duck never dissapeared  I just got my vanity plates back ” – Plastic Duck Could an era of universal peace and understanding in Second Life be dawning? Did Linden Lab actually reverse a perma-ban on one the most colorful residents of the metaverse? [...]

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My Love

by One Song In the midst of so many passionately fought battles We must not be distracted, nor forget our love. Today, we commemorate the execution of a saint, St. Valentine, who was amongst the most virtuous. Often, it seems, valiant warriors are martyred Unjustly defending a good cause. Saints, unlike angels, do not live [...]

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Shock! Uri Flaks for the Kremlin Again!

Soviet/4Chan conspiracy exposed.  Over 9000 memes and counting. In this telling interview, Herald founder Urizenus Sklar reveals his connections with the sordid Anonymous, and by doing so on Russia TV…well.  Connect.  The.  Dots.  Clearly Prokofy Neva was right:  This is all part of the Kremlin/4Chan plot to take over the world, one meme at a [...]

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