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Political Speech or Land Extortion? Or Both?
by Prokofy Neva Huge, bright blue spinning signs calling on Americans to IMPEACH BUSH and RESTORE U.S. CREDIBILITY have spread like kudzu all over the Second Life grid in recent weeks on numerous plots for sale. Many residents — even those who share the billboard artist’s sentiments about the U.S. president — are increasingly angered [...]
Full StoryCamping Chairs: Slowly But Surely, SL Catches up to TSO
Uri and Prok earning big bucks doing what they do best: nothing! Ever so slowly Second Life is becoming more like TSO. We’ve had the mafias. We’ve had the gnome building tables. But now we can make bucks just by sitting in a chair and doing nothing. It’s a win win situation. Noobs get paid [...]
Full StoryHo Hum… Grid Crashed Again…Yawn
For the second time in the ever shrinking envelope of my Cristal-addled long term memory, the grid went down thanks to apparent griefer action. Or, if not griefer action, the then functional equivalent of it. As the Linden’s put it … … the grid was been taken down due to an IM object in the [...]
Full StoryFamily Reunion?
Pat the Rat undercover in Chinatown You didn’t hear it from Pat the Rat, dear readers (well, actually, you did), but word on the streets of Second Life is that the original virtual mobsters are coming to town. Having left The Sims Online and gone to the mattresses some time ago (the virtual matresses, that [...]
Full StorySomething Awful Goons Plan SL Infiltration/Invasion
The W-Hat bannings in the wake of the W-Hat-engineered grid crash have apparently led to plans for many more goons on the Something Awful forums to infiltrate Second Life as stealth W-Hatters. They are being instructed to “find the others” (as Timothy Leary would say), most of which are now reportedly located in Galli. There [...]
Full Story“Anti-Griefer Patrol” is Clandestine W-Hat Operation
It has been brought to the attention of the Herald that an SL organization ostensibly established to fight griefing is in fact an operation controlled by members of the W-Hat griefing organization, most recently responsible for crashing the entire grid. A brief review of the membership of the “Anti-Griefer Patrol” membership list will turn up [...]
Full StoryTo the editor: Why I left SL – Lindens rip off designers, mentor program overrun with W-hats and other griefers
This was posted in a comment thread, but it was so poignant that I felt I should post it in the main thread. I’ve known Stellsy since my earliest days in TSO and I will say that there are few people in this world (online or off) that I trust or respect more. This post [...]
Full Story1/3 Linden Employees are FIC, Cory Confirms
by Dow Jonas In a shocking revelation published on the prestigious virtual world studies blog Terra Nova, Cory Ondrejka, Vice President of Product Development for Linden Lab, acknowledged that by his rough count, as many as one third of Linden Lab’s estimated 60 employees came from the ranks of existing residents of the growing online [...]
Full StoryW-Hats Bring Down the Grid. We Told You and Told You and Told You, While Lindens Bent Over and Said “Fuck Me Harder Bad Boys!”
Photo from Websnake Nightshade forum post It hardly comes as a surprise – it comes more as a prediction fulfilled – that members of the W-Hats are responsible bringing down the entire grid by use of a griefing tool that spawned massive numbers of balls with racist and other images on them. Of course what [...]
Full StorySteee-RIKE!! Bowling Kingpins Knocked Over for Big Bucks. None are spared!
Anonymous sources are reporting that there has been a rash of exploits on the TP Bowling lanes in Second Life – perhaps all of them – and tens of thousands of linden dollars were scored by the turkey perpetrating this scam before he split from SL. According to Herald sources, the exploit involves using a [...]
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