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Club Elite moves to Private Sim
Big John Jade flies over Elite Island Long at or near the top property for dwell, and an important site for entertainment ranging from lap dancing to parties for SL gang leaders, Club Elite has also long been plagued with hellish lag. With the recent move to a private island — Elite Island– all that [...]
Full StoryEssay: A History of the Second Jessie War
Stanford is an old, laggy simulator/server, strategically situated between the Jessie combat sim and the Federal sim, which until just days ago was home to Club Elite, the most popular destination in Second Life. Stanford was nevertheless a fairly sleepy sim until last month when a Second Life gang named ?The Associates? bought up two [...]
Full StoryThe Game within the Game, part 2: Virtual Barn Raising
As reported earlier, I recently bought a private sim and we are currently knitting it together with the simcast sim so we will have two sims dedicated to a medieval themed PvP Dungeons and Dragons type game with D&D-type combat elements, as well as crafting and quest elements. One of the really great things about [...]
Full StoryCyber-escort as power gamer: Interview with Daphne Molinari
One thing that we?ve learned from observing social MMORPGs like TSO, There, and Second Life, is that power gaming is alive and well in these games, albeit in a different form than in EQ and SWG. In this interview we talk to an impressive example of this phenomenon ? Mistress Daphne Molinari. She tells us [...]
Full StorySL Political Correctness Standards Updated
Well, we?ve got new Community Standards (aka Political Correctness Standards). First thing I noticed is that there are some new rules which appear to be inspired by the Second Jessie War and the lag bombing of Jessie by One Song and the lag bombing and sim crashing of the Baku sim by the TechSols and [...]
Full StoryEntertainment Jessie Style: The Ultimate Dive Bar
After a rough day of working on the Bedford Sim, I decided to go to Jessie and relax at my shipyard — recently acquired at auction when the Lindens booted Falcon and seized all his property. I was pleasantly surpised to see that my neighbor Davvy Knox had opened a classic dive bar named “Dirty [...]
Full StoryThe MMORPG within the MMORPG: Part 1
While TSO remains all atitter over the fact that EA has introduced a new server/city (Dianastan, or Tigger Town, or Dragons Hangnail or whatever it is), Second Life had the idea that people should be able to buy their own servers in the SL grid (avatars can actually move between servers freely in SL) and [...]
Full StoryFallen Angel: AVG Groping Victim Falls in with One Song
Many of our dedicated readers will remember the case of the young Aphaville Government intern Gina, spoiled in the flower of her youth by the salacious advances of Mr-President. Sadly that incident has precipitated a moral decline in the young woman to the point where she has now taken employ as a dancer/camera girl with [...]
Full StoryThe Virtual Burning Man
There is a tribute to Burning Man in Second Life. I haven’t had a chance to get there yet, so I refer you to the ever excellent reporting of Hamlet Linden in New World Notes. And Hamlet even usese the phrase “temporary autonomous zone”, which basically guarantees that I will blog the story.
Full StoryErotic Dance Club Opens in Lieu of Controversial Stanford Mega-Mall
The twists and turns surrounding the Stanford simulator in the past weeks have made it hard for us to keep up, but here is a recap. Originally, Tank Levy and One Song of the Associates bought up 2/3 of Stanford to build a mega-mall. This led to all sorts of conflagrations with residents of the [...]
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