Archive for 'News from Second Life'
The D&D Game within the Game: Simcast?s Secret Project
The other day I checked the events list in SL, and found the usual fare: naked bingo, scripting classes, sales on fetishware. Tired of this action I decided to fly around aimlessly. A couple minutes later I came across a large castle, with what looked like a gigantic spoon out front ? no it was [...]
Full StoryCoolness: GOM’s virtual ATM machines in SL
So there I was in Club Elite, rapping with one of those fine Club Elite Escorts about her services. I was just thinking, you know, maybe we could play a nice game of Spades or rap about theology in the Club Elite VIP rooms like the escorts do in There ::cough cough::. But I was [...]
Full StoryInterview with Opfor founder Jack Orlowski (aka bicycle maker William Bukowski)
Jack Orlowski (Jacko) is kind of legend around Jessie, both for founding Opfor, and also for the exquisite detail on his guns. He?s been away for a bit, and is now trying to scrape together some cash to reactivate his Jacko account (too much land can put you in hock to the Lindens, it seems), [...]
Full StoryAnother Day in Jessie
Jack Dayton: the little man with BIG plans So the other day I?m in my Jessie bunker catching up on back issues of Players (just the articles, honest), when fighting breaks out up top. Soon people are shooting at me with bunker piercing ammo (time to harden those walls), so I teleport up to my [...]
Full StoryThe Dark Poets of Second Life
While many residents of SL were off at a raffle or taking texturing classes or shooting Lee Linden targets, I dropped in on a dark poetry contest in SL. The four participants were all kind enough to let me take some snaps and reprint their poems. It was a good time. I highly recommend it [...]
Full StoryJaqueline Richelieu plans investment bank/stock exchange in SL
In this very important interview with Ren Reynolds on Terra Nova, Second Lifer Jacqueline Richelieu discusses her plans for an in world investment bank, with an eye to taking public some of SL’s more successful businesses, and also a stock exchange for trading shares of the firms once public. Mechanics of the enforcement mechanisms are [...]
Full StorySpecial: Granny Celestie meets Grimmy Moonflower
What sort of newspaper would yield its front page to two notorious griefers? Why the Second Life Herald of course! In this ill-advised article, notorious tso grieferGranny Celestie takes the reporter?s notebook and interviews notorious (and banned) Second Life grieferGrimmy Moonflower. The results are electric! Well, actually, they are what they are?
Full StoryBodega Dialogues II –
Hamlet Linden has posted part II of the Bodega Dialogues (a discussion between me and The Thinkers in Second Life). This one has some interesting discussion of language in the context of MMORPGs; how does the MMORPG lexicon develop, etc.
Full StoryVirtual Escort Services in Second Life
By Miravoir Psaltry(reprinted from Players, volume 4) In this article, Miravoir Psaltry takes us on a tour of some of the escort services in Second Life. For tso readers, I note that the owner of Club Elite, Big John Jade, is a tso refugee. We hope to talk to him in a future issue.
Full StoryLee Linden vs. the WWIIOLers
WWIIOLer Chaunsey Crash demonstrates his Lee Linden cutout/target While the SLH is on record as not liking the politics of the WWIIOLers (World War II Onliners), we are concerned about the apparently escalating feud between Lee Linden and the WWIIOLers. Now granted the WWIIOLers have gone out of their way to tweak Lee, but suspensions [...]
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