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Squattin’ Life: Part 3 – When You Got Trouble in Mind
by Jezz Enoch, Hillbilly Hellion Now you listen up good, cause I ain’t sayin’ nuffin’ two times. I gots better stuff to do, like shootin’ folks who bothers me. But since Pix done said she aims to pay me to write this-here thing up for y’all. My damn dumb brother, Pappy, who usually wastes your [...]
Full StoryLoki Clifton: The Lab Was Not Respecting The Deal We Made
Loki Clifton’s Second Life consulting business is in trouble. Until Wednesday, Loki was a gold level solutions provider for Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. But according to Mr. Clifton, despite months of negotiations and an agreement to expand Woodbury University’s Second Life presence, everything suddenly changed Tuesday when the Lindens abruptly terminated accounts [...]
Full StoryIn the Belly of the Beast: Harry Linden Cheaps Out on Bears
Apparently erasing all signs of Woodbury from the grid became Harry Linden’s top priority sometime wednesday morning. I had just stopped by the Woodbury parcel in Ravenglass sim to take a picture of the plot when all the objects present disappeared! Despite the destruction, I was elated – the reclusive Lindens were almost certainly in [...]
Full StoryIn the Belly of the Beast: Pooky’s Second Life Game Show
After tiring of watching game god M Linden’s avatar auto-smile, I looked toward the back of the room and noticed the ash-colored untextured Kalel Venkman – a virtual vigilante prone to filing frivolous DMCA takedown notices. I was going to have some questions for Kalel later – and the scene was already more than weird. [...]
Full StoryZero Dark Thirty: The Last Days of Carmen Hermosillo
[In response to Mark Stephen Meadows and Peter Ludlows' analysis in H+ magazine, Margarite Hermosillo offers this account of the last days of her sister Carmen Hermosillo (aka humdog, aka Montserrat Tovar, aka Montserrat Snakeankle, aka Sparrowhawk Perhaps). While the game gods, board trolls, and various factions play out their games, I hope this account [...]
Full StoryBNT Claims $500,000 USD in Damages – Hopes to Join Class Action Lawsuit
Intlibber Brautigan notified the Herald today that he has applied to join a virtual land class action lawsuit against Linden Lab and Philip Rosedale which was filed April 15th. The complaint alleges that after inducing players to join Second life with claims they "would receive and retain all right, title, interest, copyright and intellectual property [...]
Full StorySquattin’ Life Part 2: Don’t Rile The Neighbors
by Pappy Enoch, Squatter, Drunken Bum, & Art Devotee Howdy from my squat. It are going right well, now that I are in my second week. I moved all my traps to another spot that gots more prims open–4000 of ‘em in fact (for now–I aims to fix that). I knows that, one of these-here [...]
Full StoryPixel Dog “Scruffie” Stolen – Serial Nude Sim Shutdowns
by Ravi Galuptra Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. That’s how the old saying goes. But fool me three times? Well that’s exactly what has happened with the Nudite Sur Mer sim, a naturist resort formerly run by Mr. Rokutman Westinghouse and Mr. Jacques Alchemi, the latter allegedly the [...]
Full StoryLinden Home? Hell No!
by Pappy Enoch, Squatter and Shiftless Bum Them Lindens been trying to git us into them little ticky-tack boxes they calls homes. All you needs to do am shell out 72 bucks a year for "Premium" so them nare-do-wells can ignore you. That lil’ old house am just the bait to sum’fin: like ol’ George [...]
Full StoryEmerald Viewer: 76000 Unique Users Could Be Wrong
Earlier this evening, lead Emerald viewer developer Fractured Crystal claimed that 76,000 unique users run the Emerald client – a significant portion of the active Second Life community and clear indication that the Emerald viewer is the most popular alternative to the official Second Life client software. But ongoing rumors of questionable conduct on the [...]
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