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Permanent Panties For Second Life Avatars?
Underwear lockdown discovered in new Second Life viewer by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Second Life undies may become compulsory, as several sources claim version 1.23 of the Second Life viewer includes a server-controlled feature that can prevent avatars from removing bras, panties, undershirts, and underpants – unless the avatars are “adult verified”. Is the [...]
Full StoryLinden Land Stats Coverup Enters 5th Month
Lab too embarrassed to publish land data?by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk In February, Linden Lab halted publication of resident land “ownership” statistics after what is believed to be thousands of regions were returned by players reeling from October’s surprise OpenSpace price increase. In the aftermath of the negative economic news and removal of the [...]
Full StorySupport Virtuality — Help Game A Netflix Popularity Contest!!!
by Idoru Wellman, staff writer The Netflix “Find Your Voice film competition” is a great new game where everyone can participate by forming gangs to vote for the independent film maker that best represents their community and interests. Consider this a more positive version of the gang abuse report used in Second Life to get [...]
Full StoryMetaplace Founder Raph Koster Chats Up Linden Lab Co-Founder Cory Ondrejka
The hairy edge of augmented reality colliding with virtual worlds by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk At a much anticipated game god gabfest yesterday, Raph Koster and Cory Ondrejka neatly avoided the controversy over Metaplace male's second-class sit animations – possibly the most vital issue facing the metaverse today – by standing throughout the event. [...]
Full StoryPornosophy and Philip Linden – The Renaissance of Porn Part 2
by Bunny Brickworks She called and they all followed. Loglady Loon is one of the mostbanned non-griefing avatars in SecondLife. She is highly disputed, eitherloved or hated and the creative mastermind behind Freak Show. The firstexhibition of Freak Show was called Beauty vs. Paranoia and all SL artists wereinvited to participate by simply handing in [...]
Full StorySim Boundary White Line Fever – Bad Roads in Zindra
by Suzie Skybeam In Second Life, crossing a boundary between sims is slow, and, to be honest, a bit buggy. So most designers create their builds so that the sim boundaries are in places where there will be as few people as possible crossing across them, or where people won't mind a few seconds of [...]
Full StoryLocks of Love — Hair Fair 2009
Four sims and 134 hair designers for the next two weeks by Tenshi Vielle Hair Fair 2009 has successfully kicked off! Another year of raising L$ to donate to Locks of Love, a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 18 suffering from long-term [...]
Full StoryPhotoLife Drama In Second Life
You mean I need permission to sell your Flickr photos in SL? by Tenshi Vielle Besides nameless SLobrities showing up at SL6B friday evening, the talk of SL6B has been claims that PhotoLife's recently violated the Flickr standards – and Darkley Aeon's artistic rights. The back story: Darkley Aeon was using PhotoLife's stage system – [...]
Full StorySLB6 Is a Crypto Copycat
Mysterious rot13 and secret decoder rings at SL birthday party by Tenshi Vielle SL6B is a copycat! Some darn robots copied Gigs Taggart's Shanti encoded promotion from last year for the Meerkat viewer, but twisted it, turned it, put it up on its side and included lots of fun puzzles – including a slider! Resident [...]
Full StorySL Ban in Oz Worries Chicken Little
by Tenshi Vielle Concerned Australians in Second Life are donning chicken little avatars and chirping that the sky is falling, with news of Australia's proposed ban on adult online games including Second Life circulating. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has been nominated by the British ISP industry for its annual [...]
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