Archive for 'News from Second Life'

Second Life Economic Statistics Analyzed

by Curious Rousselot, metaverse numerologist As many of us are no doubt aware; Linden Lab publishes statistics about Second Life. Conveniently they also make the historical data available in Excell and OpenOffice, and Google Docs format. This gives us here at the Herald a chance to see how the economy of Second Life is doing [...]

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Marathon Battle at The Woofer

AN repulses attack – Herald reporter wounded by Omega Groshomme, war correspondent The Alliance Navy was attacked on Wednsday morning 1:00am SLT by members of several opposing factions. Members of Titan industries rolled into “The Woofer”, the Alliance Navy sim, using small arms fire and phantom rounds engaging in a small fire fight from the [...]

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SLCC Likely to Create Spot Shortages

Metaverse may affect RL economy by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Economists continue to predict a shortage of lawn care specialists, fast food preparation technicians, and retail stock replenishment experts – sometimes known as stock boys – this summer in late August. The problem is expected to become acute within driving range of Chicago – [...]

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Here Becomes More Like There

Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Multiverses, Simulated Proofs of Concepts, and Badly-Thought-Through Soviet Central Committee Planning by Game Companies Once again, without any real public discussion, Linden Lab took one more step closer to becoming like its evidently envied competitor There today, as it instituted a new “Certification” system to issue what amount to [...]

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STABLE Talks In Response to MOSCOW

SL military groups continue negotiationsby Omega Groshomme, war correspondent treaty negotiations continue April 19th at 20:06 SL time an organization of military groups gathered in conference to discuss a new more improved treaty in answer to the Merczateer proposed MOSCOW: Military Organization Standard for Conventional Operations and Warfare. The conference organized by the Alliance Navy [...]

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You Rule: Second Life Turns Into Tropico

Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Multiverses, Metaverses, Abusive Synthetic Island Nations, and The Tiny Crypto-Governance Department at LL That Rules Us All Anyway Oh, dear God. As if there weren’t enough problems in Second Life, what with the lag, the teleporters not working, inventory lost for good, now the Lindens have gone and announced [...]

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Is Second Life Liberation Army Founder Part of a Corporate Spy Firm?

Solidad Sugarbeet resigns from SLLA leadership – claims Marshal Cahill is part of real life “corporate intelligence/security firm” by Bayesian Textbot Today, the following notice went out to the Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA): Dear SLLA members: Via an anonymous source, it has come to my attention that Marshal Cahill is the real life owner [...]

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Le Grand Souk Populaire Tient Ses Promesses

The Large Popular Souk Holds Its Promises [As the French presidential race continues, candidates reach for ever more creative ways to get their names in front of potential voters and onlookers in "our world, our imagination". This report is being made available in simultaneous translation courtesy of Bablefish - because any excuse to get more [...]

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Alliance Navy Training – Prepared for the Worst

by Omega Groshomme, war correspondent the woofer “Altittude 100,speed 85,coming in under fire” the pilot shouts – I am on the drop ship of the Alliance Navy being flown into “the woofer” AN’s newest sim and HQ, a hot LZ, to meet Admiral Herbst and oversee his soldiers and training. The pilot doing his best [...]

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Spring Road Construction in the Metaverse

by Tillery Woodhen Linden Lab takes pot-holes to a new level The other day I was driving down on of the roads on the southern continent, just trying out my new car. When this little accident happened. I had thought it was just the server taking its time to load in the road, like usual. [...]

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