Archive for 'News from The Sims Online'

Giant Snail Races Leave Trails of Tears and Slime

by Alex Fitzsimmons The competition in RacerX Gullwing’s Giant Snail Races may not be the fastest in the world of Second Life, but it may well be the biggest and slimiest. Giant racing snails at the gate.

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On Scamming Scammers

by The Phantom Recently someone on TSO scammed a scammer and then gave the proceeds to the victims of the scammer. Three cheers for the virtual Robin Hood or bad idea? A discussion has opened on Stratics.

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Avatar of the Year, 2nd Place: Sir/Father Callahan

This choice might surprise some, but not after you hear the facts. Over the past year, Sir/FatherC/Ian has been all over tso, and SL, and usually in the middle of some dramma or other. Beginning the year as a small time simolean dealer, he made a name (and drammatically changed gameplay) by acquiring zillions of [...]

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Avatars of the Year, 3rd Place: Ashley and Pez

Before the year closes out, the Herald is going to hand out its avatars of the year awards, beginning with third place. The award goes to the avatars+alts that changed virtual news the most (for better or worse) during the past year. This year, third place is a tie between Ashley Richardson and Mr-President, both [...]

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JC Soprano has a Christmas Present for EA

In this interview infamous TSO mafia boss JC Soprano returns to TSO. Having been interviewed on CNN and covered in periodicals ranging from the Boston Globe to CNet, JC is the ghost of Christmas past AND Christmas future, back to haunt EA. In this interview he talks about the reason for his return, his smackdown [...]

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Black Hand Mafia Opens Club in SL

by Gina Fatale Former denizens of TSO remember the Black Hand Mafia. Sonny Satriale, as the Godfather of the BlackHand Mafia was known in TSO, has been spending his days in SecondLife under the name Santino Molinari. Santino has started a chapter of the BlackHand mafia in SL his first family operated business is the [...]

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Picture says it all.

Thanks to Evangeline for the pointer.

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Viva Toivonen attempts denial of service attack against Herald

Former Alphaville griefer Viva Toivonen (aka Viva T, Angelica, Isabella, Fruitcake Lady) has initiated a feeble denial of service attack against the Herald because the Herald refused to remove comments that Viva posted several months ago and then wished to retract. Apparently the offending comments are in these two threads: http://www.alphavilleherald.com/archives/000206.htmlhttp://www.alphavilleherald.com/archives/000203.html Following is a complete [...]

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Bob Busch: Triads pwn Dragon’s Cove

Since Liz Montana moved to SL, became Gina Fatale, and went to work for One Song, life has gotten better for the Triad Mafia. Not only do they claim to pwn Dragon’s Cove on their web site, but Bob Busch has recently published a dissertation on the virtual Mafia life in Mick Lite’s new forums. [...]

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October Census: Alphaville is officially dead

Following up on our February and May Census, here are the results for Alphaville in October (taken Oct. 10) and it isn’t pretty. Following are the logged hours for the top 100 properties in every catgory rounded to the nearest hour. Category

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