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Playing With Magic
For some roleplayers, Hogwarts Reborn is enchanting by Luthien Biziou A charming classroom It’s 5 minutes until 5pm, SLT. I teleport to Oahu, change into my appropriate avatar, and quickly navigate my 1st year Slytherin through the halls of Hogwarts Castle. I take a seat in the crowded Charms classroom. A 3rd year Ravenclaw behind [...]
Full StoryZero Residents Online – Jeff Linden Eats Crayons!
Make more linden space bucks in your great new SL call center careerSPECIAL BONUS: LL’s web site’s super-secret insights!!! by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The mojo wire had certainly been working overtime – unlike the Herald staff — so I sat in the office sorting through the incoming rumors, press releases, and expense reports. [...]
Full StoryOldAge Play
Grandpapa’s got a brand new bag by peppermint fizz Gerontophilia is a sexual attraction to the elderly by someone who is not elderly. Though it’s not nearly as catchy as “Hot for Granny”, more than a few residents of Second Life seem to have it, and more than a few members of the gray haired [...]
Full StoryHarry Potter Role-Play Drama!!!
Shock! – angry in-character and out-of-character role play results in shootings by Hermione Ferraris, concerned role player A conflict in-game has been going on for a while and some of us have never known. Oahu – a Harry Potter themed role play sim – has been experiencing difficulties with in character (IC) and out of [...]
Full StoryBeauty – part two: A Physical Place
by Aurel milesWhen Anne Rice was finished with Vampires and not quite ready for the Son of God, she turned her attention to fairy tales. In particular she chose one fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty and turned it into a story of a journey from one state of existence to another. It may seem like a [...]
Full StorySUN Working with Linden Lab to Port Second Life to Solaris?
Interview with a Sun storage engineer who wants voice and no morning downtimes by JayR Cela After reading a recent business magazine article about Second Life and “Value Added Integrators of Information Technology Solutions”, I decided to take a tour of several of the major players with established an SL presence. While most of the [...]
Full StorySpanish Politicos At War In SL
One guy with a watermelon gun threatens Second Life society by Onder Skall Terroristic threat or menace? Thursday, Reuters reported that Spanish socialist and conservative party factions are fighting it out in Second Life. The griefing tactics at each other’s party offices include throwing bombs, waving guns around, rezzing fires, and “everything you could imagine” [...]
Full StoryOrchid Glitterbuck – Post 6 Grrrrl
[After several seriously SL-drama filled weeks, I suspect we all need something special and soothing - like a break from bad news. So we offer a new guilty pleasure -- Orchid Glitterbuck. My special friend Marilyn Murphy and I were both horrified when RL technical problems made it impossible to maintain the Herald’s Post 6 [...]
Full StoryMeanwhile, Back in Brussels…
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Trans-Atlantic Subterranean Homesick Blues and Eurasianism NEE campaign website Just in case our European readers are feeling as if their worthy decadence in Second Life is being slighted, and they are coming across as a bunch of “net-nannies” and, in a reverse of Jean Kirkpatrick’s blast against the San Francisco [...]
Full StoryBlame Europe
Is Crackdown on “Ageplay” the First Step to Complying with European Laws? by Carl Metropolitan Linden Lab’s recent policy shift to an explicit ban on sexual “ageplay” may be more about “where are we putting the new European co-location facility?” than any carefully considered decision on the where the line between “freedom of expression” and [...]
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