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LL Mysteries Revealed By Accidental God Mode

Lab can’t afford a legitimate site certificate for internal web server? by Inigo Chamerberlin [As reported earlier, Herald correspondent Inigo Chamerberlin was mysteriously granted game god-mode powers temporarily this Easter. Before his powers evaporated, he was able to file this report from the heavens - and take a number of screen shots - included here [...]

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Accidental God Mode – An Easter Surprise

What would Jesus do? by Inigo Chamerberlin, temporary metaverse deity Ok, so, it’s Easter Sunday, and because Spring has finally arrived on my island I’m fiddling with terrain textures, new plantings, animal and insect life, all the minutiae that go into running an attempt at a natural sim. I was also trying to track down [...]

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Casino Owners Unimpressed With Linden Crackdown

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk While Azno Simons seems particularly eager to comply with the Linden lab staffers attempt to clean up at least the gambling aspect of Second Life – other metaverse casino owners have a different perspective. Mr. Simons may be a unique case, since he more interested in advertising his web-based [...]

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Interview with PalmVegas Honcho Azno Simons

Sim owner uses off-limits casino to promote web gambling site -lures noobies with innovative automated SL cybersex classroom by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Azno Simons on duty keeping US Citizens out of the PalmVegas Casino Hoping to explore the motivations for an SL casino owner who sent out high profile press releases to media [...]

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Orange County Choppers Builds Intel A Bike

by Onder Skall — courtesy of Second Life Games What does Intel need a bike for? Alright, I get it – it’s an illustration of the “raw power” of their new quad-core processing… whatevers. If they’re really interested in bringing this message of hardcore super-powerful computing awesomeness, though, why in the world would they want [...]

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Manoa ARG Launches In Second Life

by Onder Skall — courtesy of Second Life Games Following up on a tip left by Second Life Games reader Spysect (aka Eddie Hagoromo) a new Alternate Reality Game has been discovered here in Second Life. The website Discover Manoa! details a failed colonization attempt and a mysterious disaster. From the website: The board has [...]

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Uma Troell – Post 6 Grrrl

[Editrix’s note: Uma Troell’s hard work has paid off in a big way - as my super friend Marilyn Murphy - the visionary, photographer, and publisher of Players - SL’s in-world erotica magazine - will tell you. After we put the evening edition of the Herald to bed, the entire Herald staff is heading over [...]

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Oops! There Goes the Pr0n too…and the Lindens Observe the Holidays

By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs OK, so your favourite casino and dance-pad house had to close down over the Feds bustin’ in. Alright, so that ageplay club you once sampled has had to close because of Chadrick Linden carding them. So your teleporter isn’t working. And geez, with the grid messed up again, [...]

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Simulating A Gambling Crackdown

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Thursday Robin Linden stimulated metaverse simulated casino owners to come up with an acceptable euphemism for simulated gambling today with the announcement that the Lab will no longer “accept any classified ads, place listings, or event listings that appear to relate to simulated casino activity”. A few Second Life [...]

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FBI Investigates Metaverse Casinos

G-men to consider punishing players? by Onder Skall Reuters reports that the FBI have been snooping around Second Life’s casinos and debating what laws are being broken here. After all, playing unregulated Poker for money is illegal – which of course means that those of you who’ve been playing Poker all this time have been [...]

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