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Griefing Comes to There. Did it come there from here?
Like Alphaville, the MMORPG There has a newspaper called The Caldera Sun-Times, edited by one Christopher Snizik. In a recent story keyed by Celtic, entitled “Griefing: the Ugly Side of There“, the paper reports on recent problems with griefers and also outlines some possible responses. A good article in a very toney paper (at least [...]
Full StoryAlert!: Lead Archetict Clone Strikes Again and Again and Again
All TSO Users Need to be on Extremely High Alert for the clone of Lead Achitect, going by the name of Lead Archetict. (Notice that the e and the i are switched). A few days ago we reported on how AV resident cj johnson had created Lead Archetict in several cities and had scammed Monkeybear [...]
Full StoryAVG Vice President Resigns. Forms new government in Mt. Fuji
By Ian Paul Tully, Alphaville Government’s “Invisable Man” is interviewed on his resignation from his Vice President Position. Why would he do this? Boredom? Concern about corruption? Other projects? Read on to find out!
Full StoryMore newz from DG: Rocco Montana Strikes Back
By Dana Grove Daniel Alfredson (aka Bob Busch, Triad Mafia) learned his lesson the hard way this week when Rocco Montana ordered a good old house trashing to be issued to Mr. Alfredson after he threw insults at Mr. Montana several nights ago. From what witnesses at the LLC Hate Shack described, several nights ago [...]
Full StoryPet Pull Frenzy! An interview with Becca from Pet Addicts
By Ian A Rare Pet craze has broken out once again. Earlier yesterday afternoon; it was announced that “Andrew” of Andrew?s Pet Heaven in Calvins Creek found a Pink Poodle in a pet pull. Now in all cities a Rare Pet Search is taking place! The other rares include a Turkish terrier, a robotic cat, [...]
Full StoryPost Cards from Second Life
A lot of AVH contributors have moved on to other MMORPGs in the last six months. We’ve had squirrel go to FFXI, Lady Juliana, Mikal, and a number of SWG-ers and Mafiosi go to SWG, a slew of people have gone to There (including Stella Dives *sigh*), some to soliolotron and some to Second Life. [...]
Full StoryAJ Down Clone Identified
In news that has only just come to light, albeit via a highly reliable source, we are now able to identify the individual that was running the Scam House with a clone of AJ Down in Jolly Pines. It was none other than Janette, Alphaville’s “most infamous” sim. According to chat logs in the posession [...]
Full StoryAVG Press Secretary Resigns
By Pat the Rat In a shocking new development in the soap opera that “The Alphaville Government” has become, AVG Press Secretary Ian has resigned his postion, citing a lack of challenge, and issues with Angelique Fontaine, who seems to have become the Yoko Ono of the AVG. Apparently Mr-Pres and Angelique have spent too [...]
Full StoryNew YIM offers avatars
Since this is my week for posting old news, I thought I would add that the new version of YIM, now in Beta, introduces avatars. The avatar options are still pretty limited, but it raises interesting longer term questions about whether chatty MMORPGs like TSO are needed if we can have our own YIM chatrooms [...]
Full StoryMonkeybear charges cj johnson with scamming
In a recent story we discussed allegations by Lead Architect that cj johnson in Alphaville had cloned him. Now we have the story of Monkeybear that cj promised to transfer several rares for him, took posession of the rares, and never delivered in the new city. Here is Monkeybear’s story.
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