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Pierce Entertainment Announces Auditions for Waiting For Godot

Sorry I neglected to post this press release earlier — too much happening these days. Anyway the skinny is this: Pierce Entertainment, LTD has announced auditions for Waiting for Godot. I would have called it Waiting for MOMI.

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Oh joy, and now for the email spoofers

Everyone in the Alphaville community should be on alert that someone has been spoofing email accounts in an attempt to transmit viruses/worms. Spoofing is a fairly simple hacking technique, wherein one sends an email that appears to be coming from another source. In recent days, the email addresses of both Mr-President and Peter Ludlow (ludlow@umich.edu) [...]

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Clones!

by Montserrat Tovar, The Phantom, and Los Clones are avatars with names that are very similar to the name of a known well-established avatar. For example a sim with a name like Johnson might be cloned by a sim named Johnson’. Clones are established for two basic purposes on tso. First, sims use them as [...]

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TSO boycott petition making rounds

This online petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?Qd3d&1) may have gone up a while ago, but it only just came to our attention (thanks to Mr-P for the pointer). It is, in effect, a protest of the $10/month fee for the online game. The reasoning in the petition is more or less nonexistent and the language is barely literate, [...]

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Van’s Sim_Bitch69 Account Under Control of Mr. President Bradley

Mr. President Bradly has acquired control of Evangeline’s in game accounts and also his YIM account sim_bitch69, and has been using the latter to communicate with many members of the Alphaville community under the guise of Evangeline, and in certain cases to (allegedly) send Trojan horses. Messages from that account are not from Van and [...]

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Hacking Epidemic Sweeps Across Alphaville and TSO

by The Phantom Hacking on TSO has been with us from the beginning. Lately, however, the matter has been spinning wildly out of control, with account hacks being reported by money traders, scammers, AVG Government officials and just about anyone who could be expected to have a pile of simoleans. Not surprisingly, EA has been [...]

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Former AVG CIA Chief Fans: Hackers Drove me Out of TSO

In this interview Fans explains why he left TSO, and alleges that it was because his account was hacked by Mr. and Mrs. President Bradley and because of continued attempted electronic intrusions by the Bradleys. He claims that he went to EA, which refused to investigate, but that he is now working with the police. [...]

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visiting the mind of a fisher: an interview with kendra j

by m. tovar In this interview Montserrat Tovar probes the mind of one of tso’s more effective scammers ? one specializing in the ?house scam.? Why does Kendra J do it? Well, you might be surprised to learn that s/he is on a mission from God?

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Introducing the Diamond Memorial Museum

By Ian This Saturday evening I decided to go to the “Diamond Memorial Museum”, which is located in the “SimArts” neighborhood. The owner, Craig Pierce, is brother to, David Pierce, the producer of many successful plays. I was pleasantly greeted at the door, and wanted to take a tour to see what this is all [...]

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Scorned Relina: I was Mr-President’s Secret Sim Love

By I.P. Lithium with Pat the Rat Many of you will recall our story about poor Relina, winner of “The Bachelor” contest, but then but then dumped by the “bad apple” bachelor Jecht before she got to the altar. Perhaps lost in that story was the unusual presence of Mr-P at the contest. Relina now [...]

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