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Linden Lab Discriminates against Snails
by Happy Trails, Snail Activist Now I'm not one to complain, but this is about as much as I can stand. Linden Lab does not cater to snails; there are no snail sims, there are no snail clothing stores, very few snail skin makers, and no snail sex ball makers. There is one lousy snail [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Catering to Corporations, Running Over Residents?
by Tenshi Vielle It's not like the support quality of Second Life has gone down any further. It's stayed at rock bottom since last year's great insurgency of newbies thanks to Linden Lab's draw of corporations and those corporations' subsequent advertising measures. Some residents are fairly convinced that Linden Lab is losing its focus, and [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Linden Lab – Play Fair and Stop Spamming Us!
by Sitearm Madonna The spam ads sent to the secondLife@email.secondlife.com Email List are an outrage. Linden Lab just sold its avatar accounts confidential email list to a commercial retail sales organization without asking our permission or giving us an option to Opt Out. The fact that the commercial retail sales organization is NOW owned by [...]
Full StoryThe Philosophical Parrot Of Socrates Cafe
Authentic dialogue in a synthetic world by Alessandra Narayan Tired of contests, free sex, acoustic live music, poor roleplay… one of those days or nights when everything seems to go wrong? Ok, there might be a solution if you’re into philosophy. Check out Socrates Cafe and you might end up in an intense debate that [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Finding Real People in Second Life
by Jessica Holyoke A complaint I have heard from the 'Get A Life' crowd is that the people you meet on Second Life aren't real. Because you may never have seen a photo or know their name, they don't count. I once mentioned to a close friend of mine the snow storm another friend of mine [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: You Can’t Fix Stupid
Why are so many SL men total idiots? by Steve01 Denimore The comedian, Ron White, once said: "You can't fixstupid." He is right. Stupid is what many males in SL are. I know thisbecause I have many female friends who tell me about the idiot behaviorthey encounter from SL males. I have also seen some [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Get A Life! Any Ideas Which One?
by Sigmund Leominster It’s incredibly easy to trawl through the Internet to find stories about virtual worlds and the Second Life experience. And the stories are typically centered on a pretty well focused set of topics: sex; sex with children; infidelity (sex with someone else’s partner); bestiality (sex with someone else’s pet); and general corruption [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: US$2,356,250 Reasons For LL’s OpenSpace Policy
Open Space sims and how Linden Lab got it right – for themselves by Maximilian Proto, Department of Random Guy Posting After Linden Lab introduced a new pricing policy for its highly popular Open Space (OS) sim product, residents joined to celebrate the cherished tradition of feverishly complaining about price increases (“they’re making it too [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Island Owners to LL: New Continent and Tier Payments Are Killing Us!!!
An open letter to Linden Lab by PonygirlSarah Clapper, Island Owners Association M Linden, Congratulations on becoming the CEO of Linden Labs. Unfortunately, those of us who have invested heavily into SL have seen our investments fall into worthlessness thanks to decisions made by someone in the company. Let me explain, if I may. First [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Sarah Palin: The View From Gor
Gorean slave masters expected to vote for Palin by Jessica Holyoke Now that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is running for Vice President on the Republican ticket, many groups are asking what will this mean for them: the liberals, the feminists, the inside the beltway crowd, and the business as usual oil fat cat crowd. But [...]
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