Bowling and Griefing Going Strong in Second Life
by Alphaville Herald on 24/04/12 at 1:18 am
by Justine Babii When I was last a Second Lifer I learned quickly that it’s important not to get too excited about the “Events” listed in the SL search, as most will be a huge disappointment. Empty sims trying to sell or rent lots, struggling clubs, and sex bed sales made up the majority of [...]
Full StorySecond Life Twitter War Goes Beyond Nasty
LabRatuOut accuses Linden Lab staff of Stroker Serpentine smear campaign The long running war of words between Jumpman Lane and Stroker Serpentine took a bizarre turn over the last two days after a newly minted Twitter account named LabRatuOut first tweeted a series of warnings to Mr. Lane asking that he apologize to Serpentine by [...]
Full StoryADV: Who Killed Pixeleen?
BabyDoll’s TAUNT MURDER MYSTERY – Win L$10,000 !!! Rating: PG-13 for gore and mature themes. What: Crack the case and you could win L$10,000! Duration: 2 Hours with Friends When: Mystery and Contest starts October 7th and ends November 1st @ noon SLT. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Pixeleen Mistral is dead and we must find out who killed her! [...]
Full StoryPat the Rat rats Herald 8th Birthday
Social event of the new millenium (so far) Ponies and Pink Hands get funky at Herald birthday. Fabulous readers, what can I say except that this was the social event to end all social events on Second Life. Pixelboys, blingtards, /b/tards, and ponies mingled with robots, giant vore crazy dragons and cute little teddy bears [...]
Full StoryAlphaville Herald Celebrates 8 Years on October 6!
After months of frantic preparations, the mushroom cave in Shivar is ready for an historic moment – the 8th birthday party celebration of the most vital, trustworthy, erudite, and incisive newspaper in the metaverse – the Alphaville Herald. Herald founder Urizenus Sklar and managing editrix Pixeleen Mistral invite our readers to join us as we [...]
Full StoryCan Weapon Sales Save FurNation – And Second Life?
Corsi Mousehold moves from sexbeds to combat – a desperate bid to pay land fees for furs FurNation administrator Corsi Mousehold left a message at the Herald offices early this evening to express continued deep concerns about Stroker Serpentine’s full permissions release of the SexGen sexbed base and animations, and claimed Mr. Serpentine’s actions are [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: The Perils And Promises Of Multi-User Shared Environments
by Senban Babii – apologist for criminals and a notorious one In recent days, the SL profile of Rodvik Linden has been under attack by a well known griefer (according to the leaked JLU wiki) who has been conducting a low tech denial of service attack by filling Rodvik Linden’s wall with spam about British [...]
Full StorySecond Life SexBed Industry Thrown Into Chaos
Stroker Serpentine’s SexGen 600 animation bed now full permission – and free the end of an era This was without question an historic day. If there was any question about Stroker Serpentine leaving Second Life, it was erased Wednesday morning when he made the flagship of his SexGen business available with copy/transfer/modify permissions. The bed [...]
Full StoryJumpman Lane – The “Kang” of Second Life
Last week, well-known virtual world entrepreneur Stroker Serpentine threw in the towel on Second Life after a long running series of feuds with Linden Lab and the notorious Jumpman Lane. Mr. Serpentine announced his departure in a series of tweets that caused alarm among his friends at the news that he was apparently exiting the [...]
Full StoryNext Up for Linden Lab: 2D Text Games for iPads?
At AOL’s DailyFinance site, Dawn Kawamoto reports that Linden Lab is working on a 2D game platform that seems almost completely unrelated to Second Life as we know it – except for a crowd-sourced approach to content creation. Citing sources familiar with the plans, Kawamoto tells us the new gaming platform (which some inside Linden [...]
Full StoryLab Breaks Vehicle Brakes – Causes Hundreds of Fatal Accidents
AnnMarie Otoole suspended after Q&A-challenged Lindens nerf prim-physics switch Linden Lab’s unfathomable player disciplinary actions scaled new heights of absurdity with news that AnnMarie Otoole was slapped with a 3 day suspension after her vehicles were broken by an error in Linden Lab’s latest “upgrade” to Second Life server software. Apparently the Lab’s latest server [...]
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