Interview with alt-right Pepemancer and Kek/Trump supporter, weev
by Urizenus Sklar on 22/09/16 at 1:27 am
weev with a recent tat In this Herald Instant Classic © interview, we talk with Andrew Auernheimer (aka weev) about his white supremacist politics, his work for the Daily Stormer website, the Kek/Trump political agenda, and his involvement in the pepe the frog meme-storming of Hilary Clinton’s campaign. Pepe and Hillary have words
Full StoryPortraits from SLCC
SL residents attempt hallway camping at SLCC in hopes of earning L$2 per 10 minutes With the Herald on a shoestring budget this year, we had little opportunity to see Hamlet get horizontal, but there were plenty of faces on display among the crowd of 400+ devoted SL residents in attendance. Without further ado, we [...]
Full StoryNegative Coordinates: Griefing in the Unverified Age
by Fiend Ludwig Nukes at the Welcome Area “There were two; flying around and shooting each other, but they wandered closer to where I was building. So I said hello and gave them tea. They started pushing me and shot me once.” So a friend wrote me recently after a particularly unfortunate incident of griefing. [...]
Full StoryLindens Hit the Bottle After SLLA Assault on American Apparel
by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk Linden staffer (in dreadlocks) provides personal SL support for a potential business partner (in black and red) at American Apparel After spamming a number of the SL forums recently with demands for resident voting and consultation before major Linden decisions, SL resident Marshal Cahill told me Thursday, “We [...]
Full StoryThe Nutty Professor on TSO and the Second Jessie War
Oh baby, when will they retire that nutty professor? Herald Paparazzi caught up with him at the Computers and Philosophy conference at RPI, expounding on the history of Evangeline’s Hotel Erotica, the Sim Sorority House, the Sim Shadow Government, the Free Money for Newbies scam house, Uri’s banning from TSO, One Song, the WWIIOLers, the [...]
Full StorySL to Ditch Forums — Residents Fail to Meet Linden Quality Standards
by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk Linden Labs has announced plans to close its official forums over the next few months. Metaverse citizens braced themselves for a possible drama shortage, and there are unconfirmed reports of drama stockpiling and hoarding by some forum regulars. In a move to avert a panic-driven run on the [...]
Full StoryFeature-Length SL Documentary slated for October release
by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk. “We aren’t doing this to show what Second Life ‘plays’ like, we are here to make a documentary about what people do in it”, said Anders Ogre when I spoke with him recently. Mr. Ogre is a filmmaker creating a feature-length documentary about Second Life due to be [...]
Full StorySecondCast #29: zzzzz . . .
Second Cast Episode #29 is out, and it’s a real snoozer! Actually, I haven’t listened to it yet (I missed the taping yet again, unfortunately), but as Johnny Ming puts it in his show notes, “The show was so riveting that Cristiano fell asleep.” The crew also interviews SL resident Tony Tigereye, owner of the [...]
Full StoryPublic Outcry Forces SLStats Change — Or Does It?
by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk Big Brother’s watchmaker, Mark Barrett, rides the elephant [Is that like jumping the shark? -- Ed.] “Avatars in second life aren’t the customers, they’re the content. Google is indexing web content, and SLStats is the bridging adapter between the two worlds,” SLStats developer Mark Barrett told me saturday [...]
Full StoryPoof! LL’s Smoke and Mirrors Do Away With Starax Statosky
Starax Statosky is no more! Linden Lab’s magic wand has apparently done away with him. The master scripter, whose own magic wand had become one of the most popular SL diversions over the last six months or so — even being featured by kingpin Philip Linden at a talk at Google — no longer appears [...]
Full StoryTaking a Chance on Chance Takashi
A special profile to benefit the American Cancer Society, by Walker Spaight Chance Takashi “This is The Observatory, my first big build in SL,” Chance Takashi tells me when I meet her in the Caledon Highlands. “Or anywhere, really.” It’s an interesting addendum: the metaverse, for Chance, is broad enough that a “build” could exist [...]
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