Is Your Second Life Woman a Real Life Man?

SL sex fraud victim Mandy Dorfler loses money on wedding, asks Linden Lab for gender verification — Is species verification for furries next? by Tenshi Vielle We've moved from being butthurt on the Second Life forums to being butthurt on the Linden Lab public JIRA – now the site of choice to whinge if you've [...]

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Free Realms Not All That Free

Creating demand for Station Cash spacebux by Suzie Skybeam   You'll have to pay to experience the Pro Chef Square Shard “What is Free Realms? A free online world where you rule!” said that banner on the web site. Recalling similar bold claims from Second Life (“Second Life is a 3D online digital world imagined, [...]

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Underground in Gor: Stuck in The Kajira SkyMall

by The Wanderer My avatar was about as ready as I planned to make him. I’d joinedseveral Gorean groups to listen in on announcements and get a feelingfor their RP. Then I went to the first Gorean Sim that looked more orless “by the book” and also had enough green dots present to make thejourney [...]

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How Profitable is the Second Life Fashion Game?

by Tenshi Vielle I recently ran a very informal survey at Shopping Cart Disco in attempt to learn what Second Life's fashion designers cash out of Second Life per month. The results are summarized in the table below — the average earnings for all designers was $850 USD/month. Inexperienced designers claiming to take home an [...]

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Five Reasons Why Free Realms Kind of Rocks

Butthurt divas of Second Life appear as NPCs in Free Realms by Tenshi Vielle Last weekend when I signed in to Free Realms, I cringed upon logon. How fruitcake could a game get? It looked like IMVU and World of Warcraft had a drunken night of debauchery and spawned some kind of freak. The more [...]

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Underground in Gor: A New Series

by the Wanderer Recently, a blogger named Joan Sweetwater explored Gorean culture and regions in Second Life, as a freewoman and, later, as a kajira.  I began to wonder what a geeky man would do in these settings.  Sweetwater began with a large chip on her shoulder: she despises Gor and its culture of male [...]

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Mob Attacks Second Life Vice

by Miss Petunia Amaryllis Courtney Taliaferro, SL League of Decency An overflow crowd recently gathered to protest vice, depravity, and bad taste that mark the current state of Second Life. SLOD reserved a PG region (there being no G regions, sadly) and came well armed against any roaming perverts.    Overflow crowd demands end to [...]

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Better Than a Freenis – Tenshi Gets A Boob Job

by Tenshi Vielle, fabulous fashionista Skin: Blowpop Skins, Bikini: Shai, Hair: ETD Ladies, digital boobs are no longer good enough for us. There are places the skin layer simply cannot go. That skin you love so much might just need a little enhancement for that special night out on the town. Nobody wants to look [...]

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Why the SL Avatar Mesh Fails

by Tenshi Vielle, fabulous fashionista slmesh.jpg – Courtesy of Annyka Beckers, creator of Blowpop Skins Inan amazing feat of web-stumbling, it has been revealed that 3D mesheswork best when they do NOT contain triangles.  Triangles, due to theirodd nature when subjected to division createbumps and humps in the avatar's appearance. We, of course, see thisnearly [...]

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Ex-Second Life Newspaper SLNN Now Covering Golden Grrrls?

Metaverse loses another news source as SLNN changes ownership and direction by Tenshi Vielle SLNN's coverage of the Second Life world has gone missing and is now feared dead. For nearly two weeks, the formerly Second Life-oriented news service's web site has been unresponsive. Readers attempting to access current or past articles are greeted with [...]

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