Archive for 'Sights and Sims'
Planet Thyferra – May the Force Not Shove You Off a Bridge!
by Meleth Oakleaf
I teleported into the sim and was greeted by the now familiar note card of information and vendor market. Though this time with two distinctions, I was standing in front of a shuttle and the note card included a quick overview of the overall thrust of the role-playing story on Planet [...]
Full StorySecond Life’s Pandora Na’vi Roleplay – Breathtaking Beauty and Lag
Multilingual players use Na'vi speaker/translator to bridge language gap
by Meleth Oakleaf
Like many places in the world SL has caught Avatar fervor. While it was my original intention was to review a single Pandoran role-play environment, a combination of lag and frustration led me to explore the two most highly traffic-ed Pandoran roleplay sims, Pandora [...]
Full StoryArt Deco Utopian Gardens
by Prince Plutonian
"Art Deco Utopian Gardens embody what the word utopian stands for."
Thoseare the words Alexia Speizer uses to describe her own slice of the SLpie. Looking around, you can certainly see why she'd say that. Being inthe Gardens, I instantly felt at ease, a little more relaxed. From thetrees to the flowers, the waterfalls [...]
Dean’s Vegas Club: Cher Celebration
Cher – Believe!
by Lavinia Carver
Dean’s Vegas Club – what a Cher celebration it was! First of all, there was a pretty good turnout, but of course, I came fairly late in the day. There may have been a bigger crowd earlier – you might expect that from a Cher crowd. What I do know is [...]
Gotham: City of Heroes – And Villains, Too
by Lavinia Carver
Gotham
Just randomly browsing round the metaverse can actually prove useful. I found that out a little while ago, when I stumbled upon Gotham. I had first seen Gotham when it was mid-construction, so it didn’t look too good. It also took forever to build, so I personally thought it would take FOREVER to [...]
More Evil than Tinies, More Sinister than Furries, More Preverted than Elves: A New Race Arrives in SL
Purrsnicketys Prove there is no Bottom to Cute
By Urizenus Sklar, at the post-tiny life form desk
Yesterday Second Life witnessed the birth of a new race of virtual critters – Purrsnicketys. Their basic design is due to Phoenixxx Dragonash, who in RL is Ashley Speranzella-Evans, a free-lance fantasy artist.
They are built and scripted [...]
Jimbo Quality Enhances Leadership Image
Jimbo buys presidential quality hair
by Jimbo Quality
After my last article, I sensed that there was something missing from my campaign to become President of Second Life. I sensed that the people had expectations of me that I wasn’t meeting. My team hit the streets and conducted extensive research to find out what my fellow residents [...]
Second Life Geisha Gardens: Get your Geisha On
by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting a place in Second Life via Cherry Tokyo called the Geisha House. If you wish to experience a great, culturally subversive build in second life, definitely check this place out. When I teleported in, I was immediately amazed with the build, [...]
Full StoryLindens Name New Sim after African Goddess of Lag
“she slows down the day and night, and everything around here happens in a time outside of time”
Special to the Herald by Economic Mip
As I was cruising the new continent, I had the misfortune of running across a sim named “Mbokomu” which certainly brought back memories. According to several African tribes, Mbokomu was the daughter [...]
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