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Anshe Chung (right) before the griefing attack. Insets: The attack and two of the suspected griefers.
Virtual real estate tycoon Anshe Chung has been forced to abandon a public forum inside the 3-D online world of Second Life after virtual vandals - known as griefers - launched a phalanx of flying phalluses.
Anshe, a former language teacher from China whose real name is Ailin Graef, was appearing inside the virtual world at an event hosted by the online technology news publisher CNET.
Last month, Anshe announced that she had accumulated virtual assets worth more than $US1 million in real money, making her - by her own claim - the first virtual world millionaire.
"She is very popular, and some people don't like her," said CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman, whose Second Life avatar (online persona), GreeterDan Godel, was interviewing Anshe at the time of the attack.
The media attention that SL continues to generate still makes me frown in despair, which is usually about how so and so made their latest virtual billion. Of course though, now that it is in the spotlight, we end up with wonderful gems in the news about giant floppy penis attacks and journalists quoting Something Awful, with complete links to SA's Second Life Safari. Mmmm, big floppy penis attacks.
Eve is just one big phallic gang-bang. I have to play in windowed mode and hide it every time my wife comes in the room lest she think I'm watching some sort of gay sci-fi.
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Being assaulted by non-flying penises has simply become too... commonplace for you?
Ha ha.
Stabbers look like giant dildos covered in shit
Yeah, in SL it's all user content. Like this user-created tentacle-rape-monster.
CASE DISMISSED.
Thank god for that
watch the video guys
seriously
the music
oh god my face hurts from laughing
the music
it is enchanting
Id still give her a poke, i mean, shes a fucking millionaire.
people basically hate two things about Second Life:
1. The unbridled, disgusting, should-be-but-isn't criminal depravity of it.
2. The pretentious self-aggrandizing bullshit.
She pretty much personifies the latter. The former? I don't know. But probably.
I don't want her dead, I just said she doesn't look like that.
Although I'd probably give her the Danza Slap(tm), given the chance.
No, I mean, the comments on youtube. Some people hate her with a passion.
Alt eat my dick
Like I have time to fucking figure that shit out.
Make me a sandwich
Sudo make me a sandwich
people will first and foremost use it for sexual deviancy that is either physically impossible or completely illegal or both.
and other people will defend it as "nobody's getting hurt because it's not real therefore it's not a real crime"
it's getting into some really grey legal territory.
Hey pony I just checked out some Emma Watson tentacle porn, Philosopher's Stone era Watson
Wanna check it out, you can feel them squirm