The French far right 'Front National' (the guys led by Jean-Marie Le Pen) set up some sort of Fascist HQ in Second Life. This article paints an absolutely brilliant picture of what happened:
And so it raged, a ponderous and dreamlike conflict of machine guns, sirens, police cars, "rez cages" (which can trap an unsuspecting avatar), explosions, and flickering holograms of marijuana leaves and kids' TV characters, and more... [T]he chat log was choked over with pro and anti-Le Pen curses, most in French. And when the lag was not too overwhelming to stream audio, the whole fracas was accompanied by bursts of European techno. One enterprising insurrectionist created a pig grenade, fixed it to a flying saucer, and sent several whirling into Front National headquarters, where they'd explode in a starburst of porcine shrapnel.
The headquarters ended up destroyed, although I did find in the comments that it has risen again in a different part of SL. I'm busting out Beauregard Batz to do some frontline reporting/rioting right now... NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES!
(via boingboing)
And so it raged, a ponderous and dreamlike conflict of machine guns, sirens, police cars, "rez cages" (which can trap an unsuspecting avatar), explosions, and flickering holograms of marijuana leaves and kids' TV characters, and more... [T]he chat log was choked over with pro and anti-Le Pen curses, most in French. And when the lag was not too overwhelming to stream audio, the whole fracas was accompanied by bursts of European techno. One enterprising insurrectionist created a pig grenade, fixed it to a flying saucer, and sent several whirling into Front National headquarters, where they'd explode in a starburst of porcine shrapnel.
The headquarters ended up destroyed, although I did find in the comments that it has risen again in a different part of SL. I'm busting out Beauregard Batz to do some frontline reporting/rioting right now... NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES!
(via boingboing)
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