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                      as alpha.tribe slowly comes into being…
                      • 3 min

                      as alpha.tribe slowly comes into being…

                      And what a collaboration this promises to be folks! The good news is that I seem to be finally coming out of the creative slump – and abo...
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                      My Alts
                      • 2 min

                      My Alts

                      From an old blog of Alpha’s: “I did not use to have them – alts I mean. I was way too engrossed with my life and all of the countless ev...
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                      Enter Grapho Fullstop
                      • 5 min

                      Enter Grapho Fullstop

                      I am not sure how I managed to get to Grapho in my convoluted thought patterns. Bett made a post on the neko gym on the NPIRL blog. From ...
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                      a la guerre comme a la guerre…
                      • 4 min

                      a la guerre comme a la guerre…

                      (… except that I do seem to be meeting my Waterloo over here, aren’t I?!?) … To say that there is some considerable cause for concern is ...
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                      The look-alike avatar
                      • 3 min

                      The look-alike avatar

                      In the last post I added something pretty much in the twelfth hour, at the very end. I said “your vanity” and then in parentheses I added...
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                      The New Aggressive Look
                      • 5 min

                      The New Aggressive Look

                      I have been wearing my ninja cat boots and arm brace for quite a bit now and I truly did not realize that the two sticks are these really...
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                      The Shadow
                      • 2 min

                      The Shadow

                      So, what happened to the story? The fairy tale, the “maerchen”? When did narrative become so “un-cool” then? I think it happened in the a...
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                      wolfie
                      • 4 min

                      wolfie

                      OK, enough of all the melodrama such as the unexpected alchemical side effects of unrequited love, the merits of middle age versus youth ...
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                      The birth of an avatar named Alpha Auer
                      • 3 min

                      The birth of an avatar named Alpha Auer

                      So, the time has come to talk about a certain young lady, who seems to occupy a central position in my life; who, in a very bizarre way h...
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                      Concealment
                      • 1 min

                      Concealment

                      SL is a leap ahead in that there are extensive modeling tools that change everything from body shape, to hair style, to outfits. Because ...
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                      Play
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                      Play

                      The fallout rate of the metaverse is high. While there are well over 10 million Second Life accounts, only about 10% of them are active. ...
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