Playing the marginally villainous Lionel Oliva and Saunders Baxton in Second Life, I’ve come to develop some rather condescending habits when traveling across the grid. Read more »

Sometimes I’m hard pressed to come up with article ideas that fit VillainTech’s mission of badass pop coolness.

But, my friend Loki (link to VT article before) played a prank on me a little while ago in Second Life.  I got an invite from a Spankenda Serpentine (yeah, ok) to an AubreTec chatroom.  As far as I knew there weren’t any chatrooms in SL, and I’m pretty paranoid about clicking on strange URLs, so I Googled AubreTec’s site. Read more »

I like to buy first-issue comics for review when I can, and when I saw the phantasmagoric Japanese art of Sandman: the Dream Hunters, I latched onto it like a small grubby child clutching a candy bar melting in the August sun. Read more »

I stopped reading Knights of the Dinner Table a long time ago… around 40 issues back.  In that amount of time — three years plus change — a comic book can undergo some radical plot twists, redesigns, and other changes.  By the time a long-departed reader tries to fathom what happened by deciphering a few buzzwords and cryptic references, the fun and momentum of the comic can fall by the wayside. Read more »

I can’t stand the Second Life nightclub scene. My computer, an aging eMachine, locks up when 40 maxed-out avatars focus their lag-draining abilities in a single spot while doing “V^V^V^ HOOOOOOO! ^V^V^V” gestures ad nauseam. Read more »