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pvt_medic writes "MSNBC is reporting that there soon will be a Miss Digital World Competition. "'MISS DIGITAL WORLD' is the first beauty contest for the likes of videogame heroine Lara Croft and computer-cloned actresses from the "Matrix" films and new beauties tweaked to perfection with 3D graphics." The website for the competition is still under construction at MissDigitalWorld.Com"
Cortana: the thinking cyborg's digital crumpet.
Now we're /.ing websites that don't even EXIST yet? For chrissake, give them a chance to build the thing before you blow it into oblivion.
Also: Wasn't the whole digital actress/lara croft meme really hip like, 5 years ago?
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PS The story is from yesterday.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
I nominate the head of (insert hot celebrity here) pasted onto the body of a random nude woman, yuk yuk yuk.
Is it just me or do you guys also feel weird after spanking it to an animated character?
Cant there be some sort of pathetic slashdot poll on them? It's ot like they're real.
There's a diference between real and fake. You can sleep with real ones. ANd until a stimsim is created, being with some fakey digital construct is out of the question
First, we have a physical Miss Universe - now we have a Miss Digital!!!
Well, this is definitely a plus for 3d animators everywhere - finally, your work is being noticed as superb - and definitely deserving of 'human' paralleled recognition.
Just wonder if they'll start having all the other Miss Pageants...
Most geeks can't get a date with the pimply faced, slightly overweight girl in his English class... What the hell are we doing holding a competition for them where they get to design the 'perfect' woman... They don't even know what the perfect woman should be... Totally Hypocritical Contest...
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
After winning Best Virtual Character at the MTV Movie awards, there can be little doubt that Gollum will walk away with this one as well. He's such a drama queen.
The only competition will be from Dobby, for his stunny portrayal of life in the world's oldest profession in the movie Dobby Does Dallas.
Oh, the pain. The pain.
You're 30 minutes late for your dinner reservation and she claims she is still 'under construction.'
I've long held the opinion that virtual actors are the future of Hollywood. Why pay for a high-priced actor when we can whip them up online?
And the stunts will get crazier and crazier, for sure! (And I didn't even mention pr0n...)
Here's my nomination, from the BBC's very own news site.
Stick Men
Can Zelda enter? Or is there an age limit?
- Hail to our fearless misleader! Fool speed ahead!
I'm not against the concept, and I do understand that this is inevitable.
But doesn't this contest promote geek alienation. With all the pr0n around, we already lost the desire for real world women... What's gonna happen when fake women become even more popular?
It's more like hypoTHETical....
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
Ok, it may seem a little sad and geeky, but I can see it pushing the realism of digital human models. It'll be a place where people can show off their amazing new techniques for realistic hair, or natural movement animation etc.
I smell Tiffany Shlain, and not in a good way.
Just what the average joe girl needs...comp from a chick made with photoshop, and a slider bar for increasing bust size.
I can hear it now:
Nerd "Yea she was ok, but she was eating my pizza and I could not tweak her breast any larger than a B cup."
Geek "Well did she at least wear something that got your little Elvis to sing and dance?"
Nerd "She really got bent when I told her she should be wearing Tia'wik Dancing Thong."
Geek "Don't you just wish you could re-roll your honey?!"
---phffff!
Neck_of_the_Woods
#/usr/local/surf/glassy/overhead
The movie sucked, but she was amazing to look at.
i claim prior art to such a contest.
A Miss Digital World competition should hold the same rules to the real life counterparts.... So when does the swimsuit competition start? Personally, I give my vote to the girls from DOA3...
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There's a diference between real and fake. You can sleep with real ones.
Don't presume so much about your readers' seductive abilities. This is Slashdot, after all.
MONA - from Max Payne 2. God, she looks good on my 9800 Pro.
:)
She's a crack shot too. Is talent involved in the judging?
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
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Don't you remember seeing the ads way back in, oh, 1995 Computer Shoppper and the like, for the "Miss Metaverse" beauty pageant? This nearly predates everything that's ever happened online.
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After winning Best Virtual Character at the MTV Movie awards, there can be little doubt that Gollum will walk away with this one as well.
If that is what gets your engine running then you are a sick man!
... obviously wins
Mouse: "... So I understand that you've run through the agent training program. You know, I wrote that program."
Apoc: "Here it comes."
Mouse: "So what did you think of her?"
Neo: "Of who?"
Mouse: "The woman in the red dress? I designed her. She, um...well she doesn't talk very much, but...but if you'd like to meet her, I can arrange a much more personalized meeting."
Switch: "Digital pimp, hard at work"
"We live in our minds, and existance is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality" Ayn Rand
"I want to make the world a better place for all the virtual children"
...like some sort of discussion about how male artists submitting entries would reveal much about their psyche and their take on the "perfect" woman. It could even serve as an indicator of regionally or perhaps even racially influenced preferences.
But instead, I'll say this:
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
One image gallery and you've got a website, MSNBC.
My sigs always suck.
..welcome our new impossibly-large breasted digital male-fantasy object dominatrix overloards, but am also filled with a vague sense of despair for the human race.
Spelled that way, Emmanuel is a male name.
Emmanuelle is the female form of the name.
Unless of course they are suggesting that we have virtual cross-dressing/transexual entrants.
The duo of Dawn and Dusk are pretty darn good. nVidia did an awesome job of setting them up, and you can even run it at home (if you sprung for their top-of-the-line graphics cards).
I know it sounds weird and there's already lots of comments about pimply-faced geeks who can't get dates with real women - but I think this is a good idea. It lets visual artists showcase their work, it draws mainstream recognition to video games, animated movies and related media and its harmless fun.
The show is going to be mostly a larf, there'll be some genuinely good art mixed in with some quadruple D-cupped Valkyrie farces and Jessica Rabbit-esque wannabes but all in all the really good art is the stuff that'll win. And as for the pimply faced geek who can't get a girl - what's wrong with a little harmless fantasy here and there? I had a girlfriend who was willing to dress up as Wonder Woman for me (hot damn, one of the best nights of my life) and would have done Supergirl if other factors had not intervened (I'll still get a girl to do that one day). Fantasies are harmless unless they start defining or overwhelming your sexuality.
If they televise this show, I'll watch it, if they don't, I'll download it - I'll have a few laughs, look at some beautiful artificial women and then wistfully wish for a holodeck. No harm done.
Oh, and I wouldn't mind seeing a slightly spruced up Kate Archer - rowr!
If we keep getting these gigantic solar flares and one happens to hit the earth head-on.
"They should not have taken part -- not even as extras or cameos -- in pornographic films, shows or plays nor have made statements ... in any way out of tune with the moral spirit of the competition," organizers said.
Well that sure limits the field.
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Do "digital doubles" count? They make them now most F/X movies.
Does that mean that all those Nude Raider pics disqualify Lara Croft?
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
All of the obvious answers aside... Maybe Grace wouldn't win the swim suite competition, but if any lady is Queen of the digital realm, it's surely her. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Hopper.Danis.html
Cry me a river. You know what our IT department does? NOTHING! Every time I go down there they're playing games or chatting around the water cooler.
When the last virus hit us were we prepared? Hell no. Did IT even send email saying there WAS a virus? Hell no. Did they ever even acknowledge that there was a problem? Nope. So them who patched all of engineering's servers and workstations? I did the lab and the rest of them did their own systems. Where was IT? Still don't know.
This is a real company people, I'm not making this stuff up. Our IT department is about 10 people and they don't do the work of 1.
As I write this I'm waiting for IT to deliver me my new laptop that has been downstairs in a box FOR 4 WEEKS! How hard is it to carry a box up a flight of stairs? Every time I ask for an estimate they avoid the question and blow me off.
If I had my way I'd fire every single one of them. Every single IT person I've ever met in every company I've ever worked for has been lazy and clueless.
The IT "profession" is comprised of nothing more than a bunch of social rejects who fixed grandmas computer once and so now think they're owed the same benefits real engineers get.
Bullshit. I wouldn't pay an IT person more than minimum wage for the "work" they do.
All the complaining you do about working long hours and being understaffed and oh poor you... do you ever stop to wonder why your infrastructure is such a mess? Who set it up? Who supposedly maintains it? YOU DO! Why should the company pay you MORE money or hire MORE people to solve the problem that you created?
So don't come crying to me if you spent the last 3 quarters sitting on your ass playing UT and then a virus hits.
You made the bed, now sleep in it.
I think there's a very clear winner hear for the digital beauty pageant competition. I mean, check out that smile!!!.
Daniel
Carpe Diem
"I never had a girl before
With much of a figure
So excuse me if I start to play
With your digital display"
Lyrics for Digital Display (Extended Version) - Ready For The World
Personally I think that a Digital Miss World site is just going to be a 'one-handed computing' site.
Would Stepford wives qualify?
Oh, it's for CGI Characters, and here I thought we were all going to be voting for porn stars...
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Dear sirs,
While your trolling games may be fun and entertaining to you, they serve no purpose in the real world. May I suggest that you go outside and breath in some air. Maybe take in a little sunshine or gloom depending on where you live. Perhaps even meet a girl. For believe it or not, whilst you type away at your keyboard sliding deeper and deeper into irrelevance, there are those of us that are actually DOING something (or someone as the case may be). Leave the trolling to the professionals.
Thank You,
T4D Esq.
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...is Brigette Helm, who played Maria and (my all-time favorite terminatrix) "False Maria" in Fritz Lang's "Metropolis."
but the bullet in her head already did its last microscopic movement
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We are, after all, talking about some 2-bit Whore.
For those that would die defending it, Freedom
has a sweet taste that the protected will never know.
Eye believe I will continue to do as I wish.
It seems to me that the award should either go to the woman that the character was modeled after, or to the pixel image's creator where the pixel image is the most "perfect" woman, which I would argue should go back to that "snakes" game, where the girl snake was just a pink dot, if you want to talk about the most artistically perfect rendering. If it's about a portrait likeness, though, the real award should be to the beauty of the person represented, not to the sprite.
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Nobody can resist the crushinator, she's so damned sexy.
in general weren't bad enough, now they're competing with mental images of Conor MacLeod in his kilt. You couldn't have used a different phrase? That's just mean.
We already have one of those. It's called "Miss America". Silicon, silicone. It's only off by one letter.
-Todd
"The details of my life are quite inconsequential..."
...was "chicks with dicks".
Nothing like a digitally altered portrayal of the poifect woman, and best of all should this flop out they may be able to try to pitch a digital art gallery!
Forget Vogue ladies, THIS is how we want you to look!
-1 Overrated (Too many big words for me to comprehend)
-1 Overrated (Too many big words for me to comprehend)
The woman in the red dress should enter, natch.
cb
Oooh! What does this button do!?
this chick?
>>>>>>
DAYLOG (2/2/04 Early)
Feb. 2nd, 2004-
(Reuters)- Miss Digital World deletes herself after nude photo appears to press.
Internet Police today say they found the hard drive space where Aki Ross's Body has been found. Ross, crowned Miss Digital World, disappeared after winning the title, when the controversial website www.akirossnude.com opened up days after her crowning. Police say that members of Ross's development team could not find her anywhere. Police started the investigation moments after members of SquareSoft said she was missing, and was no longer found in the backups.
Police and authorities found Ross several days later in an abandoned and dilapidated part of an ancient server farm, the victim of an apparent self-inflicted deletion. CSI was dispatched to the server, but said there was little to investigate, as much of her was already overwritten. The lone artifact of her deletion was a READ ME file she left, explaining the pain of her nude renders had caused her, and that she never imagined that something so innocent in the early parts of her film career would come back against her later.
Aki Ross was four years old. Her film credits include Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and nothing else. The other cast members of Final Fantasy could not be reached for comment.
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How do we know they aren't virtually married?
Studios do not pay actors like Jim Carrey $20M a movie because they are "good actors." They make that kind of dough because the public will pay to see a "Jim Carrey Movie" regardless of what the flick is about. How many people will pay to see "The Cat in the Hat" this winter, hoping against hope that Mike Myers will find a way to roast some gold out of that chestnut? How many would go see the same flick if a no-name actor had the lead? Now, how many (non-geeks) would go if the lead was CGI?
Entertainers' "Q-Factors" are polled and tabulated quarterly (I think). These are the numbers that are ascribed to a celebrity's "popularity." The higher your Q, the higher fee your agent can negotiate.
Will there someday be persistent Idoru-esque CGI AI's with their own waxing and waning Q-Factors? Maybe. Just think of the Intellectual Property battles when studios try to copyright hairstyles, quirky smiles, and "attitudes!"
Aki.
I almost hate to admit it, but she's REALLY damn cute.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
The original fictitious babe is.... Betty Crocker Sweet mother of pearl! Can these women cook!!!
The fair maiden in Custer's Revenge
Of course they wouldn't qualify. They're real, live robots. That's a totally different contest. Plus, Cherry 2000 would win over all of the Stepford wives from the original film anyway (I haven't seen who they've gotten for the remake so I'll reserve judgement.)
..make me horny!
I nominate Big Bertha (Is that her name?) from Futurama! You know, the robot on the moon that Bender got caught with in episode 2. She was a contender for Miss Universe, after all...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
... new beauties tweaked to perfection ...
Designer drugs?
-kgj
-kgj
Reminds me of that Futurama episode that had that public service announcement about how being a robosexual can cause the end of the human species.
Heh, another wierd idea brought to you by Italy, the same country that brings me - through Telelatino, cable station extraordinaire - incomprehensible beauty contests where women in swimsuits in a not-particularly-warm room stand around on stage for hours on end.
Not that my home country of Canada's TV exports are any better... I mean, hey, I'm sure Italian people find the characters on the Red Green Show completely unfathomable.
http://www.chmodoplusr.com/
- The Body 7 dolls are now truly seamless, as we have finally designed a way to eliminate the [mammary gland] seam formerly required for the gel implants. We hope to make all body types seamless this year. However, retrofitting the older body types in this fashion will take several months.
(Sanitized for your protection!)Of course, before you can get onto the site, you have to certify that you're 18 or over. Goodness knows, no one on Slashdot would ever lie about their identity...
Designers of the digital creations have none of these pressures/concerns.
Here's a yahoo version of the story - with a picture of a virtual hotty
M@
Krispy Cream is people
I remember some old DOS games, like "Teresa X", "Vida X" ....
Digital version of CowboyNeal in drag.
Must be a slow day...
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Wow, this is the nerdiest thing I've ever seen on Slashdot, and that's saying a lot!!
we want Miss NUDE DIGITAL WORLD! ...seems i have to say more things in small letters, so not to upset the lame lameness filter.
FRA: STFU GTFO
Why do we need a Miss Digital World? Here is the most beautiful Linux Girl EVER! It's a real yahoo personals site, but check out the t-shirt. It say's LINUX!
At Yahoo Personals
She should be our Helen of Troy!
-mixiearmadillo
So now we have a bunch of computer geeks creating and rating virtual women they only see while blowing their load in a wet dream.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
...just sad. But in case you're counting, I vote for Lara :)
and I'll give you a hint, the last name is "jpg".
the real winner: masturbating /.ers.
I mod down pyramid schemes in sigs.
I nominate Six from the new animated series "Tripping the Rift". Premeires January, 2004 on the Sci-Fi channel.
Black Rose from the dot-HACK project
created by the people at http://www.beans-magic.com/
They've got some pretty incredible human models there. Don't miss the 2003 Part2 link.
Oops! Did I just flush my karma cache? Damn!
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Funny.
Maitreya
:)
I think Fox Mulder would agree.
Just make sure that the bits don't get transmitted through the MidEast or Islamic controlled Africa. People will freak out, break into server rooms and start beating those evil routers. The Christians or Jews will retaliate and sooner or later someone will end up dead. If a rumor that a party was going to be a beauty pagent caused this to happen, the real thing, even if it was virtual, would probably do the same thing.
the good ground has been paved over by suicidal maniacs
They got the story from Reuters, and Reuters apparently reprinted a press release. Feh.
to objectify real women? Now we have to objectify digital women?
to get hold of when they win their lawsuit against Apple for stealing their name..
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
And here I am still trying to get all of the paint washed off from my rendesvous with Jessica Rabbit...
I mean, come on! Dot Matrix, Mouse, and who can forget AndrAIa in Season 3 & 4? If AndrAIa isn't in this contest, then it isn't worth anything.
The burning Roman phase has been proceeding nicely for a while now. American Gladiators anyone?
One of my friends liked that Disney Atlantis movie because the "girl" in it was, and I quote, "H.O.T. Hot." For guys like him, hi-res toons are just what Mr Happy ordered. There's no reason I can think of that they shouldn't have an awards show where they can get together and decide who the hottest piece of virtual poon is. As long as Kelly LeBroch is a presenter, it should be harmless.
If you think this is bad and deminishes you as a human being, you certainly haven't seen The Next Joe Millionaire: An International Affair. Clearly, for all our tool making prowess, ambition and innovation, we're not that far removed from primates who swing through trees and sniff each others butts.
myself.
::posing for the people::
First I steal the hearts of otaku-dom, then I win the hearts of lonely nerds. Soon I will have an army of freaks by the balls with which I will RULE THE WORLD!!!
So, please, vote for me.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Speaking of dancing, please include Valentine Dancer, WinAmp plugin, as the honorary first winner.
Gods, the creamy white skin and jet black hair, the perfectly modeled and obviously silicone breasts...
"Has [being a kidnapped teenage girl, raped repeatedly for months] changed you?" - Katie Couric to Elizabeth Smart
In some ways, isn't the "Q-Factor" really just a measurement of the public's overall appreciation for a particular actor/actress? If so, that's really just indirectly paying people more based on how good of an actor/actress they are.
For example, I think Patrick Stewart always does a respectable job when acting, and I have a good idea of the qualities he's likely to bring to any movie he stars in. (I know he's not the type to play a role of some blithering idiot, a la "Dumb and Dumber", and he can usually be counted on to bring some intelligent humor to a film, while still delivering serious and thought-provoking lines.) Therefore, I'll be relatively likely to watch a movie he stars in.
By the same token, I'm just as concerned by who is producing a movie as who is starring in it. Do I skip movies with "no-name" actors in them, favoring the well-recognized names? Not necessarily. Films produced by "Artisan" tend to feature no-name actors and low-budget production, yet often turn out to be very enjoyable movies (Blair Witch being their best-known exception to that rule). I didn't know a single actor or actress staring in "The Cube", yet I thought they all did an excellent job.
CGI actors/actresses could certainly develop their own following, just like real, live ones do. That's happened for years and years with cartoon characters already, and arguably with make-believe TV characters like "Max Headroom" in the 80's. Still, in these cases, I think people just appreciate the genius behind the AI. (EG. You can say you love "Popeye" cartoons, but it all boils down to an appreciation for the life Mel Blanc gave to him.)
I wonder how they'll draw the line between real and
digital. Couldn't I just texture map the face of a real super model over
an accurate 3D mesh of her skull, yielding, basically the same result as
an ordinary photo?
mmmm.... Gina Gershon! :-9
(FWIW, if you haven't seen the Wachowskis' "Bound," go rent it tonight!)
Lula, of course :)
Trolling using another account since 2005.
yep these pics are up on billboards and buildings all over Auckland (capital of NZ, for the geography impaired). i think they're complaining about putting human genes into cows (or is it cow genes into humans?) Anyway, it's a clever and eye-catching bit of photoshoppage. probably caused a few accidents aswell as men check 'em out. i was in the NZ anti-GM march BTW. not that i really care about GM, just wanted to go on a protest and see what it was like.
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There now... do we feel all superior now?
Maybe one day you'll learn to troll too!
(You've certainly got the trollee side of things down pat)
is in the code.