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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"
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.
Is it just me or do you guys also feel weird after spanking it to an animated character?
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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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?
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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.
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?!"
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Neck_of_the_Woods
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The movie sucked, but she was amazing to look at.
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.
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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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...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:
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One image gallery and you've got a website, MSNBC.
My sigs always suck.
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!
well, YOU may have lost the desire for real world women. Personally i think the whole thing is far less Stupid than the Real Life equivilant, with each entry actually requiring talent and artistic skill rather than just genetic good luck.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
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
I think there's a very clear winner hear for the digital beauty pageant competition. I mean, check out that smile!!!.
Daniel
Carpe Diem
...is Brigette Helm, who played Maria and (my all-time favorite terminatrix) "False Maria" in Fritz Lang's "Metropolis."
We are, after all, talking about some 2-bit Whore.
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has a sweet taste that the protected will never know.
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..."
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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!"
... new beauties tweaked to perfection ...
Designer drugs?
-kgj
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Here's a yahoo version of the story - with a picture of a virtual hotty
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Ok, seriously though, I think this is more about art than spankey-spankey. Just 'cause you can't have sex with the Mona Lisa or the Venus De Milo doesen't devalue them as artistic expression (of beauty).
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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.