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Virtual Girlfriend
Sven-Erik writes " BBC News reports about a Hong Kong based company called Artificial Life that has developed a solution for men without a partner, in the form of a virtual girlfriend that appear as an animated figure on the video screen of a mobile phone. But there is a downside to the virtual girlfriend - she will require more flowers and gifts than many real women. All virtual girls will look the same - but each girl will behave differently - depending on how much money is spent on her. In return, she will introduce them to different aspects of her life, like letting them meet her female friends - also electronic images. Artificial Life is hoping to launch the new game later this year, on the latest 3-G mobile phones.
Been there, done that, and boy is my hand tired.
I'd rather go to a bar and meet chicks to spend money on.
;)
Just don't tell my wife
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Somthing similar to this where guys would buy virtual presents for real women, sometimes spending upwards of $30-$200. Anyone care to shed light on what that one was, and whether it is still in business?
:-p
*sigh* nothing quite like the exploitation of desperate single guys...fortunately I'm married and am above such exploitation...now off to Proflowers.com to get her a few
...in bed
All the cost and none of the sex? Whats the friggin point?!?!?!
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I might actually be able to get a date!
Will she put out or is this prudish software?
To go along with my virtual life?
I thought tamagotchi's died years ago, well at least mine did.
"tsk, tsk...they never had a chance..."
You know what?
"For men without a partner, help may be at hand..."
Duh
"she will require more flowers and gifts than many real women"
Is that even possible?
is this the most pathetic thing ever?
No, it really is.
All virtual girls will look the same - but each girl will behave differently - depending on how much money is spent on her.
Wow, it's realistic, too!!
Thanks to that sentence and the topic of virtual girlfriends in general, I almost want to sit down and cry.
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
she is std-free... ... for now...
Can you add a 2nd one for a threesome?
Looks like the porno world can have a new market for selling artificial sex devices now... put that bluetooth connection to good use ;)
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95% of all Slashdotters have reserved a copy of Virtual Girlfriend. The other 5% are holding out for the porn expansion pack coming 2005.
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your insensitive clod...
how long until
great, a Tamagoochi that wants gucchi.
... or does the girl really look like the bride of chucky?
I once had a signature.
So, the men have virtual girlfriends on their phones, the women have arm pillows instead of boyfriends. Is it any wonder the birthrate in Japan is so low?
Tammy Gotcha
Is Taco scanning comments from earlier in the day to find his new stories?
Cue "Welcome to SlashDot!" jokes.
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." -Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
It's not just you. This is incredibly absurd and pathetic. I would think that any adult buying this is probably a future serial killer/rapist/panty sniffer risk.
The real question is: are these virtual girl/boy-friends okay with a same sex owner? Is there a Mac version too? come to think of it, that might be the same question...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
And to think I got married...
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
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Slashdot is my virtual girlfriend, you Insensitive Clod!
Seriously though, when I had a girlfriend, the most annoying thing about her was that she was always on my mobile phone!
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False hope! There is no 3G in the States
That could get scary, just imagine your virtual girlfriend ringing your cell phone in the middle of the night, calling for pizzas you never wanted, or calling all the people in your address book and bitching to them about how bad a boyfriend you are.
I could just imagine the lens of your camera phone being like HAL, staring at you, tracking you. When it discovers you plan on taking out the cellphone battery to stop it, it calls the mental institution to whisk you away.
Hell hath no fury like a cell phone scorned
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The match made for geeks and nerds. 99% of geeks find a successful match.
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No, she'll load herself onto your best mate's phone.
What traumatic child-hood experience causes you to lump "panty sniffer" in with those other extremes?
Panty sniffing is not a problem (obviously between consenting adults)
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Oh, come now! I'm sure you've turned off plenty of women.
Angleyne: You can't bend that girder - it's unbendable! Bender: Well I don't know anything about lifting, so that ju
It is indeed one of the most pathetic things on earth, but tell you what, I think most of the "boyfriend/husband skills" you learn with "Female Simulators" like this pay off in real life.
I'll give you a real-life example.. The other week I forgot our anniversary. This is one of the dumbest mistakes that you can make as a man and regardless of the experience you may have it may happen to you. I came home, and T. didn't even want to speak to me. She just looked away. Thank God, I remembered just in time and bought $200(!) worth of red roses. At first she told me to shove those roses up my ass but I kept producing them one after another telling her how sorry I was and how much I love her (I do, you know) and after a bunch of roses she fell around my neck and told me straight to my face what a miserable bastard I am and how much she loves me. (NEVER EVER underestimate the power of red roses!).
Well, if both of you have been partying properly, you'll BOTH wake up looking like Keith Richards, in which case if it lasts longer than that one night it MUST be love...hahaha
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I feel good about not having a real girlfriend all the time. All it takes is one run through the meat-grinder that is a whiny, lying, needy, depressive, self-centered, cheating wench. Now I have more time and money than I've had in a long time and none of the trying to please someone who doesn't deserve it. So I bought a new 19" NEC LCD, named it Nicole, and declared that it can now be my new girlfriend. Strangely enough (to answer ACs right up front), the sex got better.
But I guess if some people haven't had to deal with (in)significant-other hell, then maybe this is just what the doctor ordered. Then they can "dump" their virtual girlfriend and save a fat sack of cash. Might I suggest a nice new monitor and a DSL connection?
- Relativistic? That's barely Newtonian!
Ah, fastseduction.com! Completely forgot about those dorks. I figured they abandoned their tripe and got into the 'penis enlargement' game, where the REAL money is made.
Hey, any socially-inept twit can do the mental convolutions to make himself think he's actually a stud, but your dick - well, no matter what you do with the ruler, if your 'raging manhood' is only four inches long then you've got very little to rage away with. And there fastseduction.com isn't going to be any help at all, especially when your date starts to snigger over the abnormally small size of your equipment.
The last thing any guy wants to hear is "is it in yet?"
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Upgrading to Wife 1.0
Last a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 4.0 to Wife 1.0 and found
that it's memory hog leaving few system resources for other applications.
He is now noticing the Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-processes, which is
further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular
phenomenon was included in the product documentation, though other users
have informed me that this is to be expected due to the nature of the
application.
Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself so that it is always launched at
system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. Some
applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BachelorParty 2.5 and PubNight 7.0
are no longer able to run on the system at all, causing the system to
lockup when launched (even though the apps worked fine before).
Wife 1.0 provides no installation options. Thus, the installation of
undesired plug-ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and the Brother-in-law Beta
is unavoidable. Also system performance seems to diminish each passing day.
Some features my friend would like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0:
A "don't remind me again button"
A Minimize button
The ability to delete the "headache" file
An install feature that provides an option to uninstall 2.0 version
without loss of other system resources
An option to run the network driver in "promiscuous mode" allowing the
systems hardware probe to be much more useful/effective.
I myself wish I had decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with
Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0. Even here, however, I have found
many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 4.0. You must
uninstall Girlfriend 3.0 first, otherwise the two versions of Girlfriend
will have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port.
Other users have told me that this is a long-standing problem that I
should have been aware of. Guess that explains what happened to versions 1
& 2.
To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 3.0 doesn't
work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the
system. Another identified problem is that all versions of Girlfriend have
annoying little messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.
VIRUS ALERT
All users should be aware that Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you
try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will
delete MS Money files before doing the uninstall itself. Once that
happens, Mistress 1.1. won't install and you will get an "insufficient
resources" error message. To avoid the aforementioned bug, try installing
Mistress 1.1 on a different system and 'never'
run any file transfer applications (such as Laplink) between the two
systems.
I'm still going to be lonely.
How much you want to bet, she'll either blow a capacitor or overheat after 10 minutes with me.
Then she's gunna dump me.
And cheat on me with my Mac.
Dammit, that's not a troll. It's both funny and insightful. /me awaits the karma burnage
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
My Virtual Girlfriend ran off with her Virtual Boyfriend, so here I sit reading slashdot again.
So it's all the fun of spending money on women with none of that annoying sex.
:)
And to think I got married...
Oh, so you're already there
Me and Eliza have been going steady for more than 15 years.
... Real Doll *** don't go to link if you're at work, obviously *** and you got yourself a winning product!
Hey there are plenty of us Slashdotters, me included, who are so repulsive to the opposite sex that this is a would actually be an interesting service. I mean we'll never actually have real girlfriends or wives but at least we'll get a hint at what a relationship is like. ... and I'm sure this will go over big in a place like China where there is a massive gender imbalace due to years of female infanticide.
(Future Onion Headline)
Bill Jones broke up with his real Girlfriend Cathy Smith today because in his words, "At least the Virtual Girlfriend puts out." When questioned about the break-up Cathy was perturbed, "Like I wanted to put out for that Lo-oo-zer! He was like always giving me these virtual things... never anything real... I mean... I'm like flesh and blood here I want real stuff. My other boyfriends bring me actual gifts."
It is this reporter's opinion that Bill is indeed better off with his HK Virtual Girlfriend because his real one was a total brat.
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I played this game as the female avatar. This made the passionate kiss at the end even hotter... ;-)
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
... but she's no Laura Croft.
What are those? "A" cups?
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depending on how much money is spent on her
Am I the only one who wish he'd thought of this? People (geeks) spend money on something that isn't real. This may be the elusive 2nd step!
1) Put virtual girl in cell phone
2) Tell geeks it's happier when you spend money on it
3) PROFIT!
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Those who can't, teach
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Thanks, but I have enough trouble avoiding the constant mobile phone calls from the "real" girlfriend.
No, it's actually true. I really do wish I had thought of it first.
Just put your phone on vibrate.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Panty sniffing is not a problem
Spoken like a true panty sniffer...
Then yer not doing it right!
I could just imagine the lens of your camera phone being like HAL, staring at you, tracking you. When it discovers you plan on taking out the cellphone battery to stop it, it calls the mental institution to whisk you away.
No big deal, that's a solved problem--just go into a soundproof room when you discuss your plans to get rid of her. The first version can't read lips, remember?
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wow - someone finally made "other" people's cell phones even more annoying.
Now, instead of just ringing at the most inappropriate moments (e.g. theater) and with the most obnoxious rings (e.g. pretty much all of them), we now get the pleasure of hearing their phone bitch and whine.
Yay us.
... amount of cash spent on her?!
I hope there's an option in there called "GFJ" (Get a Fucking Job). Otherwise I expect her to be naked 24/7.
The last thing any guy wants to hear is "is it in yet?"
To which the proper response is:
"I don't know. I can't feel the sides..."
Is anyone else crying about the state of the world when a guy needs to buy flowers for his virtual blow-up doll?
Starbucks, Harbuckle of Breath.
Attack its weak point for massive damage!