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Virtual Girlfriend

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the I'm-so-lonely dept.

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.

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  1. Heard this on the Beeb Yesterday by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Informative
    According to the creator of VG there's no sex, none of this voyeuristic stuff aside from trying to please a program. Seems like a video RPG, as you can communicate with 'her' over your phone or computer, talk, buy her songs and probably virtual roses and Hello Kitty accessories.

    Target audience seemed to drift during the interview from 16-30 to 15-35, either way, seems to paint a bullseye on Comic Book Guy and the like. He was also evasive on how much the player pays for gifts for the girlfriend, which suggests the hook. Next it'll probably be people selling Virtual Pink Corvettes on eBay so you can meet 'her' special friend 'Skipper'.

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  2. You don't spend money.. by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 5, Informative

    The first rule of being a player, and the one who gets all the chicks, is not to buy her drinks!

  3. Re:I seem to remember... by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Informative
    " IIRC, it's called a "strip club". Yeah, my wife won't let me go there anymore either."

    LET you go?? Man, I just don't understand what happens to so many man. When you get married is there a secret clause in the wedding contract requiring a 'spine-ectomy'? Why would any man have to get his wife/girlfriend to "LET" them do something. I tell my women I'm with, I'm doing this or that...I'll be back whenever I'm done. I cannot fathom having to ask permission to do anything, I'm a grown adult. I don't expect them to ask me permission either...its a two way street. But, why so many men let their women become the 'boss' of the family is beyond me. I'm pretty lassie fair about things...but, when it comes down to it..."I" make the final and binding decisions. If they don't like it, well, my motto is the "Golden Rule". He who makes the most gold, makes the rules. If they don't like it, they can hit the road, there are plenty of others out there ripe for the pickings.

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  4. Re:I seem to remember... by pyros · · Score: 3, Informative
    Why would any man have to get his wife/girlfriend to "LET" them do something

    most conventional western marriages include each partner vowing to forsake all others. If your wedding vows include such a statement, then you really should make sure your partner is ok with you paying other people to rub their genitals (clothed or not) on you.

  5. Re:One of the saddest things I'v ever read. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Doona = bed covers, as in the big sheet of material you sleep under. The article is referring to the common conception of men stealing the doona and rolling up in it themselves while they sleep, leaving the woman cold.