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Gamers Pay To Play With Girls
taucross writes "A new site allows lonely Xbox 360 gamers to pay a prescribed fee for a few minutes of game time with one of the 'PlayDates', a girl who is paid to play video games. Gamers can choose to have a 'flirty' or 'dirty' experience with one of the PlayDates. Is this what we meant when we said we wanted 'adult gaming'?"
Sounds like an Idea they have taken from some Maid Cafes in Japan,
You can pay to play games with one of them.
Sure we are ronrey nerds, but it helps to get them out of the house.
Hopefully they wont end up being Hikikomoris
I am also a strong supporter of Arcades, They should not be dead,
They are great play to hang out with friends and practice moves.
I have never paid for porn... I have gotten it for free for doing a few favors for a production team though :-P
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Wait, people charge for it?
Sad as it might be, this is capitalism at its purest. A customer desire is met with supply. Admit it--many of you wish you'd thought of this.
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Actually this is the perfect market segment for such a "dating" service, if you can call it that. Other dating services target those who don't have time to indulge in the social/leisure scene (business people, etc.), and this one targets those who don't WANT to indulge in the social scene. Instead of looking up profiles for common interests, you already know that the PlayDate you're matched up with will have at least one major common interest (gaming).
I think it's an interesting (although ridiculously expensive) idea. I have no idea if a guy in that position would pay over $7 a pop just to game with a girl, but it does have some potential. Then again, dating sites like eHarmony charge anywhere from $20-$60/month. Love is a lucrative business.
Exploits who?
Ok... this kind of a phenomena might not be hard to understand for many in the west. Yet if you look at e.g. Japan, you'll find plenty of examples of similar services where the main goal isn't dipping your dick in a hole or jacking off.
- These characters were randomly selected.
Hopefully they wont end up being Hikikomoris
I was thinking the same thing, as an extension of the "rental sisters" that are sometimes used for hikki therapy as well. Perhaps this might not be such a bad idea.
The game serves as a focus for parallel play, allowing a poorly socialized male to be distracted long enough to become acclimated to the female's companionship before they realize it. I've seen the same sort of gradual opening up at anime clubs and D&D sessions, but this might work in situations where someone's too far withdrawn even for that.
This just makes me sad. As a society we should be encouraging real human interaction and development. The creators of the internet (strange twist on founders of the Constitution, eh?) certainly didn't intend for it to make socially inept nerds even more pathetic.
Ya this seems pretty damned sad though the great grandparents strip-gaming thing sounds absolutely awesome for parties.
Every time you get fragged you have to take an item of clothing off.
For best effect a game with a moderate kill rate would be best and with a few seconds respawn time so you have time to get the clothing off.
combine with some kind of drinking game and you'd be on to a winner- model it on alcoholic chess
http://miscellanea.wellingtongrey.net/2008/01/06/alcoholic-chess/
where say every time you get 2 kills in a row you have to take a drink.
Wow, what a job! I get paid to play games and all I have to do is pretend to be a girl to some guys that I will never have to meet in real life.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Well, think of it this way: if I wanted to pay hooker rates to _screw_ someone, brothels are very much legal around here. No point dicking around with a fancy in-game dating service and keeping my fingers crossed that it works, if that were the purpose. The logical course of action is to go with the service that explicitly delivers just that.
But paying to play a game with someone... well, don't get me wrong, I don't _need_ to, but then I didn't _need_ dessert with the lunch either and I still bought that. But mostly, as Mr Data would say, I find that idea intriguing. I might actually give it a try.
You never know if you like it until you try. As Socrates must have told himself when they brought him the cup ;)
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Eh, I get to be seen around Orgrimar with a hot Orc chick, or in my case around Sol space station with a hot Betazoid ;)
Why only be seen with a chick, when you can be one.
Actually, it reminds me of a case I read about in the late 90's.
So one guy meets this nice girl online, they chat a bit, get along just fine, she even sends him a photo. Looked like a relatively pretty girl in her twenties. So he buys a plane ticket and flies to the USA to meet her.
I know what some of y'all are thinking. Nah, the photo was _not_ photoshopped. It was hers too.
It just had been taken 60 years earlier.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
How on Earth (and the seven circles of teh intarwebs, for that matter) do they adequately verify that these "girls" are actually human females?!!!!
This is the internet, after all.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gays In Real Life!
There, fixed that for you.
I don't get the idea that there is a lack of dignity for being paid (reasonably well) for doing something just because it's possibly sexual in nature.
Were I 20 years old again and nearly broke as I was back then, I don't think that stripping on a cam for 5x what I could make at any other job would be something I'd turn my nose up at. I think people who look at the "adult" entertainment industry and see something shameful need a reality check; there's absolutely nothing wrong with selling sex (or sexuality) in a world where we have people "whore" themselves out every day.
Who's worse? The guy who makes $25/hr working for a soulless corporation doing work he's bored by that ultimately provides no real benefit for anyone, or the girl who makes $100/hr shaking her tits on cam for horny net geeks who can't/don't date?
I'm a girl, I game, and if I needed the money, sure - why wouldn't I make a few bucks flirting with some random yahoo while playing an FPS?
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
"Think of the children."
That'll get you hung, drawn and quatered in most jurisdictions...
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