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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'?"
May I be the first to say... WTF?!?
No seriously? WTF?!?
What's the point? It just exploits the hope of those guys to get a real date, without the actual hope of getting a real one.. Wait, scratch that... It will probably be hugely popular... *sigh*.
Do the girls get paid to do it, just like camgirls? Ah, yes, it's right there in the article... Well, guess there is more dignity in doing that than undressing yourself before a cam. Perhaps they can combine it and make even more money: for each time you frag her, she has to remove one piece of clothing.... /ME runs to patent the idea ;-)
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Wait, so these girls get paid to play video games??? Curse these male genitals!!!
I would be very weary of "girls" being able to "teabag" you... At least in real life :-P
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
The mind boggles.
Seriously, how do you walk into a bank to ask for a business loan for this sort of thing?
Wow...
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.
Might as well just hit on that female night elf instead. World of Warcraft is a better way to get chicks, so long as you got the gold and the purpz to impress the ladies.
Back when I played WoW, we had one female member that kept dating and then dumping the dudes that got legendary items (like the Hand of Ragnaros).
VISEN AND GILLIAM SITTING IN A TREE,
C-Y-B-E-R-I-N-G
FIRST COMES PURPZ
THEN COMES LEGENDARIES
THEN COMES QUESTING TOGETHER AT NESINGWARY'S
I'm definitely bringing my own controller over to my friend's houses from now on. You feel me?
MS will change the name from "X Box Live" to the "XXX Box Live CAM Shows!"?
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
Age old product, sold via a new channel. Interesting, but not unexpected.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
To find its girls, GameCrush posted a Craigslist ad looking for ladies who want to get paid to play video games.
Most "playdates" on Craigslist cost a lot more than $8.99.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Met up with a gal named Eliza. She asked me a lot of questions though.
...OK guys, put on your robe and wizard hat!
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.
"We can categorically state we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." - UK military spokesman, July 2007
Who the hell would pay for porn when it's everywhere for free?
That would be like paying for drinking water for... wait a minute... bad example...
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You know, it kinda reminds me of the joke about the programmer who finds a talking frog. The frog says, "Please, if you kiss me I'll turn back into a beautiful princess and I'll be your girlfriend and do whatever you wish." The programmer thinks for a bit, puts the frog in the pocket and says, "You know, I don't think I have the time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog is way cool."
Kinda the same reaction I'm getting here. I can't say I much care about the "date" part, or even if it's a girl or a guy, but if they're even marginally good at Star Trek Online, I could have some use fir someone to watch my back and have a chat with. Especially if they have a Science Ship, but I'm not fussy. A Cruiser is good too. Some of those battleships can hurt a lot if you're in a lone Escort, lemme tell ya ;)
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Can you speak in a high-pitched voice and know how to falsify ID over the internet?
While that wouldn't bother me since I'm bi, there was a very public discussion at PAX in Seattle last year of what female 'teabaggers' should be called, lacking 'bags'. Clam slam is my favorite.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
... How do they get it into the kitchen?
Not to defend this scheme in any way but I would guess the mechanism will be that one signs up via a website to pay for the service (somehow I can't see MS letting people spend Microsoft points on this), so I would assume that it's no worse than an age restricted web site on that front and you'll need to have a credit card to get access anyway.
I have never paid for porn... I have gotten it for free for doing a few favors for a production team though :-0
there fixed that for you...
If you pay for porn you're doing it wrong
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.
...but it's not.
Shame on you, CmdrTaco, for posting this. Shame on the organisation behind it for creating it. And every one of you assholes who immediately started joking about it, you disgust me.
Why? Seriously.
I'm genuinely ambivalent about even the world's oldest profession, of which this is arguably a very mild version. It doesn't disgust me, it's been around forever and seems to be a part of human nature.
As long as noone's being forced into it, I don't have a problem with it. There are plenty of dysfunctional relationships out there, and it sometimes seems like a straightforward paid transaction is more honest.
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.
Guys In Real Life.
I doubt you will be getting 8.99 per sessions if it lasts for 10 seconds and leave the paying customer humiliated. You will have to loose and complement him on his excellent skills.
Really, if being a whore was about getting great sex while being paid, more women would do it.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
And we all know that girls really only come in two varieties. Dirty or Flirty... sigh... as a father of many daughters, this just pisses me off... then again, videogame females have always been little more than balloon animals...
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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.
Let's pay verified girls to post in Slashdot discussions. Then, for a fee, you'll get either dirty or flirty responses to your posts about programming languages or whatnot.
I want to play Free Market with a drowning Libertarian.
It bothers me because it tacitly encourages the continued objectification and marginalisation of women within gaming circles. I don't doubt for a minute that people will people will pay for the privilege of going onto the system and berating the women on the other end of the line for being women, because now they know who they're talking to. If there was a way to police the behaviour of the users of the system, that would be one thing. There can't be, though, so all this is is a perfect avenue for misogynistic gamers to hurt people.
I'll put it this way: even if there were no pimps anywhere in the world, and every prostitute in the field did it because they enjoyed what they did, there would still be people out there who would pay for the ability to beat the shit out of them. Even if the women involved aren't being coerced into it, there's a significant number of men who will abuse the system in order to abuse women.
And even there was, it still doesn't excuse all the disgusting, misogynistic comments on this article.
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Yeah, no kidding, plus it leaves out more important aspects. I mean, who cares if she's dirty or flirty, the question is: can she keep aggro and what tier of epic gear does she have? :P
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
you sure know a LOT about pretending to be a girl.
something your not telling us?
-- Sig under construction...
fake all the outrage you want, that feminist still isn't going to fuck you
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
So, in other words, it doesn't matter what women do, there are still going to be jerks that objectify them. So women might as well do whatever they want. If they choose to make money off of these people or people who legitimately want this service, that is their choice.
You on the other hand want to take away their right to choose to this. Quite frankly, your post is more offensive than the majority of the posts on here. Women can take care of themselves. They aren't being forced to do this. Most people are saying things in jest, you are speaking (unless I am way off base) in seriousness. Your post strikes me as more misogynistic than the others. Would you object if a bunch of attractive, muscled men offered the same thing to women? Of course not. It's ok to objectify men as sexual object, but not women? You are the one with the problem.
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I stand by the previous comment
I was kind of missing the fact that you keep getting modded as funny and taking you at face value. I'm bored, I'll carry on doing so for a while.
If women aren't being coerced into it, and there are guys that abuse them, they have a very simple option...
If you're serious, I kind of suspect you live in the PC world of academe (as your sig suggests). Have you ever met, and spoken to, any strippers or prostitutes? Quite a few of them would be rather patronised by your disgust.
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.
Dude, you haven't been paying attention. I don't want a human female. I want an orc female. Or a klingon one. Mmmm. Betazoid is borderline ok too, though ;)
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Only in the difference between :-0 and :-?