"Cloud Girlfriend" Provides Users With Fake Facebook Mate
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Japan has had something like this for a while. It sounds like those ever-popular vitual dating game (which some people have apparently married over there) gone the way of Facebook. I also imagine they will insert microtransactions into the service too, though what those paid services would be are too disturbing to contemplate.
Normally I would chalk this up to an april fool's joke, but it's too early.
Truth be told, I don't think there will be any point to "virtual girlfriends" until we actually have real VR or Neural Interface technology.
I'd also imagine it could provide some new inspiration for a modernized take on Fred Sabergagan's "Octagon" (a novel). The story having to do with the infancy of social games (this was back in the 1980s) back when things like Play-By-Mail gaming (where you paid by the turn), MUDs, and BBS "Door" games were the limit of interactive gaming. It's interesting to see how the technology for the game in that novel (Starweb if I remember) compares to what we actually have today (being very antiquidated).
The basic concept having to do with a computer playing these games, where you make alliances with other players. Contriving a way of "winning" it manufactures itself a robot body and starts heading out to kill other players, however this is being done for the benefit of one of the other players, a girl using the handle "Lucifer" who it won't kill for that reason.
The idea of a jealous computer is an old one, but I could see the concept seeming more real all of a sudden with technology going here. Especially when you deal with the idea of vitual entities, which are programs and databases that acehieve self awareness as opposed to deliverably created "artificial inteligences". The whole "I am not an AI, I was born in the primordial sea of information" schtick from Cyberpunk and dark future novels, and somewhat popularized to more mainstream nerddom via things like "Ghost In The Shell".
Normally I would chalk this up to an april fool's joke, but it's too early.
Truth be told, I don't think there will be any point to "virtual girlfriends" until we actually have real VR or Neural Interface technology.
I'd also imagine it could provide some new inspiration for a modernized take on Fred Sabergagan's "Octagon" (a novel). The story having to do with the infancy of social games (this was back in the 1980s) back when things like Play-By-Mail gaming (where you paid by the turn), MUDs, and BBS "Door" games were the limit of interactive gaming. It's interesting to see how the technology for the game in that novel (Starweb if I remember) compares to what we actually have today (being very antiquidated).
The basic concept having to do with a computer playing these games, where you make alliances with other players. Contriving a way of "winning" it manufactures itself a robot body and starts heading out to kill other players, however this is being done for the benefit of one of the other players, a girl using the handle "Lucifer" who it won't kill for that reason.
The idea of a jealous computer is an old one, but I could see the concept seeming more real all of a sudden with technology going here. Especially when you deal with the idea of vitual entities, which are programs and databases that acehieve self awareness as opposed to deliverably created "artificial inteligences". The whole "I am not an AI, I was born in the primordial sea of information" schtick from Cyberpunk and dark future novels, and somewhat popularized to more mainstream nerddom via things like "Ghost In The Shell".
Thats so dam sad. YOu all know though that there are people sho will use this and I doubt this is the last we will hear about it.
I bet a few months after it actually comes out there will be a story on here about how some loser got attached to his fake gf and killed himself when he came to terms with the fact that she isnt real.
I bet a few months after it actually comes out there will be a story on here about how some loser got attached to his fake gf and killed himself when he came to terms with the fact that she isnt real.
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What is that?
Ok, if someone has to resort to trying to get a girl jelous by using a fake girl, if the real girl ever finds out, which she probably will, the guy will look like a complete stupid bastard.
Shame on you cloud girlfriend! For promoting stupidity rather than trying to solve it!
What is that?
Ok, if someone has to resort to trying to get a girl jelous by using a fake girl, if the real girl ever finds out, which she probably will, the guy will look like a complete stupid bastard.
Shame on you cloud girlfriend! For promoting stupidity rather than trying to solve it!
Fun Side of Brain: That's kinda funny, could be used as an intricate prank. Hilarious that going to the website gives you the message "Due to high demand we are only able to accommodate a limited number of users to the site. Register early to get in line."
Serious Side of Brain: That's just sad. The idea that people need a program to pretend they have a girlfriend is simply disturbing.
Serious Side of Brain: That's just sad. The idea that people need a program to pretend they have a girlfriend is simply disturbing.
I may be REALLY tired of being the only single girl in the entire world (exaggeration, I know, but sometimes that's how it feels), but I'm not going to go create a fake SO. Lord of Nightmares...
Hmmm...seems like it would be less weird if they also offered boyfriends. That seems like a copout, just signing up for a free virtual girlfriend. Itd be tiring having to continually lie to friends. It may just not be for me, though.
If it's a dude, that might spawn a whole new plot of the guy getting over his possible homophobia or "I'm not gay but I'm in love with a dude". It would be an interesting twist...Gxas said:
I'd go see it on the basis that it's not a regular romantic comedy and I won't already know the ending.
This is gonna make one great sitcom.Tom Goldman said:
Also I just got the greatest captcha ever.
Allindat exactly.