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CmdrTaco
on Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:52 AM
from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.
from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.
pvt_medic writes "MSNBC is reporting that there soon will be a Miss Digital World Competition. "'MISS DIGITAL WORLD' is the first beauty contest for the likes of videogame heroine Lara Croft and computer-cloned actresses from the "Matrix" films and new beauties tweaked to perfection with 3D graphics." The website for the competition is still under construction at MissDigitalWorld.Com"
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Man, that's just cruel. (Score:5, Funny)
Also: Wasn't the whole digital actress/lara croft meme really hip like, 5 years ago?
Related story on The Register (Score:5, Informative)
Clicky clicky [theregister.co.uk]
PS The story is from yesterday.
Problem with one of the requirements (Score:3)
Spelled that way, Emmanuel is a male name.
Emmanuelle is the female form of the name.
Unless of course they are suggesting that we have virtual cross-dressing/transexual entrants.
Re:Problem with one of the requirements (Score:3, Funny)
Is it just me... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is it just me... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Is it just me... (Score:5, Insightful)
Hey, NO women in media are real anymore. Just search for pictures of your favourate stars without makeup and/or airbrushing. They literally look like the girl next door, nothing special at all.
When I first saw the article, that's what I thought it was anyway. All babes in the media are digital already!! God bless Photoshop!!
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Re:Is it just me... (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, so it's you that's buying the X10 gear. Another problem solved!!
Umm, why? (Score:2)
There's a diference between real and fake. You can sleep with real ones. ANd until a stimsim is created, being with some fakey digital construct is out of the question
Remember your audience (Score:5, Funny)
Don't presume so much about your readers' seductive abilities. This is Slashdot, after all.
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Re:Umm, why? (Score:3, Insightful)
Ok, seriously though, I think this is more about art than spankey-spankey. Just 'cause you can't have sex with the Mona Lisa or the Venus De Milo doesen't devalue them as artistic expression (of beauty).
Whoa... (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, this is definitely a plus for 3d animators everywhere - finally, your work is being noticed as superb - and definitely deserving of 'human' paralleled recognition.
Just wonder if they'll start having all the other Miss Pageants...
Ultimately, there could only be 4 competitors... (Score:5, Funny)
We are, after all, talking about some 2-bit Whore.
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Okay (Score:3, Insightful)
Gollum, obviously... (Score:5, Funny)
The only competition will be from Dobby, for his stunny portrayal of life in the world's oldest profession in the movie Dobby Does Dallas.
And there in the background, you can just hear ... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, the pain. The pain.
Just like in real life (Score:4, Funny)
The Screen Actor's Guild is on it's way out... (Score:2, Insightful)
And the stunts will get crazier and crazier, for sure! (And I didn't even mention pr0n...)
Re:The Screen Actor's Guild is on it's way out... (Score:2, Insightful)
Only When Digital Actors Have Q-factors (Score:4, Insightful)
Entertainers' "Q-Factors" are polled and tabulated quarterly (I think). These are the numbers that are ascribed to a celebrity's "popularity." The higher your Q, the higher fee your agent can negotiate.
Will there someday be persistent Idoru-esque CGI AI's with their own waxing and waning Q-Factors? Maybe. Just think of the Intellectual Property battles when studios try to copyright hairstyles, quirky smiles, and "attitudes!"
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My Nomination (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My Nomination (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't get anti-GM. I just end up in sarcasm mode, nodding, yeah, like "naturally" bred farm animals and crops are so normal.
Because "natural" cows would "normally" need to produce 10-20 litres of milk every single day in the "wild", what with them having enormous litters of, erm, one or two calves every, erm, one year. Maybe, in the "wild", cows bathe their young in milk every day or something. Can't think of anything else they need that much milk for.
Or maybe, just maybe, COWS AREN'T NATURAL ANY MORE THAN POODLES OR MASSIVE FIELDS OF CORN OR ANY OTHER OF THE 99% OF FLORA AND FAUNA AROUND US WHICH HAS BEEN DELIBERATELY BRED FOR PURPOSE.
Selective breeding, genetic modification... it's just a question of historical perspective.
You can mod me down for ranting now. It's just that picture struck home- a real, live cow is no more "natural" than the photoshopped woman with four breasts in your picture!
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Re:My Nomination (Score:3, Funny)
Haven't you ever heard of that song by Loverboy? "Elephant and pig DNA just don't mix!"
Although I'd say that for a mouse and a jellyfish to get it on, it would have to be 'unselective' breeding, no?
And the poor mouse... "Oh baby, it tingles...no wait, it stings! IT STINGS! IT BURNS! OH GOD, IT BURNS!
Age (Score:5, Funny)
Can Zelda enter? Or is there an age limit?
I wouldn't say geek sex is hypocritical (Score:5, Funny)
Sad? Maybe (Score:2, Insightful)
These should be interesting..... (Score:5, Funny)
Just what the average joe girl needs...comp from a chick made with photoshop, and a slider bar for increasing bust size.
I can hear it now:
Nerd "Yea she was ok, but she was eating my pizza and I could not tweak her breast any larger than a B cup."
Geek "Well did she at least wear something that got your little Elvis to sing and dance?"
Nerd "She really got bent when I told her she should be wearing Tia'wik Dancing Thong."
Geek "Don't you just wish you could re-roll your honey?!"
---phffff!
Re:These should be interesting..... (Score:3, Funny)
Everything is true of the null set
Henry
Re:These should be interesting..... (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, the average girl [uni-regensburg.de] would be extremely attractive.
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Pixeleen, does it count if only in song? (Score:2, Insightful)
I nominate the babe from Final Fantasy! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I nominate the babe from Final Fantasy! (Score:2)
Just think.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Just think.... (Score:5, Funny)
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Been done before (Score:4, Interesting)
Don't you remember seeing the ads way back in, oh, 1995 Computer Shoppper and the like, for the "Miss Metaverse" beauty pageant? This nearly predates everything that's ever happened online.
I was going to post something thoughtful... (Score:3, Funny)
But instead, I'll say this:
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
One image gallery and you've got a website, MSNBC.
I for one... (Score:2)
nVidia girls (Score:2, Interesting)
I actually like this idea (Score:4, Interesting)
The show is going to be mostly a larf, there'll be some genuinely good art mixed in with some quadruple D-cupped Valkyrie farces and Jessica Rabbit-esque wannabes but all in all the really good art is the stuff that'll win. And as for the pimply faced geek who can't get a girl - what's wrong with a little harmless fantasy here and there? I had a girlfriend who was willing to dress up as Wonder Woman for me (hot damn, one of the best nights of my life) and would have done Supergirl if other factors had not intervened (I'll still get a girl to do that one day). Fantasies are harmless unless they start defining or overwhelming your sexuality.
If they televise this show, I'll watch it, if they don't, I'll download it - I'll have a few laughs, look at some beautiful artificial women and then wistfully wish for a holodeck. No harm done.
Oh, and I wouldn't mind seeing a slightly spruced up Kate Archer - rowr!
Re:I actually like this idea (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon:
Dogbert says: "I can predict the future by assuming that money and male hormones are the driving forces for new technology. Therefore when virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed."
The last frame is dated "Year 2004" and has a woman at the door asking Dogbert, "Is Dilbert available?" to which Dogbert replies, "He's been in the Holodeck since March."
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There can be only one! (Score:3, Funny)
The Reigning Queen (for nearly a century...) (Score:4, Funny)
This already exists (Score:3, Insightful)
We already have one of those. It's called "Miss America". Silicon, silicone. It's only off by one letter.
-Todd
News Flash! (Score:5, Funny)
DAYLOG (2/2/04 Early)
Feb. 2nd, 2004-
(Reuters)- Miss Digital World deletes herself after nude photo appears to press.
Internet Police today say they found the hard drive space where Aki Ross's Body has been found. Ross, crowned Miss Digital World, disappeared after winning the title, when the controversial website www.akirossnude.com opened up days after her crowning. Police say that members of Ross's development team could not find her anywhere. Police started the investigation moments after members of SquareSoft said she was missing, and was no longer found in the backups.
Police and authorities found Ross several days later in an abandoned and dilapidated part of an ancient server farm, the victim of an apparent self-inflicted deletion. CSI was dispatched to the server, but said there was little to investigate, as much of her was already overwritten. The lone artifact of her deletion was a READ ME file she left, explaining the pain of her nude renders had caused her, and that she never imagined that something so innocent in the early parts of her film career would come back against her later.
Aki Ross was four years old. Her film credits include Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and nothing else. The other cast members of Final Fantasy could not be reached for comment.
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Miss? (Score:3, Funny)
Digital Women as Drugs? (Score:3, Interesting)
Designer drugs?
-kgj
Yahoo Story - with picture (Score:4, Informative)
M@
Re:Just another step towards geek alienation... (Score:3, Insightful)
Second Lame Joke (Score:3, Funny)
Daniel
Re:ReBoot did it first (Score:3, Interesting)