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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"
Cortana (Score:1, Funny)
Man, that's just cruel. (Score:5, Funny)
Also: Wasn't the whole digital actress/lara croft meme really hip like, 5 years ago?
Re:Man, that's just cruel. (Score:2)
Nothing to see here move along
Rus
Re:Man, that's just cruel. (Score:2, Funny)
Like it would have lasted long... if this is the editor, imagine the server!
Re:Man, that's just cruel. (Score:2)
Like it would have lasted long... if this is the editor, imagine the server!
It runs apache 2.0.40. Weird.
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!!
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2, Funny)
I find the girl next door to be quite special you insensitive clod!!
Re:Is it just me... (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, so it's you that's buying the X10 gear. Another problem solved!!
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2)
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2)
From an old, but related article [turnoffyourtv.com]:
"The Beautiful People Syndrome is attacking the psyche of television-addicted America. For a man, if you are not 6'1'', handsome and wealthy you are not ideal. Any woman who isn't bone-thin with a large chest certainly is below the standard."
Warning, some of this article is downright silly.
[thinks to self: "old" being from 2000. Sheesh, I
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2)
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.
Re:Umm, why? (Score:2)
Poor sweet innocent lad.
If you believe that, you might want to have a peek at RealDoll [realdoll.com] (not work safe, i believe.)
Remember, there is no problem that technology cannot solve for you!
Re:Umm, why? (Score:2)
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...
Re:Whoa... (Score:2)
Ultimately, there could only be 4 competitors... (Score:5, Funny)
We are, after all, talking about some 2-bit Whore.
Okay (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Okay (Score:2)
Re:Okay (Score:2)
You've obviously never seen Weird Science. Trust me, you'll like the outcome.
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!"
Re:Only When Digital Actors Have Q-factors (Score:2)
How many big name actors are the voices there? A Bugs Life? Et cetera, Et cetera. Sports players get paid to endorse shoes, actors are there for their name as well.
Re: Yeah, but that's only half the story.... (Score:2)
For example, I think Patrick Stewart always does a respectable job when acting, and I have a good idea of the qualities he's likely to bring to any movie he stars in. (I know he's not the type to play a role of some blithering idiot, a la "Dumb and Dumber", and he can usually
My Nomination (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My Nomination (Score:2)
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!
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?
Re:Age (Score:2)
Of course, the World's standard is big boobs in tight.
Re:Age (Score:2)
I haven't yet gotten this lesson down.
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.
Re:These should be interesting..... (Score:2)
"Our conducted experiments regarding the shape adaptions of the faces clearly show that it is not the facial proportions but the skin that makes average faces more attractive. Thus, the averageness hypothesis can be refuted with respect to facial proportions!"
But anyhow, thanks for the cool URL.
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)
Re:I nominate the babe from Final Fantasy! (Score:2)
Even so, I remember someone on the internet wrote about it months before it came out: "visuals that would make Steven Speilberg crap himself".
100% absolutly true.
Re:I nominate the babe from Final Fantasy! (Score:2)
You realize that they came up with a fairly original way to destroy the world. You may not appreciate it, I do.
I'm tired of the usual nuclear, biological, and really-big-rock scenarios.
They pushed the technology, they did it wi
Re:I nominate the babe from Final Fantasy! (Score:2)
Re:Aki Ross (Score:2)
Just think.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Just think.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just think.... (Score:2)
Are you suggesting Aki [allmovieportal.com] has competition?
Re:Just think.... (Score:2)
What's a pop-up? [mozilla.org]
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)
Re:nVidia girls (Score:2)
I dunno...I think they probably should have cut down on the budget for the artists and shelled out a bit more for better looking [nvidia.com] real women.
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!
Gotta restrict where this is routed (Score:2)
Just make sure that the bits don't get transmitted through the MidEast or Islamic controlled Africa. People will freak out, break into server rooms and start beating those evil routers. The Christians or Jews will retaliate and sooner or later someone will end up dead. If a rumor [iafrica.com] that a party was going to be a beauty pagent caused this to happen, the real thing, even if it was virtual, would probably do the same thing.
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."
Re:I actually like this idea (Score:2)
I'm lucky as a guy and as someone who's always been oblivious to that sort of thing that I've never had to deal with panic attacks about my looks but you're right - media culture has taught us to expect nothing short of goddesses. I'll even confess that I've been a party to it - I was seeing a
Well there goes the competition (Score:2)
Well that sure limits the field.
Re:Well there goes the competition (Score:2)
Why do they even care? Do they think that implictly allowing this really will hurt the competition?
Re:Well there goes the competition (Score:2)
Re:Well there goes the competition (Score:2)
There can be only one! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, great. If thoughts of this subject ... (Score:2)
There's a 80s song about a digital girl (Score:2)
With much of a figure
So excuse me if I start to play
With your digital display"
Lyrics for Digital Display (Extended Version) - Ready For The World [geocities.com]
Personally I think that a Digital Miss World site is just going to be a 'one-handed computing' site.
The Reigning Queen (for nearly a century...) (Score:4, Funny)
A useless contest? (Score:2)
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
Is this too obvious? (Score:2)
Re:Is this too obvious? (Score:2)
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)
Final Fantasy (Score:2)
I almost hate to admit it, but she's REALLY damn cute.
Re:Final Fantasy (Score:2)
Ooh! (Score:2)
Digital Women as Drugs? (Score:3, Interesting)
Designer drugs?
-kgj
Yahoo Story - with picture (Score:4, Informative)
M@
No goatse.cx or tubgirl references yet? (Score:2)
First post on topic? (Score:2)
Re:First post on topic? (Score:2)
Suggestion(s) (Score:2)
Oops! Did I just flush my karma cache? Damn!
Just makes more for Beatles Apple.. (Score:2)
ReBoot did it first (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:ReBoot did it first (Score:3, Interesting)
I nominate... (Score:2)
::posing for the people::
First I steal the hearts of otaku-dom, then I win the hearts of lonely nerds. Soon I will have an army of freaks by the balls with which I will RULE THE WORLD!!!
So, please, vote for me.
Re:Just another step towards geek alienation... (Score:3, Insightful)
Second Lame Joke (Score:3, Funny)
Daniel
Re:Acceptance Speech (Score:2)
Stepford wives? (Score:2)
But they're not JUST digital (Score:2)
Designers of the digital creations have none of these pressures/concerns.