I Was Young And I Needed The Money 90
The Escapist this week is running a great article by Richard Bartle entitled I Was Young And I Needed The Money. He doles out the sordid details of his experience developing a never-released sexy text MMOG. From the article: "All we required was some fiendish mind-control system to persuade people to play a text game when they really wanted to play EverQuest. So, that would be sex, then. I'd written a pitch for a sex MUD about five years earlier, but the funding fell through. Now was the time to dust it off! The thing is, sex in a text world has three things going for it that sex in a graphics world doesn't ... "
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Freeform textual sex? (Score:4, Funny)
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Writing it? [wikipedia.org]
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I need to put the Bartle Test [andreasen.org] in the wp article...
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Undoubtedly right, and no doubt many people have discovered sexual gratification that way, but it's not for me.
Remember, the Internet is where men are men, and women are men, and 14-year-old girls are FBI men.
-ccm
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Was this freeform (Score:4, Interesting)
So it would be far more then just chatting "wanna fuck". You would actuallly have to worry about stats. Probably for the male of making sure you stimulate her enough that you don't come to fast. Wonder if male players are disconnected within a few minutes of climax?
It sounds like he was trying for way more then just another adult chatroom. Could have been intresting BUT hard to sell indeed.
Companies got very weird attitudes to sex. Just check phone companies and how they handle porn. THey are happy to rake in the cash from phonesex lines and mobile porn sites but nobody wants to be the assigned to handle them.
But all is not lost. Read the recent article of upcoming MMO's. Naughty America is sex based and I remember another story about an MMO set in London that has sex as well.
I just hope that they indeed have the whole sex/relationship put in as game mechanics. If it is just freeform sex I am gonna suck at it as bad is in real life. Now anyone know how to grind a really big dick?
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No, but I think I have a very helpful email in my inbox. Let me forward it to you
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A really big mortor and pestel...?
This has to be good (Score:3, Funny)
Man am I waiting on the punchline for this!
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I thought... (Score:4, Funny)
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The baseball bat... (Score:2)
Possible replacement (Score:1, Troll)
I hear EQ2 sucks a lot of dick
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Before the Karma Whores get here (Score:4, Informative)
1.It's freeform. You don't have to motion-capture every position in the Kama Sutra and beyond, because people can animate it themselves using words.
2.It's legal. You can write about antics that you would be jailed for depicting visually. The word is pornography, not pornotexty.
3.For a basic sex game to work, you need comparable numbers of both men and women. A female-friendly game, by virtue of its having women in it, is male-friendly; therefore, you need to attract women. And hey, guess what? Study after study has shown that, in general, women prefer words to pictures - especially when it comes to sexual fantasizing.
An Aimless Pedant... (Score:2)
Although I found the 'pornotexty' neologism really funny, as a point of pedantry, the word pornography comes from the greek words that literally mean 'to write about prostitutes'. The first media that had the label pornography attached to it was in fact written work.
But you are right. It's legal. ;)
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Well, that takes the fun out of it.
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In a world where men never pretend to be women online and vice versa.
Bwahahaha!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone else get to this line and laugh uncontrollably for five minutes straight?
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It is now your turn.
Your ejaculation hits Kara101 for 32 damage.
Kara101 has died.
Experience gained: 50 points.
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Offtopic, was Re:Bwahahaha!!! (Score:2)
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-1 Virginity.
A death blow to most geeks.
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Actually, I just have to wonder... (Score:3, Insightful)
E.g., his #1 reason for text-based sex is that it's free form... then he mentions implementing it as a modification of the combat system. WTF? There goes "free form" right out the window.
E.g., his #3 reason is that women
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Although given some of the women who play RPGs, they've probably got a beard down to their knees in real life as well.
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As a programmer, I find the idea of replacing any repetitive action with a macro very appealing.
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- I do not find them appealing in inter-human communications. Sure, I can understand their use in some situations where time is of critical importance (e.g., "pull", "regroup", "heal please" macros in combat), but that's about it. If talking to anyone -- regardless of whether it's on a board, MUD, IRC, whatever -- if the bulk of someone's communication was cut-and-pasted phrases, or macros to the same effect, I'd quickly find tha
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When will they learn the web is not a postcard? (Score:1, Insightful)
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I suppose it probably displays properly in Internet Explorer if you happen to have exactly the same settings as the page designer ("but, but, it worked for me!!").
OTOH, the page does have a convenient "text" button to bypass the page designer's idiocies. [A lot of sites don't seem to have even that.]
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download the bookmarklets in the ZAP section.
If you are bothered by "postcard" website like TFA,
just use "zap->style-sheets", voila!
Picture moved to the top, text was black on a white background.
No more stylish layouts.
These bookmarklets are really handy for reading obnoxious sites.
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Yep, silly web designer for actually trying to make a page attractive - it breaks on the browsers of people with utterly no graphics experience who know far better than you who does.
It render
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Personally the only thing that disturbs me about this site is the naked dude on the second page. Had to resize my browser window to get him out of my sight while reading the text.
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What pissed me right off was the non-article page in the middle of it. I went back and made sure I'd clicked "next" twice, before clicking "next" again and finding the next page of the article. Infuriating!
Neat content! Absolutely
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There are very creative and unique ways to design a layout for the web that still work well and are easy to read. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them. Nor is the design so good as to justify the awkward layout.
I was thinking about running on too (Score:1)
--A new way to search the InterNet
http://snappyjack.com/ [snappyjack.com]
Writing Code for Sex Games (Score:2)
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-- A New way to search the InterNet
http://u1i.com/ [u1i.com]
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Horrible website design (Score:1, Offtopic)
/me hits Ctrl-Shift-S, and the site becomes readable
I win!
Textual (Score:5, Funny)
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Last line (Score:2)
It should have ended with "Still, it beats the hell out of fap fap fap
Sensory deprivation (Score:1)
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Hahahahaahaha cranks me up!
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I killed a bunch of elephants in "Postal 2". But, fortunately, there wasn't any nudity in the game. I guess someone thought of the children!
-Eric
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It's right there in the article;
"We can't be associated with sex games, only with violent games" -
an actual quote from a member of the sales team!
Violence good, sex bad. That, in a nutshell, describes so much of this "civilisation" that is just fucked in the head. I want to go live on Bizzaro world!
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I need a new keyboard (Score:1)
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