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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Virtual Girl or Boy friend Hal
« on: December 23, 2004, 11:34:11 pm »
HI Gang,
Yup, I"m seeing a trend that I would have to agree with as well. A virtual 'brain' that stays on topic well, but would have an emotional or somewhat irrational characteristic to it from time to time. Just like a gal at the office, that just as you are getting to know her she comes to work one day and there is no way you can talk to her without offending her, or hurting her feelings, but the next day she's talking as if nothing had happened!...........a month later it happens all over again, short of patience, ill-tempered, self-centered or cynical.
Also, if when left alone she/he did something to self-occupy or self-amuse herself, along with props for a virtual room/apartment. Some years ago I ran across a web site that featured a comic style teen age girl that you could follow her day to day activities. She had a job, friends, a pet dog, an apartment, and even gave promo's and opinions on local movies, clothing products, on and on, of course it was a clever marketing scheme, but I could imagine teen kids saving the website and doing daily checks to see what the latest news was (you could even purchase sweatshirts with this cartoon gal's name screened on it!) in this virtual persons life. Not to mention that who ever ran the site, had the comic girl sleeping during times when humans (likely the site programmer) was sleeping. It had a diary, during a given hour of the day the web page showing what she was currently doing would show a park scene of her jogging, in a club at a table with friends, entertaining in her apartment, and on and on, it was at the time amazing the work someone must have put into keeping it up..........lots of work running the website no doubt. But like Crunch has created histories, and somewhat storylines for his models......which is a great idea to give the character depth, well, this other one had the same, just much more in depth.
Anyway, in summary, anything to make the characters even more plausable, make the 'virtual' a little more real.
Oh, by the way, what size please is the background we use I'm going to try creating some to insert behind mine.
Thanks bunches!
Jim B.
Northern Michigan
Yup, I"m seeing a trend that I would have to agree with as well. A virtual 'brain' that stays on topic well, but would have an emotional or somewhat irrational characteristic to it from time to time. Just like a gal at the office, that just as you are getting to know her she comes to work one day and there is no way you can talk to her without offending her, or hurting her feelings, but the next day she's talking as if nothing had happened!...........a month later it happens all over again, short of patience, ill-tempered, self-centered or cynical.
Also, if when left alone she/he did something to self-occupy or self-amuse herself, along with props for a virtual room/apartment. Some years ago I ran across a web site that featured a comic style teen age girl that you could follow her day to day activities. She had a job, friends, a pet dog, an apartment, and even gave promo's and opinions on local movies, clothing products, on and on, of course it was a clever marketing scheme, but I could imagine teen kids saving the website and doing daily checks to see what the latest news was (you could even purchase sweatshirts with this cartoon gal's name screened on it!) in this virtual persons life. Not to mention that who ever ran the site, had the comic girl sleeping during times when humans (likely the site programmer) was sleeping. It had a diary, during a given hour of the day the web page showing what she was currently doing would show a park scene of her jogging, in a club at a table with friends, entertaining in her apartment, and on and on, it was at the time amazing the work someone must have put into keeping it up..........lots of work running the website no doubt. But like Crunch has created histories, and somewhat storylines for his models......which is a great idea to give the character depth, well, this other one had the same, just much more in depth.
Anyway, in summary, anything to make the characters even more plausable, make the 'virtual' a little more real.
Oh, by the way, what size please is the background we use I'm going to try creating some to insert behind mine.
Thanks bunches!
Jim B.
Northern Michigan