Real-time avatar generation from Japan

Some great IMVU chats

I'm known as pebble on IMVU. Every once in a while I have a really great chat-from-hell; I savor these things, and collect them like flawed seashells. You can depend on young, horny emo guys to produce the most consistently amusing conversations.

I've heard some zingers, too:

• if i be ur neighbor or live close to you, will you let me lick you?


• wanna see something hot? it2s a long ang huge thing


• i like movies ,sport, books, computers, hot girls named pebble


• wanna see my p****?


• leans in and kisses u softly and says I like u alot


• when ur as horny as i am right now who has time for manners


• im in bed, want to join me


• So, wanna cyber? Im really hella horny


• leans in and kisses ur pouty lips sopftly

Here is a sample chat:

NONAME: hi
pebble: Hello, NONAME.
pebble: Is that a lightsaber or are you just glad to see me?
(He really was holding a lightsaber, at waist level, so that it projected forward.)
NONAME: dress like a mermaid yes is a lighsaber and im glad yo see u
NONAME: take us to a room
NONAME: any room
(He's asking for me to put on my mermaid avatar, and load another scene.)
pebble: hmmm
pebble: see, there's an ancient Jedi word of power.
pebble: it's called "please"
NONAME: please
pebble: Ah, but there's also the subtle Jedi art of gentle conversation
pebble: charming a girl.
pebble: and not just storming in with demands.
NONAME: PLEASE
NONAME: PLEASE!
pebble: that's more in the nature of a clumsy, random blaster shot, dear.
pebble: Tell me something fascinating about yourself.
NONAME: PLEASE DRESS LIKE A MERMAID AND TAKE US TO YOUR ROOM
pebble: shouting...hmm...I think that's turning the volume knob rather the wrong direction.
pebble: Tell me a joke
pebble: if you make me laugh, I'll do what you just asked.
NONAME: WHY DID THE CHICKEN TRY TO CROSS THE ROAD
pebble: um, to get Pebble to switch the room?
pebble: that's a riddle, not a joke
NONAME: THE CHICKEN IS TRYING TO GET AWAY THE FARMER BECAUSE THE
NONAME: FARMER TRY TO CUT THE CHICKEN HEAD OFF
pebble: again, that's a riddle, not a joke, and -- hmmm -- I'm not amused yet.
pebble: Try again
NONAME: KNOCK KNOCK
pebble: who's there?
NONAME: NOBODY PEACE UT
NONAME: OUT
pebble: Bye!

Here's another good chat:

ANONYMOUS: Hey there Sexy
ANONYMOUS: I mean
ANONYMOUS: that IS you're name right?
pebble: No, it's pebble.
ANONYMOUS: So, wanna cyber?
ANONYMOUS: Im Jet
pebble: Actually I don't cyber, sorry.
ANONYMOUS: Oh, thats kinda sad...
ANONYMOUS: Im really hella horny
pebble: Nope, but you just made my Hall of OMFG
ANONYMOUS: .lol
ANONYMOUS: I made a freaking Hall
ANONYMOUS: Hehe
ANONYMOUS: So, pebble
ANONYMOUS: thats a unique name
pebble: I'm more here for scintillating chat
ANONYMOUS: Hmm, big word
pebble: yes, and that's with my sesquipedalianism set to "stun", not "kill"
ANONYMOUS: Hmm, Headache
pebble: That's one of the side effects, yes.
ANONYMOUS: my suicide meter is high now
ANONYMOUS: .lol
pebble: Hmm
pebble: well I wouldn't want to dissuade you.
ANONYMOUS: this is nearly sadistic
ANONYMOUS: Well, you wount
ANONYMOUS: kinda sad you'd like to see me die
pebble: You were the one threatening.
pebble: I certainly didn't suggest it.
ANONYMOUS: Well, let me rephrase
ANONYMOUS: Its sad you would help me
pebble: I would never help you do that.
pebble: I think you misunderstand the meaning of the word 'dissuade'
ANONYMOUS: .lol
ANONYMOUS: Perhaps I do
ANONYMOUS: I meant
ANONYMOUS: WOULDNT
ANONYMOUS: help me
pebble: Well, first of all you weren't REALLY going to commit suicide
ANONYMOUS: Im confused
ANONYMOUS: .lol
pebble: I took it as more of a way of saying "this conversation sucks, I'm leaving"
pebble: which is entirely your prerogative
ANONYMOUS: Ooh, not at all
ANONYMOUS: I find this rather amusic
ANONYMOUS: 8*Amusing
pebble: Indeed it is.
ANONYMOUS: So, am I amusing enough to add t your buddy list?
pebble: You haven't yet convinced me I SHOULD'NT
pebble: but I'm still up for chatting
ANONYMOUS: So then
ANONYMOUS: this is a good thing
pebble: indeed yes. You're feisty.

William Gibson gives a talk in Second Life

Talk about the serpent eating its own tail: here is the man who coined the term cyberspace, now entering it as an avatar. I'm a geek. This has a kind of technorgasmic completeness that leaves me almost speechless.



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Alter egos in a virtual world

The unplugged world is having to wrap its head around the notion of online avatars, and how they relate to the people playing them. Here is NPR's "huh, what?" piece on the phenomenon. (Thanks to Hiro Protagonist for the link.)

Oh, but look out! The online world is a big, scary place filled with crazy people, even terrorists! Better shut down all online games, just to make the world safe for our ruling elite, so they can play harmless games like "blow-up-the-WTC-to-scare-everyone-into-submission".

Fuck that noise.

These avatar-enabled explorations of identity are a sign that the real world has become deeply, inescapably un-free whether we consciously admit it or not. People have given up almost all their freedom, at this point. Why can't they be allowed this one last escape? Because it's the nature of tyranny to want more power, always more.