The ultimate online community:

July 22, 2001 9:09 AM

The ultimate online community: a massively-multiplayer online sex game. Be a dominatrix! Experiment with whips and chains! Sleep around in a place where everyone is beautiful and willing and there is no disease! Pick your own body: you can be the stud or babe of your dreams! Ah, the virtual life for me. (Why are all the samples heterosexual?) (Via Lum the Mad)
posted by Steven Den Beste (19 comments total)

erm let me get this right - u have to *PAY* to watch a pixelated verision of your self walking around getting pleasured - i dont think so...
posted by monkeyJuice at 9:53 AM on July 22, 2001

$22 dollars a month membership? Does a subscription also come with any unusual and experimental peripherals for your computer, sent through the mail compliments of SeduCity, with instructions, illustrations, and a toll-free tech support number?
posted by poseur at 10:18 AM on July 22, 2001

I have to be the one to ask this...

It is Mac compatible, Steven? ;)
posted by galachef55 at 10:41 AM on July 22, 2001

I hope this takes off so that I can sell dashboard dolls like this.
posted by machaus at 10:43 AM on July 22, 2001

Too bad the k10k boys are gone for the summer. They would have liked the fact that all the artwork is pixel-style (ie, no anti-aliasing.)
posted by robbie01 at 11:07 AM on July 22, 2001

This is nothing new. There have been sex-oriented MU*s for years. (And I don't just mean FurryMUCK.) Hell, most of them even have BDSM themes. Although I suppose the pixelation will hit the spot for people who regularly get off on JPEGs and MPEGs.
posted by darukaru at 12:38 PM on July 22, 2001

Kay, Mac users are already in love with their computers; they don't need this to help them. (grin)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 2:34 PM on July 22, 2001

That's like whacking off to Thunderbird puppets.

No offense, of course, if that's what you're into.

"Look, his little pixel-penis is becoming engorged with pixels!" *swoon*
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:29 PM on July 22, 2001

finally! leisure suit larry online!
posted by Hackworth at 6:14 PM on July 22, 2001

Steven: you have no proof. That could have been anybody in the photo ;)
posted by galachef55 at 9:55 PM on July 22, 2001

I'll never be able to play Maniac Mansion again.
posted by frenetic at 10:07 PM on July 22, 2001

man this is bad... but from the looks of the one picture where they had clothes on, they had some pretty dope fashions going on.
posted by lotsofno at 10:37 PM on July 22, 2001

I don't get it. Why not try leaving the house and *actually* getting laid? Not exciting enough? Weird.
posted by johnb at 11:19 PM on July 22, 2001

John, you make it sound so easy.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 11:25 PM on July 22, 2001

Hahaha. Easy no, fun yes ;)
posted by johnb at 11:59 PM on July 22, 2001

Hm, looks oddly similar to the software from Vzones. They have two "worlds" you can access for a fee and the characters look pretty much the same. Wonder if this is from them or they were ripped off?
posted by valerie at 12:03 AM on July 23, 2001

After comparing the sites, including their separate AvatarWares catalogs, I'm guessing that they are related.

For what it's worth, I remember trying out their more "tame" software and there just weren't enough people using it to make it worth the monthly fee of $20. They apparently had scheduled events and chats but otherwise it didn't seem to keep most people's interests.
posted by valerie at 12:08 AM on July 23, 2001

I find the non anti-aliased aesthetic a rather curious approach. You'd think they would use saucy 3D graphics in order to make it seem realistic, maybe use the Quake Engine.
posted by ry at 7:25 AM on July 23, 2001

Kind of like watching Clippy get it on.
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:25 AM on July 23, 2001