Pop-Up Girl

[shakna]

Back when the web was mostly Flash, showing off your coding skills was a big deal.

One of the ways that people did this, was by adding cute-sy animation features. Sometimes this took the form of a character who would pop up at random times to talk to you, or say who they were, and so on. For quite a number of sites, this character was an anime girl, or similar.

Obviously, a little touch of scifi is required to bring her to life.

 

[LupusDei]

Wait, so basically... I go into a store or salon, and blink-blink-scratch-scratch a cute barely clad anime girl materializes midair, put her long legs down to the floor and asks "what good sir desires?" and if I answer "you!" she's rather okay with that too, being made without shame or morals?

 

[LupusDei]

I had a somewhat similar sketch once, walking in the forest last winter, featuring an alien messenger.

So, there's a shining black pebble floating midair in the forest. A loner guy grabs it, and it's kinda like smartphone or what, but the interface appears to be in Nordic runes or something like that (the idea here is that the contact attempt is some thousand years out of date) so he by chance knows some of the symbols but not understanding a thing anyway. He taps something, and the thing beeps, hisses and prints a girl out of nothing, inside out: bones, guts, meat, skin, -- the guy taps the device and halts the process.

She protest, she's not finished. She's supposed to have clothes, worse, her programming isn't finished either. She grabs the device, and it doesn't work for her. She laments that she's broken and needs to be recycled. He already likes her too much to let that to happen -- of course, she's made by scanning his preferences.

No idea where that ever goes from there, but everyone's very confused.

 

[gunhilltrain]

This sort of reminds me of the 1985 movie Weird Science. I've never seen it, but I've read the plot synopsis. Do they ever have sex with their Lisa creation, or is she only there to build up their confidence? If they don't have at least some sex with her, they are missing a big opportunity. Or does she make it clear that is not what she is there for? I know, John Hughes; I can imagine how it must go.

Now if David Cronenberg had directed: that would have been one weird movie

 

[sirhugs]

They end up with their crushes. As you say, typical John Hughes. Cute, a bit naughty for the day because of it focussing on underage horniness rather than romantic love.

 

[gunhilltrain]

They end up with their crushes. As you say, typical John Hughes. Cute, a bit naughty for the day because of it focussing on underage horniness rather than romantic love.

So they don't actually bang her. (Or does she refuse them?) By "crushes," I assume you mean "real world" girls they know.

I was them, I'd have my cake and eat it too. I'd have nice romances with the real girls and go wild with Lisa. In fact, since they've figured out how to do it, I'd make at least one more "fake" woman, not necessarily a dupe of Lisa. I mean, there are two of them; why should they share? Three women; have one on "down time" while cavorting with the other two. How old are they anyway, like sixteen or seventeen? Back then I had plenty of energy and incentive to handle both real girls and made-up ones.

I should write this as a story, but then I'd probably have to watch the real movie for inspiration. Oh, the hell with that; I'm sure I could make it up better than Hughes could.

 

[sirhugs]

So they don't actually bang her. (Or does she refuse them?) By "crushes," I assume you mean "real world" girls they know.

I was them, I'd have my cake and eat it too. I'd have nice romances with the real girls and go wild with Lisa. In fact, since they've figured out how to do it, I'd make at least one more "fake" woman, not necessarily a dupe of Lisa. I mean, there are two of them; why should they share? Three women; have one on "down time" while cavorting with the other two. How old are they anyway, like sixteen or seventeen? Back then I had plenty of energy and incentive to handle both real girls and made-up ones.

I should write this as a story, but then I'd probably have to watch the real movie for inspiration. Oh, the hell with that; I'm sure I could make it up better than Hughes could.

It is John Hughes- all lightness and hilarity, so the reection is always subtle and painless because they never really can bring themselves to be direct. Sort of the opposite from the arc of BTVS where tHE TRIO build the Buffy bot and even "she" won't fuck them, inctrasing the rage and violence. Joss Whedon must have had a terrible adolescence, but he sure knew how to tap that vein.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Oh, that means Buffy The Vampire Slayer. You've got to be careful with those abbreviations. Every New Yorker knows what BQE means, but I wouldn't use it here without an explanation.

My daughter used to watch Buffy years ago, but I don't think I've seen a single episode. I suppose the "Buffy Bot" must be a copy of Buffy, not actually her. I'm not sure who The Trio are, but if they can't get their own creation to bang them, they must be pretty pathetic indeed. Or maybe they need to go back to the drawing board and try it again.

I don't think anybody had an easy adolescence. Those who claim otherwise are either using selective memory or are outright lying.