Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends 226
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from the all-you-need-is-love dept.
from the all-you-need-is-love dept.
disco_tracy writes "Long a favorite of lovers and honeymooners, a Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in the wired age. A resort based on a game called 'Love Plus,' encourages players to develop long-term relationships with virtual women. From the article: 'Local souvenir shops in the resort town have caught on and capitalized on the love-struck new clientele, selling Love Plus-themed souvenirs, from good-luck charms to steamed buns and fish sausages. The local Ohnoya hotel even offers traditional rooms to the unusual couples, which feature two sets of futon beds and another barcode panel that allows the men to visualize their girlfriends in a flattering summer kimono.'"
Define 'real girl' (Score:4, Funny)
Oh no, they never saw the film! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no, they must have never seen the film:
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
I love you PHILIP J FRY. (Score:5, Funny)
Japan's primary export (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh, Japanese beach town. (Score:3, Funny)
"steamed buns and fish sausages" (Score:3, Funny)
ROR
Re:Japan's primary export (Score:5, Funny)
Speaking as someone from a land that has a surplus of FFS and a deficit of WTF, I can say in no uncertain terms, thank you Japan for your wonderful, ludicrous exports.
Re:Why live? (Score:5, Funny)
...then you should just kill yourself.
After the steamed buns and fish sausages, of course.
Eh? (Score:5, Funny)
What's the matter, Japanese men? Japanese women not good enough for you? They are widely held by many cultures as the best women in the world. It reminds me of that ancient joke that goes:
Heaven is:
an American salary,
a Chinese Cook,
a British Home,
and a Japanese Wife.
Hell is:
a Chinese salary,
a British Cook,
a Japanese House,
and an American Wife.
Re:Oh, Japanese beach town. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I love you PHILIP J FRY. (Score:5, Funny)
Did I just read an article that had the terms "virtual women", "steamed buns", and "fish sausages" in the same paragraph?
This is Slashdot, so the answer is probably no. :p
I read the headline as ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Eh? (Score:4, Funny)
Originally it was this one:
Heaven is a place where the police are English; the chefs are Italian; the car mechanics are German; the lovers are French and it's all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is a place where the police are German; the chefs are English; the car mechanics are French; the lovers are Swiss and it's all organized by the Italians.
Re:I read the headline as ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Define 'real girl' (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh no, they never saw the film! (Score:1, Funny)
Electro-gonorrhea! The noisy killer!
Love Plus Resort (Score:5, Funny)
Judgind by the picture, the resort is located in the picturesque Uncanny Valley.
Re:More of same on the way (Score:1, Funny)
I think the Japanese will eventually get over the whole atom bomb thing, but if we start exporting our women over there then they'll never forgive us.
The enormous discrepancy between brides imported into the US vs grooms says a lot about the relative desirability of our women.
Re:Eh? (Score:3, Funny)
Heaven is: an American salary, a Chinese Cook, a British Home, and a Japanese Wife.
...and a virtual girlfriend.
Re:Eh? (Score:3, Funny)
I think that's just the general thing with the "wife" cidea; doesn't tell about the quaility of specimens, which was on the table here.
Re:Oh, Japanese beach town. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh no, they never saw the film! (Score:4, Funny)
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares?"
I'm a little scared to ask, but I have to. Is 'intensive purposes' part of the joke?
Re:"Best women in the world" (Score:3, Funny)
You can leave now
Re:Oh, Japanese beach town. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Japan's primary export (Score:2, Funny)
... not in Hollywood.
Re:Oh no, they never saw the film! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Eh? (Score:3, Funny)
Re: American wives
American wives are awesome. Kinky, daring, willing to be a sugar mamma.
You just got to watch out for their husbands.
I kid.. I kid.