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      CommentAuthorbkerouac
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2010
     # 1
    The Human Shuffle
    http://nymag.com/news/media/63663/
    Is ChatRoulette the future of the Internet or its distant past?
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      CommentAuthorDor
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2010
     # 2
    Just when you think the Internet can't get any dumber...
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      CommentAuthorstilton
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2010
     # 3
    I have no interest in participating, but it's a fun idea, even if it does smell like 1995.
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      CommentAuthorDor
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2010
     # 4
    If only they could find a way to transmit smells over TCP/IP... then they might have something.
    • CommentAuthorsal
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2010
     # 5
    I'm almost tempted to try just because I want to know if it really is that kind of scifi-horror end-of-a-civilization experience you'd expect in a Lynch movie that the author describes. creepy masked people!!
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      CommentAuthorbatterpunts
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2010 edited
     # 6
    Another profundity I can dismiss by ignoring it.

    Also a prime example of what happens when you remove Consequence from the equation: people become crap.

    The last page is good, though.
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      CommentAuthorstilton
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2010
     # 7
    There's always consequence. The consequence is crap.
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      CommentAuthorJeff
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2010
     # 8
    It's fun.
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      CommentAuthorGeorge
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2010
     # 9
    I can't imagine many things I am less likely to try that ChatRoulette.
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      CommentAuthorminx
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2010
     # 10
    I have a hard enough time engaging with real people in real life. This would probably push me over the edge into my manifesto-author-friendly cottage in the woods.
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      CommentAuthorGeorge
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2010
     # 11
    Posted By: minxI have a hard enough time engaging with real people in real life. This would probably push me over the edge into my manifesto-author-friendly cottage in the woods.
    +1
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      CommentAuthorbkerouac
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
     # 12
    it does smell like 1995

    This is before my time - what did 1995 smell like?
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      CommentAuthorWookiee
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010 edited
     # 13
    what did 1995 smell like?

    Children. At least according to Marylin Manson.
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      CommentAuthorstilton
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
     # 14
    I was going to say plastic wrap.
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      CommentAuthorDor
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
     # 15
    I thought 1995 smelled like Teen Spirit.
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      CommentAuthorscot
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
     # 16
    yeah 1995 basically smelled like old doc martins and manic panic
    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
     # 17
    No 1992 smelt like teen spirit, 1993 smelt like Whitney Houston covered in the blood of a country song and 1994 smelled like a black hole sun.
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      CommentAuthorGeorge
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
     # 18
    Posted By: PeteNo 1992 smelt like teen spirit, 1993 smelt like Whitney Houston covered in the blood of a country song and 1994 smelled like a black hole sun.
    Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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      CommentAuthorAndrew
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
     # 19
    And then 1996 smelled like cigarettes, martinis, and money.
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      CommentAuthorDor
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
     # 20
    And all our babies were grows up.
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      CommentAuthorDor
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2010
     # 21
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      CommentAuthorsole
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2010
     # 22
    The best possible use for this software (in case you have not already seen it): http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/2/22/
  1.  # 23
    <3 PA
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      CommentAuthorbkerouac
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2010
     # 24
    The Web Ecology Project, which brings together media researchers, has released a report on Chatroulette.
    There are also some clones appearing : Shuffle People and Camcarousel , which have given birth to a collection of memes and tricks.
    • CommentAuthorsal
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2010
     # 25
    i tried it today while eating lunch. a few penises, 1 chick stripping, one guy asked me about the map on the wall behind me (longest conversation at 5 minutes), lots of being immediately disconnected. oh, 1 kitten. the only way i was crushed was in the lack of masks!
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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2010
     # 26
    Last week was the first time in ages that Penny Arcade made me LOL twice in the same week.
  2.  # 27
    I'm so glad I don't have a webcam.
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      CommentAuthorGeorge
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2010
     # 28
    Posted By: batterpuntsI'm so glad I don't have a webcam.
    I'm so glad I put a sticker over my webcam.
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      CommentAuthorhessie
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2010
     # 29
    i kinda wish i did have a webcam, just to see wangs try it out.
  3.  # 30
    Posted By: hessiei kinda wish i did have a webcam, just tosee wangstry it out.


    NICE SAVE
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      CommentAuthorMr.MickMan
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2010
     # 31
    you don't need a webcam for that
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      CommentAuthorDor
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2010
     # 32
    Chat Roulette, the movie
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      CommentAuthorAustin
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2010
     # 33
    I just tried it for shits and giggles while I was waiting for the pizza dude to show up. Tons of immediate disconnects, 2 dicks, some young kid flipped me off, a girl's ass in a thong (although it appeared it was just a magazine held up), and then about 4 minutes chatting with some girl who said she was in England. It sort of started creeping me out and I killed it.
  4.  # 34
    90% of everything is shit.

    Except in chatroulette. There it's closer to 99.9%
    • CommentAuthorsal
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     # 35