Comments on: Bugs are everywhere!

Bugs are everywhere!

vacapinta — Tue, 25 May 2004 15:40:38 -0800

On Fornication And Genetics in The Breedster Age The site which launched a social networking app based around insect fornication and copulograms, gave rise to mass projects, insect personals, and even racist clans now presents some early findings including interesting animations of a populated world.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 25 May 2004 16:03:01 -0800

Breedster: So completely two months ago.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 25 May 2004 16:09:27 -0800

Not to disparage this finely linked post. :) Just Breedster.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Tue, 25 May 2004 16:23:05 -0800

I give up -- what happened on 4/21?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 25 May 2004 17:14:40 -0800

gleuschk: Nothing in particular. I was just gloating over hearing about Breedster a long time before my social-network node-mates. I got a whole bunch of whuffie off of that, which I pooled with the whuffie I got from snubbing Friendster to trade in for a nanotoaster. I spend my time sailing the high and rough seas of the intarwap going "Arrrrr!" while collecting shiny links to long or short sell on teh slippery and squirrelly noohypermarkets.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 25 May 2004 17:18:03 -0800

interesting animations of a populated world. because animations of an unpopulated world would be sorta boring. WHOMPUS! FLERBLE!

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 25 May 2004 17:22:09 -0800

Pfft. Shows what I know. The "two months" pseudosnarkiness was just a hat pull. Sorry. I literally just got the email for the symposium thingy.

By: mote

mote — Tue, 25 May 2004 17:57:25 -0800

gleuschk: It looks like Breedster introduced diseases on the 21st.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Tue, 25 May 2004 19:06:07 -0800

Ah. Yeah, if I'd bothered to read the graphs at all carefully....

By: woil

woil — Tue, 25 May 2004 19:27:05 -0800

I don't get it. Invite me?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 25 May 2004 20:02:11 -0800

That's one of the tricky things about Breedster. You can't just invite people willy-nilly. You have to breed with someone to produce eggs. These eggs are the invites, and they expire after a week if the invite isn't accepted. This just makes it difficult to expand the network, which is kind of the point I guess. I don't have any eggs. I let my account languish 'cause it's just bothersome. It's kind of entertaining in a Tamagotchi kind of way, but is basically a thumb-twiddling style time waster.

By: majcher

majcher — Wed, 26 May 2004 00:43:08 -0800

So, since we're not going to get in, and it's stupid anyway... how does it work?