It's like Chatroulette with less dicks and more casual roleplaying

January 21, 2016 10:30 AM

Feel like collaboratively lying to and with random strangers on the internet? Get your pretending-to-be-something-you-aren't on with Shamchat.
posted by cortex (41 comments total)

Fingers crossed about this unfolding into something good! Several years ago kingsissy would go on Chatroulette while wearing some pretty gnarly injury makeup and got some fun interactions. A lot of laughs but also: "Dude! You need to go to the hospital!" "What?" "Dude! You have a Q-TIP sticking out of your face...". "Oh. No, that's just... um, I don't feel so good."
posted by queensissy at 10:36 AM on January 21, 2016 [5 favorites]

Um... Every. Single. Character. it suggested for me was male. I'm not sure if this is for me.
posted by Elizabeth the Thirteenth at 10:39 AM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Oh, I haven't even asked for suggestions, I'm just coming up with my own. That's half the appeal, I think! So if you see a sentient duck or a crappy wizard around, say hi.
posted by cortex at 10:40 AM on January 21, 2016 [5 favorites]

I'm all over this after a few cocktails tomorrow night. Be warned.
posted by Splunge at 10:48 AM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

ugh I keep trying but for some reason nobody wants to talk to a Beardicillinasaurus. It's making me sham sad.
posted by barchan at 10:49 AM on January 21, 2016 [5 favorites]

Duck meets Dog
posted by jazon at 10:50 AM on January 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

Antonio: I need to leave the planet, ASAP
Natasha Romanoff: I'm not NASA.
Natasha Romanoff: I can't help you with that.
Antonio: Russian space agency perhaps?
Natasha Romanoff: Those are pretty expensive.
Antonio: It's a condition, a disease, you wake up one day and it's just "I need to leave"
Natasha Romanoff: That's unfortunate.
Natasha Romanoff has left the conversation.
posted by samelborp at 10:53 AM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Um... Every. Single. Character. it suggested for me was male. I'm not sure if this is for me.

I went through like 10 or 12 and got an understatement, an assassin, a ghost, a management consultant... (plus a load of male actors/characters). Maybe just hit Suggest a few more times?
posted by EndsOfInvention at 11:11 AM on January 21, 2016

AHHHH MUSH FLASHBACK
posted by tittergrrl at 11:12 AM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Small Fuzzy Duck Applies for a Job.
posted by jazon at 11:17 AM on January 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

Um... Every. Single. Character. it suggested for me was male. I'm not sure if this is for me.

I got a bunch of gender-non specific things, along with Darth Vader, Kate Upton, Scarlett Johansson, and The Little Mermaid
posted by tittergrrl at 11:17 AM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

I got matched with "Horny Guy" which was more honest than I expected.
posted by GuyZero at 11:29 AM on January 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

Some of the character suggestions are pretty good, but I'd prefer something a bit more markov-chainy (markov-chainy - coming soon to a dictionary near you!) . So I guess I want an algorithm to think up a funny character for me because I'm tooooo lazy.
posted by gamera at 11:32 AM on January 21, 2016

The list of people who have not been at all interested in talking to a crappy wizard:

- a criminal
- Your ex (apocalypse, rich)
- A shirtless man
- a peasant girl

And to a sentient duck:

- Pregnant Karen Gillan
- Kay (18, brown hair, blue eyes, busty, any rp)
- an understatement
- a pervy old man
- They call me the pervert
- Veronica ( any rp / srp / bi )

I did have a rewarding exchange with Satan about why he granted my duckly self the maddening gift of self-awareness. Turns out we're both pretty lonely, though he didn't have any bread.
posted by cortex at 11:39 AM on January 21, 2016 [7 favorites]

Your character: 10,000 bees.
posted by weeyin at 11:39 AM on January 21, 2016 [9 favorites]

Your character: 10,000 bees.

My character: Oprah.
posted by zippy at 11:46 AM on January 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

Vegan Zombie has met with mixed success.
posted by GuyZero at 11:48 AM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

There's only *barely* less dicks. Lots of people looking for more adult chat, apparently. My 'a tiny kitten' meowed at 'your foot slave' but he/she wasn't interested.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 11:55 AM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Okay, this conversation between my sentient duck and a lion went pretty well. I mean, not for the duck, but.
posted by cortex at 12:14 PM on January 21, 2016 [10 favorites]

I am their mother, and I just told them to wear a coat because it's cold outside and I don't want them to catch a cold and hurt my grandbabies that are growing inside of them.
posted by theraflu at 12:36 PM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

that is surprisingly fun although now I am worried about that poor girl forced to date a dragon :(
posted by The otter lady at 12:44 PM on January 21, 2016

Humpty Dumpty vs Emo Kylo Ren

Humpty Dumpty: woah
Humpty Dumpty: woah
Emo Kylo Ren: so youre like my father
Emo Kylo Ren: who had a great fall
Humpty Dumpty: aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

Actual comedy gold.
posted by GuyZero at 12:53 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

cortex: "could you just uvulate" LOLOLOL
posted by gusandrews at 1:11 PM on January 21, 2016

This is kind of what I used to do with AOL chat as a kid anyway
posted by gusandrews at 1:11 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

A few notes about advertising "less dicks" in the title of the post:

1. I was thinking mostly that you wouldn't be able to see any, what with the lack of cameras.
2. But I had also anecdotally run into a waaaay smaller proportion of people who were DTF than I have since posting.
3. Hush with your less/fewer distinction nonsense.

Anyway, I just spent ten minutes I'll never get back role-playing as ELIZA to someone who probably has never heard of ELIZA.
posted by cortex at 1:31 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

I killed a highly aggressive elf with my giant bear teeth.
posted by smidgen at 1:37 PM on January 21, 2016

Anyway, I just spent ten minutes I'll never get back role-playing as ELIZA to someone who probably has never heard of ELIZA.

M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
posted by GuyZero at 1:42 PM on January 21, 2016

A cow: mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Velociraptor: HISSSSSSSSSSSS
A cow: moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Velociraptor: HIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
A cow: moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
A cow has left the conversation.

Comedy. Fucking. Gold.
posted by 40 Watt at 1:43 PM on January 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

Having way too much fun playing a customer service person. So far, I've helped someone replace their Chrom, and tried to sell someone artisanal cheese.
posted by turtlebackriding at 2:10 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Is there a huge community of people who want sexual roleplay chat just waiting out there to flood a new anon chat service? Who are all these people?
posted by GuyZero at 2:20 PM on January 21, 2016

Lots of people don't want to talk with a Small Fuzzy Duck, and there are a lot of jokey interactions, but a conversation between "a lama farmer" and "Small Fuzzy Duck" came out very, very sweet.
posted by jazon at 2:50 PM on January 21, 2016 [7 favorites]

Apparently, no one wants to talk to an undercover vice cop.
posted by drezdn at 5:21 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Just like no one wants to hire John C. Reilly Moonlighting As An Assassin.
posted by Iridic at 5:58 PM on January 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

Kylo Ren: My patience runs thin. Tell me . . . the GIRL . . . where she WENT . . . Before I escort you away from this mortal realm with my fist around your neck.
Oscar Wilde: That girl with the three buns in her hair? I took her for a bakery delivery boy and tipped her a shilling.
Kylo Ren: You tipped her a shilling . . .
Kylo Ren: . . . One moment . . .
Oscar Wilde: An inane witticism. I can do betrrrghg-
Oscar Wilde: !
Kylo Ren: . . . *Kylo Ren proceeds to thrash your apartment for precisely two and a half moments. He is currently in that process.*
Kylo Ren: Say goodbye to your precious fancy PLATES . . .
Kylo Ren: . . . And to your fancy CLOTHES . . .
Oscar Wilde: Not the Wedgwood!
Oscar Wilde: Not the Savile Row!
Kylo Ren: And this . . . whatever THIS is . . . !
Oscar Wilde: Do spare the organdy. It won't be back next season.
posted by Iridic at 6:15 PM on January 21, 2016 [13 favorites]

I've had a lot of misfires and some fun but one-sided things, but when my haiku master ran into an interrogator just now it was pretty decent.
posted by cortex at 6:28 PM on January 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

Pretty much nobody wanted to talk to The Andalusian Lynx. Except for a rock.
posted by queensissy at 7:00 PM on January 21, 2016

Captain von Trapp: If you're to be a governess in this house, you must comport yourself by its rules.
Captain von Trapp: I'll expect iron discipline and exemplary character.
Professional Thumb Wrestler: the only rules I comport myself to is the iron clad rules of the ring
Professional Thumb Wrestler: now lets throwdown
posted by Iridic at 9:38 PM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Vanessa Paradis meets a banana.
posted by motty at 4:32 AM on January 22, 2016

I feel this will only be fun today, when it is flooded with Mefites.
posted by epanalepsis at 12:03 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]

Oh man, I love this so much. It's great practice for improv! And the sexual roleplaying aspects are interesting. Nothing kills a boner like seeing your potential interlocutor is Albus Dumbledore. Though Dumbledore did end up having an interesting conversation with a magic dildo that was evidently fucking Harry Potter. I also got paired up with "horny," and since I was Charlie Sheen at the time we had a lot to talk about!
posted by zeusianfog at 12:27 PM on January 22, 2016

Oh, I also enjoyed the exchange where I was a sports announcer interviewing Groot.
posted by zeusianfog at 12:29 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]