Is the Ultimate ex-dub online site just a few months away? I think so.
Perhaps this is a unusual way for me to advertise something that doesn’t even exist yet, but in a few months there is going to be an extraordinary opportunity for the entire ex-JW online community to become involved in the most sophisticated form of online participation ever.
Imagine sitting back in your chair and clicking rapidly through a series of screens of a fictional world when you suddenly stop in amazement. You are now looking at the World Headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses and when you zoom inside you find rich graphics, that include everything from floor tiles to furniture but instead of seeing JW’s pushing papers and cleaning toilets you find that hundreds of apostates run the place! Sitting at the front desk is VeniceIT in a way you have never seen her before (she looks just like a movie star in the very popular game the SIMS) but she will be talking to you with a little cartoon like bubble that appears over her head, and you can type your answer back. You will soon see your other favorite online characters there in a place of their own choosing. You can walk up and pat them on the back or even give the willing ladies a cyber kiss.
The graphics look very similar to what was in The Sims but the interface has many new features. You can set your character's mood, and to further emphasize it, go through some elaborate hand or body language to make your point. You can also set your characters interests, hobbies, and other characteristics so people will know what you like. Of course you can choose what type of character you want to represent you as well
What can you do in this virtual world besides chat? You can of course walk around and explore things and go to different rooms to meet different other online ex-dubs. We can have an old time pub for Englishman and some of his friends, and you can catch me in the Watchtower Laboratories working on some evil invention. You can play online chess with people in this setting, checkers, card games and more. You can setup online business ventures and charge for your services. You will also have the more familiar community tools like you see on this board for making threads and posts, and you will also have instant messaging without having to switch to Yahoo or another service. This will be the ultimate chat program.
It is called, SIMS Online. You will have to pay $50 for the software and the subscription fee is said to be $10 per month. You can read more about it at these links:
http://thesimsonline.ea.com/home.html
http://www.happypuppy.com/win/previews/simsonlin-win-1.html
Not only will you be able to interact with the ex-JW community but the world at large. If this program works as well as it portrays, it will be the “killer application” for this year in terms of community building and chat rooms. You will be able to make your characters, do all kinds of things that you see the SIMS do in the ever-popular game, and move one step closer to virtual reality.
I’m buying a copy when it comes out. I hope to see you there.
Skipper