Guest HungrySPV Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 Do you reckon pet roaches will ever take off in the UK ???? Hey just realised no one has made a SPV Pet App yet. What was it called ? Tamagochee/Tamagotchi or something like that. Well as long as he/she/it couldn't access my phone book or make prank calls I suppose I could have a little space for him on my SPV :wink: Wouldn't that be scary if SPV Pets could talk to each other via SMS :shock: Maybe the Cyberpets are to blame for the situation we have in T3 :) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3042985.stm Australians looking for a little creature company in their urban homes are shunning the dog and cat in favour of a more economical pet - the cockroach. Workers in Australia's pet industry say the demand for insects as pets has risen in the past five years because of more cramped urban living conditions. Cockroaches are particular favourites, especially as the largest of the species is native to Australia.
Guest Will Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 lol i used to sell 5 species of roach :) amazed me people would pay £10 for a giant hissing roach, but they did freak out the occasional customer.. Will
Guest HungrySPV Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 lol i used to sell 5 species of roach :) amazed me people would pay £10 for a giant hissing roach, but they did freak out the occasional customer.. Will You kidding yeah ?? And just incase you are not how big is a giant hissing roach ? and this was seriously in the UK ??? Maybe I'll do a search on ebay :wink:
Guest Will Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 adults about 3" about 1.5" wide, hiss VERY loudly.. Yep it's in the uk, I sold stuff you would not believe!! Will
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 Where did you sell these?! Did you work in a pet shop, or did you sell them out of the back of a van? lol. I'd like a SPV pet. Could you have pets communucate via GPRS/IR? Pets havin fights / making love could be fun!
Guest HungrySPV Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 I sold stuff you would not believe!! WillA 3" roach - now that would be interesting !! Care to elaborate on what else you sold. I am very curious I'd like a SPV pet. Could you have pets communucate via GPRS/IR? Pets havin fights / making love could be fun! Yeah I really want an SPV pet (and the idea of a roach is growing on me a bit as well!). Wonder if anyone knows enough about Artificial Intelligence to create one ?
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 I just had an idea.... You could define your pets attributes, then you mate it with a friends and produce offspring based on the parents attributes. It could end up being like the creatures game. That could be cool. http://creatures.mindscape.com/
Guest HungrySPV Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 I just had an idea.... You could define your pets attributes, then you mate it with a friends and produce offspring based on the parents attributes. It could end up being like the creatures game. That could be cool. But who would keep the kids if two pets mated and had kids :) And okay when I sync with my PC does my Pet move onto my PC. If he could destroy that silly MS helper I would have no issues :wink: But seriously this could be quite fun. I'll check out the link in a bit. I did a project at uni on an Artificial Ecology based on Genetic Algorithms and its very cool stuff, and I can recommend books if anyone can do the coding. It was the usual predator-prey stuff where the survivors of the current generation determined the characteristics of the next. But same idea as the creatures game I assume. So what attributes would you want a SPV Pet to have ?
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 You could trade in your parent for a child or give it to somebody as a gift. You creatures could 'level up' the longer you had them and become more powerfull. Does anybody remember the monkey pet that was on the old Palm OS?
Guest mattbrown Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 hav a look at this one i picked up a few years back - sum1 could mod it to work on the spvTAMA.ZIP
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 Hopefully we could get something more advanced. But it could be a start.
Guest mattbrown Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 a pet that if beamed across to non spv sphones could reek havoc on them maybe
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 I'd call my pet Sam Fisher, and i'd use him to destroy nokia phones via the medium of IR communications! Mwhahahahahaaaaa!.....
Guest HungrySPV Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 :) Matt - I keep feeding the Tama guy but he's still hungry !!! But yeah it could be a good start for the Smartphone version. I am getting bored with serious applications. SPV Nokia Pet wars :( As well as mating with other SPV Pets maybe the action on your phone could change the attributes. ie sms messages you receive have a certain effect, phone calls, low battery, sync'ing, etc. And I think you should be able to have a few pets on a phone, and you could have really random looks.
Guest Will Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 Sold privately and thru a petshop, hmm other stuff. Beetles? (including a goliath rhino beetle, about 4" long, and able to snap a pencil in half?) All kinds of spiders, stick insects, mantis', then we move onto amphibians, reptiles, birds, small mammals (had some of the original 'Shaws Jirds') Erm so basically you want something that's gunna freak the neighbours, I used to sell it!! :shock: Will And on the theory of pets on phones, you could mms him to other people for the day!!!
Guest mattbrown Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 hav to feed him for a bit and play with him
Guest mattbrown Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 i did own a tarantula once, a chilean copper
Guest James Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 this is getting scary readinig about all these insects. at the min i am living in my house which is a bit of a diy project and is in quite a state, you really have to look out walking about at night in here!
Guest mattbrown Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 it isnt like the scene in indiana jones and temple od doom is it - with all those bugs on the floor
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 I used to have some stick insects. - Stick Insects of DooM!
Guest James Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 arrr! not quite that bad, but not nice! i have got rid of the slugs though! :) sorry i ment slugs of DooM!
Guest Vector Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 we had fleas, but then the dog died and they all dissapeared....
Guest James Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 fleas are nasty little buggers! years and years ago we had a cat for about 2 weeks and it had loads!
Guest inlinesk8a Posted August 16, 2005 Report Posted August 16, 2005 so is anyone gona make a little "spv pet"
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