KIDS gets excited over PICTOCHAT

Xantar · 12-21-2004, 01:57 PM

You think that's weird? Back when my high school first got wired with e-mail for every student (in my freshman year eight years ago), students would sit in the lab and type e-mails to each other. Some of them would have "Hi, how are you?" "I'm fine" type chats over e-mail while sitting right next to each other.

And some of them would send these e-mails to the whole school even though they were really just talking to each other. Made me want to whip out my knife and take a few fingers (yes, fingersman does inspire me from time to time).

Anyway, newfangled communication fascinates kids. I'll bet that when cell phones started showing up in high schools, bunches of them would SMS while standing next to each other.

But at least PictoChat allows you (theoretically) to convey something that you can't do very well in voice. That is to say sometimes it's easier to just draw rather than describe it in words.

GameMaster · 12-21-2004, 02:41 PM

I haven't PictoChatted with anyone yet. My ideal use for it though would be in a classroom with a friend or just in a public venue with a stranger. When it goes online, I'll PictoChat with my friends who are all at different colleges.

Perfect Stu · 12-21-2004, 03:54 PM

if they utilize Pictochat with online functunality, I can see it now:

"good game guys"

"yeah, that was sick"

"OMG I WANT TO SEX YUO UP!" *crappy sketch of b00bies*

Canyarion · 12-21-2004, 06:13 PM

Pictochatting IS cool. Can't wait.

Blackmane · 12-22-2004, 09:56 AM

Unlike MP3's, I think that this has the possibility of being useful to gaming, especially multiplayer gaming and wireless play, along with just chatting outside of game. Has more to do with everyone being connected and all.

But, I refuse to buy any handheld until I decide which one has better games.

MuGen · 12-22-2004, 02:08 PM

Reply to Xantar: That was probably because they couldn't talk out loud in class... Or maybe they WERE obsessed.

In any case these guys were sending each other pictures using Pictochat and then before sending them they'd show each other ... "Look at what I'm sending you!"

EDIT: ALSO... someone stated, I forget who, that Pictochat is more useful feature than mp3 playback for online multiplayer gaming functions... but why are you comparing those two? PSP also has chat capabilities with usb port to plug in a small keyboard... or a huge one.

Both handhelds have online multiplayer communication abilities... i dunno why you put in Mp3 vs. Pictochat when regarding online communication in gaming... lol

Canyarion · 12-22-2004, 03:20 PM

Probably because of the thread title. And people here have compared it before.

Those kids make me laugh.

Xantar · 12-22-2004, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

Reply to Xantar: That was probably because they couldn't talk out loud in class... Or maybe they WERE obsessed.

It wasn't during class, so I guess that means they were obsessed.

Quote:

EDIT: ALSO... someone stated, I forget who, that Pictochat is more useful feature than mp3 playback for online multiplayer gaming functions... but why are you comparing those two? PSP also has chat capabilities with usb port to plug in a small keyboard... or a huge one.

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at, but....the DS has chat capabilities as well as PictoChat. There's a built in microphone you know. But the PSP does not have anything like PictoChat. And I want to see you typing on a keyboard on a handheld.

In any case, I can think of some ways that PictoChat type functionality can accomplish some things that voice chat can't. Just for starters, it allows you to point at things. It's like the function in Warcraft III that lets you mark a particular point on the map. It's much more efficient than, "That point right there. No there. Up a bit. Two steps left from the rock. No, the other rock."

fingersman · 12-25-2004, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Xantar

You think that's weird? Back when my high school first got wired with e-mail for every student (in my freshman year eight years ago), students would sit in the lab and type e-mails to each other. Some of them would have "Hi, how are you?" "I'm fine" type chats over e-mail while sitting right next to each other.

And some of them would send these e-mails to the whole school even though they were really just talking to each other. Made me want to whip out my knife and take a few fingers (yes, fingersman does inspire me from time to time).
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*sniff* I feel so honoured

MuGen · 12-25-2004, 01:26 PM

you are misunderstanding me xantar... someone said,
"mp3 playback is cool but I can see Pictochat being more useful for online gaming ...etc"

I simply asked why he would compare the usefulness of mp3 playback to online gaming to pictochat? Of course of you compared the two Pictochat would be more useful in online gaming. But mp3 playback shouldn't be compared... cuz it has NOTHING to do with online gaming. Pictochat should be compared to PSP's online gaming communication abilities... not mp3 playback....

bah! lol