felbot: so the guy who married a game got a real girlfriend? well that sounds great.
Different guys.
OT: This is no sillier than dozens of other weird things people decide to do at their weddings. The idea that you should make your wedding day unique in some way (and/or express yourself through it) seems to be increasingly popular. Getting married dressed as zombies, having the rings delivered by an owl, and cakes shaped like video game characters are all pretty run-of-the-mill now.
I have to smile a little bit that the reason many people give for going mad on their wedding day is, "Well, you only get to do it once!" A third of marriages in the UK (and half in the USA) end in divorce. So it's not too unlikely that you'll get a chance to do this all over again. ;)
OT: I can just picture the guy keeping all the pieces from the broken game, then repairing the game, rather poorly, and starting some kind of sordid affair with the technological equivalent of a corpse...
Love Plus Hammer, the exciting new entry into the series. A Virtual Reality game where you roleplay as a dude who've gotten way too attached to a virtual girl, who suddenly get married to a woman who takes "her" even more seriously. Hilarity and possibly sectioning ensues.
Next he should hand her his spine, testicles, privacy, dignity, pride, fantasy, desire, pretty much everything that he enjoys or owns for himself because she's made her mark, and he is her bitch now.
Now if it had been her things and he demanded she destroy them for him he'd be a monster.
Grey Carter: "Today's Japanese youth can't express their true feelings in reality. They can only do it in the virtual world," he told CNN. "It's the reverse of reality that they can only talk about what they feel to a friend in the virtual world.
And the Japanese don't see this as a problem that needs to be addressed? *scratches head in bewilderment*
Anyway, smashing a game cartridge containing a virtual girlfriend at your wedding seems a bit excessive to me.
They do.
They just keep pointing fingers at the wrong things. They'd rather blame video games rather than addressing just how closed their society is. It's considered rude to be critical of almost anything in a public forum.
And I wouldn't want to kill my virtual ex for the same reason I wouldn't want to take a hammer to my car. Yes, you can have healthy relationships with completely innadament objects. No, its not the same thing as a relationship with a human being.
Ftaghn To You Too: All in all, falling that much in love with a fictional character is a bit worrying.
Sadly, billions of people all over this planet do just that. It's called religion.
no one cares that you don't believe in god please be quiet your boring
don't make have to break out the " there is no proof he doesn't exist either so your militant atheism is just as invalid as religious beliefs" belt, i will
Imperator_DK: Love Plus Hammer, the exciting new entry into the series. A Virtual Reality game where you roleplay as a dude who've gotten way too attached to a virtual girl, who suddenly get married to a woman who takes "her" even more seriously. Hilarity and possibly sectioning ensues.
5 bucks its a visual novel that has been turned to an anime or it will be
Hrm... seems his virtual girlfriend was not the only thing of his to be murdered.
If this was some errant occurrence it really wouldnt make a difference, but the question is, why is this essentially a prerequisite? While the virtual girlfriend might be a new variant, its always been there. Some destruction of ones past to humble themselves before the new love?
hm... and why they didn't just erased the save file?
The same effect with less destruction. Also do like other relationships, let the game go with a friend, or a friend of a friend, or a friend of a friend of a friend, or... you get the idea.
Ftaghn To You Too: All in all, falling that much in love with a fictional character is a bit worrying.
Sadly, billions of people all over this planet do just that. It's called religion.
no one cares that you don't believe in god please be quiet your boring
don't make have to break out the " there is no proof he doesn't exist either so your militant atheism is just as invalid as religious beliefs" belt, i will
I think it's strange that someone would admit to all their friends and relatives, even sweet old gran-gran, that they have been maintaining a virtual girlfriend.
Sadly, billions of people all over this planet do just that. It's called religion.
no one cares that you don't believe in god please be quiet your boring
don't make have to break out the " there is no proof he doesn't exist either so your militant atheism is just as invalid as religious beliefs" belt, i will
Clearly you do. Stop being so angry.
(And it's "you're", not "your")
eh i care more than you that you wasted time on that statement, and would prefer you not to do that in the future, rather than you actually caring in god, when you say stuff like that your like one of those people who ask " do you know of Jesus our lord and savior".
ace_of_something: I think it's strange that someone would admit to all their friends and relatives, even sweet old gran-gran, that they have been maintaining a virtual girlfriend.
It's Japan, they have giant robots, and while we argue if iOS is better or not than Android they're using "cellphones" connected directly to their brains. Sometimes a few dinosaurs from Australia invade their country, but their robots always destroy the damn animals. In other words: this guy made a mistake, cause that ex is going to take her consciousness inside an android (not the phone), and have some sweet revenge on the happy couple.
no one cares that you don't believe in god please be quiet your boring
don't make have to break out the " there is no proof he doesn't exist either so your militant atheism is just as invalid as religious beliefs" belt, i will
Clearly you do. Stop being so angry.
(And it's "you're", not "your")
eh i care more than you that you wasted time on that statement, and would prefer you not to do that in the future, rather than you actually caring in god, when you say stuff like that your like one of those people who ask " do you know of Jesus our lord and savior".
For the second time: it's "you're like", not "your like".
Nihlus2: This sounds like the prologue to a bad horror movie. Only thing missing is the blow from the hammer short circuiting the game, making the virtual girl sentient, then setting out on a quest of vengeance.
Hm. Go watch Wreck-It Ralph and then read this article again. :P
More seriously, what she forced him to do was definitely wrong. She put him on the spot in front of everyone at their wedding to break a game (while crying) that he clearly really enjoyed. Even if it was strange that he treated it as a virtual girlfriend, she handled it in the worst possible way.
eh i care more than you that you wasted time on that statement, and would prefer you not to do that in the future, rather than you actually caring in god, when you say stuff like that your like one of those people who ask " do you know of Jesus our lord and savior".
For the second time: it's "you're like", not "your like".
eh i care more than you that you wasted time on that statement, and would prefer you not to do that in the future, rather than you actually caring in god, when you say stuff like that your like one of those people who ask " do you know of Jesus our lord and savior".
For the second time: it's "you're like", not "your like".
Different guys.
OT: This is no sillier than dozens of other weird things people decide to do at their weddings. The idea that you should make your wedding day unique in some way (and/or express yourself through it) seems to be increasingly popular. Getting married dressed as zombies, having the rings delivered by an owl, and cakes shaped like video game characters are all pretty run-of-the-mill now.
I have to smile a little bit that the reason many people give for going mad on their wedding day is, "Well, you only get to do it once!" A third of marriages in the UK (and half in the USA) end in divorce. So it's not too unlikely that you'll get a chance to do this all over again. ;)