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Other Things => Off The Wall => Topic started by: Strider Xhaiden on November 25, 2009, 04:27:09 PM
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Found this on Yahoo!
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Japanese man marries virtual girlfriend [DS]
Wednesday November 25, 01:06 PM
A Japanese gamer has taken the highly unusual step of ‘marrying’ his videogame sweetheart, in what must have been a very bizarre ceremony recently.
The gamer, known only as Sal9000, is a big fan of the Nintendo DS romance ‘em up, ‘Love Plus’, in which players attempt to woo their digital paramours with flowers, lavish dates and such. The behaviour of these in-game girlfriends then changes dependent on how they’re treated. Ah, so true!
Ahem, anyway, Sal9000’s pretend romance came to a frankly worrying conclusion when he eventually plighted his troth to his silicon ladyfriend – a modest lass named ‘Nene Anegasaki’ – during a ceremony overseen by an actual priest and witnessed by dozens of onlookers at a recent technology festival in Tokyo.
Heck knows how Sal9000 is now planning to consummate the marriage – perhaps that’s the substance of an especially twisted Love Plus minigame. However the priest involved has since stated that the ceremony was neither official nor legally-binding. In any case the marriage, such as it is, is likely to end in disappointment, as it turns out that Sal9000 is something of a ladykiller when it comes to digital girlfriends. By all accounts he has a string of similar romances already behind him.
Hmmm, well, there’s a name for chaps like that. Either way, the words ‘only’, ‘in’ and ‘Japan’ are springing all too readily to mind...
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saw it yesterday on screwattack....had a good time laughing
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Japan is becoming a lot like Baskin-Robbins, I must say.
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Japan is becoming a lot like Baskin-Robbins, I must say.
Your Haunter avatar reflects my mood, minus the caption toward this.
Baskin-Robbins marry virtual people too!? o-O
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Baskin-Robbins marry virtual people too!? o-O
yes
I'm sure someone knows their slogan.
"Where wonders never cease"?
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*cue Shaggy voice* Like, do you know what the [parasitic bomb] is going on in that guy's mind, Scoob?
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What is this I don't even
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Blog post (http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/24/footage-from-the-fir.html) | Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsikPswAYUM)
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Holy damn. This opens up a whole new world for Sub Tank, Asena, Quickie, Rad, me and pretty much every other artist out there.
WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN WIVES/HUSBANDS
POWER TO US!
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We hit the jackpot.
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They´ll get divorsed soon...she will find a better player soon
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Old.
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What a world we live in.. like that time Obama made a random turkey the first bird.
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WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN WIVES/HUSBANDS
The fundies are going to love this.
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wat? you and your crazy post edits.. dern kids these days..
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wat? you and your crazy post edits.. dern kids these days..
Oh, no. You found my extraneous closing quote tag. I DID IT. I WAS THE ONE WHO [EXPUNGED].
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This isn't exactly new. Wasn't it like a year or so ago where a group of otaku who wanted to marry anime characters tried to make it legal? Eventually, this expanded into video game characters too.
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This isn't exactly new.
My apologies. I don't exactly keep my finger on the pulse of internet news.
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Holy damn. This opens up a whole new world for Sub Tank, Asena, Quickie, Rad, me and pretty much every other artist out there.
WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN WIVES/HUSBANDS
POWER TO US!
Please don't. I weep for you if you lose your virginity to a DRAWING. Then again, WHY THE [tornado fang] NOT?
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(http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/8735/e37107b71c8c4b4812e6adc.jpg)
I was gonna post that picture of a guy with like 12 copies running at the same time but I seem to have deleted it. D: I'm silly.
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THAT PIC! JESUS CHRIST!
I'm going to have nightmares now. ;___;
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THAT PIC! JESUS CHRIST!
I'm going to have nightmares now. ;___;
What, the Lapras? Why?
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Oh my fricking god, this is creepy.
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(http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/8735/e37107b71c8c4b4812e6adc.jpg)
I was gonna post that picture of a guy with like 12 copies running at the same time but I seem to have deleted it. D: I'm silly.
[tornado fang], that is so [tornado fang]ing creepy. *shudders*
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Please don't. I weep for you if you lose your virginity to a DRAWING. Then again, WHY THE [tornado fang] NOT?
Wouldn't that actually be a piece of paper? Who the heck would consider having sex with a piece of paper? People who never heard of paper cuts. That's who!
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Wouldn't that actually be a piece of paper? Who the heck would consider having sex with a piece of paper? People who never heard of paper cuts. That's who!
Oh boy, I shouldnt have given myself that mental thought.
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You guys just can't properly appreciate moe, that's all.
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haha... this reminds me of another case involving Love Plus.
A man has apparently narrowly avoided divorce after being accused of adultery by his wife, after she discovered his virtual relationships with three schoolgirls.
The story begins with the anonymous husband accidentally leaving his camera bag (for he worked with cameras) at home one day. It so happened he hid his DS in this bag.
His dutiful wife was cleaning the house and noticed a light coming from the bag; thinking it to be a camera left on, she thought to tell her husband of his mistake, but instead discovered the light came from one of the girls of Love Plus, who require regular attention.
His wife stated that at this moment she “felt as if she had discovered the existence of an affair,” and is infuriated by the very memory of the “adulteresses” she found there.
Enraged, she confiscated the console and demanded a full explanation of the game, and the unfortunate husband had to describe the details of his various dates and after-school skinship with the girls of the title.
Later she would go so far as to convene her lady friends together to work out what to do. They played the game, and thought little of it until coming upon Nene, whom they judged a real threat to the couple’s marriage.
Soon they judged the husband guilty of adultery with the game, and took away his DS to sell, with the wife keeping the cash. He was subsequently forced to promise to pay for a New Year’s vacation in order to make amends.
He states he is just glad she did not divorce him.
The wife’s friends were spurred into action by the threatening prospect of losing their breadwinners to 2D schoolgirls, and initiated searches, catching three husbands engaged in this “adultery.”
One, it is said, meekly admitted the charges and handed over the game.
Another lost the game and had his pocket money reduced by his wife.
The other man was actually caught red-handed “kissing” his girl, and had his ROM destroyed on the spot, and was banned from the bedroom to boot.
The unfortunate narrator parts by wishing all those secretly playing Love Plus the best of luck.
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I would say this is getting out of control, but it got ou tof control once people decided to make school girl outfits.
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[schoolgirls and such]
Those stupid wimminz; it's just video games.
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(stuff involving a dating sim game)
Wow, they went too far with the dating simulaitor concept, didin't they?
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Thank you for this thread. XD *adds to list*
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This has got to be one of the saddest yet most amusing posts I ever read. XD
I can't believe some women would feel so threatened, that they would call their husbands playing a dating game 'adultery'. Guess some are just overly paranoid?
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Two words: divorce papers. 8D