Man marries a game avatar

Yamota

Read all about it here: edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/16/japan.virtual.wedding/index.html

To be clear this is not a marriage between two PC avatars but rather between a real man and a fictional game avatar (i.e. not controlled by a real person).

Zorvan01

Old news.

However it does bring a new meaning to "cyber sex".

Wonder if she divorces him, his alimony payments will also require supplying the DS with batteries to keep her alive?

Personally, I'm starting to think there needs to be a Great Wall of Japan. Not for their protection, but for ours. Some seriously deranged culture over there. Between their "gameshows", tentacle porn, and  marrying pixels, I'm really afraid for what they will do next.

Yamota

Come on, I agree its deranged stuff but it is mostly harmless. On the positive side Japan produces alot of good stuff as well. Like cars, PS3 and other hightech electronics. Not to mention samurai fiction

VaultFairy

Hmm... I don't know what to say, maybe he is lonely and needs someone to talk too

altairzq

Originally posted by VaultFairy


Hmm... I don't know what to say, maybe he is lonely and needs someone to talk too

 

Yes, marrying an NPC is the solution to that...

shepx22

Hahah yea! That's the solution. He's going around to his friend saying GG.

metalhead980

Hey, at least it will be easy to toss that bitch to the curb after she cheats on him with a Gameboy.

 

 

banshe13

Originally posted by metalhead980


Hey, at least it will be easy to toss that bitch to the curb after she cheats on him with a Gameboy.
 
 

 

beat me to it was gioing to say the same thing. 

Zook81

So did he get the avatar's consent? What if she doesn't want to marry him?

greed0104

Originally posted by metalhead980


Hey, at least it will be easy to toss that bitch to the curb after she cheats on him with a Gameboy.
 
 

 

ewww incest.

arctarus

Chunli here i come!!!

 

 

MMO_Doubter

If you're going to marry a machine, it ought to be a Real Doll.

Zook81

Originally posted by arctarus


Chunli here i come!!!
 
 

 

Id be surprised if someone hasn't married her by now :P

Czzarre

I dont even see how this is 'news',

to me, it falls into the catagory of 'urban legend'

svann

Another reality tv applicant.

Sovrath

Hiroshi Ashizaki, an author who writes about Internet and game addiction, doesn't think Sal 9000 is an extreme case. What is healthy about Sal is that he can communicate with people enough to do an interview on CNN and webcast a half-serious wedding, Ashizaki said.

"There are many others who can't express themselves like Sal can, and those are the cases we worry about," says Ashizaki. What's important to note, Ashizaki says, is that Sal is a representative of many of Japan's young gamers.

"Today's Japanese youth can't express their true feelings in reality. They can only do it in the virtual world," Ashizaki said. "It's the reverse of reality that they can only talk about what they feel to a friend in the virtual world."

That's just so sad.

KingScar

Originally posted by Czzarre


I dont even see how this is 'news',
to me, it falls into the catagory of 'urban legend'

 

How in the HELL would this be considered urban legend? A urban legend is a fairytale,a myth. This is not,you can obviously see that he's a real guy..just....with some "special" fetishes. I wonder if he goes through the headphone or charger hole?

eldanesh117

Originally posted by Sovrath


Hiroshi Ashizaki, an author who writes about Internet and game addiction, doesn't think Sal 9000 is an extreme case. What is healthy about Sal is that he can communicate with people enough to do an interview on CNN and webcast a half-serious wedding, Ashizaki said.
"There are many others who can't express themselves like Sal can, and those are the cases we worry about," says Ashizaki. What's important to note, Ashizaki says, is that Sal is a representative of many of Japan's young gamers.
"Today's Japanese youth can't express their true feelings in reality. They can only do it in the virtual world," Ashizaki said. "It's the reverse of reality that they can only talk about what they feel to a friend in the virtual world."
That's just so sad.

Indeed. I wonder how their culture ended up like that?

Lansid

Originally posted by eldanesh117

Originally posted by Sovrath


Hiroshi Ashizaki, an author who writes about Internet and game addiction, doesn't think Sal 9000 is an extreme case. What is healthy about Sal is that he can communicate with people enough to do an interview on CNN and webcast a half-serious wedding, Ashizaki said.
"There are many others who can't express themselves like Sal can, and those are the cases we worry about," says Ashizaki. What's important to note, Ashizaki says, is that Sal is a representative of many of Japan's young gamers.
"Today's Japanese youth can't express their true feelings in reality. They can only do it in the virtual world," Ashizaki said. "It's the reverse of reality that they can only talk about what they feel to a friend in the virtual world."
That's just so sad.

Indeed. I wonder how their culture ended up like that?

It could be worse, there are cultures that believe Ben Stiller is funny.

133794m3r

old news is well sorta old to me atleast. Talk about a pr stunt is all i gotta say.

werepyre23

we are all different peole so whatever works for him have it i would actually like to congraulate that guy needless to say i would never do it but props for the guy who did

Terranah

So I wonder if he was one of those forum contributors in the "OMG, why do men play female characters?!" posts. 

Aevenath

Brb marrying Lymle from Star Ocean 5... what too young?

Plasuma!!!

Funny that the video talks about the rising trend in digital / internet social interactions, but fails to mention any why of it.

People are repressed by the real world, so they head to digital worlds to escape that. There's a lot more depth to the answer than that, but that's up to you to figure out - mostly to spare you of my terrible lectures - but also because Google is only a jump away at any given time.

VaultFairy

Simiel

Originally posted by Lansid

Originally posted by eldanesh117

Originally posted by Sovrath


Hiroshi Ashizaki, an author who writes about Internet and game addiction, doesn't think Sal 9000 is an extreme case. What is healthy about Sal is that he can communicate with people enough to do an interview on CNN and webcast a half-serious wedding, Ashizaki said.
"There are many others who can't express themselves like Sal can, and those are the cases we worry about," says Ashizaki. What's important to note, Ashizaki says, is that Sal is a representative of many of Japan's young gamers.
"Today's Japanese youth can't express their true feelings in reality. They can only do it in the virtual world," Ashizaki said. "It's the reverse of reality that they can only talk about what they feel to a friend in the virtual world."
That's just so sad.

Indeed. I wonder how their culture ended up like that?

It could be worse, there are cultures that believe Ben Stiller is funny.

 

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