Clearly false. Rumors at least need to be believable to be juicy or funny in more than a random wtf way.
I lol'd at the story. I hit on girls in WoW but not for serious. Half the time it's probably a dude anyway. Like when I'm on my female avatar and mess with them...
I don't see why this is funny or crazy or lame at all
the man was engaging in emotional relationships with people other than his wife.
show of hands, who would be upset if their monogamous partner was having cyber sex? compound that, pretend you met your partner having cyber sex as well.
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I find the situation a bit crazy because they met on second life as well as the cheating take place on it. Also, it's a situation that would be quite strange to me in non-internet-based life as well. But as I said it is to be expected and will just increase over the next few years, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though maybe slightly frightening in some ways.
Its just some guy cheating on his wife in the same way he met her.
The internet side of it is interesting, but less so when you see the research that talks about people's personal identity and interpersonal development that goes on via mmorpg video games. Everyone always gets up in arms when I say this (because they think it doesn't apply to them, silly ducks), but people cannot distinguish fantasy from reality.
The cracked list is cool. I remember reading something off of... oh man, I can't even remember it now, but some Blizzard fansite (probably pushing 10 years ago now), about someone who was making so much money playing Diablo 2 that their father thought they had gotten involved in criminal activity (he said he got something like 2 grand in a 2-3 week period). I don't know, it always seemed inevitable to me that these fantasy worlds would become centrally important in a lot of people's lives. LOL, the times where you see internet anonymity cross with the personal investment people have in their characters are interesting. I remember a story from my EverQuest days about a man (who largely had no life outside the game) killed himself because a supposed "friend" and long time acquaintance in the game had stole or ripped him off for a considerable amount of stuff.
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I don't know if it is that much about distinguishing fantasy from reality. Especially since MMORPGs aren't all fantasy, it's massively community based as well.
My suspicion however is that people will go "OMFG, thats crazy, divorce over some game". Maybe it isn't the reality/fantasy blur, but I was trying to think of an easy way to say that most people aren't aware of how personally and socially important an integrative mmorpgs and video games in general are, or how much of a part of our "real lives" supposedly "fake lives" can become.
I guess for a group of people who tend to frequent an internet message board this is probably not revolutionary.
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Why? It's obviously cheating to both of them (on top of it he apparently said he doesn't feel for her anymore and pursues his new "love" now, so, that at least is enough reason, imo).
So if your partner was engaging in romantic and sexual relationships over a chat room you would have no problem? (assuming you are a fan of monogamy)
If the call girl was an in game thing, ya, thats weird, however, I've heard of girls who get pissed if their boyfriend watches porn (which is ****ing retarded).
I agree it is a stupid reason to get a divorce. But I would say that having an affair is a stupid reason to get a divorce. I agree with your earlier sentiment though, this is more likely just the straw that broke the camels back. The article says the man told the woman he no longer loved her, and that seems like a damn good reason for a divorce.
EDIT: just saw your point where you mention the not being in love thing
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