Man marries video game character

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I'm all for marrying the one you love, but this is ridiculous.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/ma ... s-vid.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/24/fo ... e-fir.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/25/vi ... ing-a.html

Look at all 3 in order for continuity in the story.

Yeah I had been hearing about this story from a site I visit. The particular site I use has been mentioning a lot of the effects of the game, some mariages have even almost failed, their really is some obsession over this. Even though the person who created the personality is as far from the character as possible.

lol, while I admit this is funny, I honestly don't see anything wrong with it. I mean lots of people say they find love in things like animals, plants, and even objects (like children with toys) because they can't get that same feeling of love from other humans. I say if it makes them happy, then it's perfectly OK.

The documentry I am watching right now on tv couldn't be more ironic for me, it is on some Aspergers people, more specificly those who love certain objects. I guess I feel my will against it slipping, I kind of sympathise with it on a level now.

Still we are told we are not suposed to like non humans, and many people might see this as escapism. There is a fair amount of hate for otaku who do this sort of thing, it especialy feels kind of creepy when full grown adult men set themselves with some sort of date for underage characters.

Well this is the way I see it: Humans are creatures that crave love and attention. Even humans that act like loners that don't want to hang around anybody want love, but they either can't or don't know how to get love from the people around them. A lot of times our fellow humans can either ignore or just be downright cruel to us for no reason, and for people that have experienced that with people who were suppose to be important in their lives (like family, spouses, teachers, friends, etc), it just seems like no other human can be trusted to share love. But since humans still want love, they will find other things to give love to. That's why you have people like the lonely old lady across the street with a million cats, or the shy little boy who is obsessed with teddybears and spends all his time playing with toys instead of kids his own age. I mean I'm not a psychiatrist, but I think it's perfectly OK and understandable why some people will transfer their love to animals and toys more then other people.

But that feels kind of sad, well not necessary how it sounds. I mean most people want someone who will love them back willingly, some feel that objects can truly feel and a choice. I remember myself feeling really attached to some pokemon I had raised in an old gameboy, I felt quite attached to them, I wasn't in love with them, but they felt like friends. My cousin deleted my game when they asked if they borrow it when we were on a road trip, it felt like my friends had just been killed, but should I call my cousin a murderer?

I once or still do have a game called Monster Rancher, in it you could put CDs and could have rare monsters. They felt like they had a personality, and personal customisation, I admitidly felt they were like friends, and how acted would make them like me, their health and fighting prowers. Though there were some parts that hit me hard, when I sent my friend out for training, they might get attacked and become gravily ill, and nothing felt more awefull that something I put so much energy In would always die. Or at other times I could play the game and after a length of time it might turn off without saving, and when I turned it on it is like time with them never exised, or that I am with someone differencet and the one I knew no longer exists.

Thinking a little bit since I started writing this reply, it would probably pain me to much to truthely feel a game character should be loved. I think I can run a mental list of unique game characters that I have thought fondly of, that now no longer exist due to deletion or damage. It would be easy for me to say that people could care for a digital character, but I feel kind of better thinking my past digital friends never existed.

Heh, you know the funny thing is I kind of get attached to the characters I make in video games like Oblivion and Fallout 3, but the character is always a complete copy of myself with the same name, only they can do things like fire spells and shoot guns. Still I get attached to "myself" as a character and I like him to accomplish things and have his own story, and experience bad things so I can sympathize with him.

Still it's weird, because the character is suppose to be me, am I just a very conceded person?

I grow attached, but i don't marry them.

All I can say is "umm o'kayyy"

i think this was mentioned in Revalations somewhere right before the part about the world ending.

Not wanting to seem xenophobic or racist but, only in Japan.

Oh my... I think he actually got sucked into the videogame and saw a prettiest woman created by man in screen, how the heck would that marriage work out? what happens if he fails one level? would that mean an instant divorce... I'm so sorry but this I personally thought was funny.

But seriously, thats actually pretty scary... I feel sorry for him though... bless him.

But I have to say, at least hes happy with his life congratulations to him