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    The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game

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    Image of Grinman Grinman
    11/23/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    Only in Japan.
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    Image of InsidiousTuna InsidiousTuna
    11/24/09

    @Grinman: Nope! Guam. Geographically close-ish to Japan, though.
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    Image of Grinman Grinman
    11/25/09

    @InsidiousTuna: Well played!
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    Image of Jonn Jonn
    11/23/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    His wife? A dating sim.
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    Image of Cookiecat Cookiecat
    11/23/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    This sort of thing really makes me ponder the differences between males and females. For starters, if there are 50:50 male/female ratio in the world, why is there all this absurd competition over women that leads men to do this sort of thing? (I highly doubt if this guy would be doing this if he had a chance to score with a real woman). We see these articles about men doing desperate things like marrying mannequins and virtual girls, but if men/women were equal wouldn't we expect to see the same thing happen in reverse?

    Can anyone chime in on this Love Plus game with regards to how complex the AI actually is?
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    Showmeyomoves! promoted this comment Edited by Cookiecat at 11/23/09 2:09 AM Cookiecat was starred Cookiecat was unstarred
    Image of Purplepotato Purplepotato
    11/22/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    Gay people can't get married but you can marry a virtual character? What kind of world do we live in?
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    Image of misc.insanity misc.insanity
    11/22/09

    @Purplepotato: agh someone promote this.
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    Image of Blore07 Blore07
    11/23/09

    @misc.insanity: done as done.
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    Image of Jonn Jonn
    11/23/09

    @Purplepotato: Speaking as a Christian, that's a very good point.
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    Image of Bakamoichigei Bakamoichigei
    11/22/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    Wow, you know... That's pretty damned progressive, considering most of the United States won't let you marry another PERSON if they're the same gender. :P
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    Image of epy0nkaru epy0nkaru
    11/22/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    this is extremely unfortunate. not that he's married a videogame, but that he's probably gotten more action than me within this last year

    *sigh*
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    Image of Kaminari Kaminari
    11/22/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game

     
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    Image of NeVeRMoRe666 NeVeRMoRe666
    11/22/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    Different (DS) strokes for different folks?

    I'm convinced this is some insanely clever viral marketing. I want to try out this game now...
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    Image of Polite Society Polite Society
    11/22/09

    @NeVeRMoRe666: it seems likely, especially with the press invited thing. if it's not marketing for the game, it's almost definitely an attention seeking gambit of some kind.
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    Image of Charonchan Charonchan
    11/23/09

    @Polite Society: You clearly haven't spent much time on niconico. I've learned not to underestimate their userbase.
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    Showmeyomoves! promoted this comment Edited by Charonchan at 11/23/09 2:35 AM Charonchan was starred Charonchan was unstarred
    Image of VIVIsectVI VIVIsectVI
    11/22/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    I don't know how he will consummate his relationship (and would rather not) but whatever floats his boat. The sad thing is that he is dooming himself to a relationship with something that can never love him back. If he ever meets an actual women, he will have to explain that he is already married... To a video game. The divorce might get messy. Imagine, losing half your possessions to a video game. His new girlfriend might have to plot to kill her instead. How durable is a DS cartridge?
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    Image of KingSeafoam KingSeafoam
    11/22/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    Suddenly, the chapel doors break open in the middle of their vows only to reveal another DS dating sim, a guy version, on the floor.

    It shouts; "STOP THE WEDDING!!! Nene, I love you, I always have!"

    The bride Nene DS stutters to her groom; "I-I'm sorry. I love him." And so it falls out of his hands and slides on the floor and out the chapel doors along with the other DS.

    All of DS Nene's family side hand-helds power off in a pitiful shame.

    The grooms family side seating had always been empty.

    The press, have a story.

    we, all laugh.
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    Image of Fabrice Fabrice
    11/22/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    I hope she turns into a whore in the sequel.
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    Image of InconspicuouslyConspicuous InconspicuouslyConspicuous
    11/22/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    I'm actually stunned from reading the article itself and not the source...

    This is actually pretty saddening... I can't begin to imagine how this is possible... I'm sorry I just can't.
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    Image of dhimango dhimango
    11/23/09

    @InconspicuouslyConspicuous: try harder :P
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    Image of Dallas Peterson Dallas Peterson
    11/21/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    So, and this line of thinking was completely brought on by my fiancee Joy, not my original though (she forced me to say that), but, does that make every other player of Love Plus that has selected this girl committing adultery?

    I explained to Joy that the game doesn't connect to the internet, and therefore doesn't communicate with other instances of the game; each copy of the game contains an identical, although separate, copy of this girl's programming.

    She argued, even if they don't communicate, the digital coding, on the binary level, in each copy of the game for this girl, is exactly the same; essentially making this girl and every other player of the game who has chosen her an adulterer. Ever watch Ghost in the Shell? I'm fully aware that this girl lacks self-consciousness, but for argument's sake, there could conceivably at some point in the future arise a conflict in precedent based on this event. Discuss.
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    Image of RagingWolf RagingWolf
    11/22/09

    @Dallas Peterson: I'm pretty sure a discussion about something like this would end with everybody getting brain cancer.
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    Image of NeVeRMoRe666 NeVeRMoRe666
    11/22/09

    @Dallas Peterson: Well, ethical issues aside, if everyone married a clone of Angelina Jolie, would the Angelina clone be committing adultery?

    I don't think so.
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    Image of bobtheduck in Korea bobtheduck in Korea
    11/22/09

    @Dallas Peterson: Twins = clones. Does that mean that if two twins get married to different people, that they're polygamists / polyandrists?

    No. Know why? Because they're different people... I use the same line on clones. Clones are different people, they're not the same people. They're just based on the same stock, that's all. They'll be incredibly similar, but not exactly the same because, at the very least, their experiences are different.

    As for this, this is just a gigantic joke for now. In 50 years, there will probably be legal marriages to AIs accepted worldwide or nearly so.
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    Image of tyrannotaur tyrannotaur
    11/21/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    His parents must be so proud...
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    Image of hazelnut hazelnut
    11/21/09

    In reply to The One About the Guy Who Married a Video Game
    Unlike most married couples. At least he can turn on his wife whenever he feels like it.
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    Image of Tuor_of_Gondolin Tuor_of_Gondolin
    11/21/09

    @hazelnut: Unlike most married couples, at least he can turn his wife *off* whenever he feels like it. :P
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