Man Marries Video Game Character
 

Man marries a videogame - Plugged In - Yahoo! Games

YouTube - First-ever marriage between man and videogame character in Japan: Nintendo DS "Love Plus"




Talk about lonely...

....................................*facepalm*

*Plays another round of Russian Roulette*

that is so awesome!! i now have unlimitless respect for that man!!!!
god, if only more people took to the stand like that
i want a DS now just so i can have that game

............are you serious?

you have no idea...
that man has gone and broken through a barrier.. we all love our virtual relationships.. i really want that game so i can have one
you get to create your character to your specifications ..who wouldn't want that?

you are conversing with me over a computer.. now imagine that instead of being a human computer (which we all are.. it's really obvious, we have data storage and computational processors and an operating system) we replaced me with a simulated person which mimicked a real person to the dime... how would that be any different?

Do androids dream of electric sheep?
:rheart:

...Wow i feel as if I'm the ugliest guy in the world yet i wouldn't go that far.

[Insert the name of the hot female anime character] IS MY WIFE!!!!

but you have different settings, so it wouldn't actually be his wife unless you got every one of those correct.. and if i were him, that would be flattering to me

that's messed up...
even the most advanced a.i. in the world is still just that: artificial.
if you were replaced with a simulated person which mimicked you to the dime how would that be any different?
well... you've answered your question right there, the simulated person is simply mimicking.
computers act based on human programming, it's just a bunch of 1's and 0's.

maybe one day when Harrison Ford comes to hunt down escaped replicants I'll change my mind about this.

but until then, androids only dream of electric sheep if they're ordered to.

I think you may be mistaking Love Plus for some other game, as the characters are already set. They`re not "make your own perfect girl". The only bit that you really change is your in-game "character"... setting day schedules and leveling up as a boyfriend. As you level up your in-game persona, the girl will sort of go along with the stuff you like, etc, as she is supposed to be desperately in love with you.

You don`t change settings and make a girl of your liking.

This guy has obviously broken new grounds with this. He's downright defied the laws of Science. I'm going to follow in his footsteps. I'm going to find a copy of Death Note, and get married to Misa Misa tomorrow. I shall be the first person to be wedded to a DVD.

Well, well, well.... it's a Jerry Springer moment.

Three words: Seek professional help.

I was wondering...if he turns the DS off does that count as murder?

Or if it shuts itself down, is that suicide?

:eek:

Am I psychic or is this like.. old news?

He married her on Sunday.

There was another man who told his wife he was cheating on her with a virtual character a few months back.

Wow, how can he even legally marry something that's not even real?! This guy has some issues.

Lol, omg that's so funny. It does seem like that's as close as it gets. He better hope he never forgets to charge his DS! I wonder if he's going to get insurance on his "wife" now....

If he had trouble with the ladies before I would think he's only made it worse now. If he were to divorce and then hook up with a real girl, what would she think when she found out his ex wasn't real? Would she feel jealous about her looks or would she run at the first chance she got, lol?

LOOLL
f'ing win.

what i was saying was that if we can replicate *human thought process*, not just human actions why would you not want such a machine?

Much agreed. It seems the immaturity of the world's government, and media has had a negitive impact on society...

It is rather sad...

~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~

Sure it would be cool, I'd love a machine like that. but not as a replacement for a human partner.

the guy married a character on a friggin nintendo ds...
He clearly has serious social issues, and is probably quite depressed inside. In all likelihood he has never been in a real relationship, and never felt what that's like.

That's why I think this is wrong. If this guy was actually really popular with the ladies and has decided to throw that all away for a game character then what the hell, go for it.
But the truth is most likely that he fell back on this game because he couldn't deal with real girls.
And that's why it's a sad story.

It's depressing me!! I'm leaving this thread!! T.T

lol...but yes...and like Salvanas said before...people just don't know where to draw the line. You're right, RKitagawa, he does have some major issues, and those can be heavily influenced by what you use to cope with those issues. So we can assume that the guy used his DS to cope, and eventually felt that void in his heatr filled...leading to him wanting something more...

from what filled his heart in the first place...

That's sad...

~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~

it's just adaptation.. idk what you all are talking about with "the line" and drawing it, but it makes no sense ... most of the modern day normalities were once "behind the line"
like these:
abortion
showing of cleavage in public by women
showing of arms in public by women
showing of ankles in public by women
piercings
tattoos
premarital sex
outsourcing
condoms
cremation
homosexual relations
bestiality (this one is also still in the works.. throwing my weight behind that one as well)
catalytic converters
non tetraflouride coolants in refrigerators
small engines in small cars
women in the workplace
etc.

This is a different premise.
But...

To each his own I suppose...*shrugs*

~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~

IamKira
I don't see how any of the things you just mentioned have anything to do with this topic...

and wait....... did you just say that you support bestiality??

my point is that which we act on as the norm today were considered to be across the line during past decades
just as this will inevitably be accepted in the future and we will be looked upon the same as those who suppressed women's right to abortion or divorce etc.

eh...
abortion, divorce, premarital sex, showin' some skin in public... etc... these are all quite a bit different than getting married to a DS. I understand where you're coming from but I couldn't possibly imagine this ever being accepted as a perfectly normal thing to do.
but whatever, I think I've made my point. Do yourself a favor and don't follow in this guys footsteps.

.........................*shrugs*

This makes me wanna burn my DS.

well hey if it makes him happy.....

Personally, I have a different take on this.

Ever since the game came out, there has been a sort of "competition" going on to outdo other players. It`s become a bit of a net meme. It started with love letters, moved on to birthday cakes, then birthday shrines, then decorating your whole room, then to real life "dates" (taking it out to eat with you, etc), then pretend weddings, etc etc...

Of course, ALL with huge numbers of pictures, and posted to the same place to try to outdo everyone else and get some notoriety.
I don`t think this "wedding" is really any different. The guy had the money to outdo everyone else. It`s become almost a bit of a sport, really, and is far more social than you`d think at first glance.

The "wedding", regardless of how "real" looking it was made to be is not a real wedding, as you cannot marry inanimate objects. He isn`t married, he`s a single guy who took part in a pretend wedding. And currently he`s the "winner" in the great sport of showing off how much money you`re willing to waste for net notoriety in relation to Love Plus.

That's sad, but hilarious at the same time o_O

Wow...

Now that in itself is sad...

To be so lost in a subject that you wanna outdo everyone else, and take things to whole new level when they don't need to be taken there...Hadn't thought about it that way...

~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~

Possible solution: let the government or cellphone companies run matchmaking services.

Damn... now I really feel like a loser

Isn't that true of everything, though? Whether it is sports, business, art, etc. the desire to outdo everyone else is much more healthy than the opposite.