Can You Get Virtual Chlamydia?

  Hey look!  A virtual prostitute!  From Second Life, the game where you make an avatar and do THE SAME SHIT YOU DO IN YOUR DAILY LIFE, go to work, drive cars, etc.  It's like a multiplayer online  Sims basically.  Also, it's boring as shit.  I love online games like Warcraft, but that's because I get to cast spells and throw fireballs and massacre monsters.  In Second Life you can...I dunno...drive a Hummer?

You know what you can also do apparently?  Bang a prostitute and get divorced from your real life wife.  That's what this one dude did.  Now, keep in mind, he had met his wife playing Second Life, they fell in love, got married (even had an in game ceremony)* and then he banged another player's avatar and his wife left him.  You can read all about this fuckery in this article. 

Look.  I play a lot of video games.  And I'm lucky that my husband also plays a lot of video games.  If not, yes it might cause some strain in our relationship.  But it doesn't.  We are fortunate.  But my husband and I also function in the REAL WORLD.  We have flesh and blood friends and family, a very active social calendar, jobs and plenty of extracurricular activities.  It takes stories like this to remind me just how normal we actually are when it comes to this stuff.

Because frankly, I think meeting someone in an online community and then ACTUALLY meeting them and dating them is weird.  It's creepy.  I'm not talking about dating sites.  Those are fine (even though the one time I used one my friend and I ended up getting drugged).  Anydaterape, there are people I play Warcraft with that I have fun "questing" and chatting with online.  But I have about zero desire to know anything about these people or ever meet them.  Because then where is the fun?  When you think of your friend Elvenfingerbang, you don't wanna know his politics, religious views, sexual history or that he likes long walks on the beach.  You wanna crack jokes and blow up bad guys.

Now I do admit that the people I've been playing with for awhile I know a couple of their real first names or that they might have kids or whatever.  Small talk stuff.  But you best believe I'm not meeting up with any of them to type "/serenade" or "/makeout."....Is that the lamest joke I've ever made?  I don't know.  I mean I guess it could be.  Eh, it's probably not the worst.

So   I guess what I'm trying to say is....WOW.  I mean WOAH.  I mean I just can't picture it (Badpie furrows brow, pictures her avatar casting a healing spell on an elf, elf then saying "how YOU doin'?"...Badpie is sad).

*Accidently walked in on a Warcraft wedding in the Chapel one day.  An entire guild of like fifty people were there to watch two of their friends wed.  And I really needed to see the first aid trainer so I had to run right through the middle of it....it was...awkward.

Comments

[Sarie26]

................ANYDATERAPE!

.....................ELVINFINGERBANG!

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I mean, yes, I totally agree.