http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/14/second.life.divorce/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/14/second.life.divorce/index.html)
A British couple who married in a lavish Second Life wedding ceremony are to divorce after one of them had an alleged "affair" in the online world.
Second Life users can interact and form relationships with other players' avatars.
Second Life users can interact and form relationships with other players' avatars.
Amy Taylor, 28, said she had caught husband David Pollard, 40, having sex with an animated woman. The couple, who met in an Internet chatroom in 2003, are now separated.
"I went mad -- I was so hurt. I just couldn't believe what he'd done," Taylor told the Western Morning News. "It may have started online, but it existed entirely in the real world and it hurts just as much now it is over."
Second Life allows users to create alter egos known as "avatars" and interact with other players, forming relationships, holding down jobs and trading products and services for a virtual currency convertible into real life dollars.
Taylor said she had caught Pollard's avatar having sex with a virtual prostitute: "I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character. It's cheating as far as I'm concerned."
The couple's real-life wedding in 2005 was eclipsed by a fairy tale ceremony held within Second Life.
But Taylor told the Western Morning News she had subsequently hired an online private detective to track his activities: "He never did anything in real life, but I had my suspicions about what he was doing in Second Life." iReport.com: Anger in a virtual world
Pollard admitted having an online relationship with a "girl in America" but denied wrongdoing. "We weren't even having cyber sex or anything like that, we were just chatting and hanging out together," he told the Western Morning News.
Taylor is now in a new relationship with a man she met in the online roleplaying game World of Warcraft.
Stupid Interwebs ;D
wow, just wow
wait that article wasn't that well written..but let me get this straight.
The last part of the article says they were married in REAL LIFE.
The first part says they are also married in SECOND LIFE.
He cheated on her in SECOND LIFE.
and she divorced him in REAL LIFE.
WHAT THE make the beast with two backs. ???
Quote from: He Man on November 15, 2008, 01:12:45 PM
wait that article wasn't that well written..but let me get this straight.
The last part of the article says they were married in REAL LIFE.
The first part says they are also married in SECOND LIFE.
He cheated on her in SECOND LIFE.
and she divorced him in REAL LIFE.
WHAT THE make the beast with two backs. ???
And that is why I titled this LAME.
Seems like people with so little of a life really should not team up.
Quote from: lethe on November 15, 2008, 02:14:09 PM
And that is why I titled this LAME.
Seems like people with so little of a life really should not team up.
I'm all for it. It keeps them away from us normals.
Quote from: somebastid on November 15, 2008, 02:15:59 PM
I'm all for it. It keeps them away from us normals.
Don't you go lumping me in with normal people...
I'm offended. ;D
Quote from: ducpainter on November 15, 2008, 02:17:10 PM
Don't you go lumping me in with normal people...
I'm offended. ;D
The DMF was created to keep you away, too ;D
Quote from: somebastid on November 15, 2008, 02:18:38 PM
The DMF was created to keep you away, too ;D
didn't work too good....
Quote from: somebastid on November 15, 2008, 02:18:38 PM
The DMF was created to keep you away, too ;D
I like to come here and visit you weird people, it's like going to the zoo.
Quote from: lethe on November 15, 2008, 02:24:19 PM
I like to come here and visit you weird people, it's like going to the zoo.
Pots....
kettles....
check.
Quote from: ducpainter on November 15, 2008, 02:26:19 PM
Pots....
kettles....
check.
Nah, I just am fluent in crazy speak so I can blend in.
I'm really quite dull.
Quote from: lethe on November 15, 2008, 02:28:00 PM
Nah, I just am fluent in crazy speak so I can blend in.
I'm really quite dull.
If you say so....
Quote from: ducpainter on November 15, 2008, 02:35:29 PM
If you say so....
And I'll keep saying it until I believe it.
Quote from: lethe on November 15, 2008, 02:38:00 PM
And I'll keep saying it until I believe it.
You do that...
because everyone that has ever met you knows...
otherwise.
Quote from: lethe on November 15, 2008, 04:45:03 AM
Taylor is now in a new relationship with a man she met in the online roleplaying game World of Warcraft.
that.
Is.
AWESEOM!!!! [laugh]
Quote from: teddy037.2 on November 15, 2008, 05:46:50 PM
that.
Is.
AWESEOM!!!! [laugh]
[bang] for real's.... er.... for second life?? Oh heck I'm confused, the dumb have confounded me again.
Quote from: lethe on November 15, 2008, 02:28:00 PM
Nah, I just am fluent in crazy speak so I can blend in.
I'm really quite dull.
Says the guy who eagerly licked a toaster which had previously had balls in contact with it.
How make the beast with two backsing normal does that sound??
[cheeky]
Okay, back on topic.
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3d_fqDcN1s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3d_fqDcN1s)
^ [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Quote from: Rameses on November 16, 2008, 09:57:30 AM
Says the guy who eagerly licked a toaster which had previously had balls in contact with it.
How make the beast with two backsing normal does that sound??
[cheeky]
It's sounds quite dull and normal in comparison to other things I've done.
One of my students is a computer geek and he was telling me about this 2nd life thing the other day. OMG, REALLY?????
Just go out and meet REAL LIVE PEOPLE for crying out loud...
Quote from: River on November 16, 2008, 08:14:34 PM
One of my students is a computer geek and he was telling me about this 2nd life thing the other day. OMG, REALLY?????
Just go out and meet REAL LIVE PEOPLE for crying out loud...
Instead of hanging out with people you'll never see?
Btw, hi!