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Quake Wedding

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-PR-stunt dept.

Nom Anor writes "A couple from South America is going to celebrate their wedding today... on a Quake2 server! The bride and groom will say "I do" as the male and female grunt models inside a Quake 2 Battlegrounds server to be hosted by M-Web's Gamezone, a popular South African gaming work. The judge will preside over the ceremony through his computer in his Cape Town home. "

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  1. Geographically Correct? by p.oshea · · Score: 3

    I know I don't post very often, and that maybe I don't have the "right" to say what gets posted, and how... but I am, if nothing else, disappointed in the lack of "journalistic" integrity that I see here on /.. Just the fact that something such as South America and South Africa could slip by someone so intelligent and caring as CmdrTaco is quite apauling. I know the he didn't write this in, but he did post it after all. Between this, and what I had noticed the other day, as did many other TTYquake fans(see this link if you don't know what I mean) (=, just makes me sad to see something so un-proofread as this posted to a place that so many people read and regard as fact, not fiction. Oh well. maybe someone doesn't care since he is making all of that money now.

    Pz,
    p

  2. Re:Legality..... by powerlord · · Score: 5

    Well... I haven't actually gone through this (but i've seen it done a thousand times...)

    The real issue is the marrige license (at least here in the US).
    That needs the signatures of all involved (judge/clergy, bride, groom, witnesses). Outside of that everything else is really just ceremony. If the bride & groom sign the marrige license, the witnesses sign it, and then something happens and the wedding itself doesnt happen, so long as someone files the license, it doesnt matter (in the eyes of the courts... in the eyes of your mother-in-law you had better have a ceremony :)

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  3. Re:Heh -- you beat me to the draw! by Sun+Tzu · · Score: 3

    "If anyone knows of any reason why these two should not be joined, let him speak now or forever hold his peace."

    At which point, a pregnant young lady steps from behind a column with a shotgun and unfastened body armor...

    ;)

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  6. Thoughts... by belgin · · Score: 3
    Did the set up a patch so that they can throw pieces of wedding cake at each other?

    Any danger of the minister getting fragged mid-sermon?

    How much do you want to bet that somebody crashes it?

    Notice how this is considered worthy of posting on Slashdot as its own article, rather than a quickie? It says something about the Slashdot audience... I don't know exactly what, but something.

    B. Elgin

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