Love in the Time of Pixels

The Escapist has piece, on this Valentine's Day, highlighting a relationship begun in a Virtual World that lead to the real life marriage of the players. From the article: "We think of these places most often as games, but there is much more going on in them than simply play. What we often forget is that any place in which two or more people can interact, whatever else it is, is a communications medium of a certain sort. Connecting via an online world - whether it's Second Life, World of Warcraft, EverQuest or any other - is not different from connecting via a chat room, via Friendster, via telephone or even in the time-honored way people sometimes connect at a party." Have you had any successful online experiences of the online variety (that you're willing to share)?

Comments

but MMORPG

[cyrax777]

Many Males Online role playing Girls!

Re:but MMORPG

[WillAffleckUW]

Many Males Online role playing Girls!

I remember doing that when I was in my late teens and early twenties. It was funny. Of course, back then it was play-by-mail games, and BBS chats. You'd be surprised how many guys propose marriage to people they assume are girls but aren't really such.

I used to roll a die to figure out which gender I was going to play - 1-3 male, 4-6 female - and tried to stay consistent with the persona, even when it started getting a bit silly - good thing most of my female characters had a tendency to kill off unwanted suitors at the drop of a hat.

Re:but MMORPG

[Adriax]

The problem isn't guys roleplaying female characters, it's guys roleplaying female players.

Virtual Worlds vs MMORPGs...

[Jace of Fuse!]

Some people point out that in MMORPGs the women are really men. Generally, this is as we all know true.

But one thing I've noticed about "games" like There is that the more active female players generally really are female.

Well, at least they SOUND like women on the microphone anyway. Still, my point is generally that there seems to be a major difference in games like WoW and CoH from games like There and Second Life.

On the other hand, the pretty, skinny, barbi-like avatars of There.Com probably don't resemble the players controlling them.

So be careful if you fall in love with that Beauty Queen in There.Com. At least in WoW if you are in love with a cow they probably really are a cow. :)

Re:I know it's V-day and all...

[Tackhead]

> But this isn't really all that special or new, is it?
I met my wife on a Counter-Strike server in 2000.

Brings whole new meaning to yelling "Boom! Headshot!", don't it?

/one ticket to hell please

I know it's Digital-day and all...

[Anonymous Coward]

"I met my wife on a Counter-Strike server in 2000."

You downloaded your wife?

It's always the same problem...

[fak3r]

Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!

Re:Marriage is a scam

[Haeleth]

You could always hold out for a dowry.

Re:This is hardly new.

[ackthpt]

You can get that in a T-Shirt these days too. Though to be a bit more geeky the colors are replaced with their hex equivalents.

Yes. I couldn't help but notice they lifted my poem. ThinkGeek is connected with /.

Yet another anecdote: Halo

[soren.harward]

So my friend was a pretty good Halo player. Good enough to win some local competitions. One night, his roommate's sister showed up with some of her friends. My friend and his roommate were playing, and after the round ended one of the girls asked if she could play against my friend. He patronizingly said, "Sure? You know how to play?"

"Well, it's been a while, but the controls should come back to me."

"Okay, I'll go easy on you for a bit."

Big mistake. I heard from everyone else in the room that by the time he hit 10 frags, she was already over 50.

Six months later they got married. He can usually win in Warcraft, but she still hands him his ass in any FPS.