True Story: “Affair” in Second Life Causes Divorce
I don’t know quite to make of this story I read this morning. Apparently a UK woman is divorcing her husband after she caught his Second Life character banging another Second Life character. According to the article, “Ms Taylor, 28, filed for divorce on the ground of unreasonable behaviour after her husband admitted falling in love with the virtual female character. She discovered the affair after a rare break from her computer. When she returned from a nap she caught a glimpse of her husband’s avatar in a compromising position on a sofa with a female avatar.”
“I’ll show you my pixels if you show me yours.”
Ms. Taylor was apparently crushed by what she saw. But it gets even more bizarre. This wasn’t the first time Mr. Taylor had been caught fucking some hot, pixelated poon: “Ms Taylor’s suspicions were aroused in 2007 and she hired a Second Lifeprivate investigator. The virtual sleuth, called Markie MacDonald, caught Dave Barmy in flagrante and he apologised to his online and real world wives.” She hired a VIRTUAL FUCKING SLEUTH my friends. Like, for real. My mind is reeling; I have sooo many questions.
- Can you choose your penis size in Second Life?
- Can you knock some hotty up? Get an STD? Are there condoms available?
- Is the sex realistic – in other words, is it over in less than 2 minutes?
- Who is the biggest loser in this story: 1) The guy banging Second Life characters 2) The wife for getting upset and divorcing him or 3) The guy whose character in Second Life is an VIRTUAL SLEUTH?
My money is on the latter. What do you make of this story? If you caught your spouse having a Second Life “affair,” would you be jealous? And beyond that, would you be so upset that you would divorce them?
Is that the same game that some guy had his wife arrested after finding out his wife created a proxy of him then killed off the character?
I don’t know, but if so that story is even funnier. If you find it please post the link here.
Maple Story similiar but just as mock-worthy.
I shit you not, that story made big news here in London.
They dedicated a 2 page spread to it in today’s paper.
And I do believe all 3 merit equal loser status.
I believe with all my heart that there can be no bigger loser than a virtual private investigator.
Well, he probably likes doing this, he apparently makes (perhaps virtual?) money out of it, and he gets to find out hilarious stuff like this before the rest of us. I think he’s probably better off as far as his part in this incident than the divorced people.
SECOND LIFE IS IN AND OF ITSELF AN STD.
I’m having trouble with the comment box, so this is supposed to be directly to you donk-
Because of the way SL works, he actually gets paid in real money for what he’s doing. So, either he’s the biggest douchebag on the planet, or he’s actually kind of clever for taking advantage of the biggest douchebags on the planet.
You know there are also virtual prostitutes on SL, and people really, truly pay for them?
SHUT THE FUCK UP. I know zero about Second Life – you mean to tell me this asshat gets paid real money to investigate virtual crimes that have no bearing in the real world?????? The apocolypse is truly near.
Second Life does have its own economy; currency, exchange rate, the works. So, yeah, the woman would have paid the “PI” in Linden $, which you have to buy with actual, real, hard money.
No word of a joke.
*gags*
Is there no end to ways in which people will waste their money?
The virtual Sleuth takes the cake. Yet I’d like to sit down and have a crazy conversation with him in the real world. That would be highly entertaining. ‘Been up all night solving a case…’
If I caught using Second Life for ANYTHING I’d be irritated.
I can pretty much guarantee that you would never be heard from again after that meeting. You’d be in that dude’s fridge and he’d be wearing your face like a mask.
I love the freaks in England. Was the sex she caught him having like the sex I picture happoens in England in Family Guy?
“Almost…almost…almost….done.”
I wonder…can you do anal in Second Life?
The Daily Mail (a crappy tabloid, but still) had pictures of one of Second Life’s brothels today on that story- and there is a huge controversy about the amount of porn and the… err… types of porn available on SL.
*gags again*
I was trying to figure out why anyone on earth would choose that hairstyle that Dave chose. then, i saw the picture of “real” Dave.
I could earn money as a prostitute without actually having to TOUCH anyone?!!!
I’m liking this idea right hurr. Hahaha
Yeah, that’s pretty much my dream too
Ud expect this in America but no in the UK, people really are strange
People are pretty fucked up just about everywhere
I don’t know, but I’m thinking we might have finally found an instance where the hackneyed advice “Get Real!” is particularly pertinent.
The sleuth is an effing genius. If I ever meet up with him, bar stool to bar stool, I’m buying him a round. Or ten. Anyone who makes money off of other people’s stupidity deserves a hats off.
I second that.
First if my mister is SL-ing, she just needs to look like me. Then he gets his rocks off and I don’t have to fake anything later. It’s a win win situation. Second, I think that wife needs a psyche eval if she’s hiring a sleuth. And why is she just now hiring someone if her “suspicions were aroused in 2007″? She’s just jealous cuz she wasn’t gettin’ any from anyone anywhere.
Donk, I read this and just thought either she is so uptight and stupid, or there is more probs in the marriage than second life. Geez. Do guys get a divorce on the grounds of beating off to penthouse?
I remember reading that article in the paper. It was sad.
Sader still is the fact that he is now engaged (possibly by now, married) to the woman who he was having the ‘affair’ with online.
No joke.