Thinking Fool

well, that's not quite as bad as the front page, above-the-fold article in the WSJ on friday: "to find a mate, raid a dungeon or speak like an elf: flirting in online games can lead to offline love".

an excerpt: "Mr. Brown was sitting at his computer in England, controlling a character named Mighty Thud in an online game called City of Heroes. Across the ocean in Maryland, Jody Petroff guided a figure named Molecule Witch."

i wonder if they spoke to each other over the phone before meeting?

Dude, they met in a frickin' game room... under the names Mighty Thud and Molecule Witch. Not only did they commit (and admit to) the heinous crime of playing those type of games, they committed the cardinal sin: Admitting that they fell in love in a total fantasy world...

But I guess one could make the argument that most people fall in love in a total fantasy world. That's why the divorce rate is the way it is, and that's why there is no Mr. BLS. *sigh* Back to Match.com I go, because apparently all the World of Warcraft guys are taken. Crap.

When are you going to return my wink, Thinking Fool? :)

Well, I guess the picture is further proof, however, that there really is someone for everyone out there...

If you ask me thinking fool. I think the couple is pretty hot. I would like to challenge them in cloudmasters. Also for those interested, the Wall Street Journal wrote two pages about couples meeting in online games. Couples even have virtual online weddings and one girl left her boyfriend in PA to live with her online game crush in Guam. I think thinking fool fans could find some hot love online!

hehehe LH, i think we're both referring to the same WSJ article.

bls: i know it's heinous. that's why i said that the cloudmakers couple wasn't quite as bad as the couple mentioned in the WSJ article. but in both cases, i'd say meeting your mate in an online gaming community is almost as bad as the online dating service. at least in the former, the hook-up probably happened only by chance; in the latter, people intentionally seek out romance, in the most unromantic fashion: via fiber optic cables.

ugh.

I think a lot of people meet blogging. Is that any less strange?

I know I'm being mean, but..they look like people who spend 20 hours a day in front of a computer screen.

My whole point is it's 2006 - there are countless ways people meet each other these days. But to think that meeting on a dating site like match.com or eHarmony is MORE stigmatizing than meeting in some screwball game room that was a tie-in to a horrible movie... well, that just strikes me as being 100% incorrect subjectively and objectively.

I know at least 3 people who are engaged to folks they met via WOrld of Warcraft...

I'm not sure if that is a sad statement about society, or about me.

Maybe people should learn to read a little better before making such comment. Yes my wife and I met while planning City of Heroes, but we didn’t start a relationship with the characters, we started a relationship with the people controlling the characters. We chatted online using voice software for approximately six hours a day for two years, we used web-cams to see each other and took vacations in each others countries totaling about four months of time physically together before I popped the question.
Yes we met in a fantasy world, but our relationship is not based in a fantasy world. We share a lot of common interests including, but not limited to, the computer games we play.
If your hobby was working out at the gym then meeting your future wife at the gym would be perfectly normal. Well one of my hobbies is playing computer games and that’s where I met my wife and I have to say life is good, I’m married to a woman who not only accepts my hobbies, but also shares a few of them too. Isn’t that better than the sad and desperate people who end up in singles bars?