Suddenly, Marrying a Real Doll Seems Kind of Reasonable
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?At least in comparison to one dude, who — just yesterday — married his virtual girlfriend from the Nintendo DS game Love Plus dating sim in Guam. Now, Love Plus is admittedly more like an actual girlfriend sim, because once you select and successfully “woo” one of the characters, you actually go steady in the sense the player can talk to the girl, study with her, and get to virtual second base (I believe; I refuse to delve too far into this). That’s the lucky bride, Nene, up above. Neither of these things excuses this lunatic from sending out wedding invitations and holding a reception in Japan in a few days.
I don’t really want to get into the gay marriage debate here on TR — there are much better places for that sort of thing — but I do think that if homosexuals can’t legally marry actual human beings, then people should also not be allowed to marry a fucking Nintendo DS game character. I would say the latter harms the integrity of marriage far, far more than the former. Thanks to everyone who sent in the tip.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.