(The first involves weapons.) I laughed out loud.

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British couple who married in a lavish Second Life wedding ceremony are to divorce after one of them had an alleged "affair" in the online world.
Amy Taylor, 28, said she had caught husband David Pollard, 40, having sex with an animated woman. The couple, who met in an Internet chatroom in 2003, are now separated.
"I went mad -- I was so hurt. I just couldn't believe what he'd done," Taylor told the Western Morning News. "It may have started online, but it existed entirely in the real world and it hurts just as much now it is over."
Second Life allows users to create alter egos known as "avatars" and interact with other players, forming relationships, holding down jobs and trading products and services for a virtual currency convertible into real life dollars.
Taylor said she had caught Pollard's avatar having sex with a virtual prostitute: "I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character. It's cheating as far as I'm concerned."
The couple's real-life wedding in 2005 was eclipsed by a fairy tale ceremony held within Second Life.
But Taylor told the Western Morning News she had subsequently hired an online private detective to track his activities: "He never did anything in real life, but I had my suspicions about what he was doing in Second Life." Pollard admitted having an online relationship with a "girl in America" but denied wrongdoing. "We weren't even having cyber sex or anything like that, we were just chatting and hanging out together," he told the Western Morning News.
Taylor is now in a new relationship with a man she met in the online roleplaying game World of Warcraft. (from CNN)

You can't help stupid. This chick is a real loser. Kick here to the curb.

I can't wait for the movie. It'll be all Avatar-ish. (see James Cameron)

What has the world come to?

It has come to virtual reality, apparently.

We only relate to each other over a network !

so much for the wedding vows...I'd say the guy is freekster...needs to listen to talk radio?

These people need to get a life!

Back in college (1995), one of my roommates was an avid user of a MUSH (Multiple User Shared Hallucination--a text-only online virtual world). One evening, he got all pissed off because one of the other players on the MUSH had messed with a "puppet" (a virtual robot) that he had created. He picked up the phone and called the other player long distance to lecture her, "hey, you weren't supposed to touch that puppet..." Needless to say, I was weirded out by this behavior. After living with this guy, I never wanted to try MUSHes or MUDs; they just seemed too dangerous.