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(Salt Lake Tribune)   Women hiring online detectives to determine if their spouse's online game character is committing virtual adultery with other online game characters   (sltrib.com) divider line 80
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2005-08-18 01:33:11 AM
That's virtually impossible.


....but seriously, does anyone else even consider that cheating?
 
2005-08-18 01:43:46 AM
DJanomaly: ....but seriously, does anyone else even consider that cheating?

I don't know that game, but I do think there's a line, while not "cheating" that married people seem to cross pretty easily online, at least from what I read here.

I doubt their spouses would call it "cheating" but I do think they'd be in the dog-house.
 
2005-08-18 01:47:28 AM
DJanomaly

....but seriously, does anyone else even consider that cheating?

Only if it's virtual anal sex
 
2005-08-18 02:22:55 AM
Just wait until they hear about the debauchery over on The Sims2. Goodness!
 
2005-08-18 02:27:22 AM
up up down down LR LR B A select start

(does that count?)
 
2005-08-18 02:27:36 AM
Does this help me download porn????

No?

Oh. Who cares then.
 
2005-08-18 02:29:56 AM
I can't wait until Jack Thompson puts a twist on this...
 
GCD
2005-08-18 02:30:52 AM
Wow, if people have that kind of cash to spend on stupid things like this, I think I have some ocean-front property in Arizona for sale...

/wasn't that a country song?
 
2005-08-18 02:31:16 AM
If you gotsta pay money to find out, then maybe the pot is calling the kettle black.
 
2005-08-18 02:32:50 AM
Ehhhhh if you're looking for something else, then you're not satisfied with what you have, and you're both probably better off looking for someone new.

Unless you're dumb enough to have already had kids. Then you grin and bear it, unless you're so boneheaded that it would get to the point of violence, in which case your kids' minds are screwed anyway, so you might as well split up.

Just don't guilt trip the kids about it, for the love of god.
 
2005-08-18 02:33:58 AM
That said, anyone who tries to stop me from watching porn is automatically disqualified from my potential date list.
 
2005-08-18 02:35:51 AM
wow, in game dating is odd on its own. If you have someone waiting for you in the real world though it's way past odd. seriously, i'm suprised people who don't have spouses do this.
 
2005-08-18 02:37:17 AM
DJanomaly
....but seriously, does anyone else even consider that cheating?

ehh the cyber sex taking place in mmorpgs is the exact same type of cyber sex taking place over chat programs or such, sometimes escalates into much more than that even.

would your significant other be cool with walking in while you bust out your best "I put on my robe and wizard hat." lines... well ok maybe that's cool, just don't get caught casting that lvl 8 cock of the infinite :P
 
2005-08-18 02:38:26 AM
I go onto a thing called worlds - and there are such things there. Adult (read as naked) avs, adult (read as farking) actions for the avs - and even weddings. Like you would want to waste your time on the computer being stuck in a marraige.
 
2005-08-18 02:40:36 AM
Money worth more than some small countries...
Sex more meaningful than at home....

what next?



GCD...
George Strait, and i dont know how i know that.
 
2005-08-18 02:45:17 AM
 
2005-08-18 02:46:44 AM


Don't worry Pocky, that heartless biatch of a wife of mine will never take me away from you.
 
2005-08-18 02:47:30 AM
back in the early days of ultima online my friend got me into his guild he and this other guy who lives in the same town (who i'd never met before) were the guild leaders.

This other guy was online a lot and and always hung out at our guild house. one day I say hi to him and i'm told that it's actually his wife playing. so ok she's trying out the game about a week later she's got her own character on his account. after that I noticed that she was online way more than he was. it seemed like everytime I logged in she was there. At that time the whole virtual character weddings were a big deal in the game. but it was quite odd when we got an email announcing the marriage of her character to another guild member. it was nothing to do with real life just the 2 virtual characters were going to get married.

not too long after this they got into a big fight about how she was always in the game... and not doing anything else like spend time with their 2 kids. We've all heard the stories about people being addicted to these games. Eventually they had to cancel the account.

I also heard a story about a couple who both got into the game. they shared one account and one day got into a big fight over who's turn it was to play. So they have this fight and later on the guy goes to work, he comes home she's gone, her clothes are gone, and the computer is gone. After that 2 accounts, 2 computers they flipped a coin to see who had to get the new account.
 
2005-08-18 02:48:30 AM
I agree: if you are threatened by something like this, then maybe you both need something to do. I know of some women who have had 'revenge sex', in retaliation of either real or imagined cheating. They go out and have sex just to punish their mate. Or maybe that is just what they told me.

Guys may do this, too, but I don't go that way.
 
2005-08-18 02:48:35 AM
Those 2 stories put together created strange imagery... a virtual world inhabited by Jews and Israelis, with a Muslim online detective finding out if there's any virtual adultery going on in the Greco-Roman wrestling matches. Produced by Maccabiah Games.

/skimming weirdness
 
2005-08-18 02:48:46 AM
I want to become a virtual private dick.
 
2005-08-18 02:49:00 AM
well, she will have grounds for a virtual divorce. I wonder who gets the RAM?
 
2005-08-18 02:49:02 AM
This is actually one of the reasons I'm so hesitant to get married. Just today I chatted with a woman who I had a fling with years ago. She married an Israeli and is living in Israel. Her husband is in the reserves and is away. I should have been nobler and avoided it, but our conversation turned to talking about our past sexual romps and telling each other we both think about each other at times when we're having sex with other people. It was explicit.

And I think, why would I want to ever marry someone that could have that conversation with someone from the past? Am I being to sensitive about it and I should think it's only online chatting? I dunno, but it bugs.
 
2005-08-18 02:50:29 AM
And of course, now that I participated in it, Karma will come kick my ass it eventually anyways.
 
2005-08-18 02:53:04 AM
Just go ahead and come to terms with the fact that you're not adequate. When you have sex with your significant other, they're thinking about other people. You're not fulfulling enough. That celebrity that your husband/wife is always watching on TV? Yeah, they're thinking about them during sex. And if they had the chance, they'd have ended up with that person instead of you. You only landed this gig because everyone better was taken.
 
2005-08-18 02:54:52 AM


That little tart from TITAN AE has me thinking about crossing over...
 
2005-08-18 02:55:44 AM
Did you just put in the blood code in a sims game?
 
2005-08-18 02:57:06 AM
Anyone read the second story about the israeli wrestling?

Yeah, well I heard that the Jewish world champs finisher was "the cheap shot"!


No fear my farking clown!
 
2005-08-18 02:57:29 AM
"Yes, Ma'am, your husband is having sex with strangers on the Internet. Not only that, he's doing it with a penis much larger than the one he's using to have sex with you."
 
2005-08-18 03:00:35 AM
Great, now we need a 'pathetic' tag.
 
2005-08-18 03:00:38 AM
If the trust level in your relationship is such that you're hiring a private investigator to spy on your significant other, the relationship is over.

Whether or not they're cheating is irrelevant. You simply have no trust or faith left in them, and it's time to move on. Move on and save the expense of the private investigator.
 
2005-08-18 03:02:06 AM
....but seriously, does anyone else even consider that cheating?

I do, the same way I'd consider phone sex cheating. It's a dishonesty in a relationship that really should deserve better.

That being said, an ex-girlfriend did it and got her ass dumped by me. I'd made it clear that it wasn't acceptable, she agreed, and then did it anyway. That ends it.
 
2005-08-18 03:04:04 AM
Wow. You got kicked to the curb for cybersex?

Anwyay, just make a name. "HornyGiRl69" seems to work for me. I go into chat rooms, flirt itu p with guys, then post how perverted they are on my website. It's like perverted-justice, except there's no justice; just humiliation.
 
2005-08-18 03:06:28 AM
Kickstart UF: ....but seriously, does anyone else even consider that cheating?

I do, the same way I'd consider phone sex cheating. It's a dishonesty in a relationship that really should deserve better.

That being said, an ex-girlfriend did it and got her ass dumped by me. I'd made it clear that it wasn't acceptable, she agreed, and then did it anyway. That ends it.


She probably agreed to it not knowing you couldn't please her sexually.
 
2005-08-18 03:08:30 AM
H1 want to cyber?
sure
I'm a detective, give me all your sojs and annis or I tell your girlfriend.


Meh; It's not like people who play online games have SOs.
 
2005-08-18 03:10:43 AM
wow. i have got to get in on this racket and become an MMO-PI. think i can write-off hardware upgrades as a business expense?
 
2005-08-18 03:14:22 AM
"A man is only as faithful as his options"--Chris Rock

Now if a married man jerks off to Jenna Jameson, is he cheating?

Show me a man who doesn't fantasize about other women and I'll show you a man with no imagination.
 
2005-08-18 03:23:42 AM
There is nothing more serious than a rhino about to charge your ass
 
2005-08-18 03:24:33 AM
MaxxRenn: Show me a man who doesn't fantasize about other women and I'll show you a man with no imagination.

You're kind of comparing apples and oranges IMO.

Fantasizing is self gratification to an adult video.
Not a problem.

But having a go with a prostitute is going to be seen as cheating.

I think the fact that their virtual girlfriends are actually people is the creepy part, or maybe just a sign it's over.
 
2005-08-18 03:26:03 AM
True stories time.
One mate's marriage split up over EQ. He got home from work, she then went out to work, as car was driving away, he was logging in. As she was walking up the drive, he'd be logging out the game and turning on the vacuum cleaner... Can see how you can only do that for so long before she twigs on.
Second mate got his girlfriend into EQ, happy as they could be, until one of the machines started having problems connecting. As the guy who always fixed their problems, this wasn't out of the ordinary. After a bit of spyware removal, driver updates, they'd be good to go and I'd get my Dinner. Then one day I was out of town for a LONG time (over a month). Suffice to say, the machines had problems, I wasn't about to fix, their computer skills got them clicking the EQ button and logging in and that was it.
They didn't do well.
It was a common joke that they argued on who could game.
Even when both machines were working, they'd argue when he got a decent upgrade for his ranger that his GF also wanted...
Good stuff
Another mate met his GF playing Counterstrike (I know, I couldn't figure out how they got chatting either).

Lvl 70 Bard, ($bignum)AA's, AB server. *ahem*
 
2005-08-18 03:32:44 AM
You're kind of comparing apples and oranges IMO.
Fantasizing is self gratification to an adult video.
Not a problem.


Unless you hide it. That's also dishonesty.
I disagree that it is comparing opposites. There's a whole lot more on the internet than naughty videos.
 
2005-08-18 03:38:21 AM
Christi:

Unless you hide it. That's also dishonesty.
I disagree that it is comparing opposites. There's a whole lot more on the internet than naughty videos.


fufme.com?
 
2005-08-18 03:42:24 AM
StormyHeather
There is nothing more serious than a rhino about to charge your ass

hah, bout time we had some more bloodninja in here :)
 
2005-08-18 03:49:40 AM
Christi: I disagree that it is comparing opposites.

I guess I meant his Now if a married man jerks off to Jenna Jameson or fantasizing about a porn star seems really different to me than having even a virtual relationship with a woman or likeness of a woman when there actually is a woman behind it who is responding.
 
2005-08-18 03:53:07 AM
If your mate is 'cheating' online it isn't the pseudo-cheating you should be worried about, but the fact that said mate is a farking loon trying to insert him/herself Tron-like into a goddamn game. Dump the mate's sorry ass and find someone who actually lives in the real world; do it before you make the mistake of allowing the loser to breed and pass on his pathetic genes to another generation.

Max
 
2005-08-18 03:56:58 AM
Ku_No: What if it's actually a man? Because we know there aren't nearly as many women on the Internet as there claim to be... *grin*
 
2005-08-18 03:57:50 AM
maxpublic: If your mate is 'cheating' online it isn't the pseudo-cheating you should be worried about, but the fact that said mate is a farking loon trying to insert him/herself Tron-like into a goddamn game. Dump the mate's sorry ass and find someone who actually lives in the real world


Yup.
That's a really good point as well.
 
2005-08-18 03:58:14 AM
I don't think it requires as much thought as some people give it. If your spouse is killing so much time online that you've grown neurotic enough to worry what's going on there... well, it sounds to me like the relationship is over. Cut the weirdo loose and do something more meaningful with your life.
 
2005-08-18 04:06:10 AM
I'm going to agree with the sentiment that this is ridiculous. My opinion is that whatever people do on-line isn't really the business of anyone else since it is all fake anyway (at least when it comes to dealing with other human beings). Maybe I'm just not the jealous type, who knows. Past GF's have all done the on-line cyber thing and it didn't bother me in the slightest. Then again, what is allowed within the relationship should be discussed and if points are at contention, negtiate and compromise. I mean there are crazy people out there that think porn and mental fantasies are cheating so the intra-web sex would definitely be a no-no. Basically this sort of thing could have been sorted out with something just as important as trust when it comes to relationships, communication.
 
2005-08-18 04:12:21 AM
I play "World of Warcraft", "City of Heroes", "Guild Wars" and "Anarchy Online", although mostly just WoW now. My wife describes my computer as my 'other wife', considering the amount of time I spend with it.

She doesn't play, and has no interest in such things. But she also doesn't mind my gaming, because I always make time to spend with her, too. Makes levelling difficult sometimes, but divorce costs a hell of a lot more than WoW's subscription fees, so it is a small sacrifice to make.

Anyway, my wife trusts me when I tell her I'm just crushing Alliance scum, knowing that I'd never chat up some alleged hottie in-game. The ground rules of our marriage are very clear: Cyber sex of any sort is considered cheating. Period.

I'm the one who set that rule, in fact. Once upon a time, my wife was the one online all the time, constantly chatting with friends... many of them guys. Guys who wanted her to move to Alaska, so they could 'hang out'. Riiiigght!

Point is, she stayed, and neither of us cyber. It is a simple matter of respecting your mate. If you can't trust your lover to keep their romantic interests between yourselves, it is definitely over.
 
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