@nish
Wow, it’s reached the public of the KCR? Thinking about it, it’s not that surprising, but I always felt like the Hong Kong public were numb to such Japanimation events…

And yes, That’s exactly what I thought of at first. Wouldn’t other people playing the game be considered adultery? Others told me that this only applied to his copy of the game, so he’s good as long as he keeps that out of others’ hands. I don’t take law, so I’ve no idea how that works, but it makes sense. And really, even If I did take law, I doubt they have ones that deal with this situation.

I agree with what you said. It’s a basically a confident, in your face version of what I said, haha.

@blur
Counters for the conditions? I was taught them exactly in that order. If all three conditions need to be present anyways, and they don’t present themselves in the person in any particular chronological order, they really can be listed in no particular order, no?

Yes, it hadn’t crossed mine as well. It seems galgames have taught me to see such characters as unconditional lovers. I suppose it’s one of the reasons I thought perhaps it’s a sexist depiction, but to be perfectly honest, I like how they’re depicted and don’t wish to argue for the opposition anytime soon…

I would say that the hype is blown up by non-Japan residents, though as a Hong Kong-er now Canadian, It’s not in my place to accuse anybody. I do know this though, the otaku subculture, even in Japan, is a minority. It’s not as if you can walk throughout the streets with a dakimakura slung across your shoulder and not expect strange looks. There seem to be cases of extreme individuals there, but otherwise I’m sure Sal spurned about as much controversy there as he did elsewhere.

And I see. I did watch that recap on the site, but I question the validity of it as a news center – it seems more entertainment oriented, so I guess I didn’t commit much of its recap to memory.

@mat
Hey, true. I hadn’t thought of that either. It’s almost considerably homoerotic if you put it that way…
I’m kidding. but true, the creator has actually a very large role to play in the character’s personality.

And I forgot to highlight. If memory serves me right, in BoingBoing’s version of the video, the commentator did mention that Sal9000 didn’t mean anything outrageous and that the ceremony was more for show.

It never crossed my mind at all concerning consent until Yi mentioned it. Which reflects on me that I fail to accept a 2d character being a wife. Seeing how I didn’t think about the wife’s point of view in all this.

My thoughts on this is simple and straightforward. As long as he isn’t hurting anyone, why stop him. Though I do wonder if a tread should follow, how will the un-accepting minds think then. Will they get even more judgmental? They probably will.

Hmm.. Now I’m really curious. How does Japan itself see this. Are the people surprised at all? It IS Japan after all.

Or is the hype blown up by non-Japan residents and bloggers like me. :)

Anyways. I don’t think the marriage was any form of insult to homo sapiens sapiens. Nor was it any act of “rebellion”. The man did something no other man in History had the guts to do so. Perhaps he is the first one to even think about but that doesn’t matter. The fact is that he has done it already and it will affect the restrictions on marriage in the future.

In my own opinion, I wouldn’t go against this man at all. He knows what he is doing more than anyone else. If he didn’t, then he probably would be divorced by now. The only thing that came to mind when I heard of this incident was “How in the world is he going to manage it? Will no one else be allowed to play H-games with naked scenes of her?”. I, of course, couldn’t answer them myself. So instead of raging at the person for not being able to comprehend such a natural wonderment, I decided that I ought to respect the man; not to look down on him instead. Why? Because being in a relationship with a woman in real life is already hard enough. Marriage? Even harder. Marriage with a woman in a game?
I salute to you, Sal9000.

Don’t worry about it. ^ ^
It’s a very valid position and I really truly love it when people disagree with me. (reasonably of course)

It’s probably too strong for me to call it a travesty, especially when the guy is sincerely putting his feelings in there. There is definitely no debasing qualities here.

The grotesque point that you made reminded me of some of William Faulkner’s literature (American classics), in which he explores “the grotesque”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
To me, the grotesque is not a negative term and it can in fact be really something quite fascinating and differently beautiful.

The question is now the definition of ‘travesty’. ‘A grotesque and debased likeness or imitation’. A very opinionated word; it’s definitely true that, with a marriage being the unity of man and woman, the unity of man and computer sequence is surely an imitation of the actual ceremony. However, it is entirely based on oneself whether to call it ‘grotesque’. That’s a very powerful word to call anything; do we, people with all our own shortcomings, deserve to call this ceremony so?

I agree with you, the lack of consent only makes this an imitation in likeness, but I’m arguing against those that feel they are seated in a position where they can judge people and criticize this man and his actions. Perhaps if this man killed somebody they would be more justified, but he hasn’t hurt anyone. In middle eastern countries, prepubescent girls are wed to men well past their forties to establish connections between family. No one thinks it a travesty there.

Of course however, know that in whatever I’m saying I mean no offense.

@FaS

aw, shucks, thanks, I needed that. With the viewer to commenter ratio it seemed like everyone who didn’t comment was just TL;DRing everything. And I’m more glad than anything that it elicits thought, because that’s what I’m here to (hopefully) do.

1. Yes, he will very likely get bored; however, I don’t think he’ll quite fit into the normal statistics of ‘those who become uninterested in their marriages’ because of his ‘unique’ marriage circumstances. And in my opinion, since no arguments could possibly arise from it, his marriage might end up lasting longer than the average one…

2. An otaku has no die-hard buddies and infinite friends on 2ch.
Just kidding. I wouldn’t know, but probably.

3. I don’t think he did it for the publicity; knowing I’d be very different the last thing I’d want is publicity. Afterall, marriage is a huge commitment; if it was something small and forgettable, than I’d consider someone doing it for the exposure they’ll get, but with this I’m less convinced.

Yeah, it was pretty disconcerting when I learned that psychopaths and schizophrenics don’t actually know there’s something wrong with them in psychology. For all we know, we could all… No.

Yeah, I used to use object dock, but gave up on it since coming to vista. and you definitely have to show me that hand-drawn marker pic.

I wouldn’t let my girlfriend touch anything but my body.
Just kidding. Probably.

1) This guy is gonna get bored…like we all do of videogames. aka, the marriage will not last and he’ll just be another statistic.

2) This guy has almost no friends I bet, or very few that don’t talk to him very much.

3) He knew damn well he was marrying a videogame and wanted to do it for the headlines/record. Jeez, I would have thought someone would have broken this record already…-_-”

No, this guy isn’t “crazy,” it just seems he’s lonely. And not in a, “he’s a creep” kind of lonely. About the little things weird of everyone’s personality, I can relate. I don’t have ANYTHING on my desktop. It’s just my background pic of a blazblue hand-drawn marker pic. I’ll have to give it to you sometime soon or post it. But yeah, I have this program called object dock which hides all my shortcuts off screen. So I know exactly what you mean. I HATE it when other people touch my computer, except my cousin. Everyone else can back the heck up. Even my girlfriend…isn’t that bad?

It gets much worse, but I won’t go on. When you think about it, people have even worse “disorders” emotionally…ohhh let’s not forget about emotions. I could write a whole post on that.

But other than that, I agree with most of your post :) Good job

Oh and uh, just get the cardsleeves whenever you’re free and hand them to niel. I’ll give a contact number afterwards. Much thanks.