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    "Avatar" Affair Leads to Real-Life Divorce

    http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/l...cle5151126.ece

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    A couple have divorced after the husband was caught having a “virtual affair” with a female character in an online game.

    David Pollard and Amy Taylor met in an online chat room in 2003 and married after discovering a shared love of the internet game Second Life.

    Ms Taylor, 28, filed for divorce on the ground of unreasonable behaviour after her husband admitted falling in love with the virtual female character. She discovered the affair after a rare break from her computer. When she returned from a nap she caught a glimpse of her husband's avatar in a compromising position on a sofa with a female avatar.

    Ms Taylor's suspicions were aroused in 2007 and she hired a Second Life private investigator. The virtual sleuth, called Markie MacDonald, caught Dave Barmy in flagrante and he apologised to his online and real world wives.

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    Re: "Avatar" Affair Leads to Real-Life Divorce



    Picture of the Couples' Avatars in Second Life (computer game)



    Picture of the Real Couple

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    Re: "Avatar" Affair Leads to Real-Life Divorce

    The resemblance is remarkable!
    I'm an asshole! What's your excuse?

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    Re: "Avatar" Affair Leads to Real-Life Divorce

    screwy

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    Re: "Avatar" Affair Leads to Real-Life Divorce

    Quote Originally Posted by CARTEK View Post
    The resemblance is remarkable!

    That is the great thing about SL, we look like ourselves....


    Most of us tend to look better in SL than we do in RL....thank goodness!!!!

    Seriously, is that their real life pic?

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    Re: "Avatar" Affair Leads to Real-Life Divorce

    Quote Originally Posted by hookdown View Post
    That is the great thing about SL, we look like ourselves....


    Most of us tend to look better in SL than we do in RL....thank goodness!!!!

    Seriously, is that their real life pic?
    According to the Times Online website where the story originated, that is what the couple really look like.

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    Re: "Avatar" Affair Leads to Real-Life Divorce

    This whole second life thing is beyond me. It seems that you would need a first life before you could have a second. These two seemed to hate their first lives.

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    Re: "Avatar" Affair Leads to Real-Life Divorce

    Quote Originally Posted by StrayDawg View Post
    This whole second life thing is beyond me. It seems that you would need a first life before you could have a second.
    It certainly helps!

    Quote Originally Posted by StrayDawg View Post
    These two seemed to hate their first lives.
    Obviously not Tech alumni or fans...

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