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squidlord says...

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - A man who calls himself SAL9000 is set to marry his virtual girlfriend from a video game called Love Plus this weekend.

Web site Boing Boing reports that the man fell in love with one of the virtual girls named Nene Anegasaki and decided to marry her and take her on a honeymoon to Guam.

Since the girl doesn't really exist, that meant he took his Nintendo DS to Guam. He took photos of the trip to Guam and livecast the vacation on Japanese video-sharing site Nico Nico Douga .

You know, I should probably be the most mocking person of the mocking planet for this, but honestly ... if this is the worst decision relating to a woman he ever makes in his life, he'll be vastly ahead of the rest of us. All of us.

Plus, any excuse to throw a party in Guam and livecast it would seem to be a good one.

Here's my question: Have the coders patched his version to recognize the vacation to Guam as a level-up?

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xea says...

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Liam says...

Terrifying? Inevitable? Harbinger? In any case, it’s a first: Police in Long Island, New York have arrested a man for not using Twitter.

This would never happen in the UK.

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Beer follows BBQ to Cedarville news beer bbq http://ping.fm/CPt0p

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Each day, marriage is reduced to a joke. What I think is the ultimate commitment between two souls (note the word "souls") is now getting disrespected. I used to think of marriage as something great. But then, people compare to a business merger.

Now, it's between a person of flesh + a AI... in a game... with limited intelligence... that you can carry in your pocket. Now, don't get me wrong. I think a person should marry whoever makes him or her happy (even if the lifestyle I don't agree with personally). But this one... takes the Nintendo DS.

(via Boing Boing)

Man to marry his video game girlfriend this Sunday

12302-620x-lp.jpgLast month, I wrote about a Japanese husband who confessed to his wife that he had a virtual girlfriend, a character from an addictive Nintendo DS game called Love Plus. Now, another man is planning to hold a wedding ceremony with his Love Plus girlfriend this coming Sunday. The man, who calls himself SAL9000, was so in love with Nene Anegasaki that he decided to marry her and take her on a honeymoon to Guam. Of course, this means that he literally just took his Nintendo DS to Guam... while there, he took photos, livecast their adventures on popular video-sharing site Nico Nico Douga, and documented their adventures using the augmented reality iPhone app Sekai Camera. In any case, the guy plans on having a public reception in Tokyo this Sunday. It will be livecast on Nico Nico Douga, but in case you miss it, we'll be bringing you an update early next week. Stay tuned!

via IT Media News (Japanese)

 

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Vegetables are sick – Hunan Liuyang cadmium pollution

November 21st, 2009

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(picture: A polluted eggplant)

[Southern Metropolis Daily] In July and August of this year, the Hunan Liuyang cadmium pollution incident caused nationwide concerns. It has been three to months since the incident, chemical plant was permanently closed, the relevant officials were suspended from their positions and affected farmers also received a certain amount of compensation. Recently the photographer went back to Liuyang, to some of the affected areas and shot a set of portraits for the crops. These terminally ill fruits and vegetables tell us the disaster has not yet ended.

 

Vegetables are sick – Hunan Liuyang cadmium pollution

By Southern Metropolis Daily reporter Fang Qianhua

 

 

July of this year my partner Yang Xiaohong and I went to Liuyang in Hunan province together to cover the incident of cadmium pollution. Centered at Xianghe chemical factory which was the source of the cadmium pollution, the fields within 1.5 kilo-meter radius were seriously polluted with cadmium.

At the time, the amount of the cadmium content in majority of the villagers’ body seriously exceeded the standard level. Some of them were very young babies. Apart from this, large tracts of contaminated farmland and crops were too horrible to look at. Those once familiar fruits and vegetables in the field became grotesque and disfigured beyond recognition, making people feel nausea and fearful when looking at them.

November of this year I once again returned back to the polluted areas to investigate and found many farmland were deserted, rarely seen crops. However after walked through many villages we could still see some remaining fruits and vegetables in the corners of the deserted fields. Because they were never cleared away, after a few months of pollution they have become more deformed, more shocking. In order to find crops suitable for the photo shoot, I went there 4 times to couple of the villages to look for those polluted vegetables. To me, these deformed and sick fruits and vegetables are like a group of special patients.

Photography: Fang Qianhua

Video: Qiao Yanjie

 

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sighnpen says...

バカはなおせる 脳を鍛える習慣、悪くする習慣 楽天ブックス

 

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Bikes, Blues & BBQ resumes charity donations bbq charity news usa http://ping.fm/BAgYJ

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Family narrowly escapes death after BBQ in garage news bbq http://ping.fm/EWuaO

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sighnpen says...

bou*****さん
東京金融取引所?
たしかぁ〜・・・
最近まで、ここを仕切ってたのって・・・・

chi*****さん
>bou*****さん
そうです、「天下り」じゃない天下りの方です。
「天下り禁止」の民主党政権による斎藤次郎新郵政社長の経歴

1993年 大蔵事務次官

1994年 細川内閣時に小沢一郎と国民福祉税(消費税7%)を構想

1995年 大蔵省退任

1995年 旧大蔵省 財政金融研究所 顧問(天下り)

1995年 社団法人研究情報基金(旧大蔵省外郭団体)理事長(渡り)

1995年 財団法人国際金融情報センター(旧大蔵省外郭団体)顧問(渡り)

2000年 東京金融先物取引所(金融庁監督下)理事長(渡り)

2004年 東京金融先物取引所株式会社化に伴い社長(渡り継続)

2009年 民主党の政策により日本郵政社長(天下り)

めもっとこ

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