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LONDON - SECOND LIFE RUINS THE LIVES OF A MARRIED COUPLE WITH NO LIFE

We just came across the story of the day: a married couple who are both members of Second Life are getting divorced after the wife discovered her husband's character was having virtual sex with virtual hookers. Amy Pollard grew suspicious of what her husband David's character, Hunky Dave, was getting up to in the fictitious online world so hired an online detective to uncover the sordid truth.

Click below to see the ever-so-slight difference between the appearance of the Pollards and their Second Life characters, as well as a conversation we had about the story.

David aka Hunky Dave and Amy aka Laura Skye Snoop Dogg: Hey, check this out: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1929886.ece
SD: Look at them and then look at their Second Life characters.
Jim Jones: What does this bit mean: "A FAN of online virtual reality game Second Life is being divorced as a love cheat — after his wife caught his cyber character having sex with a woman stranger’s"?
JJ: "With a woman stranger's?"
SD: Yeah, they never bother to sub online. It never makes sense. Some of the writing is appalling. The sport section ever Saturday is so bad.
JJ: Fuck me. It's the Sun!!
JJ: Anyway, isn't it better to cheat on your wife with a computer than an actual human?
JJ: The answer is yes.
SD: Not if you are into Second Life.
JJ: Why?
SD: Because that woman's life in Second Life is better than reality.
SD: So much better.
JJ: Haha.