Khamis, 20 Oktober 2011

Games and Avatars

Have you ever heard of online gaming?

Do you ever attempt to play online games?

I guess many of you play games no doubt about that.

The popular online games that played by thousands of people are World of Warcraft, League of legends, Second life and many more. Myself, I play online game named Shaiya. There’s the original Aeria Games for Shaiya but mostly I played the private servers. Here some images from the online game of Shaiya.




Do you ever think that people took vows with online games characters?

No?

Take look at this video this might change your perception on not believing that people actually married in online game.




This Japanese guy who called himself SAL9000 has married with Nene Anegasaki from the Nintendo DS game “Love Plus”. The wedding was actually performed in the real life where they had all the wedding ceremony, wedding receptions and also invitations to all gamers. The wedding was broadcasted through a website named Nico Nico Douga.

Feeling weird?

Take look at this one.



According to CNN, “British Couple who has married in Second Life are to divorce after one of them had an alleged affair in the online world”. The girl called Amy Taylor which avatar called Laura Skye filed for divorce to Dave Pollard which avatar called Dave Barmy after caught Dave having sex with other women avatar in second life.

Cyberspace is the virtual reality as Sherman and Judkins called it as truly the technology of miracles and dreams. Cyberspace often called the second life for people that were feeling lonely in the real life and need to escape from the reality. In cyberspace they can be whoever they want and do whatever they want to do as according to Kevin, “Virtual reality allows us to play God”. Means that you can create or choose what gender you want, build world which is beyond the mind of human and create life and love inside the virtual reality.

Do you believe that you are cyborgian in nature?

No?

Do you realize that if your mobile phone is missing or taken away by parents or teachers, how would you feel?

Anxious? Crazy? Feel your life is going to end?

This will make you think, mobile phones is a part of modern technology, and with that it is a machine, take for example, if you lose a leg what do you feel? Feel useless and want to die right? So if you lose your phone or laptops, you might feel a part of you is missing as this device is already attach to you even if you didn’t realize. This makes you a cyborgian even if you denied it.

 Moving on, according to Fung, “Cyberlife has evolved into a vital part of the real life to extent that real social relationships have become inseparable with cyberlife”. Take facebook for example, who don’t have a Facebook? Don’t lie. Who finds boyfriends or Girlfriends through facebook? As today, many Facebook users find relationships through this social networking either for fun or serious. In real life, do you talk to 50 people a day? It’s impossible, if one day you don’t check your facebook account what do you feel? Crazy? This has proven that you are a Cyborgian.

I agreed that I’m a cyborgian, without playing online game Shaiya, I feel bored and missing something, I’ve addicted to the game and spending a lot of time in the virtual world. No doubt that I am half human and half machine.

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