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healingmirthWall Street Journal:
Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends
Dating-Simulation Game a Last Resort For Honeymoon Town and Its Lonely Guests
"In the first month of the city's promotional campaign launched July 10, more than 1,500 male fans of the Japanese dating-simulation game LovePlus+ have flocked to Atami for a romantic date with their videogame character girlfriends.
The men are real. The girls are cartoon characters on a screen."
I am wearing my not-judging hat, I swear, but this makes me viscerally sad.
In news that is related to this? I can't read fic where one of the (humanoid) characters is reimagined as a robot. I seem to be okay with Tony/Movie!JARVIS so far? But Lovebot prompts and the like make me so, so, SO sad, I can't even.
I still sort of want to write that story where Matt makes a John McClane AI to keep him company, but that will either end in literal tears or in actual McClane showing up to fuck some sense into him.
Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends
Dating-Simulation Game a Last Resort For Honeymoon Town and Its Lonely Guests
"In the first month of the city's promotional campaign launched July 10, more than 1,500 male fans of the Japanese dating-simulation game LovePlus+ have flocked to Atami for a romantic date with their videogame character girlfriends.
The men are real. The girls are cartoon characters on a screen."
I am wearing my not-judging hat, I swear, but this makes me viscerally sad.
In news that is related to this? I can't read fic where one of the (humanoid) characters is reimagined as a robot. I seem to be okay with Tony/Movie!JARVIS so far? But Lovebot prompts and the like make me so, so, SO sad, I can't even.
I still sort of want to write that story where Matt makes a John McClane AI to keep him company, but that will either end in literal tears or in actual McClane showing up to fuck some sense into him.
