Soon headlines proclaimed Sue the first North American woman to get a divorce over virtual adultery. Sue grew tired of the 17-hour days Ric spent in front of the computer living large as biker-businessman Dutch, with his wife Ten, on their private island (costing about US$500). But as the doc relates, Dutch and Ten are rare in that they were named in the divorce proceedings - or rather their Meat Avatars Ric Hoogestraat and Janet Spielman were - when Dutch's real life wife Sue caught their avs inflagrante delicto. Not that weddings are unusual about 30,000 "partnerings" have taken place there. Two of the doc's subjects, Tenaj Jackalope and Dutch Hoorenbeek, are among SL's most famous residents courtesy of their SL marriage. Which might explain why the majority of SL's 1.4 million denizens are oldsters reliving their Journey-loving youth and escaping their mundane RL existence. The whole aesthetic of SL might be described as a 1980s version of "hot," right down to the skimpy Madonna-wannabe fashions of yester-year. They shop, dance, go skiing, buy houses, furnish them, and many fall in love. People can be vampires, elves, or pirates, but the majority opt to become impossibly beautiful projections of their inner selves who live in an idealized ordinary world. Unlike role-playing games such as World of Warcraft, where everyone is an elf or troll engaged in Tolkien-inspired adventures, SL is exactly as the name implies - a chance at a Second Life. Every resident is issued an avatar - a virtual reality representation of himself - and that av could be anything, or either sex. 28 at 9 p.m., tells the tale of a quartet of SL "residents" who fall in love with other players in the game, and ditch their real life spouses.Īlthough Second Life is billed as a role-playing game, that's a bit of a misnomer - it's more of an old-fashioned chat room with graphics. The CBC documentary Strangers in Paradise, which airs Wednesday, Jan. The Tyee welcomes Akhila Menon, joining us through a new program that seeks to diversify Canada’s media ecosystems. Please enable JavaScript before you proceed.Īnnouncements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Meet Our 2022 JHR Fellow Your browser either doesn't support JavaScript or you have it turned off. $180 per year is a common, generous amount. You choose the amount that works for you and you can cancel at any time. Your $180 per year will help grow our independent newsroom If you share that belief, and you’d like to help us keep publishing our stories, please consider joining us today. We believe that our region needs and deserves quality, investigative journalism that gets to the heart of what matters. $15 per month is a common, generous amount. We’re looking for more people to sign up for a monthly or annual commitment to help us meet our budget goals and plan ahead for the future. The only way all of this works is if readers who appreciate our work step up to support it. We track every dollar carefully and the vast majority of our revenue goes towards paying for in-depth journalism that you won’t read anywhere else. The Tyee is a Canadian reader-funded news organization. These amazing people chip in an amount that works for them on a monthly, annual or one-time basis so that we can pay our talented journalists and keep our articles freely accessible to everyone. The reason you were able to read that whole article without hitting a paywall or being hit with a ton of different ads is because our publication is supported by thousands of readers who we call Tyee Builders. Most of our articles are considered long in today’s digital media world. You made it to the very bottom of this article, which we hope means that you found it valuable. Your $15 per month will help grow our independent newsroom
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