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Virtual reality games usually promise shoot 'em up adventures but in Hong Kong Friday lovelorn tech fans donned headsets to go on imaginary dates.
The city's annual Ani-Com and Games fair sees thousands queue to try out the latest consoles or buy up comic book collectibles, often dressed up as their favourite characters.
But for those who had spent too long alone in their rooms, a new VR smartphone app offered some romantic solace.
Users can choose between four female models and spend a vacation with them in either Japan or Thailand, joining them on trips to cafes, hot springs and karaoke.
They slot their phones into a plastic headset and are then immersed on a date, during which they can choose options for activities.
Promoters of the Hong Kong-made app, which is known by its Cantonese name "leoi yau" or "VR travel friend", said it was to help what they called "Otakus" to practise their dating skills.
The name is a Japanese term for obsessive manga or anime fans.
"We want to allow more people to try out what it's like to date a girl because there are a lot of Otakus who don't know how to communicate with girls," Margaret Ming, the app's communication officer, told AFP.
"This game can teach them how to get to know girls," Ming said, adding that there is some flirting involved in the story arcs with the models.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:32PM (6 children)
LOL, real men won't have anything to do with women. Why on earth would we want to have to work hard to impress a shallow woman to be with us? Then have to deal with decades of emotional blackmail on the off chance that she decides that she no longer loves us and decides to have the courts bend us over and take all of our good stuff?
Apparently you think that real men are tools.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:41PM
So, you're gay, right? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Bros before hoes, amiright?!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @05:03PM (3 children)
A real man can hold down a high paying job, buy a house, hang with his friends, do hobbies and stuff by himself, get a girlfriend, and raise a family. If he wants to, that's what a real man can do. What can a bunch of whiny whiners do?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @03:43AM (1 child)
And yet, most of the MGTOW have all those things except the women and children. In fact, the more money a man has, the more he has to lose if he's foolish enough to get married. With no-fault divorces, and a divorce system set up to provide for women, why would any man in his right mind take that risk?
Plus, if you don't get married, then you don't have to work as hard or if you do work hard, you can spend all the money on yourself having a good time.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @03:28PM
The main reason prostitution is illegal, at least I'm coming to think this, is because it would free men from horrors of divorce.
Secondly, so many here place the blame for a bad marriage on the man. Let's say you meet a wonderful, smart, independent, engaging woman and decide to become married. Then two years in she totally stops trying, stops working, whines and complains about everything. In the mean time you build a business, suggest and do counseling, try to make her happy but another 8 years down the road, you lose half or more of everything you worked your ass off for because that's how divorce works these days. Women have the same opportunities as men these days, at least below the CEO level which is sort of the irrelevant outlier level anyway, even for men, but when you get to divorce court, they are treated like delicate flowers from a time when they spent hours scrubbing clothes by hand, cooking, cleaning, and otherwise contributing if they did not work out of the home. Middle aged men are despised by society and abused by the law. We are treated like beasts of burden.
If you got lucky enough to marry someone not like this, congratulations, you won the lottery. For the rest of us though -- we just wish we had never been mislead by our mates and by the system we toil in. I hope I live long enough to see adequate sex-bots because the women who abuse men in this way are going to absolutely lose their shit once they see the end of their power.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @02:27PM
Apparently, ramble about what losers "whiny whiners" are on an online forum by comparing them to their idealized notion of the real man they wish they were.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @05:02AM
Hear that? That's the wail of the perpetually aggrieved man-child! At one time it was hypothesized to be a sort of mating call designed to draw in potential mates out of pity. More recently, it is understood to be maladaptive as it is actually repellent to members of the opposite sex.