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The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown

posted by martyb on Saturday November 10 2018, @11:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the leaving-the-basement dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

Mr Brown, now 24, dropped out of college and spent the following years at home - gaming, in chat rooms and reading about politics.

He became almost entirely immersed in an online world of "echo chambers" where he felt the pull of extremism and cybercrime.

Mr Brown, from Ashton, Cornwall, says he became increasingly "eccentric" and eventually lost touch with reality.

"I can count the number of times I went out in a seven-year period on both of my hands," he says.

...

He finally decided to seek help and ended up taking part in the Real Ideas Organisation's (RIO) Game Changer programme, which aims to encourage young people to develop skills and overcome any issues they face before getting them into work, education or training.

7 years. Not bad. Can anyone beat that?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @04:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @04:10PM (#760365)

    If only people really believed that, rather than it just being a meme spread around almost entirely by filthy normies (i.e. those who are attracted to real people).

  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Saturday November 10 2018, @06:31PM (1 child)

    by unauthorized (3776) on Saturday November 10 2018, @06:31PM (#760439)

    The original meme is based on a true story. I can't remember the name of the app now, but years ago there was a mobile tamagochi-esque anime girlfriend simulator that was all the rage in Japan, and one dude decided to actually start treating the app like a real relationship. Long story short, 4chan found that particular event funny, and made it into a joke. While the term caught on in wizard circles later, it started very much as a joke.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @12:06AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @12:06AM (#760524)

      The specific meme "3DPD" comes from a 4chan thread in which a Japanese person complains about Americans in broken English: "Americans are pig disgusting!"
      This peculiar phrase was then paired with a more appropriate object, 3D (as opposed to 2D anime) women.

      NB: while there are many similarities and considerable overlap, wizards/incels are very much distinct from the otaku who enjoy a pure and devoted relationship with their 2D waifu.
      Fun fact: Waifuism is the third most popular religion in Japan, behind Shintō and Buddhism.