one hundred fourteen

there's a computer game called "second life" where you create a character and this character lives out his life in a virtual or alternate reality. ohhhh-kay... but, where it really gets weird is these characters - who are purely fictional - can actually make you (the creator) real money in the real world. AND these characters can actually earn real degrees at university.

this blurring of realities is incredibly bizarre and frankly incredibly creepy. i cannot possibly begin to understand how a dissociation and disengagement from the real world is - in any way, shape or form - healthy. it has bad (and a criminal minds episode) written all over it.