Despite popular opinion that dorks are always loners that fester in front of their computers playing WoW and not showering, they do sometimes fall in love and actually get married. In some cases, in fact, all those geeky skills can be used for great results, such as this marriage proposal in which a guy proposed to his girlfriend by homebrewing a copy of Bejeweled (from scratch!) and having a ring drop onto the screen to ask for her hand.
Somehow this makes me feel that my fantasy of having a three-tiered wedding cake in the shape of Midgar feel a little trite. At any rate, she said yes (what kind of properly geeky girl would say no to that?) Cheers to Bernie for raising the romance bar using homebrew. This ought to buzz up some talk about honorable mention of innovative usage!
[Via Wired-- thanks, Justin]
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11:49 AM on 03.07.2008
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Great story, Colette. Perfect way to start the weekend.
Keep that Midgar cake dream alive!
And as long as I'm fantasizing hopelessly I'd like a million dollars.
Practical? No. But just think of all the misadventures waiting ti happen!
It reminds me of a news story I read (I think in Game Informer) years ago of a guy asking his girl to marry him with a custom map in THPS2, with a chain combo around the map that added up to say "Will You Marry Me?"
It's like Warioware, but they get married at the end.
Crazy stuff. Also Hard Gay.
Also, my GF teabags me in counterstrike.
My girlfriend would dump me if I proposed over a DS game; I'm sure of it.
http://www.xanga.com/p3ng/635897016/a-nerdy-proposal-story-im-engaged.html
He did the knee and ACTUAL RING thing after she saw the Bejeweled Ring.
... Wow I just noticed ... beJEWELed and ring. Holy crap, Friday's are so slow.