arniejolt
10-08-2007, 02:11 PM
I doubt you'll get away with chocolate coins for wedding presents...from Gamestop (http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25967685):
When David Rosowski, a 27-year-old multimedia specialist for Florida Community College, decided to ask his girlfriend to marry him, he wanted it to be a proposal to remember.
It certainly was--he and his fiancée Jenn Palmer, a 23-year-old substitute teacher, found themselves all over the news and featured on Web sites in far-flung countries, such as Chile, South Africa, and Germany.
The reason? Rosowski (username Procrasturbate) proposed to his beloved by using the game Viva Pinata, which both of them enjoy playing. He painstakingly built up experience in the game world, which allowed him to build a mine. He then recruited four diggerlings (miners) to work the mine, along with building them a house to sleep in, paying them fair wages, and giving them a lantern and a Candary (a canary pinata) to ensure their safety. The diggerlings then started to mine all sorts of gems, and eventually they came across a diamond.
Rosowski sent the virtual diamond to his girlfriend (username Poetic Sunrise), along with the message "Will you marry me?" Palmer, who was in another room in the house, then presented Jenn with the real ring. She said, "At first I thought he was joking...then I realised that he was not kidding at all."
Rosowski told GameSpot that he chose Viva Pinata to make his proposal because he was trying to come up with a unique way of popping the question. He laughed, "I wasn't aware that you could get a diamond in this game, so when I found one, the idea just clicked."
The two are planning their wedding for next year and intend to hold the wedding, reception, and honeymoon on a cruise ship. They are hoping to hold the ceremony with something of a Viva Pinata theme, given all the publicity and interest the story has stirred up. Rosowski said, "There's a company called DecoPac, which create Viva Pinata cake decor and party favours. I called them and they hope to get their stuff on shelves in the USA by March. If so, we are going to design a Viva Pinata wedding cake topper, with myself as a profitamole and Jenn as a bunnycomb.
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To Harvest or not to Harvest, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The pipes and bullets of outrageous Splicers,
Or to take arms against a horde of Big Daddies,
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep...
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c342/ARNie00/tonarinobigdaddysig.jpg
my deviant gallery
http://arnie00.deviantart.com
When David Rosowski, a 27-year-old multimedia specialist for Florida Community College, decided to ask his girlfriend to marry him, he wanted it to be a proposal to remember.
It certainly was--he and his fiancée Jenn Palmer, a 23-year-old substitute teacher, found themselves all over the news and featured on Web sites in far-flung countries, such as Chile, South Africa, and Germany.
The reason? Rosowski (username Procrasturbate) proposed to his beloved by using the game Viva Pinata, which both of them enjoy playing. He painstakingly built up experience in the game world, which allowed him to build a mine. He then recruited four diggerlings (miners) to work the mine, along with building them a house to sleep in, paying them fair wages, and giving them a lantern and a Candary (a canary pinata) to ensure their safety. The diggerlings then started to mine all sorts of gems, and eventually they came across a diamond.
Rosowski sent the virtual diamond to his girlfriend (username Poetic Sunrise), along with the message "Will you marry me?" Palmer, who was in another room in the house, then presented Jenn with the real ring. She said, "At first I thought he was joking...then I realised that he was not kidding at all."
Rosowski told GameSpot that he chose Viva Pinata to make his proposal because he was trying to come up with a unique way of popping the question. He laughed, "I wasn't aware that you could get a diamond in this game, so when I found one, the idea just clicked."
The two are planning their wedding for next year and intend to hold the wedding, reception, and honeymoon on a cruise ship. They are hoping to hold the ceremony with something of a Viva Pinata theme, given all the publicity and interest the story has stirred up. Rosowski said, "There's a company called DecoPac, which create Viva Pinata cake decor and party favours. I called them and they hope to get their stuff on shelves in the USA by March. If so, we are going to design a Viva Pinata wedding cake topper, with myself as a profitamole and Jenn as a bunnycomb.
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To Harvest or not to Harvest, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The pipes and bullets of outrageous Splicers,
Or to take arms against a horde of Big Daddies,
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep...
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c342/ARNie00/tonarinobigdaddysig.jpg
my deviant gallery
http://arnie00.deviantart.com
