I was writing a piece earlier tonight about a video game
where Internet “trolls” (and those they attack) could challenge each other to
fight in some online individual combat video game, to get their aggressions out
at each other. And while I was writing it, I misspelled “mortal” as “martal”,
and that made me think of the word “marital”. And then it occurred to me that
maybe married couples could get their aggressions out against each other safely
without real fighting by playing a fighting video game called “Marital Kombat”
(like Mortal Kombat). And if nothing
else, maybe this could be some video game where people play a video game
version of a divorce case in court, only with extra fun stuff, like Mortal
Kombat character abilities, like shooting
fireballs at their enemy lawyer, or with the woman having those long stretchy
arms so she could slap someone’s face from across the room. And maybe they
could have real characters who endorse the game, like famous divorced people, like
Kobe Bryant and his ex-wife, or Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. And maybe this
could be a way for famous people to make extra money to make up for what they
lose in a divorce: being paid to be a character in this video game. And
seriously, with all the muckraking scandal-rag celebrity “journalism” there is
these days, maybe this would be a hugely successful enterprise: Marital
Kombat: The Divorce Video Game. (And maybe
couples could use their kids as literal weapons against one another in divorce
court here, just like they do in real life!)
