October 26, 2007 12:42 PM PDT

Dwight Schrute gets a 'Second Life,' still needs a first one

(Credit: NBC TV)

On Thursday night's episode of The Office on NBC, dweeby Dwight Schrute (played by Rainn Wilson) revealed himself to be a Second Life addict--something that doesn't require any suspension of disbelief.

The Second Life banter began when Dwight's notably less nerdy co-worker, Jim (played by John Krasinski), asked Dwight if he was "playing that game again."

"Second Life is not a game," Dwight replied authoritatively. "It is a multi-user virtual environment. It doesn't have points or scores; it doesn't have winners or losers."

With all the deadpan wit that's made The Office the hit that it is, Jim fixed his glance on Dwight and commented, "Oh, it has losers."

Dwight, who said that his "life is so great that (he) literally wanted a second one," is known as Dwight Shelford in-world. Just in case you see him flying around.

(Link via Valleywag, which has a video.)

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This is what you look like..........
by play7 October 28, 2007 8:08 PM PDT
When you play second more then one week...........The lag, people without lives that hange on the game because they just don`t have a life. In this photo is a linden see how upset he looks because he can`t figure out how to deal with all the unpaying accounts flooding the game.
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