My wife pretty much doesn't care about my gaming, but like a few others have said she's happy having me sit in the basement playing games then out doing things that could get me in trouble. She will play the occasional game, she likes the Fable games, and her friend introduced her to Skyrim which she thinks is neat, but she is naturally a PC gamer at heart and prefers the keyboard and mouse, otherwise she would probably be playing Skyrim an awful lot.
Last time I went to visit my girlfriend's family in Ohio, we went to a place just outside of Cleveland called 16-bit. It's a "barcade" as you cleverly called it. The place was great! All the machines were on free play as long as you were actually a patron of the bar and not just loitering. My girlfriend and I played Terminator 2: The Arcade Game and I came to realize something: that game was not designed to be beaten. If we had been playing with quarters, we would've spent about 15 bucks each getting to T-1000, and probably another 20 trying to beat him, which never actually happened. We had to give up and walk away from it. Awesome experience though! The place had all Nintendo-themed decor and the people that worked there were all gamers. Can't wait to go again.
A "barcade" opened up near me 5 months ago or so. Everything is set to a quarter and they have all the 80s classics. My wife and I were still living apart for career reasons so I went there every weekend we weren't together. Its funny the term barcade came up - one night a drunk girlfriend of a gamer kept going off to the owners about how it should have been called barcade. The place is called Coin-op cantina, which everyone else seemed to think is equally clever, but she disagreed. I went there a lot and became friends with the owners. One even house sat and watched my dog when I was out of town. They text whenever they are thinking about new machines, other changes, events, etc.
I don't get there as much now that my wife and I are under one roof, but they are doing a ton better - we are in a college town so once school came back, they kind of blew up. They don't forget the five of us or so who were there blowing $ just to be supportive, and I was definitely doing that. I'd tip close to 100% and pump quarter after quarter. I felt like the bar was made for guys like me, and there aren't that many in this area so we need to do what we can to keep them going. Don't get to go as much, but still get treated like a king. Where were these places when I was in my twenties?
My wife is not into gaming, but its not at all an issue. She has interests that I am not into, fashion brands, bravo tv shows, etc. We have plenty of mutual interests, and plenty that aren't mutual. I respect her right to spend money and time on what she likes, and she respects my right to do the same. She will be happy for me when I come across an underpriced game and will listen to me go on about how cool it is and what a score I got. I do the same for her when she finds a great sale on pair of high end shoes. I have posted in more detail about this in previous threads, but in short, if you respect each other and have a healthy relationship, having some different interests is no big deal at all. I actually like that we have our mutual interests that we enjoy doing together, but also have our own things. I don't know if I would want to have EVERYTHING in common, but too each their own.
"...Instead the annoyance simply comes from their disdain for gaming, and the fact that it's a social outlet for their boyfriends/husbands that they aren't participating in."
This is the crux of a lot of relationship fights over gaming. It goes beyond gaming. I've found it to be hobbies in general. I've noticed nearly identical situations with my friends and their girlfriends, and I've found it's not even the gaming that their significant others hate; it's the fact that the guy has something else distracting him from the relationship(i.e. taking attanetion away from her). You can swap the genders here, it's not gender specific. It could be that one of them is a musician, and is involved in a scene of bands and fans. They could be an artist, etc etc. The person in the relationship that hates what the other person does, I've found to usually feel that way out of jealousy that someone has an interest/hobby and they don't.
That's why, when I started dating my now-wife, I made it clear to her that the things I do, I will continue to do. I play music, I play table top RPG's, and I play hella video games. These things were not likely to change, and that she'd have to accept(or join in, even) those aspects of my life, so long as my committments to our relationship were being met(time with her, the kids, etc). We've been togther 9 years, and I've eased way up on my hobbies since becoming a family man. But, she never asked me to do it; I decided myself, to scale back my hobbies to spend more time with my family.
Luckily, she's a little bit of a gamer herself, so we have a mutual interest there. She's extremely casual, and doesn't enjoy FPS games at all. But she's taken a big interest in Elder Scrolls Online, I just wish there was a way we could both play without needing either two PC's or two Xbox One's.
My significant other loves NES stuff, she grew up with it at home. She does like newer games like Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. We are on world 3 of Yoshis Woolly World right now and have probably beaten 10-20 platformer type games in co-op.
She is the reason I picked up Rescue Rangers 2, back when the price was at around 150 dollars. That is by far her favorite game.
My wife is very supportive of my hobby and since she loves to shop and find a deal she goes to conventions, flea markets, stores, etc... With me for the hunt. She plays on occasion but loves the hunt and will get me games from time to time. She keeps me in check so I don't spend too much and it works great for us. We do play together rarely but she will usually play a handheld game while I am on the console..
Well my wife of ten years is supportive of both my main hobbies...retro gaming and retro baseball/football/basketball cards (I also like books too). She recently received an inheritance from her late mother and graciously have a small portion to help me get caught up in both. And (I'll make a topic about this a little later) among other things I was FINALLY, at long last able to get a WII U!!!!!! And the special Zelda New 3DS XL pre-ordered due out around Halloweenish! Yay, yippie skippie!!!!
My husband's a modern gamer, but I got him to play the Incident with me! If we game together, which is rare, it's usually an adventure game or an MMO. He hates my "reading" games and when I try and play an action title with him he starts shouting out instructions and I quit. His true love lately has been Minecraft, which I can't play due to severe motion sickness. If he plays anything retro it generally has to be something he grew up with, like Contra or SMW.
We do a lot of table top gaming together though. We both enjoy nerdy board games, card games, and role playing. It's really just video games we disagree on.
My wife is not into gaming, but its not at all an issue. She has interests that I am not into, fashion brands, bravo tv shows, etc. We have plenty of mutual interests, and plenty that aren't mutual. I respect her right to spend money and time on what she likes, and she respects my right to do the same. She will be happy for me when I come across an underpriced game and will listen to me go on about how cool it is and what a score I got. I do the same for her when she finds a great sale on pair of high end shoes. I have posted in more detail about this in previous threads, but in short, if you respect each other and have a healthy relationship, having some different interests is no big deal at all. I actually like that we have our mutual interests that we enjoy doing together, but also have our own things. I don't know if I would want to have EVERYTHING in common, but too each their own.
Pretty much this.
My fiance and I like a lot of the same music. We bond over classic rock and 80s pop, despite being born in different decades. My fiance watches gruesome horror movies. I play video games. We are soul mates.
My wife is not into gaming, but its not at all an issue. She has interests that I am not into, fashion brands, bravo tv shows, etc. We have plenty of mutual interests, and plenty that aren't mutual. I respect her right to spend money and time on what she likes, and she respects my right to do the same. She will be happy for me when I come across an underpriced game and will listen to me go on about how cool it is and what a score I got. I do the same for her when she finds a great sale on pair of high end shoes. I have posted in more detail about this in previous threads, but in short, if you respect each other and have a healthy relationship, having some different interests is no big deal at all. I actually like that we have our mutual interests that we enjoy doing together, but also have our own things. I don't know if I would want to have EVERYTHING in common, but too each their own.
Pretty much this.
My fiance and I like a lot of the same music. We bond over classic rock and 80s pop, despite being born in different decades. My fiance watches gruesome horror movies. I play video games. We are soul mates.
Just wait until the new Friday the 13th game finally comes out. You'll fall in love all over again lol
I kinda got my boyfriend into collecting. He always played games even when he was a kid but wasn't considered a collector. I'm the collector of the of the two. He wasn't too big on the idea because he just supported me in whatever I wanted to buy. But now he actively seeks out certain games because I "taught" him what to looking for. He even got his 1st amiibo the other day and refused to open it because it looked nice in the package. So I cut the bottom with an exct-o knife so it stayed nice.
We love playing co-op games together like Borderlands. We spend countless amount of time on that one. We also have a modded xbox so we can play arcade games together to discover what are good ones.
Games actually the main reason why we are together. I was super shy and wouldn't talk about anything else but games. We have been together for almost 8 years officially. Still going strong. See video games can be a good thing.
I kinda got my boyfriend into collecting. He always played games even when he was a kid but wasn't considered a collector. I'm the collector of the of the two. He wasn't too big on the idea because he just supported me in whatever I wanted to buy. But now he actively seeks out certain games because I "taught" him what to looking for. He even got his 1st amiibo the other day and refused to open it because it looked nice in the package. So I cut the bottom with an exct-o knife so it stayed nice.
We love playing co-op games together like Borderlands. We spend countless amount of time on that one. We also have a modded xbox so we can play arcade games together to discover what are good ones.
Games actually the main reason why we are together. I was super shy and wouldn't talk about anything else but games. We have been together for almost 8 years officially. Still going strong. See video games can be a good thing.
Awesome story...games were also a huge reason for a bond between me and my girlfriend.
My husband and I game and collect together. We sometimes joke we're bad for each other because we egg each other on to buy stuff. When we were house shopping last year, we both knew we wanted something with a secondary living room to convert into a game room.
My girlfriend and I have a running joke when I'm dying a lot or having difficulty on a certain level. She makes fun of me and says "I thought you were good at video games??" Haha, it's pretty hilarious.
My girlfriend and I have a running joke when I'm dying a lot or having difficulty on a certain level. She makes fun of me and says "I thought you were good at video games??" Haha, it's pretty hilarious.
One time my girlfriend was watching me play Contra right after dinner, and after I died a couple of times she made fun of me saying "I thought you said you were good at Contra?", so I responded, "well, I thought you said you were good at cooking!" Whoops. Safe to say I wasn't presented with the opportunity to ask her "I thought you said were good at sex??" that night.
My girlfriend and I have a running joke when I'm dying a lot or having difficulty on a certain level. She makes fun of me and says "I thought you were good at video games??" Haha, it's pretty hilarious.
One time my girlfriend was watching me play Contra right after dinner, and after I died a couple of times she made fun of me saying "I thought you said you were good at Contra?", so I responded, "well, I thought you said you were good at cooking!" Whoops. Safe to say I wasn't presented with the opportunity to ask her "I thought you said were good at sex??" that night.
My fiance busts out laughing when I die a lot. Well she used to. She rarely watches me anymore...
@Quazonk: You deserved to sleep on the couch after a remark like that. My fiance would put me in the doghouse if I insulted her cooking. She does cook a mean roast though...
My fiance busts out laughing when I die a lot. Well she used to. She rarely watches me anymore...
@Quazonk: You deserved to sleep on the couch after a remark like that. My fiance would put me in the doghouse if I insulted her cooking. She does cook a mean roast though...
The best part was, the dinner was actually awesome and took her all afternoon to prepare. The internet troll in me bled into my real life and I just couldn't pass up the easy setup that time. It was worth the reaction. The bruise on my arm healed pretty quickly, too.
My fiance busts out laughing when I die a lot. Well she used to. She rarely watches me anymore...
@Quazonk: You deserved to sleep on the couch after a remark like that. My fiance would put me in the doghouse if I insulted her cooking. She does cook a mean roast though...
The best part was, the dinner was actually awesome and took her all afternoon to prepare. The internet troll in me bled into my real life and I just couldn't pass up the easy setup that time. It was worth the reaction. The bruise on my arm healed pretty quickly, too.
Ouch, that's a couch-worthy comment for sure.
We laugh all the time while I'm dying. It keeps it from getting too frustrating.
My fiance busts out laughing when I die a lot. Well she used to. She rarely watches me anymore...
@Quazonk: You deserved to sleep on the couch after a remark like that. My fiance would put me in the doghouse if I insulted her cooking. She does cook a mean roast though...
The best part was, the dinner was actually awesome and took her all afternoon to prepare. The internet troll in me bled into my real life and I just couldn't pass up the easy setup that time. It was worth the reaction. The bruise on my arm healed pretty quickly, too.
Ouch, that's a couch-worthy comment for sure.
We laugh all the time while I'm dying. It keeps it from getting too frustrating.
Hey I considered us even after she made fun of my skills in Contra. She might have spent all afternoon on that meal, but I've spent over 25 years honing my skills in Contra
Which is fine by me. She always says she would rather have me in the basement gaming then out at the bars, etc.
I wish my wife would appreciate that last part. There are much worse things in life then collecting video games.
Been with my girlfriend for over 5+ years now, and have lived with her 3 of those. She did some MMO stuff with me back when I first moved in and I was still in single-guy "gamer" mode, but overtime she soured on it (as did I when I got a new job and moved in and had no time). She adopted a similar mindset regarding my collecting and gaming, that I could be doing a ton worse with my time and money.
When it comes to collecting she is tolerant to a point. I will occasionally be scolded, especially if I spend a ton of $ on something (which is rare but has happened), but overall she won't jump down my throat about it providing I have the room to keep it out of her hair.
She had a Wii for the party aspect (would often babysit her nephews), but besides that she hasn't had any interest in console gaming in the past few generations (nor have I for that matter; the PC + Steam/Origin has spoiled me).
We do a lot of table top gaming together though. We both enjoy nerdy board games, card games, and role playing. It's really just video games we disagree on.
This is something that makes me wish I had kept closer tabs and communication with people from my earlier life; being able to put together a table top gaming night by just setting one up.
Nowadays they are all family men, into other stuff, have changed so much we no longer have something in common/don't talk... or have moved far away. At one point I was part of a group of 6-8 table-top guys now nada.
If it wasn't for my younger sisters boyfriend being a Pathfinder fan I would have never been able to let my girlfriend experience table top gaming. (Too bad the game wasn't run great).
I was collecting a few years before I met my girlfriend. Our first date consisted of playing Goldeneye on the N64, and she bet me! I learnt she grew up playing games and because of that she took an interest. Now she collects with me and she is almost as much in to it as me. For the most part, we collect the same stuff but we each have different things we also like to collect for in terms of video games so we tend to learn a lot from each other.
At least once a week we try and make time to play a game together. NES is usually the system of choice.
My girlfriend just doesn't get it, and she hates all of the parcels I receive from everywhere in the world, containing games. She didn't believe me when I took a one-week vacation to Japan for the sake of purchasing games, figuring there was a girl in the picture (though there wasn't).
Last weekend we got to talking about some stupid stuff, and I eventually told her of how Jackie Chan had endorsed Subor (a Chinese-made Famiclone that was popular in Russia during the 90s), and even made a karaoke game/machine cartridge. I think I hit a double whammy there, gaming and mainland China, haha, she was less than enthused and many snarky comments followed. Need I say more?
"...Instead the annoyance simply comes from their disdain for gaming, and the fact that it's a social outlet for their boyfriends/husbands that they aren't participating in."
This is the crux of a lot of relationship fights over gaming. It goes beyond gaming. I've found it to be hobbies in general. I've noticed nearly identical situations with my friends and their girlfriends, and I've found it's not even the gaming that their significant others hate; it's the fact that the guy has something else distracting him from the relationship(i.e. taking attanetion away from her). You can swap the genders here, it's not gender specific. It could be that one of them is a musician, and is involved in a scene of bands and fans. They could be an artist, etc etc. The person in the relationship that hates what the other person does, I've found to usually feel that way out of jealousy that someone has an interest/hobby and they don't.
I just want to quote this one, as I think there is a lot of truth in it.
I have a lot of hobbies ranging from gaming to guitars, foreign languages to homebrewing. At first, my girlfriend was impressed by my vast knowledge on so many subjects, my interests, etc, but eventually it turned to a passionate dislike and barely supporting me on these things. I think it all has to do with a jealousy thing, basically that if we aren't seeing each other for some reason or another, I am not just going to sit around and wallow in my sorrows, rather have other interests to take up with other people, whereas she would rather just mope around the house if I am called to work for a Saturday or something like that. But alas, with the way that I do work, I really value my free time too much to follow in suit like she does.
Last night I asked "So, what do you want to do tonight?" and my girlfriend is like "I thought you were going to play Mario Galaxy Twwwwwwwwooooooooo... "
"Haha, I sure am..."
The Super Mario Galaxy duology are the greatest 3D Marios ever made. That's not to say M64 and Sunshine aren't equally awesome though. Or SM3D Land/World if only Nintendo could stop with the cookie cutter "New Mario" forula and make their 3D games have more of "free-roaming worlds" and less of "glorified obstacle courses on a 3D grid."
We do a lot of table top gaming together though. We both enjoy nerdy board games, card games, and role playing. It's really just video games we disagree on.
This is something that makes me wish I had kept closer tabs and communication with people from my earlier life; being able to put together a table top gaming night by just setting one up.
Nowadays they are all family men, into other stuff, have changed so much we no longer have something in common/don't talk... or have moved far away. At one point I was part of a group of 6-8 table-top guys now nada.
If it wasn't for my younger sisters boyfriend being a Pathfinder fan I would have never been able to let my girlfriend experience table top gaming. (Too bad the game wasn't run great).
I can relate. When D&D 3.5 was the main game out there, I was part of multiple groups weekly. Our extended roster of players was close to 15 people. Now, I don't even game anymore. Combination of newer editions splitting groups down to taking sides, guys becoming "family men," etc. I played hardcore for 13 or so years, and gave it up about a month ago myself.
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Last time I went to visit my girlfriend's family in Ohio, we went to a place just outside of Cleveland called 16-bit. It's a "barcade" as you cleverly called it. The place was great! All the machines were on free play as long as you were actually a patron of the bar and not just loitering. My girlfriend and I played Terminator 2: The Arcade Game and I came to realize something: that game was not designed to be beaten. If we had been playing with quarters, we would've spent about 15 bucks each getting to T-1000, and probably another 20 trying to beat him, which never actually happened. We had to give up and walk away from it. Awesome experience though! The place had all Nintendo-themed decor and the people that worked there were all gamers. Can't wait to go again.
A "barcade" opened up near me 5 months ago or so. Everything is set to a quarter and they have all the 80s classics. My wife and I were still living apart for career reasons so I went there every weekend we weren't together. Its funny the term barcade came up - one night a drunk girlfriend of a gamer kept going off to the owners about how it should have been called barcade. The place is called Coin-op cantina, which everyone else seemed to think is equally clever, but she disagreed. I went there a lot and became friends with the owners. One even house sat and watched my dog when I was out of town. They text whenever they are thinking about new machines, other changes, events, etc.
I don't get there as much now that my wife and I are under one roof, but they are doing a ton better - we are in a college town so once school came back, they kind of blew up. They don't forget the five of us or so who were there blowing $ just to be supportive, and I was definitely doing that. I'd tip close to 100% and pump quarter after quarter. I felt like the bar was made for guys like me, and there aren't that many in this area so we need to do what we can to keep them going. Don't get to go as much, but still get treated like a king. Where were these places when I was in my twenties?
My wife is not into gaming, but its not at all an issue. She has interests that I am not into, fashion brands, bravo tv shows, etc. We have plenty of mutual interests, and plenty that aren't mutual. I respect her right to spend money and time on what she likes, and she respects my right to do the same. She will be happy for me when I come across an underpriced game and will listen to me go on about how cool it is and what a score I got. I do the same for her when she finds a great sale on pair of high end shoes. I have posted in more detail about this in previous threads, but in short, if you respect each other and have a healthy relationship, having some different interests is no big deal at all. I actually like that we have our mutual interests that we enjoy doing together, but also have our own things. I don't know if I would want to have EVERYTHING in common, but too each their own.
Pretty much this.
"...Instead the annoyance simply comes from their disdain for gaming, and the fact that it's a social outlet for their boyfriends/husbands that they aren't participating in."
This is the crux of a lot of relationship fights over gaming. It goes beyond gaming. I've found it to be hobbies in general. I've noticed nearly identical situations with my friends and their girlfriends, and I've found it's not even the gaming that their significant others hate; it's the fact that the guy has something else distracting him from the relationship(i.e. taking attanetion away from her). You can swap the genders here, it's not gender specific. It could be that one of them is a musician, and is involved in a scene of bands and fans. They could be an artist, etc etc. The person in the relationship that hates what the other person does, I've found to usually feel that way out of jealousy that someone has an interest/hobby and they don't.
That's why, when I started dating my now-wife, I made it clear to her that the things I do, I will continue to do. I play music, I play table top RPG's, and I play hella video games. These things were not likely to change, and that she'd have to accept(or join in, even) those aspects of my life, so long as my committments to our relationship were being met(time with her, the kids, etc). We've been togther 9 years, and I've eased way up on my hobbies since becoming a family man. But, she never asked me to do it; I decided myself, to scale back my hobbies to spend more time with my family.
Luckily, she's a little bit of a gamer herself, so we have a mutual interest there. She's extremely casual, and doesn't enjoy FPS games at all. But she's taken a big interest in Elder Scrolls Online, I just wish there was a way we could both play without needing either two PC's or two Xbox One's.
She is the reason I picked up Rescue Rangers 2, back when the price was at around 150 dollars. That is by far her favorite game.
Originally posted by: MrWunderful
Ah yes, #humblebrag thread
"Be not afraid to engage in the storytelling of ones lovah when the opportunity presents itself!"
We do a lot of table top gaming together though. We both enjoy nerdy board games, card games, and role playing. It's really just video games we disagree on.
My wife is not into gaming, but its not at all an issue. She has interests that I am not into, fashion brands, bravo tv shows, etc. We have plenty of mutual interests, and plenty that aren't mutual. I respect her right to spend money and time on what she likes, and she respects my right to do the same. She will be happy for me when I come across an underpriced game and will listen to me go on about how cool it is and what a score I got. I do the same for her when she finds a great sale on pair of high end shoes. I have posted in more detail about this in previous threads, but in short, if you respect each other and have a healthy relationship, having some different interests is no big deal at all. I actually like that we have our mutual interests that we enjoy doing together, but also have our own things. I don't know if I would want to have EVERYTHING in common, but too each their own.
Pretty much this.
My fiance and I like a lot of the same music. We bond over classic rock and 80s pop, despite being born in different decades. My fiance watches gruesome horror movies. I play video games. We are soul mates.
My wife is not into gaming, but its not at all an issue. She has interests that I am not into, fashion brands, bravo tv shows, etc. We have plenty of mutual interests, and plenty that aren't mutual. I respect her right to spend money and time on what she likes, and she respects my right to do the same. She will be happy for me when I come across an underpriced game and will listen to me go on about how cool it is and what a score I got. I do the same for her when she finds a great sale on pair of high end shoes. I have posted in more detail about this in previous threads, but in short, if you respect each other and have a healthy relationship, having some different interests is no big deal at all. I actually like that we have our mutual interests that we enjoy doing together, but also have our own things. I don't know if I would want to have EVERYTHING in common, but too each their own.
Pretty much this.
My fiance and I like a lot of the same music. We bond over classic rock and 80s pop, despite being born in different decades. My fiance watches gruesome horror movies. I play video games. We are soul mates.
Just wait until the new Friday the 13th game finally comes out. You'll fall in love all over again lol
We love playing co-op games together like Borderlands. We spend countless amount of time on that one. We also have a modded xbox so we can play arcade games together to discover what are good ones.
Games actually the main reason why we are together. I was super shy and wouldn't talk about anything else but games. We have been together for almost 8 years officially. Still going strong. See video games can be a good thing.
I kinda got my boyfriend into collecting. He always played games even when he was a kid but wasn't considered a collector. I'm the collector of the of the two. He wasn't too big on the idea because he just supported me in whatever I wanted to buy. But now he actively seeks out certain games because I "taught" him what to looking for. He even got his 1st amiibo the other day and refused to open it because it looked nice in the package. So I cut the bottom with an exct-o knife so it stayed nice.
We love playing co-op games together like Borderlands. We spend countless amount of time on that one. We also have a modded xbox so we can play arcade games together to discover what are good ones.
Games actually the main reason why we are together. I was super shy and wouldn't talk about anything else but games. We have been together for almost 8 years officially. Still going strong. See video games can be a good thing.
Awesome story...games were also a huge reason for a bond between me and my girlfriend.
Gaming is easily our biggest hobby together.
My girlfriend and I have a running joke when I'm dying a lot or having difficulty on a certain level. She makes fun of me and says "I thought you were good at video games??" Haha, it's pretty hilarious.
Great stories here....
My girlfriend and I have a running joke when I'm dying a lot or having difficulty on a certain level. She makes fun of me and says "I thought you were good at video games??" Haha, it's pretty hilarious.
One time my girlfriend was watching me play Contra right after dinner, and after I died a couple of times she made fun of me saying "I thought you said you were good at Contra?", so I responded, "well, I thought you said you were good at cooking!" Whoops. Safe to say I wasn't presented with the opportunity to ask her "I thought you said were good at sex??" that night.
Originally posted by: Quazonk
Originally posted by: AirVillain
Great stories here....
My girlfriend and I have a running joke when I'm dying a lot or having difficulty on a certain level. She makes fun of me and says "I thought you were good at video games??" Haha, it's pretty hilarious.
One time my girlfriend was watching me play Contra right after dinner, and after I died a couple of times she made fun of me saying "I thought you said you were good at Contra?", so I responded, "well, I thought you said you were good at cooking!" Whoops. Safe to say I wasn't presented with the opportunity to ask her "I thought you said were good at sex??" that night.
My fiance busts out laughing when I die a lot. Well she used to. She rarely watches me anymore...
@Quazonk: You deserved to sleep on the couch after a remark like that. My fiance would put me in the doghouse if I insulted her cooking. She does cook a mean roast though...
Originally posted by: stardust4ever
My fiance busts out laughing when I die a lot. Well she used to. She rarely watches me anymore...
@Quazonk: You deserved to sleep on the couch after a remark like that. My fiance would put me in the doghouse if I insulted her cooking. She does cook a mean roast though...
The best part was, the dinner was actually awesome and took her all afternoon to prepare. The internet troll in me bled into my real life and I just couldn't pass up the easy setup that time. It was worth the reaction. The bruise on my arm healed pretty quickly, too.
Originally posted by: Quazonk
Originally posted by: stardust4ever
My fiance busts out laughing when I die a lot. Well she used to. She rarely watches me anymore...
@Quazonk: You deserved to sleep on the couch after a remark like that. My fiance would put me in the doghouse if I insulted her cooking. She does cook a mean roast though...
The best part was, the dinner was actually awesome and took her all afternoon to prepare. The internet troll in me bled into my real life and I just couldn't pass up the easy setup that time. It was worth the reaction. The bruise on my arm healed pretty quickly, too.
Ouch, that's a couch-worthy comment for sure.
We laugh all the time while I'm dying. It keeps it from getting too frustrating.
Originally posted by: AirVillain
Originally posted by: Quazonk
Originally posted by: stardust4ever
My fiance busts out laughing when I die a lot. Well she used to. She rarely watches me anymore...
@Quazonk: You deserved to sleep on the couch after a remark like that. My fiance would put me in the doghouse if I insulted her cooking. She does cook a mean roast though...
The best part was, the dinner was actually awesome and took her all afternoon to prepare. The internet troll in me bled into my real life and I just couldn't pass up the easy setup that time. It was worth the reaction. The bruise on my arm healed pretty quickly, too.
Ouch, that's a couch-worthy comment for sure.
We laugh all the time while I'm dying. It keeps it from getting too frustrating.
Hey I considered us even after she made fun of my skills in Contra. She might have spent all afternoon on that meal, but I've spent over 25 years honing my skills in Contra
Which is fine by me. She always says she would rather have me in the basement gaming then out at the bars, etc.
I wish my wife would appreciate that last part. There are much worse things in life then collecting video games.
Been with my girlfriend for over 5+ years now, and have lived with her 3 of those. She did some MMO stuff with me back when I first moved in and I was still in single-guy "gamer" mode, but overtime she soured on it (as did I when I got a new job and moved in and had no time). She adopted a similar mindset regarding my collecting and gaming, that I could be doing a ton worse with my time and money.
When it comes to collecting she is tolerant to a point. I will occasionally be scolded, especially if I spend a ton of $ on something (which is rare but has happened), but overall she won't jump down my throat about it providing I have the room to keep it out of her hair.
She had a Wii for the party aspect (would often babysit her nephews), but besides that she hasn't had any interest in console gaming in the past few generations (nor have I for that matter; the PC + Steam/Origin has spoiled me).
We do a lot of table top gaming together though. We both enjoy nerdy board games, card games, and role playing. It's really just video games we disagree on.
This is something that makes me wish I had kept closer tabs and communication with people from my earlier life; being able to put together a table top gaming night by just setting one up.
Nowadays they are all family men, into other stuff, have changed so much we no longer have something in common/don't talk... or have moved far away. At one point I was part of a group of 6-8 table-top guys now nada.
If it wasn't for my younger sisters boyfriend being a Pathfinder fan I would have never been able to let my girlfriend experience table top gaming. (Too bad the game wasn't run great).
At least once a week we try and make time to play a game together. NES is usually the system of choice.
"Haha, I sure am..."
Last weekend we got to talking about some stupid stuff, and I eventually told her of how Jackie Chan had endorsed Subor (a Chinese-made Famiclone that was popular in Russia during the 90s), and even made a karaoke game/machine cartridge. I think I hit a double whammy there, gaming and mainland China, haha, she was less than enthused and many snarky comments followed. Need I say more?
"...Instead the annoyance simply comes from their disdain for gaming, and the fact that it's a social outlet for their boyfriends/husbands that they aren't participating in."
This is the crux of a lot of relationship fights over gaming. It goes beyond gaming. I've found it to be hobbies in general. I've noticed nearly identical situations with my friends and their girlfriends, and I've found it's not even the gaming that their significant others hate; it's the fact that the guy has something else distracting him from the relationship(i.e. taking attanetion away from her). You can swap the genders here, it's not gender specific. It could be that one of them is a musician, and is involved in a scene of bands and fans. They could be an artist, etc etc. The person in the relationship that hates what the other person does, I've found to usually feel that way out of jealousy that someone has an interest/hobby and they don't.
I just want to quote this one, as I think there is a lot of truth in it.
I have a lot of hobbies ranging from gaming to guitars, foreign languages to homebrewing. At first, my girlfriend was impressed by my vast knowledge on so many subjects, my interests, etc, but eventually it turned to a passionate dislike and barely supporting me on these things. I think it all has to do with a jealousy thing, basically that if we aren't seeing each other for some reason or another, I am not just going to sit around and wallow in my sorrows, rather have other interests to take up with other people, whereas she would rather just mope around the house if I am called to work for a Saturday or something like that. But alas, with the way that I do work, I really value my free time too much to follow in suit like she does.
Last night I asked "So, what do you want to do tonight?" and my girlfriend is like "I thought you were going to play Mario Galaxy Twwwwwwwwooooooooo... "
"Haha, I sure am..."
The Super Mario Galaxy duology are the greatest 3D Marios ever made. That's not to say M64 and Sunshine aren't equally awesome though. Or SM3D Land/World if only Nintendo could stop with the cookie cutter "New Mario" forula and make their 3D games have more of "free-roaming worlds" and less of "glorified obstacle courses on a 3D grid."
We do a lot of table top gaming together though. We both enjoy nerdy board games, card games, and role playing. It's really just video games we disagree on.
This is something that makes me wish I had kept closer tabs and communication with people from my earlier life; being able to put together a table top gaming night by just setting one up.
Nowadays they are all family men, into other stuff, have changed so much we no longer have something in common/don't talk... or have moved far away. At one point I was part of a group of 6-8 table-top guys now nada.
If it wasn't for my younger sisters boyfriend being a Pathfinder fan I would have never been able to let my girlfriend experience table top gaming. (Too bad the game wasn't run great).
I can relate. When D&D 3.5 was the main game out there, I was part of multiple groups weekly. Our extended roster of players was close to 15 people. Now, I don't even game anymore. Combination of newer editions splitting groups down to taking sides, guys becoming "family men," etc. I played hardcore for 13 or so years, and gave it up about a month ago myself.