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[nick_mjr]

This is a question that goes out to all the gamer type boys and girls that read this

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[stinkygoop]

I basically wait to play games until Mollie has gone to bed. Unless she's out doing her art stuff, or has something going on, I do stuff with her.

Other than the occasional game of Worms, she's not much into games. I showed her how to do Blanka's electricity, and she totally wrecked my Zangief just pushing one button. Then, of course, she refused to play again, so she'd remain the champ forever. :p

[nick_mjr]

sounds like a good arrangement....and come to think of it, what could Zangief even do to a Blanka if he were always juiced???

[stinkygoop]

Everybody can sweep Blanka out of it, if they're at a good distance. But Zangief is evil, and can reach right in and do a Spinning Piledriver.

Zangief doesn't fear dirty electric rodent! (But not my Zangief. He just jumps around and loses alot.)

[ellen_the_snail]

Ahh, too bad that if Jeromy has an LJ, I don't know about it to come tell him to talk to you about this. Not because of me but because he's got all friends that are married/in more serious relationships and so they try to do Warcraft raids like once/week on a Friday night or Saturday night and then do other Warcraft things more on their own as time allows. I can only imagine that if you're used to gaming one way and then you live with someone else (and not just as roommates but in the serious relationship way) that it's hard to adjust and find a good balance as far as who does what gaming and when. Ug, my comment is of no use since you can't really game on weekends. blargh. I think another friend makes a date night with his wife every week where it's just the two of them and if there are any games, it's two-player Wii games or whatever and then for the rest of the week they're relatively on their own as far as how they entertain themselves but I'd also venture to say that I'd probably not be in favor of that system if it were my

[nick_mjr]

I admit it was weird not plowing all my precious time into games once I moved in with Miss, but I feel better for it. The places we go and the sights we experience are much more life enriching than a game. I can still make time here and there, but nowadays it's at the expense of creating new artwork for shows. It felt like my world was put in the spin cycle for awhile, but it didn't take overly long for me to realize that Miss just wants to do everything with me, and the question of where to put our energies has gotten easier with time (although there are definitely still those weekend nights where we're too lazy to think of anything to do

[falloutitchy]

I'm sort of in that transitional phase right now. I've just come off of school, which dictated how much I could play games, and I've yet to get a job, which will dictate how much I play games... so I'm pretty much an all-day gamer right now. So I guess I'll just talk in the theoretical way:

I wouldn't mind giving up some of my gaming time to do more couple-centric activities (other types of gaming or not). Is it shallow of me, though, to say that I wouldn't be willing to give up gaming altogether for someone?

I don't know. I guess I just don't have enough experience with the topic to say.

[nick_mjr]

I think part of the reason you stay with someone is for compatibility reasons-- and if you have to give up games to salvage a relationship...I would say that relationship has bigger, more fundamental problems.

Gaming's a harmless past time...it's not like your hobby is extreme sky diving or something that could threaten your life. Playing a game can be started and stopped at anytime (until it goes online like Warcraft...see above comment) Giving it up would be about as senseless as me quitting drawing. So it's totally not shallow to say you have problems with giving up your lifestyle. Doesn't matter what the girl would be like--your life would be miserable I say!

[adoogen]

Hmmm, this is tough indeed, mainly just because I've never really had a problem here.

When Loren and I first started dating I still played games, just more lax and I didn't really care. Now it seems like I'm getting into games more again, but she has similar hobbies that I can't do (knitting, reading, sewing) with her, so we just do them both at the same time and talk. I think it's worked perfectly, but I'd probably be more willing to cut down on games before Loren would ever even ask me too, ha. The one game she doesn't like me playing when she's around is Disgaea 3 for obvious reasons (bad music, bad graphics, bad plot).

I think it's important to share hobbies though, and that's why I'm glad Loren and I can run together, or keep the same schedule and have that in common. I had to beg her to do it for years, but it's paid off :)

[nick_mjr]

well that sounds like a pretty harmonious coexistence right there :) If I absolutely can't play a game at another time of the day, Miss will usually have something of her own to work on, but in the same room. The apartment had one good thing going for it; the computer and tv were in the same area so we could share something from Bioshock or from Icanhascheezburger.com at the same time :) That's not as easy in Ft Awesome but she can still use my laptop, or I can downgrade the visuals and use my dinky TV in the study to be next to her computer~ I did that for a good portion of GTA4

[missakitti]

I definitely agree with the compatibility factor. The more things you share in common, the less often you have to worry about whether or not you'll be leaving your other half hanging to do something they aren't interested in. It's not bad to have some separate things, too. Sometimes I want to read a book, and you can play a game I don't want to watch or join in on. 'Course, it's always best when those times that we want to do other things coincide with each other. I know it isn't always the case. And I like to think that most of the time I want to join in on the multiplayer games and dabble in the fighting games. ^^

[nick_mjr]

it's always fun to try and teach you new games :) Remember back to Halo 1? ahhh gooood times. That was a pretty complex game to start out on, honestly. Something like Goldeneye would've been easier but it wasn't co-op. I still contend that I have the best gamer wife ever=D