SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

Shit when I met my now wife and she found out I enjoyed (mmo)RPGs she thought I went out into the woods and LARP'd. She was a bit freaked out by that. When she found out it was just video games she had no problem. Then she read Twilight and 50 Shades and is into that RP shit in the woods now. lol FREAK!

Big W Powah!_sl said:

I second this shit. You are a person. You have a (very very cheap) hobby. I mean, what I spend on video games in a month could easily be blown at the bar in one night with my wife and I. Just because you want to geek out for a few hours every once in a while? Shouldn't be a problem. Do you bitch when she goes to the mall and spends 3 hours deciding between the blue and slightly lighter blue nail polish?

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my good buddy games and his wife bitched at him about gaming. He goes, alright, well, then i will start goign back to the bars on the weekends with my brother. Since then she hasnt said shit about his game playing. lol

I agree though, a man should be able to have his cheap hobby for an hour or 2 a night. Women have all kinds of fuckign hobbies that are way more expensive.

I'd shoot daggers if I saw someone trying to play Destiny, too. That game blows.

Depends if he's playing games when they're supposed to be hanging out or if it's a few hours at night.

Draegan_sl said:

Depends if he's playing games when they're supposed to be hanging out or if it's a few hours at night.

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He mentioned trying to play for 45 minutes. So timeframe is established.

Other than that, as a married man maybe this is different but whats "supposed to be hanging out"? When she just showed up at my house she knew if I was in the middle of shit I was finishing it up. That might take an hour+ depending on the game or activity I was doing. Now, if they're like "Okay, reservations at 7" and he logs into Destiny at 6 to get 45 minutes before they leave for the restaurant, possible making them late? Yeah, I get it...I doubt thats the case though.

I always feel like I got lucky when I met my now wife (going on 13 years, married young). I played games before I met her (mostly Command and Conquer, Warcraft, doom, and what not), but she is the one who got me to try MMOs for the first time, with Eq1. We both spent way to much time being borderline addicted to MMOs over the years, but about 5 years ago she stopped playing them (time issue between work and school + outgrew them a little I guess). On the bright side, she will still play PS4 games with me on occasion, loves board games as much as I do, and has never once given me grief for playing a game, even when I probably had been on way more than was healthy lol. I do not know what I would have done if my wife did not support my hobbies or if she thought of them as lesser or as a kids thing to be put away with age. I can tell you one thing, we would not have lasted this long. So Woot! for significant others that accept you for who you are. That said, I still do my part and put down the controller of my own free will enough to keep our relationship solid. Just because she is onboard with my hobbies does not mean I should ignore her.

There are cutting edge raid guilds with lower attendance requirements than most GFs.

My wife was the same way until recently I showed her how to find time during the day to read a book. She likes reading but always complained that she had no time. Now she reads bits here and there and now a lot at night during our TV time. More video games for me.

Blitz_sl said:

Ex-girlfriend used to bitch occasionally about video games until I told her I didn't wanna watch her stupid fucking A&E murder shows. I generally feel as if women have less hobbies than guys. Most men I have ever known can usually always find a way to stay busy. Women hate being alone.

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Fuck, you just described my ex to a T. She would watch shitty TV (AE shows, reality TV) and then complain about me playing video games instead of watching them with her. Put a GOOD TV show on though and she had no fucking interest.

No offense guys, but I like where this thread is going... from bitching about SOE/DB to wife/gf/ex.

Tarrant_sl said:

My ex wife hated my gaming, didn't matter what form it was. When I was close to making Pro Tour for MTG she hated that, she hated when i played D&D once a week and she hated when i played WoW...even if she was in bed sleeping. I curbed back a great deal and sold my MTG collection to buy our house. (biggest mistake ever) and she ended up having an affair and that was that. I told myself I wouldn't compromise my hobbies (within reason) for a woman again.

My wife now doesn't mind my computer gaming but she gets annoyed at D&D sometimes, mainly because shes so introverted she would rather stay home and that I be with her. I told her early on that's not how things work and once in awhile she'll get pissy but I ignore it and she's fine later. I only play like twice a month if I'm lucky. She was bitching about it to a friend of hers once and her friend laughed at her. "So let me get this strait, you're angry your husband goes to his friends, plays a game and never leaves other then to eat, isn't drinking or hanging out with other women and is home by 11 twice a month?" That's when things got better for the most part.

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What? Your woman wasn't in to your professional MTG life? Shocking!

I'm lucky, my wife doesn't give me grief about my gaming unless I get neglectful over an extended period, and then it's a simple, "we haven't hung out all week, will you come cuddle please?" She gets more frustrated with how often my friends come over and prevent sexy time than anything. I've always had a fairly open door policy on my friends coming to hang out, so sometimes I don't notice that they've been over a lot. Hell most of the time if I'm gaming, my wife will actively come watch me play something so she can get the story from it. She will actually sit down and play games herself, she just isn't very good at anything FPS orientated, so a lot of times she loves watching me play something just so she can get the story without having to power through playing with controls that often leaves her character ingame looking like a retarded monkey with half a tree crammed up its asshole with a limp. She also likes a lot of puzzle and platformer games and is a direct target/consumer for 80-90% of the indie game scene, so she's been plenty happy, and is about 80% of the reason my ps4 gets utilized for gaming here recently. Her gaming habits alone have paid for my ps4 gold membership 10 times over.

My ex before my wife was a complete 180 though. She hated me gaming, wouldn't watch me play, and bitched non stop if I was playing with her around, regardless of circumstances. And she was on par with some of the above, examples of her favorite shows being Real Housewives of "insert whatever state" and The Kardashians. At least she let me cum on her face I guess, overall super happy I got out of that shitshow for sure.