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Playing Games While Not Ruining Your Relationship?

Posted by Cliff on from the razor-sharp-balancing-acts dept.

Silicon Mike asks: "A nice sized group of us here at work recently picked up City of Heroes, and started playing together. While all of us were gamers to some extent, now we're all pretty addicted and want to play together online all the time. The problem some of us are running into is that our significant others aren't too happy with us gaming all the time. Other then the two obvious solutions (quit playing or dump the significant other) I'm wondering how other people have deal with it? I tried installing Zoo Tycoon on my other computer and saying 'Look honey, cute bears' but she just didn't bite."

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  1. Re:Well by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    When you're 60 years old and remembering the great times of your life, no ones going to say, "You know, I should have dumped that old broad and played more video games..."
    What, are you kidding? When I look back at a few previous relationships, I think exactly that. Even worse is when I think about all the homework I did in middle school. All that time I could have been playing X-Com or something. What the hell is wrong with my parents, I'll never know.
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  2. Re:Compromise... by justMichael · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is posting the same comment to the same parent within 2 minutes of each other part of the Slashdot editor applicaiton process? ;)

  3. I knew I should have posted Anonymous... by Dareth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I swear I hit preview the first time!

    Combination of working/posting on Slashdot, and a bit of internet lag I guess. How bout the option to delete posts eh?? *wink*

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  4. Re:Wrong crowd... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    In soviet russia, I for one welcome a beowulf cluster of dead horses are belong to us. BSD is dying, Microsoft sucks, SCO sucks, the RIAA and MPAA and *AA sucks, the DMCA sucks.

    1. insert any combination of the above.
    2. ?????
    3. KARMA!!!
    yhbt hand

  5. Re:Wrong crowd... by DerekLyons · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Solution # 3.5: stop making this stupid "joke," which as far as I'm concerned is a troll. Obviously there are plenty of /.ers who do have relationships, and for those of us over the age of thirteen or so the balance between the geek and non-geek portions of our life is a serious concern. I'm really sick of the way nobody can say anything on /. about relationships without having this troll pop up.
    Amen. I'm two days short of my 14th wedding anniversary, a geek, and happy as hell.
  6. Re:Wrong crowd... by RyatNrrd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your dead horse are belong to us!

    Heh heh heh.

    Should I post anonymously?

    Nah. I'll take the Karma hit.