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Playing Games While Not Ruining Your Relationship?
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."
I've been married for 8 years without doing any sacrifice. 15 years of sacrifice seem like an awful long time...
Gamers: if the girlfriend does not like the gaming, how can she like the gamer? It's a great opportuinity to become free and meet this gaming uber chick, the one who will join you on world domination allnighters!
I used to mud about 6 hours a day. Not much of a problem, aside from arrested social development. However, there were others on the mud who were married and were having children, and still mudding several hours a day and holding down some kind of job. I don't really get that, but it sounds like trouble in the making.
The Detroit Free Press, several years ago, ran an article on online gaming addiction, mother and father (in their 40's) and kids (in highschool) spent every free minute online, playing games. I have no clue what they did for money, but probably lived off assistance or bummed it from relatives. Seems in some ways that online gaming is perfect training for a life stuck to a screen doing customer service or such. To bad even that field now has a dim future.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Seriously why? What does this have to do with technology. You have a relationship problem. Why bug us?
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