I'd have to disagree. Playing as Dark Prince was really challenging, frustrating at times, but in a good way. It really lent a sense of urgency to a game that generally gives you a lot of time to figure things out and I found the change of pace quite nice. "Something to kill! I need something to kill!" It's not like any of his sections are impossible, just difficult. Also, since every pot you smashed or every enemy you killed would return you to full health, it wasn't all that bad.
I also thought that they hit a good balance in where they would knock you back to when you died. The only thing that drove me completely up the wall was the second chariot race which would start you over from the beginning each time, but it's still doable. I don't think it knocked me back further than a minute or two of play time any of the times I died.
Lesbians are more socially acceptable because a large proportion of the male population doesn't see lesbian sex or relationships as being real or exclusive. They see it as interesting, arousing, and something that they can participate in. To some extent, animosity between the lesbian and bisexual communities is due to the perception that bisexual women help to perpetuate that stereotype.
The funding difference between breast cancer and prostate cancer seems to be to some degree affected by how the respective genders view those bits of their anatomy. Women do not tend to be horribly embarrassed to say that they have breast cancer. How many men do you know that would be comfortable talking about prostate cancer? Even without the cancer, women are more comfortable talking about breasts than men are about prostates. Frankly, women are probably more comfortable talking about prostates than men. It's hard to get people to speak up for a disease that so many are too embarrassed to talk about.
As a final note, lesbians and gays are both homosexual. The term applies equally.
Because the student didn't want to draw any more attention to himself. The only reason it came up now was that someone was asking the professor about the whole Bush authorizing taps issue.
Because I don't read gadget blogs. Frankly, I don't generally read blogs. I've got games to play and only so much time to play them in. =) I enjoy reading about gadgets now and then, but not so much that I'd do it all the time. I know all these articles can be found in other places - Slashdot supplies links to news, but they don't generally make their own. I read Slashdot because it collects all this stuff in one neat package, complete with occasionally interesting comments.
... But they don't *boing*. =) I swear, when I see that, it looks like it should be making a twanging noise. Honestly though, I haven't noticed anything else moving. They dance around a bit, but all the characters do that. I compared the two because the only potential *boing* motion on the guys is the genitalia.
As the owner of large breasts, I'd concur with the moving all the time bit. Hm. Maybe that's why the size doesn't really bother me, I'd never thought of that before.
Actually, I remember reading a really good article on one of the girl-gaming sites which did a poll on why some males played female characters. Overwhelmingly, their reason for it was the same as yours. Because other guys will give you things or help you out. Cynical, yes. But it does appear to be true.
Me, I play Tauren or Gnome. I hate to think what you'd make of that. I've done an elf and an undead, but not on any kind of a regular basis. Everquest, I went Erudite or Barbarian - and my clothing collection was of armor, not lingerie.
I'm not going to deny that a lot of people do what the people you know do, but I think you'll find the same proportion of girl-who-picks-buxom-redhead to guy-who-picks-muscular-heman. It's an overall tendency to pick a character to project yourself in a way that you perceive would be attractive to others or that is attractive to you. It's all about what you want to get out of the game.
Personally, I think that more people choose their characters based on the personality that they want to project, but then again I do tend to play on roleplaying servers so I get a rather skewed view of the mmorpg population.
Speaking as one of the twelve... I'd have to agree with the article's statement. I don't find it threatening. I do find it annoying and disappointing. It doesn't stop me from playing games, but it does affect my enjoyment of the game.
I have less issues with the anatomy (silly as it is) than with the lack of personality, capability, and that stupid *boing* jiggle that the breasts do in DOA or Soulcalibur when the fighters square off. What the heck is that supposed to be? I don't care if female characters are realistic or not, but knock off the gratuitous boing-thing.
I think that the issue of body type isn't the problem. Yes, both males and females in games are unrealistic. However, while male characters are generally beefcake, you don't get their genitalia going *BOING* when they square off to fight. That would seem to be more equivalent to the sort of thing you get with female characters.
Trudy David, a training manager for Apple Computer, conceded her industry had some image problems when it came to style but felt the event had helped to give attendees a "mindshare" that it was important to present oneself well.
Maybe geeks are poorly dressed in part because they have a lack of respect for people who would use a ridiculous word like "mindshare" instead of "idea" (incorrectly, as it turns out). Then again, with a word like mindshare, you have to expect it'd rent itself out to anyone with enough cash.
I'll be passing it on to my co-worker who has a small dairy farm with her husband. They keep trying to go on vacation, but can't find anyone they really trust with the cows. Getting the cows to milk themselves would be pretty amazing. There seem to be some scheduling issues that would cause problems, though. The collection and storage system would have to be running all day instead of just during two times a day.
As far as the cow getting duped in with food, that's what happens in a standard dairy - each cow gets a grain ration while they're being milked. I can see there being some really nice benefits as far as animal comfort and production goes if they're on their own schedule instead of the farmer's.
I can't go with this definition. There is porn that is able to be appreciated before and after consummation of whatever you're doing at the time. I don't mean that there isn't trite, vulgar and embarrassing porn, simply that it's not a requirement.
As for all porn having appeal to primarily males, I question that. There's lots of porn that'll turn guys off as well as girls and conversely there's lots of porn that'll turn girls on. I'd like to think that women consume a better (read: more artistic) class of porn than most men, although men definitely consume more of it.
Although admittedly, the idea of a committee set up to decide what is and isn't porn by these standards is incredibly amusing. "Ok, everyone has seen the picture. Get going, please." (later) "Ok! Now, do you still like this picture? No? Ok! That one's porn. Next photo, please."
That's the funniest article I've read in ages. It sounds like some of the last round of presidential debates. It drives me nuts when people don't answer the question they're asked... it's one thing guaranteed to get me going.
That's actually what I'm trying to work out right now.
The job I was originally hired to do was grunt work (literally, I work on a farm now). Now that I'm writing business proposals, doing research for new projects, keeping accurate records, am always on call, come in when needed on weekends and holidays, and am in charge of safety and first aid, I'm making about $1.50 an hour more than when I was weeding.
I'm enjoying my work more now, but the total lack of my wage to keep up with my work means that I am definitely reconsidering my job. I'd have to agree with one of the proposals the article made - since my wage isn't keeping up with my duties, my slacking time has increased.
It'd be a lot of help at my work. I can't get clearance to install Firefox, our IT guy doesn't actually know what it is despite me trying to explain it to him. (Personally, I think that's a REALLY bad sign.) So I'm stuck using IE, and I hate it. However, while I can't install programs, I can use plugins. So this may be just the thing I need. The lack of tabbed browsing and popups in IE combine to completely drive me up the wall. The lack of security's a bugger too, but it's the tabs that I really miss when I'm at work.
Yes, well, the thing is that these days the way they establish "reasonable suspicion" is by having the police come in to schools with drug dogs, lock down the classrooms and have all the kids put their bags in the hall. The dogs check the bags, the lockers, and every car on school property. If they tag a bag, that's reasonable suspicion to search further.
Think I'm kidding? William Henry Harrison High School, West Lafayette Indiana. It's not even a big city or anything, but that's how they were doing it 3 years ago when my sister was going there.
As far as having reason to believe a search might turn something up, I think that they figure having students in a building counts just fine.
Part of the problem is that the student handbooks that you have to agree to have started looking more and more like those licensing agreements on software. Don't like it? Well, what's your option? How many people have the money to a) fight the school district in court, and b) send their kid to a private school while all this is going on?
Try k-os, out of Toronto. His latest is Joyful Rebellion, and it's an excellent piece of work. His web site seems to be a bit ephemeral, but here's the Amazon link.
Frankly, I have to figure the vast majority of the music produced and distributed is complete crap... it's got nothing to do with what genre it is. You're as likely to find intelligent rap as you are to find intelligent pop or country. That is, not likely at all... in any of the cases.
They won't be taking dirt. It's too heavy and in an intensive situation like that, they'll be using hydroponics. The NASA article referenced up a little higher on the page shows some of the plants they're trying and talks about nutrient solutions - they're clearly hydroponic vegetables. Hmm... actually, running treated water through the vegetables might be a good way to do final filtration on water for the crew to reuse.
The main problem with taking canned food is that it's limited. If you find out halfway there that you don't have enough (velocity is slower than you thought or something), you're toast. Real vegetables can reproduce, and the seeds allow you a continuous supply of food, no matter how long the mission goes on.
Maybe you went about it the wrong way. The store I used to work at built custom computers. Rather than saying - well, if you want to do this... you need this; and if you want to do this other thing, get this - we'd ask them what they wanted to do with the comp and then make a recommendation for system specs. Most people don't care, say, what size hard drive they have as long as they can do what they want. They key is finding out what they want. And while most folks don't understand the technology enough to say what _equipment_ they need, they can usually express what it is they expect the equipment to do. Building custom machines definitely helped though - it meant we didn't have the problem of having semi-distinct systems that people had to choose from.
Well, I can't speak to Illinois, but I moved from northern Indiana to British Columbia and I've got no problem with mountains. =) My grandmother, however, is from North Dakota, and she thinks that Indiana has too many trees, she can't see the sky. So there may be something in that.
The reason Illinois (and most of Indiana, where I used to live) is flat is because of the glaciers themselves scraping the land flat. Glaciers stretched down in that area about 2/3 of the way down Indiana. Glacial melt accounts for a lot of features in that area, but glaciers were the primary landscaper.
Ah - found some more specific info:
Why is Indiana and much of the surrounding states so flat?
The Earth has undergone many ice ages, the first being around 700,000 years ago. The last was about 20,000 years ago. Much of Indiana was covered by a glacial ice sheet many hundreds of metres thick. This last great glacier is called the Wisconsin Glacier. The glaciers had a scouring effect on the land and this great expanse of ice carried much sediment with it. When the ice retreated northwards, ending about 10,000 BC, the sediment, sometimes hundreds of feet thick, filled in many of the valleys that were once in the region and leaving behind it many areas that became bogs. The crushing weight of the ice only got around two thirds of the way into Indiana before it retreated, this explains the flatness of the north of the state while the south has rolling hills. The huge amount of sediment deposited by the glacier, which in places is hundreds of feet deep, also explains the rich farming land that makes up much of Indiana.
Transgenic technology is just a convenient shortcut to achieving the same kinds of results that people have been achieving since prehistoric times by selective breeding.
Well, that's not entirely accurate. There's no way that selective breeding could ever account for, say, genes from a pig coming up in genes for a plant. I'm not sure that would qualify as being the same kind of result. Part of the issue about GE foods is that while you can expect the plant-based gene responsible for flower colour to perform the same function across many plants, it's much more difficult to figure out what effect or chain of effects an animal-based gene for skin thickness will have on a plant. Even straight plant-plant breeding and GE can have unforseen effects - for example, it's possible to plain-old-fashioned breed plants in the nightshade family that have the toxins normally found in the plant part (the leafy bits of tomatoes, potatoes, etc.) spread throughout the normally edible part.
Personally, although I find a lot of the anti-GM arguments to be fairly anti-scientific, I'm also very uncomfortable with the quite flippant attitude a lot of companies have about the safety of such products. I don't think there's enough long-term testing being done.
Had it occurred to you that throwing a bunch of women together who may have nothing in common other than the fact that their guys play games together and expecting the conversation to keep them riveted might not work?
To use a totally stereotypical example - exactly how happy would you be at the chance to sit around while your SO makes a quilt with a bunch of other people? Or scrapbooks? Or gardens? If you're not interested in what's going on, having other uninterested people there isn't going to make it any more fun.
If you want to bring them to the LAN party and keep them happy, provide some alternate form of entertainment for the folks that don't feel like watching/playing the games. Maybe a movie, maybe card games, board games, probably some decent food... but sitting around complaining about how their partners play games is only going to hold someone's interest for so long. Try to think about what they find interesting, too - just throwing something at them all without considering what they like most likely won't be successful either.
Frankly, I'm the only one in the house who ever finishes our games. My husband buys them, for the most part, but I'm the one who actually plays them all the way through. Personally, I can't stand The Sims - I'm up for just about anything else though. We met in-game, and we've played together consistently over the years - started in EQ, went to DAoC, now City of Heroes... and all the off-line games in-between. He can beat me on some of the fighting games (I still rule DOA though), and I kick his ass in strategy. I think, counting back, that I've actually been playing games longer than he has. My whole family played together (ok, minus my Mom) and so I think we got an early start on being able to balance games with life.
Admittedly, it's not like you can expect whoever you fall for to have the same interests... so for the standard reality-check - make sure your girl's getting enough time, and that your gaming isn't taking away from your relationship... then Hero away. A couple other things to remember:
1) The game will be there when you go back. If life's calling, hang up on the game... so maybe you lose some exp, or you annoy your group - there are far worse things to lose than that.
2) Try to make sure that you're not losing time - telling someone you'll be home (or will meet them, pick them up, etc.) "in an hour" and coming home three hours later is being an ass no matter what you were doing. I used to be terrible about that.
3) Take care of your responsibilities out-of-game. The game is more likely to be the focus of anger for your partner if you're not doing your share of housework, food prep, dog feeding, all that stuff. (It also means that your gaming time is much less likely to be interrupted with timed demands to do chores.)
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I'd have to disagree. Playing as Dark Prince was really challenging, frustrating at times, but in a good way. It really lent a sense of urgency to a game that generally gives you a lot of time to figure things out and I found the change of pace quite nice. "Something to kill! I need something to kill!" It's not like any of his sections are impossible, just difficult. Also, since every pot you smashed or every enemy you killed would return you to full health, it wasn't all that bad.
I also thought that they hit a good balance in where they would knock you back to when you died. The only thing that drove me completely up the wall was the second chariot race which would start you over from the beginning each time, but it's still doable. I don't think it knocked me back further than a minute or two of play time any of the times I died.
Lesbians are more socially acceptable because a large proportion of the male population doesn't see lesbian sex or relationships as being real or exclusive. They see it as interesting, arousing, and something that they can participate in. To some extent, animosity between the lesbian and bisexual communities is due to the perception that bisexual women help to perpetuate that stereotype.
The funding difference between breast cancer and prostate cancer seems to be to some degree affected by how the respective genders view those bits of their anatomy. Women do not tend to be horribly embarrassed to say that they have breast cancer. How many men do you know that would be comfortable talking about prostate cancer? Even without the cancer, women are more comfortable talking about breasts than men are about prostates. Frankly, women are probably more comfortable talking about prostates than men. It's hard to get people to speak up for a disease that so many are too embarrassed to talk about.
As a final note, lesbians and gays are both homosexual. The term applies equally.
Because the student didn't want to draw any more attention to himself. The only reason it came up now was that someone was asking the professor about the whole Bush authorizing taps issue.
Because I don't read gadget blogs. Frankly, I don't generally read blogs. I've got games to play and only so much time to play them in. =) I enjoy reading about gadgets now and then, but not so much that I'd do it all the time. I know all these articles can be found in other places - Slashdot supplies links to news, but they don't generally make their own. I read Slashdot because it collects all this stuff in one neat package, complete with occasionally interesting comments.
... But they don't *boing*. =) I swear, when I see that, it looks like it should be making a twanging noise. Honestly though, I haven't noticed anything else moving. They dance around a bit, but all the characters do that. I compared the two because the only potential *boing* motion on the guys is the genitalia.
As the owner of large breasts, I'd concur with the moving all the time bit. Hm. Maybe that's why the size doesn't really bother me, I'd never thought of that before.
Actually, I remember reading a really good article on one of the girl-gaming sites which did a poll on why some males played female characters. Overwhelmingly, their reason for it was the same as yours. Because other guys will give you things or help you out. Cynical, yes. But it does appear to be true.
My own fault, I mis-read your post. Good point though, and I don't have a good answer for it.
Me, I play Tauren or Gnome. I hate to think what you'd make of that. I've done an elf and an undead, but not on any kind of a regular basis. Everquest, I went Erudite or Barbarian - and my clothing collection was of armor, not lingerie.
I'm not going to deny that a lot of people do what the people you know do, but I think you'll find the same proportion of girl-who-picks-buxom-redhead to guy-who-picks-muscular-heman. It's an overall tendency to pick a character to project yourself in a way that you perceive would be attractive to others or that is attractive to you. It's all about what you want to get out of the game.
Personally, I think that more people choose their characters based on the personality that they want to project, but then again I do tend to play on roleplaying servers so I get a rather skewed view of the mmorpg population.
(And yes, I'm a real life female.)
Speaking as one of the twelve... I'd have to agree with the article's statement. I don't find it threatening. I do find it annoying and disappointing. It doesn't stop me from playing games, but it does affect my enjoyment of the game.
I have less issues with the anatomy (silly as it is) than with the lack of personality, capability, and that stupid *boing* jiggle that the breasts do in DOA or Soulcalibur when the fighters square off. What the heck is that supposed to be? I don't care if female characters are realistic or not, but knock off the gratuitous boing-thing.
I think that the issue of body type isn't the problem. Yes, both males and females in games are unrealistic. However, while male characters are generally beefcake, you don't get their genitalia going *BOING* when they square off to fight. That would seem to be more equivalent to the sort of thing you get with female characters.
Maybe geeks are poorly dressed in part because they have a lack of respect for people who would use a ridiculous word like "mindshare" instead of "idea" (incorrectly, as it turns out). Then again, with a word like mindshare, you have to expect it'd rent itself out to anyone with enough cash.
I'll be passing it on to my co-worker who has a small dairy farm with her husband. They keep trying to go on vacation, but can't find anyone they really trust with the cows. Getting the cows to milk themselves would be pretty amazing. There seem to be some scheduling issues that would cause problems, though. The collection and storage system would have to be running all day instead of just during two times a day.
As far as the cow getting duped in with food, that's what happens in a standard dairy - each cow gets a grain ration while they're being milked. I can see there being some really nice benefits as far as animal comfort and production goes if they're on their own schedule instead of the farmer's.
I can't go with this definition. There is porn that is able to be appreciated before and after consummation of whatever you're doing at the time. I don't mean that there isn't trite, vulgar and embarrassing porn, simply that it's not a requirement.
As for all porn having appeal to primarily males, I question that. There's lots of porn that'll turn guys off as well as girls and conversely there's lots of porn that'll turn girls on. I'd like to think that women consume a better (read: more artistic) class of porn than most men, although men definitely consume more of it.
Although admittedly, the idea of a committee set up to decide what is and isn't porn by these standards is incredibly amusing. "Ok, everyone has seen the picture. Get going, please." (later) "Ok! Now, do you still like this picture? No? Ok! That one's porn. Next photo, please."
That's the funniest article I've read in ages. It sounds like some of the last round of presidential debates. It drives me nuts when people don't answer the question they're asked... it's one thing guaranteed to get me going.
That's actually what I'm trying to work out right now.
The job I was originally hired to do was grunt work (literally, I work on a farm now). Now that I'm writing business proposals, doing research for new projects, keeping accurate records, am always on call, come in when needed on weekends and holidays, and am in charge of safety and first aid, I'm making about $1.50 an hour more than when I was weeding.
I'm enjoying my work more now, but the total lack of my wage to keep up with my work means that I am definitely reconsidering my job. I'd have to agree with one of the proposals the article made - since my wage isn't keeping up with my duties, my slacking time has increased.
It'd be a lot of help at my work. I can't get clearance to install Firefox, our IT guy doesn't actually know what it is despite me trying to explain it to him. (Personally, I think that's a REALLY bad sign.) So I'm stuck using IE, and I hate it. However, while I can't install programs, I can use plugins. So this may be just the thing I need. The lack of tabbed browsing and popups in IE combine to completely drive me up the wall. The lack of security's a bugger too, but it's the tabs that I really miss when I'm at work.
Yes, well, the thing is that these days the way they establish "reasonable suspicion" is by having the police come in to schools with drug dogs, lock down the classrooms and have all the kids put their bags in the hall. The dogs check the bags, the lockers, and every car on school property. If they tag a bag, that's reasonable suspicion to search further.
Think I'm kidding? William Henry Harrison High School, West Lafayette Indiana. It's not even a big city or anything, but that's how they were doing it 3 years ago when my sister was going there.
As far as having reason to believe a search might turn something up, I think that they figure having students in a building counts just fine.
Part of the problem is that the student handbooks that you have to agree to have started looking more and more like those licensing agreements on software. Don't like it? Well, what's your option? How many people have the money to a) fight the school district in court, and b) send their kid to a private school while all this is going on?
Maybe they were distracted from the train by the big mechanical spiders? I mean, the rest of the movie is so completely historical and realistic...
Try k-os, out of Toronto. His latest is Joyful Rebellion, and it's an excellent piece of work. His web site seems to be a bit ephemeral, but here's the Amazon link.
Frankly, I have to figure the vast majority of the music produced and distributed is complete crap... it's got nothing to do with what genre it is. You're as likely to find intelligent rap as you are to find intelligent pop or country. That is, not likely at all... in any of the cases.
They won't be taking dirt. It's too heavy and in an intensive situation like that, they'll be using hydroponics. The NASA article referenced up a little higher on the page shows some of the plants they're trying and talks about nutrient solutions - they're clearly hydroponic vegetables. Hmm... actually, running treated water through the vegetables might be a good way to do final filtration on water for the crew to reuse.
The main problem with taking canned food is that it's limited. If you find out halfway there that you don't have enough (velocity is slower than you thought or something), you're toast. Real vegetables can reproduce, and the seeds allow you a continuous supply of food, no matter how long the mission goes on.
Maybe you went about it the wrong way. The store I used to work at built custom computers. Rather than saying - well, if you want to do this... you need this; and if you want to do this other thing, get this - we'd ask them what they wanted to do with the comp and then make a recommendation for system specs. Most people don't care, say, what size hard drive they have as long as they can do what they want. They key is finding out what they want. And while most folks don't understand the technology enough to say what _equipment_ they need, they can usually express what it is they expect the equipment to do. Building custom machines definitely helped though - it meant we didn't have the problem of having semi-distinct systems that people had to choose from.
Well, I can't speak to Illinois, but I moved from northern Indiana to British Columbia and I've got no problem with mountains. =) My grandmother, however, is from North Dakota, and she thinks that Indiana has too many trees, she can't see the sky. So there may be something in that.
Ah - found some more specific info:
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Well, that's not entirely accurate. There's no way that selective breeding could ever account for, say, genes from a pig coming up in genes for a plant. I'm not sure that would qualify as being the same kind of result. Part of the issue about GE foods is that while you can expect the plant-based gene responsible for flower colour to perform the same function across many plants, it's much more difficult to figure out what effect or chain of effects an animal-based gene for skin thickness will have on a plant. Even straight plant-plant breeding and GE can have unforseen effects - for example, it's possible to plain-old-fashioned breed plants in the nightshade family that have the toxins normally found in the plant part (the leafy bits of tomatoes, potatoes, etc.) spread throughout the normally edible part.
Personally, although I find a lot of the anti-GM arguments to be fairly anti-scientific, I'm also very uncomfortable with the quite flippant attitude a lot of companies have about the safety of such products. I don't think there's enough long-term testing being done.
Had it occurred to you that throwing a bunch of women together who may have nothing in common other than the fact that their guys play games together and expecting the conversation to keep them riveted might not work?
To use a totally stereotypical example - exactly how happy would you be at the chance to sit around while your SO makes a quilt with a bunch of other people? Or scrapbooks? Or gardens? If you're not interested in what's going on, having other uninterested people there isn't going to make it any more fun.
If you want to bring them to the LAN party and keep them happy, provide some alternate form of entertainment for the folks that don't feel like watching/playing the games. Maybe a movie, maybe card games, board games, probably some decent food... but sitting around complaining about how their partners play games is only going to hold someone's interest for so long. Try to think about what they find interesting, too - just throwing something at them all without considering what they like most likely won't be successful either.
Frankly, I'm the only one in the house who ever finishes our games. My husband buys them, for the most part, but I'm the one who actually plays them all the way through. Personally, I can't stand The Sims - I'm up for just about anything else though. We met in-game, and we've played together consistently over the years - started in EQ, went to DAoC, now City of Heroes... and all the off-line games in-between. He can beat me on some of the fighting games (I still rule DOA though), and I kick his ass in strategy. I think, counting back, that I've actually been playing games longer than he has. My whole family played together (ok, minus my Mom) and so I think we got an early start on being able to balance games with life.
:)
Admittedly, it's not like you can expect whoever you fall for to have the same interests... so for the standard reality-check - make sure your girl's getting enough time, and that your gaming isn't taking away from your relationship... then Hero away. A couple other things to remember:
1) The game will be there when you go back. If life's calling, hang up on the game... so maybe you lose some exp, or you annoy your group - there are far worse things to lose than that.
2) Try to make sure that you're not losing time - telling someone you'll be home (or will meet them, pick them up, etc.) "in an hour" and coming home three hours later is being an ass no matter what you were doing. I used to be terrible about that.
3) Take care of your responsibilities out-of-game. The game is more likely to be the focus of anger for your partner if you're not doing your share of housework, food prep, dog feeding, all that stuff. (It also means that your gaming time is much less likely to be interrupted with timed demands to do chores.)
Good luck, and it is possible.