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[tzeraph1]

Lots and lots of good suggestions here, huh? (j/k)

[krabman]

Hylan Dronta wrote...

Rezylarap wrote...

If it were me, I'd buy the game in Seattle, bring my laptop (even my desktop if necessary) and play in a hotel room

LOL, let me guess, you are single .

I'm sure it would annoy his wife and kinda kill the romantic gesture of him going with her in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, I'd take my computer with me, but then again, I AM single

Im married, near 30 years. She is too old to train another husband so I would fearlessly bring my laptap and take my lumps. Then  if she appeared like she really was adamant about never letting me see her naked again I would just buy her a tennis bracelet or whatever. That always works.

[Alekorth]

IRON MY SHIRT WOMAN

[Vaeliorin]

Personally, marriage is much too orderly for me to get involved in it. People who are married tend to make plans and make attempts to stick to them, and I just can't do that. Also, I sincerely doubt there's anyone who could put up with me when seeing me that often (or that I could put up with.)



Anyway, back on the original topic, I'm being thwarted by ATI. I'm building a new PC to play Dragon Age, but the grahpics card I want (XFX Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB) is out of stock, and won't be back in stock until next week. So even though my copy of DA shipped today, I still won't be able to really play it (I've got a computer that might run it at minimum settings) until my graphics card comes in.

[Baconman666]

wow this is ummmmmmm quite how do one say philosophical



sye but what ya goin to do

[l_gumdrop]

Tomorrow I have major surgery going on with my gaming rig. Hopefully it will go well. If it doesn't, I'm going to have to pay attention to the specs and see if my older computer can run this game. Otherwise, I'm going to go pick up the 360 version at Best Buy and just play that until I can get my gaming rig figured out. So, I'm crossing my fingers and *hoping* I won't be thwarted.

[Maeves_Child]

What an interesting thread.



While I'm definitely excited to play (heck I paid for next day air) if my hubby needs me for something, he comes first. I'm actually helping my mother-in-law move this Saturday, so no DA:O . . . but its sort of sad when I finish the first play through anyway, so I figure going a little slow is better.



Sort of like the difference between slowly enjoying a prime rib at a nice restaurant and eating a Big Mac while driving.

[MasamuneBlue84]

Well, my lady friend (and from the way she's been talking, soon to be my roomie ) is actually going on a business trip starting Tuesday! She's driving with two people from work up to some medical imaging conference up in Columbus (we're in Cincinnati) and she'll be gone until the weekend. Now, admittedly, this weekend is her birthday, and obviously I'm going to be at her place all weekend, but still, Tuesday-Saturday evenings (and all day Thursday as my other day off this week) are all ready for Dragon Age. I've actually picked up like two weeks worth of cigs, pop, and various non-perishable foodstuffs, even though during that second week I'll be making the effort to go to her place for a meal and a movie and... well, ya know.



But being a non-salary worker, I can't really afford to take days off, and going into the Christmas season and working in a local store, paid vacation day requests are pretty much auto-denied.

[Hooligan77]

Wow , I love how this turned into a discussion about the merits of the institution of marriage I do have a job by the way , took wednesday off and mon - tues are my days off .

[Eshaye]

krabman wrote...


Im married, near 30 years. She is too old to train another husband so I would fearlessly bring my laptap and take my lumps. Then  if she appeared like she really was adamant about never letting me see her naked again I would just buy her a tennis bracelet or whatever. That always works.

lol I giggled. 

[Fyreshock]

You call that a conspiracy my local mall has been taken over by zombies either that or my meds wore off and im playing Dead Rising

[Sbri]

Yeah, well, it's not only wives that can be deliterius to one's ability to find gaming time.  I work for my husband (ok I'm a stay-at-home mom, but all that means is a 24/7 work schedule with no vacation or sick leave), and he steadfastly refuses to give me any time off to play my game.  And this after I ran interferance with the kids so he could have hours for Modern Warfare.  I'm getting ready to resort to extreme bribery if it will get me some uniterrupted game time.

[MasamuneBlue84]

Sbri wrote...

Yeah, well, it's not only wives that can be deliterius to one's ability to find gaming time.  I work for my husband (ok I'm a stay-at-home mom, but all that means is a 24/7 work schedule with no vacation or sick leave), and he steadfastly refuses to give me any time off to play my game.  And this after I ran interferance with the kids so he could have hours for Modern Warfare.  I'm getting ready to resort to extreme bribery if it will get me some uniterrupted game time.

- Withold sexual activities?
- Discuss how you want both time to play this game and an extremely expensive diamond ring. In the hopes that he'll think a few hours of gaming is better than a month's worth of wages for a piece of jewelry.
- Don't cook dinner and say that you would have remembered had you been able to enjoy your shiny new piece of software.
- Tell him either he can do his own laundry, or you can play the game and do his laundry.



Seriously, my girlfriend knows I'm excited about this game and have been waiting for it. Hell, she's been suggesting I should bring my desktop to her place next week after all the work trip/birthday craziness, because she wants to watch. She actually bought herself Uncharted 2, but has yet to play more than 20 minutes of it because she thinks it's more amusing to watch me play it. That was actually the moment I knew I could be with her for a long time. 

[DeathFrogg]

xGruvdogx wrote...

I have mysterious forces conspiring against my getting the game.

I had the game pre-ordered for xbox 360: so of course I got rrod.

I switch my order to pc and think to myself "now all i have to do is live through the weekend" and bam : H1N1 ( i think)

i predict i will die sometime before tuesday morning.

ouch.

[Thebwt]

I have D&D on tuesday :/ starts right when the game is unlocked (srsly)

[Fates end]

Meh, family comes first. Even before such a sweet looking game. To OP, go with your wife, have a good time. The game will be there when you get back.

[Danzara_666]

I managed to dodge my own delay. I visited my parents a week early so I don't have to do it during the release weekend Thank the gods my SO understands my hobby.

[JosieJ]

Hooligan77 wrote...

Wow , I love how this turned into a discussion about the merits of the institution of marriage

Truly, especially since the TC was most likely joking and/or exaggerating!

Modifié par JosieJ, 02 novembre 2009 - 12:06 .

[JonnyHavoc]

My girlfriend smashed my laptop screen, so now if I want to play games I have to hook it up to the TV. Which as you guess she doesn't let me do to often. So some how I have to get a moniter before friday so I can play this all weekend.



She said is was an accident but we know better. hehehehehe

[Baconman666]

JonnyHavoc wrote...

My girlfriend smashed my laptop screen, so now if I want to play games I have to hook it up to the TV. Which as you guess she doesn't let me do to often. So some how I have to get a moniter before friday so I can play this all weekend.

She said is was an accident but we know better. hehehehehe

well tell her you smashed the screen and i want to play the game and (if you do sleep together) (and on a side note do you live with her you cood just go to your own place just sayin) and if she kiks you onto the coutch all you can do is play dragon age any way so what does it matter WIN WIN (dont know what the seccend win is thoe)

[Denlath Vestor]

Darpaek wrote...

Delightful "ignorance", I might add.

Marriage is for breeding. Since I have no desire to breed, I shall not marry. Tell me - what's the difference between wedding yourself to another by choice and wedding yourself to another by force?

You answered your own question: note the words I put in bold...

[Denlath Vestor]

Eshaye wrote...

Darpaek wrote...



The ideal situation would allow the OP to say what I hypothesized in the first paragraph and the partner being fully understanding. But, for everyone with "cool wives" out there, even as "cool" as your wife is, the construct of the marriage relationship just doesn't allow this sort of interaction without some societal guilt on your part.

I'm sorry you have such a poor view and understanding of marriage. An actual partnership doesn't guilt, in fact you do your best so as to not make your patner feel guilty ever because that's the road to being single or infidelity ect.... 

I wonder why young people have such horrid ideas of marriage these days, and I don't just mean young people right now, because about 10 + years ago I also had a dim view of marriage myself. Truth is a good partnership makes your life much easier and more fulfilling then you can imagine. 

But anyway! 

Well said, and 100% true!

[Darpaek]

Eshaye wrote...

I'm old? What's old to you? I get the impression you're young somewhere between 18-23... I'm 29 going on 30 in two months and will be celebrating our 10th year aniversary this spring. So yes I was very, very lucky to meet my husband at the tender age of 20, I know that's not most people's cases, but look at these responses there's lots of happily married folk in this comunity too. It's not like this is a myth or a dream.  

I will tell you a story, I had this boyfriend who wanted to move away for an opportunity and he broke up with me to go because he said that he wasn't sure what would happen and he didn't believe in long distance relationship. I tried to tell him I'd go with him but he wasn't hearing it.. Now I'm not psychic I don't know what he was REALLY thinking, but I can guess. To me the truth was he wasn't all that in love with me and he wanted to try something new whithout the stress of a person getting in the way, and he was probably on the lookout for another girl that might fit the bill of his dreams better. OR he really didn't want to drag me into something unsure and make me miserable. 

What I do know is fast forward years later he comes back to town and what does he do? Tracks his ex girlfriend down (that's me), except I'm not even close to caring anymore though I do wish him well..  

What's this story supposed to say? That life isn't about restrictions and behaving a certain way, it's about taking risks and making decisions and more importantly letting people you love make their own **** decisions. A part of me believes the ex did care for me but would not let me make my own choice to go with him or not, and now he's still alone and I'm long gone. 

See?  We are EXACTLY the same age.  But after 10 years of marriage, you come off as old and preachy.  I'm mistaken for a 20 year old full of youth and vim (not so much IRL, cuz I look my age, but still).

I don't even know why you would do that to yourself at the age of 20.  Heck, I had no sense of myself at age 20.  I don't even remember 20 because I was so frikkin high.  Like, you have one story of one random encounter with an ex-boyfriend (how many did you really have before age 20 anyways?).  In the last decade of my life, I have met so many of the most incredible people and had some of the most wonderful adventures with them.  In no way do I mean to disparage you or your lifestyle, but you have absolutely no concept of the experiences you've denied yourself.

And for all the happy marriage stories, practically none of the experiences are mutually exclusive to marriage beyond the coercion of permanent bondage.  You don't have to be married to go hiking in South America with some chick.  As you say, you can run off and start life anew with your girlfriend.  You can play house with your girlfriend.  I've done it.  It was fun.  When it stopped being fun, we stopped playing house.  Simple as that.

It's just so sad that people buy into (or worse, are forced into economically) this societally-created notion of coupling.  This is so far from the natural state of the human species, and it is so artificial and its so counter-intuitive.  Worse, half of all people who attempt it fail, and trivialize the very notion of the institution.

Marriage is something that should be held in esteem for a certain segment of the culturally elite - like a celibate priesthood - not forced upon everyone by societal mores.  So many people deny themselves the ability to actualize their full potential by wedding themselves to another.  At the very least, a single lifestyle forces one to find center and contentment within themselves - which should be a prerequisite before anyone decides to couple themself to another.

[simpatikool]

If going on the trip with your wife is an option for you, more power to you. My wife and I bothtravel for work. It gets rough, as the one that gets left behind, get to contend with the NPC that live in our house.



One of the NPCs I think is a Rogue. That **** NPC tries to sneak into the bed at night and pretends to sleep on me. I know it is trying to backstab me with its accursed dander attack.



We also have a NPC, of some sort of warrior origin. This NPC though is super annoying. Always bragging how it is level 15 and now can somehow take me. The NPC does not even have enough common sense to remember his friggin house er um I mean castle key with him after a day of scho...er um I mean, Dungeon Crawling!



Our most recent NPC that joined up with us is some sort of I don't know genius. The Healers told us this could never happen. Now this little thing is level 3 and needs 15 glasses of water every evening. I think she is making potions of stinking cloud in her sleep or something. Gonna be a nasty mage combo one day.

[Reanna]

Darpaek wrote...

Child of divorce!

That being said, both have my parents have amazing second marriages. Of course, they're in their 50s/60s.

I hope you're like 50 or else your comment's a bit condescending. Religion is supposed to uplift and enlighten without guilt, too. How often does that work out?

The notion that you're going to find your "soulmate" within 25 miles of where you live - while you're in your early 20s - is pretty ridiculous. The idea the average early 20-something even has a clue what they want out of life - or the interpersonal experience to manage such a partnerhip - is pretty laughable. How many people would hire the average 23 year old to run their business - much less manage half your life?

I am convinced that y'all "happy married people" are happy out of ignorance. You have no concept what opportunities you missed in your life because you took the easy way out and brought a second income into your household. I thank God every day that I had the foresight in my younger years to evade the shackles. I may not have known what I wanted, but I knew enough to know that I didn't know what I wanted. I have had the most amazing opportunities the last few years that I never would have been able to experience within the "bonds of matrimony" (they're called that for a reason, you know?). Just to open my access to these opportunities, I had to quit my old career, travel across the country, work for free for two months at the job I wanted, and then spend a year working on the road and I'm sure as I continue along this career path I'll have lots more semi-perma travel in store for me. There's no way I could have dragged someone else along with this risk. My work allows me to have a big effect on the real world. I feel that I have been able to help millions of people with the work that I do - and I have made their lives better.

Worse, I would have never even considered this opportunity as viable if I was married. I would have no concept what I missed out on - stumbling along, doing whatever, in my "happily married bliss."

So you don't want to get married ever...darn. Ok moving on!

Darpaek wrote...

Delightful "ignorance", I might add.

Marriage
is for breeding. Since I have no desire to breed, I shall not marry.
Tell me - what's the difference between wedding yourself to another by
choice and wedding yourself to another by force?

Well guess I need to break it to my hubby that after 10 years of marriage we are a few kids behind time to get busy, we kinda forgot that was the whole reason to get married!

Modifié par Reanna, 02 novembre 2009 - 11:16 .