Small tips to help gently resolve or prevent gamer widowing:
- Set a date night! It's much easier to be engaged with only each other when you're out of the house. Having a simple date night at least once a week makes a big difference. You can take turns deciding on what you will do on your date night so both parties participate in meaningful activities for the other person. (remember, she did learn to play Halo for you... I think you can manage a pottery class or a museum every once and a while)
- Be honest about your timing. There are times where GG do need their gamer's attention for a moment and have to interrupt their game play. Most of the time the Gamer will either completely ignore them without making a sound or give a negative response to show their annoyance. GGs deserve more then that. They make you food, keep things tighty, give you love, and sometimes do your laundry. If you can't pause the game right then and there, at least give her a real time estimate of when you can be mentally available - and then STICK TO IT. Don't say "in a minute" if you don't mean "in a minute." It's ok to say "I'll have this boss beat in approx 12 minutes and then we can chat." Be respectful. Formulate full sentences and look her in the eye, when you can. GGs know all to well that infamous "gamer minute." One minute can mean fifteen. GGs appreciate when their Gamer polightly gives them an honest estimate they stick to. That way they don't feel like you think of them as a pest.
- Prioritize your arrival from work. GGs know you've had a long day and you want to hop on your game right away. Try to resist that urge and give her at least 30 minutes. Have a seat, relax, chit chat. It wont hurt. She'll be more willing to let you be if you do.
fucking goddammit
"hi sweetie how was your day oh that's very int-oh shit 30 minutes is up? get in the fucking kitchen, I've got a Triforce to find"
really if your SO does not take priority over your video games she really isn't that important to you and you shouldn't be that important to her either
edit: not to imply that this sort of thing doesn't apply with other hobbies or with the gender roles reversed
Small tips to help gently resolve or prevent gamer widowing:
- Set a date night! It's much easier to be engaged with only each other when you're out of the house. Having a simple date night at least once a week makes a big difference. You can take turns deciding on what you will do on your date night so both parties participate in meaningful activities for the other person. (remember, she did learn to play Halo for you... I think you can manage a pottery class or a museum every once and a while)
- Be honest about your timing. There are times where GG do need their gamer's attention for a moment and have to interrupt their game play. Most of the time the Gamer will either completely ignore them without making a sound or give a negative response to show their annoyance. GGs deserve more then that. They make you food, keep things tighty, give you love, and sometimes do your laundry. If you can't pause the game right then and there, at least give her a real time estimate of when you can be mentally available - and then STICK TO IT. Don't say "in a minute" if you don't mean "in a minute." It's ok to say "I'll have this boss beat in approx 12 minutes and then we can chat." Be respectful. Formulate full sentences and look her in the eye, when you can. GGs know all to well that infamous "gamer minute." One minute can mean fifteen. GGs appreciate when their Gamer polightly gives them an honest estimate they stick to. That way they don't feel like you think of them as a pest.
- Prioritize your arrival from work. GGs know you've had a long day and you want to hop on your game right away. Try to resist that urge and give her at least 30 minutes. Have a seat, relax, chit chat. It wont hurt. She'll be more willing to let you be if you do.
fucking goddammit
"hi sweetie how was your day oh that's very int-oh shit 30 minutes is up? get in the fucking kitchen, I've got a Triforce to find"
This is a troll, right? At least I hope so.
He's not talking about a girlfriend, he's talking about a maid.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't look that hard. I can see it might take a few tries to learn the locations of all the bombs and work out an optimal route, but once you've got that down it should be pretty straightforward. You've got ample health, at least 30 seconds more than you strictly need, and the timing on the electric gates isn't unreasonable.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't look that hard. I can see it might take a few tries to learn the locations of all the bombs and work out an optimal route, but once you've got that down it should be pretty straightforward. You've got ample health, at least 30 seconds more than you strictly need, and the timing on the electric gates isn't unreasonable.
it always looks easy
it wasn't
plus the swim controls were pretty bad
plus most people playing it when it came out were little kids
You also have to remember that you don't heal between levels, so the fact that that guy got to that point with 4 full health turtles means he was rocking before he got there.
That Battletoads level has a warp to a later level - just before you crash into a wall. You can see it in the video, I think. Battletoads is sadistically NES-hard.
The dam level in TMNT is easy if you know exactly where to go and if you can manage the controls. They're not very good.
Did any of you actually finish either of those games? I can't remember how far I got in Battletoads, and in TMNT I got into the technodrome and really hit the wall.
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Speed run? Hellll no.
Great little game though.
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I wish i could splice that together and make a henry hatsworth game with arbitrary sadistic laws
I love watching that shit
fuck I'm gonna do it right now
basically the only thing anywhere in the game that can be considered remotely difficult
and it is balls hard
Is that game legit?
If not I can stick to my wiiware copy of Paper Mario
they are working on a second one I think?
let me put it this way: I just about never play games to absolute 100% completion
to date, I have done it with three games: sonic 1 and 2 on the genesis, and super mario galaxy
and completing the former two at 100% just meant beating them with all the emeralds
apparantly it's actually almost done, but they're not releasing it until 2010
they don't want it to eat into NSMB Wii's sales, you see
the pricks
that last bowser level blew my fucking mind, especially the bit where
the Dreadnought Galaxy was insane
frankly, all the sidescrolling stages were fun
that is pretty much all i needed to know. day one purchase.
speaking of which, i'll probably have to get NSMB day one also, that shit looks bananas.
http://thegamersgirl.blogspot.com/
essentially this is a collection of advice and anecdotes about being a gamer's girlfriend
it really bothers me and I'm not sure why
i get the feeling this is written by a dude
who wishes he had this imaginary person as a girlfriend
and is an awful human being
could be
it's like a giant plea for a girlfriend that he can use for sex and then quietly escort to a corner to go clean his shirts while he plays WoW
fucking goddammit
"hi sweetie how was your day oh that's very int-oh shit 30 minutes is up? get in the fucking kitchen, I've got a Triforce to find"
the fact that there were only three of them is the single most tragic event of 2008
edit: not to imply that this sort of thing doesn't apply with other hobbies or with the gender roles reversed
She always has to find a save point, I can really relate to this imaginary person.
Satans..... hints.....
This is a troll, right? At least I hope so.
He's not talking about a girlfriend, he's talking about a maid.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't look that hard. I can see it might take a few tries to learn the locations of all the bombs and work out an optimal route, but once you've got that down it should be pretty straightforward. You've got ample health, at least 30 seconds more than you strictly need, and the timing on the electric gates isn't unreasonable.
it always looks easy
it wasn't
plus the swim controls were pretty bad
plus most people playing it when it came out were little kids
The dam level in TMNT is easy if you know exactly where to go and if you can manage the controls. They're not very good.
Did any of you actually finish either of those games? I can't remember how far I got in Battletoads, and in TMNT I got into the technodrome and really hit the wall.
Kinda like in Mario games
with job money
I'm honestly curious if anyone cares, Sony
The real draw is the $100 price cut
Is the ps2 bc still fucked or what?