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Bullwinkle58 -> RE: OT-Are you playing that stupid wargame again? (3/9/2011 1:14:29 PM)
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ORIGINAL: obvert
Ummm, my girlfriend doesn't know I play this game. Yet. We don't live together. I hide the gaming laptop when she's around. This is bad, I know.
The trouble is, when do you tell them you play a game that takes years to finish?
It's hard enough getting someone to understand a game that takes 12 hours to finish.
At present I am enjoying my secret.
If you decide to take things to the next level, take it from someone who learned the hard way--make sure she knows. Knows it all. The time committment, the mind committment, the outside reading, the forum time. That she knows it's one of, or your only, main hobby. That it can take significant weekend hours, making girlfriends necessary for garden shows, dog shows, aimless shopping trips, and celebrity gossip. That it will cut into your availablity for co-watching stupid TV and/or chick flicks.
My ex and I played "Might and Magic I" on my trusty AppleIIe. She even kept a 3-ring binder of notes ("Sprites can kick your ass!") while I manned the keyboard. However, once we got married computer games became "stupid" and she wanted to know why I wouldn't take up golf, since that was "useful" in advancing a career.
Number 2 understands. I have hidden nothing. Our computers are in the same room (with the Tivo), and she can do her online thing and/or watch the Tivo, while I play AE and watch TV with one eye. (No sound in AE but it's a minor sacrifice.) Sometimes she'll look at the map and ask "Where is that?" "Tassafaronga," I'll say, and she says "Huh", and we continue to watch "Glee" or a home-improvement show.
And she for sure thinks golf is "stupid." Farm girl, knows acreage like that is for soybeans and sugar beets, not gopher holes.
Just be very careful. Don't invest too much time in her before She Knows. [:)]
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