[wolfen]

Last year I spent around 1 million hours on World of Warcraft. The wife rolled her eyes, chuckled, and read her books. Trying to balance school and work and marriage wasn't working, so I crushed my WoW disks into grains of sand, deinstalled, and got serious.

Well some friends of ours got her into Neverwinter Nights (that's about all that will play on her G3 iBook). She got hooked. After 14 years of marriage, I now have a genuine gamer chick on my hands. She's gone loco. She went to the Apple store about an hour ago to buy a MacBook Pro, all the NWN expansion packs, and WoW.

(Countdown to Blizzcon and the Succubus costume...)

[Peter]

put your foot down.

[All_Insane]

Ye gods! A woman who games?! Blasphemy! 'Tis against the natural order of the world!

You've created a monster, dude. Best to appreciate it before you completely lose her.

[Chuckit]

Grats.

[turtle777]

Well, keep us posted. Good luck.

-t

[kc311v2]

You may have to create your own character now and fend off all the desperate mages and warriors.

[Railroader]

Check for an adams apple.

[andreas_g4]

I was expecting pix… Big letdown.

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by wolfen 

Last year I spent around 1 million hours on World of Warcraft.

But there are only 8760 hours in a year...how's that possible??

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Originally Posted by Gossamer 

But there are only 8760 hours in a year...how's that possible??

Hyperbole: scaring the **** out of MacNN since the last millenium!



greg

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Gossamer 

But there are only 8760 hours in a year...how's that possible??

You get eleventy billion™ cookies for figuring that out.

-t

[zro]

She picked NWN over WoW? Gamer chick my ass!

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by zro 

She picked NWN over WoW? Gamer chick my ass!

Come on, give her a break. She's gotta develop that addiction.

-t

[loki74]

I am so sorry.

Best of luck to you my friend... on the bright side, you quit playing WoW, which is ALWAYS a good thing.

[wolfen]

Well, she bought 2 copies of WoW. "I'm not playing by myself," she says knowing I'll play with her. How sweet her naivete is at this stage. I haven't the heart to say, "No, Sweetie. You'll be playing with 3000 illiterate 12 year olds, 2000 basement-dwelling psychopaths, 1000 sex offenders, 500 Chinese farmers, and 100 bots on your server. You will never be playing alone."

So I guess the good news is we have an always-on, super accessible "marriage-building" activity now. The bad news is that Shakespeare couldn't have written more foreshadowing into this tale. I mean, I know how it turns out and I still can't wait to see how it turns out. Imagining the first time someone ninjas a fancy 2-handed sword out from under her is getting me giddy. She'll likely get a warning for language! Maybe she'll even be on Vent!! Oh I can't wait.

As for the NWN comment above, remember that her G3 couldn't run WoW. She couldn't really think about it until she got into NWN. WoW has all the phat lewtz. (And yes...she now uses the term. If she starts typing "U R DUM" or "CYBORZ?" I'm getting a divorce.)

[zro]

I M IN UR BASE
KLLIN UR DOODZ

[quattrokid73]

LOL zro


when i got my 360 and then promptly got into rc helicopters, my gf first picked up the controller. she quickly beat kameo, is almost done oblivion, and has started viva piniata as well.
she also expressed interest in learning Gears of War as well.

no adams apple here.

adam

[Jawbone54]

My wife started crying when I told her I bought another 360...and not tears of joy.

She hates the fact that I even play games.

[Dakar²]

Sounds like a match made in heaven.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by wolfen 

Well, she bought 2 copies of WoW. "I'm not playing by myself," she says knowing I'll play with her. How sweet her naivete is at this stage. I haven't the heart to say, "No, Sweetie. You'll be playing with 3000 illiterate 12 year olds, 2000 basement-dwelling psychopaths, 1000 sex offenders, 500 Chinese farmers, and 100 bots on your server. You will never be playing alone."

I know two people who play. One lives in his mom's basement. It's just temporary, but your comment made me think of him.

The other owns his own house and has literally moved into his basement. His entire first floor is empty and he has moved everything downstairs. He even moved his full-sized refridgerator down there.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

My wife started crying when I told her I bought another 360...and not tears of joy.

She hates the fact that I even play games.

I know where you're coming from.

I am not a gamer, but I can understand the appeal a little bit. My wife abhors it. If I want to change the subject of an argument or really piss her off I simply say "I think I'll head out and buy a playstation tomorrow."

She has accepted allowing our daughter (3 years old) to play some online games at pbskids.com or an educational title from the Apple Store. It was hilarious when I had to get my son up from his nap and I asked her to help our daughter with a game on pbskids. I came back hearing my daughter tell my wife "No mommy, let me do it. You're doing it wrong." because she could play a Wonder Pets flash game.

But I have made sure that most of my hobbies are constructive. The one that gets her heated up right now is my interest in RC cars. We simply don't talk about it anymore.

[Uncle Skeleton]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

But I have made sure that most of my hobbies are constructive. The one that gets her heated up right now is my interest in RC cars. We simply don't talk about it anymore.

How does she feel about your MacNN addiction?

[SSharon]

Originally Posted by wolfen 

Well, she bought 2 copies of WoW. "I'm not playing by myself," she says knowing I'll play with her. How sweet her naivete is at this stage. I haven't the heart to say, "No, Sweetie. You'll be playing with 3000 illiterate 12 year olds, 2000 basement-dwelling psychopaths, 1000 sex offenders, 500 Chinese farmers, and 100 bots on your server. You will never be playing alone."

I must say I lol. Now let me call my fiance and see what she has to say on the gaming subject. I do remember deleting warcraft 3 my first semester in college because it was distracting me from finals (and food, people, sunlight, etc.).

[Cipher13]

I got my girlfriend into playing WoW - she really didn't want to, but it was the "look, I have to go take care of this for 10 mins, just... make a character and occupy yourself" situation.

Now she has a tier 2.5 warlock >_<

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton 

How does she feel about your MacNN addiction?

I don't want to derail this thread anymore than you already are, but I'll answer...

I don't know. I am rarely on here when we would be spending time together and it doesn't keep me from spending anytime with the family. I usually am only on here when I am already on the net checking news, weather, bank accounts.

But the big question is: how do you feel about your time you spend on here?

[Uncle Skeleton]

I'm conflicted. That's why I'm interested in other people's perspective (on themselves).

edit: As for the girlfriend, she makes fun of me for debating evolution, but she likes when I know how to fix macs. Hence the conflict.

On Topic Edit: Neither of us "game," unless you count [strike]macnn-ing[/strike] mac-use as a game, and I guess I do.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton 

I'm conflicted. That's why I'm interested in other people's perspective (on themselves).

I suggest you base your life upon you, and not others. Worry about you.

You'll never be happy trying to be like someone else.

[Eriamjh]

If you kill the wife online, don't expect to get any that night.

[besson3c]

My wife can't stop playing Frogger... all day long, it's getting that stupid frog across the street. There is no end to it!

[mdc]

My wife is sitting on the couch next to me playing through Guitar Hero.

[- - e r i k - -]

My wife is going to the BC midnight launch with me

[goMac]

I'm dating a gamer chick. Her only rule is no games with gratuitous blood. And she doesn't like WoW (seen too many people ruined by it).

She just finished assembling her vintage N64 collection.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by wolfen 

Well, she bought 2 copies of WoW. "I'm not playing by myself," she says knowing I'll play with her. How sweet her naivete is at this stage. I haven't the heart to say, "No, Sweetie. You'll be playing with 3000 illiterate 12 year olds, 2000 basement-dwelling psychopaths, 1000 sex offenders, 500 Chinese farmers, and 100 bots on your server. You will never be playing alone."

Eh, she could always roll on Lethon. Seriously, I was randomly surveying realms yesterday: Two people in the IF auction house on that server.

[starman]

Originally Posted by goMac 

I'm dating a gamer chick. Her only rule is no games with gratuitous blood. And she doesn't like WoW (seen too many people ruined by it).

She just finished assembling her vintage N64 collection.

No WoW = no date.

[centerchannel68]

This thread makes me laugh. A lot. And not with anyone.

[starman]

Yeah, we know how you feel about people that play games.

[MindFad]

Originally Posted by centerchannel68 

This thread makes me laugh. A lot. And not with anyone.

You get your Nintendo Wii yet!?

[Warhaven]

I don't understand all the hype over WoW. I got it as a Christmas present, played my free month and shrugged. In all honesty, I enjoyed NwN far more than WoW. It actually had a plot, far more detailed NPCs, and you didn't have some jerk who's 3 times your level killing you while you're attempting to complete a quest that's taken you 19 hours to find the location, because the only clue to your quest was, "Go south west," on a map that's 50,000 kilometers wide.

That game got really boring.

[olePigeon]

Meh. It's a 3D Diablo.

[starman]

Originally Posted by Warhaven 

I don't understand all the hype over WoW. I got it as a Christmas present, played my free month and shrugged. In all honesty, I enjoyed NwN far more than WoW. It actually had a plot, far more detailed NPCs, and you didn't have some jerk who's 3 times your level killing you while you're attempting to complete a quest that's taken you 19 hours to find the location, because the only clue to your quest was, "Go south west," on a map that's 50,000 kilometers wide.

That game got really boring.

LOL. 8 million people say you're wrong.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by Warhaven 

I don't understand all the hype over WoW. I got it as a Christmas present, played my free month and shrugged. In all honesty, I enjoyed NwN far more than WoW. It actually had a plot, far more detailed NPCs, and you didn't have some jerk who's 3 times your level killing you while you're attempting to complete a quest that's taken you 19 hours to find the location, because the only clue to your quest was, "Go south west," on a map that's 50,000 kilometers wide.

That game got really boring.

Or then again …maybe you just sucked at it.

Which is quite hard mind you.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

My wife can't stop playing Frogger... all day long, it's getting that stupid frog across the street. There is no end to it!

That would have been funny had it been sincere.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by starman 

LOL. 8 million people say you're wrong.

And most of those people are using Windows.

Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton 

How does she feel about your MacNN addiction?

Probably the same way your boyfriend feels about your Railroader addiction.

[Goldfinger]

Meh, my girlfriend isn't really into games. She did have a lot of fun playing Wii Sports eventough she couldn't stop laughing while playing it. Looked a bit retarded to be honest.

Anyway, she always says to me: you can buy a Wii or a playstation or whatever but just don't get hooked and don't become a real gamer or I'll dump you ASAP. That sums it up doesn't it.

Luckily for me I've never been a real gamer and I essentially left gaming behind me when I sold my second Playstation 2. I DO wonder where you can find gamer chicks, i think it would be cool to have one as a girlfriend . I've never met a girl who really liked games in my entire life. They all either hate it or are indifferent to them.

[Kevin]

My ole lady does the Yahoo games from time to time. But that is about it.

[starman]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

And most of those people are using Windows.

Which is relevant how?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by starman 

Which is relevant how?

You were inferring since a BUNCH of people playing it suddenly made it valid that it was a decent game. I was pointing out that those people are also using Windows.

It was a simple joke. Not to be taken too seriously.

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

Probably the same way your boyfriend feels about your Railroader addiction.

Wow, don't get to see Kevin turn a gay joke often. Cherish it.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

Probably the same way your boyfriend feels about your Railroader addiction.

OUCH! Smackdown.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

Wow, don't get to see Kevin turn a gay joke often. Cherish it.

Actually I thought he was gay? either way.