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Arcade Spousal Abuse
MonitorGuru:
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I don't know MonitorGuru--if you're taking up all the space in the house and the garage and she doesn't really care for the games, then I don't really think that's equality.
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KenToad:
--- Quote from: MonitorGuru on May 27, 2005, 12:01:17 pm ---She doesn't get into all of them, but she plays the Galaxian and Ms.Pacman, and we both play the BubbleBobble together. She doesn't get into the Playchoice and is bad at Arkanoid. Once I get SuperPacman built (handmade cabinet) she will play that.
I only have 6 games in the house right now., and building one in the garage. All but the MsPac and Arkanoid are in the 4th bedroom downstairs. The MsPac and Ark (mini cab) are in the family room downstairs, integrated nicely in, not just a row of games taking up space. She plays about 10 to 15 different games on Mame (Pac + Pal, PuzzleBobble, JumpingJack, LadyBug to name a few).
I was just saying that if your wife constantly is complaining and wont let you do things AND you're not overboard (not spending all of your time and money on it) and she has equal things she does (constant dinners out with girlfriends/expensive shopping trips/home furnishings/etc...) then if she is complaining, then there is a problem with your marriage and you need to work it out.
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That's cool that your wife plays games. I kind of wish I could get the same thing going with my fiancee, just once in a while to play a game with me. She reads books that I recommend, instead, since we don't have TV to keep the BS in our lives. I'm usually a dedicated reader, but I've slowed down with that quite a bit since this hobby really got started, i.e. since I started building. I also agree with your philosophy, but most of the women I've ever found attractive do not seem to have hobbies or respect guys who play games all the time or build massive, worshipful shrines to their favorites ;D. Playing 80's games rather than new games certainly helps, but I didn't reveal my nostalgia for games to my fiancee until our relationship had pretty much fully developed. It was serendipitous. The hobby didn't really attack my brain until well into our relationship and even then I kept it in the closet for a while ;). It's pretty hard to hide joysticks and a computer full of games, however.
Cheers,
KenToad
Stingray:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 27, 2005, 11:57:50 am ---
--- Quote from: RayB on May 27, 2005, 11:26:10 am ---Like I tolerate the fact that my bathroom cabinets are 100% full, but only 2% of it consists of products I use. The rest I consider a big waste of money on products that she thinks she'll use but doesn't. :D
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I once counted the bottles of shampoo, moisturizer, and unidentified stuff in my bathroom. That day, my wife had 34, I had 1.
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I'll bet there are at least a dozen bottles of stuff in my shower right now. I have no idea what most of it is even for. The only one I use is the shampoo.
-S
ChadTower:
Yep. My bottle of Head and Shoulders to her Bath and Body Works arsenal.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Stingray on May 27, 2005, 01:37:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 27, 2005, 11:57:50 am ---
--- Quote from: RayB on May 27, 2005, 11:26:10 am ---Like I tolerate the fact that my bathroom cabinets are 100% full, but only 2% of it consists of products I use. The rest I consider a big waste of money on products that she thinks she'll use but doesn't. :D
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I once counted the bottles of shampoo, moisturizer, and unidentified stuff in my bathroom. That day, my wife had 34, I had 1.
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I'll bet there are at least a dozen bottles of stuff in my shower right now. I have no idea what most of it is even for. The only one I use is the shampoo.
-S
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Is it possible that on some bath-and-body-works board somewhere that this exact thread is running with the POVs reversed ?
Cheers.