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| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 20, 2007, 01:37:38 pm --- That's what you have to make her understand, I think. Acquired knowledge has substantial value. So does productive hobby time that makes you happy. These don't show up in the checkbook. If she doesn't appreciate those, tell her that not having a game to work on makes you want to go out and drink with your friends in that time instead. See if that lights a bulb. --- End quote --- This is true. You need to give her a frame of reference. Go out, spend 100 partying, come home, kick the dog, punch a hole in the wall, pass out on the kitchen table (your decision if you want to vomit everywhere. It's been my experience that many women look at other women for how good the other women have it but look internally for how bad they have it. If the worst thing you do is spend a little extra money on a hobby that brings you pleasure and keeps you out of trouble - they are doing pretty good. On the other hand, if your frying bologna for a "special" dinner - you may want to re-think your priorities. Either way - Baby Pacman sucks. |
| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on July 20, 2007, 01:51:42 pm ---This is true. You need to give her a frame of reference. Go out, spend 100 partying, come home, kick the dog, punch a hole in the wall, pass out on the kitchen table (your decision if you want to vomit everywhere. --- End quote --- And if that doesn't work, come home smelling like bad perfume. When she goes off tell her that if you had a game to work on you wouldn't have been out in the first place. Hope she buys it. If none of that works, invite your fattest and smelliest friends over 3x/week and let them sleep on the guest couch... again, if you had a game to work on, you wouldn't be wasting your time with fat smelly loser friends. --- Quote ---It's been my experience that many women look at other women for how good the other women have it but look internally for how bad they have it. --- End quote --- Very true. And since it's all relative, things you have that may be pretty good can be bad simply because they aren't quite what their friend has... yet the areas in which you are clearly superior are just normal and acceptable. --- Quote ---If the worst thing you do is spend a little extra money on a hobby that brings you pleasure and keeps you out of trouble - they are doing pretty good. --- End quote --- Just keep her away from the couple down the street where the husband is so whipped his idea of a "good night" is shoe shopping and not getting berated into a sloppy pulp for not picking up a sock. That sets bad bad juju example. The acceptable answer to "why can't you be more like him" seems to never be "because he's not a man". |
| Chris G:
"Project Arcade 2: how to manipulate your marriage to preserve your arcade hobby" by C. Tower and L. Lew. |
| ChadTower:
I took the simple route. I married a woman that doesn't mind so long as I'm not putting games on the main floor. Of course, I had no idea that would be the case when I married her several years before picking up the hobby, but such is the luck of the draw. |
| Hawk Daddy:
Just don't say, I played games before you, and I'll play games after you, I don't think that would be in your best interest. Hawk |
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