Gaming and Practicality (or lack thereof)

[redmachus]

I'm pretty sure she had a 1-up mushroom pattern for scarves and hats at one time, I think it came from the Craft zine blog.

[Edit]
Heh, a quick search on blog.craftzine.com for "mario knit" turns up some interesting stuff pretty quickly. The Mario Villain Scarf(link), The highly impractical Mario Level One Scarf(link), (no pattern, unfortunately,) and my personal favorite, the Goomba Hat(link).

[Edit2]
Oooh, and the 1-up mittens/gauntlets. (link)

Okay, stopping now or I'll do this all day

Awesome. Thanks for the links.

[Gamerforlife]

I actually enjoy knitting. I think the same hand-eye coordination that goes into gaming can easily translate into knitting. Plus, a great way to meet cool girls. And get awesome scarves. Maybe I could get a Mario pattern...

Yeah, my wife and I feel like knitting and gaming fill very nearly the same roles in our lives. Hand-eye coordination, repetition, intense concentration, buying 400 things you've drooled over when you know you can only use one of them at a time.

The big plus is when I say something like "Hey sweetie, I think I want to buy an Atari Jaguar" she doesn't say "You have five things hooked to the TV already and three more in the basement," she just understands it's part of the hobby, much like her having a metric ton of yarn in the closet.

I'm pretty sure she had a 1-up mushroom pattern for scarves and hats at one time, I think it came from the Craft zine blog.

[Edit]
Heh, a quick search on blog.craftzine.com for "mario knit" turns up some interesting stuff pretty quickly. The Mario Villain Scarf(link), The highly impractical Mario Level One Scarf(link), (no pattern, unfortunately,) and my personal favorite, the Goomba Hat(link).

[Edit2]
Oooh, and the 1-up mittens/gauntlets. (link)

Okay, stopping now or I'll do this all day

Sounds like you've got a good thing going there. Any woman who doesn't look at you funny for wanting to buy some obscure, old video game system is cool in my book

[profshiny]

Sounds like you've got a good thing going there. Any woman who doesn't look at you funny for wanting to buy some obscure, old video game system is cool in my book

No doubt. Good thing, too, since I did go ahead and buy a Jaguar this morning with her full blessing (and in fact encouragement). Unfortunately when I finally got the Jag home, I discovered the Jag CD was mostly non-functional.

On that note, if a CD ROM drive makes a noise like stripped gears (plastic-y grinding) and the spindle sort of jumps up and down in time with the noise, the drive motor is probably either shot or attached to a stripped gear, huh?

[otaku]

I'm somewhat practical. When I don't have the time to play I don't play. However my free time can easily be swallowed whole by gaming. And my thoughts always. And most of my money. I have other hobbies/interests but this is by far the biggest one by far