Video Games--VERSUS--Wife, FIGHT!

[ieatramen]

Yeah my wife doesn't get it either. Thankfully she doesn't get pissy about it, though. Mainly she just gets nervous about the cost involved. I just have to remind her that reselling them keeps the cost low and nearly non existent. Playing the games is no biggy. I try to keep a good balance between gaming, 1 year old daughter, and wife.
I'll tell you one thing, though, there is NO WAY she would let me collect like I really want to!

[Hatta]

But when I took her out to see a very good production of the Tempest the break down was something like $20 an hour. I know that is not a fair comparison but she got REALLY upset with me.

That IS a fair comparison, and she just didn't like being proven wrong. That's a big warning sign there, especially when it comes to money. So good thing you got out when you did. Arguing about money all the time is not fun.

[Ack]

My girlfriend is extremely supportive of my game buying and playing(she's actually sitting in the family room playing Oblivion right now...), but she takes issue with my ranting about the quality or background history of certain titles. She didn't get to play many games growing up, but the ones she did get, she cherished. So my girlfriend has a love and adoration for Battletoads multiplayer.

She also wants me to keep my collection. Recently due to my unemployment, I've been considering selling parts of it that haven't gotten much playtime for some much needed cash(I have a total of about 8 bucks to my name. I really need a job), but she's been very supportive and told me to avoid selling the games as long as possible because she understands how important they all are to me. Not surprisingly my roommate has said the same thing.

Oh, and Luke, I agree. Sports bras are great.

[Luke]

She also wants me to keep my collection. Recently due to my unemployment, I've been considering selling parts of it that haven't gotten much playtime for some much needed cash(I have a total of about 8 bucks to my name. I really need a job), but she's been very supportive and told me to avoid selling the games as long as possible because she understands how important they all are to me. Not surprisingly my roommate has said the same thing.

Oh, and Luke, I agree. Sports bras are great.

She sounds like a keeper Ack.

I'd be more than happy to help touch up your resume and might be able to get you in touch with a few headhunters. PM would be the way to go.

Yes. God bless the sports bra.

[aaron]

cue Inazuma to thread in 3...2...1...

You post what everyone else thinks!

marriage is silly and if you all weren't brainwashed then you wouldn't have succumbed to this nonsense. all women want is your money. that's why they have children. every woman has an inherent desire to have a child with a man as soon as possible, so they are able to get as much money as they can then spend it on things like baby bjorns and expensive barista outfits. trust me, i once was married, then i found out what a childish endeavor it was to convey feelings towards a woman, because all they desire is money and children, and also children. you can all try and tell me i am wrong, but trust me, i am not. you are all just slaves. ask yourself this question: can i really be happy with something so irregular and fickle as a wife or a child? a video-game collection is a much more safe bet. as long as you don't have children. because all they do is destroy property. women take your money and children destroy your property, and until you realize this and cleanse your life of both of these things, i don't think any of you will ever be happy.

fuck shit balls cock balls.

edit: added out-of-context cursing for posterity get.

[winds]

This thread has so much win, i've been literally laughing for about 10 minutes now.

[Inazuma]

イナズマ　参上！！
Inazuma is here!

This is pretty simple. Tell your woman to shut the fuck up and get her understand your love for video games so you don't have to put up with her bitching anymore. If she continues to bitch, you should decide which you prefer (video games or your woman) and stick with it. Why did you marry someone who hates video games anyway? Why do you tolerate her bitching for one second? Grow some balls and kick her ass the hell out of the relationship the first time she complains about your game collection.

[Ack]

イナズマ　参上！！
Inazuma is here!

This is pretty simple. Tell your woman to shut the fuck up and get her understand your love for video games so you don't have to put up with her bitching anymore. If she continues to bitch, you should decide which you prefer (video games or your woman) and stick with it. Why did you marry someone who hates video games anyway? Why do you tolerate her bitching for one second? Grow some balls and kick her ass the hell out of the relationship the first time she complains about your game collection.

I'm going to call this "Inazuma Classic." Then, we can create a shorter version, sans the swearing but with a similar punch, and refer to it as "Inazuma Lite." Maybe add a twinge of jealousy, and it's "Inazuma Lite, with Lime." Or perhaps maybe cut out all the swearing and the potentially offensive sections, and label it "Inazuma Zero."

You know, like a soft drink. Next up: do you prefer your Inazume bottled, or canned?

[Original_Name]

I'm lucky my wife likes Mario, but she hates Sonic. I was a Sega kid, and she was a Nintendo kid. The conflict is unavoidable.

Oh my God, I went through the Mario vs. Sonic hell with my ex-girlfriend. Hahaha, it cracks me up because it really shouldn't be an issue anymore... I'm a grown-up. But we would play her Super Nintendo - which she'd had since she was a little girl - all the time which was great and all until one day I asked her if she'd like to play some of my first video games. I brought over Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage 2, Shinobi III, Ristar, and ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron. She outright refused to play Sonic stating, "I'm a Mario girl and I don't want to cheat on my man" which I thought was stupid, but I let it slide. She proceeded to play each game but Sonic for literally about three minutes a piece before commanding that the next cartridge be put in, basically giving up the second she lost a life and making the most asinine comments such as, "Video games are supposed to be fun, not frustrating... and all dark!" or "They knew the game sucked, so they tried to make it look like a Nintendo game." After all that I asked her once more to play Sonic the Hedgehog in the hopes that she would maybe warm up to Sega by playing their most hallowed franchise - she begrudgingly accepted before ripping the cartridge out of the console without turning it off after losing the 30 rings she'd amassed (I naturally freaked out at that - thankfully the cartridge didn't get damaged). She started several stupid fights about Nintendo's superiority over the course of our shitty relationship, to which I would respond that Sega and Nintendo were just different and that we valued different things in our video games... I'd stay calm, but deep inside I knew the great playground fury was broiling inside of me. Anyway...

Lesson #1: Break up with women who act like that.

My current girlfriend, however, is as big of a geek as I am and just about the sweetest person I've ever met. Plus she's fucking gorgeous. Anyway, she's an incredibly forgiving person, as I am as well regarding social relations - it's funny though, because for her that quality carries over to art - so literally, when I play "The Shape of Punk to Come" by Refused or "7 Songs" by Fugazi for her, she fully comprehends and appreciates the messages of the ablums, and is intelligent and passionate enough about the arts in general to bring up elements of the album that I hadn't noticed. But then again, she can also listen to a Simple Plan song and do the exact same thing much to my horror. So I get to tease her for whoring herself out to any piece of art no matter how bad it is while she gets to tease me for acting as though art touched me as a child, leading me to fear any piece of art that isn't JUST. SO. (EDIT: I just realized my example has no relevance to video games at all. Let's see... my girlfriend likes The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Simpsons: Road Rage about equally. Distressing. Still, as I'm sure you can tell, I'm currently in a much more favorable romantic situation)

Lesson #2: Based on my limited data, Dominican women are better than Filipino women.

As far as advice on your situation, obviously you love this woman and this isn't a deal-breaker in your relationship. I would personally recommend attempting to explain the artistic merit of video games to her - Shadow of the Colossus, Rez, and Suikoden II express profound messages in ways that neither Ms. Austen's novels nor any other medium of art form could communicate. The value of the choices you make and your avatar's actual impact on the world it exists in speaks volumes of video games' potential to communicate the human condition more thoroughly than other mediums can, objectively speaking.

Art is conversational. When you play a deep, involved game like Xenogears, you are having a philosophical conversation with SquareSoft. Just as when you play Earthbound, you're having a joke with Nintendo. Or perhaps you might literally be having a conversation with Sega when you play Seaman in a conversation which straddles the line between legitimate philosophy and frivolous goofiness. Video games are as legitimate as any other form of art, you just have to know how to look at them the right way - most great novels deal in both serious and humorous expressions, and the same is true for a great video game console. A great novel can enthrall you with the world it creates, make you question any number of establishments, and produce the magical reaction of laughter. Maybe your wife expects EVERY video game to do the same, and while some video games do accomplish all of these feats at once (such as Skies of Arcadia, for instance), you could also look at the entire console like a single "novel" which can give you all these experiences in the order in which you choose to experience them in.

Lesson #3: I want to see my girlfriend in a sports bra.

[SplashChick]

I'd never date anyone who would be that condescending of my hobbies. Respect is a big part of a relationship, and if someone can't respect my hobbies, then how can I be expected to stay with them? It's a disaster waiting to happen because I'd inevitably treat them the same way, and they'd get butthurt about it, causing it to escalate and we'd inevitably break up over it.