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I've employed this strategy for 16 years with considerable success -- I'm still single, after all!

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Copycat!

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I can say in all honesty that Dom 3 has had an adverse effect on my marriage-my wife's threatened to smash my laptop into little bits on more than one occasion, because I spend the majority of my free time playing this game.

I've currently got my laptop hidden, because I figure, if she can't see it, she won't think about it as much, and then I can play it to my heart's content when she's not around.

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Old games (like Might and Magic: World of Xeen) used to have a "boss key" which you could hit in case of an emergency, and then it would display something harmless: a DOS screen for example, or a spreadsheet. Newer games no longer have it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Kristoffer! Johan! Save our marriages!
 

Can we ask the devs to add a feature where, when you hit the ESC key, the screen turns into a beautiful valentine that we can print out and give to our rightfully embittered spouses?

After all, they're the ones that got us into this mess http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I just ended up getting my wife a Nintendo DS and a copy of Brain Age and Puzzle Quest. I haven't seen her in weeks.

Speaking of Puzzle Quest, if you like (or your loved one likes) Bejeweled with RPG elements, I highly recommend the demo for the PC, which should eventually come out as a full version. It is also available for the 360, PSP, DS, and eventually the PS3 as well.

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I imported a pink DS from Japan (before they came out in the states), Animal Crossing, and Tetris for her wedding present. She loved it.

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You guys are going to have to tell me the secret. How do you find wives that like game like that?

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Turmoil 3 Luck 3 scales.

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That would explain my problem.
I have order 3.

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I married my wife more for her love of Monty Python than for her love of video games-although it was more her idea than mine to buy a playstation 2, and she did get me God of War, so she's definitely not entirely anti-video game, just basically anti-Dominions, because it takes up so much of my time (and admittedly, I do overdo it).

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LOL http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

My wife has threatened to burn, smash, hide or else pour water on my, laptop, desktop, 2nd desktop, games and or books (and she know which ones I like most, Dom generations and George Martin come first on the black list). Fortunately this grim fate hasn't yet been met http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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My wife has a degree in computers, and another in business. She has her own desktop machine (actually there are 5 in the house, networked, and two linux servers). She is considering getting a laptop since she hates being away from her keyboard for long.

As far as games, she is more of a console person. She is into real-time shooters. Mostly mech-warrior stuff. She also has DM'd DnD games at tournament level for over a decade.

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Yes, my wife is a game/computer hater too. She has hid my keyboard and mouse numerous times.

She calls me Otaku.

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My wife loves computers but she HAS threatened to hook my desktop monitor up to an exercise bike so that I have to pedal/exercise to see anything. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif
Ive thought it best not to mention it often for fear that someone will market such a torture device.

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My girlfriend calls me Otaku too, you know, so you aren't alone.


Yes, I watch anime, make strange programs, even stranger games, have huge wallpaper animegirls in my room, but am I really Otaku? (I never admit it!) We tend to watch anime together and she is part of our game maker team, so...?


I and my girlfriend made promise that everytime we watch one anime episode / movie / something similar we have to pedal exercise bike throught the whole show.

It is kind of tiring, you know. (But I have lost some weight this summer, yay!)

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The worst "punishment" i have had was having my computer unplugged during a key guild raid when i was the MT. Since it ended the raid for 40 people, it got my attention.

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I've lost a ton of weight since buying the house.

Now, I weigh over 400lbs, I'll readily admit, but, despite being a serious game geek, a pathetic gourmet food junkie, spending 40 hours a week in a chair, and having some fairly debilitating medical problems (I either have fibromyalgia or some other severe form of "holistic" arthritis, and a few other things-nothing life threatening though), I've managed to keep in relatively good shape, somehow. Enough that a 12 hour day of heavy lifting or a 10 mile hike is uncomfortable, but not out of the question, and swimming laps for an hour at a time is actually enjoyable.

However, I was shocked to discover the other day that I can actually (barely) see muscle definition in my gut, so I figure I have to have dropped 50lbs of fat, atleast.

I agree with Xietor-every year that I've been alive has been better, somehow, than the last. Even when it's been more difficult, it's been better, and getting older doesn't mean getting fat and soft.

Getting older...All you really need to give up, for certain, is your vanity. And I'm not saying give up your pride-I'm a strong proponent of pride and it's value. Men-and sometimes women, because society does make things a hell of a lot harder on a woman as she ages than a man-we do have the opportunity to become better as we age. More powerful, secure, confident, and certainly more knowledgeable.

So no, I don't fear getting older...I have qualms about it, ofcourse. The biggest problem I have with it is how it affects casual relationships, because yes, it's something of a caste-system imposed upon us. But that has it's benefits too, as unfair as the drawbacks.

I do fear the degradation of my body-even though I know it's inevitable, and I've known since I was maybe 15 years old, because that's when I started having problems people are supposed to have when they're 50 or 60, but it's a fear I've lived with for a long time. I'm blessed with a body that does have powers, and toughness, and my mind, soul-what have you-have perhaps benefited from what my body has to endure.

Life isn't fair, but that door can swing both ways, and if you can retain the essence of what was valuable about you as a person when you were young, and strengthen and protect that with the wisdom and experience you have the opportunity to gain with age, you can enjoy and be proud of who you are, at any age, and believe me-that is a really special thing.

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Good post, HoneyBadger. Thank you for sharing.

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My pleasure

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*echoes Dedas*

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Thank you very much!

It's nice to know that atleast the passage of years can give one a few things to say that someone else wants to hear.

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20, which puts me on the younger end of the spectrum. I first heard about Dom:PPP when I was 15. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I love deep strategy games a la Dominions, but I also play RPGs (both PC and console), watch anime, etc. Playing Dominions is not mutually exclusive with playing Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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I'm 30 and a law student in California.

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cool. this is about the first of these fora where i am not one of the 'old ones'.

i'm 24.

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I'm 26

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Hm. So I'm older than someone who's name invokes "Methusela". Figures.

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So what are the extremes?
How far did I miss the granddaddy award?

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So far, the oldest and youngest on record are 59 and 14, and I would guess we have an average of 28.

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IIRC, the old poll (DomII times) had something like over half of the voters being above 20 years, and over a quarter above 30.

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Well, im officially 15 now(technically yesterday but..) but not willing to find my post to update so - happy birthday to me.

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Just had my birthday this week as well. I am 30.

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You have a crapload of posts for not even being registered a year. Happy Birthday, live it up while you're still young!

And Happy Birthday Dr. D!

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I'm a young 30. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Happy birthday, Shovah-I'm gaining on you in posts and I've only been here since October http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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But me thinks im less active than I used to be http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif - check my old account which I lost the password to(simply named Shovah) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif.