hope its a comfort that i wish i could do half of that, anyways regarding the wikipedia thing im pretty sure thats normal, happens to me too, add to that surfing discworld and tolkien wiki for a few hours sometimes.Richard A. Kiernan said:Given the following list of some of my traits, I'll let you extrapolate:
- I have simulated, emulated or natively used at least one computer system from every decade since the 1940s.
- I have simulated, emulated or natively used at least one operating system from every decade since the 1960s.
- I have written a simulator for a hypothetical educational computer architecture purely for the purposes of personal amusement.
- I own eight fully capable computing machines, along with several other embedded systems with onboard programmability.
- I have attempted to learn FORTRAN 77 simply for personal amusement, not for any practical purpose.
- I have read and continue to read literature solely for the purposes of personal amusement from several genres that are not considered to be typical reading material, including programming manuals, automotive engineering books, books on military armour and small arms and English dictionaries.
- When asked a history question to which I didn't know the answer at the time, I proceeded to learn the answer and remembered the question for more than a year before giving the answer to a friend that was present when I didn't know the answer.
- On multiple occasions, my Wikipedia searches have left me with tabs open on at least four wildly disparate subjects, such as the biological policies of the Soviet Union, Bakelite plastic, a World War II battle, a mid-1950s jet fighter, V8 engines from a World War II aeroplane, and the PDP-11. Good luck connecting those together.
Have you guessed yet?
My god, this is genius!Easton Dark said:Oh come on, gamers are great for relationships. Have one that you can't entice? Just make sex a game. Set up an achievement board, decide what actions get you an amount of points, and go for the high score.
Did she say something to him? Can't fully blame someone for doing something you don't like, if you don't tell them you don't like it.Playful Pony said:A friend of mine spent a week at her boyfriends house (both of them play games and are a bit nerdy), and they spent practically all that time in his room where he mostly played games on the PC. She spent her time chatting to me on IM. They don't even live in the same country and only saw eachother 4-6 times a year. Needless to say the relationship didn't last. He has the rest of the year to play games on, why that one week HAD to be spent doing the same as he always does I will never understand.
He was an idiot, I don't know a single gamer who wouldn't walk away from a game to have sex with his girlfriend. (unless of course he was tired/stressed out/physically exhausted from other aspects of life)I'm not denying that some girls are far too demanding. I don't have sex all that frequently even while in a relationship though, so seeing my then bf completely ignore me in favor of his videogames when I sometimes felt like giving him what he otherwise can't stop asking and pleading about, that pisses me off! Not to mention a general lack of interest in doing anything social with me apart from playing games. I like games, don't get me wrong. I'd like to do other things now and then too.
She is VERY vocal about her likes/dislikes. She brought it up several times while staying there and he always said he understood and they'd do something "tomorrow", but same shit every time. Then she broke up, and suddenly now he's showering her with gifts and trying to be all sweet and caring. And there is a LOT of that too. If he had only sprinkled some fo that sharing, giving and sweetness over the course of their relationship she would never have broken up.artanis_neravar said:Did she say something to him? Can't fully blame someone for doing something you don't like, if you don't tell them you don't like it.Playful Pony said:A friend of mine spent a week at her boyfriends house (both of them play games and are a bit nerdy), and they spent practically all that time in his room where he mostly played games on the PC. She spent her time chatting to me on IM. They don't even live in the same country and only saw eachother 4-6 times a year. Needless to say the relationship didn't last. He has the rest of the year to play games on, why that one week HAD to be spent doing the same as he always does I will never understand.
He was an idiot, I don't know a single gamer who wouldn't walk away from a game to have sex with his girlfriend. (unless of course he was tired/stressed out/physically exhausted from other aspects of life)[/quote]I'm not denying that some girls are far too demanding. I don't have sex all that frequently even while in a relationship though, so seeing my then bf completely ignore me in favor of his videogames when I sometimes felt like giving him what he otherwise can't stop asking and pleading about, that pisses me off! Not to mention a general lack of interest in doing anything social with me apart from playing games. I like games, don't get me wrong. I'd like to do other things now and then too.
You see I don't understand this. I prefer my girl to have toys. When I first started staying over at my current girlfriends place (prior to her moving in with me) I found her "suitcase" and she was mortified. I had to explain to her that I actually liked it. I like to bring toys to bed with me when I am about to throw down, it helps me make it more interesting and stimulating (also the vibration helps me to control the timing of my orgasim until we can go together).bluepilot said:Nice big box of toys and batteries
...I guess I should get a man but whenever they see that collection they just run away and then shun me as though I was some sort of sex crazed whore
Well then he had no excuse. In support of your friend and as someone who really should have ended a relationship much sooner than it did, sometimes it's not as apparent when you are inside the relationship.Playful Pony said:She is VERY vocal about her likes/dislikes. She brought it up several times while staying there and he always said he understood and they'd do something "tomorrow", but same shit every time. Then she broke up, and suddenly now he's showering her with gifts and trying to be all sweet and caring. And there is a LOT of that too. If he had only sprinkled some fo that sharing, giving and sweetness over the course of their relationship she would never have broken up.artanis_neravar said:Did she say something to him? Can't fully blame someone for doing something you don't like, if you don't tell them you don't like it.Playful Pony said:A friend of mine spent a week at her boyfriends house (both of them play games and are a bit nerdy), and they spent practically all that time in his room where he mostly played games on the PC. She spent her time chatting to me on IM. They don't even live in the same country and only saw eachother 4-6 times a year. Needless to say the relationship didn't last. He has the rest of the year to play games on, why that one week HAD to be spent doing the same as he always does I will never understand.
Personally if I was her I'd hit the guy in the face and left him like a year before she actually did... It actually angered me somewhat that she was so patient with him and gave him so many chances when he obviously didn't understand how badly the relationship was going.
Again, trust me when I say she informed him very clearly of what was wrong and what was right... And also, she IS a gamer. She plays games just like me and you. But when your stuck on a crappy laptop playing angrybirds or whatever and IMing with your friend (me) for a full week while he is absorbed in Skyrim or something... I really do not understand what she saw in that guy...
You have to finance an IUD??? My mind is blown. I'm curious now, is any form of birth control free in the US?Fappy said:Stagnant at the moment. Trying to figure out how to finance an IUD since my GF's insurance won't cover it. We may just buy the damn thing outright.
I'm unsure if any method is actually "free" when it comes down to it, though her insurance would be more than happy to cover most other forms of birth control. The problem is that hormone-based birth control (i.e. most of the good ones) fuck up her sex-drive. We've tried everything. From what she told me the IUD will cost about $700 out of pocket. I'm seriously considering going halvesies on it with her.robot slipper said:You have to finance an IUD??? My mind is blown. I'm curious now, is any form of birth control free in the US?Fappy said:Stagnant at the moment. Trying to figure out how to finance an IUD since my GF's insurance won't cover it. We may just buy the damn thing outright.
Topic: I was in a 10-year relationship until last year. No sex life now, and it's been so long since someone has tried to chat me up that when it actually happened the other week, this was the general result:
Fit Bloke: Oh so you'll be leaving about the same time as me. Maybe we could get the train together.
Me:
Atmosphere: AWKWARD SILENCE
Fit Bloke: <understandably seems to think he's said something wrong and starts to back away>
Me:
I went home very alone