Games vs Girls
There comes a time in every gamer's life where he must struggle with two diametrically opposing forces: games, and girls.I can only imagine the pain and suffering Canadian Attack Beaver faces when he has just picked up a rack of new games, and yet his beloved is cooing for attention. I have learned that you can't fool a girl by trying to split your attention between the epic battle at hand and the game you are playing, er what? sorry I was ... what? Oh OK let me pause this... OK sorry um, what you want me to pick up some eggs? Sure, right after I reach the next save point. Ow! Ok ok, I'm going.
This video from Google Video perhaps illustrates best the eventuality that "game widows" must face.Sure it might not be that romantic, but I don't think that things have really changed that much. Back in the past it was "Honey I'll be in bed right after I tend the sheep", or "Honey I'll be back right after I chop down a couple more trees".
I mean it isn't like we've never heard "Oh sweetie, I just have to collide a couple more nano particles against this little piece of metal and then analyze the pico scratches to see if they resemble any famous deities" before.
That said, we know in our hearts that the game isn't going anywhere, and we're coming to bed soon. Right after this cut-scene.
posted by Blight @ 3:07 AM
25 Comments:
Haha, that's sweet.
Anyways, yeah, it's not like girls are any better. When they're focused on something then there's no bothering them. However, as soon as YOU focus on something else suddenly they're all over you.
I'd call 'em attention whores, but whore is such an ugly word.
What you need to do is find a girl who likes games and understands your needs. Best of luck on that!! :-)
It is enough that your partner can find something to do when you aren't giving them your complete and undivided attention.
Then, you'll be all right...
Besides, having a gaming partner is a mixed bag.
Kirsten: Wow! My monster just desimated your monster! I thought you were supposed to be good at video games! Why are you crying? Big baby.
I'm on Derelict's side. My experience with girls is the same: once I'm playing video games (especially when I've returned the hilt of the sword that the Wookies need to pick a new chieftain, or something equally globe-shattering) then my attention is up for grabs.
But when they're ready for naptime, it doesn't matter what you've got to say. It'll wait till after the nap.
It sounds just like a cat. If you're occupied with something, they rub against their legs and knock all of the pieces of your board game over until you give them your attention.
I used to have a girl who would play videogames until I was bored stiff...
Get it? Bored stiff?
Anyway, she especially liked Yoshi's Island and Advance Wars, which at least showed she had good old-school taste.
That was an Asian girl, wasn't it?
I was watching videos with a friend in Montreal - these two girls call us up: 'What're you doing?'
We say we're going to play video games, so they'd better not come over. They say they'd love to play.
We go to Blockbuster to rent a game. My friend and I are looking for sports games. The girls force us to rent 'Family Feud'.
Of course she was Asian! What kinda man do you take me for?
In some ways I prefer the "video game cheerleader" type, so I don't have to share the wheel with anyone else. I think I'd be a horrible back-seat video game player... unless the driver really knows his/her stuff.
But you know what?
I'm more than happy to be the one who wears the video game pants of the relationship.
Ben: Would it be redundant to agree with your taste in women again?
BLight, you're so video-game sexist.
Hey, where's that game review?
Are you going to play Empire at War?
Redundancy is the spice of life. Uh, I think.
Anyway.
Oh shiiiiit!
The game review is done, but I'm waiting for the editor to finish reviewing it before putting it up. It might be a little long (3 pages in MS Word) but hopefully it makes you feel a bit of how I felt playing the game.
My ex and I played Halo 2 together. She actually got pretty good at it.
Sometimes she'd squeal girl-like when she got killed or she'd lose her bearings when her perspective got all out of whack, which normally would make me lose all respect for a person, but instead that just made her all the more endearing to me.
Sounds like you're pining for her.
Don't worry, you'll find another player 2.
Cibbuano, you'll always be player 2 in my heart. When it comes to videogames, I'm a homo.
Don't tease me. You NEVER wanted me to be player 2 when Blight or the Beav were around.
You'd hand me and Lobo the controller out of pity, not out of massive game ReZZpect.
True.
That's the whole reason that we came up with "Street Fighter Rules". When the Beav won too many times, he'd have to hand over the controller.
Affirmative action isn't always a bad thing.
Yeah I felt better after learning that Beav practiced 24/7 in preparation for us coming over to play SF2. This is from his Dad's mouth, so it must be true.
Speaking of the Beav's dad, I started playing for a rugby club out here, and the club secretary looks exactly like the Beav's dad. Height, glasses... just the accent is different..
Blight, you have to watch this video.
It's Will Wright demonstrating his new game, Spore, which looks unbelievably free form. You start as a simple organism and evolve your way up to a civilization, but you can design everything!
holy shit, it gets grander and grander... you can build ufos and colonize other planets using terraforming... it's like 7 games in one
THAT'S THE FREAKING BEST.
I wish I had time for video games.
How in the hell do you have time for videogames?!
How do I have time? My girlfriend gets home late from school twice a week. I throw a roast or ribs in the over for dinner, put rice in the rice cooker, and play for an hour, hour and a half.
If she takes a nap, I also fire the games up.
And since I'm not going out and trying to meet girls all the time, that leaves me time to do other things...
So, I don't actually play so much. But I like to anticpate games that I probably won't be able to play in the future. I just love gaming evolution. Ah....
Holy crap, I watched that video, and that is intense. It's a game that turns into a big "god" toy.
Imagine if that's how He sees us, and he's just itchin' to hit that "destroy planet" button.
I wonder how much he laughed the first time he witnessed our procedurally dictated act of mating.
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