EVE General Discussion

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My tip?

Stay single. I have been for nearly two years now and it's the BEST thing that's ever happened to me. But it wasn't always that way....

I'm autistic, and... well... highly affectionate with women, but also strange at times and difficult for other people to understand. I wasted spent the first 25 years of my life (minus those spent as an uncaring child) with the naive notion that I needed to be with someone and please someone in a romantic manner. I won't go into the full story, but needless to say I have since altered my opinion in that regard and discovered that the only company I need to keep is my own.

It's not a sob story, though, more like a tale of revelation. Not something I'm willing to tell for any amount of money, either, but in a nutshell, it involves many heartbreaks (not the least of which was the straw that broke the camel's back two years ago when I told the woman I was with about my autism and she decided she didn't want autistic kids and left me), delusions regarding humanity's better nature in general, and the subsequent mistakes made thereof.

In the two years that I've been single, I've gotten a full-time stay-at-home job working as an investigative journalist (which sometimes requires me to go places I can't divulge) and studying a major's degree in PR and journalism. I've been able to play my games, read my books, and cook my own damn meals without someone hanging expectations on my back like I'm some kind of new toy to play with and throw away when they're finished chewing on me (pun not intended, just a cliched analogy). And my progress in my writing career has been astounding. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about women... but I love my life.

Yo ho, yo ho, It's the single life for me

The "come spend time with me" sounds so familiar. We've been together for 7 years now and she's quite used to me sitting at computer working, playing or watching movies etc.

In these years she has gained a lot of gaming knowledge by listening all my Ventrilo conversations from other room. She knows all my gaming friends (most of whom I've never met in RL) by name, she knows which games I used to play in the past, she knows what kind of crafting I do in some games etc.

Back in the wow days, she came and asked if I could park that orc for a moment and come craft armor kits with her in the bedroom. Now in the Eve days, she comes tapping to my shoulder asking "could you find a safe spot and come tuck me in?" when she's going to bed. And I don't know why, but it makes her extremely happy and pleased when I say "Sorry guys, gotta put the missus in bed. AFK for 5." in Ventrilo. Then she's all tired and smiley faces in bed, when I had to leave the guys for her and they all know it.

I'm guessing it's important for her to know that there is a one certain moment in day, when she can pull me out of a game without a struggle and I won't just delay it with "Just second", "in a moment" or other lines.

Sometimes she likes to pick on me when I'm drawing Eve related stuff and not doing actual RL work. "Oh, you are drawing space stuff again? Too bad THAT is not bringing in any real money."

The only thing bringing serious heat towards me are the weekends, when it's 9am, she wakes up and see's me still up playing - and we were supposed to do something together later that day. She don't like me in zombie mode. Oh, and talking in Ventrilo too loud in the middle of night and waking her up. Back while we were playing Left 4 Dead, I had to explain the guys what "waking up the witch" really means. That gives huge negative standings and grinding that back up means watching a lot of Idols, Teen Moms and X-Factory with her. And no, you can't just take naps on the couch with her while she watches it, you have to participate and comment it with her.

Luckily she's now hooked on Walking Dead with me. That is like "our moment" when we prepare to watch it with good food and some treats. I know it makes her extremely pleased (I like it too, you know) and grants me a lot get-out-of-jail-free cards.

Give her an ipad

If you seriously consider "I want to have sex" wife aggro you need to either stop playing EVE or get a better looking wife.

Actual wife aggro is sometimes unavoidable but can be mitigated by following the OFC: Oral, flowers, chocolate.

I was flying Logistics for a fleet grinding sovereignty. My alliance at the time was trying to rapidly take an entire region, and had reinforced stuff all over the place. I kept thinking that maybe after the next structure the fleet would head back to base, but they kept going and going. This went on for five and a half hours on a Sunday. I finally managed to log out in the safety of an Alliance POS.

Apparently my wife and I were supposed to go out for lunch, but it was too late by the time I got off. She was so pissed that she quit the Alliance and moved out to Low Sec to join up with a motley band of pirates.

I thought about staying where I was, but she had developed an intense hatred of Sov grinding and I figured that if she caught me structure grinding again she would start feeling the need to spend more quality time with me outside of the game, so I finally decided to join her new Corp and follow her out to Low Sec.

Besides, I was not overly frilled about getting dragged around for five and a half hours and then being abandoned in the ass end of nowhere. The morning after the incident my wife was looking at the killboard losses and goes: “Hey, isn’t that the POS you logged out in?” Apparently they had forgotten to put fuel in the POS I had left my Guardian in, and someone had taken advantage of their oversight. Bloody lovely!

I almost wept reading this, i also live in a **** cage. Do you think that they actually think we are listening? I mean i nod allot and say yeah sometimes but at the same time im FCing down a mic staring at a screen.

The other day she said she wants to draw another (more handsome) face on the side of my face and have a relationship with that, to be fair if it allows me to play more EVE ill be content.

Also child aggro is a whole bunch worse.

One swift and well aimed kick usually does the job

Not all aggro is bad aggro. Everyone here was mentioning their bad aggro stories. My story is more of how my wife aggro me while playing. I did not mention all the ways she has done this, and believe me they have been good!

Oh, yes. Sometimes wife aggro is best aggro.