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Wife Aggro Revisited (100 mil isk in game contest)
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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2013-03-20 15:41:52 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Graygor wrote:
God... i hate shatner trek.


Egad! Have you lost your mind Graygor? How could you not like this? Or this?
Smile


Ok. I take it back, I dont hate it, but its so dated to me. I'm a Picard man.

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Random McNally
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#22 - 2013-03-20 15:43:36 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Graygor wrote:
God... i hate shatner trek.


Egad! Have you lost your mind Graygor? How could you not like this? Or this?
Smile


Ok. I take it back, I dont hate it, but its so dated to me. I'm a Picard man.


I like to think that Picard and Random have a lot in common. *runs hand over the shaven pate.*

Yup, thats it...

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Zapp Brenigan
Ishukone Black Watch
#23 - 2013-03-20 16:29:55 UTC
Three things have recently conspired to give me copious amounts of time to play.

The little woman is a gardener (or should I say, she really, really wants to be a gardener). After New Years the seed catalogues started arriving in the mail, her laptop became planning central, in a month she has filtered through thousand, perhaps 100's of thousands of seed varieties, cross referenced with shade tolerance, grow temperature, season length, bla bla bla. In the February the basement became a grow op...without the good stuff.

One of her friends recently took up home brewing, and she decided that she needed to do it as well. About 2 months ago, packages of tubes and glasseware and home brewing magazines started arriving at the door. So the kitchen and laundry room has been converted into a microbrewery...this is good, very good. It turns out, what she lacks in gardening skills, she makes up for in beer brewing.

On top of that 2 of her friends and one of her cousins are pregnant. She just had to sew and knit a bunch of baby cloths for them.

She has been so involved with seeding, growing watering, organizing, planning, replanning, brewing, sampling, sewing and knitting and worrying that she hasn't done enough...I haven't seen her between supper and 11pm more than 1-2 nights per week for a month. Gaming life is good right now. The only drawback is that she's really doing all this to avoid writing here grad thesis so she can GTFO of university and get a job. Yep, since I'm the employed one in the house, guess who paid for all this crap. Ce la vie, I'm not going to look the gift horse in the mouth, by my best estimates I probably have about 1-2 months of gaming bliss left before I start attracting too much wife aggro. When it comes though, I expect it will be unrelenting and devastating.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2013-03-20 16:32:17 UTC
Zapp Brenigan wrote:
Three things have recently conspired to give me copious amounts of time to play.

The little woman is a gardener (or should I say, she really, really wants to be a gardener). After New Years the seed catalogues started arriving in the mail, her laptop became planning central, in a month she has filtered through thousand, perhaps 100's of thousands of seed varieties, cross referenced with shade tolerance, grow temperature, season length, bla bla bla. In the February the basement became a grow op...without the good stuff.

One of her friends recently took up home brewing, and she decided that she needed to do it as well. About 2 months ago, packages of tubes and glasseware and home brewing magazines started arriving at the door. So the kitchen and laundry room has been converted into a microbrewery...this is good, very good. It turns out, what she lacks in gardening skills, she makes up for in beer brewing.

On top of that 2 of her friends and one of her cousins are pregnant. She just had to sew and knit a bunch of baby cloths for them.

She has been so involved with seeding, growing watering, organizing, planning, replanning, brewing, sampling, sewing and knitting and worrying that she hasn't done enough...I haven't seen her between supper and 11pm more than 1-2 nights per week for a month. Gaming life is good right now. The only drawback is that she's really doing all this to avoid writing here grad thesis so she can GTFO of university and get a job. Yep, since I'm the employed one in the house, guess who paid for all this crap. Ce la vie, I'm not going to look the gift horse in the mouth, by my best estimates I probably have about 1-2 months of gaming bliss left before I start attracting too much wife aggro. When it comes though, I expect it will be unrelenting and devastating.


For the love of God man... keep your mrs away from ideas like "Poland would look great in the back yard" and "who says you cant build a 1mile high building."

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
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A Band Apart.
#25 - 2013-03-20 16:38:51 UTC
However, continue to encourage her beer brewing. Cause, you know.....beer.

Best of luck man!

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#26 - 2013-03-20 17:27:37 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Graygor wrote:
God... i hate shatner trek.


Egad! Have you lost your mind Graygor? How could you not like this? Or this?
Smile


Ok. I take it back, I dont hate it, but its so dated to me. I'm a Picard man.

Smile Heh, I hear you. The Picard Star Treks are smarter. And if we start comparing William Shatner and Patrick Stewart as actors.... Blink
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#27 - 2013-03-20 17:54:49 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Graygor wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Graygor wrote:
God... i hate shatner trek.


Egad! Have you lost your mind Graygor? How could you not like this? Or this?
Smile


Ok. I take it back, I dont hate it, but its so dated to me. I'm a Picard man.

Smile Heh, I hear you. The Picard Star Treks are smarter. And if we start comparing William Shatner and Patrick Stewart as actors.... Blink



Oh come on. Shatner is able to practice The Method as good as anyone ! Lol

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#28 - 2013-03-20 18:01:12 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Graygor wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Graygor wrote:
God... i hate shatner trek.


Egad! Have you lost your mind Graygor? How could you not like this? Or this?
Smile


Ok. I take it back, I dont hate it, but its so dated to me. I'm a Picard man.

Smile Heh, I hear you. The Picard Star Treks are smarter. And if we start comparing William Shatner and Patrick Stewart as actors.... Blink



Oh come on. Shatner is able to practice The Method as good as anyone ! Lol

Ha! Shatner vs. Montalban. Clash of the Hammy Over-Actors.
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#29 - 2013-03-20 18:05:33 UTC
I used to get the Sneaky Nipple(TM) form of wife-aggro - She'd sneak up behind me and rub a bare nipple across the back of my neck. Some hours later, I'd remember that I hadn't logged out, and would wake up the computer to see my fate. Always worth whatever happened to my 'toon, mind you - And sometimes I'd discover my ship and toon were still mindlessly wandering through spece with nary a mark on them. Sometimes.

Still totally worth it.


These days, she's back to work, aqnd doesn't have as much energy (or frustration) to work out on me - So I've been getting more uninterrupted game play. Not at all sure I can call that a 'win' though.

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Random McNally
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A Band Apart.
#30 - 2013-03-20 20:01:55 UTC
Thats awesome. My wife does the same thing (on very rare occasions).

I have the foresight to say "Welp, gotta go afk for a few....."

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#31 - 2013-03-20 20:27:15 UTC
silens vesica wrote:
I used to get the Sneaky Nipple(TM) form of wife-aggro - She'd sneak up behind me and rub a bare nipple across the back of my neck. Some hours later, I'd remember that I hadn't logged out, and would wake up the computer to see my fate. Always worth whatever happened to my 'toon, mind you - And sometimes I'd discover my ship and toon were still mindlessly wandering through spece with nary a mark on them. Sometimes.

Still totally worth it.


These days, she's back to work, aqnd doesn't have as much energy (or frustration) to work out on me - So I've been getting more uninterrupted game play. Not at all sure I can call that a 'win' though.


Random McNally wrote:
Thats awesome. My wife does the same thing (on very rare occasions).

I have the foresight to say "Welp, gotta go afk for a few....."


The above has been copied, pasted and emailed to my wife. Hope she gets the hint. Lol
Marie Hartinez
Aries Munitions and Defense
#32 - 2013-03-20 20:38:34 UTC
There have been a few times that my wife has gone to bed and ask that I come "tuck" her in. Twisted

Fast forward a few hours......

She'll wake up and say "did you remember to log out? I hope your ships are ok." Shocked

Surrender is still your slightly less painful option.
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#33 - 2013-03-21 02:37:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Graygor
silens vesica wrote:

Total unfairness and bragging here. P


My mrs doesnt do that, her tactic is the sneaky neck breathing followed by sultry voice seduction which her accent does naturally anyway. Her other tactic is to rest her chin on my shoulder and ask EVE related questions like "is that you?" "You were different last time" "whats the top level of the game?" "havent you beaten it yet?" "Can i make another cute girl character?" "Oooo pretty" and "Are you still playing that space game?" until it gets annoying and she reveals her true intentions... usually something like "Can you get the big bowl from the top shelf?" (Mrs is 5' 7" tall, i'm 6' 2" tall so the top shelf is my domain to get things) or "It's bin day tomorrow."

I'm just lucky I dont pvp, so I've never had to vanish in a fleet fight and blame it on my net, or earthquakes, or terrorism etc.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#34 - 2013-03-21 03:43:29 UTC  |  Edited by: silens vesica
Graygor wrote:
silens vesica wrote:

Total unfairness and bragging here. P

Damn straight, Sir. Damn Straight.
Cool

Quote:
My mrs doesnt do that, her tactic is the sneaky neck breathing followed by sultry voice seduction which her accent does naturally anyway. Her other tactic is to rest her chin on my shoulder and ask EVE related questions like "is that you?" "You were different last time" "whats the top level of the game?" "havent you beaten it yet?" "Can i make another cute girl character?" "Oooo pretty" and "Are you still playing that space game?" until it gets annoying and she reveals her true intentions... usually something like "Can you get the big bowl from the top shelf?" (Mrs is 5' 7" tall, i'm 6' 2" tall so the top shelf is my domain to get things) or "It's bin day tomorrow."

I'm just lucky I dont pvp, so I've never had to vanish in a fleet fight and blame it on my net, or earthquakes, or terrorism etc.

Mine is far more direct. 10 years as an NCO. The Sneaky Nipple is as close as she ever gets to 'subtle.' If it's garbage day, or some chore, she just says so.

And since she can take me two falls out of five (and is a nasty hand with blunt instruments), I find it easier to safe-up and deal with whatever it is she needs done. Unless and except as otherwise noted. Blink

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2013-03-21 04:01:46 UTC
Mines a military nurse, but since I was, and still am (but now reserve) an officer, she cant pull rank on me P except in medical matters. So I guess she could say for my health I should do this or she will beat me or nag me to death.

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"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#36 - 2013-03-21 04:05:53 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Mines a military nurse, but since I was, and still am (but now reserve) an officer, she cant pull rank on me P except in medical matters. So I guess she could say for my health I should do this or she will beat me or nag me to death.

Military nurse == scarier than an NCO with combat skilz.

Definitely want to keep her happy. Blink

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#37 - 2013-03-21 04:09:31 UTC
I do. She's currently got 20 ebooks to read on her tablet that will keep her busy for at least a month.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
NightCrawler 85
Phoibe Enterprises
#38 - 2013-03-21 07:28:33 UTC  |  Edited by: NightCrawler 85
Where is the husband aggro threads! Big smile

Believe it or not but in some cases its not the wife that is causing aggro because of online games Blink
So going to add in..well two stories here.

First one is wife aggro. My (at the time) BF asked me if he could start to play EVE and me ofc wanting to be that perfect GF that was so much better then that cruel X that never allowed him to do things like that i said yes go ahead. Well.. i did not expect that i within the next few weeks i would be completely uncapable of getting any form of attention from him. Now im talking to the point were i would suprise him when he came back from the store or similar all dressed up ready to..play.. and get a "Im sorry honey, i have to do something in EVE". Well i guess my way of retaliate was to start to actually play my self Lol

Which leads to the BF aggro. My english was...awful to say the least. I knew basic things like "hello" and ofc the standard "i love you" and similar that you see on a regular basis in varius situations. Luckely he was a member of a pure US corp, which meant i could log on during my day time and be all alone, mining away and feeling so proud of my self for helping him gathering minerals and whatever, and log back off when he woke up so he could play. But then we got a member who worked night and would log on during my times and he was very insistant on trying to talk to me. He helped me a lot with my english even if it was a lot of online transelators and guesses.
Well anyway... I got more secure in my self and when my BF had to leave for the army for a year (mandatory service in Norway) a lot of the corp members were trying to make me feel more welcome and keep me company and try to help me understand the game a bit better, which ofc meant trying to talk to me. By the end of the year i was a very capable EVE player, and had many friends within the corp (some to this day,even if they no longer play). I guess my BF were a bit..jelous perhaps, because his attitude towards both me and EVE changed rapidly during the time he was in the army, and even more so when he came back for good. Before i knew it i was not hiding from corp members, but rather staying awake waiting for him to go to sleep so i could safetly log online my self without having him getting angry at me Lol

Well..after living together for 5 years, and him deciding to do a small..mistake at a festival including another girl, and repeating said mistake shortly there after (with the same girl) and then proceeding to blame it on the fact that i had changed to much as a person because of EVE (and yet having the nerves to say that we could keep living together as.. playmates and me as his personal coffee maker) i packed all my stuff and left.

1 year later i met the person who is now my husband, and the only wife aggro he gets from me because of EVE is when he overrules me regarding diplomatic stuff because he can be to nice in some cases Lol
But in general we have a simple rule.. While ingame we dont treat eachother as married when it comes to serius discussions which allows the both of us to speak our mind and yell in chats or forums, but as soon as we log out whatever discussion we had in EVE stops. Ofc this dosent always work but hey, no ones perfect Smile

So short version.. If you want to more or less eliminate wife/husband aggro, recruit your better half to your corp, talk for a couple of years, meet in real life, get married and move across the globe Big smile

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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#39 - 2013-03-21 09:01:17 UTC
i don't have bf aggro. we don't harass each other much. i leave him be when he is at his music and xbox. and he pretty much leaves me to it when i'm "playing 'puter" as i call it. lol. except if he is hungry. he can be so direly helpless at taking care of himself. i sometimes wonder how he got along at all before we moved in together. perhaps i've merely spoiled him.

but the important thing is...we always make time for each other. i've very, very rarely had a feeling of being neglected in the slightest...and i hope the same is true for him. though i know he'd never say so if he did. but after these past few years i like to think i'm fairly adept at reading his moods.
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2013-03-21 09:14:12 UTC
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
i don't have bf aggro. we don't harass each other much. i leave him be when he is at his music and xbox. and he pretty much leaves me to it when i'm "playing 'puter" as i call it. lol. except if he is hungry. he can be so direly helpless at taking care of himself. i sometimes wonder how he got along at all before we moved in together. perhaps i've merely spoiled him.

but the important thing is...we always make time for each other. i've very, very rarely had a feeling of being neglected in the slightest...and i hope the same is true for him. though i know he'd never say so if he did. but after these past few years i like to think i'm fairly adept at reading his moods.


Make him learn to cook for himself... as a grown soon to be happily married man, I am totally self sufficient and there is no reason a man in this day and age should not be either!

Besides, in my house... well apartment I'm the boss of the kitchen. My mrs can barely make toast without burning it. Roll

Still, props to both of you ladies. Big smile

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"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate