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Acacea · 07-12-05, 03:58 PM

*shifty* I'm a woman who plays (although it's true I just started) and I think it just depends on how her personality is. Compromising is all well and good, and if you make the effort I'm sure she will appreciate it, but some "significant others" just seem more inclined to get mad at you wasting your life away on "just a game" than others :P

Personally, mine plays more games than I do, but I'm more inclined to get sucked in and accidently waste the entire day than he is. Also, I don't play *with* him often because... well, example. He bought EQ2, and was praising it madly, and while it looked like fun, I did ask as a joke if they'd really even tried to make it a "role playing" game, and he kind of did the blank stare and said "Well it was in the first one, too...your character is a role, how are you not role playing?" I have a love-hate relationship with EQ, but anyone who tells me it's role playing should be shot *snickers*

I tried sneaking NWN while he's asleep, but then I accidently sleep all day or something and just get messed up.

*looks around and whispers* I can't even play NWN with him, because he doesn't want to plan out our characters so we don't end up as an elven paladin + evil drow necromancer or something. But that doesn't bother him somehow. *grins* Oh well. Pretty much the only way I could get my role playing fix and not hide from him at the same time, was to play EQ with him and just have a character bio and such in my head and pretend that there isn't massive camping/powergaming/lolz brb omg u dont know how to play a l337 druid etc going on. Ziltinie! The evil (and pvp) gnomish necromancer who refuses to speak in common! Everyone gets mad and goes "we dont speak whatever, set language to common" and she scorns them and walks off. It helps.

Argh. I've rambled. My character's habits are seeping into my brain.

Edit: *grins* I'm sorry, the lamest things amuse me. I meant of course that I've just started playing, not just started being a woman, but still the sentence made me laugh. Ack. Never mind.

07-12-05, 03:58 PM	#12
Acacea Gamemaster Characters Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,322 Thanks: 117 Thanked 573 Times in 281 Posts	RE: Women and Layonara shifty I'm a woman who plays (although it's true I just started) and I think it just depends on how her personality is. Compromising is all well and good, and if you make the effort I'm sure she will appreciate it, but some "significant others" just seem more inclined to get mad at you wasting your life away on "just a game" than others :P Personally, mine plays more games than I do, but I'm more inclined to get sucked in and accidently waste the entire day than he is. Also, I don't play with him often because... well, example. He bought EQ2, and was praising it madly, and while it looked like fun, I did ask as a joke if they'd really even tried to make it a "role playing" game, and he kind of did the blank stare and said "Well it was in the first one, too...your character is a role, how are you not role playing?" I have a love-hate relationship with EQ, but anyone who tells me it's role playing should be shot snickers I tried sneaking NWN while he's asleep, but then I accidently sleep all day or something and just get messed up. looks around and whispers I can't even play NWN with him, because he doesn't want to plan out our characters so we don't end up as an elven paladin + evil drow necromancer or something. But that doesn't bother him somehow. grins Oh well. Pretty much the only way I could get my role playing fix and not hide from him at the same time, was to play EQ with him and just have a character bio and such in my head and pretend that there isn't massive camping/powergaming/lolz brb omg u dont know how to play a l337 druid etc going on. Ziltinie! The evil (and pvp) gnomish necromancer who refuses to speak in common! Everyone gets mad and goes "we dont speak whatever, set language to common" and she scorns them and walks off. It helps. Argh. I've rambled. My character's habits are seeping into my brain. Edit: grins I'm sorry, the lamest things amuse me. I meant of course that I've just started playing, not just started being a woman, but still the sentence made me laugh. Ack. Never mind.