Been with one girl when I was younger (yes I know I'm still young but I just mean a few years or so younger). She started out okay but turned into a control freak (by my standards) when she started to feel like she had any sort of a claim to me. I quit with her and haven't looked back, and I've made it very clear to any other girls that if they can't act around me like any other friend they're not my type.

A man or a woman's girlfriend or boyfriend, should be his or her best friend of that gender. It's probably an attitude I'll take with me to my grave, alone, but it's better to do that than to live your life in a unhappy relationship where you are not your own master. If I exist and if men and women can truly be the same and if people like me can exist I can deduct from that logic that there can be a girl with a very alike personality to my own. If there is not then so be it, then it is not worth it to be chasing after relationships.

Which leads me to the next point, a relationship is not something you "find" or "discover", it's something you stumble into, even the girl I was with I met through a common hobby of video games and I became good friends with her and even chat with her sometimes still today, but she's just not how she is normally for some reason if we get together, so any discussions she brings up about us being together again gets shot down.

Do what you like and if that is Skyrim then play Skyrim and if you happen to come across a significant other who matches you properly then that's good. I probably sound ironic considering I've quit with a girl because we didn't match but I won't claim to be perfect, I've had my own moments of "raging teen hormones" clouding my judgement, leading me to bad decisions. But I take it this is more aimed at the older audience who has to attend college/university along with work on weekends leaving 0 days of the week free, in which case you better get your free time when you get home from your studies (don't forget to finish homework too) and work.

And so I rest my case.

:biggrin: i think this about sums it up.

I would probably be dating, if my standards weren't too high. Too bad everyone in high school is an idiot (EXCEPT ME HURR, and my friends I guess), so I guess I'll just date in college.

Though everytime someone talks about their relationship, they are complaining.

I am Czech. My girlfriend is Slovak.
(to unfamilliar: There's some kind of dumb mentality where most Czech people have to hate and badmouth the Slovaks and vice versa)

She's 8 years older. Not one of us gives a [censored] about either thing. :blush:

And I don't think a really cool partner would mind if you'd play some game for one weekend. Heck, I might even get her into gaming with Skyrim. bliviongate:

Speaking as a man who prefers to be single, that's just a stereotype. And women can think that way too, men aren't the only perverts in the world.

Did I say they couldn't be perverts ? No I didn't.

My six year old son hogs the computer constantly



and what ever I want takes back seat to Sonic the Hedgehog these days

If your significant other is trying to tell you what you can and can't occupy your free time with
there's a problem
If you can't tell when it's appropriate to occupy your time with a hobby or when you should spend that time with your significant other
there's a problem

Some people in this thread are talking like relationships are the lock and chain to your all your freedoms...

As someone who's been both single and taken (gasp!), I'll do whatever I want regardless. If they have a problem they can walk. But if I'm bothering to put in effort to gain some intimate companionship (and the nookie, who could forget that) it's obviously someone that appeals to me and meets my criteria. Which means I wouldn't have to worry about something so silly and immature to begin with. And I'm completely right and I'll fight anyone who disagrees! :rolleyes:

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Well, if one is single, I can understand being able to play when you want, how you want.
However,
It would be impolite to ignore a SO, in favor of nonstop gaming. That individal might not feel valued, and consquently, that would compromise the relationship. It would be irresponsible as a parent to ignore the needs of a family, and instead focus soley on a videogame.
It doesn't have a goddamned thing to do with dignity, it has everything to do with priorities.
My husband, myself, the kids, we all like to game. We also like to do other things. There's a difference between enabling a needy individual, and showing some respect to your loved ones.
Excessively needy/excessively gaming: two sides of same coin.

"As a single man I had a long talk with my significant other, myself, " hahahaha love it

Words of wisdom right here. Most things about men and women turn out to be a double standard, i think i claim that with confidence.

id take both over skyrim, as much as one may have heard otherwise, you cannot have intercourse with TES

My sixy (and apparently smart) GF actually pre-ordered the CE for me as an early christmas present when she saw me watching gameplay etc. In return I have to play a Khajit 1st. She's into big cats. Lol. I love my life.

Also, hogging the TV so she can't watch Cake Boss or Say Yes to the Dress, and is forced to do homework is a win win for both of us. In fact, I believe me playing Skyrim will directly contribute to world peace and health when she aces her chemical engineer exams and invents an alternative to fossil fuel and cures cancer. Yey me!

*high-five of great justice* Lucky for me, both me and my BF have the same yardsticks; games/each-other



I agree, sorta, but I also disagree. I mean, I don't give a flying [censored] how cool people view me as, really, but damn. six feel good, me like six! :lmao:

You read my mind.. except the give her attention part there at the end. I'll leave that one to you.

Every couple has things each individual enjoys and the other doesn't, that's the situation where individual time arises. Obviously too much of that is bad, and unless this is part of the agreement between the two, spending too much individual time generally means one should hold off in relationships until they can moderate their individual time a bit.

This dilemma has a very simple solution- don't get involved with someone who doesn't respect your interests. You make it seem as if every single significant other out there is going to tell you what to do and is going to ration your gaming time. The idea of someone actually believing that all relationships equate to this is inconceivable to me.

Pssshht yeah... all a signifigant other is good for is Snu-Snu anyway right?

I can just play Skyrim 15 and a half hours a day , fap to pr0n , then sleep , repeat

Her: What the hell. Don't you have anything better to do at 8 in the damn morning.

Him: Shut up [censored], I'm saving the world.

-me

I'm not sixist, I'm just doing it for.. historical and cultural purposes.

Naturally relationships are about compromise. Neither side should just have a veto, but both should be considerate.

My plan is to create two characters, and play them simultaneously. I will see which one my girlfriend likes more, and play that one when she is around. I have to play more good aligned and create less chaos if she is watching. She doesn't like innocents to be mistreated... Though she likes "Criminal Minds", which is too dark for me, so go figure. I suppose because it's not the heroes of the story doing the mistreating.

I play video games, especially RPGs, WITH my girlfriend. You Jelly?

It's hard to explain the attraction to gaming to a non-gamer isn't it? They just seem to be so prejudiced against it.

I'm looking for a woman that just "gets it" about everything. I mean seriously what one person is into is no better/worse than what another person is into.

Live and let live, that's my motto - I just hope she doesn't expect me to go to bridal shows and stuff like that. ewww

I'm thinking the OP was a being a bit satirical in his post and it went over most people's heads. He never stated dedicating the entire weekend to the game, all 48/72 hours of it and I agree that your SO shouldn't be saying "spend 14 hours with me, 2 hours with your game and the rest sleeping." Some of you guys might want/like to spend 14 hours with your girl and I don't blame you for that. Some others don't want to, and it's not because they don't want to be with her but because everyone needs their own time too and there should be 8 hour gaming exceptions for games that you're really excited for. If you were doing 8 hours a day for 2 + months and not paying attention to her at all then I would say that's not the way to treat someone you want to be with.

Your SO should never tell you how much you should be gaming unless you're going overboard and neglecting them.

Hehe, im in the same situation here. I plan to record at least a hours worth of footage from Skyrim every day for the first week or two, but she and I are talking 24/7. I'll probably just do it while she sleeps... yes, that sounds like a plan.

That is until she does the wake-up 'Hello?" in the middle of recording. Christ.

I somewhat agree with you.

I haven't dated in months just because of Skyrim, I may sound shallow saying this, but when it comes to a girl I've known for 3 months, or a series I've been with for ten years, I will always choose TES. :wub: