View Full Version : Why my wife is getting REALLY annoyed with GWX 2.0
Blacklight
12-18-07, 05:47 PM
It's not the fact that I'm playing Silent Hunter III 24-7.
It's... "All ahead *enter speed here*.... "RING RING !!!!!":rotfl:
Mush Martin
12-18-07, 05:52 PM
Some simple advice for marital harmony from old mush then.
1. get headphones sonar pings annoy us and we are playing.
2. always in every circumstance whenever your wife says
"Honey can you.........." Always willingly and instantly
without question hit the pause button and say sure honey
go and do it whatever it is instantly. what happens is that
instead of "dammit you love that game more than me the kids
or real life" you actually end up getting it like this. Observe
after only a few weeks of consistent behaviour and assuming
shes a good woman
SHE WILL GO OUT OF HER WAY TO NOT INTERRUPT YOU WHILE
YOUR PLAYING.
(incredible but true there are dividends to mutually co operative marriages.)
M
GoldenRivet
12-18-07, 06:01 PM
mush is a smart man. listen to him, you must study the strategies of marriage for it is the only war in which one sleeps along side the enemy every night.
my wife simply shuts my door.
and i carry on firing at will :rock:
She-Wolf
12-18-07, 06:02 PM
Mush, you are right on the button there, that IS how it works. We have a gender change here 'cos I, the wife, am the gamer and hubs is not, and I think we DO need to be sensitive to our partners because this is essentially a one-person pursuit, and the other one can feel shut out and shoved to the back.
I use headphones when himself is sitting next to me at his computer, but I am careful to instantly remove them if he says anything. :up:
Mush Martin
12-18-07, 06:29 PM
I cant believe it this is like the best thread ive ever typed on now.
:up::up:
-SWCowboy.
12-18-07, 06:37 PM
Holy smokes that's why I've been kicked out of the bed all weekend :o
Now by kicked out I don't mean she rolls over and gently says, "Russ, go sleep on the couch" or "Russ, go to the spare bedroom" the minute I lay down. I'm saying I got both legs in my hind quarters. :o
I'll be taking notes :know:
ReallyDedPoet
12-18-07, 06:55 PM
mush is a smart man. listen to him
Oh no :damn:, we are going to need a bigger SUBSIM. M will know what I mean :yep:
RDP
Mush Martin
12-18-07, 07:02 PM
:sunny:
Samwolf
12-18-07, 07:38 PM
It's not the fact that I'm playing Silent Hunter III 24-7.
It's... "All ahead *enter speed here*.... "RING RING !!!!!":rotfl:
LOL! That's exactly the same complaint my wife has! ""What is THAT annoying sound??""
I personally like my advice. Date/Marry a gamer, or at least a nerd. I've gotten my girlfriend interested in SH3, Das Boot, and so on. She's sat and watched me play before and loved every minute of it.
Now all we need is an apartment, and we can play at 1x time compression with the volume turned up at night:hmm:
Kpt. Lehmann
12-18-07, 08:52 PM
I personally like my advice. Date/Marry a gamer, or at least a nerd. I've gotten my girlfriend interested in SH3, Das Boot, and so on. She's sat and watched me play before and loved every minute of it.
Now all we need is an apartment, and we can play at 1x time compression with the volume turned up at night:hmm:
There you go!!!
Myself on the other hand... I used up two girlfriends on the project.:oops:
SurfnSea
12-18-07, 09:18 PM
The title of this thread is probably the best proof of how good GWX is. When I think of all the things I do to annoy my wife, GWX being annoying has got to be a pretty powerful endorsement. Uhhh...excuse me while I get back to my campaign...
in my garage...
where my computer is.
Kpt. Lehmann
12-18-07, 09:33 PM
The title of this thread is probably the best proof of how good GWX is. When I think of all the things I do to annoy my wife, GWX being annoying has got to be a pretty powerful endorsement. Uhhh...excuse me while I get back to my campaign...
in my garage...
where my computer is.
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Blacklight
12-18-07, 11:25 PM
Hehe. My wife is a nerd but a total non-gamer. She's a book reading nerd. Obnoxious noises annoy the hell out of her... and I'm an experimental musician who creates strange and annoying noises and wierd chaotic musical (or non-musical) instruments for a hobby. Go figure.
We have a tentative agreement. I don't work on my music or sonic sculptures/musiq concrete/noise music while she's home. A lot of my devices have no headphone plugs so they have to be reccorded with microphone unfortunately. I can use headphones for most stuff.. but it just doesn't feel right. I like the surround sound in this music room. It's nicer than headphones.
I think what I'm going to do is simply FIND that sound file, use my audio editor and quiet it down or save another wav file in it's place.:yep:
I personally like my advice. Date/Marry a gamer, or at least a nerd. I've gotten my girlfriend interested in SH3, Das Boot, and so on. She's sat and watched me play before and loved every minute of it.
Now all we need is an apartment, and we can play at 1x time compression with the volume turned up at night:hmm:
There you go!!!
Myself on the other hand... I used up two girlfriends on the project.:oops:
I'd say start mentioning that you use the fact you lead the GWX team in your pickup lines. If her eyes light up and she says "Really?", I'd say you got a keeper :up:
2. always in every circumstance whenever your wife says
"Honey can you.........." Always willingly and instantly
without question hit the pause button and say sure honey...
Lol, yeh this works fine. The last time I saw this happen, I ended up banging my best friend's GF while the friend was happily playing Counter-Strike in my room. :rotfl:Sucker. :yep:
pioneer162
12-19-07, 09:21 AM
do wives really need a reason to be annoyed?
It is thier nature.
HunterICX
12-19-07, 09:23 AM
Well in that case:
add this to the System Requirements for GWX2.0:
Minimal Requirements : A wife that can take a lot..
Recommended : Stay single
;)
HunterICX
Jimbuna
12-19-07, 09:33 AM
I'll have to try that theory out one day Dowly......just so long as the wife is away next year :lol:
danlisa
12-19-07, 09:35 AM
I'll have to try that theory out one day Dowly......just so long as the wife is away next year :lol:
Kratos better watch out then.:arrgh!:
Mush Martin
12-19-07, 09:37 AM
2. always in every circumstance whenever your wife says
"Honey can you.........." Always willingly and instantly
without question hit the pause button and say sure honey...
Lol, yeh this works fine. The last time I saw this happen, I ended up banging my best friend's GF while the friend was happily playing Counter-Strike in my room. :rotfl:Sucker. :yep:
and your proud of that? :rotfl:
danlisa
12-19-07, 09:38 AM
I'd bet that afterwards Dowly wished he was playing Counter Strike instead.:rotfl:
2. always in every circumstance whenever your wife says
"Honey can you.........." Always willingly and instantly
without question hit the pause button and say sure honey...
Lol, yeh this works fine. The last time I saw this happen, I ended up banging my best friend's GF while the friend was happily playing Counter-Strike in my room. :rotfl:Sucker. :yep:
and your proud of that? :rotfl:
No, not proud, but the fecka deserved it. They got engaged that day and the fecka just played CS for a 5 or so hours straight as the rest of us were getting drunk and celebrating. We eventually got caught and he yelled his time there on the door, punched a hole to our bathroom door, went to a smoke and then he continued to play CS. :doh:
No, not proud, but the fecka deserved it. They got engaged that day and the fecka just played CS for a 5 or so hours straight as the rest of us were getting drunk and celebrating. We eventually got caught and he yelled his time there on the door, punched a hole to our bathroom door, went to a smoke and then he continued to play CS. :doh:
And my mom thinks that I have a problem playing too much video games.:nope:
It's happenened a couple of times - just finished perfectly setting up on a convoy after a long approach/intercept, contacts everywhere, no hope of a "save" without the "crash of doom," - "Sweety, I need the computer."
Oh well, maybe I can reaquire the convoy tomorrow....:D
No, not proud, but the fecka deserved it. They got engaged that day and the fecka just played CS for a 5 or so hours straight as the rest of us were getting drunk and celebrating. We eventually got caught and he yelled his time there on the door, punched a hole to our bathroom door, went to a smoke and then he continued to play CS. :doh: And my mom thinks that I have a problem playing too much video games.:nope:
Yeh, he's addiction was pretty strong. Every single time we were drinking here in my house, he spent the whole evening playing. Only to go for a 30sec smoke at times. Crazy.
I'll have to try that theory out one day Dowly......just so long as the wife is away next year :lol:
Kratos better watch out then.:arrgh!:
Iv'e got nothing to watch out for, i'm off with his missus next year http://smilies.sofrayt.com/fsc/hush.gif http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o87/the-sentinel/gifs/oops.gif the cats out the bag now !!! http://members.clipartinc.com/gallery/ImageFolio31_files/gallery/Animations/Mini/Smilies/tn_279.gif
Jimbuna
12-19-07, 11:23 AM
I'll have to try that theory out one day Dowly......just so long as the wife is away next year :lol:
Kratos better watch out then.:arrgh!:
Iv'e got nothing to watch out for, i'm off with his missus next year http://smilies.sofrayt.com/fsc/hush.gif http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o87/the-sentinel/gifs/oops.gif the cats out the bag now !!! http://members.clipartinc.com/gallery/ImageFolio31_files/gallery/Animations/Mini/Smilies/tn_279.gif
Lmao :rotfl:
Canovaro
12-19-07, 04:16 PM
Well in that case:
add this to the System Requirements for GWX2.0:
Minimal Requirements : A wife that can take a lot..
Recommended : Stay single
;)
HunterICX
Classic :rotfl:
My wife hates the game and I can't blame her. But the prob is not the game. It's me.
Ivan Putski
12-19-07, 04:56 PM
Well, I`m too old to worry about what my wife thinks of my sims, actually she has her own laptop, and games to her liking, so rarely bothers me while I`m playing. I also have a good set of headphones, that keeps down any gripes about the game being too loud. I`m also lucky to have a good size computer room all to myself. Puts
Personal:
I, [gender + age], am looking for a [preferred partner gender], not many demands, must like Silent Hunter 3 :know:
Let the responses roll in... :cool:
Monica Lewinsky
12-19-07, 06:22 PM
It's not the fact that I'm playing Silent Hunter III 24-7.
It's... "All ahead *enter speed here*.... "RING RING !!!!!":rotfl:
Let the responses roll in... :cool:
If, and when, you do go to sleep some day, she MIGHT whisper to you:
"May the Force be With You." [Star Wars comes to mind].:D
It may lead to additional troubles playing DWX 2.0 24x7 several months later using "the power of the Force, Luke".
Kpt. Lehmann
12-19-07, 07:29 PM
I don't ever recall a thread quite like this.:huh:
KeptinCranky
12-19-07, 07:48 PM
Look what you made them do :D :rotfl:
Mush Martin
12-19-07, 08:05 PM
I don't ever recall a thread quite like this.:huh:
Aww yer just sayin that cause at the beginning I was making sense.:hmm:
What about the look you get when you hop in the car ready to back out the driveway, turn to the good wife and say in a deep firm voice, "BACK ONE THIRD!":huh:
Blacklight
12-19-07, 08:21 PM
What about the look you get when you hop in the car ready to back out the driveway, turn to the good wife and say in a deep firm voice, "BACK ONE THIRD!":huh:
My wife these past several months has taken to calling me "Herr Kaleun" and yelling "ALAAAAAAAARM !!" a lot.
Not to mention, the other day when I lost her in the grocery store, when I DID spot her several hundred meters away, I actually had to calculate her speed, distance, and angle of bow to intercept her properly. I havn't started taking my binoculars with us so I can stand watch out the sun roof of her car yet.:shifty:
Schöneboom
12-20-07, 12:40 AM
Oy, what a trip... my GF is English, and sometimes she wonders what she's doing with a man who happily goes around sinking British ships! Maybe our British players have a suitable explanation for their lovers & spouses, eh?
Canovaro
12-20-07, 02:05 AM
I don't ever recall a thread quite like this.:huh:
No? Look here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=107604&highlight=upsets
:lol:
Stierlitz
12-20-07, 04:08 AM
Not to mention, the other day when I lost her in the grocery store, when I DID spot her several hundred meters away, I actually had to calculate her speed, distance, and angle of bow to intercept her properly.
Next time she gets lost in the store, just start pinging her... :ping:
Jimbuna
12-20-07, 06:37 AM
Not to mention, the other day when I lost her in the grocery store, when I DID spot her several hundred meters away, I actually had to calculate her speed, distance, and angle of bow to intercept her properly.
Next time she gets lost in the store, just start pinging her... :ping:
Good one :up:
Ice Forge
12-20-07, 08:35 AM
This thread is really amusing...:arrgh!:
Myself am single so i don't haven any of your problems.. ( but in a
weird way i sort of want one aswell :oops: )
Good luck to you all on future events and battles :sunny:
Jimbuna
12-20-07, 09:25 AM
This thread is really amusing...:arrgh!:
Myself am single so i don't haven any of your problems.. ( but in a
weird way i sort of want one aswell :oops: )
Good luck to you all on future events and battles :sunny:
At 19 years of age you've got a long life ahead of you to regret that statement :lol: :up:
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Samwolf
12-20-07, 10:23 AM
This thread is really amusing...:arrgh!:
Myself am single so i don't haven any of your problems.. ( but in a
weird way i sort of want one aswell :oops: )
Good luck to you all on future events and battles :sunny:
Be careful what you wish for:roll:
I have headphones, but occasionally set the volume too high and get "You're ringing again!" from the chair behind me.
The other half doesn't hate Silent Hunter III though, she likes it when I blow merchants up :D Not sure if she understands my intense adversion to anything that sounds like an active sonar ping though ;)
Blacklight
12-20-07, 02:42 PM
Not sure if she understands my intense adversion to anything that sounds like an active sonar ping though ;)
What we need is a subsim alarm clock that makes the sound of an active sonar ping !!!
Or even better... one that yells "ALAAAAAAAAAAAAARM !!!!" when it goes off !!!:rotfl:
Mush Martin
12-20-07, 02:43 PM
Not sure if she understands my intense adversion to anything that sounds like an active sonar ping though ;)
What we need is a subsim alarm clock that makes the sound of an active sonar ping !!!
Or even better... one that yells "ALAAAAAAAAAAAAARM !!!!" when it goes off !!!:rotfl:
That is so totally a marketable idea...........
Not sure if she understands my intense adversion to anything that sounds like an active sonar ping though ;)
What we need is a subsim alarm clock that makes the sound of an active sonar ping !!!
Or even better... one that yells "ALAAAAAAAAAAAAARM !!!!" when it goes off !!!:rotfl:
I did consider the ALAAAARM!! idea when I got a recordable memo clock, not quite sure if my nervous system could take it in the fragile state it's in first thing of a morning :lol: I'd probably run downstairs and try to dive the house or something!
Blacklight
12-20-07, 03:23 PM
I did consider the ALAAAARM!! idea when I got a recordable memo clock, not quite sure if my nervous system could take it in the fragile state it's in first thing of a morning :lol: I'd probably run downstairs and try to dive the house or something!
When a game gives you flashbacks and post traumatic stress syndrome like that, you KNOW it's a DAMN GOOD GAME !!!:up:
Jimbuna
12-20-07, 04:51 PM
See the look on her face when your dropping her off at the supermarket and then say "You go ahead, I'm just going to berth the car" :lol:
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Mush Martin
12-20-07, 04:59 PM
I somehow cant help but feel your speaking from literal experience
there Jimbuna.:hmm:
Jimbuna
12-20-07, 05:20 PM
The light on the top always ensures I get a space/Berth http://www.abfnet.com/forum/images/smilies/cops.gif
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Ice Forge
12-21-07, 07:12 AM
Yeah i think im going to regret it sooner or later
( sitting and praying that she likes
SH 3 :D or atleast some simulators.. )
Off topic a bit here :hmm:
Can someone extract if possible or record some of the sounds from SH3? such as the alarm and active sonar pinging :ping: ?
Just cant wait for something like then to use as a signal in my cellphone :D
the alarmclock shouts ALAARM in the morning :rotfl:
and some of the other cools stuff ( have to be in german though just cant stand the
americans voices in sh3 :7
My wife isn't bothered by the sounds thanks to my headphones, but if she watches me on heavy seas on deck for any length of time she gets to feeling like she is going to hurl. :o
Tool.
Blacklight
12-21-07, 12:26 PM
Can someone extract if possible or record some of the sounds from SH3? such as the alarm and active sonar pinging :ping: ?
Look in your Silent Hunter III folder
Go into DATA
Go into SOUNDS
Scroll down till you see the wav files Sonar, Sonar_coat, and Sonar_imp. They are all wav files.
bigboywooly
12-21-07, 12:42 PM
Have the ALAAAARM sound bite as the message tone on my mobile
Gets some odd looks at times but Meh
Tis worse when it goes off and you cant get to it
That 56 seconds seems to go on forever
:rotfl:
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