Wives and Games not compatable

[PapaG39]

Timing is everything!
I just spent a little over two hours getting myself away from being depth charged and working my way outside and ahead of an Armed Trawler so I could cut back in toward the convoy for another shot.

I had just gotten myself in position & took a long shot at a Liberty Cargo which was at the front and other side of lthe convoy. after that shot I had to quickly turn 30 degrees to starbord & fire at the Liberty cargo loaded with fuel barrels (my main target)...Then left turn quickly 90degrees to & line up for a 45 degree mag shot under the Small merchant which was also loaded with fuel barrels. This shot had to be precise because it was 1200m , rough seas and at a 45degree angle it doesn't give you much wiggle room..
Anyway, I made the turn & was just one degree away from the shot...Man, I was wired with anticipation..The pressure was on...Am I finely going to get a three way sinking? The Far Liberty Cargo just went boom! My guys said "Yea" and the fuel laden Liberty just exploded in a massive fire ball that I could see light up the night sky.
At one degree from shoot time....POW! The damn lights come on full bright in my dark cave like computer hovel, and in comes the wife (she hates my computer) to do some insignificant thing that did not take light...
It startled me, who had tunnel vision. very focused...
A slight twitch of the finger on that red button & there goes my torpedo...
As you may well know by this time...I didn't get my three sinkum. That torpedo passed right under the curved up tip of the bow & just kept on travellen...JUST ONE MORE DEGREE/SECOND!

Now that armed trawler is busten waves to get to me so there is nothing left to do but dive, turn a bit, count to 10 slowly, and save & exit & get my self off to work...

If she had of just been even 1 second later...NOT!

Wives and games just don't fit...

[Brag]

Her name is not Bernarda? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Skubber]

I am thinking this is not a coincidence?

You mentioned in your post that your wife hates your computer.
Could it be that she is trying to tell you something? Like maybe she feels she is having to compete with your gaming activities.

If so, it's time to devote some time to the wife.
Take a night off, skipper, and go do something with your gal.
If it helps, pretend you've got some shore leave.
(If she knows a few phrases in French, even better!)

It's an added responsibility for us married kaleuns.
Sink merchants, yes, but don't sink the relationship. :up:

[PapaG39]

Ha ha , your right you know, however, the relationship was sunk 40 years ago.

[Blacklight]

Have your wife read this. Then she'll understand.

My wife discovered this little essay and realized that everything it said fit me perfectly. Now she has a little insight into my world.:yep:

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

[NiclDoe]

heres what u should do in 3 steps
1 tell her SH3 is fun and she should try
2 if she likes she will understand your problem and
3 if it does not work make her play another game

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

Just pretend you got jumped and spotlighted by a Leigh light. :rotfl:

[Chad]

When I played Lord of the Rings Online my fiance thought it was a little, shall we say, nerdy. But I persuaded her to play on my character, Challen Melamin of Nimrodel server, officer in the guild Night Dwellers, she really enjoyed it, and we proceeded in getting her an account and she played with me and became craft master for the guild.

Sometime they need a push in the right direction.

[mcf1]

Thank God, I'm not married

[Peto]

Have your wife read this. Then she'll understand.

My wife discovered this little essay and realized that everything it said fit me perfectly. Now she has a little insight into my world.:yep:

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

Wow! I've just been introduced to myself! :hmm:

Thanks for posting this!!!

:up:

[CCIP]

Have your wife read this. Then she'll understand.

My wife discovered this little essay and realized that everything it said fit me perfectly. Now she has a little insight into my world.:yep:

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html
Wow! I've just been introduced to myself! :hmm:

Thanks for posting this!!!

:up:

:lol:

Totally. I resent the "nerd" label, but the rest is perfect :rotfl:

[cheese123]

Dang dude, that sounds like something my mom would do.:rotfl:

[BulSoldier]

Have your wife read this. Then she'll understand.

My wife discovered this little essay and realized that everything it said fit me perfectly. Now she has a little insight into my world.:yep:

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html
Wow! I've just been introduced to myself! :hmm:

Thanks for posting this!!!

:up:
:lol:

Totally. I resent the "nerd" label, but the rest is perfect :rotfl:



I always knew i can use magic ! :rotfl:

[Canovaro]

...and no, I don’t hear you when you walk in and ask if we should go to the park tomorrow. I don’t hear you the second time, either. I don’t mean I’m ignoring you because that’d involve using precious brain cycles I need for The Zone… I really CAN’T hear you. That’s how deep I am in The Zone...

OOPS that came close :o

...no one deserves to be on the receiving end of The Snap. All you were really doing was coming in to see when I was done because we agreed we’d go surfing this afternoon. Still, I got in The Zone and I’m writing this wicked article and WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT? The Snap is a glare, a raised voice… something designed to indicate you are PISSING ME OFF with your presence...

That too

[Blacklight]

That whole essay there is me from end to end. Especially the "Cave" part and the fact that I'm always taking my "Cave" with me whenever we go anywhere !

I'm a nerd. I am proud to admit it and I fully accept it. Nerds are cool though. We're funny and we keep the world interesting for the non-nerds... and without us, most major scientific discoveries would never happen (or at least no role playing, or in my case board war games would get playtime !:rotfl: )

[Oldgamer48]

That whole essay there is me from end to end. Especially the "Cave" part and the fact that I'm always taking my "Cave" with me whenever we go anywhere !

I'm a nerd. I am proud to admit it and I fully accept it. Nerds are cool though. We're funny and we keep the world interesting for the non-nerds... and without us, most major scientific discoveries would never happen (or at least no role playing, or in my case board war games would get playtime !:rotfl: )
Nerds rule the world.

Although I've served my country and saw action in combat, in the past, most of my life has been as a complete nerd. People and businesses ... not to mention governments ... cannot long survive without nerds to make things happen.

Did the Arnold Schwarzeneggers and Sly Stallones of the world create M1 Abrams MBTs and B2 bombers, not to mention the electronic wizardry that makes them function? Where would someone like Jesse Ventura be without the nerds who created the minigun he used in Predator, not to mention the techs which are part of every movie?

Presidents, Kings, CEO's, Popes, and Dictators all require the presence of nerds to keep their governments functioning, and equip them with all the latest spy hardware and weapons to make war.

Courageous astronauts blast off into space, but the nerds who made the rockets and man the control panels in Houston get them there.

When the handsome and rugged captain of the High School football team ends up with a beer belly and a bald head by fifty, not to mention his trailer park mansion, the nerds that everyone laughed at ... the ones that started their business in a garage ... live in huge estates and provide computers and software to millions of people across the world.

Nerds rule the world.

[gimpy117]

moms and games don't work either.

i wanna but a decent card ofr 150 us dollars, and she goes "well you should save for flight school" even though moeny for that card is what i asked for for christmas. oh well hopefully she'll let me buy it (my x-700 is startin to get old)

[Capt. Shark Bait]

Her name is not Bernarda? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
if it wasn't, it's gonna be:D :rotfl:. time to put a lock on that door

[Koondawg]

Thus the reason I'm single....

[Blacklight]

I'm so bad that my computers have names. My desktop is "Rogue" and has a picture of X-men's Rogue on it's wallpaper, and my laptop is nammed Laura and has a picture of one of my City of Heroes character's on it. Of course I put in audio files to match their personalities. When I shut down Rogue, it says in a southern drawl "The girls are right ! You ARE a charmer !" and there are other sound files I put in there that make it almost seem like the computers are flirting with me. I did this on purpose simply because....

My wife refers to my computers as my square headed mistresses (or another vulgar word in place of the word "mistresses":D )

So.. one day, when she wasn't home, I got ahold of her laptop when she wasn't around... and painstakingly cut and spliced some audio together so it was perfect...

The next time she turned her laptop on... there was a picture of Rogue on her desktop and her computer blurted out in a southern drawl "KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF MAH MAN !!!":rotfl:

Yes there was yelling... but there was also a LOT of laughter (from me) :rotfl:

[Stealth Hunter]

Her name is not Bernarda? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:.

Bernice perhaps?

[TomcatMVD]

To help reality and immersion, I only have bedroom action when my sub is docked in port... Arrrrrgh!!!:arrgh!:

[baggygreen]

My boss lady doesnt mind it when i play - be it sh3 or ETQW.

In fact, its almost the best of both worlds. The more i play, the more anxious she gets - shes going through a nesting phase atm, gaming is my escape!!!

[Von Schmidt]

My ole lady got me WOrld in Conflict for Christmas, she wont let me play SH3 untill i beat World in Conflict, or I will hurt her feelings.

[Sailor Steve]

My ole lady got me WOrld in Conflict for Christmas, she wont let me play SH3 untill i beat World in Conflict, or I will hurt her feelings.
Buy her a beautiful new dress...and tell her she can't go shopping again until that one wears out.:rotfl:

[Von Schmidt]

to late now im almost done with World in COnflict, she wouldnt go for that, anyways im downloading uboat 1.2 tonight, and gonna play tomorrow

[johan_d]

what a bitches.. mine understands, calles me Kaleun sometimes, and do her things.
All peace and understanding here.