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Why’d you quit gaming cold-turkey?
Many families have a “family-bonding day”. Could you also have an “individual interests day” where you could visit a friend and Co-op ODST, and your family can pursue other interests with their friends? This seems like it should work, but I’m 28 and single, so limit the weight placed on my words accordingly.
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> The wife hates gaming, and it took time away from home renovations and other stuff she saw as more important.
But you could have said the same thing about anything she did in her spare time. Did she find some books she liked to read, or TV shows she liked to watch? If so, they were taking away from more productive things she could have been spending her time on. So why do video games have to be singled out like that?
Assuming you and your wife have X amount of spare time, you can spend it on video games, or you can spend it on anything else, or both, and it won’t affect things like home renovations as long as you keep it within X amount of time. If you can explain that to her, then maybe she won’t be so hostile to the idea of you getting your ODST fix. I don’t mean to overanalyze your personal life or anything, but it just doesn’t seem fair for her to hate on your downtime activity when she probably has her own downtime activities.
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> But you could have said the same thing about anything she did in her spare time. Did she find some books she liked to read, or TV shows she liked to watch? If so, they were taking away from more productive things she could have been spending her time on. So why do video games have to be singled out like that?
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> Assuming you and your wife have X amount of spare time, you can spend it on video games, or you can spend it on anything else, or both, and it won’t affect things like home renovations as long as you keep it within X amount of time. If you can explain that to her, then maybe she won’t be so hostile to the idea of you getting your ODST fix. I don’t mean to overanalyze your personal life or anything, but it just doesn’t seem fair for her to hate on your downtime activity when she probably has her own downtime activities.
I wholeheartedly agree. While it is certainly important to direct your attention to more important issues like your family, that doesn’t mean you should be devoid of personal enjoyment within your own life. Hopefully she’ll understand.
No one is going to judge you man. Where all here for our love of halo. Now I’m not going to take a jab at what you should do in this situation regarding your marriage. As that’s a long wase away for me. But I will say Nate above me makes a good point. I’m sure she has her own downtime activities such as shopping or watching tv, does she not? Just remember, 360s and the accompanying halo games can be found DIRT cheap these days too. Life’s to short not to enjoy the things you like doing.
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Well I’m 17, I’m not really sure on how torespond to this. But it sounds like your passionate about Halo, just as all of us are! I just don’t understand how come your wife doesn’t like gaming? Gaming isn’t just a negative thing unless the people make it a negative thing. Like how people say that video games make people violent, I feel like that is true to an extent. That’s is why there are ratings on video games, however I feel like people can be influenced by the things they see on video games especially if they are not mature. But violent video games don’t make people into killers like the media puts it out there. Is this why your wife doesn’t like gaming? And for ODST, it sounds like you just have a craving for it! Which is normal, these games have made so many good memories for us how could we not want to play it every once an while. But just because it’s a video game craving doesn’t mean that it has to be a negative thing, heck it was a positive thing if you wanna play because all the great memories you’ve with the games. Sorry if I’m sounding like I’m trying to make your wife sound bad, I’m not trying to. Have you told her why you want to play these games? How you feel about them? For me, I’m passionate about these games! I’ve been playing Halo since I was 6 and I’m not tired of this franchise because it has been a part of my life.
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I would be all about buying that Halo 3 Xbox 360 I’m sad I never got one.
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