bugging wife

[Avicenna]

[drone]

My lady did not like it at all when I would hole up in my computer room/office. It was upstairs, away from everything really, and she would always complain about not spending time together, she would always come in and bug me about random things, she would want to look up things online, etc. It got to be pretty impossible to get a few MTW turns in without harrassment. As a masterstroke, I got her a laptop for Christmas last year. Nothing too fancy (she just surfs the web and messes around with GIMP photo editing), but good enough to play some games as well. So naturally I installed MTW:VI (made sure to get a ATI vid card in it as well ) on it. She keeps it downstairs in the den. So now she can spend the evening watching shows off of TiVo, and I can be near her, playing through a VI campaign, on "her" laptop, without her complaining. As an added bonus, now I only have to go a few feet for another beer, instead of tromping up and down stairs. I've been able to play more MTW in the past year than I have in the previous 3.

Gaming while maintaining a relationship is just like TotalWar. Feints, flanking, diplomacy, and guile are all necessary skills. "This...is an age of darkness".