*Mock Shock* gasp! could it be?? two post in a single day?!
heh. Not quite since they are just links and quotes, but still…better than my usual.
One of my fav current websites that I have not linked to yet is Gamers with Jobs. While it is touted as a gaming website, I mainly read it for the articles. Which are not all just about games, but are actually about life with games. Or life in-spite of games depending on your point of view…
Next to The Escapist, Gamers with Jobs have some of the best writers of the gaming community. Really beats on the stereotype of gamers who are all slobs living in basements, slobbering over p0rn while eating cheetos off their chests and playing Half Life 2.
I would like to see these guys try their hand at actually writing story-lines for a game or even a novel, or some script for something.
Take the latest article by Julian “rabbit” Murdoch, who writes about his 10 year anniversary with his wife…
My wife is not a stereotypical geek-girl. She doesn’t cuddle up next to me on the couch with a game controller and blow stuff up. We don’t play in a D&D campaign together.
My wife and I cross over the geek-boundaries between us just enough to be supportive, interested, excited, and involved, but not so much that we lose our sense of personal ownership. We’ll watch SciFi and MythBusters together, but she’ll take a pass on classic horror and I can’t stand CSI. She’ll leap up to play board games if a half dozen people show up, but she’d rather put knitting needles through her pancreas than play Squad Leader for 9 hours. She will occasionally get hooked on a video game, or play Wii with me, but listens to my screams of denial during a heated Gears match with humor and detachment. She digs “The 300″ and “Marvel 1608″ but can’t be bothered to dig through the whole “Sandman” library.
It goes both ways. She’s a geek in her own special ways. She knits socks. Knitting socks turns out to involve more math than programing launch codes into a nuclear missile. She plays harp. She (Lord help us) is a scrapbooker (and a Photoshop maven and computer nerd because of it). These are all endeavors which I can appreciate, participate in at the edges, but which will never consume me like they do her.
There is much in the middle for which we share passion.
Excellent stuff. And so heartfelt that it just rings true. Especially for me, I have always had some thought in the back of my head that for a relationship to work, there must be alot of similarities between the two. But of course this not the case and in fact would usually create more friction.
It’s all about balance, about being willing to take that step forward and finding some middle ground ,to being interested in what the other person will show, teach and share with you each new day that you never knew about and the same that you can do for him or her.
