The triangle drama between you, your significant other and Angband

[Nemesis]

How does your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend/right hand react to your Angband playing? Would your significant other rather see you clean out the garage than the Troll pit? Do you get more joy from your Engagement Ring of Speed (+8) than your Engagement Ring of Engagement (cursed, aggrivates your sleeping fiancee when you try to stealthily sneak up from the bed to play Angband). Would your partner rather see ambitions to earn Euros, Sterling Pounds or Dollars than Adamantine and Mithril coins?

Or did you scum for good partners and found a significant other that loves to dive deep into Angband with his or her beloved? One that is permanently bound to you by a Plain Gold Ring, giving your hearts immunity to get frozen, your bridges immunity to get burned, your relationship immunity to get dissolved by acid, your love immunity to get tainted by poison so that you can safely hold on to each other even when there's thunder and lightning all around you?

[Antoine]

How does your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend/right hand react to your Angband playing?

Mrs Antoine refers to it affectionately as 'geeking'. The rec.games.roguelike.development (RGRD) newsgroup, for instance, becomes 'really geeky, really dorky'.

Other than this, she is very tolerant

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[fizzix]

How does your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend/right hand react to your Angband playing?

Might as well go to the source on this one:

"I think it's silly. I sit and laugh at you while you play."

Though, I'm pretty sure I've never snuck out of bed to play...She may not think it's so silly if I did.

[tummychow]

Oh man.... just the opening post is hilarious.
14 years old. Sorry. No significant other (what a relief!).

[Ghen]

My wife has long since written me off when I play non-graphical or semi-graphical games like Angband.

I don't even try to explain it anymore. I just play and she ignores me. Fortunately, when I stop playing she stops ignoring me

[dhegler]

My wife asked me one day if I "slayed the $h|t out of any orcs" and I almost fell out of my chair. But, yes, I get made fun of too...

[HallucinationMushroom]

When my wife is having trouble falling asleep, she asks me to tell her an Angband story. She's heard so many stories that she knows all the best loot and coolest monsters by heart. What's sad is that she falls asleep so fast, but I get wound up, and just keep on talking and talking until I have to get up and play a round.

[buzzkill]

When my wife is having trouble falling asleep, she asks me to tell her an Angband story. She's heard so many stories that she knows all the best loot and coolest monsters by heart.

Come on! Do you really expect us to believe that .

I get ignored too (with prejudice), so I try to limit my playing to when she's not around.

[emulord]

one time, I was farming blue worm masses in Posband, and I got up to get something to eat so I had my girlfriend do it for a bit. She said that I was murdering those poor w's.

[Dark]

So, starting out with a charisma of minus 9 and a perminant repelle partner effect isn't quite such a bad thing for conquering the dungeon afterall.

I look for stat potions, but there are none, nor does the spell effect seem to ware off.

[BSVeteran]

Mine just plain hates it. She used to put up with it a very long time ago. She'll mash the keyboard until something (*bad*) happens if she catches me playing.

I play on the way home - so playtime is limited. (I travel by bus, Sydney is a good place for public transport.) If I'm up later than her bedtime, I might on occasion enjoy half a night of playing.

[Psi]

My wife doesn't get it. I actually closed the window down when she walked in last night and then had to convince her I wasn't looking at something else entirely...

[Nick]

My wife doesn't get it. I actually closed the window down when she walked in last night and then had to convince her I wasn't looking at something else entirely...

... and we believe you

I pretty much get amused tolerance - which is a good deal given that I've indoctrinated at least one of our kids as well.

[thapper]

Sometimes my partner refers to *band playing as "geeking" but usually she is too busy playing Heroes of Might and Magic to really care. The cat hates it though, since the laptop occupies some of what he considers being his lap space. He frequently uses the pressing-random-keys-until-something-bad-happens-scheme mentioned before to get his message across.

[d_m]

Mostly it gets referred to as "playing the at-sign" and ignored.