Sometimes I wonder what it's like to be the partner of someone like myself, a gamer, someone who spends all their free time in front of the TV or pc screen, pressing buttons and being generally dead to the world. I wonder what it feels like to have all your queries met with responses like "in a minute" or even just a grunt. To put it on a way that a gamer would understand I looked at it like this, imagine mass effect but only the entire dialog is replaced by grunts and empty promises of things done later. I placed an example below.
This is a homage to those much overlooked companions, the ones that stick by us through the thick and the thin from the dizzying lows that was buying terminator salvation for the 360 before reading a review to the euphoric highs of finding a copy of modern warfare 2 for £26 in Sainsbury's.
This is my girlfriend, she is also a member of this site and I would like to tell you a quick story which reveals how I came to this conclusion.
Today we went to Belfast, the trip for all intensive purposes was for Christmas shopping but because I would miss my much played Xbox 360 and the bus journey is too bumpy too play the PSP I was promised as many goes on house of the dead as I could get out of the pocket of change I was carrying. Upon getting there we did the much needed shopping and while hauling the bags around we came across the store that plays host to my favorite arcade game ever. The shutter was down and it had a massive sign that read large retail unit for sale.
Disaster! The day for me is ruined and through a combination of sulking and complaining about the pile of change now burning an uncomfortable hole in my pocket i manage to ruin her day as well, this continues for about an hour when she finally gets fed up with me and goes for a walk, she then came back slightly later with a huge bag but says nothing.
Finally when we get home I decide to take out my days problems on some virtual opponents the only problem I have is that I can't find a game that fits my mood, just then the aforementioned bag appears and she shows me what it is, to make up for my frustration she has bought Me DJ hero.
Just to show you how big a gesture this is for her, not only did it cost her a lot of money but it also means that I will spend the next week ignoring her for the same game she has just bought me. That means for her trading off her own happiness for my happiness and that kind of sacrifice cannot go unnoticed any longer.
In conclusion I would like to say this, sometimes your partner might be giving you hassle about taking the garbage out while you're trying to pwn noobz in call of duty, sometimes she might even be getting kidnapped by an angry gorilla with way too many barrels, but remember there are times when she will be throwing hearts at you while an opponent mercilessly squats you in halo 3.if your partners there right now turn round and kiss them though don't tell them why because that will only mean they can use it to get you off your games :D