Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice

[Stonewall]

I just wanted to say that I am enjoying this game immensely. I routinely go back and forth in between 3-4 games during my free time, which unfortunately has not been in great quantity lately.

In the past 3 weeks, I have had zero desire to play anything other than PON. Nothing. I've had a blast. Thank you to the two Phils, Generalisimo, Lensman, Aragos, McNaughton, (I know I've missed people - sorry) and all the other AGEOD/volunteer team for making such a wonderful game.

Since I stopped playing WOW a year ago, nothing has quite captured my attention like this. The only downside is that now my wife is bitching "are you playing that damn game again!" If she divorces me, I'm sending Phil the bill .

It is not said enough. Y'all's efforts are appreciated.

- The (Not So)Silent Majority

[PhilThib]

Thank you.... as for the divorce bill, I already paid mine...so please find another recipient this time

[SonOfAGhost]

What's yours is hers, what's hers is also hers.

[Aragos]

or as a t-shirt I recently saw said:

"The voices in my wife's head tell me what to do."

Bah. You can always get another wife. Hard to find a good straegy game

[PhilThib]

What's yours is hers, what's hers is also hers.

Reminds me of this male chauvinist joke: what's the difference between women and hurricanes?

None: they come in warm and wet and leave with the house and the car

[montgomeryjlion]

Marriage works fine as long as you understand it is a democracy.
Husband gets one vote.
Wife gets two votes.
Majority wins.

No problem.

[Hohenlohe]

Oh, my dear...and I thought that I am missing something not to be married...*grin* my last girlfriend with which I was connected for about two years has studied Social paedagogigs in those times in the Nineties.
Her father was a high valued higher middle class citizen working as a Judge at Court and my father was only a little IT Technician. That was one main problem for HER, but as she tried to take care of me like my own mother did I personally decided it will be enough and I finished the relation and their status as fiancé (hope it is right spelled) before we got married...*sigh* since then I was somehow healed and has lived as an hermit...*grin*

But I can understand why sooo many good and solid men like it more playing
computer games and not playing with the girls...*biggrin*
The girls have still to high claims and often demands to much money during the relationship or the marriage time and especially after the divorce...*grin*

Oh, I tried to renew the old relationship last month with my old fiancé since she has moved back to Munich, but although she is yet a single and now working as a female psychologist(second big study...) she has a small problem...she knows many boys named Michael like me...*mmmhh* seems to me like a problem because she has not forgotten me...*grin* but she seems never more interested renewing our relationship being somehow frustrated... but nowadays it would be better for me living as single and playing my games without listening to a somehow hysterical voice in the background..."Are you again playing these games...??!"...*grin*

heartly greetings to you all divorced , married or to be single...

Hohenlohe, who likes his celibate life...*smile*

[Hohenlohe]

Marriage works fine as long as you understand it is a democracy.
Husband gets one vote.
Wife gets two votes.
Majority wins.

No problem.

How true...

greetings

Hohenlohe

[Franciscus]

Marriage works fine as long as you understand it is a democracy.
Husband gets one vote.
Wife gets two votes.
Majority wins.

No problem.

Absolutely true

and do not forget:
- kids get also 2 votes each (3 if adolescent daughter :mdr


But we have always our main male weapon to avoid major problems: THE PHRASE !! ("Yes, dear")

[Feltan]

I don't see marriage as a democracy. Rather, it is a series of discussions and compromises.

My wife and I discuss things, then we compromise and do it her way.

Regards,
Feltan

[Random]

Never forget that a Man is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished...

PoN is a big winner in my books, so deep and nuanced. It will take months to ascend the learning curve but am really enjoying the trip.

[Baris]

'By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher'.. said Socrates.

I think this quote were in the city building game"Zeus master of olimpus"also, after building academies that students taking lessons from the masters. apy:

PON Great game indeed just that I need more time to play , that I haven't But I will catch at some time

[Ingtar]

I can relate to the sympathy about the game. It has captured my attention. However, I have difficulty relating to the divorce issue. This August will mark 29 years of my wife putting up with my faults. She learned early that my vice (games that make me think) is not that destructive, doesn't involve another woman, and keeps me sane enough to relate to family and friends. I can work out a lot of stress in a game.

[Prussian Prince]

My wife doesn't mind me playing as long as it's for not to
long. She has a friend whose husband stays out late and
She likes that I am home to help when she needs me.
Hopefully it's between turns!

[Schattensand]

Seems most people playing this game are for sure over 30, likely over 40 and not unlikely over 50 and married or more or less happily divorced. How do they ever came to the idea, we ever grow out of toyage?

[Franciscus]

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
(George Bernard Shaw)

[Hohenlohe]

Seems most people playing this game are for sure over 30, likely over 40 and not unlikely over 50 and married or more or less happily divorced. How do they ever came to the idea, we ever grow out of toyage?

*biggrin* I would say that every good man is still a little child inside his heart and therefore a man likes playing for fun together with other ones...

I am now 47 years old and playing computer games for around 20 years since March 1991 and I remember well my first good pc game "Wing Commander" which leads me to games addiction...*grin* and after that I started with "War in Russia" from Grigsby/SSI...*smile*

and soo have fun, dear fellows...

heartly greetings

Hohenlohe aka MikeFrank(PDOX forumite) aka Michael...

[James The 1st]

I'm only 18.

[Schattensand]

I'm only 18.

By law you should play shooters then.

[Prussian Prince]

By law you should play shooters then.

Or World of Warcraft!

[Hohenlohe]

I'm only 18.

I wish you a heartly welcome in this community and I hope you will enjoy wargaming and the related strategy games.
At your age there were the first PCs around anno 1982 like the AppleII as I started learning something about informatics but the time where we would playing games at a PC was still not recognized by myself.

You have now the best opportunity to learn from some old grognards like most of the old AGEOD community members here about strategy games and the related history. And you could learn that in most cases a turn-based strategy game is much better than any realtime strategy game like C&C but you will need much more time...*grin*

so have fun and enjoy...

greetings

Hohenlohe, a very old child...

[Hohenlohe]

Or World of Warcraft!

I am still playing it...*grin*

greetings

Hohenlohe, who needs more time...*smile*

[GoldSabre]

Very good anecdotes fellas. Getting humor as this before 6 a.m. is what life is about.
James, perhaps you're an old soul.
As far as the voices in women's heads; I think that if I could use the technology used in the film Inception and get in their heads somehow, a couple of crack ninja swat teams would no doubt be waiting or just Rosie O'Donnell herself
Have any of you engaged in an argument with a woman and experienced a real life CTD? Dreadful
Once saw a bumper sticker: "Men shouldn't talk"
Perhaps that's what a forum is for. Women are ppl too and any in forums are welcome to give retorts. Pls be gentle.

[James The 1st]

Or World of Warcraft!

I have never played WoW.

I wish you a heartly welcome in this community and I hope you will enjoy wargaming and the related strategy games.
At your age there were the first PCs around anno 1982 like the AppleII as I started learning something about informatics but the time where we would playing games at a PC was still not recognized by myself.

You have now the best opportunity to learn from some old grognards like most of the old AGEOD community members here about strategy games and the related history. And you could learn that in most cases a turn-based strategy game is much better than any realtime strategy game like C&C but you will need much more time...*grin*

so have fun and enjoy...

Thanks for the welcome.

PoN is a lot of fun. I'm also greatly enjoying the free BoA2!

[PhilThib]

- kids get also 2 votes each (3 if adolescent daughter :mdr

Lucky me, two teenage girls and a 10-year boy with a single father...I do love minority rule

[Ingtar]

My youngest just finished her first year of college.

[Nial]

Hah

My wife never knew I played games. My best friends wife asked her right before we got married. "What do you think of his gaming" My wife said, "what gaming". LOL

Now she takes it in stride. Well, most times.

[CSS]

Marriage may be Grand, but divorce will be Forty GrandMINIMUM!!!

[Hohenlohe]

Hah

My wife never knew I played games. My best friends wife asked her right before we got married. "What do you think of his gaming" My wife said, "what gaming". LOL

Now she takes it in stride. Well, most times.

LOL! I am feeling with you...some months ago my young female neighbour got some decent problems with frozen water pipelines in her appartement after some vacancy thus she was hosted by me until she got her problem solved.
She was totally surprised that such an old fellow like me who could be her father was playing MMORPGS like WOW and LOTR and strategy games and she was even more amazed about my big book collection.
She told me that her father did not accept her gaming hobby and thus she was so surprised about me...*grin* I know that I am somehow special...

Thus you all should better looking for a younger woman who likes playing pc games and will be solid instead but those women are rare and in most cases still married...*sigh*

greetings

Hohenlohe...*smile*

[Prussian Prince]

I am 46 and my almost teenage daughter can't exit for Guild Wars 2 to come out so that we can play together. We will play Civ5 together now. As for the wife, well she would rather have me home playing on the computer then out "playing"