ET and your parents/partners

I guess this is something that has been discussed before but I am bringing it up again.

What do your parents/family/partners think of ET (Not general gaming) and what do they think of it?

My Dad isn't that bothered but my Mum always comes upstairs or whatever and says "I need a medic" or something, just randomly for fun. She thinks I spend to much on the game but she tolerates it (apart from the leccy bill ;) )

Would also be interesting to see what other parents say about your ET obsessions or even your wife as I'm sure they get agitated if you spend all your time speaking to random people on the net rather than sitting down and spending some time with her!

So, type away maggots.
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They kept worrying i was addicted to gaming, but they don't anymore (maybe because I don't play that much now?)
my parents dont care the game....or what i do on the pc
Wanneer krijg je genoeg van dat spel !1111 einswei that's what my mother always say
My parents think it is waste of time, and they are right.
I'll second that!
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same here :D
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They don't care what I play on my computer but they dont like to see me on PC whole day.
you would have 80% more time if you wouldnt need to think of 999 new names and pbguide
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they even paid for your skill :D:D
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no It was free
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They don't care what I play on my computer but they dont like to see me on PC whole day.
My dad always says that I'm outdated, WW II ended a long time ago. Or he asks how it comes that I haven't won it yet, seeing the time I spend on it.
Tell him you've joined with the paratroopers and are bashing it BoB style
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Most of the time I reply that I lived on a small island in the pacific for the past 65 years and that I didnt know the war was over.
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Somehow he doesn't believe me though :<
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LOOOOL best one yet :D
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: DDDDDDDDDDDD
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ACKSAW :D Team Zimbabwe member!:D

How you doing?:)
I don't have an obsession with the game.
Parents don't care about it, my youngest sister plays on my computer sometimes too.
new excuse incoming
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I don't need excuses, but some can use it {:
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My parents think it is waste of time, and they are right.
They don't care what I play on my computer but they dont like to see me on PC whole day.
My mom doesnt care atcually, only if I play whole day.
My dad hates to see me play, so when hes coming up my room, Im always shutting my pc off.
My parents dont care couse they know that "ET is just a game"...
As long as i dont sit in front of my PC all night long
mine think that i'm making some shit O_o
Both my mom and dad sometimes randomly say that i'm addicted. My dad finds it pretty funny tbh and sometimes jokes about it.My mom on the other hand rushes in my room 5-6 times a day without knocking to see what Im doing and starts whining all over the place.. which makes me play less and less since I can no longer play in a concentrated way.

Playing after 11 PM is pretty much impossible since a major flamewar occurs when I do so. Which I .. understand since I find playing at night kinda strange.
your mom got nothing better to do? :<
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Sure she does. She works 5 days a week here at home as a baby sitter which makes it easy for her to check on me.
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hahaha poor you :D
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17, and still not allowed to play at night :<?
I don't even wanna play at night, to tired to play at such time
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I had serious issues with my parents about gaming, especially when i played WoW.
Now it's better tho, as i play alot less than before.

They just don't understand that online games can't be paused for 30minutes.
Second that :D
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Second that too :---D

"Pause it till you've eaten and continue then!"

or another example:
me: Could we leave a little bit earlier, we got 3 hours to drive and I'm supposed to be home at 19? (official war)
parents: We guess you can wait 1 more hour...
me: Well... so you want that all the 11 other guys have to wait an hour because of me? :----D sure.
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:)))))))))))))
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haha i do that :D
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:D

That is one problem, people don't seem to know that you aren't alone there playing :) Also, I bet they wonder what on earth are you talking to your PC for :)
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My GF's mocks me from time to time with the same random "need a medic, need ammo" comment, but other than that she doesn't mind me spending much time playing.
she doesnt mind because shes in the other room with your pink rabbit! Her "I need ammo" comments are probably a reference to batteries

<3
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whehe, could be actually!
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parents ?
Well i've been together with my girlfriend for more than 8 years now and living together with her for around 3 years. She has always tolerated my gaming stuff and is even watching me playing sometimes when the games are vs good opponents/"important" (like EC playoffs or GSL Finals for eg.)...

But she is also looking a bit after the times i spend on playing... like my mother did when i was younger tbh... she kinda "allows" me only to play at some certain days (around 3 evenings a week)... and tbh i am thankfull about that cause otherwise i would waste even more time playing :D
Kinda the same here ( although I quitted playing after CDC 4 ), when my girlfriend saw perfo / modus irl she even knew who they were hahaah xxxxD
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O M F G :DDD
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LOOOOOOOOOOL

"OMG LOOK OVER THERE!"
"What, what is it?"
"ITS PERFO"
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"ga je weer mannetje dood schieten"
my parents dont do anything against it,,, but 2 years ago they almost kicked my off the computer when i played it and didnt study, but ever since i got good results at school they let me play,,, but when i had exams,, they changed all the passwords of the computer so i couldnt play and had to study,, worked but was really boring, and after i passed they changed back to normal and never heard from them again :D
well my dad actually used to play ET (and was in a clan! :P) before he got addicted to Lord Of The Rings Online x-D
soon you will follow his steps :D
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1. they say nothing (most of time)
2. my Partner stops plaiyng if I say he should :pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp <3 StrAffy
A few years ago they tried to limit my daily time on pc, but seeing that my grades didn't improve they let me play how much I wanted again. my mother thinks it is a really stupid game, father is never even home so he prolly doesn't even know about it 8D
When I used to have a roommate, he was quite pissed off because he had to stop warez while I was playing :) And my second roommate was playing CS:S at those times too, no illegal downloads in our house =P
Mom used to say that I talk too much to my computer :D
my dad thinks im a goon haha xD
1. my dad doesnt care coz he doesnt live in here. for my mom it's ok, at start she always whined that I should go out n stuff but now she doesnt care anymore coz I made some money from it and im pretty good @ school, she thinks that it's like my job or smth :-D
2. never told any girl that i've been @ holland 2 times just to play some game. but ofc they have seen me @ action :-D
nice. i said to my mom if she let me play i can make some money with it :> but that isnt true cuz i am to "newschool"
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Both didnt care, aslong as my grades were good.
my father always stares at a computer like it would be an alien...
he doesnt even know what et is...
i think the email service was the greatest invention 2k8 for him :D

and my mother dislikes wargames in general. but i m old enough for my own decissions so she doesnt care anymore...
and i am living in my own flat so its no prob anymore :>

the only one i take care of is my gf... she tolerates it but i keep spending the evenings with her until she sleeps. and then i move to the pc
np4me i lock the door:D
my mother always says the same thing :D

MEDIC MEDIC I need a medic!
My father says also I need a medic game :D:D:D. But they dont like that I play ET :D
Well my father play games himself, Diablo 2 he killed diablo b4 me and he had so damm better character then me :(.

My mom thinks its the waste of time and I spend too much time on computer, but im doing well in real life with school and job that she dosent care.

Girlfriend.. hmm well dont have one, but this is my buisness so dosent concern her.

If I would quit waterpolo practice then my mom and dad would not understood me ^^
My father plays ET too :) N1 when you can speak with someone about ET :D
i live by myself, so they dont care if i play games
I don't really think they care. My mom does throw random comments at me like: Are you shooting people again?
jij bent toch te hopeloos:o
koms vent
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at the age of 15 or 16 i threw my mouse at my wall after we lost vs ocrana on goldrush ( not even in an official, was a pracc as far as i remember )
what i didnt know is that my mother was behind me watching me for like two minutes already, she told me id be sick but still bought me a mx510 again!
BESIDES THEY WERE SHIT ON ET!!!! SHAME ON YOU !!!! WOOOO !
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such a big boy and still playing some stupid games :D
Mother has sometime get angry but Dadi is cool and saying do what ever you want to do,even though I am not playing much anymore
My mom always says

Omg snder give me that headset i love that sound ting ting ting

she gonna dance on it

ting ting ting
my parents didnt like ET 3-4 years ago....but when i got good marks at school they were quiet :P
They always ask me why the player models are glowing pink and I quote my mum "Isn't that laik cheating?".
she tried to throw my pc out of my window :(
My mom used to ask me what I was doing all the time behind the computer. I simply answered: "the pown must go on".

She fully agreed.
"the pown must go on"
:DD
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My mum played ET once. Killed her whole team :/

Dad doesn't like the game, fell for German TV propaganda about Killergames... Killergames+WWII theme=fail

My grandma loves ET. Here's a clip of her playing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=q7DY_dbRtTY :DD

Friends play games, too. But most of them just for fun.
They think that i play too much but where is the problem? :D
Well my mum is the typical brainwashed-by-media type. She hates all violence-related computer games and thinks I will be a serial killer in the future, because I play them.
Lately, though, she has accepted that I won't give up playing, so she doesn't whine anymore :).
Score.
my dad plays also...so-->np
"snder on 14/07/08, 11:35:24 GMT

My mom always says

Omg snder give me that headset i love that sound ting ting ting

she gonna dance on it

ting ting ting "

best answer of the day.
when I was 15/16, I just joined highschool and started gaming at the same time :D, eventually my parents kept whining on me even though my marks (at school) were above average
now I'm gonna be 21 and they don't really care anymore
hell yea, back then we had some serious arguments about the gaming shit :I
mom whines every now and then while im playing. when I tell her that I cant hear shit when I got headset on and im playing a pracc or something she gets mad and starts whining even more, all I can hear is random whine but cant be bothered to stop playing.

most of the girls I go out with know that I game regularly, im not advertising it and unless they ask what im going to holland for, I dont mention going to play games. even so, it's not the only reason to visit holland ;)
lol did the same :D
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thx for bringing this up. today when i woke up i had to listent to mom's stupid lessons.

"you play to much , we are gona take away your computer, you go sleep to late, blablablablablabla " FUCK OFF WOULD YOU !?



1 FUCKING HOUR I HAD TO LISTENT TO HER !!! 1 FUCKING HOUR!!!!
yeah same for me! but normally its while am playing and i have voice activation so everyone else can hear it to :D:D... Englandtopher will back that up :D
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yes it was same at me : but now i got push to talk cuz i didnt want they hear what my mother says :<
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dad says "when will u finish this game? same thing all over again.." and sometimes i tell him that its a competition with other players from other countirs so he starts talking about WWII and explains to me what was it back then during the war blahblah.. :D and mom like Finlanddecem said, she whine and I say, "im with headset i can't hear u" so she talks moer but i keep on playin and when im finish she says "ull be deaf one day!" but atleast she buys me headset/mouse when i break mine :D
oh and funny story, one time i let my dad talk to this guy on skype, so they talk for like 3 hours, and then when they said BB to each other, he told me to "delete" him cause he might be a pedo x'DDDDDDDDD
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