No, not Rush Limbaugh. Dr Laura (she comes on after Rush).
So a 44 year old woman married 21 years calls to get some advice on how to save her marriage and to complain about her husband who spends all of his time playing his "Computer Games"
Dr Laura asks if the man has a job.
It turns out that he does have a 9-5 job, and he makes a comfotable living for the both of them. After he gets home from work, he either eats dinner that's ready or makes something for himself and them he goes down into the basement to play on his computer until he goes to sleep aroung 11pm.
I'm laughing at this point from the lingo these two ladies are using, and I figure the man plays WoW.
"What is it like when the two of you do talk and interact?" asks Dr Laura. After some "err.."s and some "umm..."s she admit she nags him quite a bit.
This is where I was nicely surprised. Dr Laura told the caller that the Video Games were a symptom, not the problem. That they were an escape, and in all honesty one of the better ones the man could have chosen. He's not out in bars with his buddies, he's not having an affair, he's home.
Dr Laura explained that the woman was causing her husband to feel the need to escape. She'd stopped being his girlfriend, stopped being his lover, and had become only his nagging wife. "Give him something better to do than play video games. Make him a better offer, " urged Dr Laura.
"I'm supposed to compete with his Video Game?" asked the caller, incredulous.
"YES!" Was Dr Laura's emphatic reply. And to not expect him to give them up completely either. It's somthing he enjoys, and he does his job as provider apparently well, and he deserves a hobby or a passtime that is only his.
"Be his girlfriend again. Be his lover again. Show him that that is still you."
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I think my favorite part of the whole thing is that the idea or the focus wha NOT to find something to blame but instead to find something to do. Dr Laura wasn't going to give in to this woman and join her Pity Party. Instead she was going to give the caller some genuine help, direction, guidance.
[Note: all quotes are what I remember. I'm sure I paraphrased. I couldn't get a transcript. Also, I think this was almost 2 weeks ago.]
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I hope everyone had a nice Easter Holiday. We sure did.
Donna had got the baskets o' candy done and she'd started up with the egg-coloring when she asked if I was going to be doing any of it at all. I quickly got into trying to make some awesome new colors and quickly realised that everything that can be done has been done with the dip-the-egg-in-the-color style Easter Eggs.
So I thought she was crazy when she recommended I do a Destructoid Easter Egg. I'm not artistically talented. I'm just not. I'll have an idea, but I have trouble interacting with media as a true interface for my ideas. (I suck at drawing, or playdough or photoshop or whatever) ((I'm an okay pumpkin-carver though, but not as good as others))
But I saw some of the extras that came with the egg coloring. some shiny things... The Dtoid robot is shiny, I thinks to myself...
It didn't turn out half bad. Not the best thing ever, probably could be out-done by anyone who tried, but I was pretty proud of it myself.
[side note: What was Donna doing while I was busying myself coloring easter eggs? She was looking at porn.
We had a really great Easter Weekend you guys, and I hope you all did too. :) ]
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So, with a release date of 3-9-08, I can pick this up Sunday morning? I wasn't going to pre-order it, but I want a copy that day.
Any Los Angeles locations for midnight pickup?
Eeeee!
Update: This would have been a better forum topic than a blog. I should know better.
So I checked the Gamestop in my area (El Monte) and they ware having that Gamestop tournament thing. The winner from this store will face other stores, etc until a winner is declared and some loot os doled out ($10,000 + other prizes)
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Gotcast.com is hosting a little competition to help find G4's next female host or something.
Britini Martini is a friend of mine, who really, I met through Destructoid.
Anyway, she shows Dtoid some love (right on her chest) on her video that is too long. (Click the video to play it)
She's #7 right now, and the top 10 from GotCast all get a shot at this thing, and I just want to make sure she doesn't get passed up in the last few days.
Register and vote, if you please. :D
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ctrlaltdel-online.com Navigation to comic is on the left.
Once again, I find my funnybone quite tickled. Also, I feel this comic is both good and true.
Let all who comment bare witness to the awesome, hypnotizing, fun-to-look-at power of boobs.
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'Twas the day after Christmas... And all through the house...
All the gamers were playing with controller and mouse.
The new games were stacked by the TV with care
In hopes that more gamers soon would be there
The n00blings were gathered 'round the new PS3
Beside the blue glow of the poor unused Wii
And Becky's DS had all the pink it could take
With a new Princess Peach and Strawberry Shortcake
When out in the den there arose such a clatter
I put down Uncharted to see what was the matter.
Away to the den I ran just like Sonic
I tripped over a box that had come from Harmonix.
The TV was giving off a warm friendly glow
And I heard a crowd cheering for what? I don't know
When where should my wondering eyes come to land
But a a drum, guitar, mic; an entire Rockband
As I jammed to the beat of the great sounds of rock
I heard the Big Daddy from the game Bioshock
And then someone put in Heavenly Sword
The game that deserves an Academy Award
I turned and picked up the mic in my hand
I was anxious to be the lead singer of the band
They watched and they cheered as I beat every song!
I'd beaten the entire game before long!
I glanced at the systems in front of me
And wondered how lucky I could possibly be.
I ran up to my laptop to blog while they played
And to wish all my friends a Happy Gamers Day!
- Becky "Aktrez" Young (Used with permission)
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in the pictures thread in the forums, of course!
You post too, k?!
(I love the pictures thread (see my first blog)).
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The sense of community was far greater when it was just the forums. They were easy to search, easy to keep going, if someone had something to add they would "necro-post" a forum thread and get razzed for it, but anybody checking the "newest post" tab would see a topic they'd posted in had something new in it.
You get no such thing in the blogs (I blog, add me as a friend, I'm funny. Good luck finding me in there. Every other blog is by Snaileb.) If someone has commented on one of my comments is someone else's blog, I have no fucking clue, and I'll be damned if I'm going to go back and check every blog I ever commented on to see if someone is trying to strike up a conversation or is calling me a fucktard (same thing).
I like the blogs for what they are, the opportunity to show your stuff with some BBCode and whatnot -to really gain some notoriety.
I like the forums because it's much better for interaction.
Edit: I guess I could link to the Forum thread, huh?
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I could never get that precise feeling.
