I hope this doesn't double post. grumble, mumble
Finals for me are supposed to start tomorrow. I say "supposed", because yesterday a tornado blew through campus and some news reports say "light damage", others say "ruined campus", but all have said "finals have been cancelled". Police have cordoned off the area and unless you are a resident or faculty you are turned away.
I hope that finals will be rescheduled, but I don't know ...
Women's intuition on difference between playing a PS2 and 'Net games, chatting, blogging, etc: The PS2 is a "here" activity, while the others are a "there" activity. In other words, you are out with others when on the 'Net and you are more present when not. Just a guess, you'd need to (OMG) talk to Jen if you wanted better than a guess ...
Hey, if Jen will put up with 90% of your gaming and 'Net experience she's a helluva patient lady. Don't make me come kick your butt.

Sorry about that. I was trying to hack the referrer script and it seems you were posting at the same time... ;) Opps...

She's pretty tolerant. She's also supportive because she sees how much fun I have doing it... It's not that we can't talk. The way we put it was that there is no "me time" anymore. I work 8AM - 9PM most nights. I get home, I wanna check my email and read some news (maybe play games if I'm not too tired). Problem is (and I know now) that Jen gets home at 5PM and is waiting for me. She normally goes to bed at 9:30 so she's not able to spend any time with me...

It's just something I need to work at. And she is willing to help so that is a BIG plus...

Finals cancelled on account of nowhere to have them (tornado). The semester is over. You passed. We'll mail you a transcript. Goodbye.

Part of me is thinking that you are jumping for joy that you don't have to take any finals... The other part of me is thinking that you are SO pissed about that... :\

Wait a sec... I'm blond so I'm slow but I thought you were in New York??? When did we get any tornadoes up here???

New York? I've been in that state once ... Sleepy Hollow and White Plains, I think were the names of the towns ... I remember Sleepy Hollow (kinda hard to forget that name), but I'm not sure about White Plains ... visiting a big office building of IBM's there.

Nope, I live in Shawnee, Kansas and go to school at William Jewell in Liberty, Missouri (both are suburbs of Kansas City, just nearly 30 miles apart. I work in between the two, so the commute isn't as bad as it sounds (and traffic around here, no matter how much we complain about it, is not bad).

So, I'm only like, halfway across the continent from you ...

I would have liked to boost my grade a bit in Abnormal Psych, so I'm bummed about not having a final in that class ... but otherwise, it isn't that bad a thing ...

I hope everything works out for you in the end...

Don't ask me how I got the idea of New York. I think it was the combination of you falling on the ice (back when I was playing JumpGate) and you using Road Runner... Stupid me thinking only New York gets icy and Road Runner is not a nationwide company. ;)

plus there's the fact that playstation is something the could join in on, if she chose to do so.. :)

The only problem is that all of our two player games are childs play to me. While racing around in a "Mariokart" type game is fun for the first five minutes, I just can't do it for too long. And if I do, I end up kicking Jen's a$$ and then she gets all mad at me...

She won't even touch the games that I play. She says they are way too complex for her. Final Fantasy ish type games...

I've tried multiplayer on the computer, but the only games she wants to play are multiplayer board games. Those get boring way too quick and I'm not even going to ask her to learn Quake, Doom, Diablo, Dungeon Siege, or any of the other games that I play... She'll just say she's not into that stuff.

I'm still looking for a middle ground. SIMS is the only computer game she got into, but that only lasted a week. I've been trying to get her to sign up with SIMS Online but at the moment, we can't afford it (to do anything reasonable with it - 1 or 2 months is not long enough in my mind - I went a year on my last MMORPG)...

Hmmmm I don't know console games at all (never messed with 'em). Guess that's why the fact that they are more "inherently multiplayer" never occurred to me.

Weekends are for riding bicycles and Jeeps (provided the weather is decent) ... but on games, I've had a lousy time trying to pick a gem out of the stuff that has been out for the last year.

I played Dungeon Siege through, but there wasn't enough in the way of character development, puzzles, and NPC interaction to interest me as an RPG and the way the combat is automated made it not terribly interesting as an action game. Pretty graphics, though.

I played Diablo II and the expansion through. It was fun for quite a while, but since it is always the same the replay is limited to trying out what the other characters can do.

Quake, Doom, and all the other FPS games ... well, they aren't really my cup of tea ... I liked the original Blood way back when (OK, I was in high school, it wasn't THAT long ago), but I liked it mostly due to the pithy comments by the protagonist and the atmosphere of the game ... Blood II missed pretty much all of that.

Sims only held my interest for about a week, can't even fathom why Sims online would be enjoyable.

Racing games ... Re-Volt, if you can get it to work on current hardware and OS's is well worth it (the PC version, never tried the console ones). Only problem is, this game is years old now. Of course, that is provided you both like racing games. Challenge? Put ole Geek-boy in Phat Slug and give anybody else their choice of cars ...

*sigh* I've typed in about 8 different responses in different threads and deleted them all. I don't have much of relevance to say, I guess. Just feeling chatty. That was "chatty", with an "h", not "catty". But I can do that too ;-)

I don't know why it would be fun either, but then again I don't like the Sims too much. My thought was that since Jen does like the Sims, maybe she can see the fun in multiplaying a game if she switched to the online version...

I do have to agree that the best games are all the olds ones. They were good when the lack of graphics was made up for in story line. Now all the games are just pushing out eye-candy without any real backbone to support it...