What does your partner think about you playing ED?

monogenetic

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My wife tells me to play it to leave her alone. Also, she knows it makes me happy to play. I'm a bit stressed out living overseas in her home country so...
 

Steven J Kirk

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My partner was a Kickstarter backer, nagged me into buying ED as soon as I had a PC capable of running it, and taught me basically the whole game.

He had a Conda when I started playing, I immediately gravitated towards the Cutter as my target ship, so we did that whole grind together - Empire rank, Ceos/Sothis for credits etc...We took our Cutters to Colonia and back together a couple of years ago and we play together a few times a week. Just last weekend we went on an FC trip to HIP 58832 together.

Suffice to say, he has no objection to my playing ED.
 
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Skürt Avil

Skürt Avil
d8veh said:
He's happy as long as he's not too hungry. Normally, he'll sit happily on my lap while I play, but when he's hungry, which is more often than not, he'll get up and stand in front of the monitor. If that doesn't work, he tramples all over the keyboard. He managed to crash my ship one time and nearly got me blown up many times when I'm doing combat.
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When he's not hungry, is he mainly sleeping or maybe nipping outside to dig a hole?
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Fish172 said:
My other half has her own PC and games so we never clash. I have also taught how to mine in elite and she loved it. I have no issues.
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My other half has the PS4 and Read Dead Online, so we only clash when I want to play a PS4 game like Overwatch (or when I want to connect my laptop to our nice 4K TV). Now if only RDO would become cross-platform...
 

Deleted member 182079

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My wife's not a gamer beyond stuff like Solitaire, but very tolerant of my lifetime hobby.

She's not even laughing at me anymore when she sees me with my gamer hat (for head tracking) on, and I'm not as embarrassed wearing it as I used to be even when the in-laws are around.

She also knows what I'm talking about when I say "Elite", which is progress!
 

Urbanski101

Urbanski101
Mrs Urbanski101 prefers me playing ED to some of the other games I play, especially FPS games which she hates. I have a mechanical keyboard so it make a racket when I'm playing FPS and I think that annoys her a bit.

She will often stand over my shoulder and watches for a few minutes whilst I play ED, she says it looks relaxing and calm. Overall she gives me the space to indulge my hobby and I reciprocate.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Fawkner said:
At the moment in game I am flying from the bubble to Colonia, 46 odd jumps away and my Mrs keeps shaking her head at my phone alarm going off every 20 minutes for me to do the next jump!
She thinks it's a total waste of time , and also just laughed saying that I'm 50 and it's something a spotty teenager should be doing and not a grown up man!
I did tell her that it was what I was doing when I was a spotty teenager,,,, just haven't got the spots or the hair now!
I'll see what else she says in the next 20 mins time, as the FC fog horns just gone off!
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My stuffed animals worry about me. :)
 

Achtung-Goomba

Achtung-Goomba
thelion said:
My partner is the Queen, Cmdrs please raise your glasses.....

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

Her Maj also approves of my undertaking to expand her god given royal influence amongst the savages you lot are, what what

Tatty bye old beans
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If your royal associate could see fit to issue my CMDR with a letter of marque absolving me of any wrist-slaps or tellings-off for liberating goods from passing merchantmen for God and St George I’d be very much appreciative old boy, tallyho!
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Missus: "Oooh, that looks purty!"
Me: "It's deliberately fitted an oversized powerplant and power distributor and it's got a beam laser with the thermal vent effect, which means it can dissipate heat from all the other overcharged weapons really quickly"
Missus: "It's a nice colour"

😐
 

Biff Stryker

Biff Stryker
I'm 47 and been gaming probably around 40 years, been with with my wife for 29 of those years and have known her for about 37.. so at this point I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a problem with it. It keeps me from pestering her on the weekends but I'm not allowed to talk about activities I do in the game at the dinner table for some reason :unsure:
Oh and she calls my VR setup my "spaceship flying game thingy"
 
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