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Subject: Ode to Rage?

If you're a wife, commiserate.

  • 02.07.2006 4:08 PM PDT

"I pledge to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could use grenades, to admit the existence of no level except Total Carnage, to never use caps lock as my "run" key, and to never, ever, leave a single BoB alive."

2B || !2B - Why don't you look Inside the Machine?

Ha! Sounds like me...I mean why doesn't she learn to play? Could be fun? "The family that curses together, stays together?"

[Edited on 2/7/2006]

  • 02.07.2006 4:26 PM PDT
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wow, that poem touched me in places where im not supposed to be touched,
it was a good poem and it tells what videogames
are doing to us.....
YAY but i feel sry for the wife. that must be how my mom feels....
i hate myself now.... thanks you for opening my eyes.......

  • 02.07.2006 6:24 PM PDT
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It should be a warning label on all video games: WARNING: MAY CAUSE EXTREME ADDICTIVENESS

  • 02.07.2006 6:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: UnyieldHieropant
It should be a warning label on all video games: WARNING: MAY CAUSE EXTREME ADDICTIVENESS
Hopefully, Bungie will remember to put that on the boxart of Halo 3. lol

  • 02.07.2006 6:40 PM PDT

How messy would it be if you were a Spartan, who unzipped for a pee and forgot to turn off the shielding?

That was the worst poem ever!
It didn't rhyme at all.
Good rant though. I think she would enjoy a little quality time with the rumbling game controller *wink wink*.

  • 02.07.2006 7:34 PM PDT
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lol Although its awesome this guy plays video games I think hes a little too addicted. Funny stuff though.

  • 02.07.2006 8:08 PM PDT

"lucky one"

I loved the poem. The ending is awesome, and is a good description of what we are. I mean, i dun have kids yet, but to be honest, sex can wait when we have a good party going on in HALO 2.

  • 02.08.2006 12:36 AM PDT

MY XBOX DIED THAT'S WHY.

I can commiserate. But my beef with my hubby playing vid games is out of jealosy! We fight over the xbox like itchy and scratchy. I, being itchy - because itchy always wins. That's the mouse, right? Anyway. Great poem!

  • 02.08.2006 2:11 AM PDT
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"BabyBringe, you just don't know, know,
How I, I, I like it down low, low!
And I just want you to know,
That I think our love will grow!
We'll take it step by step,
Because I'm not some thing you own!"

Okay firstly, it was a cool poem. That's exactly the kind of person I don't wanna be in say, 15 years time. Secondly Lucky Bounce, it doesn't need to ryhme to be a poem, pay attention in english. Most of all though, I can see this woman's point. There is no point whatosever in screaming at people you'll never meet, who are half way across the world and if you've got kids, my god, you're not exactly being the perfect father figure are you? And if you're ignoring your wife? That is low.
Okay lads, got a question for you then. Sex or halo? If it's the later, you need to get your head sorted out. Since as I am only 15, halo comes before wife, kids and sex because I can't have them yet.
Okay, I digress, this poet has a point. If you are like that man in any way, I advise you to do something about it, for your kid's sake, your wife's sake, for your sake.

[Edited on 2/8/2006]

  • 02.08.2006 3:42 AM PDT
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bler!

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  • 02.08.2006 10:20 AM PDT
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That poem struck home. Just last week my wife and I discussed Halo. She was afraid that when kids came along, that I would be like the guy described in the poem. I told her long ago that if I had to choose between her and the Xbox, the Xbox and halo are gone, in a second. She in return has not asked me to choose, knowing how much fun I have. (I have an amazing wife). While it may be easy to criticize the guy in the poem, more of us men are either like him, or further down the road than we want to admit. It is easy for men to escape into hobbies or golf, but especially to Halo. The competition, the wining, the hard fought battle…..ARRHHH!!!! It is hard to match the adrenaline rush that comes from stopping the flag carrier before he scores, or getting the last kill in a tough 49 to 49 team slayer match. But I can promise you this, nothing is better as a man than when your wife looks at you with admiration & respect, when you know that you are her hero. You younger guys trust me on that. Sometimes the best thing to do is turn off the Xbox and go spend some time with her. When she sees that you chose her over Halo, that goes along way, especially when it is at bedtime! The challenge is to engage our families with the same commitment and intensity as we do a slayer match. I guess balance in life doesn’t just mean a battle rifle and a shotgun. (Note to self: Read this message daily, apply, repeat!)

  • 02.08.2006 10:58 AM PDT
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"BabyBringe, you just don't know, know,
How I, I, I like it down low, low!
And I just want you to know,
That I think our love will grow!
We'll take it step by step,
Because I'm not some thing you own!"

hunturic, you are a legend. Why can't more people be like this, instead of leaving your wife just so that you can play halo eh? Listen to the man goddamit.

  • 02.08.2006 12:16 PM PDT

Dude, where's my sniper rifle?

I had to limit myself to Tuesdays and Thursdays. Alas she won't play with me, which is probably good since she has a lot of trouble with new and nearly-ubiquitous way of controlling motion with dual thumb sticks. She'd just be cannon fodder.

  • 02.08.2006 1:16 PM PDT

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What???!!! He has a wife and kids!!! why is he playing halo (a lot)?Its ok to play but to ignore your family!!! That guy sucks then.

P.S. Don't compare drugs to video games because they are not the same. If the power goes out how many of you think I would go and break into someones house and say, " YOU DON"T HAVE XBOX LIVE GOD DAMMIT I"M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL," but a person who is addicted to drugs will (he will try to get pain killers at the least).

Extra P.S. Whats this guy's gametag I will pwn him and after his defeat I will tell him to quit lol.

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  • 02.08.2006 3:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: ROMANZAM

P.S. Don't compare to video games because they are not the same. If the power goes out how many of you think I would go and break into someones house and say, " YOU DON"T HAVE XBOX LIVE GOD DAMMIT I"M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL," but a person who is addicted to will (he will try to get pain killers at the least).

Extra P.S. Whats this guy's gametag I will pwn him and after his defeat I will tell him to quit lol.


good point on the ◄► games thing.

by the way... it's called P.P.S. not Extra P.S.

  • 02.08.2006 4:40 PM PDT

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Wow, that woman must feel horrible, but his husband doesn't notice, I play Xbox and watch T.V. a lot, but when it comes to those priorities, I just drop the controller or turn off the T.V., I am not married, nor have children (D'oh), but I have a mother and father wich enjoy being with me, I feel horrible when I don't pay attention to them when I am playing.

  • 02.08.2006 5:53 PM PDT
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i have a wife and kid and one more on the way
hell you know i cant be playin too much if i got another one on the way
get it

  • 02.08.2006 6:45 PM PDT
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Good poem. I have finally defeated my Halo 2 addiction... only to replace it with Battlefield 2

I noticed something, one of his friends only live an hour away from me (I'm shocked that a town in SD was even mentioned)

  • 02.08.2006 10:59 PM PDT
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My girlfriend used to complain about me playing Halo 2 all the time. She decided that it's better to just join in after a month or two. There was even a point when she was playing it more than I was. She bought me a 360 for my birthday and stole my Xbox. Then I had to get her an account to call her own.

What girlfirend asks for Halo 2, an XBL account, and Devil May Cry 3 for Christmas? It's a little strange sometimes. And I thought she wasn't going to go past Mario, Crash, and Spyro.

  • 02.09.2006 1:49 PM PDT

"I pledge to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could use grenades, to admit the existence of no level except Total Carnage, to never use caps lock as my "run" key, and to never, ever, leave a single BoB alive."

2B || !2B - Why don't you look Inside the Machine?

Posted by: SuicideNinja
My girlfriend used to complain about me playing Halo 2 all the time. She decided that it's better to just join in after a month or two. There was even a point when she was playing it more than I was. She bought me a 360 for my birthday and stole my Xbox. Then I had to get her an account to call her own.

What girlfirend asks for Halo 2, an XBL account, and Devil May Cry 3 for Christmas? It's a little strange sometimes. And I thought she wasn't going to go past Mario, Crash, and Spyro.



Thats the spirit, piss em off until they join you. Works with me all the time, or it would if I had a girlfriend. *burns self*

  • 02.09.2006 2:55 PM PDT

I got one better... I met my wife on this game, lol.

However since we've been married our Halo time has cut down. She does get a little mad at me when I play too much, but at least I know my limits.

  • 02.10.2006 5:08 PM PDT
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I love odes to Rage...for obvious reasons. Someone just needs to reinterate to this woman that Halo 2 on Xbox LIVE is Valhalla! The Vikings envisioned paradise as a place where you and your comrades can battle all day long together, fall, die in horrible ways, and be remade whole to do it all over again for eternity. Hear that womenfolk? It's paradise, so tend to the young ones, stoke the fire, fetch us some mead, and let us kill like real men!!!!

[Edited on 2/13/2006]

  • 02.13.2006 3:56 PM PDT
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Sweet!!!!!!!!

  • 02.15.2006 1:01 PM PDT
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Both me and my significant other Halo 2 regularly inhouse against friends and on Live-- but if anyone has a right to complain about being ignored, it is HIM.

Many an evening has he wrestled the controller from my hands after a rousing Rumble Armory and reminded me I have to work in the morning.

Let's hear it for the Female Masterchiefs!

  • 03.16.2006 5:16 PM PDT

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