Day 1: The 100-Day
Countdown Begins
The mere thought of being a wife is too exhausting to
contemplate today…So I give up. My
marriage is broken and I have decided I do not want to fix it. Instead, I am going to reset and try gaming
with my partner to see if I still want to remain best friends. I will blog to chronicle how it is going and
let you know if I still like games or the guy I married.
Am I still a gamer?
After experiencing the Guantanamo level sleep deprivation of
being a new parent, I could not fathom why I voluntarily neglected sleeping
to play games. Additionally, having
small children has limited the M rated games I play over the last 7 years and I
have almost completely abandoned the tawdry way I played them. I loved to trash talk. Last year, I completed my dissertation, a
solitary process that only left me 10 minutes a day to beat a Yeti in PvZ.
My husband shifted game modes to table top miniatures and
has spent a lot of time and money dedicated to Warmachine/ Hordes. The November itch would always give way to a
short-lived return to the digital but we did not play together. Partially, because life got in the way, and the
other part because my 5-year old is better at FPS play than me now and the hubs
doesn’t have the patience for my terrible and awkward play (he needs to get over it now).
The last few years I have been a mother, teacher, wife but
not an avid gamer. My relationship to
games was more proximity than participation.
100 Days
Unlike my previous 100 days these games will be table-top
and digital. We have a new PS4 and
shelves filled with board games I haven’t gotten around to trying. If anyone out there wants to witness my
experiment, you are welcome to join in and bring a game along. I will play co-op, solo side-by-side, with
the kids, without the kids, and anything else I can think of.
I have been playing games with the guy I married on-and-off
for 18 years. The next roughly 3 months
will determine if I will continue to do so for 18+ more.
System: PS4
Developer: Telltale
Reflection: TftB is amazing because we have been watching a
story unfold without the bombardment of commercial breaks. Its unsettling to make choices that feel
right, or I interpret a certain way, and see the way they influence the game is
not always what I intended. After waking
up at 4am to finalize my weeks lesson plans, the lack of dexterity required for
this game was doable at 10pm.
When bad things happen some people think the only option is divorce. For better or worse I am going to try Diablo before divorce and I will keep you posted on how it goes.
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