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A bit of levity
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:20 pm
by PeeDeeAitch
So I hav been playing this game (off and on now that the new semester is here) since December. My girlfriend has looked a few times and basically ignored what I was saying about it. But finally the lightbulb came on when I was rereading Clark and she said "Oh, I was wondering what all those envelopes were"
It was my turn to be perplexed until I saw the NATO infantry symbol in a new light...envelopes. I am afraid from now on, WitE will always be "The Envelope Game" in my house...
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:47 pm
by Shellshock
ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch
I am afraid from now on, WitE will always be "The Envelope Game" in my house...
Never ask those SS guys for a "stamp". They invented going postal. [:D]
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:02 am
by PeeDeeAitch
The Ukrainian Postal Shock armies in their brown trucks were also feared, I understand.
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:56 am
by sillyflower
ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch
So I hav been playing this game (off and on now that the new semester is here) since December. My girlfriend has looked a few times and basically ignored what I was saying about it. But finally the lightbulb came on when I was rereading Clark and she said "Oh, I was wondering what all those envelopes were"
It was my turn to be perplexed until I saw the NATO infantry symbol in a new light...envelopes. I am afraid from now on, WitE will always be "The Envelope Game" in my house...
Bad luck mate. She now knows you are a GAMER. You should have kept her thinking you were working on an economic forecasting model or something.
To save your relationship you must get out immediately and buy her some nice shoes/chocolates or similar. Delay may be fatal.
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:58 am
by fsp
Hilarious, I like this info [:D]
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:44 am
by Hagleboz
My wife calls it Hexagon Land. She even has a little song she sings about me and Hexagon Land whenever she sees me playing. [:)]
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:27 am
by Gloo
Some freshness in a ruthless world [:D]
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:00 am
by PeeDeeAitch
ORIGINAL: sillyflower
Bad luck mate. She now knows you are a GAMER. You should have kept her thinking you were working on an economic forecasting model or something.
To save your relationship you must get out immediately and buy her some nice shoes/chocolates or similar. Delay may be fatal.
She knew already, I was doomed from the start. She just couldn't figure out why I kept taking books from my shelf about some invasion of the USSR and then playing the Envelope Game.
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:15 am
by sillyflower
ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch
She knew already, I was doomed from the start. She just couldn't figure out why I kept taking books from my shelf about some invasion of the USSR and then playing the Envelope Game.
These things happen. It was 5000 model soldiers that gave me away.
Wife got a bit upset a few weeks ago and complained 'you've been playing on that wretched machine for 6 hours now'.
I knew 'is that all?' was not going to be the right answer and managed to bite back that answer.
Unfortunately, 'no I haven't. It's only been 5 hours and 40 minutes' wasn't much better apparently
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:16 am
by morganbj
After 40 years of marraige, my wife doesn't care that I play games anymore. She used to when I had DNO scattered all over the guest bedroom floor, however. Now, she knows where I am, what I'm doing, and ignores the occasional "stupid AI!" rantings from my room.
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:30 am
by Tarhunnas
My onetime girfriend (in boardgame days) called the infantry envelopes and the armor units bathtubs. That was because they look like bathtubs seen from above in house plans.
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:32 am
by PeeDeeAitch
Oh no, she has yet to see the bathtubs break through the envelopes and encircle masses of postage paid deliveries...
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:59 am
by PeeDeeAitch
ORIGINAL: Shellshock
Never ask those SS guys for a "stamp". They invented going postal. [:D]
New avatar choice for the time being, I hope I am not intruding on your art, Shellshock [:)]
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:06 pm
by Shellshock
ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch
New avatar choice for the time being, I hope I am not intruding on your art, Shellshock [:)]
It's cool with me. [8D]
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
"--but blizzards will, at least until a new patch comes out." [;)]
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:27 pm
by carnifex
I'm squinting at the Commander's Report, trying to get a handle on all my Support Units.
My wife, passing by, glances at the screen:
"VisiCalc in the Pacific?"
"Nope, VisiCalc in the Ukraine."
"The Ukraine is weak!"
She walks away.
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:34 pm
by Tarhunnas
LOL! [:D]
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:54 pm
by Zorch
It's not "The Ukraine"; that was a Soviet thing. Just "Ukraine". Seinfeld got it wrong.
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:18 pm
by Oleg Mastruko
ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch
So I hav been playing this game (off and on now that the new semester is here) since December. My girlfriend has looked a few times and basically ignored what I was saying about it. But finally the lightbulb came on when I was rereading Clark and she said "Oh, I was wondering what all those envelopes were"
It was my turn to be perplexed until I saw the NATO infantry symbol in a new light...envelopes. I am afraid from now on, WitE will always be "The Envelope Game" in my house...
I started an AAR on one of the most popular forums in our local language in my country. It is aimed mostly at "general gaming" population most of whom have no idea about grognard wargames, but might be interested based on this AAR...
"Envelopes" is the term some people used there to refer to units on my screenshots, as well [;)] I pointed them to the list of NATO symbols as one of the first grog lessons in the AAR....
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:06 am
by Aurelian
ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch
The Ukrainian Postal Shock armies in their brown trucks were also feared, I understand.
What can Brown do for you?
RE: A bit of levity
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:29 am
by Knavery
This is some funny stuff. When my girlfriend walks by she says, "All your games look like honey comb."