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<blockquote data-quote="Theron" data-source="post: 344766" data-attributes="member: 2326">(Sorry if this thread has been brought up before.&nbsp; I don't recall seeing it, but I haven't been here religiously for a while.)So, see the question above.&nbsp; What does your family think of gaming?&nbsp; I'll start:I'm pretty lucky, all-in-all.&nbsp; My folks are pretty tolerant and saw gaming as just another extension of the make-believe worlds I'd been indulging in since I could talk.&nbsp; On the religious front, they even defended the hobby a couple of times to their fellow church-goers and friends.&nbsp; They even let me teach my niece and nephew (who they have partial custody of) how to play a few months ago (I gave them a copy of the Adventure Game to take home).The only flak I ever caught from them about it was over what it did to my grades in high school.&nbsp; My dad went so far as to confiscate my stuff for about six weeks at one point in a basically futile attempt to get me to focus on studies (unfortunately, he didn't grasp how little one actually needed in the way of physical materials to play the game).Both of my brothers played when they were kids but didn't stick with it.My wife is a casual gamer.&nbsp; She understands it and enjoys some genres, but can take it or leave it.So, anyone else?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Theron, post: 344766, member: 2326"] (Sorry if this thread has been brought up before. I don't recall seeing it, but I haven't been here religiously for a while.) So, see the question above. What does your family think of gaming? I'll start: I'm pretty lucky, all-in-all. My folks are pretty tolerant and saw gaming as just another extension of the make-believe worlds I'd been indulging in since I could talk. On the religious front, they even defended the hobby a couple of times to their fellow church-goers and friends. They even let me teach my niece and nephew (who they have partial custody of) how to play a few months ago (I gave them a copy of the Adventure Game to take home). The only flak I ever caught from them about it was over what it did to my grades in high school. My dad went so far as to confiscate my stuff for about six weeks at one point in a basically futile attempt to get me to focus on studies (unfortunately, he didn't grasp how little one actually needed in the way of physical materials to play the game). Both of my brothers played when they were kids but didn't stick with it. My wife is a casual gamer. She understands it and enjoys some genres, but can take it or leave it. So, anyone else? [/QUOTE]

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