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Message: <blockquote data-quote="farscapesg1" data-source="post: 2737279" data-attributes="member: 15234">I'm sort of surprised that there are so many "you are a control freak" type of responses here  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I guess a lot of people have the option of gaming with people they have known for a long time.  I had to pack things up after graduating college and moved down to Texas with my wife.  Finding a gaming group took a really long time.  Every time I thought I found a group, it didn't work out.  One disbanded after a character vs. character argument (that one of the players took too personally) regarding nature vs. nurture theories.  Another group kept moving the game location to often and my play style just didn't mesh with theirs.The current group that I am gaming with are all pretty good people (with a few exceptions).  However, they aren't the type of friends that I would hang around when not gaming.  I don't go out for drinks with them, go to the movies with them, and so on.  I get along with them and enjoy gaming with them (when we actually game) but otherwise there just isn't enough "common ground".  Only one of them is married, and he needs to sit back and take a serious look at things (the one that showed up to game when his wife was in labor).I game with the group because I get along with all of them, but when I decide to spend 7 hours of my weekend gaming, I should be gaming.  If all I am doing is sitting around shooting the bull, my time is better spent with my wife  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   Maybe I do take my gaming time too seriously in that regard.  If I have to miss a game, so be it, but if I'm there I expect to be gaming and not bs-ing.  When our first-born comes in March, I will have to take a break from the group and if things haven't been ironed out somewhat, I may not be going back, especially with the choice of spending 7 hours to get 3 hours of gaming in, or spending the day with my wife and child.  Not a hard choice  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> So, in response to most of the "I wouldn't touch your game" responses, I would say "Where are you and why don't you live in Houston!!!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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