I don't quite know where to start here! I guess I could say I'm not a game collector like many of you here are, and I'm not spending a whole lot of my time on gaming (it's a very seasonal thing for me), but I do have more systems than Avarage Joe would find reasonable and I do have some Game Boy collecting going on. But I do a whole lot of different things mostly centering on my computer.
As for how I got together with my girlfriend - and as time goes it seems we're less and less likely to separate - that is a complex story, but I'll try to keep it simple. Over 11 years ago I started a site about Tolkien. It got somewhat popular thanks to the movies, and people started meeting. Being a very shy guy and not really high on self esteem nothing really good happened, my first girlfriend wasn't that great (for me!) even though she did play games and that was an odd first time for both of us. But things happened via meetings of the site - most of them overnight, yet no alcohol ever involved. At some point I started working on my depression as I understood I had it, and eventually as my self esteem got high enough that I was me even on the outside, not just a tetris block of wall moving around, things started changing. I found a girl that I got interested on (not just by her looks but how she resembled me on some things yet was very different on others), stalked a little bit about her and then eventually started to talk with her - on IRC. But I met her in a meeting, which is an important factor. After a little while I knew I like her so I wrote to her via email and told what I thought of her. And that very much started our part-online, part-reallife relationship. I couldn't think of a better person for me: we both spend a lot of time on computer, we both play though different games most of the time, both can handle cute things, she appreciates me for what I am and I do the same for her. There are other things that keep us quite tightly together, but I better keep this post legal for audience of all ages.
So what I'm saying here is that you have to be you. You have to feel good about yourself enough to be you. Once you are at this point you also make yourself more attractive to others and it becomes easier for others to know what kind of person you are. If you just stay silent all the time and don't let your personality to show outside then you make your changes worse. My change took many many years, and my progress continues and is going to be a life long project - a depression is a thing that doesn't really go away, but you can work your way out of it in many little ways. Also, I found my "The One" on third try. Got some good life experience on my first two girlfriends: the first relationship lacked true depth, the second was a very quick "oh there are that kind of persons" type of revalation, not going to too much depth in that one. But it only lasted for a month or so.
Anyway, I got inspired to write this post thanks to the image earlier on page 2. That is somewhat what happens about each time she comes over. Things are pretty good for me, and being what I am (a very nerdy guy in many ways) I've still managed to find my own jewel - and you'll find too if you pay attention to yourself first, and find the places where to make yourself available in real life or online
