After the kids go to bed Sexy Corte and I often spend the evening playing games together — board games or video games. We find that cooperative games are a great opportunity to work together on a fun problem and get the thrill of “accomplishment” — even though the game is meaningless, the time spent working together is good for our relationship. Playing games stimulates our minds and creates a set of shared experiences that can fuel our conversations.
But do you know the worst part about modern video games? The loading screen! We realized that when a game or level started to load we’d both turn down to our phones and check out of the shared experience. No good! To rectify this problem, we created a new activity: loading screen make-out session. The name is pretty self-explanatory: you make-out until the game finishes loading. The loading bar gives you a visual timer, and the experience is similar to seven minutes in heaven because you’re working on a clock. You can kiss, play, tease, arouse, or do whatever you want, but when the loading screen is over you have to stop… unless you don’t!
If you don’t play games with your spouse, we highly recommend it. If readers are interested, we can share some game recommendations in a future post.
Great use of time! ;) Would love to hear your game recommendations for board games and video games!
How have my wife and I not thought of this before?? :) Great idea, y’all! I’d also be interested in a list at some point. Makes me want to find some fun cooperative video games with long load times- wow, a whole new paradigm:D
This could also work for late night Netflix binging, while the next episode loads.
Maybe this is how Netflix and chill started…
Netflix just needs to load more slowly!
Or, at the very least, a “make out” setting ?
I have a feeling that Netflix could monetize a make-out setting that simulated random network buffering.
too bad there aren’t too many commercials anymore. :D
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Yeah, not enough interruptions!