Well, I would suggest using the...
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All those options
could work, but I'm very non-confrontational.
(By the way, Gauntlet is awesome. When are we doing co-op?)This is most certainly one of
my problems, anything vaguely resembling confrontation is unpleasant/terrifying, especially if the person I am confronting is a person I need to interact with regularly. I need to get over this, but it doesn't seem to be happening any time soon. Also...
Yeah, if he's a nice guy he'll be willing to step off if you explain you enjoy playing alone sometimes. Especially if you also enjoy playing with him sometimes.
No matter how nice I was about it (I try my best to be nice to the guy) it would be like kicking a puppy.
A derpy, overly excitable puppy, like the chihuahua crossbreed one of my siblings owned that would start wagging madly if you so much as looked at it, and if you gave it a kind word it would just about keel over from excitement. Of course if you raised your voice at it for messing up it would go and hide pitifully in a cupboard for hours. >.>
Get him an interest, sounds like he needs one that doesn't occur in your workspace.
Try and get him to go on some long distance runs and stuff, he sounds a little competitive, but friendly enough to be up for it.If you're lucky he'll get addicted to the dopamine rush.
Or die of heatstroke. It is Australia, after all..
Funny story, the guy actually went on a long distance bike ride about a week ago,
in the pre-dawn AM hours, just to buy a Playstation gift card from a convenience store that was still open so he could buy and download the latest Street Fighter game.
I should add, trying my best not to be mean, that this guy is... not fit. Very much not.
My friend and I were struggling not to laugh whilst (at least I was) feeling terrible about the whole thing.
Talk about your conflicting emotions. He made it back, at least. Somehow.
Unrelated: All this talk of roleplaying is adding to the nostalgia I felt last night when I started reading 8-Bit Theater again... damnit, now I really wish I could get back into tabletop gaming. Maybe I can find a group in my new city, although last time all the groups I found advertised online seemed dishearteningly polished and professional, as well as having various requirements for joining.
I guess I could ask to join a friend-of-a-friend's group (I think they're mostly playing that vampire RPG at the moment), but they play over Skype and I would much prefer a face-to-face game. Maybe I just need to toughen up, delete some surplus crap off my computer and download the damn thing.
Edit: Don't you hate it when you're hurriedly editing a post, trying to quickly squeeze in an aside or improve a bit of formatting, and you push your luck just a bit too far and wind up with the 'last edited' thing at the bottom? Ugh, looks like it happened to me.