You are one of those addicted players (doesn't matter if it's Quake, CS, UT, Super Mario Bross...) and your girlfriend can't understand your passion ? Yes I know, someone will say "eh, I'm a girl and it's my boyfriend who can't understand it?" O.K., that's not very often, but the solution is the same or nearly the same in both cases.
Well, that's a very hard piece of work... Just sit down (not in front of your computer this time) and start to think about what your partners love to do quite often. Then is when they confront you again with something like this:
* Are you playing that game for retards again?
And you answer:
* Mindy, what about your healthy passion about going shopping? * And Kathie, the "precious time" you spend with your wonderful hair? * Your masturbating 99% of your time, Mark, what do you think about that? * John, your passion for watching a bunch of boys running after a ball on television?
Maybe they can't understand what you are trying to say, but sure they rest for a moment thinking if you are on drugs or just joking... When they stop to make strange faces, you have to start talking again before they are able to speak out loud.
* And... what about... errr ... if you try to get to know me better, I'll try to go shopping, spend time with my hair, watch some football matches on TV and masturbate as often as u do...
Then they learn... and learn... and learn... and start to ignore you, and they are even more addicted than you... and one day, they start to go to different LANs. Finally they leave you for a better player...
Solution: 1. Continue with your gaming, when they are not near... 2. Teach you'r parents to lie, like "ye ... studied all afternoon " 3. Spend their free time with them, make them feel like a Queen/King 4. Don't watch/read/ask/talk anything in relation with computers when you are with them
But it is possible that they understand your first answer, that's because they really love you then all works on, your life is marvellous and you finish your days together with your addiction. :D