| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/12/2008 9:48:32 AM | I wouldn't; I think they are over the top and they seem to fantasize about being the characters and its too weird. I think its your thing and I'm glad you like it but I'm not going to watch it, get into it, or start playing dungeons and dragons so what do we have in common?
I wouldnt try to convince anyone. People are who they are; if you enjoy it, then its wrong for me to try to change it. Do your thing, and thats fine. Its just not my thing. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/12/2008 4:27:52 PM | | I think it's nice that there are girls who play various video and board games :) Nerdy girls are very appealing and I'm going to an anime convention in about a week to meet some :) | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/12/2008 5:50:29 PM | | I've never played DND, but I would be for it. I play role-playing games myself but not pen and paper. I'm not saying I wouldn't play because I have characters in mind and have a rudimentary understanding of the rules. Games are a form of entertainment and if two people enjoy them together then so much the better. I'm not sure a MMORPG, such as Warcraft would be good for a relationship. Seems a time sink but I know of couples who have two computers and play together. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/12/2008 5:59:40 PM | I'll be honest. Once upon a time, I found gaming to be a virtue, but now I find it a little pathetic.
I had a lot of fun playing D&D back in junior high and high school, but the crowds I played with were always very lax and more concerned with having fun than with sticking to the rules. And we were also kids.
In my experience, most avid adult gamers take themselves and their gaming WAY too seriously. They're generally arrogant and persnickety people who are not aware of how silly they actually come off. And they immerse themselves in their gaming because they lack social skills and have no ability to create a life outside of it.
While I still get the urge to draw up a character sheet and play a game of D&D over a few beers with friends for old times' sake from time to time, it's nothing I could be around on any kind of regular basis now. The same way I'll still go check out the Rennaissance Festival every couple of years, but you'd never catch me dressing up for it.
So no, I wouldn't date a gamer girl. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/12/2008 7:14:40 PM | The only time I got really annoying (to the players) about the rules was when I calculated the weight of what they SAID thier characters were carrying... and "made them buy" 3 wagons (and the 4 horses per wagon) each to cart the stuff.
It was amusing making them list where each item was so I could calculate how long it would take to find whatever they said they had handy...
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/12/2008 7:37:02 PM | Would you be interested in a girl who spent her leisure time pretending to be an Elven Sorcerer in Faerun, per se?
I don't even know what an elven sorcerer is supposed to mean, but if she dressed up as one I doubt I could keep a straight face. If she was pretty, and had a sense of humor - i would probably not care. I may even delight in swinging by after she finishes playing wizards with her nerdy male friends she would never ****, who are all secretly in love with her - at least when she wears the wizard costume, and taking her home with me.
In other words, do nerdy girls appeal to you? What about them does/doesn't?
nerdy hobbies don't real take away from a girl's sex appeal for me until they get into the "not bathing to play magic dragons" category. She can also live in her parents basement, and not have a car. It really doesn't work the same way for women as for men. If your elf fetish makes you happy, I say embrace it, don't be sensitive if the rest of the world thinks it's funny, because it is. I would let you wear the elf gear in bed if it was suggestive enough, and wouldn't be embarrased about your hobbies.
And if you were dating one (heaven forbid) would you try to immerse yourself in her hobbies or just stand back and let her go to town? Or would you try to convince her to try your hobbies instead of her own?
If that was a fixture of her social life, and her favorite hobby I would feel evil if I did take it away from her, or got her ostracized from her convenant..
I would play video games with her, i guess. but no magic cards or other things that would destroy my willingness to look in the mirror. I'd go to the convention with her, but only to scare off all the nerds so she didn't get mobbed and hassled - as she'd be like the nerd princess at those things. She would need to embrace certain hobbies of mine as well. I'd say putting up with her nerd antics would earn me a certain leeway about staying out late with my friends drinking and occasionally coming home covered in stripper glitter. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/12/2008 8:33:35 PM | Gaming people seem to really enjoy other gaming people's company.
As long as they ain't both highly competitive individuals.
Personally, I like games that allow people to be creative and work together.
Those seem to be the most fun for everyone.
Although they aren't the adrenaline rush some people like in gaming. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/12/2008 9:48:57 PM | I like Gamer girls. OK there are those that game more for the RP than the game and while I enjoy some of them I much prefer the gal that is there to have an adventure in game rather than an RP scenario or cyborz.
I don't think a lot of people have a clue at just how elaborate and the depth that online gaming has achieved. In the more advanced games you can almost create another life.
Kazot was the name of my EQ Raid Wizard. He has had reincarnations as several caster class avatars.
My first character in EQ met a newbie halfling druid named Quea. We spent a couple of years banging around together in game having a grand time just going out and having adventures. We formed a group of crazy adventurers named the Death Nights. Nothing sexual or romatic about me and her but she was a hell of an online friend and a lot of fun.
Since then it has been guys or manginas but we enjoy playing whether they were male or female. We have had the Death Nights, The Adventure Club and the Horse Men which traveled from one game to another and some of them still play.
My love is not a gamer, I can live with that. Her daughter is more of a MPFPS type, I can play but I don't think it has enough depth. Would I like it if my babe was a gamer, you betchya, I would love to share some adventures and quests with the woman I share the story of my life with.
Some guys go out and play a round of golf, hunt deer, fish, cut the lawn or go shoot pool at the bar. I like to get together with a freind or up to seventy other people and go kill a dragon, do a dungeon crawl beneath a haunted castle.
It is hard to expain unless you have been there, but I have been in battles where the only thing I could see was the heel of the foot and the bottom of its belly the monster was so large, or seen hords of undead swarming into the room as people ran, screaming and dying, and then in every game there is always zones that have rats that that would eat Godzilla for a snack. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/13/2008 1:40:34 AM | | I've seen a lot of "not sures" and "nos" based on the concept that nerds are socially inept, not fully developed adults. Which I find interesting, but also very stereotypical, like any group. I help run a Toronto based role-playing game community club called TAG (Toronto Area Gamers). We actually have one of the best groups just because most of the folks that join (and yes, you do get your odd weirdo) are mature adults with lives, usually spouses, often children, decent to awesome jobs, and outside hobbies. One of their hobbies just happens to be gaming. I myself have a job, a social life (that doesn't just pertain to gaming), pets and a boyfriend. I'm self-sustaining and don't spend gobs of money I don't have on gaming. That being said, I do love to run a good game or sit back and enjoy playing with others. I actually prefer socializing with nerds just because they're usually a lot more laid back about expectations on people. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/14/2008 3:06:34 PM | As well you should too! It's a shame there aren't enough women around like yourself, Cheshire Grin. Especially in my neck of the woods. I live in "Red Neck Land" where the majority of poeple think of nothing more than fishing, hunting, Nascar, drinking beer, and who won the WWF title match. It is soooo hard to get anyone interested in gaming around here.
Again, I put out the call to anyone who lives in my area, if you're reading this and want to play, message me. I'd love to get a group started up again. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/17/2008 10:03:21 AM | | Yeah, I grew up in hicksville, Ontario. I still managed to loop my friends in playing with me in High School. But then I grew up and moved to the big ol' city of Toronto. So many gamers here! Plus some awesome conventions. I would say try getting a group together online and playing by email. Maybe start up a game of Diplomacy by email if you can't scratch the gaming itch otherwise. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/19/2008 11:55:09 AM | If gamers are the solitary ,social innadequates as suggested in some of the previous posts, why do we form clanbases,organise ski trips, pub crawls ,create forums, laf n joke with twenty others on teamspeak .share problems ,advise etc etc etc
If its pissin down with rain i aint gonna go play football with my offline mates.
surely if a man has the right to outgrow snakes n ladders then a woman has the same right to throw her dolls out the window and pit her wits against fellow humans .
Having a competitive streak or enjoying a little afterwork escapism does not denote isolation or complication.
Gaming girls have broke the (shut up my favourite soap opera is on ) mould
MUUUUUUUAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/19/2008 4:18:17 PM | | Absolutely love gaming girls. I love to be able to sit down with a girl and game it up rather than just my friends. Absolutely favourite type of girl for me i ahve to say. Maybe i am jsut weird i dunno? But even if she isnt the prettiest girl around, if shes a gamer she already has an in with me. Oddly enough i get hit on by a lot of very pretty girls who i get turned off on because they dont get my technology/gaming hobby and dont care to even attempt to see the light in it. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 6/19/2008 4:53:31 PM | For me it doesnt matter TOO much if we share common interests - either way makes for conversation, either laerning from the other, or sharing.
Though IMO ill jsut say its too bad your in Toronto ;p lol....I personally feel like I have to refrain from mention too much about my gaming intrest - jsut becuase it seems like so few girls in winnipeg are intrested. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 8/30/2008 9:37:37 AM | I play games. I actually just purcashed a 360 about 6 mos ago. I LOVE IT. my bf has a wii that I have tons of games for. We also have the old xbox, the old nes (i love) a sega gen.. and some others. I LOVE EM ALL!!! I dont go overly isane with them.. but I do play at least a few mins a day. My fav lately is the bowling on Wii. and of course my Kingdom of hearts on my ps2. I also like to bust out the oldies before electronics such as cards and yatzee and crap like that. Have tons of board games. (I kick ass at halo..lol. and call of duty,, maybe bc I work in a gun store..hehe) newho..and I am by far a nerd | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 8/30/2008 10:42:20 AM |
The only time I got really annoying (to the players) about the rules was when I calculated the weight of what they SAID thier characters were carrying... and "made them buy" 3 wagons (and the 4 horses per wagon) each to cart the stuff.
It was amusing making them list where each item was so I could calculate how long it would take to find whatever they said they had handy...
See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. I can't play with people who do this. It takes all the fun out of it for me.
In my circle of friends, if an orc jacked your sword, you could roll the dice to try to còck slap them to death.
I did that once. Got my sword back, too. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 8/30/2008 3:54:38 PM | I'm shocked and amazed at how many people are "eh" on the gamer girls thing.
I mean, gaming and girls are two of my most favourite things. Combining them is like combining ice cream cones and skydiving. It's just so awesome anyone who says otherwise is obviously filled with hatred for his fellow man, and wants to misdirect all those who seek awesomeness. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 8/30/2008 4:50:33 PM | Would I be interested in someone with whom I had shared passions and interests, who wasn't put off because I like gaming and sci-fi, dressed up like Kaylee from Firefly, and was drop dead gorgeous?
Hmmm, let me think... | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 8/30/2008 5:03:23 PM |
So here's a question for the boys. I'm a gaming girl. I know a lot of gaming women. We play Dungeons and Dragons or other pen and paper games. We enjoy board games and video games. Sometimes we're even better at them than our male counterparts. I dress up for conventions, I enjoy Joss Whedon, I run far too many games and actually help organize the gaming community in Toronto. I'd even go as far to say it's a passion of mine because I love creativity and I love doing it socially.
Would you be interested in a girl who spent her leisure time pretending to be an Elven Sorcerer in Faerun, per se? In other words, do nerdy girls appeal to you? What about them does/doesn't? And if you were dating one (heaven forbid) would you try to immerse yourself in her hobbies or just stand back and let her go to town? Or would you try to convince her to try your hobbies instead of her own?
A girl that plays games? That's so HOT! 
LOL! But seriously... for me there's a bit of a limit. Cosplay isn't really my thing (says the guy planning to attend the Toronto Zombie Walk) so I'd find it a little strange. I tend to like nerdy girls... not necessarily by design, but I always end up falling for them.
There are some things that certain couples can't share. For me... cosplay, anime conventions, D&D, and those things would fall under that category. If I was ever asked to play RE co-op or something... well, quite frankly I'd be a little turned on. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 8/30/2008 5:21:51 PM | OP: HELL YES.
I don't know of any guy who was ever involved in gaming who would've turned down a potential SO who was a fellow gamer. Of course, 'potential SO' would include mutual attraction and having at least somewhat compatible personalities...
As for myself... if I met someone I was attracted to, and she was interested in RPGs, anime, SCA and all that... I'd definitely get back into the ones I've drifted away from, and at least consider trying a few of whatever was somewhat new to me.
The appeal? Nerdy girls are usually more attractive than they believe they are... it's a refreshing contrast to those women who are either totally aware of - or are wrongfully convinced of - their own hotness. And of course, having shared those hobbies in the past there are common interests. | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 8/31/2008 4:02:43 AM | I have no problem with a girl who likes to play games, and would love to meet one who thinks she can top my high score on rock band or beat me in halo. It's one of those "fun" areas a lot of adulds shirk because they're portrayed as being too "kiddy".
Well, I've known quite a few gamer girls in my time, and most of them were smart, attractive, and highly fun, they just hated losing more then most guys i beat :P
But seriously, beit paper, board or video, there's nothing wrong with a little fantasy mixed with reality. Just know the difference between the two | |
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| Gaming Girls... yea or nay?
Posted: 8/31/2008 4:40:16 AM | | OP - Check out http://www.purepwnage.com/ for some real hilarity that I suspect you will totally get. | |
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