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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/5/2008 1:11:55 PM |
Any form of leisurely activity is an escape. Even socializing is an escape, having sex is an escape.
I agree that any form of leisurely activity is an escape, but I wasn't only speaking of leisurely activities. There are plenty of pursuits that involve deliberate action.
As I said before, I personally don't have a problem with sharing a few escapist interests and activities with a boyfriend, but if that's all he does then he isn't going to be interesting to talk to for long. One, if he's obsessive it will get tedious playing second fiddle to a hobby. Two, if he's not obsessive then he's typically going to enjoy a relatively small circle of interests. That's boring to me. I have friends I talk to about that stuff. In my eyes a boyfriend is more than a friend you happen to have sex with.
I don't agree with the posts that say guys who play video games are childish. Video games are fun. How is having fun childish? I think video games get a bad rap as being socially immature, which is false in my opinion. Immaturity doesn't make itself known through your interests, but your attitude and behavior. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/5/2008 4:31:27 PM | I know this is ask a woman, but since I see so many guys replying to this one I thought I'd put in my own tuppence worth.
I like video games... and comicbooks... and cartoons... and myths and legends. I am in touch with my "inner child", and I feel sorry for those who aren't. If a woman has a problem with me for having these interests (amongst many others)... just as well.
I don't obsess over video games any more than I do with any other interest, ie. a great deal, but for short spurts, and wasn't really into video games until I had my son, but some of them are pretty cool.
I certainly like video games as a hobby more than I do going out, getting hammered, and then waiting for some gal to get hammered enough herself for my drunken come ons, or is it my stylish clothing and rolex(???), to actually work on her. Ahh, it doesn't matter... her judgements impaired any way, so its all good! haha
As far as maturity goes... I shoulder my responsibilites, stand beside my word, and have courage (and tact) enough to be honest with both myself and others. I also have an IQ over 120. So, not that I'm all hung up on IQ stats or maturity, but the simple enjoyment of video games is not a very good indicator of either.
In the end, the type of woman who would screen you out or otherwise prejudge you simply because you enjoy video games isn't the kinda woman you want anyway, so, like I said above, just as well. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/11/2008 9:22:18 PM | | it's still a little sad that some people wouldn't talk to a person just cuz that person is a gamer and they think they know what that person is like without even getting to know him (or her) | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/12/2008 4:09:58 PM | | Where do people find the time to even get started with a video game? Between work and house hold chores, and mowing the lawn etc? I would much rather work on old cars, my home, go to auctions, etc. At least get out side! | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/12/2008 5:43:11 PM | I'm not interested in cars or auctions or any of that. Video games are my livelihood and my release. If I don't feel like gaming, I go fishing! I don't understand how people can get so wrapped up in fixing up a car or something. Seems silly to me, but it's all preference.
People don't understand that by playing video games you increase your focus, increase your ability to adapt to situations and you increase your reaction time. It may sound silly but I've seen kids with ADHD sit down at a computer for an hour and just focus on the game. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/12/2008 6:20:06 PM | I think that it is a person-to-person basis as far as opinion is concerned. some girls like gamers because they share the same interest.
i personally don't mind if a guy likes video games as long as it doesn't consume all of his free time.
i own both (old school!) super nintendo and ps2 and i play on those about twice a week and that is fun for me. i actually would like to have a guy i can play games with every now and again. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/12/2008 6:36:40 PM | I'm not a video game guy myself, but I have to ask: how boring/unfulfilling must a relationship be that a person will choose a video game over the other person? Seriously, if your significant other constantly chooses any hobby (be it video games, reading romance novels, or even shopping) over you, I'm betting that neither of you are doing much to keep the spark alive.
Let's imagine that I'm a hardcore gamer and I've just bought whatever $400 entertainment extravaganza they're pimping these days. If you care about me, why aren't you excited and trying it out with me? And if I care about you, why don't I turn it off when I notice it's been a while since we did something together?
People, gamers and non-gamers, are lazy. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/13/2008 12:18:33 AM | | video games are an escape from reality.......to escape the ****ing and the nagging.........i also box, wrestle and a coupel of other martial arts.........so i wouldn't date a gamer or a martial artist because then i wouldn't have any alone time for myself. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/13/2008 6:07:49 AM | I personally would not be with anyone that is an avid *gamer* whether in the form of xbox or Playstation or even the online game called WOW. Simply put the *games* were TOP and ULTIMATE priority over getting intimate or having anything to do with me or the kids.
I prefer to be with someone who's not an avid gamer, I can tolerate occasional gaming just as long as it doesn't interfere with *our time*. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/22/2008 6:25:50 PM | Computers, video games, space exploration, aircraft, calculus, telephony, the wheel, medicine, agriculture...what do these things have in common?
That's right, they were all conceived of, and/or invented by, you guessed it! M-E-N!
What else?
Has the United States of America had a great president since men finally gave in and allowed women the right to vote?
Wait for it...
Has a woman ever invented anything all that revolutionary?
In my opinion, women are simply jealous of man's naturally superior creative and inventive potential, or anything that diverts his attention away from her. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/22/2008 6:40:43 PM | For me a guy into games or role-playing (shudder) conjures up images of a pasty fat kid with emotional problems hunched over a computer for several hours at a time in his Mom's basement.
Besides games can be like internet porn, fine once in a while but can actually become addictive, and preferable over actual activity and human contact- and you better believe that is a dealbreaker. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/22/2008 7:12:12 PM | | Maybe they play video games because you're not quite as fun or interesting, and you have such bitter feelings towards games/gamers because of your own inadequacies. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/22/2008 11:36:50 PM |
-Honey, come to bed!
Okay, okay, just wait 'till I defeat the END BOSS....
Pfft.... NO! After the ending and credits! Duh! 
But in all fairness I play and see nothing wrong with video games. I have that unique ability to prioritize between women & dating and video games. I'd rather play with someone else instead of myself.  | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/22/2008 11:58:11 PM | | I play video games, but the thing is, I never play them with someone who doesn't want to. I would rather do what "my girlfriend"(if I had one of course) wants to do than what I want to do, sure there are things I wont do, but at the same time, if she doesn't want to play video games, I have every right to say "No, I do not want to go to the spa with you" or "No I do not want to watch the notebook with you...again" | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 1:11:07 AM | Well, men, MANY of the women are telling you that it's an unattractive quality in a man, and many of you are trying to argue that it shouldn't be. Whatev. Either suck it up and stop yer gaming, and get those gals; or suck it up, and accept that you are limiting your potential pool of candidates for mating.
I think many men wonder if the same women who claim to despise video gamers would have the same attitude about men who spend every weekend working on their cars, or parading around in sports gear and watching a dozen different sports events, and only having meals in sports bars so they can watch "the game".
Are you going to tell me these women are truly into the games to the same extent as the men, that they will sit in garage for hours on end to be in the presence of grease, but cannot stomach plastic joysticks and HDTV?
As an earlier poster mentioned, a guy could read books all week and be just as inaccessable. Ask a politician's wife how deep her husband is into HIS business. Oh, wait, politicians get a free pass because of THE MONEY. Oh....I see, now...it's all about THE MONEY.
Some women think men who play video games don't make a fat paycheck.
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 1:14:28 AM | *With the exception of Duck Hunt, which I would cease to have a problem with if I could just shoot that dog.
I know man that dog was annoying alway laughing like he could shoot the ducks better. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 1:22:21 AM | ahhahah k i must say.......... I dont mind a man that plays video games.... as long as I can play with him once in awhile n he doesnt mind me kickin his azz!!!!! lol :0)  | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 1:33:39 AM |
Has a woman ever invented anything all that revolutionary?
Are you an idiot? Bah...maybe just closed-minded. Ever heard of a loom? Without it, your precious cargo pants would not exist. Women probably invented stringed instruments. What man would invent something you have to caress and finess to get a soothing sound?
The only thing I find odd about women's recreation is that they don't seem to have team sports. All team sports seem to be centered around men's activies. Imagine team-hopscotch with 6 players per side moving simultaneously across a field-sized board with dozens of numbers and paths to complete. It'd be amazing to try and predict which paths each team would take to cross the field and return. But...wait...it doesn't exist...why??? Because hop-scotch is not a physical game. It's a social filter used by girls to determine who is "in" and who is "out". The rules vary in direct relation to each player's social status, even down to what tokens can be used. Brutal.
But I digress.....Guitar Hero rocks!!  | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 4:34:29 AM |
Drug addicts , alcoholics , gamblers , video addicts......no difference.....Just another addiction that prevents you from a successful life.
Wow, this is one of the most ignorant, uninformed comments I've heard in my entire lifetime.
As a younger kid, I spent a lot of time gaming, probably in the vicinity of 8-10 hours per day. During my teenage years, time was less available, but I still gamed for several hours a day. Today, I still can find time to game for a few hours a day, even though sometimes I'll go for a couple weeks without touching it at all, however, I have an excellent full-time job, I make a lot of money, I own a pretty nice home, I own a pretty nice car, and I still have money left over for fun stuff.
As it has already been mentioned, video gaming teaches critical skills such as hand-eye coordination, problem solving skills, analytics, and creates an alertness or awareness of your surroundings. I would have to say that the friends and family I have that I know are gamers, are probably overall more interesting people to talk to, and certainly seem to have a higher level of understanding than many others. People who are not gamers, OTOH, often seem to lack certain skills that I would consider vital, such as a very passive awareness of their surroundings, poorer driving skills, and heck, even poorer grammar and spelling skills than most gamers I know.
As someone else mentioned earlier in this thread, even the story line in games such as Deus Ex can be really thought provoking, and in my opinion, I'd rather experience a story than simply read about one in a book. If other people get enjoyment out of books, then good on them, but don't be judgmental and say that reading a book is better than playing video games. Deus Ex, as a first person shooter, also teaches excellent analytical and problem solving skills because, if you run into every situation with guns blazing, you'll run out of ammo, get surrounded by enemies, and ultimately die. These types of situations force you to learn and understand the situation you're going into, before you go into it. It also teaches you how to discover strategic placement (eg. hidden in shadows, or behind an object) for the most effective result. Deus Ex is not the only game that displays these attributes, but despite the fact that it was published almost a decade ago, I would say that it is -the- best game of all time, on any gaming platform.
So, with all of that said, if you even read this entire post, you might take this post as condescending on non-gamers. It's not meant to be that way, however if you choose to take it that way, I'm ok with that. As we all know, there are plenty of non-gamers out there who are very intelligent people.
Also, to the person I quoted ... well, I don't know what to tell you. There are plenty of other, worse things I could categorize in with alcoholics, gamblers, and drug addicts, than gamers, but ... I'll leave that for you to figure out. Your statement is ignorant, uninformed, and has absolutely no merit.
Can't we all just get along together?  | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 11:10:30 AM |
Has a woman ever invented anything all that revolutionary?
Cue the Monty Python homage!
REG: ... And what have women programmers ever done?!
COMMANDO XERXES: Assembly language?
REG: What?
XERXES: A woman invented assembly language.
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO 3: And recursive functions.
LORETTA: Oh, yeah, recursive functions, Reg. Remember what iteration used to be like?
REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you assembly language and recursive functions are two things that women have done.
MATTHIAS: And the compiler.
REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the compiler. I mean, the compiler goes without saying, don't it? But apart from the assembly language, recursive functions, and the compiler--
COMMANDO: A graphical calculator.
XERXES: Realtime task prioritization.
COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh...
COMMANDO 2: Algebraic expression solver.
COMMANDOS: Ohh...
REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO 1: And the subroutine.
COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...
FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if women hadn't invented it. Huh.
COMMANDO: A woman programmed the mercury and apollo trajectories.
LORETTA: And they coded for the ENIAC, Reg.
FRANCIS: Yeah, they certainly know how to program a mainframe. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in those days.
COMMANDOS: Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
REG: All right, but apart from assembly language, recursive functions, the compiler, a graphical calculator, realtime task prioritization, the algebraic expression solver, the subroutine, those spaceship trajectories, and all the code for the ENIAC, what have women programmers ever done?
XERXES: Invented COBOL.
REG: Oh. COBOL? Shut up!
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 11:25:01 AM |
Wow, this is one of the most ignorant, uninformed comments I've heard in my entire lifetime.
As a younger kid, I spent a lot of time gaming, probably in the vicinity of 8-10 hours per day. During my teenage years, time was less available, but I still gamed for several hours a day. Today, I still can find time to game for a few hours a day, even though sometimes I'll go for a couple weeks without touching it at all, however, I have an excellent full-time job, I make a lot of money, I own a pretty nice home, I own a pretty nice car, and I still have money left over for fun stuff.
As it has already been mentioned, video gaming teaches critical skills such as hand-eye coordination, problem solving skills, analytics, and creates an alertness or awareness of your surroundings. I would have to say that the friends and family I have that I know are gamers, are probably overall more interesting people to talk to, and certainly seem to have a higher level of understanding than many others. People who are not gamers, OTOH, often seem to lack certain skills that I would consider vital, such as a very passive awareness of their surroundings, poorer driving skills, and heck, even poorer grammar and spelling skills than most gamers I know.
As someone else mentioned earlier in this thread, even the story line in games such as Deus Ex can be really thought provoking, and in my opinion, I'd rather experience a story than simply read about one in a book. If other people get enjoyment out of books, then good on them, but don't be judgmental and say that reading a book is better than playing video games. Deus Ex, as a first person shooter, also teaches excellent analytical and problem solving skills because, if you run into every situation with guns blazing, you'll run out of ammo, get surrounded by enemies, and ultimately die. These types of situations force you to learn and understand the situation you're going into, before you go into it. It also teaches you how to discover strategic placement (eg. hidden in shadows, or behind an object) for the most effective result. Deus Ex is not the only game that displays these attributes, but despite the fact that it was published almost a decade ago, I would say that it is -the- best game of all time, on any gaming platform.
So, with all of that said, if you even read this entire post, you might take this post as condescending on non-gamers. It's not meant to be that way, however if you choose to take it that way, I'm ok with that. As we all know, there are plenty of non-gamers out there who are very intelligent people.
Also, to the person I quoted ... well, I don't know what to tell you. There are plenty of other, worse things I could categorize in with alcoholics, gamblers, and drug addicts, than gamers, but ... I'll leave that for you to figure out. Your statement is ignorant, uninformed, and has absolutely no merit.
Can't we all just get along together?
Except, all of my interests are "special" interests. It's hard to find people who write and read literature/poetry anymore. And to be honest, if I tried to share poetry with a woman, unless it was some really corny love poem (and even then very iffy), it's not going to bode well for me.
Hell, I'll send my POF rose to any woman who recognizes what poem the headline in my profile comes from.
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 11:31:20 AM | /\/\/\/\Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
OT: Alcoholics and the average video-game player certainly aren't comparable. Most gamers are probably "moderate drinkers," if we're going to go with a booze-related analogy. What a weird thing to get worked up about. | |
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