| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 11:34:04 AM | | really do people not like gamers.? because i'm a big gamer...a self confessed 360 addict... alas my chances of dating have lessened...lol | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/23/2008 11:45:13 AM |
What a weird thing to get worked up about.
I'll say. What's even funnier is the number of women I've hooked on Rock Band. They're skeptical... until you hand 'em the microphone. Or drumsticks. May as well set up a cot in your game room at that point.
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/24/2008 2:28:18 PM |
really do people not like gamers.? because i'm a big gamer...a self confessed 360 addict... alas my chances of dating have lessened...lol Please, I'd hop on a plane right now if I could! I don't think you have to worry  | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/24/2008 6:45:35 PM | | god, there really needs to be a gaming section on the POF forums! I started a thread about this subject in the site suggestions section, but it got no attention, if anybody here agrees with me that there needs to be a gaming section on the POF forums, check my last posted on section, find that thread, and revive it. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/24/2008 7:22:48 PM | Who hates it!?!
I'm a lover of the FPS games myself.
Its like men hate our Sex And the City Marathons (i personally hate that show)
and most women hate your video games
Tit for a tat
or was it.. tat for a tit.. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/24/2008 11:39:03 PM | I don't care for a man who's into video games. My ex was, and it got annoying. Come home from work, play the game. If I asked him to turn it off, he'd get all angry. I once took away the games ( hid them ) and he went nuts like a major withdraw... honestly, it was ok when we were "dating" because I used to play with him too, but then after we got married and had a kid it was like "grow up" I didn't play anymore, and I wish he would of just given them up too. It's more a "single man hobby" at least that's what I call it. When you're single or dating, fine, but real life and more important things should ALWAYS be first. I mean, spend time with your kid, or play video games? My ex would choose his games. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 6:01:17 AM | Lol - sorry ladies... I've just bought a PS3... haha! 
These days video/computer games are so sophisticated with expensive production values, they are akin to a major hollywood movie. There will always be the "nerd" factor of the spotty teenager in an Iron Maiden t-shirt locked in his bedroom all night assosiated with it. Games have moved on since then, but as with extreme adventure sports (one of my passions), people who don't understand them will never understand them, because they don't want to understand them.
No one wants a boyfriend who is plugged into a games console all weekend. A healthy balance is whats is needed.
Example....
Wake up.
Eat.
Girlfriend.
Tidy the house.
Girlfriend.
PS3.
Girlfriend.
Paraglding over the peak district (preferably with girlfriend haha). Nice.
Meal with girlfriend.
Night out with girlfriend.
Go to bed.
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 6:46:22 AM | Yeah, I love my gaming and do spend quite a bit of my free time on my PC or PS3 - but I would NEVER choose gaming over doing anything with my GF.
As it is, I'm single - so I get to do all the gaming I want! Hehe!
Oh - and I agree with other comments, a woman who is genuinely into gaming too definitely adds to her attractiveness  | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 6:50:04 AM | It might be a stereotype thing.. I'm not sure...perhaps there are a number of girls out there who think blokes that play computer games are geeks?
OR
Are afraid of the "competition" for time being spent on them.
I openly admit that as well as working in the IT industry I also occasionally play the odd computer game, I'd like to think a girl would not find that as a good enough reason NOT to give me a chance, however I fully sympathise with girls who have had bad experiences with blokes addicted to computer games.
Not meaning to scaremonger people, but I have heard of this game...it's called World of War Crafts apparently it is the internet equivalent of "Crack".
Many people have even lost their marriages because of this game's effects on certain people. I've never played it or intend to (as it doesn't appeal to me), but I have heard of people who have dumped their Ex because he spent 4+ hours a day on this GAME!
It's frightening how people can get absorbed into something so....odd and unemotional?
In cases like that I more than understand why a girl would ditch or not see a guy who ONLY plays on his computer.
Anyway I'm off for another 8hr blast at space invaders....as I'm going all shaky from not bashing me buttons and jiggling me joystick for 10mins
John | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 8:36:21 AM | I am starting to think of PoF Forums as an online multi-player video game...
It becomes as time consuming as any thought provoking hobby would do...
It has me thinking about discussions when I am not online...
I am curious about the people involved and wonder what is going to happen next.
This must be the same kind obsession that a gamer feels!
As long as I keep on going to work, don't ignore the people around me, and get out to play IRL a lot I think I am safe from my people calling for an intervention!
GAME ON!!!!!  | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 8:50:03 AM | its kinda sad, but...
there are just many women that simply arent worth putting down the console for, so if such a woman experienced and recognized that, she will obviously be unwilling to work on herself and her issues and instead stay in her denial and instead blame the guy or the game because its of course easier. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 11:38:30 AM | I think it is because video games are still seen as a nerdy past time that only loners take part in inside their room that's only being lit by a monitor. Even with a large mainstream success with the Wii and DS videogames are still being seen as something that's not worth spending your time doing because it's "sad". Until games become as mainstream and accessible (debateable) as films and music then there's little chance that they won't be seen as a bad thing.
Though I do agree that people who do spend too much time on games are pathetic, I've been playing games for almost as long as I can remember and I stopped playing obsessively at around the age of 14 and am now just a regular gamer with many other past-times. Those who put games infront of other things need to sort out their priorities, case in point, my housemate last year got hooked on World of Warcraft and I hardly ever saw him and there's only three of us in the house. He (still does) ended up copying his coursework answer sheets from my housemate, disgusting and pathetic I think. He was my best mate in secondary school too and sometimes I can barely tolerate him because of his obsessions. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 11:49:00 AM | Really the only purpose for video games is to prepare us for the upcoming alien invasion.
The government knows this too and is probably why they are cracking down on Jack Thompson now.
I am dead serious. Aliens are coming for us. Start getting better at those video games.
Our most advanced weapons for combating aliens use a human interface device similar to a simplified electric guitar.
*cracks tiny whip at everyone* | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 12:27:07 PM |
Our most advanced weapons for combating aliens use a human interface device similar to a simplified electric guitar. Oh man... you know what this means?
I'm going to be the savior of the human race!
That'll totally get me a date or two... sweet. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 12:32:56 PM | ^ You are going to be quite a catch then.
Unfortunately for me, I seem to be only good at putting together our shields which are composed of various shaped coloured blocks. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 12:47:59 PM | hell no that does'nt make you a freak being a gamer it makes you competition!who cares what they think i seen a girl that was a gamer on here also.why should you care what they think if you wanna blast away a few communist bastar~ds yeahhhh baby blow em up an conquer the world wooo hoo ...........swew,clearing throat
sorry i got carried away in a flashback.
gaming is said to take stress off your mind makes you relax an is good for thought process.
A host of new studies suggest that video games build rather than diminish cognitive skills. Even a relatively simple tiling puzzle like Tetris has been shown to boost brainpower. Moreover, learning expert James Gee’s research reveals that typical teenage gamers are anything but addlebrained. “We had a hard time finding kids who were bad at school but good at games,” Gee says.
see i told you gaming is good for the brain! so go have fun | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/25/2008 10:32:21 PM | I just thought everyone needed to know that I'm having a Rock Band (that's a video game, for you uninitiated) party at my place tommorow. Lots of people are coming... and most of them are women.
Crazy world we live in. Crazy world. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/26/2008 6:59:29 AM | The only video games I am sad to see becoming popular are the mmorpg games that subtley encourage people to spend most of their lives playing. I fear they may be designed to be addictive.
I played a couple. They were fun. But then it got boring and repetitive. And I still see the same people spending way too much time playing them. Occasionally I see someone who is bored of the game, and should stop playing, but instead they start acting strangely like there is nothing worth doing but complaining the game should be changed to be more entertaining.
It's not very good to spend so much time building up something that has no real impact on your actual life. Escaping reality is okay for a break, but everything in moderation. | |
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| What's with the hatred of video games?
Posted: 5/26/2008 8:33:47 AM | | I agree that there's nothing wrong with dating a gamer as long as it isn't obessive. I know some that don't have a decent reliable car, but have the newest game......LOL. As long as it is a hobby, I'm cool with that. In fact, I have a 360 and we are hooked on Rock Band right now. When I say hooked I mean just a hour or two at a time, not endless hours on it. | |
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