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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    lots of people who don't really understand or play games think it's immature or babyish so it's not something I would tell a new girlfriend my ex cheryl hated it and I used to wait til she was asleep to play my psp needless to say she had to go lol now I'm with my current girlie who doesn't mind a game of bomberman or guitar hero (she's acturally better than me at both) but I wouldn't sit there gaming for hours in front of her you gotta make the time.

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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    i'd probably not say anything. publicity has been bad for gamers.

    look at the release of the world of warcraft expansion couple of weeks back. BBC news go out to a hmv were some guys waited 6 hours in a qeue in the middle of the night to get it first, Ok you say thats not so bad, until they have the girl on the couch dressed as a night elf, and she's a proper geek at this point i just looked at the missus and laughed.

    a few hours later it did cheer me up when at a funeral we met her sisters boyfriend for the first time who is some I.T guy and he promptly told me he was a WOW fan and that just made my day. spent most of the wake ribbing him.


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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    Quote Originally Posted by danroyle View Post
    a few hours later it did cheer me up when at a funeral
    W...w...what !

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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

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    W...w...what !

    i asked for that really


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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    My relationships dont go beyond 2-3 months so they never really stay at mine and see my gaming setup at home lol they do however mention that im online all day every day and just say yeah i leave my pc on all day to download =p i try to balance out the geek with alcahol/ clubbing and working out..... kinda works
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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    I tend to tell them fairly early on, as this is who I am. Yes it probably does put some off, but if it does then they probably aren't going to be into me that much anyway. I know I'm a geek and so does my girlfriend lol. I knew there was hope for her when she told me she liked some stuff on the Wii. I have gotten her into a few games like peggle which she loves, so although she isn't into more involved games... so we do play some games together. Video games that is, as well as hide the sausage lol. ;P
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    I tend to tell them fairly early on as if they can't acept it they're not for me.
    If i want a night in though gaming and my girlfriend says lets go out i tend to say for the last 4 weeks we went out so i want to stay in this week and she normally gets it. (or i just say work and she say how about next week).

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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    I don't think it's a bad nor good thing to reveal on the first date. It's how he handles his gaming that would affect other parts of his life. Like playing video games instead of engaging in conversation. Or playing video games and asking your date to join. It may also depend on how competitive the gamer is too.
    I'm agreeing with this gal that commented on the link.


    IMHO, geeks/gamers are not bad things. It's when their hobbies become obsessions, or the utmost important thing in their life that it becomes a bad thing.

    My girlfriends (don't currently have one before someone jumps onto the plural and accusing me of cheating or something) didn't care about me playing games. They were more important than the games, therefore they didn't care.

    But why are we all being so stereotypical? What happens when the girls are obsessed by the games and we're less important?!?

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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    Keep the geek asleep - lol - don't tell her! Mine hates me spending more than 20 mins on my PC if she's in the house.. they really don't mix!

    By the time she finds out about your rig she'll already be smitten & it really won't matter what she thinks ;-)

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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    I think things are different in the post PS1 world. Gaming became slightly cooler, and something that older peeps do. Now with the family friendly current gen Nintendo products on the market, aimed at wimmins, casual gamers and the like, gaming is more mainstream that at any point in the past.

    It's a slightly old fashioned view that a wimmins wouldn't be a gamer herself - but probably a bit of Brain Training on her DS, not Super Street Fighter II Turbo Hyper Fighting Alpha Third Strike Remix on the Pwnt-O-Disc console.

    So 'gaming' as in a bit of casual gaming on a family friendly system - wont do any harm. This isn't the days of teenage boys playing SNES \ Megadrive while girls watched Home and Away.

    So for us slightly older (mid-late 20s) peeps it's nothing out of the norm. For you younger peeps, and the self confessed geeks - casual gaming will be accepted a lot more freely than hardcore WoW sessions lasting 19 days.

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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    casual gaming will be accepted a lot more freely than hardcore WoW sessions lasting 19 days.
    You mean that's not casual gaming?

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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    Quote Originally Posted by Stewart View Post
    This isn't the days of teenage boys playing SNES \ Megadrive while girls watched Home and Away.
    Ah, the good old days

    Tbh, I don't think being a gamer or not should impact on your relationship chances.

    If you are a gaming fan (usually the guy), and the other half is a soap opera fan* (usually not the guy), that would be fine - just as long as you have 2 TVs between you both

    * May be swapped for other activities such as shopping or other girly activities

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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    My GF happily watches TV or reads or looks at stuff on the internet on the laptop while I play the Witcher or similar, as long as I don't totally ignore her all day for the computer.
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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    My gf sometimes wants to play with me (and on the games too!)

    She seems to like the visually appealing games, like Viva Pinata and the DS games
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    Re: Being a gamer and dating

    Luckily my wife is a bit of a gamer too. However it does mean I can't watch TV or play games when she is on one of her epic Lost Oddysey sessions.
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