Xbox Live community manager Christa Phillips has revealed the HOT PROTIP SECRETS of getting your girlfriend (omg lol) into gaming. WOWZERZORZ! According to her panel at PAX, Phillips had but one amazing bit of advice on how to get your lady into gaming, even though it's probably a less dumb move to date people who actually share your interests. The advice is simply this: Don't be a jerk!!!!!!!!!
Sounds obvious enough, but the statement earned knowing laughs and enthusiastic applause from the standing-room-only crowd gathered for the "How to Get Your Girlfriend Into Gaming" panel at the Penny Arcade gaming convention in Seattle recently.
Seems some of you game-playing gents like to throw the controller, use four-letter words and ignore company when you’re immersed in a video game. And that’s just no way to convince your sweetie to forego date night for a little co-op "Castle Crashers." "The game becomes the enemy, like sports," said Phillips.
The five girl-gamer panelists had other advice for the audience of 100-plus: Don’t impose your favorite game on your gal pal. "Girlfriends may not be into 'Halo,' but they might like something else, so don't force 'Halo' on them and expect them to love gaming," said Cori Roberts, editor of Gameinatrix.com.
Oh that wacky observational gender comedy, what WILL those comedians think of next? I know, they should do a panel on how like, women are TIDY and men are UNTIDY! Or like, how, like, y'know, like, like, how men do SOMETHING and women do SOMETHING ELSE THAT IS NOT THE THING THAT THE MAN DOES! Wouldn't that be simply darling? Wouldn't that be so delicious you could just eat it up with scrummy pancakes and strawberry kissdrops!?
Wouldn't that be clever ... ?
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11:39 AM on 09.04.2008
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Sweetie-baby-schnookums.
Yeah, WoW'll do it.
Changing to WOWZERZORZ for the epic fix!
You see, fun is addictive and contagious. If your significant other is too close-minded/dense to want to explore why you're having so much fun, it's her loss. They'll come around.
I know I don't...
;_;
If you say this to your girlfriend, this will steal her heart.
PROTIP: "Bludgening hookers to death in GTA & stealing their hard earned cash is not as satisfying to spending time with you."
On that note though, I would neither want to make a girl I date into a gamer OR date a girl who is already a gamer. I want her to view my hobby with slight derision and confusion FOREVER, because it means she is into other shit and will expand my horizons. People who wanna date someone with the same interests as themselves confuse and sicken me.
Lol, what is that?
There is girlfriend time, and there is game time. Just like she needs 2 hours of phone time, if she doesn't understand that i need 2 or 3 hours a day to game per day then i replace her. Its as simple as that.
I've seen my friends fall into the girlfriend trap where they had to give up almost everything they loved to do (games/friends) because she wants the extra attention time.
Checkmate?
To be fair, she didn't get interested in it until she vacationed in Iceland and saw an advertisement for it there. So...
I like to think that neither were actually intended to be comedy and thus, both have succeeded.
My girl games and this was before I met her, I have it easy :)
That being said, I typically don't date non-gamers.
They just don't understand why you'd stare a at a TV/Monitor for hours upon end, and may complain that he'd rather go out and do something in the 'real world'.
(Instead, a gamer just complains that it's -his- turn to play. lol)
Yay for common interests.
White ppl ar all "Nifty!" an black people r lik "AW SHIT, SON!!"
Thank you, I'm here all week!