Five Things You Should Know Before Dating a Gamer

Phoenix New Times:

Sometimes things go well, and the intense devotion we have for cover systems and regenerating health makes room for a human being with actual emotions to care about. If you're lucky enough to go out with a gamer, here are five things you should probably know first.

[FrankDrebin]

Dumbest Article Ever!
You get the prize Blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com

What a crappy site too.

[Army_of_Darkness]

Everyone I know with a PS3( inculding myself) actually has a Life outside of gaming.... And what's with this WOW addiction bullshit?! even more worst than the COD addicts.

[TopDudeMan]

Now, now. That's a bit of a jump, chap.

[Gaming101]

Yeah, "lucky to be dating a gamer" lmao ha
I'm sure a girl feels lucky to be dating a fat neckbearded nerd who spends 40 hours a week playing videogames like the kid with 3rd grade writing ability does in this article.

[Ravenor]

I own a PS3 and a PC...OH NOES WHERE DO I STAND!?

I fear I may be "Even more worst"

[MaxXAttaxX]

Practically everyone owns a PC, lol. That doesn't mean we all take gaming on PCs extremely serious.

Back ON TOPIC.
This article is nothing but stereotype exploitation. Suddenly all gamers are addicted to WoW and yell at the screen. I'm surprised he didn't mention COD.
I understand the occasional midnight launch and attempting to get him/her to play games, but come on. Lame article.

[opinska]

I agree with u.. it's not like if u play games u will play 24/7... I have a 360, ps3, and tha PC and don't spend all my time playin games... I go out and actually do stuff...
Article is retarded....

[FinaLXiii]

Number one: its a man
...
number two: yep you guessed it...its a man
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and so on.

ps: i know there´s some girl gamers out there im just joking around like i always do in this website.

[meetajhu]

From the article:

2. We'll refuse to come to bed until we ruin someone else's opinion.

So True...

[ISNeko]

My wife knows all too well about number one.....all I've managed to get her to enjoy is Sims and Animal Crossing. Don't....really feel like those count....

[MySwordIsHeavenly]

Try Donkey Kong Country, Heavy Rain, or Little Big Planet. Girls usually like all three of those.

[catfrog]

definitely heavy rain, it definitely says "play me" to people who arent big on gaming

i would also say uncharted because its so much like a movie experience, but i could see people who arent usually the video game type to not like the shooting parts of it... maybe on the easier difficulty settings haha

[Tdmd]

I've managed to get my girl to enjoy modnation racers (even thought she sucks at it lol). The secret was all about the pod customization. She also liked uncharted 3 for the puzzles and the funny brazilian voice acting! x)

[Soldierone]

Yeah once my gf figured out how to customize things in modnation racers i didn't hear from her for like 2 hours and was like "wth your playing a game without me?" lol

[mynameisEvil]

Good sir, you have offended me as I do like The Sims, indeed!

I now feel the sudden urge to yell at an invisible person. I will not go to bed until I completely destroy your "opinion"!

[MySwordIsHeavenly]

My girlfriend is not and will never be a gamer. I'm fine with that though. :) She accepts that I love gaming. I put her before gaming, obviously. Any semi-intelligent boyfriend should.

[Majin-vegeta]

Too bad that can't be said about this guy xD.
http://youtu.be/DJVBsUX-zCM

[Rynx]

lame, that video has been known to be fake since it first got posted. On that matter, this video is old.

[dredgewalker]

Lol, yeah my girlfirend isn't a gamer too. She's too busy teaching at school to play games. It's nice that she doesn't mind I love games. In fact she prefers me playing games than watching porn. I had to hide my porn collection or else she'll give me a good sermon.

[D3mons0ul]

I can safely say these don't apply to me. Maybe this should be called "five things you should know before dating a fraghead"

[Rowland]

the author missed out 'vegetarian'

[Titanz]

Apparently - "Sexy n' Sony" articles, bring da heat!

[TheKingslayer]

Ha! Loved the article...

[Whore_Mouth]

THIS IS AN ATTACK SITE!!!!!!

Black hole exploit type 1889.

This is the third time I got this message from these little rinky-dink sites.

[SilentNegotiator]

That's why i rarely ever click the links from N4G. If the title isn't self-explanatory enough, I google it, and find a trustworthy site that my linkscanner doesn't see as a threat.

I have gotten attacked TWICE by clicking the main links on N4G. It's ridiculous. N4G should really have something to check all submitted links.

But that's what anti-malware is for, I suppose. I've never had a real major issue.

[Dannagar]

My system detected Malware when I entered the page.

[ninjahunter]

Seems legit.

[SillyBastid]

i consider myself a gamer, and never once have I played World of Warcraft, waited online for a midnight release... maybe because I have a job. Sure, I've cursed at a television, but I do the same thing while watching my favorite sports teams.

[vikingland1]

I've been talking to my TV even more since ME3 released ( with kinect comands)...Liara singularity...Ashley inferno grenade!

[tachy0n]

when a gamer starts to date a nongamer, the main thing you should do is get away from video games the most you can and spend every moment with the person you really love, don't let technology affect your social life. for example, I'm about to date a nongamer girl, she doesn't like to use computers, videogames and all that, I just ordered a psvita off the internet, I will rarely use it because I rather spend time hanging around with her than playing a video game which doesn't care about nobody's life. enjoy life people, it is really short and we gotta make the most of it!

[bubwright]

real gamers dont have girlfriends man.. they spend all their time gaming!!!