214: Sex and the Single Player
- Thread starter Russ Pitts
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Incredible. Just incredible. What a fascinating article! I hope I run into a woman like that one day, someone who will understand that aspect of my life. Hopefully the girl I'm talking to at the moment has an attitude similar to Russ's wife. The initial signals are good but you never know until we've been living together and I break out the Empire Earth.
Would that be Daria you're quotingthekg said:Gamer girl or not, I'm just unlikeable. It says so here in my personnel file: Unlikeable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikeable loner whose passing shall not be mourned.
Definitely gotta look for someone with the same interests. I can't imagine living with someone who didn't get the reference I just made.
? ...btw, clinging to stereotypes is really unhealthy you know :-/
Awesome read, sounded like a new age fairy tale.
Add in a pinch of dragon and you have a recipe for a tale to last the ages.
Add in a pinch of dragon and you have a recipe for a tale to last the ages.
Well, gamers and musicians, actors, painters, sculptors, poets, most kinds of artist, really, anyone who doesn't conform to gender or sexual orientation norms, people who want to be celibate til marriage, anyone happy working a low-paying job, people who don't intend to get a secondary education, people who don't want to have children, LARPers, SCAers, furries, western comic and manga fans, anime fans, science fiction fans, polyamorists, those people who put on costumes and decide to be real life heroes, people with difficult-to-deal-with phobias, people with mental disorders, fat people....there are probably a lot more groups but that's all I could think of off the top of my head.Guilen- said:Doesn't seem grim at all, it's really entertaining
I think it's really encouraging, frankly. Gamers are one of the only groups of people that quite adamantly gets told to stop being who they are, and finding love within that world is reaffirming from a perspective of identity, really. Way to be
A lot of people get that crap. A lot of people even get multiple levels of it because they belong to more than one group or get it from one group they belong to because of belonging to another group ("Well it's cool that you like games, but why do you have to be a feminist, ew!") That's why this sort of affirmation of self-determined identity can be so valuable in learning not to shovel it onto each other.
On topic though, it is encouraging that this guy found love, or rather, that it found him. That certainly is luck. I wouldn't trust to that though. Waiting for someone to just magically appear has never gotten me half as far as going out and finding people. Plus there are a few too many broad generalizations, it really started to bug me about halfway through. I didn't really appreciate that crack about musicians' "valuable skill" either. I'm sorry your musician ex-girlfriends were apparently elitist jerks, but I'd rather not be tarred with the same brush, thank you very much, nor have my life's calling dismissed because it won't make me rich. I get quite enough of that from friends and relatives. Maybe a little less explaining the "tendencies" of entire groups based only on your own experience, eh?
(I didn't want to throw a bunch of irrelevent-to-their-point stuff at Gullen so I figured this should be a separate post, if that makes sense)
(I didn't want to throw a bunch of irrelevent-to-their-point stuff at Gullen so I figured this should be a separate post, if that makes sense)