drummersbangharder said:
I'm just more of a homebody than my roomate is. I just think she thinks of me as a loner or homebody. I don't play all the time, but about 1-3 hour(s) per day. But she (roomie)has poked fun at it. It doesn't bother me much, but sometimes she makes me think that I am too old for it or something. I just bought the DSi and she poked fun at that. She's my best friend, but crap, she was starting to make me think I was the odd one out. They say "you don't look like the type of girl that would be a gamer"
I would love to make friends who are VG enthusiaists (girls) like me but I've yet to find anyone.
There are still a lot of people out there who think video games are for kids, and only for boys. They don't know it yet, but they're a dying breed.
I was at work a few months ago and one of the three girls there (who's 22 like me) saw my DS sitting on the table, laughed and said "How old are you?" The two other girls who were there (aged 22 and 27) started asking what games I played and telling me their favourite games. Our boss overheard (she's in her early 30s) and didn't know much about the DS, but wanted to tell us about the games she'd just bought for the Wii. I chat to the head of another department (early 30s) about games all the time. A couple of months ago, a new guy (late 20s) spotted my DS and, after we'd talked about favourite games, swapped me Castlevania for Advance Wars for a few weeks.
I got my girlfriend (21) a DSi for her birthday a couple of weeks ago. She's used it constantly since then (admittedly she's spent a lot of time reading Twilight on the internet browser, but she's also powered through Professor Layton and half of Hotel Dusk, and just started Pokemon). I introduced her to FPSes a year or two ago, and although she started out hopeless, she now sometimes beats me at online matches of Halo - and I'm pretty damn good.
Half of our female friends play at least a few games. Every single one of our male friends (ranging from 20 to early 30s) play games; they're all very normal "average" guys, not the football team but not the chess club either. f you want to chat with the boys it sometimes helps to know your Link from your Liquid Snake.
We're the last age group to have this gamer/non-gamer division. Look at any class of 14 year olds. I guarantee you all or nearly all of them play games, girls and boys alike. And they will continue to play games when they graduate from school, get jobs, start families and make lives for themselves; those lives will involve video games.
If your roommate pokes fun at you again, just tell her she's a dinosaur. Say "I thought only people who were like 50 still thought games were just for kids these days."
P.S. Aside from your crush - who sounds like a bit of a dick - a lot of guys love gamer girls.
P.P.S. Yeah, games are kind of a thing for introverts. So what? This is the Age of the Introvert. People whose idea of a good time is to go to a club and bounce around with strangers for six hours are less likely to get games. Stuff them, they're not "normal".