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When The Other Woman Is An Xbox
MTV's Game News service has a report on a an anti-gaming college club started by a group of disgruntled gamer SOs. From the article: "Jaci and Jake, who both attend Kansas State University, are a modern couple dealing with a modern issue. One of them is a gamer; the other is not. Theirs is not an unusual plight. For decades gamers and non-gamers in love have struggled to find harmony. At Kansas State the frustration is rampant. Like most college campuses, it is a place where the release of Halo 2 last year was the best of times and the worst of times. And while there is such a thing as couples in which both people are into games -- and while there are sometimes boyfriends who are the non-gamers -- the most frequent complaint involves game-crazy guys leaving their girlfriends out in the Xbox-free cold."
What are these girls? Are they multi-platform yet?
It's my sex box...
And her name is Sony
"Jaci and Jake, who both attend Kansas State University, are a modern couple dealing with a modern issue. One of them is a gamer; the other is not."
"Jaci" and "Jake," hm? Guess which is the gamer!
"Theirs is not an unusual plight."
Around here it is. Actual dating?
"For decades gamers and non-gamers in love have struggled to find harmony."
Which decades, exactly? I'm pretty sure "gamer" = "single."
"At Kansas State the frustration is rampant."
What, the gamer guys have started to give themselves tennis elbow?
"Like most college campuses, it is a place where the release of Halo 2 last year was the best of times and the worst of times."
"The best of times?" Last I heard, it was a collective "What, that's it?"
"And while there is such a thing as couples in which both people are into games"
Yes, but are they both into video games?
"-- and while there are sometimes boyfriends who are the non-gamers --"
Where, San Francisco?
"the most frequent complaint involves game-crazy guys leaving their girlfriends out in the Xbox-free cold."
This confuses me. In order to leave one's girlfriend out in the cold, one must have a girlfriend to begin with.
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Ultimately it sounds like these gamers are going to fail to pass along their genes, thus solving the problem.
The last thing I want in a relationship is to sleep on the couch because I abuse the bananna peel in Mario Kart too much. They let you drag it along for a reason, damnit!
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If my gf ever interupts me during a game, say by phone call for example, it goes like this:
*pick up*
Me: "HELLO?!"
Gf: "Hey what are ya-"
ME: "BUSY! WHAT DO YOU WANT?!!"
Gf: "Uhh I dunno I just wa-"
ME: "CANT TALK! BYE!"
*click*
I've never had to deal with her complaining about my game playin. She understands that when I say I'm busy then I'm busy and should not and cannot be bothered. Thats what the rest of these pie-making laundry-cleaning women should realize.
"you sonofabitch i didn't know!"
"At *Kansas* State the frustration is rampant"
Blame it on intelligent game design.
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What is this? Isn't the point of dating trying to find someone you can spend the rest of your life with? So when you find someone who spends all their time playing video games and doesn't seem to be as interested in you as those games, what do you do? Dump them because that's not what you are looking for?
NO!
You start a support group, of course! That way you can complain about him, and stay with him! Then you can marry him and continue to yell at him for doing the same thing he did when you were dating. This is pure genius.
So many people seem to be such idiots these days in these things. If you don't like the guy's personality, DUMP THE GUY.
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