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Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me?
x_IamSpartacus_x writes "I've been a gamer for a long time (started on Nibbles in MS-DOS) and enjoy pretty much any good game. I can enjoy side-scrolling relics (original Prince of Persia, Win 95), to modern MMORPGs (stopped playing my 85 lvl Mage on WoW just recently, read on to see why), to a good sports game (Madden series are a blast) and many more. I've been married for 4 years now and have hardly touched my games since being married and starting having kids. My wife and I are Americans but live overseas and have little access to new movies/entertainment and, from experience, I know that a good game can provide much more entertainment than a good movie. My question is, what are good ways/good games that I can use to get my wife into computer gaming? We both have good laptops that I'd love to get her interested in using to do co-op or combative games with me. Because of my long experience, gaming comes naturally to me and so even on a game I haven't played I would probably be much better than she. Is there a game or idea that would take away the embarrassing factor for her of being much worse than I am while still being enjoyable and worth spending a lot of time on with me? Do any other Slashdotters struggle getting their spouse to game with them?"
I hate to break it to you but she grew up and you didn't.
Wouldn't it be more interesting to make it work rather than immediately take the most nihilistic approach?
Ask her if she wants to get into gaming with you. If she says no, ask her to open her legs and suck you off. If she still says no, go find yourself something less uptight.
Seriously, women think they're some kind of special commodity and that they can be more choosy. We men all know that's bullshit and an attempt at artificial scarcity. I find a lot of dates online and hear that a lot from women. I say, "Well, yeah, you may have a lot more douchebags throwng themselves at your feet, but when you're a sad old single mother with your tits plunging to the ground, and no man wants to settle down with you, you're gonna wish you were less of a stuck-up bitch when it counted."
And when women hit their mid-late thirties, all they want to do is be knocked up, or at least fuck a lot. They become sex-crazed baboons. Meanwhile, I'm in my early-thirties, have a decent and stable job, never been married or divorced, no kids, and I'm the one who can really be choosy. At that age, it becomes less about your mating dance and more about how she can impress you. So kindly tell your woman all of that if she doesn't engage you with your interests.
-- Ethanol-fueled