Every-gamer BoyFriends guide to tricking... errr... convincing their GF's (and I dont mean guardian force) to enjoying video games.
Before we can get into the "meat-n-potatoes" of how this is accomplished, I think first and foremost we need to look at the reasons WHY chicks... errr... girlfriends dislike/hate video games.
I have researched the matter, on the sly, for years. Although I never thought I'd actually get to semi-publish my findings, it seems like I finally have a reason and it might help a couple of guys out there. Are there exceptions to the rule? OF COURSE... are there some lost causes? DUHHH... we aren't talking about an exact science. Rather, consider this a general overview. So, because there is so much to discuss, I think these blogs will be a series of blogs rather than one ridiculously long one. So "lets start at the beginning. A very good place to start..." (ha ha ha, I can't believe I did a sound of music insert. HA HA HA...)
"In the beginning, there was a girl... and she liked a boy... and that boy liked video games... and thus the battle began." --- aka "girl meets boy scenario" or "GMB"
"GMB" is the general story chicks tell me. Sometimes, it varies and includes an older brother and all his friends coming over and completely ignoring her or stealing the TV for millions of hours on end, but the MOST popular is the "GMB" scenarios.
Girls don't hate video games. Seriously they don't. Their distaste for it has little, if anything, to do with the game itself. For example, if a small child gets bitten by a dog he/she may develop a dog phobia. I mean, this is reasonable and it happens. So regardless of the dog, whether it be a cute mini weenie dog or a great dane, this person is generally fearful of it and has a desire to avoid it. So, keeping this example in the back of your mind lets discuss the video game-phobia.
Ok, so its not actually a game-phobia. Its more like, they don't dislike-hate-detest the video games themselves... rather they hate the side effects of video games. Still don't understand? Ok... let me give the top 11 most memorable "video-game-side-effects" that have been told to me.
In no particular order, I present to you the top 11 - video game side effect stories
1. "This one time, my boyfriend told me he was going to come over at 7pm and we were going to go out to dinner. Around 7:30 I called and he didn't answer his phone. I called over and over and still couldn't get a hold of him. I got worried finally went over there only to hear cheering and screaming coming from his dorm room. I knock on the door and his roommate opened it and and I saw my boyfriend on the couch, with 4 other friends... playing Madden. He ditched me for a stupid football video game."
2. "My ex-boyfriend told me that he couldn't really afford much for my birthday so could only get me this small gift. I told him so long as it was from him and that he loved me it didn't matter what he got me. Two weeks later he tells me he's going to sleep outside of a Wal-mart to buy the PS2. THAT THING COST $300!!! ... Made me think... "Its not that you couldn't "afford" a decent gift for me, you'd rather buy a toy for you!""
3. "One time, after sex, my ex and I were laying in bed for about 5 minutes he all of a sudden got up and unpaused his game and started playing again." (... Genie note: I did my best not to laugh when I heard this story, because I remembered seeing that scene in the movie Mall Rats)
4. "I started seeing this guy I had met through some friends. I went over to his house one day and we were sitting on the couch flirting and talking when his roommate came home. His roommate started playing Tony Hawk and then the guy I was seeing started playing too. 2 hours later, I went home. He didnt even seem to care. He called me a few days later, I didn't call back."
5. "My brothers use to play Contra all the time. The few times they would let me play, I remember them yelling and cussing at me because I lost a life or would jump to fast and would kill them because the screen moved. Whatever... I didnt want to play after that."
6. "My ex-boyfriend use to lie to me and say he had to work, when he would stay home and play World of Warcraft."
7. "My ex-boyfriend broke up with me for a girl he met of World of Warcraft."
8. "One time my boyfriend and I planned a trip to go toNapa Valley
9. "One time my ex-boyfriend got me Dead or Alive as a birthday present when he knows I hate video games. AND WHY WOULD I LIKE THAT STUPID GAME WITH THE GIRLS WITH THE BIG BOOBS. I know he bought it for him, and thats why he's my ex."
10. (MOST POPULAR STORY) "One time my boyfriend wanted to try and play video games with me. I was excited that he wanted to try and share this interest with me... as we were playing I felt like he was constantly yelling at me telling me I was doing things wrong or he kept saying "here, give me the controller, let me do it." After about an hour I didnt want to play anymore, in fact, he made me feel so stupid I just wanted to go home."
11. (ORIGINAL) "One time my ex-boyfriend bought me a Game Boy Advance SP for our anniversary because "he wanted to get me into gaming." I thought he was being so sweet. So he said I should buy him a handheld system too so we could be matching. I said ok... he said he wanted a PSP. So I bought him one. A few days later my brother tells me "Umm, GBASP's are like under $75 dollars..." I was so mad. THAT JERK HAD ME SPEND $300 on him and he spent less than $75 on me. I actually believed that stupid lie "Oh, the GBASP's are for girls, see how they look like little compacts?"
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA... Maybe its mean for me to laugh, but... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...
So these are the basic stories. You can see the general perspective. Its not the game... its what happens around/because of the game. Being ignored, being abandoned, being yelled at, feeling stupid, feeling used... some men are just stupid enough to do these weird actions around the video game area and suffer the consequences. Just like women (in a generic stereotypical way) like makeup, clothes, dancing, shopping, yada yada... because it makes them feel special, beautiful, successful, competent... you have to get them to feel this way about video games. What? don't believe me? ... comon now... haven't you ever told your girl she looks beautiful? and wow... you’re so smart? and when you compliment these areas don't you notice these actions are repeated? you must have noticed by now... you said you like her in a pink shirt and now she's wearing it all the time? Or you said those cookies she made are awesome, and now you have cookies 24/7?... ok, so lets try that with video games... ready? Ok... And now that we know the cause of video-game-distain (ohhh, i like that... from now on I will shorten it up by calling it VGD)... lets discuss solutions to the problems.
History
"In the beginning, there was a girl... and she liked a boy... and that boy liked video games... and thus the battle began." --- aka "girl meets boy scenario" or "GMB"
"GMB" is the general story chicks tell me. Sometimes, it varies and includes an older brother and all his friends coming over and completely ignoring her or stealing the TV for millions of hours on end, but the MOST popular is the "GMB" scenarios.
Girls don't hate video games. Seriously they don't. Their distaste for it has little, if anything, to do with the game itself. For example, if a small child gets bitten by a dog he/she may develop a dog phobia. I mean, this is reasonable and it happens. So regardless of the dog, whether it be a cute mini weenie dog or a great dane, this person is generally fearful of it and has a desire to avoid it. So, keeping this example in the back of your mind lets discuss the video game-phobia.
Ok, so its not actually a game-phobia. Its more like, they don't dislike-hate-detest the video games themselves... rather they hate the side effects of video games. Still don't understand? Ok... let me give the top 11 most memorable "video-game-side-effects" that have been told to me.
In no particular order, I present to you the top 11 - video game side effect stories
1. "This one time, my boyfriend told me he was going to come over at 7pm and we were going to go out to dinner. Around 7:30 I called and he didn't answer his phone. I called over and over and still couldn't get a hold of him. I got worried finally went over there only to hear cheering and screaming coming from his dorm room. I knock on the door and his roommate opened it and and I saw my boyfriend on the couch, with 4 other friends... playing Madden. He ditched me for a stupid football video game."
2. "My ex-boyfriend told me that he couldn't really afford much for my birthday so could only get me this small gift. I told him so long as it was from him and that he loved me it didn't matter what he got me. Two weeks later he tells me he's going to sleep outside of a Wal-mart to buy the PS2. THAT THING COST $300!!! ... Made me think... "Its not that you couldn't "afford" a decent gift for me, you'd rather buy a toy for you!""
3. "One time, after sex, my ex and I were laying in bed for about 5 minutes he all of a sudden got up and unpaused his game and started playing again." (... Genie note: I did my best not to laugh when I heard this story, because I remembered seeing that scene in the movie Mall Rats)
4. "I started seeing this guy I had met through some friends. I went over to his house one day and we were sitting on the couch flirting and talking when his roommate came home. His roommate started playing Tony Hawk and then the guy I was seeing started playing too. 2 hours later, I went home. He didnt even seem to care. He called me a few days later, I didn't call back."
5. "My brothers use to play Contra all the time. The few times they would let me play, I remember them yelling and cussing at me because I lost a life or would jump to fast and would kill them because the screen moved. Whatever... I didnt want to play after that."
6. "My ex-boyfriend use to lie to me and say he had to work, when he would stay home and play World of Warcraft."
7. "My ex-boyfriend broke up with me for a girl he met of World of Warcraft."
8. "One time my boyfriend and I planned a trip to go to
9. "One time my ex-boyfriend got me Dead or Alive as a birthday present when he knows I hate video games. AND WHY WOULD I LIKE THAT STUPID GAME WITH THE GIRLS WITH THE BIG BOOBS. I know he bought it for him, and thats why he's my ex."
10. (MOST POPULAR STORY) "One time my boyfriend wanted to try and play video games with me. I was excited that he wanted to try and share this interest with me... as we were playing I felt like he was constantly yelling at me telling me I was doing things wrong or he kept saying "here, give me the controller, let me do it." After about an hour I didnt want to play anymore, in fact, he made me feel so stupid I just wanted to go home."
11. (ORIGINAL) "One time my ex-boyfriend bought me a Game Boy Advance SP for our anniversary because "he wanted to get me into gaming." I thought he was being so sweet. So he said I should buy him a handheld system too so we could be matching. I said ok... he said he wanted a PSP. So I bought him one. A few days later my brother tells me "Umm, GBASP's are like under $75 dollars..." I was so mad. THAT JERK HAD ME SPEND $300 on him and he spent less than $75 on me. I actually believed that stupid lie "Oh, the GBASP's are for girls, see how they look like little compacts?"
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA... Maybe its mean for me to laugh, but... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...
So these are the basic stories. You can see the general perspective. Its not the game... its what happens around/because of the game. Being ignored, being abandoned, being yelled at, feeling stupid, feeling used... some men are just stupid enough to do these weird actions around the video game area and suffer the consequences. Just like women (in a generic stereotypical way) like makeup, clothes, dancing, shopping, yada yada... because it makes them feel special, beautiful, successful, competent... you have to get them to feel this way about video games. What? don't believe me? ... comon now... haven't you ever told your girl she looks beautiful? and wow... you’re so smart? and when you compliment these areas don't you notice these actions are repeated? you must have noticed by now... you said you like her in a pink shirt and now she's wearing it all the time? Or you said those cookies she made are awesome, and now you have cookies 24/7?... ok, so lets try that with video games... ready? Ok... And now that we know the cause of video-game-distain (ohhh, i like that... from now on I will shorten it up by calling it VGD)... lets discuss solutions to the problems.
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