Why men are increasingly preferring Video Games over dating

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04 Apr 2011, 7:03 pm

Men like video games over women because video games are

1.) Easier to deal with (there's an off button when your bored with it)
2.) Less Expensive.

My advice to the guys is buck up and put down the game controller. 98% of the time we girls are just as nervous, shy and freaked out by you as you are of us.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:23 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Sweet. I could use a bit of a break. ;-)

Could I use the break to confess something to you all? Here I am participating in this thread and, honestly, I don't get any of this. If you were born after 1985, I haven't played a video game in the entire time you've been alive. Not one. All this War of the Worldcrafts stuff is completely lost on me -- no experience or interest whatsoever.

Do you really mean to tell me that you can't get guys to pay attention to you because they're fiddling with some little game controller or wee device? I guess I'm just kinda dumbfounded. Maybe I'm really missing out on something special in life???

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04 Apr 2011, 7:27 pm

RainingRoses wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Sweet. I could use a bit of a break. ;-)

I was born 2 years before your date. lol

video games have become a lot more interactive and exciting, so yes. Some men really do reject their women for them. There's also a little problem of addiction to these video games.

Some people have let their children literally starve/freeze to death to play them.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:33 pm

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TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Sweet. I could use a bit of a break. ;-)

Sadly yes...I hate...HATE World of Warcraft because once it gets turned on I might as well just leave the house. Nothing will pull him away from it not even the real promise of nookie.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:38 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

I was born 2 years before your date. lol

OK, so I prolly fit in a few games of Frogger while you were nursing.

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

video games have become a lot more interactive and exciting, so yes. Some men really do reject their women for them.

Ummm... what's more interactive and exciting than... Nevermind, I don't think anyone's going to be able to explain this to me in a way that makes me think, "ah, I get it now!"

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

There's also a little problem of addiction to these video games.

Some people have let their children literally starve/freeze to death to play them.

And people think I'd make a bad parent.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:40 pm

CupcakeBelle wrote:

RainingRoses wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Sweet. I could use a bit of a break. ;-)

Sadly yes...I hate...HATE World of Warcraft because once it gets turned on I might as well just leave the house. Nothing will pull him away from it not even the real promise of nookie.

Repeat after me...

It is not WoW's fault. My man has a problem and should take responsibility for his actions.

Feel better?

... yeah, I don't either.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:42 pm

RainingRoses wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

I was born 2 years before your date. lol

OK, so I prolly fit in a few games of Frogger while you were nursing.

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

video games have become a lot more interactive and exciting, so yes. Some men really do reject their women for them.

Ummm... what's more interactive and exciting than... Nevermind, I don't think anyone's going to be able to explain this to me in a way that makes me think, "ah, I get it now!"

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

There's also a little problem of addiction to these video games.

Some people have let their children literally starve/freeze to death to play them.

And people think I'd make a bad parent.

Exactly. The games and the people being ignored are NOT AT FAULT. The addicts are, and I'm sick of people shifting the blame.

It does absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:43 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

CupcakeBelle wrote:

RainingRoses wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Sweet. I could use a bit of a break. ;-)

Sadly yes...I hate...HATE World of Warcraft because once it gets turned on I might as well just leave the house. Nothing will pull him away from it not even the real promise of nookie.

Repeat after me...

It is not WoW's fault. My man has a problem and should take responsibility for his actions.

Feel better?

... yeah, I don't either.

I try to feel better....its the little things that help. Like when the power goes out or when the internet connection dies.... *sighs happily*

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04 Apr 2011, 7:44 pm

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I try to feel better....its the little things that help. Like when the power goes out or when the internet connection dies.... *sighs happily*

I really don't have any advice on this issue, because he needs to want to fix it.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:45 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

CupcakeBelle wrote:

I try to feel better....its the little things that help. Like when the power goes out or when the internet connection dies.... *sighs happily*

I really don't have any advice on this issue, because he needs to want to fix it.

This is very true.

But back to guys and video obsession in general. For some guys I think it just stems from laziness.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:47 pm

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But back to guys and video obsession in general. For some guys I think it just stems from laziness.

That's quite possible. Video games give them a way to entertain themselves without getting up off their butts.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:49 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Exactly. The games and the people being ignored are NOT AT FAULT. The addicts are, and I'm sick of people shifting the blame.

It does absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

Who's saying the games and people being ignored are the ones at fault? Shifting the blame? To who/what? I'm so confused...

Wait a minute. Are these guys really saying it's Witchcraft's fault?!? ... LOL! That's like my saying it was tequila's fault!

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04 Apr 2011, 7:51 pm

RainingRoses wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Exactly. The games and the people being ignored are NOT AT FAULT. The addicts are, and I'm sick of people shifting the blame.

It does absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

Yep. He blames the company that makes the game, Blizzard.

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04 Apr 2011, 7:54 pm

RainingRoses wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Exactly. The games and the people being ignored are NOT AT FAULT. The addicts are, and I'm sick of people shifting the blame.

It does absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

*nod* As I read it, it was also blaming women and feminism. Us silly women should learn our place and shut our holes and men will stop ignoring us for fantasy worlds!

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04 Apr 2011, 7:57 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

RainingRoses wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

Exactly. The games and the people being ignored are NOT AT FAULT. The addicts are, and I'm sick of people shifting the blame.

It does absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

*nod* As I read it, it was also blaming women and feminism. Us silly women should learn our place and shut our holes and men will stop ignoring us for fantasy worlds!

Well if they really want us to shut our holes then we should just shut off all of them. Jerks. Mine's tried the whole 50s housewife crap. Everyone once in a while I don't mind being June Cleaver but the key there is once in a while

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04 Apr 2011, 8:00 pm

CupcakeBelle wrote:

Actually, I think the key here is choice. I'm a submissive housewife and couldn't care less that my husband plays video games as often as he does.

One thing I have learned, though, is to join him in his gaming just enough to get him to want sex. ;-)

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