Gamer Significant Others

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Met my wife through a WEBCOMIC, oddly enough.

Luckily for me, she was a bit of a gamer before we met. But she had mostly played diceless Paranoia ...

Yea ... I don't really get it, either.

She played a few times with me over the last two years, but was largely bored by the whole "tactical" part of 3.0 and always dropped out after a session or two. But she was all for my gaming, most of the time.

Currently we have the occassional fight about gaming-related things ... mostly because she wants me to make a career as a novelist and I spend too much time writing supplement material.

We recently joined a new gaming group (with ledded et al from the boards) and, oddly, she's played in the last two sessions and enjoyed the heck out of it. The reason?

Toys.

Hirst Arts buildings, Dwarven Forge terrain, minis, action figures, toy axes, hand painted minis.

She's been planning our future home, including a room to house all of OUR terrain and minis.

--fje

 

[Eternal Knot Games]

I've never been good at "dating," in the traditional sense. For me, it was always easier to develop a mutual liking before moving on to a relationship. My current fiancee used to work with me (sort of), and our first "date" was kind of a quasi-work related lunch where I asked her out on a real date. Most of my blind dates in college were pretty abyssmal, in contrast.

The point is that dating doesn't have to mean awkward hook-ups with strangers in a bar. Some folks just don't work that way. I don't, and I've never really been lonely (well, not since college -- high school was a different story).

Each to their own, all I know is that my first date led to my current (2 year) relationship...
(And yes the birth date is correct)

My own story, she's an ex of a mate and we meet down at my local gaming club.

 

[JesterPoet]

Nope... not at all... and after being out of circulation for over 17 years, the thought of dating at the age of 42 makes me puke like a supermodel.

I am a supermodel and take offense at such comments.

 

[Kristivas]

The point is that dating doesn't have to mean awkward hook-ups with strangers in a bar. Some folks just don't work that way. I don't, and I've never really been lonely (well, not since college -- high school was a different story).

This might sound a little sad, but I've actually met quite a few girls online.

*pauses until the "boo!" and "hiss!" dies down*

Seriously, though. I met my first wife through online dating, I met my first mistress through online dating..............

Ahem.. I met my current wife through online also.

It's not too bad. Meet someone, get to know them, and hopefully they won't tell you that they're 5'9", 120 lbs, with blonde hair.. and turn out to be 6'4", 275 lbs, and have many tattoos gained from a prison sentance.. and all you guys who hate the thought of the 'dating scene' should do ok.

Just try not to lie.. ever... No matter how small, it always comes back to hit you right in the face. My first wife wasn't totally honest about some things heh... yeah.. (but no, she wasn't a guy or anything...). It can get real messy when you start lying.

Look for a S.O. who has a profile with interest in gaming!

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

OK, so the stereotype of the gamer is the desperate, socially awkward type drooling over booth babes at conventions. Of course, the gamers I know aren't actually like that, and neither am I. So let's see what the browsers on ENWorld are like.

Well, let's see what they *say* they are like. I mean, do you really think a desperate, socially awkward gamer is going to admit to it? Especially when they can "be what they want to be" online?

 

[Aaron L]

never had a date or anything even resembling one, let alone a girlfriend, and pretty disgusted and broken about it

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I am a supermodel and take offense at such comments.

A thousand pardons... pukes like SOME supermodels.....

 

[Kristivas]

never had a date or anything even resembling one, let alone a girlfriend, and pretty disgusted and broken about it

You just gotta get out there and try, man! Keep it up, it'll happen! I had some friends in high school, all brothers, that pretty much looked the same (though they were different ages).. and it wasn't good. One of em buried himself in his job(s), the other joined the army so he could visit strip-clubs away from his parents...

But.. the shining moment occurred when the next-to-youngest actually got a girlfriend and then later got engaged! We'd been training him since he was 14 and it worked!

Oh, and they were all gamers!

 

[JesterPoet]

A thousand pardons... pukes like SOME supermodels.....

hehehehehe... that's better.

- Your resident ENWorld hottie

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

hehehehehe... that's better.

- Your resident ENWorld hottie

Again, I say this thread is worthless without pictures....unless you're a male supermodel, then move along please. Nothing to see here...