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How to get your girlfriend to play video games
Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Fashion

Speaking from years of experience, we know how hard it can be to get your girlfriend interested in playing video games. Granted, it might be impossible to drag her into play-til-dawn Halo 2 sessions online, but dropping into casual gaming with a Wario Ware: Smooth Moves round or two is entirely doable. Need some tips? Wikihow has an entry up on how to get your girlfriend to play video games, which offers up some gender stereotypes like this:

• -"Don't get games that involve things like strippers, prostitutes, and sex. Unless she has a really good sense of humor about such things, she probably won't like it."

Well, where's the fun in that? Oh, we keed, we keed. True, most of the article is common sense, and it might actually be helpful to some of you out there who have had a hard time getting your significant others interested in jumping into the game with you. However, some of it is just plain whacked, like explaining to your girlfriend how to stretch and uncramp her hands. If your girlfriend doesn't know how to do this already, then you've got more serious problems.

For those of you who need a girlfriend in order to find this article useful, check out Wikihow's hilarious "How to get a girlfriend if you're a nerd" entry. We're not sure whether to laugh or cry. For all of you female gamers out there, let us know how they could improve this entry, and don't worry about being gentle ... blast away.

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What apt timing. I've found the easiest way to get Mrs Pants gaming is to buy a Wii. Still not managed it yet. She does like Albatross 18 though, especially with me and a few other 5punkers bizarrely enough. The tournament just spacked her out though.

Dog Pants wrote:What apt timing. I've found the easiest way to get Mrs Pants gaming is to buy a Wii. Still not managed it yet. She does like Albatross 18 though, especially with me and a few other 5punkers bizarrely enough. The tournament just spacked her out though.

i just ordered a Wii so i could convince Mrs. johnson to play something other than the fucking sims.

for me it was quite simple:

1) buy her Dungeon Siege.
2) Watch in horror as she devours it, the expansion, the sequal, a fair amount of NWN and then drags you in to completing Diablo 2 with her.
3) Worry that she is becoming more of a beard than I am.

Joose wrote:3) Worry that she is becoming more of a beard than I am.

I think you should both worry. Referring to her as 'a beard' might give people entirely the wrong impression about your relationship.

Dog Pants wrote:I think you should both worry. Referring to her as 'a beard' might give people entirely the wrong impression about your relationship.

Phwwooooarrr

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:


Phwwooooarrr

*gets hard*

*gets ashamed*

henceforth, Joose's GF shall be named Joose's Beard, which can lead to much humorus innuendo.

*strokes Joose's Beard*

Also, it seems that all you really need these days is a Wii and you can get almost anyone to play.

Nintendo Wii - your partner will love it

Erm... this suddenly seems a bit wrong...

mrbobbins wrote:Erm... this suddenly seems a bit wrong...

/me bums Joose in teh beards

News Reader wrote:

That doesn't to me look the most comfortable way to be playing games.

FatherJack wrote:That doesn't to me look the most comfortable way to be playing games.

I agree, I'd feel extremely uncomfortable wearing a hat like that.

spoodie wrote: I agree, I'd feel extremely uncomfortable wearing <strike>a hat</strike>clothes like that.

fix'd.