Holy shit is grad school keeping me busy...My project is going really well, and we should be able to publish a couple of papers probably by the end of summer, so I really shouldn't complain. But lately I am finding myself in dire need of some balance, like trading the science paper readings for cooking, playing video games and working out for one night. I have a couple of presentations coming up soon, and I am reading 2-3 publications a night during the week these days, plus 4-5 a day on the weekend, plus long hours in lab. This stem cell class I am taking is a blast, but it is also a lot of work.
I think in a month or so I should be able to take Friday nights off at least. Problem is, there are a ton of games that I own which I'd love to play, plus a bunch that either just came out or are about to in the next few months (Ni No Kuni, DmC, Bioshock Infinite, and The Last of Us, to name a few). I already bought the special edition of The Last of Us, and will do the same for Bioshock if it's not too late. Damn, when I do get to it, I have so little time to play, I wonder what I should start with...
Speaking of games, I went out the other Friday night with a bunch of friends from the Human Genetics program to one of my favorite speakeasies in Montreal, called Big In Japan. Real classy place. Then I see this uber hot girl shortly after I get there, so I go talk to her after much nagging from my buddies. So against my expectations, this girl is extremely friendly and approachable for somebody this gorgeous, and we have tons in common, so I'm thinking hey this is going really well, and I really like this girl (the last part doesn't happen so often...). She's from Switzerland, speaks four languages, learned to ski when she was 2, loves cooking and has impeccable taste in music, is ambitious, loves to travel, to name a few things that piqued my interest. I got to learn a lot in 45 minutes, until I told her I like video games. Then her face completely changed, and she said she had to go to this house party with her friend shortly after I said that. So I still got her phone number, and I called her up and all, but I say it went downhill after the video game comment.
Now I know what you're thinking: "You're not supposed to tell a girl you like video games, you moron! You blew it...", and I fully realize it's generally a dating faux pas to say you are a gamer...but you know what, I am starting to realize that I will always play video games, even when I have a family (IF I have a family) and even when I am so old that somebody needs to wipe my ass for me...So I want to be able to tell girls that I like video games, instead of having to hide this as if it's a disability or a terrible dark secret like if I had lost my left nut or something (this is a hypothetical scenario, both my nuts are intact and working just fine before you ask...
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So I am wondering, is it at all possible to tell girls you like video games and not just "get away with it", but actually find girls who dig that and who see that as a plus, or even better, as a must. Because I am starting to realize that I would really love to date a gamer girl. And I mean a real gamer, not somebody who says she likes that just because she wants you (that's happened to me and it's not the same, the girl actually has to like games irrespective of my interest in it). And of course there's a catch: she can't be a fucking 400-pound Behemoth or anything repulsive like that. I mean she doesn't have to be a 10, but she shouldn't be a 2 either...soooooo, am I completely deluding myself, or is this at all possible? There's an anime society at my university, but not a video game society, so maybe I should start one and see what happens. Anyway, I would love to get anyone's input on this, especially if you've had experience dating girl gamers or if you are a girl gamer...I'm really hoping this isn't just some fantasy that is so far removed from reality that I should just give it up...And this isn't just some item I need to cross off my bucket list like "sleep with girl gamer" or something like that. I'm thinking if I could find a girl I am attracted to and with whom I can spend time playing video games while getting to know her, I would probably think this is too good to be true...hence my suspicion that it might be...On the other hand, I don't look like your typical gamer, so maybe that's why I don't meet girl gamers. I also don't have time for MMORPGs or anything like that, so I do most of my gaming solo, also because I love RPGs. I am not part of any gaming guild or regularly go on forums or anything like that, so maybe I need to add a social dimension to my gaming...again, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Patrick
I think in a month or so I should be able to take Friday nights off at least. Problem is, there are a ton of games that I own which I'd love to play, plus a bunch that either just came out or are about to in the next few months (Ni No Kuni, DmC, Bioshock Infinite, and The Last of Us, to name a few). I already bought the special edition of The Last of Us, and will do the same for Bioshock if it's not too late. Damn, when I do get to it, I have so little time to play, I wonder what I should start with...
Speaking of games, I went out the other Friday night with a bunch of friends from the Human Genetics program to one of my favorite speakeasies in Montreal, called Big In Japan. Real classy place. Then I see this uber hot girl shortly after I get there, so I go talk to her after much nagging from my buddies. So against my expectations, this girl is extremely friendly and approachable for somebody this gorgeous, and we have tons in common, so I'm thinking hey this is going really well, and I really like this girl (the last part doesn't happen so often...). She's from Switzerland, speaks four languages, learned to ski when she was 2, loves cooking and has impeccable taste in music, is ambitious, loves to travel, to name a few things that piqued my interest. I got to learn a lot in 45 minutes, until I told her I like video games. Then her face completely changed, and she said she had to go to this house party with her friend shortly after I said that. So I still got her phone number, and I called her up and all, but I say it went downhill after the video game comment.
Now I know what you're thinking: "You're not supposed to tell a girl you like video games, you moron! You blew it...", and I fully realize it's generally a dating faux pas to say you are a gamer...but you know what, I am starting to realize that I will always play video games, even when I have a family (IF I have a family) and even when I am so old that somebody needs to wipe my ass for me...So I want to be able to tell girls that I like video games, instead of having to hide this as if it's a disability or a terrible dark secret like if I had lost my left nut or something (this is a hypothetical scenario, both my nuts are intact and working just fine before you ask...
).So I am wondering, is it at all possible to tell girls you like video games and not just "get away with it", but actually find girls who dig that and who see that as a plus, or even better, as a must. Because I am starting to realize that I would really love to date a gamer girl. And I mean a real gamer, not somebody who says she likes that just because she wants you (that's happened to me and it's not the same, the girl actually has to like games irrespective of my interest in it). And of course there's a catch: she can't be a fucking 400-pound Behemoth or anything repulsive like that. I mean she doesn't have to be a 10, but she shouldn't be a 2 either...soooooo, am I completely deluding myself, or is this at all possible? There's an anime society at my university, but not a video game society, so maybe I should start one and see what happens. Anyway, I would love to get anyone's input on this, especially if you've had experience dating girl gamers or if you are a girl gamer...I'm really hoping this isn't just some fantasy that is so far removed from reality that I should just give it up...And this isn't just some item I need to cross off my bucket list like "sleep with girl gamer" or something like that. I'm thinking if I could find a girl I am attracted to and with whom I can spend time playing video games while getting to know her, I would probably think this is too good to be true...hence my suspicion that it might be...On the other hand, I don't look like your typical gamer, so maybe that's why I don't meet girl gamers. I also don't have time for MMORPGs or anything like that, so I do most of my gaming solo, also because I love RPGs. I am not part of any gaming guild or regularly go on forums or anything like that, so maybe I need to add a social dimension to my gaming...again, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Patrick