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I am single because i have eyes like a serial killer, and i dont smile, and i generaly dislike people. Needless to say, people dont make eye contact with me, or talk to me... ever.

Been with my wife for a little over 2 years now. Been married for 5 ish months. I got her playing 40k [she started with Eldar and are now working on a SOB army], she plays DnD, VtM and we are just getting into the Exalted system. She plays video games and has gotten supremely good, where she can hold her own against the best of our group of friends.

I'm very lucky. Especially because she knew about all of this before we even started dating.

Could I reply not as a gamer, but on the flipside, as a gf of a gamer?

I think that for the gamers out there there's usually someone, and I mean when your competition is little plastic men and not other women its great Seriously though, hobbying is fun and even better when you have a partner to do it with.

And for all you single guys, there's someone. I mean once everyone gets past the highschool clicks and actually grows up (Or in the case of gamers who don't lol), they soon figure out nerds are where it's at. They are fething awesome, sweet, and attentive even if ya have to share space with their models and have them obsess over painting for days/weeks/months etc at a time. It's worth it.

So ya there's your feminine perspectif, and as sappy as im gonna get

And I'm really surprised at the amount of husbands/wives etc. who share this hobby, that's sweet

I'm in high-school, so nerdism isn't exactly attractive ATM...

Ahhh, but I digress. It doesn't bring me down none.

Are you doing a study on us, LB?

"Defying all stereotypes, gamers tend to both be happy and have significant others."

Manchu wrote:"Defying all stereotypes, gamers tend to both be happy and have significant others."

Bah. Does no one care about tradition anymore?

Had a couple relationships in the past, nothing that was too incredibly serious.

Ooh a Psych study! Frik im a nerd... Actually LB I like your questions, keep 'em coming.

@ Cryonicleech well thats too bad but thankfully highschool doesn't last forever.

Orkeosaurus wrote:Bah. Does no one care about tradition anymore?

What happened to the good old days of obesity and depression? What will we tell the next generation?

I'll have to grow out my neckbeard so they'll still have something to aspire to.

Orkeosaurus wrote:I'll have to grow out my neckbeard so they'll still have something to aspire to.

Eww. Maybe the traditional view of gamers is why so many of them remain single.

binky wrote:

Orkeosaurus wrote:I'll have to grow out my neckbeard so they'll still have something to aspire to.

Eww. Maybe the traditional view of gamers is why so many of them remain single.

Sense! This makes some, though I propose the use of SCIENCE! To figure it out for sure.

*whips out giant graphing calculator*

I'm hesitant to ask where you were hiding that giant graphing calculator.

Merely hesitant, eh? *snort snort*

(How did I get engaged?)

Haha. lol

(musta been your sense of humor or was that a rhetorical question?)

Shadowbrand once knew love...

*Disturbing silence*

Really? What was his name? just joking

His name was Midgetkicker.

Shadowbrand wrote:His name was Midgetkicker.

... sounds hot

How did it end?

When it became apparent that Shadowbrand likes to burn down churches and pen frustratingly repetitive black metal ditties from prison :p

I thought it might have been that he got tired of being kicked.

My wife's Japanese so it's not such a big deal for her to be married to an otaku, that and she knows I'm not out carousing, getting drunk, or into some debauch.

khornydakkadude wrote:what if your kinda young for the question?... just a thought

Option Ao not do the poll

Option B:'Always been single'

I've been in several relationships before my current one, but I've only just gotten into WH, so it's new territory for me. Luckily my girlfriend supports the hobby and is actually quite pleased that I like to paint in detail, as she paints detail as well (She's into the Japanese Ball-Jointed Dolls, which though they're large, require what are called Face-ups, which are basically re-painting the face to have a certain skin tone and such, as well as going over eyelashes with paint and such to make them stand out better. She also paints intricate tattoos on hers, which is cool). That's pretty nice because it gives us something to talk about together and compare and contrast on.

A handful of one-night stands, and 3 short-lived girlfriends (all <2 months). Neither of the first two were understanding of my gaming habits, the third thought it was cool but she's now engaged to her "ex". All of them just seemed to enjoy my body, not my personality.

I don't have much use for a "life partner" anyway. A slave would be nice, but involuntary ones are....unreliable and voluntary ones are extremely hard to find, especially when you work in an overwhelmingly male career field, and where the few females tend to have alpha personalities too.

12 years with the same woman, no kids but 5 cats.

She doesn't fully understand the game, but can tell the difference between models - the guys with bigger guns, the guys with jumppacks, the red guys with chainsaws, the "Nun" ones...etc.,etc.,

Granted, I don't know the difference between knitting and crocheting...and it's been bliss between us since we stopped trying to explain our hobbies to each other.

Divorced and doing just fine by myself.

If I do get involved with someone again. She's going to be kept on a leash and her paycheck used to buy me stuff.

I have a girlfriend been with her for a few months she is 22 I am 21. she loves playing video games etc but doesn't get into table top stuff.

though i think she will have some fun with Dawn of war =]

she is ultra petite too! 4'9 75 pounds lol. little Irish girl =P