Thread: Pretending To Like Video Games? What? Why?!

I must tell everyone about the stuff I encountered last night.

So, I was just coming back from a pizza delivery. I spotted a MvC2 hoodie on this chick that was sitting inside. At first, I was like, "Wait until you see her face..." I get inside, and this chick was freakin' smoking hot. She had a Dragon Ball Z shirt on, and pants that were skin tight. I'm just staring at this chick like, "Where the hell did you come from?" going through my head. I live in a backwards-ass redneck town with no form of entertainment or cultural enlightenment.

Anyways, so I laugh and ask her which is her favorite game from the Versus series. She says, "MvC2 is definitely my favorite. You can do some crazy things on there." I was really caught off-guard by this. I told her that my most favorite team was Doom, Charlie, War Machine, and then asked what her favorite team was. She sat there for a second, then said "Wesker, Phoenix, Haggar." I stood silent for a second, then replied, "Those characters are from MvC3, and that is the team Viscant used at EVO 2011."

I started to get pretty angry. I had this beautiful chick sitting in the lobby with an MvC2 hoodie on, and she didn't know a damn thing about MvC2. So, I moved on to Dragon Ball Z. I pointed at her shirt, and said, "Shoutouts to DBZ. Piccolo is the best character." She then replied with, "Goku is better than everyone else." I gave her a stank eye, and was like, "Of course he is better than everyone else. He's Goku. He's the main character of the whole story, but Piccolo is the bomb. Who else do you like from the show." She couldn't tell me anything else.

Now, am I going crazy? Or was this chick pretending to like things that she didn't have a freakin' clue about to attract guys? I am so disappoint.

Originally Posted by Valdorian

Well in this case you should have just played along too. Like you said, she was the best thing in your town so you had an opportunity there to ask her out (assuming you wanted to).

I've been with my girlfriend for around 5 1/2 years. I'm not looking to separate, but I still like...the Hunt. It just bothers me that I ask her about these things that she claims she knows, then has absolutely no idea what I'm talking about.

Originally Posted by Greedog

I don't think calling her a bitch will earn you any brownie points, whichever way you look at it it's offensive and there's no need.

OT: She probably likes lads that play games as she might play games herself regardless of what she knows about them. Hence the gaming gear she had on. She attracted you didn't she?

Yeah, I toned it down a few moments after posting. Like I mentioned before though, why would she claim she knows, then not know?

I called my girlfriend after work and told her about it. She didn't really understand why I was mad until I used a StarFox 64 metaphor. She got really angry then.

Personally, I view a chick like that as an investment opportunity. She's clearly interested in gaming, even if she doesn't know too much personally. She's not against the crowd of being a gamer, apparently. Therefore, I'd definitely try to work with her, to teach her, and tap dat ass along the way as much as humanly possible.

So you move in on this girl, because you think she's hot and into games, she's not into games, you are irritated by her lack of gaming knowledge. You then phone up your girlfriend to tell her the hot chick you were eyeballing was wearing clothes with gamer logos on, but wasn't gamer. She shared your outrage.

Kind of an odd story tbh... on several levels. I'm not sure why you are so annoyed by this, she wasn't harming you in any way... and you have a girlfriend right?

**edit** possibly you girlfriend is a girl who is your friend rather than your dating partner, in which case your phrasing misled me and the story is a little less odd.

Lol I am sorry but you know nothing about the game of dating. Who cares if she didn't know anything about exact characters. If she was hot and seemed to have any sort of interests near someone like you try not being such a dick and asking her out, talking to her about everyday things, or hell, I dont know, asking for a number? Kids these days. This sounds like I am being a dick but I am just being honest.

Edit: Somehow missed the post talking about having a girlfriend of 5 and a half years. Whether this is true or not the fact remains, if you wear a hurley shirt does that mean you should be a pro surfer? no.

Anyone else notice the fact that the OP just stereotyped all girls who enjoy video games and/or anime as ugly?

EDIT: Oops hes a mod, I'll probably get banned for pointing it out.

Originally Posted by edgecrusherO0

It's just like anyone else that thinks any sort of trend is cool and becomes a part of it without actually knowing anything. It's surprisingly common.

Another thing that confuses me. The only two big games in this town are Madden and MW2/Ops/3. I've tried getting people into fighting games before, but they tend to rage easily and blame everything but themselves when they lose. Just seeing that MvC2 hoodie was like a giant red flag.

Originally Posted by Sykol

Pretending to like something to attract people is pretty much the same as pretending to be single to attract people.

That's the thing. I never claimed to be single, nor even hint at it. I was asking her honest questions about her clothing.

If you are referring to my "Hunting," I honestly haven't done it in years. Something about 99% of this population being blue-eye blonde chicks just doesn't appeal to me.

Originally Posted by Bodaway

What is MvC

Marvel vs Capcom. There are three games in the "Marvel vs Capcom" series, but they are party of a bigger entity called the "Verses" series. The "Versus" series contains a crazy amount of crossover fighting games (X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter, SNK vs Capcom CHAOS, etc.)

---------- Post added 2012-01-22 at 11:48 PM ----------

Originally Posted by iceberg265

Anyone else notice the fact that the OP just stereotyped all girls who enjoy video games and/or anime as ugly?

EDIT: Oops hes a mod, I'll probably get banned for pointing it out.

Nah, you're good. I actually wanted to wait because we have a large population of extremely femine males. I won't go out on a limb and call all of them "gay" or anything. I actually hit some bars a few weeks ago with a few of my femi-men friends. The point is that I didn't want to start drooling over her until it was...well, a her.

Kayo Police wrecked my mind ;-;

Could it be that she has just general interest in those things? Or maybe her brother/boyfriend/whoever has, and she's nice enough to play along. Or maybe she just likes the style. My girlfriend wants a Mage-T-shirt, but doesn't actively play WoW.

I do have to ask... are you insane?

If a girl is willing to at least PRETEND to like the same stuff... I just... I shouldn't even have to continue that train of thought. It's possible she was just dating somebody who's into all of that, but even so... props to whoever she'd be dating.

Most women won't tolerate any sort of gaming. My girl considers me to be "addicted" to WoW, and even has the nerve to accuse me of caring more about a video game than her. =\

I had this one guy IM me once saying he played wow and knew how to build computers (two of my interests, lol, why else would I be here if I didn't like wow?). We got to talking and I started going into wow using normal terminology like DPS, tanking, threat, aggro. . .you know, stuff any real wow player would know. He didn't know any of it. Then I went to discussing my computer and asking him about it. . .same thing. . .he couldn't even tell me the difference between different speeds on ram. . .I mean. . .really. . .I can imagine if that chick liked gamer dudes she might have a reason to pretend to like games. . .but this guy? What possible benefit could he have to pretend to enjoy what I do? Unless he thought I was faking it too. No idea. I blocked him O.o