not to be attracted to any grown man who regularly plays a computer game

[secunda]

I just can't. Challenging the kids on the Wii on Boxing Day is one thing, but spending a significant amount of time immersing oneself in an imaginary world, and not even in a constructive way as reading a book is [says she, covering arse]. It's so immature. World of Warcraft, ProEvo, all tedious and unattractive time-sucks imo. If DP spent hours doing it, as some men seem to, it would be a dealbreaker (he doesn't play them at all)

AIBU?

I agree that its not just men that play computer games, of course. But OP is a woman and was asking about finding men unattractive who played them, Thats why the thread has gone in this direction.

What suprises me is how many people have the time to play computer games... its usually 8pm before we sit down of an evening, by the time we eat, tidy up and catch up on our day its nookie time!

Have you wondered why men have hobbies? To get away from it all, unfortunately we have to bear the brunt of it. The answer is don't keep having children because you know you will be doing all the donkey work. Two is enough for anyone, otherwise don't whine.

er transistor wrong. I remember the joys of the screeching lines as Cookie hoved into view on the ZX Speccy. Or chasing zombies through a graveyard in Ghosts and Goblins on the Commodore64. I still own 2 C64s and fire them up every so often but for me, gaming lost its appeal when a) it got violent and b) the graphics got better. I lost it all at Streetfighter...

So I don't play games as the OP would recognise them. And I don't really give a toss what she thinks but it tickles me that if her DP who she presumably has some sort of feeling for, started playing games, it would be a 'dealbreaker'. And this pronounced with F all knowledge and shedloads of prejudice.

If you're an addictive sort, as I confess I am, then you'll get immersed in anything. To lay it all at the foot of the Xbox is ridiculous.

Sorry, that sounded arsey transistor. I forgot my

weetabix, Im not following...

Well, I think I am but maybe at your opinion and hope I am reading wrong...

YANBU i wouldnt be attracted much to a guy who plays loads of computer games like a little kids.
EXACTLY lolapoppins !!!!!!!!!

I would find a man who regularly ignored me for hours on end unattractive, regardless of what he was ignoring me for.

I like gamers, proper nerdy gamers though, not the mainstream sort who seem everywhere now.

It used to be my exclusive pulling ground.

I kind of get where you are coming from OP. I'm a geek yet I've never managed to see the appeal of games myself. The worlds they present appear to be, or at least the ones I've seen appear to be, an adolescent fantasy filled with macho guys and buxom babes in skintight clothes. I find most of them violent and horrendeously sexist, all those sculpted thighs and pneumatic breasts are a bit of a turn off to be honest.

I know people who game and, quite frankly my eyes gaze over the minute WOW is mentioned.

Having said that, if there was a game that managed to hold my attention for more than 5 minutes I'd be willing to give it a go.

My prejudice about men and gaming is based entirely on the games I've tried personally. Yawnfests IMHE. Gaming fits into the same prejudice group as JazzFunk, needlepoint and surrealist poetry. i.e. WHY?

lolol at this thread. do not rile the geeks, secunda. no sense of humour.

Yanbu.

Yanbu. I sort of think of things like that as toys.

As for Tetris - my whole life feels like Tetris, who on earth could play it to relax??

"I would find a man who regularly ignored me for hours on end unattractive, regardless of what he was ignoring me for."

Completely agree with Morloth. Someone who spends all their free time playing and watching football would be just as unattractive to me as someone who spent all their free time playing computer games.

Absolutely agree. Any hobby which leads to someone spending all their time on it at the exclusion of everything and everyone else needs addressing. But that could be darts or origami or fly fishing or cake decorating. Games are by the by.

Absolutely agree. Any hobby which leads to someone spending all their time on it at the exclusion of everything and everyone else needs addressing. But that could be darts or origami or fly fishing or cake decorating. Games are by the by.

Oh secunda, logic dictates that the vast majority of people using an online forum to chat are geeks in one way or another.

RUN, while you still can.

My dh is slim, handsome (if I do say so myself), fun to be with and considerate. He has a PhD and earns a good living wage so that I have been able to take a career break for 5 years whilst the kids have been little. He sometimes plays on computer games, yes sometimes for a few hours at a time. If you don't fancy him, that's great, he is my husband after all ;-) - but I wouldn't rule out loving someone because they happen to enjoy playing a game on the computer.

Nadal plays Fifa Football games a lot. I wouldn't kick him out of bed.

Tombliboob - that sucks about Sims3, it is really good! Though the expansion packs are nothing special yet though.

I've had my own moments of addiction Sims when I was at home pregnant on bed rest and so has my DH he tends to get very focused until he clocks the game but its on and off with him.. ...I would hate to be a Foot-ball widow though..

Tell you what is strangely addictive, Zuma!

Popping the little red balls over and over again...best 4 quid I ever spent getting that for the xbox.

So much coming out of interest soon - Portal 2, Civ 5 (squeal), Final Fantasy 14... I like techie stuff, I like gadgets, I like computers (considering I used to be terrified of them as a child it's a heck of a turnaround). It comes in incredibly handy with work because I can generally fix anything that goes wrong with a school PC while other teachers can turn into gibbering wrecks when their reports don't print.

Anyway - sitting on an internet forum for hours on end is probably just as anti-social really (and I was on here at 2am because I had killer insomnia coupled with the dynamic duo of snoring husband and snoring three-legged cat).