How they get attention: By being nerdier than thou
Where to find them: Browsing manga at your local bookstore

Buuuh: Desu desu desu! =^-^=

GR: Hey, you know a Japanese word. No, we don’t want to talk about Final Fantasy VII, Tales of Symphonia, or your favorite Bishōnen.

Buuuh: ur so kawaii!!! ~~~ ^-^-^-^-^-^~~~~!!!!

GR: Go write a fanfic, tool.

How they get attention: By failing every song in Rock Band
Where to find them: Tagging along with your friends

We commend you for trying to be interested in your friends’ hobby, and we know they should probably pay more attention to you, but either let them have their fun, or actually be into gaming. If you’re just feigning interest to be liked, you’ll inevitably become a nuisance and accidently delete your boyfriend’s saved games, and he'll snap at you, and you’ll yell at him for wasting all his time on stupid games, and then he’ll yell at you for making him see Mamma Mia! (which you only wanted to see because you like Abba, and how were you supposed to know it would suck?), then you’ll both be miserable and feeling like assholes. So keep your hobbies to yourselves.

How they get attention: By hogging your PC or Wii
Where to find them: In your living room at 4 AM with an empty bottle of wine

These offenders will spend 8 consecutive hours on your computer playing Peggle, and still refuse to admit that they have a problem. We really don't care if they prefer playing games with virtually no challenge, and spend far too much time playing them, we just wish they'd buy their own systems and quit asking us to "make it go" when the computer thing breaks.

To be fair, not all casually addicted gamers are women, but that's the market and overall perception.

How they get attention: By being paid to get attention
Where to find them: Commercials

We really don't need to say much about Carrie Underwood playing Nintendogs. We can just show it to you:

Hear more about this article in TalkRadar.

Aug 18, 2008

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