Letters to the Editor

Reality Bytes

In response to "Sex and the Single Player" from The Escapist Forum: Haha, I see nobody tells the editor to stick to the word limit! :P

Russ, I hope your friend did meet up with those Russian girls, like he said. The world is a better place if his story is true. (Too bad for you, though.)

As for going out with a gamer: I highly recommend it. Truly, it is good to be one of the Chosen Few. Ok, so when we met my girl had lapsed from a Nintendo childhood to a PopCap adolescence, and our tastes aren't perfectly aligned (she will never play Advance Wars, and she will never, ever, EVER play Fire Emblem - two of my favourites), but her Xbox Live gamerscore is currently well over double mine. And she's hot, so... to paraphrase Beyonce, I like it so much I may just put a ring on it.

Mimsofthedawg:
it took you how many years to find out you should date people with similar interests? Have you ever seen eharmony commercials? I mean, you don't have to find someone based upon 29 proven dimensions of compatibility, but common dude, finding someone who understands one of your (if not the) biggest passions in your life seems like a given!

That's just the problem: finding someone. Presumably there are also legions of Twilight fans out there, wishing for a man who could just understand their passion...

- Fraser.J.A

Interesting article.

I've never really given much thought to how gaming could undoubtedly interfere with my social life in relations to the opposite sex. I've had girlfriends before and gaming hasn't ever really been all that much of an obstacle. I'm not as big into gaming as I was earlier this year (I finally got over an MMO addiction) so I actually find myself doing other things with my time (like posting here, writing random stuff, catching up on movies/tv shows) and at this point I really don't see myself getting into another relationship.

So okay it's been well over three years since I've known the touch of a woman but what I've surmised about myself at this point is that my relationship with women has nothing to do with a gaming lifestyle. I know this for a fact because my general view of them hasn't changed since I've started to fill my time with more constructive things. Which when it comes down to it, my general view of women is the same as anyone else.

I would put into detail what this view is but I find a lot of people I mention it to are often perplexed by it.

- Frankydee