Catchy title about gamers and dating (no really that’s the title)

I’m going to drop some science on you, well more like physics and theory. So technically this is a theory fighter thread but it’s about dating and the scene in general. Let me give you some background, I haven’t always been serious about gaming. I really started getting serious when I got CL up and running and I realized how much I loved it but denied it because it wasn’t paying my bills or sending me places yet. Before then I would keep up for the most part with games, I’d practice Guilty Gear and some random fighters every now and then and for the most part play socially, casually and mainly online with friends and random strangers. In fact my only really major tournament experiences before CL were two Guilty Gear tournaments. The first one was held in a really questionable area and then it got cancelled, I practiced for it and when it came tournament day I was beating up everyone there. I probably would have won it. The other was a team tournament I did with Expert Penguin, Where I one character victory’d an entire team (3-1) after Penguins Holy Order Sol got himself scrubbed out.

After CL I can say now that I’m known a bit in the gaming community mainly for the tournament scene for fighters and some of the WCG heads know me (Hi Ciji)

In college I also played sports (gasp! phire was a jock before he was phire) so my time was not completely devoted into games but working out, skipping class, doing jock things but no soccer practice though. So understandably I could see a cute otaku or nerd saying no to some advances because for all intensive purposes I was a jock and had no real interest in whatever they were into, fair enough. It is sort of simplistic but people at times tend to group themselves and date within their group. It does make sense however let’s bring us to present day phire

Makes him look more bad ass than he really is

Let me toot my own here for a second, I’m not a bad looking dude plus I’m still somewhat in shape from my college days and check it out I can do one frame links and drive cars without assists in Gran Turismo/Forza. Yet when I got to shows I usually end up making ermm ‘friends’ with booth girls and some of the exhibitors themselves. I can never score those cosplayers. You’d think that it’d be no problem what gives?

Something dark certainly is rising alright Phoenix

I think just as it exists normally within the community, a divide is present. The divide I am speaking of is the casual-hardcore split. What this means basically is that withing the gaming community, there exists two sides to it. The first side is the ‘casual’ (market), within that market you have a ton of stereotypes, who only play Halo, Madden or the typical ‘Call of’ games. The reason why we have about 30 different types of Guitar Hero game. There’s a million types of ways to identify the casual gamer I won’t go into it now because I’ll be talking forever. The other half is the hardcore, which would consist of the cosplayers,tournament players and the people who are past hobbyists. There are more but I’m giving a simplified break down.
I existed in the limbo between these two places for a good while to be honest. And I think it is due to the divisions that there is difficulties scoring that cosplayer. I’m sure there are other things too that are not as pleasant in terms of stereotype. But we’re just covering the ground level ones. Ironically most nerd girls that get to know me are shocked to find out that I’m single and they just assumed I had a cheerleader girlfriend.

Anyway this post isn’t a news report, just theory I’d love to hear what everyone else thinks on that topic of gamer/geek girls and dating them. If you’re a girl switch it to guys. I want your input. (that’s what she said!)