Life, &$@#, and Gaming

For those of you who don't know me, I'm pretty much a shut-in and don't go out much during the summer (or ever). Last summer I tried my hand with online dating scene. What does this have to video games you might ask? Well, two of the sites that I was apart of were specific to gamers. The two sites that I used were Gaming Passions and Gamer Dating Network. Also I would like to talk about a few of my follies on the infamous Second Life. What an adventure indeed. I met some really interesting people during those few months. Some of them were nice and other's were too nice and not so nice. All I can say this was very interesting indeed.

Let me start off Gaming Passions. It could be a really fantastic dating site if it was managed more (or at all) properly. That site is one most haphazard places I've been to. It has the basics of what a gaming site should be but drops the ball. They have the people but almost literally no way for the people can connect with each other. It's like here are the people, now have at it. They have forums, and a chat room. If people actually participated in these things the site would be lively.

The second site that I used was Gamer Dating Network. The one thing that comes to mind with this site is bland. Unless you have a paid subscription you have no other way of getting in contact with anyone else other than "winking". There as nothing special about this site at all.

Alas, all was not lost. I did strike "gold" with this one guy from Gaming Passions. It was an long distance fling. Hey looked Sigfried from Soul Calibur. I was surprised with this guy. I randomly "smooched" him and he smooched me back. To be honest I didn't expect even that then out of the blue he emailed me. We emailed each other back and forth and things were cute. Then we moved onto a faster method of communication of AIM. We continued to talk and things seemed to be going okay. I even went out and purchased a web cam so I could see him "face to face". If you know Murphy's Law then you can guess what happened next. After that things started to go down hill...fast. All of a sudden he starts acting strange and after that strait up ignoring me. I'm a big girl. If you think I'm too clingy or don't think things will work out then just say so.

Last but not least I would like to talk about Second Life. I just want to set the record strait. I am not a furry! I am a neko! There is a HUGE difference! Now that is past us let us begin. I originally went on SL because my professor did a lecture on online worlds. We all know that SL has it's share of controversy but it's a pretty interesting experience once you get past the n00bs and the griefers. I've had the pleasure of getting to know allot of interesting people. That place was the closest thing I've had to "real" dating ever in all my 20 years.

One thing that I found amusing is that allot of people (myself including to some extent) assume that the SL avatars are exactly how people look like in real life. There was this one guy who came up to me and asked if I looked as sexy as my avatar in rl. I told him strait up that I'm BBW. He got all disgusted and started cussing me out.

Most of the guys were really sweet. The one thing that I noticed with quite a few men I was with is that they were very possessive of me. There was this one particular guy who was very aggressive and would demand that I see him every day. He would try to double talk me as well. The dude must have thought I was stupid or something. I finally had to brake it off with him for good.

This was quite the learning experience for me. I found out allot about people and myself as well. I realized that , just maybe, I might cursed. It seems like the only people of the male species that are into me are complete pricks looking for victims or 40 somethings (aka older complete pricks looking for victims). I know I'm not prettiest girl in the world but that is plain depressing.

In the end...I rather have dolls than men.