Note: This is completely anecdotal and not a realistic measurement of married women as a whole. This can also merit as a shitpost.

Over the past week (New Year’s parties, coffee shops, passing by), if a woman said she played video games, I asked what game are they playing right now.

These were the games

  • Black Ops
  • Bioshock Infinite
  • Halo Infinite
  • Fallout 4
  • Marvel Rivals

Do whatever you want with that information.

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    3 days ago

    I got my wife to like a video game in the past weeks. She likes the idea of playing, but always get frustrated and just quit. The only game we used to play together was Peggel, and I got Peglin and she became obsessed with it.

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    3 days ago

    Women usually prefer RPGs according to some paper I read years ago. Even dominate those games with more than 50% of players.

    They have huge guilds of only women in MMORPGs since playing with men usually leads to cringe attempts at flirting.

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    3 days ago

    I guess technically Fallout 4 is a fps, but I’d be inclined to say it doesn’t count. I loved that game but I would never play any of the others listed.

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    4 days ago

    I’ve been married for about 16 years now and it took a very long time to get my wife into FPS games. Even still, she generally won’t play unless me or one of our friends is also playing with her. She mostly prefers mobile games that give her something distracting to do.

    Her first FPS game was Deep Rock Galactic. She was terrible with the first person view initially, but over the last few years, she’s gotten pretty used to it and she’s pretty good now.

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    4 days ago

    That’s the norm anymore. I admittedly hung out in a group of nerds, but all the women my age I knew were serious gamers.

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    4 days ago

    So the next question: did they find a partner because they played FPSes or did they start playing because they are married. Which one is the cause and which the consequence?

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      4 days ago

      We can only make assumptions here.

      My guess being in a marriage leads to an urge to first-person shoot.

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        I had an ex suddenly get into fps games. Turned out she was a whore and her fuck mate got her into playing fps. She left me then cheated on the new guy with his friend so they broke up she and moved to the other side of the country with the ex’s friend. She then cheated on that guy that moved with her with 2 other guys. Then she moved cross country again and now I’m pretty sure she’s just fucking anything that moves.

        Good times good times

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          4 days ago

          Gah, I cant stand cheaters and “relationshippers” which are usually the same. People being in a relationship just because it’s a thing that’s done, not because they actually like a person.

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            4 days ago

            Technically you can only be a cheater if you are a “relationshipper”, otherwise they’re just hoeing

            But yes, I feel the hate

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    4 days ago

    With this extremely limited sample size, we can only conclude that single women do not play FPSes. If that girl is playing Balatro, assume you have a chance.

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    4 days ago

    Shit. I just realized my gamer wife didn’t fit this. She’s been playing Valheim. I’m giving bad data.