fucking neggars.
When it comes to gaming, the one thing that we, the gaming population, endure is getting a lot of flack for our choice in special interests. So I like to sit around and talk to people I don’t know, stare at a computer screen for 10 hours without so much as a bathroom break, give me a fucking break. Give me one good reason why I should exert any energy in taking a walk outside. Does it involve getting better raid gear? No, it’s probably going to give me a sunburn so fuck it. I’ve got the whitest skin in existence, no one wants to see me in shorts anyway, there are enough blind people in this world I don’t need to help create anymore of them.
The thing about male gamers is that it is so easy to make fun of them, and it’s easy because there are definitely a lot more guys who play than women. I mean…A LOT.
But this post isn’t about making fun of gamer guys; it’s about pick-up artists. What the fuck do pick-up artists have to do with anything about gaming?
On an earlier post, “Is it safe to come out?”, I mentioned how my ex and I met up with a group of guys who kept making fun of me for a passing comment I made about WoW. Come to find out, one of the guys I talked to was actually a professional pickup artist and employed a common technique to pick up on women. This is called “Negging”. On Urban Dictionary, it is described as “a negative remark wrapped in a back-handed compliment. Your neg will confuse and intrigue them and maybe even shake their confidence a little bit, but only enough for them to fall from the clouds and be interested in talking to you. It’s a way to get through their defenses at bars.” (Obviously I didn’t write that definition, because it sucks grammatically).
After you’re negged, they see how hurt you are and offer to buy you a drink, say something like “Oh I thought you knew I was just joking around, I’m sorry”, and you’ll forgive them because who doesn’t want a free drink? If I have to put up with that asshole I’m going to ask for a shot of their most expensive tequila. Of course I left before he could be nicer to me, so later on a couple days later I found a compliment in my inbox on Yelp saying something about “Hey thanks for the ride blahblahblah I had a lot of fun hanging out” whatever all I could read was “I’m a douche”, thinking to myself why is this guy being so repetitive?.
Then it hit me; I was negged. WHAT THE FUCK. Look buddy – make fun of my albino skin, or about how my hair is a weird shade of brown, or my laugh sounds like a hyena on crack but you’re making fun of something I wouldn’t bat an eye about playing instead of talking to you. That’s like telling a 5 year old that Santa isn’t real; something an asshole would do.
And if I would rather play a make-believe game than talk to you, then you might need to reevaluate who the one with problems is.
Hey,
I’ll cut straight to the chase. Will you have sex with me?
My girlfriend goes nuts over guys who try and neg her at bars. Usually, she ends up toying with them, getting them to buy her drinks, and then telling them she doesn’t appreciate being insulted and walking away.
She recently got a copy of “The Game” and we’ve been reading it to each other over the weekends when we’re at the beach or something. It’s pretty hilarious stuff.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=2308402
hahah…shit just got serious. Listen, if he was a professional “pick up artist” he would have known that “negging” does not work on below fives, which you certainly are. Since your self esteem is too low you took his “negging” as a personal attack. By the way, a real “pick up artists” nevers buys drinks, the goal is quite the opposite, really. But, kudos to you. At least you are attractive enough to get idiots to buy you drinks.
Misunderstanding…he never bought me a drink. And yes it was a lapse in self-esteem, however I was definitely overprotective of my new special interest…knowing fully well that I would get made fun of for it. Those defense instincts never really go away. :shrug:
you expect to be bought a drink just for the pleasure of your company because you are so “special”. so how is that any better than the negger anyways. the game is full of sh*t, and don’t pretend your gender isn’t part of the problem.
and this is why I do not go to bars ^_^
post nekkid pics
I freaking hate dirty neggars
lmao @ bobs link^
A guy friend of mine gave me The Game a few summers ago to read when I had just graduated from college and was unemployed and bored. A few weeks later, I ended up at a party with a pickup “coach” who was there with his “students” practicing The Game. After hearing 10 different guys ask me inane questions like whether I rinse my can opener after using it and if I put toothpaste on my toothbrush before or after I wet it, I called out the coach in front of his students and told him that he was lame and desperate. He got mad and stormed out of the party, then came back in 20 minutes later to try to convince me that he’s really just helping these guys because they deserve a shot at girls just as much as anyone else does. While true, I’m not sure if asking me about my can opener cleansing habits is going to make me want to bone you. FAIL.
Syntax Correction: “Obviously, I didn’t write that definition because, grammatically, it sucks.”
Need I mention the abuse of two adverbs in one sentence!? The horror.
Now I’m supposed to buy you a drink, right?