Because, seriously, let this be a lesson to the world in need of such lessons. The game we’re discussing is Agricola, which is all about how much it sucks to be a farmer, and how much sheer fiddliness people will put up with for a game with really good mechanics. It’s up there with Age of Steam as one of my favorites.
Hahaha. I think its a pretty complex game, and definitely a gamers game.
So since its usually guys that are into it, i love when girls play!I hope that doesn’t sound sexist. I”m bacically trying to say I like you simply based on that you play, and you beat up on your knuckle head friends =P
Allow me to catalog the levels of fail contained in this message.
1) There’s a completely unwarranted implication caused by the juxtaposition of the first two sentences. Yes, Agricola is complex. Yes, it s a game for people who like games, not one for people who want something to do while they’re hanging out. No, that does not mean that it’s usually guys who are into it.
Dear clueless dude: If girls aren’t playing Agricola with you, there’s something you should know: It’s not because girls aren’t into Agricola. It’s because they aren’t into you. Possibly because you’re a skeevy bastard, but you may conceal that better in person than you do when trawling for women on the internet.
Dear dudes who might have said this but haven’t yet: No, really. I know more girls fond of Agricola than guys. Not by much. But Agricola, in fact, happens to be the game that balanced my coterie of board gaming companions. As in, when tallying the people I could call upon for board gaming used to have a male:female ratio of about 3:2. Then I stumbled across a bunch of girls who really like Agricola. The ratio is now balanced. You want to talk to me about the gender break down on Twilight Imperium? Maybe you have some grounds there. Agricola? You’re doing it wrong.
2) Let me get hung up on the last clause of your second sentence. “i love when girls play!”
Oh honey, that’s just precious. How much more patronizing can you possible get in a message meant to solicit in-person interaction from me? I’m just so tickled that you’re progressive enough to get giddy about girls having an interest in your manly pursuits. Please, oh please, pat me on the head for overcoming the limitations of my sex to measure up to your standards!
Gag me with a fucking spoon. Dipshit.
3) First sentence, second paragraph. When the voice in the back of your head tells you to say that, what you ought to understand it to mean is, “I just said something sexist.” You should then take the opportunity provided by the fact that this is not an instantaneous form of communication to revise what you just wrote.
4) The last sentence is actually the one that sent me over the edge, due in large parts to personal quirks that leave me harshly judging people who like me too soon and for the wrong reasons. But, come on now, “knuckle head friends” ? Have we been transported into some magical land where you pick up girls by addressing them the language sitcoms would have us believe would be used by their fathers? Because if so, allow me to share this reaction: Ewwwww.
You do not like me based off a profile, single photo, and one eighty-word message. You like the idea of me. You are interested in me. But you do not like me. And, let’s be honest now, you’re not likely to wind up liking me.
Anaea Lay 
…how old was this guy? Though, really, the ages at which I’d be inclined to write off this shit as youthful ignorance are ages that OkCupid doesn’t actually allow.
32. As in, no, he has no excuse.
I see you used “trawling” instead of “trolling”! 🙂 If I may hijack the thread, do you feel strongly about this, or was it simply for correctness? I’m always unsure of what to do when using words that are undergoing a transition, and I try to seek out opinions on the subject.
I do not feel strongly about it. And I try to keep the silly pedantic grammar things I do feel strongly about a privately held secret 1) because I have friends who would use it against me and 2) because I hate prescriptivist grammar more than I hate any of the things I feel prescriptivist about.
That said, I find the the mental imagery associated with picturing this guy as a boat on a scuzzy bay, desperately dragging the water for teh ladeez and being confused about why they slip away, much more satisfying and fitting than the imagery I get with “trolling.” When the reverse is true, you’ll catch me being new fangled instead of “correct.”