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\"\"<\/a>Dating a gamer – uh oh, right? \u00a0Wrong. \u00a0The ladies\/Collegiettes\u2122 behind the mega-popular HerCampus.com published a refreshingly positive article on Tips for Dating a Gamer<\/a>\u00a0last month, and they deserve some recognition. \u00a0Squashing that stereotype is our number one mission here at LFG Dating<\/a>, and we hope this piece is one of many to come; not necessarily from HerCampus, but from the media as a whole. \u00a0The second paragraph really says it all:<\/p>\n

“Gamer guys tend to get a bad rap\u2013they can be seen as competitive, geeky, anti-social, even a little out of touch with the real world. But don\u2019t let that scare you off\u2013gamers can make the best boyfriends, as I came to realize. You just have to know how to push their right buttons.”<\/p>\n

Want our best tip for dating a gamer? \u00a0Start right here at LFG Dating<\/a>, where everyone is a gamer, and where you won’t get any weird looks. \u00a0 Big applause for HerCampus for the eye-opening editorial!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dating a gamer – uh oh, right? \u00a0Wrong. \u00a0The ladies\/Collegiettes\u2122 behind the mega-popular HerCampus.com published a refreshingly positive article on Tips for Dating a Gamer\u00a0last month, and they deserve some recognition. \u00a0Squashing that stereotype is our number one mission here at LFG Dating, and we hope this piece is one of many to come; not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gamer-dating","category-lfg-dating"],"yoast_head":"\nHer Campus: Tips for Dating a Gamer - Gamer Dating Blog | LFGdating.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/her-campus-tips-for-dating-a-gamer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Her Campus: Tips for Dating a Gamer - 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