I can honestly say videogames can be one of the best and worst past times to all young men. It's obvious how it can be the best: You get a great game that's been violently submerged in testosterone, drenching the gameplay in blood, gore, cursing, mindless non-stop seizure induced action. It’s great guy game that you’ll love forever until that one person asks if they can play.

Your Girlfriend. Your sweet, sweet beautiful girlfriend wants to play a videogame with you. YES! Its going to be fantastic! You're going to have a girlfriend who likes having sex with you and plays videogames. PERFECT.

No, you naive little boy. You just created a brand spanking new difficulty level for every game ever created, which could also end your relationship and/or start a loud, useless, relationship ending fight.

How about we take Valve’s Left 4 Dead as an example. The standard difficulty levels are: Easy, Normal, Advanced, and Expert. When you play with your beloved girlfriend its: Easy, Normal, Advanced, Expert, and OH MY GOD ARE YOU RETARDED?!?!.

Ok, so your girlfriend comes over and she sees you playing Left 4 Dead(we'll stick with that for the remainder of the passage.) Excitedly she says, "Oh! Can I play?!" You immediately will be given massive elation at your woman’s pure perfection. So you get her a controller and exit your game. 

Here's your first warning that you'll ignore:

"I’ve never really played with a both joysticks before."

That line right there should be your get the hell out of there card, but you're too sprung on the fact the she wants to play and you say something idiotic yet kind like it will be fine or it’s easy.

STRIKE 1

So the game begins and because she's playing with you, the difficulty is already set and can not be changed from OH MY GOD ARE YOU RETARDED?!?! At this point treat her like a child in a special needs class. Not to be rude, but that’s how basic you have to explain things. You discuss the games controls to her about five times before it is firmly planted in her brain. 

At the first zombie encounter she is severely wounded, which is expected, so you heal her with your health pack. You want to help her out as often as possible so she can have a good time. As nice as you're trying to be, you unintentionally screwed yourself because when you get in trouble do you think she's going to be able to heal you fast enough before the zombies are gnawing at your butt again? No, she won’t. Meaning you'll die and she'll laugh at you because your character is dead. You being the man you are will respond with some jackass remark or blame her, immediately changing the mood.

STRIKE 2 

See where this is going? Lets continue. So you've somehow miraculously made is through the first level and remember to warn her that the next level is a bit confusing so stay close. Murphy's Law (anything that can go wrong will) is now in full affect here. 

As the level progresses you try to somewhat "redeem" yourself for your girlfriends mistake of getting killed and your unnecessary statement that followed by complimenting her on the 4 kills she's accumulated out of the 500 zombies that have already come to pass. You arrive at the confusing warehouse section of the level you warned her about. Once again, you remind her to stay close.

At the first fork in the road she, for some cursed reason, decides to take the lead and go off in some direction without you knowing. Things then collapse like dominoes:

• She will call for your help 15 seconds later.
• You will turn around and see her character not there. Where did she go? Why did she do it? Who the hell knows! But it’s done and you will shortly pay the price. 
• You try and help her out and give her directions and she just won’t listen to reason anymore.
• You’ll scream go left but she’ll look down at the ground slowly.
• You say jump, she’ll throw grenades.

It gets to the point to where you literally get so pissed off you scream "OH MY GOD ARE YOU RETARDED?!?!." Hence the difficulty level you punished yourself with.

STRIKE 3! You just blew it.

From that point on, you'll fight about the game and she'll say you're being mean, insensitive and a bunch of other partially true statements. She might cry, hit you, run into the other room, or surprise you with all three. I’m not saying you shouldn’t let your girlfriend play videogames with you, it’s great that couples try new things together. Just know what you're in for. Alternatively, you could play the movie game she thinks is cute and put that award winning smile on whether you like it or not.