Wife mad at me because I play the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 like an outlaw

[Anonymous]

You dumb*ss, how are you going to get out of this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If it’s not part of the game, why are you doing all these cruel and awful things!? I would be horrified if I were your wife!! My husband doesn’t play video games, I probably never would have started dating him if he did, but a bunch of his friends play fortnite while they talk on the phone with eachother. I can’t imagine they are all doing that kind of stuff!

Because you can. That's why you do it. It's pure fantasy and guilty pleasure. Just being a good guy and following the story line is boring.

You're just realizing now that your kids and spouses are playing games like this? They've been around since like 1999 where you can do this kind of stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If it’s not part of the game, why are you doing all these cruel and awful things!? I would be horrified if I were your wife!! My husband doesn’t play video games, I probably never would have started dating him if he did, but a bunch of his friends play fortnite while they talk on the phone with eachother. I can’t imagine they are all doing that kind of stuff!

My husband and son do it and laugh hysterically. It’s fun! Better than doing it in real life, I say.

[Anonymous]

I mean I’m more troubled by the fact that you have time to enumerate the different wildlife you killed here for us as if the presence or absence of elk was going to make a difference? Self awareness is clearly something you struggle with.

Do you have a high-paying job and do 59% (legit 50%) at home? If not, go do that. Then play video games. I promise your wife will no longer care.

_Happy Wife of Gamer

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If it’s not part of the game, why are you doing all these cruel and awful things!? I would be horrified if I were your wife!! My husband doesn’t play video games, I probably never would have started dating him if he did, but a bunch of his friends play fortnite while they talk on the phone with eachother. I can’t imagine they are all doing that kind of stuff!

My husband and son do it and laugh hysterically. It’s fun! Better than doing it in real life, I say.

Is this a void in their life that really needs filling?

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Anonymous wrote:The game doesn’t matter. The fact that you put that much energy in a video game is the issue.

Don’t know one woman whose spouse plays video games.

You must not know a lot of people below the age of 50 then. RDR2 cost over $500M to make and grossed over $725M in 2 weeks. The game has sold almost 50M copies world wide. These are numbers greater than block buster movies. There literally millions of people well into adulthood who play RDR2.

That only underscores the idiot culture we live in.

[Anonymous]

My wife did unspeakable things to her characters in the Sims. I knew she was a keeper!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If it’s not part of the game, why are you doing all these cruel and awful things!? I would be horrified if I were your wife!! My husband doesn’t play video games, I probably never would have started dating him if he did, but a bunch of his friends play fortnite while they talk on the phone with eachother. I can’t imagine they are all doing that kind of stuff!

My husband and son do it and laugh hysterically. It’s fun! Better than doing it in real life, I say.

Is this a void in their life that really needs filling?

On a dollar per hour basis, video games by far and away are the most economical form of entertainment, period. You can buy RDR2 for $30 and get over 100+ hours out of it. Where else do you get that kind of return?

Let's be honest, it's always more fun to play the bad guy than be the the good guy, plain white bread character. Causing mayhem in the virtual world is fun. No one wants to be the cops in Grand Theft Auto. They want to be the drug dealer, mafioso, and gangster.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The game doesn’t matter. The fact that you put that much energy in a video game is the issue.

Don’t know one woman whose spouse plays video games.

You must not know a lot of people below the age of 50 then. RDR2 cost over $500M to make and grossed over $725M in 2 weeks. The game has sold almost 50M copies world wide. These are numbers greater than block buster movies. There literally millions of people well into adulthood who play RDR2.

That only underscores the idiot culture we live in.

You must be fun at parties between your discussions of Tale of Two Cities and Pride and Prejudice. I bet you do sentence diagrams and English grammar exercises for fun. So thrilling!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If it’s not part of the game, why are you doing all these cruel and awful things!? I would be horrified if I were your wife!! My husband doesn’t play video games, I probably never would have started dating him if he did, but a bunch of his friends play fortnite while they talk on the phone with eachother. I can’t imagine they are all doing that kind of stuff!

My husband and son do it and laugh hysterically. It’s fun! Better than doing it in real life, I say.

Is this a void in their life that really needs filling?

On a dollar per hour basis, video games by far and away are the most economical form of entertainment, period. You can buy RDR2 for $30 and get over 100+ hours out of it. Where else do you get that kind of return?

Let's be honest, it's always more fun to play the bad guy than be the the good guy, plain white bread character. Causing mayhem in the virtual world is fun. No one wants to be the cops in Grand Theft Auto. They want to be the drug dealer, mafioso, and gangster.

If you're spending 100+ hours on it, you need to include the opportunity cost of all the things you're not doing.

[Anonymous]

And, you are sharing this why?

[Anonymous]

You're a closet psycho

[Anonymous]

I'm married to a man who loves video games. 99% of the time, his games don't interfere with him being a loving spouse, involved parent, division of labor partner, etc.
I don't worry about what or how he plays games. It's all fantasy. Just like I don't worry when we watch Breaking Bad or a similar show, I don't worry he's going to turn into a psycho. Jfc, people have the right to let loose sometimes!

[Anonymous]

Do they make games that I, a woman, would like? Where I can sleep with random hot men and can viciously harm men who are a$$holes/misogynists? And ride horses and have lots of pet animals and kill anyone who harms them?

I cannot understand why it is fun to kill animals and innocent people in video games.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If it’s not part of the game, why are you doing all these cruel and awful things!? I would be horrified if I were your wife!! My husband doesn’t play video games, I probably never would have started dating him if he did, but a bunch of his friends play fortnite while they talk on the phone with eachother. I can’t imagine they are all doing that kind of stuff!

My husband and son do it and laugh hysterically. It’s fun! Better than doing it in real life, I say.

Is this a void in their life that really needs filling?

I don’t think so. My husband is a scientist and he works pretty hard - he’s in the lab A LOT. My son plays soccer and that occupies a nice chunk of his time. They do this for fun, and they love doing it together - which I consider a big win.

What else do you suggest they do?