Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

We are a gaming family--games have been at the core of our relationship since the beginning.

When we first met, one of the first things we learned about each other was that we shared a hobby (video games). So, most of our dates were "hey wanna come over and make out play video games?" There were religious differences we had to overcome--I was XBox, and they were PlayStation--but we managed to find common ground over Skyrim and Bioshock. When we moved in together, we disavowed consoles and converted to PC, and most of our date nights involved takeout food and either "couch cooperative" games on Steam or weekly D&D games at the kitchen table.

And that's how it's been ever since. Lots of things have changed (we got married, the Covid lockdowns, D&D over VTT, I could go on) but gaming is the touchstone of our relationship.

 

[Scribe]

I go through cycles of video game fandom. Right now, I’m in a low. The last console I bought was a Wii, and I haven’t purchased anything for my desktop in a decade or more.

So I’m just playing stuff on my mobile devices.

My son mocks me for playing the same 4 games, of which Baldurs Gate 1, is one of them...

 

[J.Quondam]

I am happy to have made several saves versus cynicism this week.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Do you have another recommendation?

Roll 4d6 each time!

 

[Saracenus]

Another way is if your spouse likes to watch videogames be played - my wife does for example.

My wife and I are both gamers (and yes we even play the same games at times) but she also likes to watch me mess up.

My crowning moment of glory was playing Lego Fortnite and I told my wife to look at the TV (she was playing on her Switch). I had my avatar doing an emoji dance that involved making a heart appear in my hand at the end and just as the heart appeared a bolt of
lightning struck my character and threw me back against the cave entrance. She almost asphyxiated from her 5 minutes of laughter. I just sat there with my mouth open in shock and regretting not having a recording going on at the time.

Then again she also laughed when I would run down pedestrians in GTA IV in a stolen firetruck after a bad day at work.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Then again she also laughed when I would run down pedestrians in GTA IV in a stolen firetruck after a bad day at work.

I always love GTA V because I went on holiday with my family not long after it came out, and I brought it and the console with me, and my brother, my sister, my wife and I all played it, and even my mum liked watching it - I still remember her yelling at my brother to shoot the cops when they came for him lol - "Get them get them! Kill those police!". She's a very law-abiding and steady person normally! She just didn't want to see her son arrested, even in a videogame lol.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

In-game behavior is often at odds with behavior IRL.

My first lesson in that was watching my Mom play Circus (a variation of Breakout! style games) on our Atari 2600.

Instead of bouncing her stick-figure clowns up to pop the balloons, she’d bounce them up once and let him hit the ground. When clowns fell like that, they’d be depicted as landing on their heads with their limbs twitching. (Kinda looked like a roach on its back.). This cracked her up; after just a few seconds of play, she’d have to restart to replenish clowns…

 

[Scribe]

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Yes yes, its all just a coincidence.

 

[trappedslider]

Them: video games are too violent!
me who reloads if I hurt an npc's feelings

also me runs over everyone in a stolen ambulance in GTA V

its all about balance

 

[payn]

Entering the thread I expected a few grumble billies, but I did not expect to be hit with a bucket of barf.