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This would be like joining your partner's pickup basketball game every week and then calling timeouts every 2 minutes to have things explained to you. Just muddle through and keep the game moving and learn on your own if you actually want to get good at it.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You mean Smokey Bear? No, he’s got a middle name! It’s “the” 
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house of the dad posted:This would be like joining your partner's pickup basketball game every week and then calling timeouts every 2 minutes to have things explained to you. Just muddle through and keep the game moving and learn on your own if you actually want to get good at it. No it isn't lmao.
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Feb 2, 2023 22:12
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dominion is boring. i wouldn;'t put up with that poo poo
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Feb 2, 2023 22:13
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Or maybe... accept that sometimes your partner has hobbies that don't involve you? He can find something else to do on game night and you can not begrudge him whatever he wants to spend a few hours doing with his own friends* *assuming it's not super weird and gross, because this is still reddit after all
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Feb 2, 2023 22:13
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anyway i'm gonna install this poo poo and see whether zack's a dumbfuck or not
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Feb 2, 2023 22:14
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3D Megadoodoo posted:No it isn't lmao. Ok
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AITA for refusing to let my son stay in my house after he was kicked out of his apartment?quote:My (56M) son (29M) is a quite irresponsible person, he doesn't care about anything or anyone, in his world there is only him and no one else and for that very reason he was kicked out of his apartment. His landlord was quite clear when he told him that he didn't want scandals in the place or complaints from the neighbors, and what did he do? He threw a party and two of the guests ended up in a fight, even the police were involved, it was terrible. Of course his landlord found out and kicked him out in the blink of an eye (which is completely legal here).
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Feb 2, 2023 22:21
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Wow, cool, the son was 12 when his mother got the boot and his dad moved on to his next lady, sounds like it didn’t have any impact on him though ED: 12 year old kid, 39 year old father, 20 year old new wife
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pentyne posted:AITA for refusing to let my son stay in my house after he was kicked out of his apartment? these kids today and their scandals, sick of it I tell you
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Feb 2, 2023 22:27
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How dare you insult my daughter wife, son, she's been with me for half her life at this point
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Feb 2, 2023 22:37
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The implicit neglect in that post is so big the vacuum is making a wet sucking sound
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Feb 2, 2023 22:38
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seems like the son has some bad vibes
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Feb 2, 2023 22:39
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hawowanlawow posted:seems like the son has some bad vibes yeah it totally has to be either/or. People are legendarily binary like that.
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Captain Hygiene posted:How dare you insult my daughter wife, son, she's been with me for half her life at this point 
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value-brand cereal posted:AITA for getting upset when my girlfriend nearly started a kitchen fire? "My ex-girlfriend, who is doing grad school while holding down a full-time job, is chronically exhausted and suffering as a result. Am I the rear end in a top hat for treating her like an idiot child while losing my poo poo because I finally had to deal with potentially dangerous consequences of that?" Also, yes. Yes, he's the rear end in a top hat. Granted that nearly starting a kitchen fire isn't good, and it's entirely likely that he is legit traumatized from having nearly lost his home to fire as a kid. But he should have seen this as a wakeup call that he needs to be helping her more, not...this. Also, I legit can't tell from his story if he actually bothered to put the fire out first before going and screaming at her, or if his first reaction was to go yell and make her put the fire out. (Or...if there was really that much of a fire, or if it was just a scorched pot. Which still shouldn't have happened, but isn’t exactly "the kitchen is one step away from being in flames".) value-brand cereal posted:I'm pretending that guy wrecked his entire relationship because he mistook steam for smoke. It'd be super funny insofar as pretending it's a fake post and a real person wasn't emotionally hurt. I like this version. deety posted:I agree with this. If OP thought her lapse was breakup worthy and didn't feel safe with her living there any more, that'd be fine. Yup. That plus blocking him on everything and the mutual contact he reached out to saying that she doesn't want to talk to him, says that she does not feel safe around him any more and has said as much to everyone she knows. Lone Goat posted:Zack can just practice on his own if he wants, but it's not up to the others to teach him how since he's the one trying to force his way into the gaming sessions Eh, she's the one who brought up that her friend-group does Dominion game sessions on the regular. If she wanted him to make a good impression, she should have gone with something more newbie friendly than the multi-expansion game that probably also has a dozen house rules after having been played for multiple years by this one group. Hell, if she wanted them to play something that still had the potential for ruining things, she could have suggested online Monopoly.
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Feb 2, 2023 22:46
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tinytort posted:online Monopoly. ESH
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captainOrbital posted:My ex left pierogi on the skillet for too long and i got so mad i burned the house down Justified if the pierogi was homemade. rotinaj posted:My point was “the guy is shocked that his girlfriend isn’t jumping right back on his dick to restart their relationship”. "Basic relationship math" is an excellent term for something a lot of people seem unable to do. quote:DEAR ABBY: I am a 55-year-old woman who had a few good jobs earlier in my career, which enabled me to buy a lovely townhouse in New England. I now work as a consultant, and I no longer earn the same kind of money I did back then. My problem: About 20 years ago, my parents borrowed money from me to fix their home so they could sell it. After it sold, not only did they not pay me back, but they moved in with me. It was supposed to be temporary, but they have been staying here rent-free for the last five years. In addition to my frustration with my parents, my sister (who is in her 40s) was living down south with her boyfriend when their relationship imploded. So she moved back to New England and moved in with us. She is not paying rent either and brought her two dogs with her. I am at my wits' end. Please give me some advice. -- GOING BONKERS IN MASSACHUSETTS
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trickybiscuits posted:Twenty years. OP should put some soup on the stove and burn the house down
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tinytort posted:Eh, she's the one who brought up that her friend-group does Dominion game sessions on the regular. If she wanted him to make a good impression, she should have gone with something more newbie friendly than the multi-expansion game that probably also has a dozen house rules after having been played for multiple years by this one group. She has a gaming group that she's played with regularly for three years and her boyfriend of four months wants to join in, with no preparation. Why should she take a single step to accommodate him when he hasn't learned to play? If she had an intramural softball team she played with for years and this doofus goes "no that's too hard, please set up the tee-ball stand" he'd be mocked for the same reasons. There's no house rules they're playing online. Dude's just bad at the game. Imagine dating a scrub lmao
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Feb 2, 2023 23:21
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trickybiscuits posted:Twenty years. Man, just what did it take to push noodle spine here over the line? I mean, after 20 years there has to have been something.
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Pyroi posted:Man, just what did it take to push noodle spine here over the line? I mean, after 20 years there has to have been something. sounds like a sister and two dogs
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The sister moving in was the straw that broke the camel's back. Re: flaming pots of sleeping stew, it just sounds like an ESH moment.
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Lone Goat posted:She has a gaming group that she's played with regularly for three years and her boyfriend of four months wants to join in, with no preparation. Why should she take a single step to accommodate him when he hasn't learned to play? lmao if the genders were flipped everyone here would rightfully call the boyfriend a gatekeeping rear end in a top hat
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Lone Goat posted:She has a gaming group that she's played with regularly for three years and her boyfriend of four months wants to join in, with no preparation. Why should she take a single step to accommodate him when he hasn't learned to play? Because that what normal people who don’t get their relationships discussed on AITA would do.
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AITA For Purposefully Making My Brother Snap?quote:My (18f) brother (25m) has been working as a therapist for about a year now. My parents are very proud of him but I've felt like they've always liked him more, saying things like he's the child they've always wanted (I was an unplanned pregnancy), boys are so much easier to raise, and he's so smart and gifted (which wouldn't offend me as much if they'd ever said anything similar to me, which they haven't, even though we've had similar performances in school and activities).
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Mx. posted:AITA For Purposefully Making My Brother Snap? Lmao arrogant golden child hosed around and found out. That kid owns.
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I have melted a kettle twice because I forgot it was there. What did I do? Showed my husband the kettle and burner, we laughed at how dumb I was, and I started taking a timer with me when I left the room. At no point did anybody call anybody else a child. Why? Because screwups happen, including dangerous ones, and we both like each other a lot. An adult can get angry because of danger and not pull out the nuclear weapons. Here's what could have happened. OP could have yelled, left the room, cooled down, and come back and said "Look, I was really angry. Not just because of this fire, but because when I was a kid my house nearly burned down. I'm mad that you made this mistake, because it scared me. Please don't ever leave the room with a pot on the stove again." > I was glad she left because I was still pretty angry so it would give us some time where we didn't have to look at each other. Yeah. And he's now Shocked Pikachu that she decided she didn't want to look at him ever again. He wanted to cherish his anger, but he's upset because she cherished hers all the way out the door.
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Mx. posted:AITA For Purposefully Making My Brother Snap? get his rear end
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Neo_Crimson posted:lmao if the genders were flipped everyone here would rightfully call the boyfriend a gatekeeping rear end in a top hat Yeah weird how different cultural contexts can make the same action seem different when done by different people.
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I've heard therapists explain more than once that they can be thrown out of the entire profession for the stuff the brother is doing. It is massively unethical.
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hawowanlawow posted:listening to people you think are dumber than you talk about their problems all day sounds like a terrible career choice Sounds like a great way for him to always feel superior to other people, really. Maintaining his golden child feelings into adulthood without needing the parents' constant reaffirming.
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JackSplater posted:Sounds like a great way for him to always feel superior to other people, really. Maintaining his golden child feelings into adulthood without needing the parents' constant reaffirming. Lots of very sick people get into mental healthcare
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You can play Dominion with two players (it's not 'the ideal experience' or whatever but it would be enough to help you get to grips with the mechanics of it), he could have asked to play a couple of Baby's First Dominion sessions with just the girlfriend before throwing himself into an established game of people who aren't expecting to have to teach a newbie. It's not like 'doing things with my girlfriend and getting to know her friends a bit' is a zero-sum game. Hell, maybe your boardgame-playing girlfriend would enjoy it if you bought a game neither of you knew how to play so you could learn together? Most boardgamer types I know are happy to teach new players, but they usually do it with everyone at the table aware of this and being fine with it or by playing a game specifically to teach it rather than taking over game night. Generated Wizards fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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Generated Wizards posted:You can play Dominion with two players (it's not 'the ideal experience' or whatever but it would be enough to help you get to grips with the mechanics of it), he could have asked to play a couple of Baby's First Dominion sessions with just the girlfriend before throwing himself into an established game of people who aren't expecting to have to teach a newbie. she loving sucks. Dominion is a great 2 player game and some of the expansions are way too complicated for new players. but most of all, she sucks for putting the needs of "the social dynamic" above her partner.
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loving nerds and their boring games
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Generated Wizards posted:You can play Dominion with two players (it's not 'the ideal experience' or whatever but it would be enough to help you get to grips with the mechanics of it), he could have asked to play a couple of Baby's First Dominion sessions with just the girlfriend before throwing himself into an established game of people who aren't expecting to have to teach a newbie. They're 20 years old and super into board games, so going to bet that their calibration for normal/healthy newbie interaction is a bit off.
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TengenNewsEditor posted:ice cold comment from OP drat
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Also I had a roommate run me through some very beginner's Dominion. It is 200% the kind-of game that's easy enough to pick up the basics but only through playing it like 50 loving times do you start to actually see the meta, and there's no real way around that other than either experience or an extremely dedicated teaching guide. My roommate ran circles around me without even trying, and it was very clearly because they could see relationships between card types that I just couldn't from only having played it for an hour or so. Some games are like that, where until you crack the novice curve you're essentially toddler trash to even intermediate players, and once you crack that curve it's really hard to tune down and let newbies in. Learning which games are like that is a wisdom thing, and yeah 20 year-olds aren't likely to have that unless they played all throughout their teens.
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