SUCCESS!
Hahaha, noo I'm just kidding. So last month I was playing Call of Duty: World at War when my gf decided to stop by. She watched me play a little bit of multiplayer and then I asked her if she would like to play (not thinking of the possible consequences). She was a bit hestitant at first but eventually gave in to just playing for 5 minutes. So I loaded up the first singleplayer mission and watched her play. For those who don't know what happens at the very beginning of CoD:WaW... it's a pretty gruesome scene. Her reaction to what had happened was some what comical I have to admit; and I still remember verbatum what she said while the scene was playing.
"Where am I? Is that my character on the left? Wait, no! Why are you making play this part! Oh great, I love the blood splatter on the wall after he slit his throat. I'm not playing this game" A little bit dramatic? Yeah, but you have to understand that my gf is like that when it comes to violence. So don't be like "ohhh my gf loves violence" because not everyone is the same. The next day I explained to her that not all video games are violent and even the violent games don't really affect people. Right after I told her this, we walked into her living room where her little brother was shoutiing "DIE DIE DIE!" while playing Lego Batman. Irony at its finest.
So after a couple weeks of no encounter with violent video games, yesterday happened. Yesterday was supposed to be a good day... get off work early, have a nice lunch, my gf planned to come over with her brother to get both their hair cut by my sister, and then a movie. Well, I got off work late, ate taco bell for lunch, and my gf did come over as planned... While my gf was getting her hair cut by my sister in the other room, her brother asked me if he could play my ps3. I said, "yeah but don't change the game that's already in there" (thinking it was NHL 09). I turned on the ps3 for him and then received a call from work and had to go upstairs to my room. After 45 minutes of talking to my manager, I come downstairs to see her 8 year old brother playing Red Dead Redemption... Before I could snatch the controller from him my gf walks into the room and asks, "why do I hear people screaming and guns going off? Are you watching a western?" Hahaha, well she looked at the TV, saw it was a video game, looked at her brother holding the ps3 controller sitting right infront of the tv, and gave me that "what the fuck?" look.
Afterward I explained the situation to her and she understood, but was still bothered by it a little. I told her that playing the game for 45 minutes won't change him, he'll be fine and move on. THEN... dinner came along. I decided to have dinner at her house so that we could hang out for just a little more. Her family is very traditional in the sense that they have a home made dinner everynight together. Right when dinner started and everyone was seated, her brother started talking about Red Dead Redemption... for the whole fucking dinner. Saying things like "YEAH YOU CAN TIE SOMEONE UP AND THEN SHOOT THEM" and other fantastic things.
"My brother wants to know if he can come over and play the ps3 again..." just received that text, no joke.
Honestly do I care that my gf now hates videogames because of me? No. But as a hXc gamer I feel that poorly represented videogames and now she won't be able to understand why I play.
Please don't comment saying "oh well your gf is just too sensitive" or "her parents are at fault in the first place". I just posted this is up to hopefully read about it someday and laugh or have others comment about situations like such.
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