by 5cyph3r_
I (18M) play video games on my XBOX in the living room. Today I was playing For Honour (an 18+ game about medieval fighting) with my mum and our dog on the sofa next to me. My sister (15F) was hanging out with her friend (~9F) from our block. They came in so sister’s friend could pet the dog, and i paused the game. When my mum asked me why i paused it (as i was in the middle of a fight) i said because its 18+. The friend then responded ‘its okay, ive watched 18+ before.’
I then responded, ‘i dont care, im not going to play this game infront a child.’ to which my sister called me ‘square’ and my mum called me ‘obtuse’ because sisters friend had said she had watched 18+ before so it was okay. They both chastised me for quite a while before leaving it, and i was left pretty confused and upset.
I thought it didnt matter because the friend was obviously younger than me and my sister, and could have been lying to seem cool, or she could have been telling the truth, but i still dont want to feel responsible for exposing a kid to violence like that.
If she had been 14 or 15 i wouldnt have cared, but i definitely watched 18+’s i shouldnt have at 9 and regretted it.
I guess im wondering if theyre right and i was being a stubborn asshole for refusing to play the game in front of my sisters friend, or if im right in feeling uncomfortable for exposing a child to that.
[edit]
I know my sister was just trying to piss me off, and probably make her friend laugh, what upset me was my mum continually telling me i was being obtuse and it wasnt a big deal for a while after they left the room. She told me off a little bit and i genuinely didnt understand how what i did was wrong or a big deal.
by Ergophobic--
I (28F) recently had my birthday and invited some of my friends and family over for a birthday dinner. My guests all brought me birthday gifts which I appreciated and one of my friends (29M) gifted me one of his favorite books he had been telling me to read since forever but I had never gotten around to. It was called Dungeon Crawler Carl and one of the reasons I never read it even though I am a big reader to begin with is because it seemed almost certainly not my thing. If you don't know, the book is basically like a novelized version of a video game with the character fighting bosses, completing levels, and opening up loot boxes. While I enjoy the occasional video game, I wouldn't qualify myself as a gamer and reading something like that seemed to me to obviously be something I would find a chore.
I thanked him for the gift and promised him I would read it. I started it and got about halfway through before finally giving up. I found the humor grating and the video game mechanics aspect very tedious and annoying to read. This isn't me saying my opinion is objectively correct on this and that no one should read it, but it was absolutely not for me and I knew it wouldn't suddenly click for me and I would enjoy it if I read further.
Later, my friend asked me what I thought about the book and I told him the truth that I got halfway through it and decided not to finish it as I was not enjoying it at all. He got surprisingly upset with me and said he was frustrated that I couldn't read through it all at least before rejecting his gift. I told him I wasn't rejecting the gift and I was appreciative of the gesture but he shrugged that off and has been cold to me ever since.
AITA?
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