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Imaginary-Newt-493 · 2021-08-06T23:48:34+00:00

My father sang in a Barbershop chorus, played co-ed softball with my mom, and volunteered at church (happily and enthusiastically). He worked, and enjoyed cooking gourmet meals, yard work, and pitching in on the housework. His mother taught him floors were a man's job, and he took pride in his janitor style mop bucket. Oh, and he also raised 9 children, two with disabilities. I can't imagine my father having the time to play video games, nor even wanting to.

My husband exercises in his free time, or reads publications that help him to better understand the world and his career. He takes our son to swim practice and volunteers at his school. He doesn't "help me around the house". He does his share. Period. Ladies, don't settle. I had to divorce one man child who played games all day and contributed nothing to society. I'm so glad I didn't reproduce with him. Great men are out there. Incidentally, can you imagine if women held onto our childhood hobbies? What if I invited my girlfriends over to drink wine and play with my new Barbie dreamhouse?

shockingupdate · 2021-08-06T23:19:59+00:00

On top of all the obvious terrible things about this I’m concerned for IRL Homer Simpson’s eyesight, that TV is enormous do you have to be literally one foot away from it

throwaway715123 · 2021-08-06T22:36:16+00:00

I see a man with no neck.

Merryprankstress · 2021-08-07T02:10:48+00:00

Jfc this is the biggest cope in the entire world and I should know because I also was with a man who "provided" for me and was "safe" at home playing games from the moment he was off work until bedtime (While I cooked every meal we ate and cleaned our place solo with zero attention or affection). But whenever I was at work he was talking to girls on his secret Fetlife account that I eventually found. These video game addicted/porn sick men are lost causes who have blown out their dopamine receptors and they need to push the envelope and numb out from reality more and more to get their fix. Nothing real or tangible will ever satisfy them, they want what isn't real or what they can't have and often that desire fuels their entire existence. Let the streets have them ladies, we don't need that shit.

lolmemberberries · 2021-08-06T23:30:28+00:00

"The daily war he has within himself."

All this purple prose wasted on a man who she hovers over while he plays video games because he won't otherwise converse with her?

shelballama · 2021-08-07T01:03:41+00:00

tHe DAiLy WaR He HaS wItHiN HiMsElF

😂😂

You mean existing and doing the bare minimum? Wow, better give him a cookie

glowmilk · 2021-08-06T21:30:49+00:00

Wow, a whole paragraph just to say, “my man plays video games all day” 🤣 I gotta give it to her - The way she wrote it sounds all poetic and profound, but it’s still the same shit no matter how you dress it up!

Owl-right · 2021-08-07T00:26:53+00:00

Lmao imagine watching a giant thumb play a dumb video game for hours upon hours while he ignores your existence and all responsibilities in some big ass noise cancelling headphones, waiting patiently for a scrap of attention. Nah I'm good.

all_or_nothing_bet · 2021-08-06T23:09:48+00:00

Next on Pickme TV: "As long as he is using toilet and not soiling his pants I'm happy", " If he breathes he's good enough for me" and other funny stories from our "How Low Can You Go" series 🤡🤡

Eystayc · 2021-08-06T21:56:47+00:00

It’s a shame more men won’t actually go to therapy for the “wars they have within themselves”. Instead they sit in front of a screen for hours upon hours while their life just passes them by. To me that’s not a happy person. As someone who has a child, my NVX would sit there and mindlessly waste away at call of duty with the guys while our toddler child begged for his attention. It was quite sad. I like video games and all but I don’t use them as an escape from reality and I don’t let my video game playing interfere with my responsibilities as an adult. Be a damn father to your kids.

Coffeecatssunnydays · 2021-08-07T02:11:41+00:00

Ok so we are in hell and this is the bar.

A balding thumb looking at a video game gun on a screen

arnezuara · 2021-08-06T20:29:57+00:00

She’s glad he’s not out there, cheating lol. Plot twist: he is.

EffectiveHoneydew422 · 2021-08-07T02:21:40+00:00

"nourish" 🤢🤮 no. just no.

HumanAdhesiveness360 · 2021-08-07T02:57:26+00:00

How SAFE does this mfer need to be? What in the world is happening? And how do you have HOURS to sit when y'all have kids?!! I have so many follow up questions!!

djfrankenjuice · 2021-08-06T22:15:44+00:00

She’s acting like playing video games is an hour of yoga/meditation in the morning. Nah sis, it’s the only way he’ll stay in the house with you and the kids around. Please talk at him and feel fulfilled at his reply grunts.

GiraffeLibrarian · 2021-08-06T20:23:18+00:00

Huh. I see a man with no definition between his head, shoulders, and neck. Maybe get him a wii fit?

lillylilacladybug · 2021-08-06T20:40:29+00:00

Why does the keep saying safe and at peace the way you talk a suicide bomber down? Is he mentally unstable and violent? So in that case the question really becomes should he be playing gun based video games?

ChanelOberlin2015 · 2021-08-07T01:20:21+00:00

lol what is this emphasis on "SAFE" about? So bizarre. You're really grasping for straws there, Pickmeisha.

Also, just gonna point this out: he is so fat I can tell he is fat from a picture of the back of his neck. He may be safe from...gang violence? Strumpets? Lol, whatever this pickme thinks he may be safe from, but he ain't safe from diabetes. He should find a hobby that lets him exercise instead of sitting for "hours" playing vidya.

superderpina_ · 2021-08-06T20:33:10+00:00

Or you could… hm idk, have an actual married life? Spend time with your children? Just an idea.

zazaleaz · 2021-08-07T00:10:05+00:00

She talks to him through those headphones while he finds peace customizing his weapons. Mmmkay

Phoenix__Rising2018 · 2021-08-06T20:33:40+00:00

"SAFEEEEE!" = Can't cheat because he's home, and also a fat loser. It's extra pathetic she has to couch her fear of him cheating under the concept of being "safe". What is this man not safe from out on the streets or at the gym? Other than a heart attack. Give me a break. This is the kind of woman who tries to claw an other woman's eyes out after accusing her of trying to have sex with her husband because she looked in her husband's direction to avoid bumping into him at the store.

Cindernight · 2021-08-06T20:43:58+00:00

Good job staying off the streets Kevin, oy vey. Like it's something a scrote accomplishes and not just a basic marker of a decent man.

r4nd0m-u53r · 2021-08-06T21:03:31+00:00

I have no problem with a man playing a healthy amount of video games to blow off some steam, or picking a game to play with each other for a few hours.

I take issue with how our society has normalized excessive video game playing.

Any hobby taken to the extreme that men take video games is unhealthy and addiction. Yet we view playing video games from when they come home from work to when they go to bed as fine. "It's just unwinding", "He's just a nerd", "Hardcore gamer" etc. This needs to be recognized as a bad habit and maladaptive coping strategy. If you are gaming for 4+ hours a night every night, what are you not dealing with?

08__80 · 2021-08-06T20:25:39+00:00

Imagine your husband is staring at a giant metal dick on the TV screen and this is the story you need to tell yourself so that you don't cry yourself to sleep.

Girl, what conversations are you having with him for hours while he's wearing those headphones??? Stop embarrassing yourself.

Kimpractical · 2021-08-06T20:23:38+00:00

And while she talks to him as he plays his video games he’s mostly likely wishing that she would shut the fuck up

ccro7 · 2021-08-06T21:09:39+00:00

Enjoy a long life, sis. A long life staring at the back of his head.

Warring with situations around him? He's not a Navy Seal, he's a little boy who is refusing to act like a real dad and pay attention to his family. And you are proud of him too. Congratulations, you have an extra child to raise on your own.

Novemberinthechair · 2021-08-07T01:30:25+00:00

Oh dear, he needs to feel safe? My goodness, what a princess. Based on the thickness of his head and neck, I can't imagine why he's such a precious, fragile pea.

arwenagon24999 · 2021-08-06T20:55:25+00:00

legend says she's still looking for his neck.

BlueSkiesOverLondon · 2021-08-06T22:01:50+00:00

I doubt he wants her to talk to him for hours while he’s playing lol. This is such a desperate attempt to seem relevant to his life at all that my secondhand embarrassment is actually painful.

NotYourCirce · 2021-08-06T21:11:29+00:00

Why’s he at war daily though? So much mention of his inner peace I have to think he’s abusive when he’s not sitting in front of the tv

Equal-Ear2312 · 2021-08-06T21:17:53+00:00

Da fuck!? Some thick neck wearing a cap indoors looking at CGI guns?

"Playing"

I bet he's waiting for his sandwich

ProseNylund · 2021-08-06T21:51:34+00:00

“Daily war within himself” is a giant red flag

catlady4u · 2021-08-06T20:48:09+00:00

I see a scrote who prioritizes his stupid fucking video games over his relationship. I also see his pickme SO enabling his bad behavior.

MajesticSkyPachyderm · 2021-08-06T22:08:41+00:00

Write a few more paragraphs, maybe then you'll convince yourself it's true. 🙄

IndigoTR · 2021-08-06T23:19:45+00:00

I just know there’s a “Live, Laugh, Love” print on the wall right outside of frame.

Anyways, nah. You don’t need to justify everything your partner does. You can choose to stay with them ( 🤡) but doesn’t mean you have to make excuses lol

CatusCactus · 2021-08-06T21:40:45+00:00

Sounds like she’s trying to cope with him spending all his time playing video games & being a useless partner. He probability doesn’t live in a war zone or very dangerous area, but her post seems so dramatic. Come on now, he’s a grown ass man who lives in the suburbs; he can keep himself safe!

She needs to get a new hobby instead of being a pickme on Facebook 🤡

extragouda · 2021-08-07T03:47:50+00:00

"the daily war he has within himself and his surrounding situations"

She means: he's not mentally healthy and has questionable behavior, I need to keep an eye on him, I'm exhausted so I just plop him in front of the computer like the way some parents give their toddlers ipads.

Reminds me of a woman whose husband has to have his "boys' game night" once a week NO MATTER WHAT. Her 4 children screaming and 1 with the flu? Boys' game night. Her fridge stops working and she needs to clean it? Boys' game night. I asked her why her husband always goes to boys' game nights during emergencies. She said, "well, it's better than him blowing off steam at a bar! [snort]."

Painfulmenstruation · 2021-08-07T03:58:07+00:00

SAFE. Safe from whom? What does she think he’d be doing if he weren’t at home playing video games?

HereForTheFreeFoodOk · 2021-08-07T07:15:14+00:00

Ew - he has no neck.

Sis you can keep him

Nobody wants that. Nobody.

Geocities_SEO_Expert · 2021-08-06T21:24:02+00:00

Women have got to stop handing out homemade purple heart medals to men who probably work the back room at Walmart or TJ Maxx. If the night janitor at Wendy's is going through a personal war every day, he needs to look at his own choices, not a TV.

Men do not do this for women. If anything, most men think their wives or girlfriends have easy bullshit jobs.

top_of_the_stairs · 2021-08-06T20:26:02+00:00

This might just look like me about to barf 🤢 most likely because this post makes me feel like barfing 🤮

feelgoodlost_ · 2021-08-06T23:40:30+00:00

I can hear him screaming and imagine the stench from here. I want to pinch that neck fat with the clip on the chips he’s probably eating. Then tell him to go be a man, parent, and get off his lazy unwashed booty.

whatrutalkinbout · 2021-08-07T02:16:44+00:00

I should be proud of him for staying off the streets… I’m … speechless

ShieldMaidenLagertha · 2021-08-06T20:24:34+00:00

The bar is in hell.

YesPleaseMadam · 2021-08-07T05:47:17+00:00

what war? against toilet paper?

fierce_and_mighty · 2021-08-07T08:02:52+00:00

I’m sorry but if your man is going through “daily war” he doesn’t need games, he needs professional help 🤦🏻‍♀️

warinmymind94 · 2021-08-06T23:57:27+00:00

Anytime a man says he plays video games it's an instant swipe left or delete/block. They come home from work and on their days off this is all the do.

He won't help out around the house. He will be making more messes. He won't grocery shop. He won't do laundry. He will expect you to make him hot meals and clean all the dishes.

run.

wonkyeyes8877 · 2021-08-06T22:18:50+00:00

A man-child. Disgusting.

ninefiveoneone · 2021-08-06T23:21:58+00:00

She’s right, there is nothing wrong w a man playing video games. My HV brother enjoys an hour or two of FIFA a week. You know what he’s doing the other hours of the week? Working to provide, staying off the streets, cooking his family dinner while his tired wife naps, being coach of his kids soccer team, watching a movie with his wife, reading books to his children before bed every night, volunteering at his church, using healthy coping skills to deal with the stress of life, exercising to keep fit.

This “he’s doing the bare minimum so he deserves to have everything else he wants” shit has got to stop. Women need to demand better.

It makes me sad that this woman is just relieved he’s not out getting drunk all night or cheating on her and so writes an entire treatise that may as well just spell out all her many repressed needs that will never be met w this man.

HengroenAndLlamrei · 2021-08-07T00:19:41+00:00

“Off the streets” WTF, why is that even on the table? Lol.

Look, I enjoy video games. They’re fun. The problem with men playing video games is so often it’s an addiction, like porn. It comes before hygiene, before work, before building quality relationships, hell even before sex with a real person. It can distort the brain (like porn). Make people impatient, short tempered, acclimatized to toxic verbally abusive environments, etc. It’s TOO stimulating and too much if it rots the brain.

I’m not say video games MAKE people violent. Plenty of studies show it’s not that simple. But addiction to stimuli is real and impatience/rage quitting/inability to regulate emotions is totally a thing.

A lot of men simply can’t have a healthy relationship with video games. (I blame social conditioning and biology that makes them more competitive and willing to run into battle against all good sense.)

So sure. For a guy who enjoys to unwind with me by visiting my Animal Crossing island and fishing for a bit while I give him some of the fruit I picked or a guy who wants to work on our Dragon Quest Builders empire and it’s joyful and fun and RESPECTFUL and he’s still actively engaged in the real world, no problem.

That—like most high value men—is rare. Most are playing Cyberpunk and COD and screaming into the void while walking the dog to a digital escort.

2021-08-06T22:44:44+00:00

this is so embarrassing

Bleep_bloop5678 · 2021-08-07T12:16:38+00:00

“War within himself” lmao men are so coddled

PigeonCities · 2021-08-07T13:10:38+00:00

pickme magic spell: write “peace” 10000 times in a post about your man playing a shooter game to manifest change

blumoonrising · 2021-08-06T21:05:52+00:00

She keeps calling him "partner" rather than husband. She's a Forever girlfriend who thinks everyone wants her partner, so she's glad he's at home so she can be sure he ain't cheating.

elainejay82 · 2021-08-06T23:55:45+00:00

Gamer dudes are gross and slobby.

FDS_FullSupport · 2021-08-06T21:35:11+00:00

Is he safe and at peace? Lol while you watch the kids, cook and clean 24/7, of course!

bethjade27 · 2021-08-06T21:57:16+00:00

there’s nothing peaceful about a man child playing video games because whenever they lose all hell breaks loose

sluggish_prune · 2021-08-07T00:33:26+00:00

I have no issue with people playing video games. It’s when it becomes an addiction I’m like 👀

NinjaCynic · 2021-08-06T22:34:49+00:00

Yes, he will be at peace with himself.... until he's not and he throws his controller at the TV and punches the wall. Yup, safe and content, isn't she lucky 🙄

vbych76 · 2021-08-06T21:10:07+00:00

"not on the streets", alright. I know his next destination-his mother's basement..

WhatFreshHello · 2021-08-06T21:49:05+00:00

I wonder if the child is aware he or she has a father.

spinsterchachkies · 2021-08-07T05:45:45+00:00

Oh come ON

IntelligentQuality6 · 2021-08-06T23:54:37+00:00

Man? I literally thought that was a mr potato head wearing headphones and a baseball cap 🧐

FrenchHeel · 2021-08-07T13:52:54+00:00

But what hobby does SHE have where she can completely ignore everything around her for hours?

Nopickmehere · 2021-08-06T21:06:32+00:00

This made me cringe hard. Bleh

Ironsculpture · 2021-08-07T11:36:28+00:00

A woman shouldn't obsess with the "safety" of her own child to such a degree...much less that of a grown man. She's even content with his incompetence and child-like behaviour. Just what kind of Freudian shit is going on here?

IndividualRoutine661 · 2021-08-07T14:40:52+00:00

Pitiful that she begs for attention from a fat man child.

gingerlovingcat · 2021-08-07T20:37:46+00:00

Besides everything else that's wrong with this clownery of a post, how much do you want to bet dude has anger issues and has been arrested or even served time? She's definitely alluding to something with how much she emphasizes him staying safe, finding peace within himself, and even referring to the war within himself and his surroundings. Like, did dude just walk out of active combat and into the house? Bizarre.

sleepysiri · 2021-08-07T17:19:20+00:00

ah yes, to escape the daily war he has within himself, he plays war simulation games.

“i see peace, SAFE, and content” cue giant gun on screen

Ok-Appearance5982 · 2021-08-07T13:45:32+00:00

🤣😂this cracked me up!

onceuponasea · 2021-08-07T14:52:00+00:00

Oh god please🙄

ItsFreezen · 2021-08-07T18:21:53+00:00

Have you checked what's on his phone and computer? Probably think twice about the rubbish you just typed.

2021-08-07T09:25:05+00:00

There was a time I would actually defend this, because I enjoyed playing video games (sometimes for whole consecutive days!) too.

But then I got therapy and gaming holds no appeal to me anymore. It’s pure escapism.

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Author	mjkmeow83
Upvotes	504
Comments	139
Date	August 6, 2021 8:20 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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