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I would suggest that if your boyfriend/girlfriend is cheating on you in a video game, maybe you should look inward and find out why....

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 30 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

"In absolutely no human way is my fiancé playing GTA 6," said one TikToker. "You literally have to maintain a relationship with a girl [in] the video game and text her, and she'll get mad if you don't text her back. You have to take her on dates and you can have [sex] with her. [...] Don't let your boyfriend or fiancé or husband play GTA 6.". Other TikTok creators outright labeled playing the game as cheating.

Holy insecurity Batman. If your partner thinks your character being in a relationship in a video game is cheating, then that sounds like their problem.

Narrative should be flipped. Those people playing the games should be reconsidering their relationship because of how insecure their partner is.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Those people playing the games should be reconsidering their relationship because of how insecure their partner is.

Seriously. I mean, maybe talk things out before going nuclear, but don't accept such controlling behavior as okay. A little therapy can go a long way.

Sure, there are some people who have unhealthy relationships with video games (and fiction in general), and that shouldn't automatically get a pass. I've seen some crazy shit in the Baldur's Gate 3 community. But for the vast majority it's just a game. I mean, I'm not going to fuck a bear, a half-devil, or a squid in real life. I promise.

[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, I’m not going to fuck [...] a squid in real life. I promise.

Maybe don't look up The Dream Of The Fisherman's Wife by Hokusai (yes the guy who did the really famous Great Wave) in case it awakens something in you (okay that's octopi not squid, but...)

[–] SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app 3 points 18 hours ago

NGL, the half-devil is worth it for the memories, but definitely not long-term.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 12 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

You literally have to maintain a relationship with a girl [in] the video game and text her, and she’ll get mad if you don’t text her back.

I guess Rockstar took a lesson from Starfield and is trying to make every aspect of the game as tedious as possible?

[–] Hond@piefed.social 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Couuuusssiin!

Wanna go bowling?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Hell yeah I do Roman!

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I guess if you want to think of it that way? You had to take care of your horse in RDR2 as well but it never felt tedious like Starfield, it felt like immersion.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, there's good ways to do it.

Personally, I don´t like GTA after Vice City (San Andreas on) exactly because it gets bogged down in simulating the aspects of life I'd either rather do in in real life or avoid entirely. A high maintenance GF falls into the latter category.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago

I really hope it's presented as a graphic novel mini game.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 5 points 15 hours ago

My wife helped me to romance Abigail in Stardew Valley.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

Sounds like Rockstar paid tiktokers to push hype lines.

Lonely men who are likely the demographic being offered less loneliness when in reality. It's just a dumb game with hookers that was once about cars.