January 3, 2015 Video Games Are Ruining My Friendship! Hi Brandon, One of my good friends is a guy that I’ve known like forever. We’ve always gotten along just fine until recently. Lately, whenever we hang out all he wants to do is play video games. Not to brag, but I’m pretty good since I play against my brothers. The problem is that my friend is kind of a sore loser and insists that we play the game again and again until he finally wins. It’s getting to the point where his obsession with beating me is starting to ruin our friendship. So, is this a guy thing? Should I just let him win to save our friendship? Thanks, Game-Over-In-Orlando Dear Game-Over-in-Orlando, I hate to sound like your mom, but since you’re in Orlando and not up to your eyeballs in snow, like some of us poor suckers in the northern part of the country, maybe you guys need to put down the controllers and get outside for a bit! I know you probably didn’t expect me to tell you to “put down your gadgets and play in the sun, like kids did back in my day.” And since I’m not your grandfather, that’s not what I meant. I just meant that you have a perfect excuse to stop the 24/7 rematches and do something else: it’s pretty nice out, and you have other body parts you like to use besides your poor, tired hands. Not only will it be fun to do something different for a change, it will also give you guys a chance to do something that he’s better at. Odds are, there’s something. Maybe he’s a really fast bike rider. Or he throws a football like Tom Brady. Or he’s a future NBA player with a killer basketball game. If you give him a chance to shine in some other area, he’ll probably stop obsessing about proving that he’s the ultimate video game champion. This isn’t guaranteed – some people are just sore losers. (And it’s not just a guy thing. For at least 20 minutes after MacKenzie loses Candy Crush, she acts all pitiful and sad like she just broke three nails after a brand new manicure. Then she suddenly erupts and explodes in anger like a volcano! ) But even if that’s the case, he’ll eventually have sore hands, and then he’ll have to stop! I hope this helps!
Savanna says January 11, 2015 at 8:21 pm my boyfriend is obsessed with video games he talks about them nonstop
Artsy dork says January 11, 2015 at 5:33 pm It’s very normal for a sore looser to do that. Both me and my little brother are sore losers. But only my brother can take it that far. Especially for video games. Try and change the subject and say if he wants to go sledding or to go kick a ball in the park. Hopefully he’ll get his mind off of loosing
Hermione Granger says January 11, 2015 at 3:40 pm i never went through something like this, but i think i know what you should try. one of my best friend is a boy and he’s really good at A LOT of things; since i’m older, i’m good at a lot of things, too, and a few of them are a bit difficult for him. thats why we always do something we’re both good at (like battlefield and nerf wars). maybe you can do that, game-over-in-orlando. it doesn’t really matter who wins and loses, cause you both are good at it. -hermione 🙂
Ally_4lyf says January 11, 2015 at 1:03 pm I used to love to play this game called stardoll and then every single person in my class LOVED it as well (not to brag but i knew more than they did since i started like 1 year b 4 they did). But then afterwards they all stopped playing it coz they said they didnt really know how to get up to being one of the “stars” in the game. I still played it but when we got to play on out netbooks at school and they saw i was playing it, they teased me, even though i said that there was once a time when they played it and teenagers play it too, but I don’t know if I should still play it on not sometimes =[ I hope some 1 comments on a back up for this
Amelia says January 11, 2015 at 11:24 am Sometimes sore losers can be really annoying. I once knew someone who cried because they lost a game and they were like ten.
Kkisawesome says January 11, 2015 at 11:07 am Dear Brandon, There are 2 boys I have a crush on but I’m kinda chubby and they are fit they also don’t like me what so ever and when I look at them I start to stare!!! How can I stop staring?? From, Can’t stop staring
TardisCraft says January 11, 2015 at 10:36 am Me and my brother, we both LOVE to play Smash 4 (Super Smash Brothers for Wii U) and, my brother plays that game, a LOT he competes in online tourneys, and can defeat lvl 9s (thats a big deal if you know what i’m talking about XD) , and i lose against him more often than not. It used to be that I would just keep on playing, until i won, but then i came up with this thing for myself, every time we played, winning, wouldn’t be defeating him, it would be not letting him 3 stock me. And then once i accomplished that over and over and over, i would make it to not let him 2 stock me, and then, once i could do that, it would be defeating him. My advice is, if he wins something like, getting more of a score than you, make a big deal about it, he’s probably just jealous of the fact that you’re so good at it. That IS what sore losing is, after all.