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freeshooter
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States477 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-10 03:01:30
April 10 2014 01:35 GMT
#1
Hello all, been a while since I blogged about something. Couple issues I wanna bring up that's happened over the past months.

Blue Mountain State is a funny show. It's on netflix and it's just about a bunch of college football players partying and doing crazy crap like drugs, having weird sexual problems, and other illegal activities. So I was watching some BMS today, and my roommate came in the room, looked at my monitor and asked "Isn't that show just about sex?". The way he asked it was slightly condescending and he sounded like he was mocking my taste in television shows. I replied yeah, then asked him "Isn't true blood just about vampires having sex with each other?". He quickly switched into a defensive tone saying "Well I mean, it's got more plot and depth than just sex". My roommate also watches anime that has some nudity and hentai involved, along with watching True Blood, Game of Thrones, and Spartacus, all of which have double the nudity than BMS. And BMS doesn't even show anything, it's all just college kids with no flashes of anything! Regardless, my roommate needs to learn to control his mouth and not just say anything he wants.

Roommate also plays LoL, and apparently he's good, considering he's reached diamond 1, stopped playing after winter break, started playing again recently and reached diamond again after about a month of playing. The way he talks to his friends in voice chat though, christ, you'd think he was talking to a couple of pubbies. He's rude, condescending and talks shit to his friends, mocking their skill/item builds, yelling at their decisions, and constantly shouting "I'M FUCKING DONE, I'M JUST- JUST-JUST.... DONE!" Are all LoL players like this? Haha, I'm just a Dota 2 player myself, but jesus people in my dorm hear him down the hall and through the walls with our door closed sometimes. He got us in trouble once for yelling during exam quiet hours, but that's not a big deal. I dunno if I really want to live with this guy for another year, but hey, he's a gamer and I talk to my friends too in Teamspeak3, so he doesn't mind when I talk too, although I yell much less than he does.

It's funny, I'm more self conscious about what I say while playing games after I met my roommate. I realize how much of a fucking prick I look when I talk shit through mic, so I learned how to keep my mouth shut when I lose, and just keep cool. So in a way, I improved my temper toward dota by meeting this temper tantrum roommate.

Next, I wanna talk about something else that happened to me during spring break. I was chilling out with a friend in a town couple miles from my hometown. We stopped at a gamestop, just browsing around. When we head out to my car after buying something at gamestop, I see a couple talking to each other in their car parked next to mine. I got in my car with my friend and was waiting to see if the couple next to me was planning on getting out or pulling out, since I didn't want to hit them or their car when I was going to pull out of my spot. Instead, the woman gets out of her car next to me, and knocks on the passenger side of my car. I was a little confused and my friend looks at me confused, but hey, she looked like a woman in her late 20-early 30s, plus this town has stupidly low crime rate along with pretty much my whole state, what's there to fear? I roll down my window and ask her if I can help her. The woman says that she and her friend (he's a guy) forgot their credit card at home, and says they don't have any gas left to make their trip. She asks me for any money that I could spare if I can, quite nicely and politely as well. I'm super reluctant already, so I ask her where her she's headed. She replied some place that I knew the location of, and that was a 30-40 mile drive that was going to take probably half an hour to get there. I started thinking, "Fuck, that's quite a drive... and I don't know this woman".

However, I'm a person that can't say fucking "NO" for some reason. Anyone asks me for anything, I try my best to help someone out, even if it's a random stranger. I don't know why, maybe it's because of how I was brought up, do the christian thing, even though I don't believe in God and my mom tried to get me to go to bible study LOL. Plus it would be super awkward just saying "no" and sitting there staring at her wondering how she thinks of how much of a douche you are. In the end, I give her $20, that's enough gas to make it I think, or at least get to a gas station and asking someone else for money. She says "Oh thank you! God Bless you!" and all that stuff. Immediately as I start driving, I start wondering, "I gave a random stranger a free twenty dollars..." I ask my friend next to me what he would've done to comfort me into thinking I made the right choice. He just replies, I would've just given her ten, and you could give her ten, so we'd both just give the same amount. My friend ended up getting me food and ice cream for the $10 he would have payed her. Still, I couldn't get my mind of that woman. A day later, I go back to the gamestop to make a return, and I kept an eye out for that woman and car, just to make sure I wasn't getting gypped. No sign of them, and even if they were there, what would I have done? Give them a taste of my "combat skills"? LOL no. I have no combat experience, and they could pull out a gun or something on me.

I don't know if I made the right choice or not, I felt like such a pussy thinking about it so much. Just a mere $20, but I earn that money and some people in life rely on every dollar they earn. I'm not a big spender either, so I usually get a lot of money saved up until I spend it on something I end up regretting that I bought (reaper of souls T_T). I dunno, what do you guys think of that situation? And what do you guys think of my roommate? God my blog is so long now haha, if you read to the end, thanks and cheers! Have a nice day!

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Marcinko
Profile Joined May 2013
South Africa1014 Posts
April 10 2014 04:03 GMT
#2
Your roommate does sound a bit like an ass, but Blue Mountain State is by far one of the worst shows I have ever seen. Usually in South Africa if people ask for money for petrol, and it happens every now and then it is because they want money for drugs. You gave her $20 for petrol/gas, that is the right thing to do, what she does with the money is her problem. Don’t break your head about it too much. You didn’t mention anything about her looking scruffy, so the changes are that she really needed petrol/gas money.
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freeshooter
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States477 Posts
April 10 2014 04:34 GMT
#3
Yeah BMS isn't widely known for a good reason. I find the show funny myself with some crude comedy. And as for my roommate, he's one of the most opinionated people I've ever met. He believes so strongly in his opinion that if you give a counterargument to whatever you're discussing with him, he'll just shit on your opinion saying, "no you're just wrong, I don't give a shit." He will actually say that to his friends in chat during games on LoL, whether it's on LoL or other topics. In real life, he'll politely give a counter your counterargument, and won't sway his opinion no matter what unless you have hard proof of whatever you're saying. Sounds like I'm bitching, but I think it's normal to talk about roommates and get a little ticked at them.
Marcinko
Profile Joined May 2013
South Africa1014 Posts
April 10 2014 04:55 GMT
#4
Roommates can be a real pain in the ass. I once lived with a chainsmoking sloth.
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docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
April 10 2014 05:57 GMT
#5
BSM is a cool show depending on if THAD CASTLE IS YOUR MOFUCKIN IDOL. COCAINE. Anyways, when it comes to the gas stuff, there is no right answer. You did what you felt in the moment and that's good enough. When it comes to the LoL roomie, that's not just LoL, that's all sports and hobbies. Today I got told by a 60 year old that I suck at hockey and shouldn't play uncompetitive drop-in, he's not even good; same story, different sport, same shit, different day. It's a mindset of being in control and being better than the next person, its not a game-centric kinda deal.
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
April 10 2014 07:22 GMT
#6
Your roommate sounds like a bit of an ass personality-wise, but if he keeps his shit clean and does all his roommate duties without qualm then it's not so bad. If he was more forthright with his arrogance and attitude to you then I would say ditch him.

I've watch half an episode of BMS at a friends place and it seemed pretty funny. I don't mind crude humour like that though.

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Not sure what I would have done with the lady asking for money. Most of the time I don't have cash on me and use credit/debit so I honestly wouldn't have anything to give. If I did though, I'm still not sure what I would have done. It would probably depend on whether or not I actually believed her. If you're going on a trip somewhere it's pretty much standard to check Wallet(money)-Phone-Keys and neither of them remembering that in addition to coincidentally not having any gas in the tank would make me think they're lying/scamming. Even if they weren't lying, a half hour drive for a friend/family member to do them a favour isn't the end of the world. I probably would have lied in this case or given them $5 and told them to take the bus. Maybe I'm a horrible person :/
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
phyre112
Profile Joined August 2009
United States3090 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-10 10:44:39
April 10 2014 10:43 GMT
#7
BMS is a hilarious show in my opinion - and in my experience, the people who find it offensive or otherwise "below them" aren't the kind of people I want to spend very much time with anyway. I'm not saying it has to be your favorite thing, but suffer through a half an episode with a grin on your face, and then move on with your life. There's no reason you have to go putting down someone who does enjoy it.



There's a kickstarter up for a BMS movie. That'll be the first movie I've seen in theaters in YEARS if it ends up happening.

And your room mate sounds like, again, the kind of guy I wouldn't want to associate myself with... but I have figured out that there's a difference between tolerating someone enough to live with them, and being their friend. If you're in a dorm with him, it's harder, but when you move into an apartment and you can close a bedroom door it gets ten times easier. Just so long as he keeps his shit clean, pays his rent on time, and knows when too much poking in your business is too much.

I got drunk and gave a homeless man who was begging outside the bar $20 last weekend. I only make $400/month atm, and $20 is usually enough to feed myself for three days, so that's a lot for me. I reasoned that he's going to spend it drinking, but if I were to have kept it I'd have done the same thing. I'll probably be more productive sober than he would have been, so it was money well spent. Either way, it's done. Learn from things, but don't regret them. The only way we can move in life is forward. You might want to learn to say "no" though. It really is quite satisfying sometimes.
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