Currently, I am fuming at my friend for losing the DVD cases to my Excel Saga DVD's. Now I know they are only cases but when you lend something to someone, don't you think it's common practise to treat it with respect and return it in one piece when it is asked for?
Has anyone else encountered something where it's petty in the long run but it still really gets your goat? And, quite frankly, I'm sick of it.
That sort of gets me when a younger relative of mine starts playing with stuff that isn't his, without the owner's consent. It just makes me go 'bleh'.
Ick. I've sort of had the opposite happen to me once. My teacher lent me some comics he liked and I accidentally spilt quick-drying soap all over them. They got ruined, so I bought some new ones. It's actually pretty nerve wracking to be on either end of that kind of situation.
i treat anything loaned to me with as much care as i can, because it isn't my property and i'd expect the same for anything of mine loaned out.
i'd suggest that you refuse to lend anything to that freind again, especially if that's how he usually treats your property.
Last time I lent my Family Guy box set to my friend, he returned one of the cases without the Disc inside.
Now THAT sucks major arse.
He is currently forbidden to touch anything of mine until it is found.
So far it's been two years and counting.
My roommate CHRONICALLY leaves the game discs and DVDs out...laying around...on the floor...on the TV...on the shelves...anywhere BUT THEIR CASES. Not just his, but MINE TOO. It really pisses me off.
Little things get me.
It's not about the thing, but about the principle behind the thing.
Like I've been known to storm out of tabletop roleplaying games if members of my party do something I consider to be immoral. People are like "Well it's just a game".. but my point is that a moral decision is a moral decision all the same.
Hence, Stanley Millgram and his psychological experiment, where he got unsuspecting people to agree to electrocute someone to death. The fact that of course, no one actually was electrocuted to death (the guy screaming in the other room was an actor) doesn't mean they didn't choose to do it.
well troophead it IS a game, a moral decision from your standpoint is not necessarily "in character"
I played characters who do things I would never do, that's the point of roleplaying.
And unfortunately I am one of the people who tends to borrow things and forget to give them back for ages. Currently I have one disc of an Alias boxed set because my friend forgot to check the case when he came over to pick it up, but I forgot to take it out of the dvd player so..
hmph. I lent my Family Guy season 3 DVDs to someone. the next week he dissapeared from the face of the earth. had to buy it again.
Anger rising.
I loaned my friend Warcraft 2 and he loaned me FFVIII five years ago now. Now we don't even know where each other live.
Ah well. They're both, like, $10 now.
As Cy can attest to, I'm one of those people that leave disks everywhere out in the open, uncovered, or occasionally covered with junk like paper and sharp objects.
But I do my best to keep loaned items safe.
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Like I've been known to storm out of tabletop roleplaying games if members of my party do something I consider to be immoral. People are like "Well it's just a game".. but my point is that a moral decision is a moral decision all the same.
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Man that's pretty harsh. Excel Saga is quite expensive to buy (20 in my local shop that sells it, or 15 online), so i'd be pissed off if a mate lost it. Thankfully, my friends treat my stuff with respect, though I could swear that since I lent my 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' DVD to my neighbour, it's been screwed with because the movie keeps skipping...
That's EXACTLY how my friend is CyKairus. Discs everywhere. In wrong boxes etc. It seems weird but, for some reason, I don't want the discs back until the cases are recovered. Stupid really. I let a more responsible friend hold on to the discs. I guess I should ask for the discs back. I'm hopefully going to get the last two soon.
As for the roleplay thing, I guess it's what takes your fancy really though, I'm like that. I get kinda annoyed when someone does something immoral time and time again. Every so often isn't too bad. That's the wonderful part of videogames, fiction.
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Give that man a cigar.
I've lost so many decent games this way, usually to the same bloke. I guess I didn't learn my lesson the first time...or the second...or third...
My most frustrating scenario was when my older brother lent my games to his friend without telling me. 3 years later and I was still asking the bastard to go get my games, by which pooint he just shrugged and told me the guy had sold them. I really hate my brother.
