Today's conversation

[moonwise]

[Husband calls]

[Brief chat about weekend plans]

Husband: So, uh... your parents... want to know.... ummmmm

[sound of gunfire and dying Nazis in the background]

Me: Help what?

Husband: Ummm... [distracted] whether we're coming...

[More machine-gun fire]

Me: [annoyed] What are you playing?

Husband: What do you think I'm playing?

Me: Medal of Honor. [disgusted] Okay - can you please PAUSE THE WAR?

Husband: [little boy voice] You can't pause a REAL war.

Me: Tough.

Comments

[pantswarrior]

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*cracks up* Why do I get this feeling that suddenly I know why you like Laguna and Raine so much? ;)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Why, whatever gave you THAT notion? *looks innocent* :)

[pixiedash.livejournal.com]

Omg! Dave was playing Medal of Honor last night too. That game freaks me out. After he dies, he says "Remember, war is bad. Peace is good." Yeeesh.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty freaked out in general by first-person shooter games, but MoH is at least very historically accurate (maps, posters on the walls, props, etc.) Not that this justifies much... shooting people bothers me...

Which Medal of Honor game, the new one?

Re:

[pixiedash.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah. It's the whole panick thing... the adrenaline rush, I think. The people who play that game just shoot maniacally. I didn't go into it too much to learn how accurate it was. At least it's good to know it's intellectually/historically advanced. :P I *guess* that would sort of balance the whole shooting people's guts out. Heh.

[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

I think Supreme Commander Arafel, outranks any general in Medal of Honor.

But yes, I do find that annoying, trying to talk to someone when they are distracted by something else--especially a game.

*recalls a fairly recent conversation--or lack there of--such as that*

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Supreme Commander Arafel has told Chief Petty Officer Husband to pause the damn game and come eat dinner more than once. ;)

I hear ya. Talk or watch TV/play game/have a conversation with someone else. :)

[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

>Husband: [little boy voice] You can't pause a REAL war.

Heh, don't try and take the toys away from a guy when he's playing.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

If guy wishes to talk to wife, he can make use of that convenient "Pause" button. Even if he's storming the beach at Normandy. :)

[athex.livejournal.com]

But it was Medal of Honor!
:)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Pause! Boys with toys. *grin*

[caoin.livejournal.com]

That’s sooo funny! I guess I have done that before, but I suppose people wouldn't play computer games if they weren’t so involving. It is, of course, plain rude though.

Re: shooting people. Remember this is all just pixels. Once you’re playing one of those games, I reckon it all becomes about the abstraction of beating the program pretty quickly, rather than the guts. Actually, I find the military-ness and historical detail more disturbing. Will the obsession with WWII never end?

[arafel.livejournal.com]

*grins* Well, you'd think he'd have put the game on pause before he called me... but oh no.

I know it's all just pixels but it's rather realistic pixels. Esp since there's this one soldier you overhear telling someone to relay the message to his girlfriend that he loves her.. and then you shoot him to get to the radio.

[pipeandslippers.livejournal.com]

Not sure about foregetting about WWII. But I get your point, the thing is not to glorify it. I think games like this can do that. You're invited to be a glorious hero. We have strange ideas about heroism these days, the heros weren't necesserily the people who killed the most people, but this is how you score points in the game.

But don't be too hard on him for playing it. He's only killing time, vegging out and absorbing himself in something else for a while. Perhaps you aught to rent out a war video. One of the ones that really remind you that people die in true terror.

My second recommendation is to buy him a copy of HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean. When I was a boy, like all boys, I had this strange idea that war was interesting and exciting. Then I read this semi-autobiographical account of life on the North Sea convoys which hit home some reality. After reading that he may have some trouble enjoying MoH!

[arafel.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I bought him the game! I'm not going to get down on him for playing it. :) What was getting on my nerves was that he was playing the game while talking to me on the phone. :) He and I both understand that there's nothing fun about real war and that it's all pixels on the screen. Hubby isn't a cruel person, and since he knows it's all pixels, he doesn't mind shooting a Nazi who bugged him in the feet. I'm scolding him, but most of the time I'm laughing while I'm doing it.

My husband is a total WWII buff and he's read extensively on WWII subjects, especially battleships. I'll mention the book to him; I don't think he's read that one.

[pipeandslippers.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I misunderstood. The book recommendation stands though.