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

[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.