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ParanoidEngineer

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So my friend wanted to play Borderlands 2 with me, despite the fact I had no wish to get it. But he persistenly nagged me until I just gave up and spent £40 to get a game I wasn't really all that interested, on a system I didn't really want to play it on. Now I'm playing it, I really like Borderlands 2, but... my friend is making co-op a nightmare.

First off, he jumped into my single-player game (I hadn't fixed privacy controls) without asking, and said we were going to use those characters for co-op, despite the fact I spent weeks planning the best Axton for co-op. I was playing Zero, and Zero, for those of you who don't know, is rubbish in co-op. He doesn't have many skills that help the team, and the skills that are good require lots of killing, so he is useless in co-op. Then, my friend starting stealing ALL the loot in the goddamn game that was good (he even took the snipers, when I was playing a sniper-based Zero)! The final straw? He asked if I wanted to play with him and another friend of ours. I asked "Can I use Axton?" And of course he said okay su- HA! Good joke! He said "No, I'm Axton, you can play Maya or Salvador." I don't like playing the same class in one party in these games, so I went Maya, but got bored quickly and quit (Maya's power is extremely boring). So how do I, politly, tell him to stop acting like a four-year old?
 

krazykidd

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spartandude said:
actully say "stop acting like a 4 year old"
This . This is how you seperate your friends from acquaintances .

Depending on his answer do this:
kman123 said:
Slap him across the face.
Again , friend or acquaintance will be determined here .
 

loc978

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It still amazes me when people like that have friends... you're enabling bad behavior here. Don't be polite about it.
 

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ParanoidEngineer said:

I wouldn't be friends with someone like this in the first place and I'm a very tolerant person.

One of the guys I'm playing Borderlands 2 with right now is a complete jack-off. He'll blame you for all his deaths even when he runs in like a suicidal moron and has a cry because I have more cash than him because I'm smart enough to open all the smaller boxes because they can have good weapons in them. This guy is 22/23, jobless and an egotistical arrogant ass-hole. He's never admitted a mistake and has always shifted blame to everyone but him. He also makes constant disgusting rape/incest/homsexual/all 3 "jokes".

The only reason I'm friends with him is because he spends most of his time playing video games.

See, I focus on the good qualities of a person rather than over-looking the bad ones.
 

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CpT_x_Killsteal said:
ParanoidEngineer said:
This guy is 22/23, jobless
Oi! I'm jobless and I'm not a dick...

But yeah, I cannot really see why you'd have put up with playing with such a guy even for 5 minutes, although I get that you'd rather play with someone you know rather than random joining; that's certainly how I prefer to do things.
 

Denamic

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Maya's power may seem boring at first, but you will grow to like it, as it's actually pretty badass.
For killing off powerful badass enemies, it is the best ability in the game. Period.
Maya + a sniper Zero = Dead shit.

As for lootwhoring in general, at least eridium and ammo is shared.
Which makes gambling at Moxxi's REALLY profitable, as you get the eridium other people win.
 

Gone Rampant

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If on XBOX (Sorry if not), just ditch him as a friend and stop reading his messages.

But Borderlands seems like a fun game- hope Yahtzee reviews it next week (Speaking of which, where was he last week?).

But yeah- Jerk-through and through. Can I recommend you change the title, however? "Playing with jerks," seems to me like a "Vent at people you've met online" thread.
 

Lt._nefarious

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When one of my friends does that I either just completely stop playing that game with them, start being more of a dick than him, invite him into games with other people who are better/don't tolerate him and tell him to stop so I don't have to or, if he's in the same room, beat him with the controller until he pisses blood...
 

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ParanoidEngineer said:
Don't let him get to you, since he wishes to play like it's a competition, oblige him and beat the bastard at his own game, and if he cries foul tell him to put up or shut up.
 

ParanoidEngineer

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The Crotch said:
Wow, that's some pretty big horseshit there.

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I mean, Maya's power is awesome.
Given a choice between healing my friends with a ball of blue light or deploying a two-turreted shielded rocket-firing heavy turret, I'll go for the latter thanks :)
 

Legion

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Why is he your friend?

Seriously, after reading the post that's all I have.
 

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Gone Rampant said:
If on XBOX (Sorry if not), just ditch him as a friend and stop reading his messages.

But Borderlands seems like a fun game- hope Yahtzee reviews it next week (Speaking of which, where was he last week?).

But yeah- Jerk-through and through. Can I recommend you change the title, however? "Playing with jerks," seems to me like a "Vent at people you've met online" thread.
At the Expo.

Takes him about a week or so to make them, I'd expect a delay for a fortnight. I mean, you fly half way across the world, do you hang about and sight see or do you go straight home to the end of winter?
 

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ParanoidEngineer said:
The Crotch said:
Wow, that's some pretty big horseshit there.

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I mean, Maya's power is awesome.
Given a choice between healing my friends with a ball of blue light or deploying a two-turreted shielded rocket-firing heavy turret, I'll go for the latter thanks :)
Way to compare a mid-tier skill in the harmony tree with a maxed-out guerilla tree and half of the survival tree.

I'd rather be able to mind control enemies, with the mind control switching to a new target whenever the present one dies, while my acid-cloud-creating bullets ricochet from enemy to enemy than have increased magazine size on my assault rifles.

Captcha is the name of my favourite band: no means no