Today, I've been waiting months for the release of the new Zelda game that I've waited YEARS for them to make. Go figure, I'm approaching 40, have committed to a fuck-ton of adult obligations, and now won't have any time to actually sit down and play it when it finally comes out. I don't even have kids! FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, for his birthday, I bought my son the Xbox game he wanted. Seven hours for the game to install, two hours to download, then install an update, which failed twice and had to be restarted. He was a nightmare all afternoon waiting for it, then it was bedtime and the game still wasn’t ready. FML
Today, I spent a good hour playing a life simulation game so my character could go through the stages of pregnancy and labor, only to jealously cry for an hour because my character can successfully get pregnant and have a baby, and I can't. FML
Today, I just wanted to make a Sims 4 house, but it turns out that it hadn't been updated in a while, and I didn't even know. So, I am currently waiting for the update to download, and it's taking so longggg. FML
Today, I spent all day making preparations and buying food for my upcoming birthday. It's not for a party, though - none of my friends wanted to come. I'm preparing for the launch of the new World of Warcraft expansion. FML
Today, I went into labor with my first child, and as much as I pleaded, I had to wait for my husband to finish his raid in World of Warcraft before he'd take me to the hospital. FML
Today, despite the fact that I've lived alone for four years, and have a well-paid job, my father is still whining about, "Why am I still playing video games at age 32?" FML
Today, I had to delay the Father's Day dinner that I had to cook, so it wouldn't conflict with my wife and kids' gaming schedules. FML
Today, my roommate walked in on me playing Ocarina of Time and snarkily asked me why I’m playing a 20 year-old game. Apparently I’m not allowed to like stuff that didn’t come out this year. FML
Today, my husband was 45 minutes late to our wedding reception. Later, when I asked him why, he said, "I was playing Legend of Zelda and had to finish my quest." He thinks this is an eligible excuse. FML
Today, I found out that my girlfriend stopped getting her birth control weeks ago so she could afford a new Nintendo Switch. FML
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tiptoppc 21
I’m in the same situation and working 20 hours a week overtime. Barely enough to pay for the food and the rent and even though I like to gain, I don’t even have time to do it because my weekends are also taken up by my job. It’s also why I’m quitting the job because I’m getting tired of it. But yes, when you adult, you barely have any time for yourself. The worst part is our generation is likely not to have a retirement as the boomers pulled the ladder up with them, and will likely be the last generation able to retire unless something majorly happen soon. I’m almost praying for a civil war. I know the boomers won’t be able to fight and that’s gonna give me some satisfaction knowing they’re too old to fight back when they created the situation that were facing. I might sound vindictive, but that’s because I am. They worked way less hours than us. They made way more than us. They were able to afford a house on a single income. Where is two adults in an apartment? Both working are barely making ends meet and the only thing that we would usually do to bring our morals up. We don’t even have the time for it because it’s being stolen from us. **** everyone’s life who’s in that position. Hell, I am in the higher echelon it and I don’t even get paid enough to pay for my apartment by myself. **** Nebraska in particular. And thanks to gerrymandering, the farmers drowned out the rest of the voice again, didn’t learn the ******* lesson. They just voted in the same old corrupt assholes again and we’re still in the same situation and even Iowa woke up to see that their economy was completely shit and things needed to change. We got bested by Iowa. I am 41 and this kind of post seems to be very common for our generation. We’re hated by the older ones overheated by the younger ones. Blamed by both sides and have no power.