Man wins game against girlfriend's 12-year-old brother, faces blame when he has a meltdown about it: 'She accused me of deliberately making her brother cry'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Dec 13, 2024 6:00 PM EST

Learning not to be a sore loser is one of those valuable life lessons that rarely come easily. Unless you are already that way inclined, it is a development that is only going to happen when you get humiliated and some may argue that the younger that happens, the better.

However, this can sometimes be controversial when you are not the only person who believes that it's unfair. This is a situation that one guy found himself in after his girlfriend's younger brother told all his friends about how bad he was at gaming. In retaliation, he played Call of Duty against him and pretty easily won. This greatly upset the preteen, leading his girlfriend to tell him that he should not have behaved so harshly. When it came to the internet to decide, though, they had very different opinions on how the whole thing should have been reacted to.

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    AITA for beating my gfs brother at a game when I would normally let him win, to prove a point?
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    When I would visit my gfs house I would sometimes play games with her little brother who is 12, when I would play competitive games against him I would normally let him win. Call of Duty etc. I was visiting again a few days ago and her little brother had 2 of his friends over and I overheard him talking about me.
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    He was telling them how bad I was at games and it must make me mentally disabled to be so bad(he used more offensive language). He said my gf must be stupid to be dating me too. I could hear his friends laughing about it. It was quite hurtful as I had tried to be friendly with him. A bit later I said to him want to play some games buddy and he acted polite but I could see his friends laughing to themselves. I played call of duty against him and did not go easy.
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    His friends were now laughing at him and he was on the verge of tears before he stormed off to his room. My gf wasn't happy, later in the car she accused me of deliberately making her brother cry. I told her I wasn't trying to do that, I just didn't like how he was talking about me or her. Aita? She said he is just a kid and I should have just left it.
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    PhilosophicalWarPig NTA. Your gf's brother trash talking you behind your back wasn't cool. Calling you mentally disabled wasn't cool. I know he's just a kid, but he's a j. He needed to be humbled. Good job OP. Keep smashing the little sh : lol.
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    CleanPerspective2345 Exactly! He crossed a line talking about you like that, especially in front of his friends. Sometimes a little humbling is necessary.
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    Alternative_Contact4 Just to share some thoughts, this kid tried to look cool for his buddies and the simplest way try to look cool is to throw some sh on some adult, so he is j who was walking the simplest way.
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    PsychologicalGain757 I don't care. Anyone who uses what I'm guessing is the R word deserves to be shown up in front of and made fun of by their friends. Twelve years old is definitely old enough to know better than that.
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    critsonyou I didn't have an older brother/sister growing up, but I (did) have a cool a uncle who played video games and gave me access to unlimited pc hours if I was visiting him. I used to talk about how awesome he was to all of my friends.
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    Miss Judge_and_Jury NTA. It's a harsh world. He shouldn't be taking about anyone like that. Hope he learned a life lesson and a good reality lesson!
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    Prepheckt Don't dish if you can't take it......
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    Gileswasright NTA - this is why you don't let your kids or any kids win just because they're little. They'll learn.
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    Bedivemade I've been playing chess against my niece since she was 6. I'm not good at the game, but she didn't beat me until she was 11, and I wasn't going to let her. Why would I want to rob her of 5 years of built-up rubbing it in my face. I was so proud of her and took the dancing and name- calling like a man.
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    Fungiblefaith My oldest daughter (8) likes to play a specific racing game. I dust her as hard as I can. No quarter, no mercy, no going easy. She would get sideways now and then but get excited about second. She started getting a lot better recently after figuring out a couple techniques by watching. She beat me yesterday. Straight up. I have never been so proud of loosing and I told her how awesome she was and how far she has come. She was on cloud 9 all day because she knew without a shadow of
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    shontsu I mean, she's either ok with her brother calling you mentally disabled and herself stupid, or she's not. Ask her which.
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    AddisonRodriguezz NTA. He needed a reality check trash-talking someone who's been kind to him isn't okay, even for a kid.
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    bamf1701 NTA. It is one thing if yo has let him win and he did so gracefully. It became something else when he not just trash-talked about you, but even made personal comments about you and your personal life (like why your GF was dating you). Like you said, you had tried to be friendly to him, but he betrayed that for no other reason than to puff himself up in front of his friends. Your GF was wrong - you should not have just left it. Her brother learned a valuable lesson about treating people
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    Frosty-Succotash-931 NTA. Kid learned or should've learned a valuable lesson today.
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    WizBiz92 I would have maybe driven the point home by opening with "hey, I heard you talking about me and it really hurt my feelings. Lemme show you something." Either way, NTA
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    Zonie 1069 NTA but in future you should actually be honest and let a child know WHY something is happening it's a much better learning opportunity for them. at COD but then go talk to him and say that you heard him talking sh about you to his friends and that it wasn't a nice thing to do and is actually a Imove especially as you have been being nice and letting him win, which you were doing out of kindness but he no longer deserves the kindness. He is a 12 year old boy not a 3 years old, he is o
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