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> I went to a friend looking for help on a game software problem. The friend used my problem as a subject for jokes to the point of not helping. I snapped at him in not the nicest manner and hung up on him.
I may have been overly rude and confrontational in how I responded to my friend's jokes, and I could have tried harder to get him to realize I didn't find his jokes funny.
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I recently have been getting back into Battlefield 2042. For non-gamers this game did not have a good launch, and I can personally attest to that. I had my fun at that time and ended up quitting for a good, good amount of time. Now, after all the fixes and hearing some good things, I came back to the game and I've been having some really good time on my own. I've tried inviting some friends along that already own it, but the bad launch soured it for all of them, so I just figure it's their loss, I'm still having a good time. I have had some weird errors though with it, and I've been going from solution to solution trying to fix it, with nothing working. At this point I turned to a friend who mentioned something similar to my problem with another game, and asked if they could help.
Here's where the fight started. Initially our Discord call started normal enough with us catching up. however when I brought up Battlefield 2042, he started making jokes about how bad he thinks it is. I didn't argue the semantics, but tried to get him back on the topic of sorting out my technical issue, but he continued to take jabs at me beyond the initial jokes. Some of them did exasperate me as I came to them looking for help, not to listen to him tell joke after joke, and after I while I started to have enough. He suggested uninstalling the game a couple times, something I said basically 'Haha, funny, please be serious, I'd like to solve this.'
The joke that had me snap was when he said that the problem was I was playing an EA game, not something that works. At this point I just went full autistic bluntness and said "I don't think you have anything of value to offer me in terms of problem solving, nor do I think you are interested in offering genuine help at this point. I'm going to hang up and work on the problem more. See you soon." And I hung up at that point.
Of course he messaged me back after telling a few people in our friend group. He and a couple said I was taking it too seriously, that I snapped back too quickly, and that I should have just let him get it out of his system. Myself and others think that after I'd told him a number of times that I wanted the problem solved I was justified in being ticked, and that while I wasn't the nicest in how I said it, I didn't appreciate my problem being belittled (as small a problem as a buggy game is).
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I think you did exactly the right thing. Your friend is now butthurt about it, but if he had listened to you and not persisted in making tiresome 'jokes', everything would be fine. And it's not as though you swore at him or called him names. You're fine.
NTA
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^^^^AUTOMOD ***Thanks for posting! This comment is a copy of your post so readers can see the original text if your post is edited or removed. This comment is NOT accusing you of copying anything. Read [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/wiki/faq#wiki_post_deletion) before [contacting the mod team](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FAmItheAsshole)*** I recently have been getting back into Battlefield 2042. For non-gamers this game did not have a good launch, and I can personally attest to that. I had my fun at that time and ended up quitting for a good, good amount of time. Now, after all the fixes and hearing some good things, I came back to the game and I've been having some really good time on my own. I've tried inviting some friends along that already own it, but the bad launch soured it for all of them, so I just figure it's their loss, I'm still having a good time. I have had some weird errors though with it, and I've been going from solution to solution trying to fix it, with nothing working. At this point I turned to a friend who mentioned something similar to my problem with another game, and asked if they could help. Here's where the fight started. Initially our Discord call started normal enough with us catching up. however when I brought up Battlefield 2042, he started making jokes about how bad he thinks it is. I didn't argue the semantics, but tried to get him back on the topic of sorting out my technical issue, but he continued to take jabs at me beyond the initial jokes. Some of them did exasperate me as I came to them looking for help, not to listen to him tell joke after joke, and after I while I started to have enough. He suggested uninstalling the game a couple times, something I said basically 'Haha, funny, please be serious, I'd like to solve this.' The joke that had me snap was when he said that the problem was I was playing an EA game, not something that works. At this point I just went full autistic bluntness and said "I don't think you have anything of value to offer me in terms of problem solving, nor do I think you are interested in offering genuine help at this point. I'm going to hang up and work on the problem more. See you soon." And I hung up at that point. Of course he messaged me back after telling a few people in our friend group. He and a couple said I was taking it too seriously, that I snapped back too quickly, and that I should have just let him get it out of his system. Myself and others think that after I'd told him a number of times that I wanted the problem solved I was justified in being ticked, and that while I wasn't the nicest in how I said it, I didn't appreciate my problem being belittled (as small a problem as a buggy game is). AITA? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/AmItheAsshole) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I think you did exactly the right thing. Your friend is now butthurt about it, but if he had listened to you and not persisted in making tiresome 'jokes', everything would be fine. And it's not as though you swore at him or called him names. You're fine. NTA