My wife has this meme for when someone tries to shame her for me liking to play video games and build Legos/Gundam models.

So is your wife single?

So is your wife single?
I also choose this guy's wife.
- I’ll get in line behind you.
Afraid not.
- Can you ask her just to be sure?
You beat me to it 🤣

One can't judge a relationship on an image alone but… there's a few redflags on this one. I hope for you they're false alarms.

Those are the red flags I need.
- Those are checkpoints.
Checking phone 🙅‍♀️ 🚨

Asked a guy I was on a date with if he liked Lego, and he straight-up laughed in my face and said "No, I'm not 7."

There are no single openly nerdy dudes in my area. Makes me sad.

(well, it actually makes me happy that cool people have successfully escaped this hellhole of a town and are probably living much happier & more fulfilling life)

You'll find someone. Might require a bit of a car trip, but you'll find someone.
- The hardest trouble in nerd dating is finding the nerd
That sucks. Meanwhile as a guy, I haven’t found that nerdy girl yet either. But those matches do happen. My coworker is a giant nerd. LEGO, movies, gaming, the works. She just moved in with an equally nerdy guy. She gave him the LEGO LOTR Barad-dur for his birthday laat month and they built it together. He gives her LEGO botanical sets.
Gotta love LEGO couples :D
I don't like Lego, but it is for a horrible reason: I don't have the money and space for it. There are many things I could like, if hobbies didn't intersect with poverty.
😩
- I want tomove to the country to have a big workshop that I turn into a lego town.
Same problem. Living in a hick town is a special kind of hell.
Don't LEGOS themselves say the suggested age range is 9-99??
find a local hackerspace or maker faire. or sit on the side of the road with something partially disassembled.
There probably are, they're just at home playing video games and shit so you're not meeting them.
- Well, now I'm doing the same thing!

In no way does anyone that must be dragged out of the house have "golden retriever energy"

But I'm still happy for them

I may not fit all aspects of the meme, but enough of it is on point that it's accurate for her.
- It's not about you, it's about the meme itself. The meme says she needs to drag her man out for dates but that he has golden retriever energy.
True. I saw this one meirl post about someone whose favorite thing to do is go run errands with someone and everyone was saying a golden retriever wrote it. So I guess I'm a golden retriever.

a bit cringe though

Let he who isn't cringe cast the first stone
- There's a certain threshold at which it becomes too cringe. Balancing it is the key.
I'm not a fan of judging/shaming others for their hobbies/interests, so it always makes me a bit sad when the defense mechanism is to try to flip the aggression on the other side, trying to shame the "normie" interests.
- Nah, it's the aggressive tone and the GIANT anime picture "edgy" that cringes me a bit, + the "Karen" + the "your man cheats on you", as if us nerds don't cheat (which to be fair, might be a bit true, but there are a lot of exceptions)
If you're not cringe about your spouse you're missing out.
- Noted haha
That's the cherry on top
- they go well together I guess x)

Holy fucking cringe

why does someone try to shame your wife for something that you do, what kind of fucked up people does your wive interact with

The gossipy kind.

Hollow Night

All credibility lost.

Nah. My wife also tries to remember the games I play and sometimes almost succeeds like this. This is close enough from a non-gamer wife
- Also my wife didn't make the meme she just has the meme saved
You let "Legos" pass but this was the final straw?!?
Obviously they're referring to the lore of Under Night In-Birth.
Imagine getting persnickety over a typo/misheard word.
- You think I'm just persnickety? I'm downright cantankerous!

golden retriever

cat boy

Hmm

Look man, no one said the meme was perfect.
- I did. I said it.
  I fucking meant it too. YOU CHERISH THAT WOMAN GODDAMNIT.
  now if you'll excuse me I'll be in my BASEMENT. VIBING. until my WIFE GETS HOME.
Golden retriever ENERGY
An important distinction.
It do be like that
Dog software running on furry hardware.

Lol I love being poly. I love watching people freak out when I tell them my love has a date. "OMG what if they leave you???"

I mean... I'm getting laid plenty myself and if that's what they need then I want it for them. That said, I love her so much, I'm pretty comfortable sharing and everyone wins.

You can hear the gears grind 😌

This is one of those "a fish trying to understand a horse" situations, but as long as there's consent all around and everyone's happy; GLHF.

I'm glad you guys are happy, but I'd want the foundation for trust to be my dedication to my partner, rather than my lack of ambition to socialize irl. -Ideally, and obviously things are rarely ideal.

Oh for sure. And we do. I believe her agreement with the meme stems from the fact that my hobbies and interests don't lend themselves to creating cheating opportunities. I mean I'm sure there are Lego Hoes out there, but they aren't looking for my face/lack of funds.
- I've told my wife that I'm going to strip clubs, because it's one of those bachelor party things that happen (been a while fortunately), and she doesn't bat an eye. I can go to a rave, I can go out to a bar, I can hang out with a group of guys and girls late, and nothing, because she knows I'm coming home. I'd be a little concerned my activities were (or had been, I'm getting oooold) gauged by "cheating opportunities." My wife trusts me implicitly, and it's because I communicate with her.

Very sweet

Where can I get a girlfriend/wife like that?

Asking the same question, I have no idea how to meet new people.

I cannot stand the “work wife” shit.

It's literally a way to test the cheater waters. If someone calls you their work wife/hubby, their dtf and probing you. They just know they shouldn't be because you're fucking married.
just shows how severed many people actually are between real life and work life.
Isn't work person just a way of saying someone who brings you a coffee when they get one?

What adult cares what another adults spouse does in their own free time? Why is someone’s wife having so many conversations about this? So often they have to make a cringe “meme” to respond to these supposedly frequent conversations? Why is this persons wife straight up attacking other women and saying their spouse is unfaithful as if that is somehow the obvious outcome of thinking Lego is nerdy or whatever the point was

This is made up

If only.

gamers cheat too

IDKFA
- IDSPISPOPD

Soo… Hollow Knight. I’ve been looking for a Metroidvania game and this popped up. How does it compare to Metroid? From the trailer footage and the reviews it looks more of a super-precise platformer like Celeste with lots of cruel boss fights.

i lean more towards the metroid side of the metroidvania genre and i spent around 15 or so hours in hollow knight. it has beautiful design and very deep lore. the map goes on forever. the platforming is tough, but not exceedingly difficult. what made me give up is partially that the combat is too fast and goes on for too long, and partially that it has a corpse run mechanic, which i despise.
at least for a while you can get away with exploring somewhere else when an area seems too daunting, but after a while you hit combat roadblocks which means every failure requires a dash back with half health.
Hollow knight is great, it's one of my favorites. However if you are looking for something to scratch a Metroid itch, I'd suggest looking into Axiom Verge.
- Looks awesome, thanks for the tip!
Hollow Knight is great. The bosses are tough, but manageable. IIRC, the only really tough platforming section is optional. I've been picking Metroidvanias from this list lately and been pretty happy. He also has some good maps for them. https://demajen.co.uk/tierlist.html
- I was recommended it after I finished both Oris but I remember getting super frustrated with the death system which made the whole thing too hardcore for me and my 2.7 minutes of free time. Did I do it wrong?
Definitely a metroidvania where combat is a major point of the game. Not my favorite in that respect, since my reflexes get worse with each year that passes. Otherwise, it is in the top five of the genre.
Anyhow, I recommend a dark horse for your metroid fix, provided you are into puzzles. I think La-Mulana 1 & 2 are easily the largest and best games in the genre, but they require lots of out-of-the-box thinking, and some of the puzzles are really hardcore. If you are into Indiana Jones, this really scratches that itch.
The games come in freeware and commercial flavors.
It's a beautiful game. One of the best I've played. I just love the atmosphere, art style and music
It's more focused on combat than platforming (tip: you can bounce off some spikes with a well timed downward aerial attack) and the typical metroidvania exploration and backtracking. Except there's a brutal optional platforming section that I haven't had the courage to face yet 😅
The bosses are tough, but not unfair. Some of the optional ones and the (true) final battle can be a bit frustrating but that makes finally succeeding just all the more satisfying.
Given that it it's a couple of years old now it's cheap to buy even when not on sale, so do yourself the favor and give it a try!
- As someone who's quite a ways through the map, what platforming section are you referring to? (Maybe spoiler tag it)

Are you your wife?

Yes

I’d send them that clip of Will Arnet being corrected on LEGO Masters about the grammatical plural of LEGO. That would be my reply. At least criticize them with proper grammar.

I see according to the company the plural form should be Lego. I'll try and change that in how I speak. It's still early for me so I don't think correcting my wife's grammar is a good thing to do.

Kel, get off the Lemmy. You have work to do.

[EDIT: I do not know this person, I have no idea who they are. If their name IS Kel, it would be fucking hilarious]

That's a little passive aggressive of your wife to send that.

Gotta stay sane somehow.
- That and she gets tired of telling coworkers about what she did over the weekend and be told that her husband must have something wrong with him since he doesn't like sportsball or going clubbing.