A friendly competition should be more about the fun than about the scores.

In this story, one person enjoys playing games with her roommates, but one roommate has become increasingly upset about losing. What started as a fun competition has turned into a chaotic argument. In fact, her roommate even accused her of cheating and demanded that she should never play her own games.

Wow! That was intense.

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This is one of those roommate encounters where a supposedly fun competition turns into a surprisingly tense situation.

I refuse to play Mario Party with my roommate anymore.

I have a roommate that is so aggressively competitive in the weirdest way.

We’re all friends and all hang out in the living room together to watch movies and shows, watch each other play games, and just whatever.

She got really excited when I told her I got Mario Party for my switch, and she wanted us all to play.

This woman played a lot of video games when she was younger.

Well the thing is, as a child I was very lonely. No friends, no siblings.

My single parent worked full time and wanted nothing to do with me after because she was too tired.

So all I did was play gamecube as a kid and, well, into my adult years, too.

As a result, I got very good at games like Mario Kart and Mario Party.

Her roommate got mad at her and accused her of cheating.

I pretty much win everytime, and she gets very angry.

Not just competitive, but like screaming at me that I’m cheating and throwing a tantrum when I do anything that messes her over.

And then, refusing to finish the game because she’s not winning, and then, she’ll sulk for the next few days and act like nothing happened.

So she decided she didn’t want to play with her roommate anymore.

It was whatever. I just decided I didn’t want to play with her anymore, but the game and the console were mine so I would play by myself like I used to as a kid.

One day, she came home when I was playing by myself and started yelling at me that I was cheating and that’s why she can’t win is because it’s cheating to play without everyone else and get better at the game.

She said I wasn’t allowed to play my own game whenever I wanted to. Haha! Like, what?  🤣

What a nightmare she is sometimes.

Some people just take competition a little too far. It’s understandable that OP’s roommate wants to win, but her reactions and accusations may be a little over the top. I agree that OP shouldn’t have to stop enjoying a game they own just because someone else gets upset about losing.

Let’s read what other Redditors have to say about this.

This person has a similar experience.

Another person chimes in.

Whoa! This is crazy!

Plain and simple.

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And lastly, this may be true.

Winning isn’t worth it if nobody is having fun anymore.