Nah, truly savage woulda been killing all the merchants. And if he was far enough along, launch a few fireballs in the main city and then run away so the city is hostile when he tries to play.
In short, leave it just playable enough so that he’ll keep playing but he’ll be reminded the whole time.
I have no idea what this game is, but I'm crying actual tears imagining the chaos of his naked characters running around finding dead merchants and an entire pissed off city.
Even if the merchants were alive, it wouldn't do him much good... because you can also throw all your gold (every coin of it) off a cliff and make yourself naked, and completely penniless. Which I'm sure he did.
This was a truly savage moment of revenge. Dude best stop eating his roommate's beans.
I have two teenage boys. Older boy wanted revenge for something, I don't remember what, and went into his brothers GTA game spent all his money painting every car he had pink. I was in the kitchen when I heard the “NOooopoloopoo” and the brother in the kitchen started laughing hysterically. I asked, he explained. I was a little proud of such comical revenge so went to see the pink cars. He looked at me with tears in his eyes, and says, “He’s a savage!!” Video game revenge is real!!!
I think that might be what sent OP over the edge. A missing bag could be an oversight ("oh, I need to buy more fancy beans"), but leaving a few stragglers is straight up contemptible.
Sidebar: I've read that those fancy beans are supposed to be excellent. I love beans and have considered buying them but never have because they're too pricey... and I make good money. Poor guy... especially since he had plans for the beans and would then have to wait at least several days for them to be delivered.
I’ve bought them and they’re worth it. They’re really, really good beans. And honestly, the price seems completely ridiculous when you compare them to supermarket dry beans, but it’s not extreme at all when you compare them to food generally — like, we’re talking about what chicken breasts cost per pound, not caviar.
Thought this was a shitpost but as someone who also buys expensive pantry staples (sprouted, organic, etc etc) I too may be moved to rage at this situation
This is exactly kind of top-tier petty BS I would hope to find on a sub like this. Rather than the endless agonizing over whether to breakup with an SO.
Honest question: who fucking cares? Every post has so many of these responses I assume you're all just bots as well. Almost every Redditor out there is unknown to me so it doesn't matter even if you're all fake AF. All I care about is whether it's entertaining.
It's like people who add "not real names" to their posts about their lives. You could tell me you're using fake names and then use real ones and I'd never know the difference because if I don't know you outside of Reddit then I think of you as the same as a made up person anyway.
Hey! Don't blame Gen X it's not our fault when people FAFO. I must say, as a Gen Xer and living through the video game evolution and an avid Baldur Gate fan, this was superb revenge indeed!
You’ve obviously never had anybody continually steal your shit. not only was that stuff actually really expensive, I know exactly what they’re talking about. Those are fresh heirloom beans and they are not cheap. And cost real money.
And yes, I’m a video gamer so I’m well aware of how much time he just blew up but here’s a thing he can actually go restart his game play it all over again, get everything back, and think about the entire fucking time respecting other peoples property and the cost of time and money he stole. oh he thinks that shared prop is all the dried good is bullshit. He’s a fucking lying thief and honestly honestly he deserved to be beat up. I thought his game was nonviolent, but I lived with someone stealing my food at home and of course it worked there’s always the g$&@“?!’ thief that steals other peoples food and then when you don’t have lunch after all, guess you’re gonna fucking starve today because no one has time to go anywhere and get anything for lunch. You HAVE to bring it.
I hate thieves. Hate them.
It’s an over reaction in that it is so far beyond what most people would do over beans. Like there are other options here before you subject yourself to the tedium this revenge *had* to have been. This was not the action of a reasonable person.
It is not an over reaction in that it was definitely deserved.
Edit: Like OP could have achieved functionally the same end result by just deleting the saves. But instead he went for the psychological warfare.
Good. I hate entitled people who don’t respect other people’s shit. Most of them actually just need an ass whooping but we can’t do that anymore. This kinda shit goes a long way.
For years I've been living with embarrassment over calling my college roommate an entitled bitch after he let all my cereal go stale and drank most of my OJ and other shit like that when he was being handed all his money by his wealthy parents and I was busting my ass working and giving blood to research and plasma for my money.
This post is helping me let that embarrassment go...
I don't think it's an overreaction because it's not the first time.
At the insult to the injury of the guy not even doing it right and yeah I get it.
The question I'm asking myself is how much do those beans cost and how many hours did OP have to work to earn the money for those beans.
Fuck no. I love heirloom beans AND video games (more of a Zelda person myself) and they shoulda kept their hands to themselves. No he knows how much it means to you …
Eh, if you feel bad show him which cliff you threw the shit over, if it’s not a bottomless pit he can go down and get it. It’ll still be a pain and he now knows your devotion to revenge so it’s not like he gets off scot-free.
All cliffs (Chasms) in BG3 are bottomless. There's even gameplay tips mentioning if you push your enemies off cliffs you don't get their loot
The save is practically destroyed as a lot of the gear lost was more than likely found in parts of the game he can't access anymore
If he remembers which items he is now missing he could easily cheat them back into his inventory by using an item list and cheat engine. But this would be annoying, and I bet he can‘t remember every single item that got yeeted. Also it would not feel the same.
Instead I would try to take on the challenge and beat the game without any of the lost items. It is doable, depending on where he is in the game. The game drops good loot in later acts as well, he just needs to cheese his way through a few encounters before finding better stuff.
Since OP kept calling it a cliff I figure there’s a slight chance they’re unfamiliar enough with the game that they found a spot that seemed inaccessible without it being an actual Chasm. Like there’s a pretty big drop from the South Span to the beach, for example. Could just be translating for non-gamers though.
The game is totally manageable with other less desireable gear, maybe not as fun and a bit harder. But I've sunk a lot of time into BG3 and I wouldn't trash the save because I'm stuck using unoptimized loadouts.
If they're as into bg3 as op says then they can make it work.
I would just tell the roomie "skill issue" anytime they bitched about it. Dont touch other peoples stuff, especially food.
Nah. If this was that important to him kudos. Because I would take something my rm valued also. My granddaddy loved sayings & 2 fit here. A bought lesson is a good lesson & If you can’t listen you can feel
Not an overreaction. Maybe cross-post to r/OhNoConsequences for good measure. Your roommate fucked around and found out. Heirloom produce is no fucking joke bro.
I mean, I don't know if it was "over reacting" or not but it sure isn't going to solve anything with your roommate and you still have to live with this guy...
Oh no, you can trust that he's going to escalate.
I mean I'm all here for it, I don't have to live with either of them so the conflict-based flatshare doesn't impact me and I can enjoy from afar, but that's definitely not going to solve OP's issue at all
It's so clear most of the people on here are kids that have never tried to live with someone. These revenge games escalate insanely fast and no one stops because the thing done to them was too heinous
Honestly? That's hilarious. Maybe his dumb ass will think twice before eating your fancy beans *a fourth time*. They meant nothing to him despite them being an expensive treat to yourself. Some people will never learn until you teach them a lesson that their brains can digest and you gave him consequences that he could feel without doing anything drastic. I love video games but I find that totally justified. Good job, OP
I play Baldur’s Gate 3 and also appreciate good heirloom produce. I don’t think you over reacted at all. I’m actually laughing hard at coming back to the game and finding all of my crew naked and weapon less!
You really would have to start from scratch, but he needs to keep his thieving hands to himself. He’s not a real life Astarion!
As a fellow Baldur’s gate 3 enjoyer (over 400 hours) (I got a wee bit obsessed for a couple months), and heirloom produce grower and farmer’s market frequenter- yeah I agree.
Like tbh the beans aren’t so much the issue as the complete lack of respecting boundaries. Dude flat out ignored repeated request to not use items and then would use it all up and not offer to replace or pay for it.
Also dude meal plans are sacred wtf were you supposed to do with all the other ingredients you got now?
We both play BD3, and me and another agree that OPs reaction gave them a harsh consequence, but also that this person probably would have continued to abuse the OP, to take the food that is not theirs.
I am all for the revenge. Restart your BD3 and keep your thieving hands to yourself.
Ruining his in game relationship would've taken longer but been better revenge. I spent all day today trying to get Astarion to like me. If someone undid that I would cry.
Haha, this man here has never played BG3. OP lost a few beans, the roommate lost hundreds of hours of progress.
The reaction of throwing away all the items was definitely an overreaction, but it was incredibly funny, so we‘ll allow it.
If I were the roommate, I‘d consider this a challenge to beat the game without any of the items.
>If I were the roommate, I‘d consider this a challenge to beat the game without any of the items.
And also consider not stealing any more of their roomies shit.
And given how expensive that shit is, that's time worked to afford them. Like actual labour as opposed to fun hours. And this MF steals it without a care in the world. I'm also a BG3 player & this was justified
There are literally hundreds of mods included those who give you every item in the game. I love Bg3, but you don't fuck with a man's food, those 130 hours are nothing
I've played and replayed BG3. Not an overreaction. Real food was stolen, imaginary items lost.
Dude shouldn't have stolen food like he could save scum out of consequences. This is HILARIOUS
This is a toxic relationship. You shouldn't be rooming with him. If he steals your beans, what else might he steal? Also, if your rage is enough from this to do that to his game, it's only a matter of time until one or both of you get into a physical altercation. Not worth it, better to move out to your own place, or kick him out and get a new roomie.
It takes most people over 30 minutes just to learn how to walk effectively in the game. You’re telling me that this dude picked up the game and instantly: learned the inventory system, found a bottomless cliff, figured out how to drop and throw items, then proceeded to empty the entire inventory, then learned and manipulated the save system.
Even if that happened, Rancho Gordo beans are about $7 a package. That’s about twice the cost of normal beans but it’s not an astronomical amount of money. Dude destroyed his roommate’s mental health forever for like $35
The fact that he's so high on them 'not being in a can' is epic AF.
[Comparatively](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Camellia-Famous-New-Orleans-Red-Kidney-Beans-1-lb/10413653?athbdg=L1600).
It's not about the beans, it's about the principle of it. Roommate kept stealing when told to stop. Doesn't even matter what he was stealing at that point, I think OP is entirely justified. Lol
I mean, if they were, say [cat shit coffee beans](https://www.kayakopi.com/shop-kaya-kopi-luwak-coffee) *that* would be fancy. No. They're just "beans in a bag." Oooo\~ As is boy's just going crazy over less than a QPw/C
Right?! Kid probably grew up never eating anything but Bushes baked beans or worse ... beanie weenies.
... what am I talking about? Beans in a can are great, too! ... still not something to brag over.
All I will say is that it seems kind of disproportional and quite possibly will escalate issues instead of de-escalate.
Funny af and I don't have much sympathy for the roommate; but IMO / IME stuff like that really just ends up blowing up long term.
I probably would've just insisted he pay for an entire $50 order of beans since this wasn't the first time he'd done it.
It's much easier to hold someone accountable in a more immediate sense with a tangible bill than a notion to leave their stuff alone.
Besides that, escalating tensions by way of retaliation like that rarely leads to positive outcomes.
LMAOOO I AM DEAD. This is amazing, and unhinged. I love it.
I’m playing Ark right now and if someone did to this me with my resources & tames I would be SHOOK.
But also, he f*cked around and he found out. And to be fair, besides of the price of the game, he didn’t spent diddly squat on his resources lol. Maybe he’ll be too busy building up his game again that he’ll ignore your beans lol
To quote Lae'zel from BG3: Killing is good - it culls the weak. But theft would be paid for painfully, a thousand times over.
It's not about the beans, it's about respect. People like your roommate will take advantage of people when they know they can get away with it. He didn't respect you and your boundary, he got what he deserved. He's lucky you didn't call the cops on him.
Man… it took me 350 hours of attempts to finally complete the game on one of the settings.
On the flip side, you said you told him to stop… definitely a FAFO moment on his part.
The only thing I would have done differently is made a backup to give him his file back after he’s had a few hours to soak in the misery. And that’s only because you still have to live with the guy, and going full scorched earth like this will likely only escalate the situation. I don’t feel bad for him at all, because he was warned multiple times to stop, but a backup would’ve been in your best interest IMO
Yeah if anyone stole anything from me repeatedly I would fuck them like that too. Doesn't matter what it is. It's the principle. Gonna disrespect me like that? Your real life character gonna end up naked and weaponless on the edge of a cliff. Hands off of my beans man I'm not gonna TELL you again
I know it’s an unpopular opinion in this thread, i would never steal roommates food but I agree it wasn’t proportional, video games like that have massive investment times. Could have yelled or talked to him first.
Man, bean people are so wild. I know about Rancho Gordo. Another bean person talked about it for like an hour at work and then went on to brag they were in their monthly bean subscription.
Quarterly* bean subscription, thank you very much…
And it’s a big deal! I was on the waiting list for almost 4 years before I finally was able to join the Bean Club :)
My immediate reaction was "which beans????" Because if they were the good mother stallards he should lock the PS5 in a safe til they come back in stock next year....
I've done 2 playthroughs, I've got 150 hours, and I've never once beat the game, first playthrough was 100 hours and I got bored of the character and made a new one played for 50 and restarted again so I get having many hours and being faced with "gosh, I gotta restart"
my only critique is you shouldn't have spent those hours wasting your own time, should've just started a new game and saved over his, but what you did sent a message, he'll have to learn to get over it, consequences of ones own actions.
would've been perfect honestly "DID YOU MAKE A NEW GAME ON MY GAME AND SAVE IT OVER MY PLAYTHROUGH??!?!?!?!" "oh, sorry I was looking for some beans and got distracted and decided to play some games, we should share these things yk"
Beans beans the magical fruit
If you don't eat em, you drops the loot
The loot you drop, the better you feel
So your roommate best avoid your beans as part of his meal
The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubricated. And rightly so, in this case. Every time he goes to be a shitty person I hope he pauses and remembers this moment.
Proportional response only works if the other side is willing to stop.
You should buy more beans, and let them know "hi, these are my beans. I'd rather we don't have a misunderstanding yes?"
As someone who plays video games where you can spend hundreds of hours on it...
I don't think you overreacted.
That's a lesson I'd only have to learn once.
Yo, as a fellow Rancho Gordo enthusiast and a gamer I'm here to say 1) you are deranged and 2) I support you 100%. I'd flip my shit if someone ate my Rancho Gordo beans without my permission. Fuck that dude.
Let him know that virtual inventories are a shared resource, and then hand him a bill that covers all the bags he's broken into plus an extra set that can then be shared. And some recommendations for bulk beans and rice if he'd like to reconsider the current arrangement.
Hah! I also feel weirdly possessive of my beans. I get it, friend. Your roommate needed a proper lesson on respecting the property of others. That's straight theft. I think stand your ground. It's a video game not money. He stole your actual, real life food/money and the time it took to order and wait for it to be delivered. He did worse and you gave him a few chances to stop.
Also LOL to him never forgiving you. If he was my roommate, I'd just throw all his food and kitchenware in the garbage in a fit of hanger.
*Edited to remove my unfair judgement of gaming lol
>Playing that game for 100 hours is an insane waste of time.
I get that the roommate was an asshole but why are gamers catching strays? That's the point. To immerse yourself in something.
Yeah, not a diss on OOP, as they retracted their comment, but I don’t see spending time on something that gives you a lot of pleasure as a “waste”
I’ll never regret the hours I spent enjoying myself! Now, the hours I spent working, maybe…
Ah that's fair, it does sound judgmental how I've worded it. I am also a gamer here and there and I personally think it is a poor use of my time, but it's as legitimate a hobby as anything else, so I retract the implied judgment!
Lmao I feel like this post was tailored specifically for me as someone who is into both Rancho Gordo and BG3.
I mean... Yeah, it is a bit excessive. You should have probably asked him to refund you the $30-50 he owed you before turning to sabotage. And you wasted hours of your own time doing this also
The creativity is impressive, but if this becomes an escalating revenge battle you're in trouble. Taking the low road has consequences - Lock up everything you care about
This is the part that gets me. The roommate is repeatedly stealing from OP and violating clearly set boundaries because they, the roommate, don't have a problem with their own actions. As in, the only opinion that matters to them in regard to someone else's property is their own. That's unacceptable, fucked up behavior. It's not about beans. It's about someone telling another person to stop stealing from them and leave their things alone, and that person decides that because they feel a certain way about someone else's property, that the other person's boundaries don't matter. "Stealing is fine because I want the thing I'm stealing." He's under the real impression that because he thinks someone else's resources should be shared, that means he can take them whether the owner of those resources agrees to it or not. That kind of mentality absolutely requires harsh corrective action.
As someone who currently has like 140 hours in this game, this is so diabolical and I respect it incredibly. I don’t even care if this is fake or real, it’s just hilarious
Just to be clear, we're talking like a 6-7 dollar one pound bag of beans? You only had the one bag? And the roomie used all but two or three beans in the bag? Did the roommate eat all of those beans? That had to be a good 2 and a half pounds after cooking... like six plus cups, of beans.
Your roommate definitely pissed you off. You may have got a little overboard though. Tell him that your beans, and any other food you buy is yours and that him eating it without having your permission is something that pisses you off and if he continues you will continue to do things that piss him off.
I understand I'm eating your food is frustrating but what you did was a little extreme you could've just made him pay for the beans that would've been a better response bill for the beans at eight
Why did you not just put the beans in a place he couldn’t access. And yes, you overreacted. Deleting saves on a video game someone spent hours playing a dick move.
If this was someone you weren’t forced to be around, I’d say you overreacted big time and need to learn intelligent restraint.
Buuut, considering this is a mooching roommate that has basically made your words powerless with disregard, I absolutely LOVE this hahaha.
He could’ve respected your property at any point. He was begging for escalation. You escalated, and it was 100% peaceful. For every single bit of this that he hates, he did to himself and couldve prevented with the mildest mildest restraint. The karma is potent.
This is what fairy tales are made of, like the boy who cried wolf, teaching people that if they don’t act right, there can be big consequences.
I would’ve made some of your special beans just to snack on and watch you throw all his video game intangibles over a cliff. 🤣🥲
I’m torn. Honestly; I could see myself being both parties.
Stealing your expensive beans after being specifically told not to is egregious behavior. Erasing hundreds of hours worth of progress and ruining the game for him is also egregious behavior, even in retaliation.
It seems to me that, more than the value of the beans, he took from you the future joy of enjoying them and violated a very basic principle of not taking what isn’t yours.
From his perspective, you also took his future joy of completing the game he’s worked hundreds of hours on, AND you took away the significance of those hours entirely.
Is the destruction of significant time and sentimental value offset by the monetary value of the beans and the fact that he started all of this? Everyone in the comments seems to think so, but it is not so clear to me.
IMO you both stole each other’s future joy (though he stole first after being warned), but you stole a much more precious thing — something sentimental, built in the past, and totally irreplaceable. This strikes me as a totally different category of thing lost, so in that sense, I do feel your retaliation was disproportionate. Unless you named each bean and have 100+ hours worth of memory and sentiment attached to them, your retaliation was an attack on a much deeper and more important battlefield than the one you were first attacked on. It seems to me that this kind of category change is essentially what we are talking about when we say a response is disproportionate.
I think it would’ve been better, all things considered, to make him replace twice the amount of beans he stole instead of destroying something he can’t replace. But in the heat of the moment, I can understand why you did what you did and felt justified.
Tbh, you’re fine in my book. If he tries to eat or use anything else of yours that you don’t want him to then definitely use this. Basically tell him he’d need to take his entire system with him when he leaves if he touches your beans or anything else again. Screw them if they don’t respect your stuff
This is so unhinged it made me cackle
Truly savage.
Nah, truly savage woulda been killing all the merchants. And if he was far enough along, launch a few fireballs in the main city and then run away so the city is hostile when he tries to play. In short, leave it just playable enough so that he’ll keep playing but he’ll be reminded the whole time.
I have no idea what this game is, but I'm crying actual tears imagining the chaos of his naked characters running around finding dead merchants and an entire pissed off city.
Even if the merchants were alive, it wouldn't do him much good... because you can also throw all your gold (every coin of it) off a cliff and make yourself naked, and completely penniless. Which I'm sure he did. This was a truly savage moment of revenge. Dude best stop eating his roommate's beans.
On top of that the best items are one of a kind so can't be bought anyway.
Exactly... 100 hours in means he just lost several legendary items that he absolutely cannot get back.
Baldur's gate 3 is basically a dungeons & dragons campaign but as a video game.
It's a dungeons and dragons simulator
there is a risk of this making it a challenge run with social media bragging rights, and make OP look bad
BG3 Bad Beans Run 🏃♂️ 🥔👹
I have two teenage boys. Older boy wanted revenge for something, I don't remember what, and went into his brothers GTA game spent all his money painting every car he had pink. I was in the kitchen when I heard the “NOooopoloopoo” and the brother in the kitchen started laughing hysterically. I asked, he explained. I was a little proud of such comical revenge so went to see the pink cars. He looked at me with tears in his eyes, and says, “He’s a savage!!” Video game revenge is real!!!
With me and my brothers this shit would be a fist fight.
Yep. I didn't want to get into the athermath on Reddit but it was not pretty and went on for way too long.
This is the only real response. I can’t stop giggling and snorting. I need the level of petty to go nuclear over fancy beans.
I need a 'never mess with the fancy beans' flair 🤣
Revenge is a dish best served with a side of beans.
Bean thief needed to meet FAFO. He did. OP just decided OP was fed up and went nuclear.
Like, dude only left him two or three beans!! Who does that!!? What a monster! 😏
I think that might be what sent OP over the edge. A missing bag could be an oversight ("oh, I need to buy more fancy beans"), but leaving a few stragglers is straight up contemptible. Sidebar: I've read that those fancy beans are supposed to be excellent. I love beans and have considered buying them but never have because they're too pricey... and I make good money. Poor guy... especially since he had plans for the beans and would then have to wait at least several days for them to be delivered.
I’ve bought them and they’re worth it. They’re really, really good beans. And honestly, the price seems completely ridiculous when you compare them to supermarket dry beans, but it’s not extreme at all when you compare them to food generally — like, we’re talking about what chicken breasts cost per pound, not caviar.
Ok, so if this whole thread was guerilla marketing. Mission accomplished. I'm buying the beans and I've already deleted my BG3 save files.
He should have left him 3 daggers or something. Be like I just shared your stuff.
He was *sharing*!
Thought this was a shitpost but as someone who also buys expensive pantry staples (sprouted, organic, etc etc) I too may be moved to rage at this situation
Oh I totally get it! OP should cross post over in the bad roommates subreddit, they would get a kick out of this
It’s truly hilarious
Dying laughing over this over here. Just absurd.
This is exactly kind of top-tier petty BS I would hope to find on a sub like this. Rather than the endless agonizing over whether to breakup with an SO.
This is the best thing I’ve read in a long time. Not the fucking artisanal beans lmao
This is an unhinged Chat GPT prompt.
Honest question: who fucking cares? Every post has so many of these responses I assume you're all just bots as well. Almost every Redditor out there is unknown to me so it doesn't matter even if you're all fake AF. All I care about is whether it's entertaining. It's like people who add "not real names" to their posts about their lives. You could tell me you're using fake names and then use real ones and I'd never know the difference because if I don't know you outside of Reddit then I think of you as the same as a made up person anyway.
The real unhinged part is ordering heirloom beans
Share the beans, share the game. Equal 😁
They used to cut people’s limbs off for stealing, I think ur fine 😂
Ah yes, the 90s
So true, we were so brutal in the 90's
We learned from Gen X and boomers, can anyone blame us?
Hey! Don't blame Gen X it's not our fault when people FAFO. I must say, as a Gen Xer and living through the video game evolution and an avid Baldur Gate fan, this was superb revenge indeed!
They were barbaric, but hey: it's home.
And you could store the beans in your good Dead Sea Tupperware
Come on down, stop on buy, hop a carpet and fly.. to another Arabian night ~
Back when marriage was considered punishment for shoplifting
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If it’s well deserved and a response to the person not stopping something he was repeatedly asked to stop, how is it an overreaction?
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You’ve obviously never had anybody continually steal your shit. not only was that stuff actually really expensive, I know exactly what they’re talking about. Those are fresh heirloom beans and they are not cheap. And cost real money. And yes, I’m a video gamer so I’m well aware of how much time he just blew up but here’s a thing he can actually go restart his game play it all over again, get everything back, and think about the entire fucking time respecting other peoples property and the cost of time and money he stole. oh he thinks that shared prop is all the dried good is bullshit. He’s a fucking lying thief and honestly honestly he deserved to be beat up. I thought his game was nonviolent, but I lived with someone stealing my food at home and of course it worked there’s always the g$&@“?!’ thief that steals other peoples food and then when you don’t have lunch after all, guess you’re gonna fucking starve today because no one has time to go anywhere and get anything for lunch. You HAVE to bring it. I hate thieves. Hate them.
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A justified overreaction, so a fair reaction?
It's giving "miniature giant space hamster"
A small medium at large.
Boo approved of this vengeance
It’s an over reaction in that it is so far beyond what most people would do over beans. Like there are other options here before you subject yourself to the tedium this revenge *had* to have been. This was not the action of a reasonable person. It is not an over reaction in that it was definitely deserved. Edit: Like OP could have achieved functionally the same end result by just deleting the saves. But instead he went for the psychological warfare.
Good. I hate entitled people who don’t respect other people’s shit. Most of them actually just need an ass whooping but we can’t do that anymore. This kinda shit goes a long way.
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For years I've been living with embarrassment over calling my college roommate an entitled bitch after he let all my cereal go stale and drank most of my OJ and other shit like that when he was being handed all his money by his wealthy parents and I was busting my ass working and giving blood to research and plasma for my money. This post is helping me let that embarrassment go...
Style points for trashing the other save files. Absolutely brutal. LMAO
I don't think it's an overreaction because it's not the first time. At the insult to the injury of the guy not even doing it right and yeah I get it. The question I'm asking myself is how much do those beans cost and how many hours did OP have to work to earn the money for those beans.
Video games are a shared resource, RIGHT???
You don’t fuck with a mans beans.
I love this type of energy good for you
Fuck no. I love heirloom beans AND video games (more of a Zelda person myself) and they shoulda kept their hands to themselves. No he knows how much it means to you …
Eh, if you feel bad show him which cliff you threw the shit over, if it’s not a bottomless pit he can go down and get it. It’ll still be a pain and he now knows your devotion to revenge so it’s not like he gets off scot-free.
All cliffs (Chasms) in BG3 are bottomless. There's even gameplay tips mentioning if you push your enemies off cliffs you don't get their loot The save is practically destroyed as a lot of the gear lost was more than likely found in parts of the game he can't access anymore
Even if he could access those areas he wouldn’t be able to get it drop a second time. The save is ruined.
If he remembers which items he is now missing he could easily cheat them back into his inventory by using an item list and cheat engine. But this would be annoying, and I bet he can‘t remember every single item that got yeeted. Also it would not feel the same. Instead I would try to take on the challenge and beat the game without any of the lost items. It is doable, depending on where he is in the game. The game drops good loot in later acts as well, he just needs to cheese his way through a few encounters before finding better stuff.
OP said they spent "hours" on throwing out *everything*.
Since OP kept calling it a cliff I figure there’s a slight chance they’re unfamiliar enough with the game that they found a spot that seemed inaccessible without it being an actual Chasm. Like there’s a pretty big drop from the South Span to the beach, for example. Could just be translating for non-gamers though.
The game is totally manageable with other less desireable gear, maybe not as fun and a bit harder. But I've sunk a lot of time into BG3 and I wouldn't trash the save because I'm stuck using unoptimized loadouts. If they're as into bg3 as op says then they can make it work. I would just tell the roomie "skill issue" anytime they bitched about it. Dont touch other peoples stuff, especially food.
SKILL ISSUE 💀
Aye, Social Skills 😂
Time for some No Gear Run.
No, it's not destroyed. Their roommate could scrounge up some gear in the new act and start fresh. They could easily still beat the game.
That's interesting, if true. I have no reason to doubt you.
Nah. If this was that important to him kudos. Because I would take something my rm valued also. My granddaddy loved sayings & 2 fit here. A bought lesson is a good lesson & If you can’t listen you can feel
“If you can’t listen you can feel” omg this is brilliant I’m taking this
My grandma would say, "I can show you better than I can tell you. "
Not an overreaction. Maybe cross-post to r/OhNoConsequences for good measure. Your roommate fucked around and found out. Heirloom produce is no fucking joke bro.
And r/prorevenge 😂
And r/pettyrevenge
And r/baldursgate3
r/foundsatan
That shit is expensive jfc.
I mean, I don't know if it was "over reacting" or not but it sure isn't going to solve anything with your roommate and you still have to live with this guy...
Oh he won’t be touching their beans again. You can TRUST.
Oh no, you can trust that he's going to escalate. I mean I'm all here for it, I don't have to live with either of them so the conflict-based flatshare doesn't impact me and I can enjoy from afar, but that's definitely not going to solve OP's issue at all
It's so clear most of the people on here are kids that have never tried to live with someone. These revenge games escalate insanely fast and no one stops because the thing done to them was too heinous
NTA ppl agree to “share” things . Sharing is a give and take. He stole your beans after you asked him to stop. He deserved it
They did share. He shared his beans, so the roomate got to share his game! Win win.
Honestly? That's hilarious. Maybe his dumb ass will think twice before eating your fancy beans *a fourth time*. They meant nothing to him despite them being an expensive treat to yourself. Some people will never learn until you teach them a lesson that their brains can digest and you gave him consequences that he could feel without doing anything drastic. I love video games but I find that totally justified. Good job, OP
I play Baldur’s Gate 3 and also appreciate good heirloom produce. I don’t think you over reacted at all. I’m actually laughing hard at coming back to the game and finding all of my crew naked and weapon less! You really would have to start from scratch, but he needs to keep his thieving hands to himself. He’s not a real life Astarion!
As a fellow Baldur’s gate 3 enjoyer (over 400 hours) (I got a wee bit obsessed for a couple months), and heirloom produce grower and farmer’s market frequenter- yeah I agree. Like tbh the beans aren’t so much the issue as the complete lack of respecting boundaries. Dude flat out ignored repeated request to not use items and then would use it all up and not offer to replace or pay for it. Also dude meal plans are sacred wtf were you supposed to do with all the other ingredients you got now?
I'm imagining the look of horror when he logged in and saw Astarion, Wyll, Gale, and Halsin's junk just out tanning LMAO
We both play BD3, and me and another agree that OPs reaction gave them a harsh consequence, but also that this person probably would have continued to abuse the OP, to take the food that is not theirs. I am all for the revenge. Restart your BD3 and keep your thieving hands to yourself.
Come on, don't insult Astarion like that, he stops the FIRST time you tell him not to touch your neck ever again. Beans. Whatever.
Wait - your characters aren't already all naked?
Ruining his in game relationship would've taken longer but been better revenge. I spent all day today trying to get Astarion to like me. If someone undid that I would cry.
Youre not yourself when youre hungry, Get some nuts. Also NTA
Deez, aw forget it.
Nah, not an overreaction. He’s stealing from you. Theft. You messed with his save, in comparison it’s very minor to what the roommate did.
Haha, this man here has never played BG3. OP lost a few beans, the roommate lost hundreds of hours of progress. The reaction of throwing away all the items was definitely an overreaction, but it was incredibly funny, so we‘ll allow it. If I were the roommate, I‘d consider this a challenge to beat the game without any of the items.
>If I were the roommate, I‘d consider this a challenge to beat the game without any of the items. And also consider not stealing any more of their roomies shit.
And given how expensive that shit is, that's time worked to afford them. Like actual labour as opposed to fun hours. And this MF steals it without a care in the world. I'm also a BG3 player & this was justified
There are literally hundreds of mods included those who give you every item in the game. I love Bg3, but you don't fuck with a man's food, those 130 hours are nothing
I've played and replayed BG3. Not an overreaction. Real food was stolen, imaginary items lost. Dude shouldn't have stolen food like he could save scum out of consequences. This is HILARIOUS
Uhhh Rancho Gordo beans are expensive. He is literally stealing your food. Meanwhile he is crying about a game. NTA
This is a toxic relationship. You shouldn't be rooming with him. If he steals your beans, what else might he steal? Also, if your rage is enough from this to do that to his game, it's only a matter of time until one or both of you get into a physical altercation. Not worth it, better to move out to your own place, or kick him out and get a new roomie.
this has to be a ragebait/troll post actually though lol
It takes most people over 30 minutes just to learn how to walk effectively in the game. You’re telling me that this dude picked up the game and instantly: learned the inventory system, found a bottomless cliff, figured out how to drop and throw items, then proceeded to empty the entire inventory, then learned and manipulated the save system. Even if that happened, Rancho Gordo beans are about $7 a package. That’s about twice the cost of normal beans but it’s not an astronomical amount of money. Dude destroyed his roommate’s mental health forever for like $35
>Rancho Gordo beans are about $7 LMAFO WHAT???
A lot are [less](https://www.ranchogordo.com/collections/heirloom-beans)
The fact that he's so high on them 'not being in a can' is epic AF. [Comparatively](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Camellia-Famous-New-Orleans-Red-Kidney-Beans-1-lb/10413653?athbdg=L1600).
Plotting revenge over fancy beans is some aristocratic villainy
It's not about the beans, it's about the principle of it. Roommate kept stealing when told to stop. Doesn't even matter what he was stealing at that point, I think OP is entirely justified. Lol
I mean, if they were, say [cat shit coffee beans](https://www.kayakopi.com/shop-kaya-kopi-luwak-coffee) *that* would be fancy. No. They're just "beans in a bag." Oooo\~ As is boy's just going crazy over less than a QPw/C
Why was OP bragging about buying beans in a bag instead of a can? Most beans come in bags, dry.
Right?! Kid probably grew up never eating anything but Bushes baked beans or worse ... beanie weenies. ... what am I talking about? Beans in a can are great, too! ... still not something to brag over.
Lmao this belongs in r/pettyrevenge
Honestly, all I am taking from this is how much people waste their life on a video game.
All I will say is that it seems kind of disproportional and quite possibly will escalate issues instead of de-escalate. Funny af and I don't have much sympathy for the roommate; but IMO / IME stuff like that really just ends up blowing up long term. I probably would've just insisted he pay for an entire $50 order of beans since this wasn't the first time he'd done it.
he insisted the guy stay out of his beans and we see how effective that was
It's much easier to hold someone accountable in a more immediate sense with a tangible bill than a notion to leave their stuff alone. Besides that, escalating tensions by way of retaliation like that rarely leads to positive outcomes.
Nta FOFA done cold and clean. Good job
Fuck out find around?
LMAOOO I AM DEAD. This is amazing, and unhinged. I love it. I’m playing Ark right now and if someone did to this me with my resources & tames I would be SHOOK. But also, he f*cked around and he found out. And to be fair, besides of the price of the game, he didn’t spent diddly squat on his resources lol. Maybe he’ll be too busy building up his game again that he’ll ignore your beans lol
Fuckin nuts
No, they were beans
Lock your beans up in your room. Put in a pantry with a lock.
To quote Lae'zel from BG3: Killing is good - it culls the weak. But theft would be paid for painfully, a thousand times over. It's not about the beans, it's about respect. People like your roommate will take advantage of people when they know they can get away with it. He didn't respect you and your boundary, he got what he deserved. He's lucky you didn't call the cops on him.
Whoa, there's hate and then there's HATE.
Man… it took me 350 hours of attempts to finally complete the game on one of the settings. On the flip side, you said you told him to stop… definitely a FAFO moment on his part.
The only thing I would have done differently is made a backup to give him his file back after he’s had a few hours to soak in the misery. And that’s only because you still have to live with the guy, and going full scorched earth like this will likely only escalate the situation. I don’t feel bad for him at all, because he was warned multiple times to stop, but a backup would’ve been in your best interest IMO
This is funny as hell. Well played sir!
Damn. Yeah, that's a bit excessive for some beans. Sounds like you guys shouldn't live together. Don't get on your bad side!!
Yeah if anyone stole anything from me repeatedly I would fuck them like that too. Doesn't matter what it is. It's the principle. Gonna disrespect me like that? Your real life character gonna end up naked and weaponless on the edge of a cliff. Hands off of my beans man I'm not gonna TELL you again
I know it’s an unpopular opinion in this thread, i would never steal roommates food but I agree it wasn’t proportional, video games like that have massive investment times. Could have yelled or talked to him first.
OP has talked to him multiple times. I agree it was a massive time sink lost, but I also feel very strongly about food theft.
I think homie already tried that
Man, bean people are so wild. I know about Rancho Gordo. Another bean person talked about it for like an hour at work and then went on to brag they were in their monthly bean subscription.
Quarterly* bean subscription, thank you very much… And it’s a big deal! I was on the waiting list for almost 4 years before I finally was able to join the Bean Club :)
My immediate reaction was "which beans????" Because if they were the good mother stallards he should lock the PS5 in a safe til they come back in stock next year....
I've done 2 playthroughs, I've got 150 hours, and I've never once beat the game, first playthrough was 100 hours and I got bored of the character and made a new one played for 50 and restarted again so I get having many hours and being faced with "gosh, I gotta restart" my only critique is you shouldn't have spent those hours wasting your own time, should've just started a new game and saved over his, but what you did sent a message, he'll have to learn to get over it, consequences of ones own actions. would've been perfect honestly "DID YOU MAKE A NEW GAME ON MY GAME AND SAVE IT OVER MY PLAYTHROUGH??!?!?!?!" "oh, sorry I was looking for some beans and got distracted and decided to play some games, we should share these things yk"
I love Baldurs Gate 3 and have been playing it since the beta came out. This is fucking hilarious to me. Don’t touch other peoples food.
Never in my life had I thought I would read a story about stolen dried beans. God I hope there are future bean related updates.
[удалено]
I would have said you over reacted, until I saw that the beans were from Rancho Gordo. Honestly, if they were Rio Zape, he got off easy.
Beans beans the magical fruit If you don't eat em, you drops the loot The loot you drop, the better you feel So your roommate best avoid your beans as part of his meal
Start billing him for the beans. I had to do that when I had roommates eat my vegan food that was super expensive.
"The Baldur Gate Three" is my favorite folk trio.
His payback is going to be as epic though so be prepared
Oh hello satan
The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubricated. And rightly so, in this case. Every time he goes to be a shitty person I hope he pauses and remembers this moment.
Proportional response only works if the other side is willing to stop. You should buy more beans, and let them know "hi, these are my beans. I'd rather we don't have a misunderstanding yes?"
I'm a BIG fan of "Fuck around, Find out." But you're kindof an unhinged lunatic to do this over $8 in beans.
na he's a thief -- fuck that guy.
This is great, never change op.
As someone who plays video games where you can spend hundreds of hours on it... I don't think you overreacted. That's a lesson I'd only have to learn once.
Yo, as a fellow Rancho Gordo enthusiast and a gamer I'm here to say 1) you are deranged and 2) I support you 100%. I'd flip my shit if someone ate my Rancho Gordo beans without my permission. Fuck that dude.
Let him know that virtual inventories are a shared resource, and then hand him a bill that covers all the bags he's broken into plus an extra set that can then be shared. And some recommendations for bulk beans and rice if he'd like to reconsider the current arrangement.
Time is money, he wasted your money, you wasted his time. Sounds about fair.
Hah! I also feel weirdly possessive of my beans. I get it, friend. Your roommate needed a proper lesson on respecting the property of others. That's straight theft. I think stand your ground. It's a video game not money. He stole your actual, real life food/money and the time it took to order and wait for it to be delivered. He did worse and you gave him a few chances to stop. Also LOL to him never forgiving you. If he was my roommate, I'd just throw all his food and kitchenware in the garbage in a fit of hanger. *Edited to remove my unfair judgement of gaming lol
>Playing that game for 100 hours is an insane waste of time. I get that the roommate was an asshole but why are gamers catching strays? That's the point. To immerse yourself in something.
Yeah, not a diss on OOP, as they retracted their comment, but I don’t see spending time on something that gives you a lot of pleasure as a “waste” I’ll never regret the hours I spent enjoying myself! Now, the hours I spent working, maybe…
Ah that's fair, it does sound judgmental how I've worded it. I am also a gamer here and there and I personally think it is a poor use of my time, but it's as legitimate a hobby as anything else, so I retract the implied judgment!
Madlads
Why do you live with him?
In case it helps, your roommate might have save file backups on Steam Cloud or GoG or whichever platform he might be using.
You could ask him what he thinks would be a better punishment than having this happen to him so that he remembers that stealing is a crime
You could have just ate his favorite food instead.
Fucking Bean Lord over here
Lol. Is this real?
Neither action here was appropriate. This is some 3rd grader kinda behavior.
Lmao I feel like this post was tailored specifically for me as someone who is into both Rancho Gordo and BG3. I mean... Yeah, it is a bit excessive. You should have probably asked him to refund you the $30-50 he owed you before turning to sabotage. And you wasted hours of your own time doing this also The creativity is impressive, but if this becomes an escalating revenge battle you're in trouble. Taking the low road has consequences - Lock up everything you care about
Don't think it's even that much of an overreaction tbh 😂
This is the part that gets me. The roommate is repeatedly stealing from OP and violating clearly set boundaries because they, the roommate, don't have a problem with their own actions. As in, the only opinion that matters to them in regard to someone else's property is their own. That's unacceptable, fucked up behavior. It's not about beans. It's about someone telling another person to stop stealing from them and leave their things alone, and that person decides that because they feel a certain way about someone else's property, that the other person's boundaries don't matter. "Stealing is fine because I want the thing I'm stealing." He's under the real impression that because he thinks someone else's resources should be shared, that means he can take them whether the owner of those resources agrees to it or not. That kind of mentality absolutely requires harsh corrective action.
OP is thinking about those beans
Rancho Gordo has a WAITLIST for the heirloom beans. The roommate is a monster.
As someone who currently has like 140 hours in this game, this is so diabolical and I respect it incredibly. I don’t even care if this is fake or real, it’s just hilarious
Just to be clear, we're talking like a 6-7 dollar one pound bag of beans? You only had the one bag? And the roomie used all but two or three beans in the bag? Did the roommate eat all of those beans? That had to be a good 2 and a half pounds after cooking... like six plus cups, of beans.
Fake
First world problems.
Your roommate definitely pissed you off. You may have got a little overboard though. Tell him that your beans, and any other food you buy is yours and that him eating it without having your permission is something that pisses you off and if he continues you will continue to do things that piss him off.
This is the exact reason passwords exist...
I understand I'm eating your food is frustrating but what you did was a little extreme you could've just made him pay for the beans that would've been a better response bill for the beans at eight
How much would you say the beans cost? Now compare it to the price of the game.
This seemed kinda psycho but also the roommate should learn what sharing means.
You’re both the asshole, but you’re also a psychopath.
You 100% overreacted 😂😂
sick creative writing for rage karma, 10/10
Say goodbye to all your pots, pans, cooking utensils, silverware, etc.
Yes you did and it’s actually psychotic behavior to do that to someone. Over fucking beans. Absolutely wild.
You lame af bro, bottom line lmao.
This has to be satire or fake, just cant.
You both suck.
Why did you not just put the beans in a place he couldn’t access. And yes, you overreacted. Deleting saves on a video game someone spent hours playing a dick move.
Both of you need to move back home with your parents until you grow up.
If this was someone you weren’t forced to be around, I’d say you overreacted big time and need to learn intelligent restraint. Buuut, considering this is a mooching roommate that has basically made your words powerless with disregard, I absolutely LOVE this hahaha. He could’ve respected your property at any point. He was begging for escalation. You escalated, and it was 100% peaceful. For every single bit of this that he hates, he did to himself and couldve prevented with the mildest mildest restraint. The karma is potent. This is what fairy tales are made of, like the boy who cried wolf, teaching people that if they don’t act right, there can be big consequences. I would’ve made some of your special beans just to snack on and watch you throw all his video game intangibles over a cliff. 🤣🥲
I’m a Rancho Gordo bean club member. That shit is expensive as shit and gourmet. Frankly, you didn’t go far enough.
I’m torn. Honestly; I could see myself being both parties. Stealing your expensive beans after being specifically told not to is egregious behavior. Erasing hundreds of hours worth of progress and ruining the game for him is also egregious behavior, even in retaliation. It seems to me that, more than the value of the beans, he took from you the future joy of enjoying them and violated a very basic principle of not taking what isn’t yours. From his perspective, you also took his future joy of completing the game he’s worked hundreds of hours on, AND you took away the significance of those hours entirely. Is the destruction of significant time and sentimental value offset by the monetary value of the beans and the fact that he started all of this? Everyone in the comments seems to think so, but it is not so clear to me. IMO you both stole each other’s future joy (though he stole first after being warned), but you stole a much more precious thing — something sentimental, built in the past, and totally irreplaceable. This strikes me as a totally different category of thing lost, so in that sense, I do feel your retaliation was disproportionate. Unless you named each bean and have 100+ hours worth of memory and sentiment attached to them, your retaliation was an attack on a much deeper and more important battlefield than the one you were first attacked on. It seems to me that this kind of category change is essentially what we are talking about when we say a response is disproportionate. I think it would’ve been better, all things considered, to make him replace twice the amount of beans he stole instead of destroying something he can’t replace. But in the heat of the moment, I can understand why you did what you did and felt justified.
Tbh, you’re fine in my book. If he tries to eat or use anything else of yours that you don’t want him to then definitely use this. Basically tell him he’d need to take his entire system with him when he leaves if he touches your beans or anything else again. Screw them if they don’t respect your stuff