It seems like you've never had a partner who tries to totally monopolize your time, and treats any time not spent focused on them as neglect. I can assure you this is no straw man.

I took it as a non serious joke riffing of a common meme.

I've personally had a girlfriend criticize my video game playing. While she was on vacation. In the first month of dating her. She was saying that playing video games was immature and that I really should only play video games to spend time with my nephew. This meme resonated with me because it reminded me to respect myself and my hobbies even if I get shamed for it by women.

Believe it or not, women can be toxic too.

Take memes seriously and get into arguments on the internet!

It's absolutely pushing an agenda. But for once, the guy's response is reasonable and healthy.

A person that jealous is a red flag for control

What, she once said "no more talking to other women"!?

My wife is currently breeding an army of factory workers for me in exchange for a ton of ammo and raw materials in Palworld.

What blows my mind, is everytime I was issued one of these... it was from a person who was objectively like way worse or had way bigger issues than I did.

Like, yeah I have to stop playing video games, but you have to pay off your $50,000 in credit card debt.

And the reply was, no, you have to quit video games, so you can work more, and make more money and pay off my debt for me.

And naturally friends/family took her side, because I have the penis and it's my job to pay off her debts, or some bullshit.

anyway, good news is i'm single and financially secure, and happy, instead of together with someone being broke and miserable all the time and doesn't allow me to have any joy on my own.

Them: You have to stop playing video games, they're a waste of money and time and take up too much space

Me: Ok, then you stop collecting funkos

It depends on the more on what is at stake more than just the ultimatum. Get sober or get out is very different than stop your hobby or get out. No matter how you try to get someone to give up their running club, it's probably an abusive move.

Obviously the woman has cancer and has only a week to live, but the husband is a world class esports athlete and he promised an entire ward of kids with cancer that he'd win the championship.

But the husband has cancer too and this is the last time that he can play before his eyes need to be surgically removed. But he doesn't know that his wife made a deal with the devil, if she can get the husband to stop playing games then Satan will erase cancer from the world and the entire ward of children will be instantly healed.

But if her husband finds out about this deal he will instantly kill everyone. This is a very complex situation.

I'm sure he's devastated that his ex's friends are supporting her.

Also pushing the book shelf across the room and rearranging all the books

So I'm a woman and I play a lot of games. But I don't disregard my other responsibilities over games.

I dated a guy gamer many years back and he played literally every single day for at least 4 hours usually more.

Mostly in the evenings. Most of the day on his days off. But he definitely would make excuses why he couldn't help me with things all the time just to go and play games instead.

I sure would have liked to be able to fuck around all the time too but things have to be done.

He basically lived with me so it was frustrating to always be cleaning up after him because he just played games in all of his free time whereas I had to clean and do my studies when I wasn't working. And the little free time I had to maybe go out and do something, he just wanted to play games.

Idk if I would call it addiction. But he just prioritized it over time with me. And I wasn't even asking for much as I worked full time and went to school half time. He had a part time job.

I dated him way too long. 2 years.

He mostly played league of legends. He didn't really play anything else. Which I also thought was kinda meh.

Zero other hobbies or interests.

As I said I myself play a lot of games. I'm not against video games as a pastime. But for some it's literally the only thing they do and they prioritize it over experiencing life or being present for anyone else. Use it as an excuse to not help out their partner or take care of themselves.

I was always cleaning up after him.

It wasn't a video game issue per se. It was him being incapable of putting in effort. And using games to avoid responsibilities. But I could see how someone might think it was the gaming causing the problem.