The majority agrees, but sadly, the father-in-law sees things differently and he is the deciding voice. *sigh* I only hope that his opinion doesn't end up changing through traumatic circumstances.

Hah! Yes, I think my grandparents, who raised me, were worried for a while when, in high school, I discovered that coming home and killing Nazis or demons in Wolf3D or Doom (respectively) was an immense stress relief.

Also, thank you for the laugh at that explanation. It's perfect. (As is your description of the roommate, but I'm trying to let that irritation die down again now.)

Hm. I don't have RoTT or Bulletstorm, although RoTT looks like it could be fun and walls of spikes sound amazing. I'll have to take a look.

I ended up blasting the Megadeth Pandora station (which nicely includes Motorhead, Sabbath, Ozzy, Iron Maiden, and many other bands I approve of while in this sort of mood) and playing Borderlands, since that was an FPS I already had installed.

Unfortunately not. My father-in-law likes her (and, we suspect but aren't sure of, likes her), mainly because she's all sweet and helpful as long as he's looking, or at least enough like it that we all just look like assholes if we don't take it that way. She was also here when he broke his hip last summer and really helped him out at that point, which I appreciate - but not enough to appreciate the current crap she's pulling. I honesty would not be surprised to find drugs involved (and I'm not talking the inoffensive stuff like pot), but it's not something we can prove or indeed even point at much beyond behavior - which, again, he doesn't really see in the same way. He's lonely, and he's not used to having genuinely loving and helpful family around, so... *sigh*

On a somewhat different note, the first Borderlands game is actually proving harder for me to get used to after playing (some of) Borderlands 2; the controls/play aren't very different, but it's different enough that I have to take it in small bits. As much as I love the art and the humor, there are only so many "look at the swarm of 15 skags that are killing you when they weren't there two seconds ago!" moments that I can handle before getting frustrated. B2 has some of that, too, but it definitely improved the "enemies appearing out of nowhere behind you immediately after you turn around from looking for them" stuff.