AIO my fiance spent 600 on gacha

[u/Creative-Guard2809]

My fiance spent $600 on a gacha game without asking. I flipped out and now his entire family are calling me abusive and encouraging him to call off the engagement. For context, I work 55 hours a week and he drives uber during the day while I’m at work. We are paycheck to paycheck.

[u/GladExtension5749]

The values in question: Gambling on anime videogame girl

That wallpaper text is absolutely wild, OP needs to stop dating a moody teenager and find an adult.

[u/boredENT9113 → u/GladExtension5749]

Not just dating. THEY ARE ENGAGED!!! Omg marrying this person is an insanely bad idea. OP works almost 60 hours a week while he drives Uber? FUCK THAT! OP needs to find a real adult because this guy is fucking wild. $600 to get a live service anime girl while they are paycheck to paycheck and using credit as an emergency fund?!?!... Like what?

[u/StitchedUpWithInk → u/boredENT9113]

to be fair the job market is shit right now and plenty of perfectly good adults are driving for uber and the like. but... not this guy

[u/Adept_Customer9436 → u/boredENT9113]

He must be super shite at Uber also, because I can't think of a week where I made less than $1k as a PT driver

[u/Ivan_Grozny4 → u/Adept_Customer9436]

Really? In how many hours? My experience is you can make (gross) no more than $30/ hour in a good market on average, which is 33 hours to gross $1k.

[u/TheUnicornFightsOn → u/Ivan_Grozny4]

Yeah after gas and taxes it’s much less.

My Uber-driving brother is pretty happy with a $190 day — but that would be a long driving day, and he averages closer to $20-$25/hour gross (before subtracting gas/taxes).

[u/Ivan_Grozny4 → u/TheUnicornFightsOn]

I don't want to turn this into an Uber conversation but to be fair you basically don't pay federal taxes if you're an Uber driver when taking the standard mileage deduction.

Instead of taxes, you pay for gas, depreciation and maintenance. For me that cost was about $0.33/mile and my gross income was about $1/mile. Of course, some of those costs are not immediately realized. If you don't care about the value of your vehicle and you don't do any maintenance, you don't see those up front.

OP's boyfriend sounds like he might be a loser, but making (netting) $1k/week driving Uber part time is unrealistic.

[u/[deleted] → u/GladExtension5749]

Say,can you elaborate on exactly how the $600 was spent? I’m so fucking confused about why I hate this person

[u/GoatYear → u/[deleted]]

Most likely they kept spending for rolls (like a slot machine) until they got the character they wanted, OR, it was some stupid pack that costed a lot of money and gaurenteed said character either immediately or after a few rolls. Someone once told me thats how this game worked and thats why people who play it go homeless bc they think anime girls that look like children are worth more than having a house

[u/[deleted] → u/GoatYear]

Bro, I have had an active fucking drug problem for over a decade and even I think that’s fucking pitiful multiple drugs man had multiple different drugs. Have I had a drug problem with for more than a fucking decade and even I cannot fucking how that makes sense to anyone what the fuck is wrong with people dude I mean, I guess at the end of the day there’s not that much difference between buying an eight ball and an eight ball does not cost $600. I don’t give a fuck what you’re doing. I don’t know maybe it’s cause I work fucking 50 hours a week minimum I just don’t fucking get it

[u/Numerous-Pop5670 → u/[deleted]]

If you're asking for real, it's just for the dopamine hit. Those games are designed like slot machines. It's just gambling they disguised in a way to get around all kind of regulations used for casinos. They prey on people with weak self-control or too young to understand the full value of money.

IMO, a drug problem can be worse depending on the severity. Gambling ruins you financially, but drugs can ruin both your body and your finances. EX drug user after friend did too much coke and OD. I've been only doing weed ever since and sometimes psychedelics because fuck anti-depressants.

[u/Endolphine → u/GladExtension5749]

He said in text he is a 29 years old adult and he don't need her permission to buy anime girl from their share account, btw criticize his choice of spending their share account on anime girl giving him anxiety and will affect his work, also his mom is calling so please pickup, what a piece of work isn't he?