It's a specific scenario, but my only friend that uses reddit was the one I was playing with, and he's on my side so here goes.

Me and my friend were playing a Hearts of Iron game (which can last an excessively long time) together without our other friends who play the game. 

When I had last played with them, I had just started the game, and they made me play as Germany. Even though I didn't want to, I agreed so that I could play. They proceeded to either baby me throughout the game, or be condescending towards me wanting to learn the game partially on my own. We ended that game awhile ago, and since then, one of the other friends had stated in front of me to another, third party friend (who is not involved in the story other than this instance) that I didn't like the game because I wanted to learn on my own.

I of course, contested this with the fact that he isn't me, and that I enjoyed the part where I was playing for myself, and he just stated that I was wrong. This became a negative experience for me, and I haven't played much since this instance, except for the most recent game.  

Anyways, me and friend one are playing the game when friend two joins the chat. He wants us to leave our game and join his game, even though we're invested to the point of fighting the Societ Union. His argument is that it would be more fun with three  players. We respond how we are having fun with our current game, not being babied and how we dont want to restart, but how he's free to join us mid game. He complains about this for a bit, and after about 10 more minutes of him complaining on how rude we're being, and stating how he has done this so much in the past for friend one, he joins and plays with us for about an hour.

The next day, me and friend one are continuing the game when suddenly friend two and friend four (because friend three was earlier in the part where he accused me of disliking the game) join our chat. Friend two asks if we could leave our game so that they could play with us. I say no, and tell him that he and friend four could join our current game. This starts him and friend four on a rant about how it's rude how we don't include them, and ignore our possible compromise. They leave and I once again, think it'll just blow over.

About 2 hours later, both me and my friend take a break from the game. I had some food to eat, and friend one had to do something. I go into a separate chat while I wait for him, so I can play a different game and not hear background noise. Both friend two and friend four join my call and ask, and I quote: "Have you finally divorced friend one?" I say how I'm just waiting for him to come back so we can keep playing, and they sit around saying how it's stupid how I wont include them.

Reddit, AITA for not including friends two and four in our HOI4 game?