Yes. My mom has some serious temperamental issues. Abusive home + Latin + alcoholic = not a fun time. The sad thing is, I don't even remember why she broke Jazz Jackrabbit 2, all I remember was it my favorite game at the time and that I cried a lot. I was six.
Yeah I had a few consoles, never the new ones but that was fine, the games were fun all the same and I got to play the new games at a friend's home. Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a PC game though.
>ACTUAL post-WW2 boomer parents
Mine were actually pretty chill, my mom didnt understood any of it but my father was a computer "nerd" it was always something that interested him in his youth so he was very okay with vidya and computer. He actually made senses to my big bro to go in STEM instead of law school for exemple.
However, he never ever had a diploma and always worked blue collar jobs.
Yeah my mom smashed my ds apart at the end of the school year after I failed Spanish and Theatre in 8th grade.
she also took away my PS2 and wii then too, and gave it to my uncle to stay at his house. Didn't get those back until like second year of college
Nah I came close.
I was meant to be revising for exams but was putting it off, and my Dad basically said he was on the cusp of throwing my PS3 out the window unless I sorted my shit out.
I still don't know if it was an empty threat or not, but they never touched my stuff generally.
Yeah, I can't even remember the reason but my mother got angry at me over something, picked up my PS2 and threw it to the ground. The annoying part was her insistence that she actually placed it down gently and it must have been broken beforehand. It's one thing to go overboard disciplining a kid but it's pathetic to deny any responsibility once you're clearheaded.
Once of the worse beatings I got was for destroying the Xbox 360 and giving it to my father in a broken state...Except it never left the house, when he had a fight with mum he whipped the controller off the side desk, missed mother and left a giant gaping dent in it. I always remember that fight clearly because my mother and I had played Dark Souls 2 together just before I was going back to university after the weekend.
Same guy who was devastated after h got mad at trying to fix one of his computers and jumped all over it in anger.
My father literally smashed my first ps1 because he was angry.
Some things you just never forget man. I'm just glad I've been living on my own for 6+ years now.
It's not all rainbow and sunshine, anon. >be a failure of a son >father still treats me like I'm the best thing that ever happened to him >he never blames me for any of my wrongdoings, he is convinced it's his fault for not being a good father instead
The regret is killing me inside. I wish I could fricking turn back time and do him proud.
Try having a father who loves you but hates your mother and sister and is very violent towards them kek, all the conflicting feelings I have had still eat at me years later.
My father broke all my psx games one day he came back home drunk. 25 years later I still haven't forgotten, I doubt I ever will since I'm a spiteful piece of shit.
We were poor so we didnt break anything when we argued.
Though when I was a kid, my dad tripped on a little piece of lego and fell on my big bro's PS2.
He got nothing but that was shit, couldn't play Jak and Daxter for a months. At least we had Gameboys and played Pokemon.
No, but the absolute worst thing they've done is give some of them away without my permission >oh anon, the kids of some forgotten friend of your father's visited and they have a playstation too and they liked some of your games so I gave them as a present to not appear rude tee hee >oh, don't worry! when they visit again you can ask them back!
of course, they never came back again
This happened with my older cousin. We were visiting his parents and were watching him play playstation and when we left his parents said we could all take home a game to keep each since "he had so many". Of course we took the ones we had just saw him play since we were little kids.
Looking back I feel guilty about it but on the other hand that's how I got Abe's Oddysee
This happened with my brother's 1st/2nd ed Dark Angels miniatures lol. Shit's worth cash now. But the kid was a genuine fan and still hasn't sold them afaik
>borrowed MGS4, Heavy Rain and Motorstorm to my ex brother-in-law >like a month or two after he and my sis divorced, never saw him again so I just kept the games >borrowed MK:DD, TWW and TTYD to my cousins >never gave them back
they must all have loathed me but those were some kino games, so no regrets
No, one of the upsides of having neglectful parents is that videogames did the a lot of the parenting for them so they'd often tell me to go away and play vidya or something.
I have kids myself and I couldn't see myself destroying something that they've worked hard on just to teach them a lesson, they're still really young but my oldest is almost 4 and she's smart enough to where I can explain things to her and she gets it. She doesn't like going to bed sometimes but I just tell her that it's getting late and she needs her sleep to grow up big and strong and she'll go. She's a lot like me in a way and one of the things I found frustrating when I was a kid, and still do, is when someone tells me to do something and the reason is because they said so. I try to avoid that as much as possible and give an actual reason why.
>when someone tells me to do something and the reason is because they said so. I try to avoid that as much as possible
That's not always possible but it's good that you try. Good work man.
No, but the absolute worst thing they've done is give some of them away without my permission >oh anon, the kids of some forgotten friend of your father's visited and they have a playstation too and they liked some of your games so I gave them as a present to not appear rude tee hee >oh, don't worry! when they visit again you can ask them back!
of course, they never came back again
Yeah that happened to me too sometimes.
>hey why is my old SNES in the shed >i dunno lol >ill come back to get it later
>hey why is my old SNES gone >i dunno lol >wtf i didnt touch it
Then I went over to a poor friend's house, like even poorer than us.
>hey why do you have my SNES >it's not yours it's mine >those are the exact same games I had you're not even using it >it's mine
I had a 'friend' who tried that is my PS1. He even went crying to his mum who insisted that it was his. Long story short, the cops got involved and I got my paw back when said 'friend' tried to delete my CTR save that had my initials for the name literally in front of everyone.
>be at school >play yugioh against during break some dude >moron kids flock just to watch >lemme look at your cards anon >later realize that my red eye dragon misses >“no anon it‘s mine“ >still ripped on the left bottom corner exactly like my card >“no it‘s mine“
Trust me, the real bad kids are not the ones of a different race it‘s poor kids.
>and one of the things I found frustrating when I was a kid, and still do, is when someone tells me to do something and the reason is because they said so
Same for me. Now that I'm an adult I realize my dad kept giving that as the reason for everything is because he's unironically stupid.
Everyone was really shitting on that alleged troll in the thread, actually.
I mean, it's basic logic that if you take a little kid, and destroy his whole life's achievement, he's going to go haywire...
I agree, but I wanted to say it's the same shit from an authoritarian perspective, but I just can't seem to be able to phrase it, but I read your post and can't seem to add anything
Fight fire with fire, makes sense
Guess I wanted to say that this kind of thinking, as in making decisions for someone else based on your personal feelings is what leads to authoritarianism in the first place
Just boomer parenting, if you aren't traumatizing your kids in someway it's not parenting to them. Sadly shit like that carries into the next generation, it's just for the last couple of decades that people are willing to say it.
Luckily no, but we had to sell a bunch of shit to help pay for my dad's cancer treatment, and that's how i lost my SNES.
It didn't worked out btw, i miss my dad and my SNES
>buy somewhat expensive thing for kid >destroy it because you can't control your anger issues >money not stolen but lost because of your own fault this time
i will never understand those morons
I used to know this old man who watched his daughters kid and any time the kid would play any violent video games he would smash the game. He would always get angry at me when I point out that demonstrating to a child that violence is bad by emotionally and violently destroying an inanimate object is probably a bad idea. I laugh at him every time he has to bail his kid out of jail now.
The money is considered lost when they bought the item for the kid. Most parents don't count their child's toys in their assets or investments portfolios.
>have SNES >its my most favorite game console >play it almost daily >fast forward to Christmas >don't even care about my presents just want to play my SNES >can't find it >ask dad where it might be >oh I gave that to your friend for Christmas >Christmas and the following year ruined
I had a GBA for probably 6 years before I got my DS and my mother forced me to give my GBA and all the games (which I still liked and played) to my nephew and he broke the GBA within maybe a week because he threw it at a wall. Then when I got my first iPod touch my mum forced me to give him my DS (because he lost his own DS) and he then broke my DS within a month.
Yeah, talked about it before but this thread is specific so >1999, I'm 9 >LOVE Pokemon, it's my favorite thing >One day parents barge into my room with a trash bag >Demand I throw away every single Pokemon thing I own >Apparently they watched a Fox News segment where a priest was saying how Pokemon is pagan demon summoning witch craft >Teary eye'd throw everything away >Except somehow I pocket my Pokemon Blue, heart pounding that I would be caught >Everything else was trashed though, even my Pokemon Stadium
I'm glad I got to save my Blastoise though from his fate... still I had to play it in secret under my bed from that point on-wards.
dont worry the same kind of people would throw away your vidya because the talking heads on CNN say that it'll turn your kids into transphobes and white supremacists
It's not religion so much as a lack of critical thinking that's the issue. If they weren't saying the trend was going to damn the kids, they'll use some other right-wing bait like it'll turn kids gay/trans, make them have pre-marital sex, turn them violent or into drug addicts etc. When a 'news anchor' is screeching this about a harmless new toy or trend, it takes the bare minimum of skepticism to see straight through it, but it's astonishing how willingly people accept the first poorly justified opinion they hear as gospel.
As someone who's constantly conflicted on whether to respect religion or reject it (I live in a religious household), the older I get the more logical religious principals become T B H.
There is a lot of batshit insane moronic things non-religious people do that are completely illogical, western society is absolutely fricked.
Most religions at least have logical reasons for the bullshit they throw at you.
I didn't grow up during the eras of muh satanism but I still genuinely find it hard to believe that people used to think metal music, D&D and Pokémon were made by the devil and would lead kids to Satan. I only remember a tiny bit about the b***hing about Harry Potter but people didn't seem to take that as seriously as the other things I'vev mentioned.
Fricking hell religion is a plague and religious people need to be exterminated.
>As if today we're much smarter.
No, actually we're being held back by religious NPCs even today. We dont need their faith-based-bullshit and sense of entitlement at all. Religious institutions don't contribute to society, they leech taxes and spread mental illness.
Because they're a clear and present threat to the safety of children. If they play with Pocket MONSTERS, soon they'll be worshiping Satan with Dungeons & Dragons and Ouija boards.
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Were they wrong?
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Yes. Children obsessed with pokemon didn't grow up to worship satan, they grew up to get a job working with complex numbers and then proceeding to give their paycheck to online homosexuals calling them a pathetic homosexual while pretending to be a ribbon dog.
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Growing up in this era and hearing the story's like this, is why i find the whole leftist moral panic about video games fricking loony land. >NO YOU OUT OF TOUCH BOOMER VIDEO GAMES DONT MAKE YOU SHOOT UP SCHOOLS AND WORSHIP THE DEVIL
Now >FRICK U VIDEO GAMES MAKE YOU RAPE WOMEN AND HATE BLACKS
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i just want righties and lefties to stay out of my vidya equally
begone sjws
begone bible thumpers
begone trannies
begone conservitards
begone leftoids
begone moral panic
begone SJWs
FRICK OFF FROM MY VIDYA
Because boomers are moronic. Religion isn't the cause, it's just another flavour of the same drink.
they're basically controlled by tribalism on some kind of animalistic level
fricking cattle like that is BEGGING to be told what to do, to be controlled by a leader, devoid of any conscious thought and personality
At least religion started with the best of intentions. Whatever weird shit people worship today - politics, brands, whatever - it's all just shit to make people rich.
>At least religion started with the best of intentions
and that must've lasted a month at best before some frick found a way to exploit it
Also, looking at shit like this, (3:18)
?t=197 it might've been designed to control and manipulate from the very start by an incredibly conniving bastard
>best of intentions
no, its always been used to control people. people suck and will do shit things so you scare them out of it by threatening them with an eternity of suffering if theyre a bad person in life.
>good intentions
Frick no, you can bet your sweet ass religion started after some mud-eating Umbungo saw an eclipse and thought he angered sky daddy for not eating the right type of berries.
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That's what I thought when I was 13 anon.
Do psychedelics, think about the world and suffering and compassion and how to end suffering.
>At least religion started with the best of intentions
Yeah I kinda doubt that. Most likely some proto-NEET tribal decided he was tired of hunting and told everyone else that if they brought offerings of food to his hut he could beseech the Great Spirit to bless their hunts or whatever. Thus the priestly caste was born.
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Truly euphoric
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Atheists can only view the world as materialism and nothing else, very depressing to see and probably why so many let themselves get tricked by materialist ideologies
bro, that was the point from the beginning if you can't read
morons don't need actual religion to be morons, sjw twatter shit is literally a religion at this point
>BEGGING to be told what to do, to be controlled by a leader, devoid of any conscious thought and personality
Oh that definitely doesn't remind me of anything...
Ha, yeah in the 90s my parents wouldn't let me near D&D because they though it would actually send me to hell. It's funny in hindsight. I could watch Jurassic Park and Die Hard but I couldn't roll some dice with nerds... Good times.
>I didn't grow up during the eras of muh satanism
They were still crying about it when Pokemon Go released, I kid you not. >they put monsters in our churches!
This happened to me multiple times in my life because my older sisters life purpose growing up was to get me in trouble with religious fundamentalist parents >banned from neopets for potions being "witchcraft" >banned from WoW for obvious reasons and computer moved into the lounge where everyone had full view >almost had life ruined when she snuck in and saw me click on my first malware porn banner ad, managed to get benefit of the doubt because no proof >no sex before marriage parent talk and discouraged from talking to girls at all
Now 30 years old and virgin, i became very VERY fast at alt tabbing though
I moved out in early 20's the same day they tried to start tearing up all my vidya coffee table art books from collectors editions I'd saved up my own money to buy over the years
Pretty much, don't get me wrong I still care about my parents they literally did everything to their knowledge that was "correct" because they didn't want me to be a hedonist frickup, but the rules they grew up with are inverted from modern societies
I desperately want to find a gf and have kids before they kick the bucket but running out of time
Damn dude, I was the guy who posted the Pokemon comment you replied to. That's rough. We were Jehovah Witnesses growing up, up until I was 8, so it's likely why they were so convinced by scary priest man about Pokemon a year later.
However, they got laxer every year, and by 14 I could play WoW and stuff. You had it bad, my condolences buddy.
Like I said, I learned how to alt tab or bullshit at lightning speed as a survival mechanism, my ears became attuned just to the creaks of floorboards elsewhere in the house
>I learned how to alt tab or bullshit at lightning speed as a survival mechanism, my ears became attuned just to the creaks of floorboards elsewhere in the house
I had to learn this due to our PC being in the fricking dining room for some reason.
I still managed to play borderless window mode WoW on a friend's account and alt tabbed like a motherfricker anytime I heard the sound of creaks on those boards
The very worst was when I snuck out of my room and was doing magisters terrace at 2 am on a school night (resto shaman)
The rest of the party was dead but we had kael'thas in anti gravity phase so I was solo'ing him, hes 10% hp, everyones cheering me on and then >CREAK >CREAK >CREAK
Had to fricking pull the plug and splintercell my way back into my room and pretend to be asleep because dad woke up wanting a cup of tea and to do some dishes
I'm pretty sure a lot of my social anxiety issues stem from living my life like this
Damn dude, I was the guy who posted the Pokemon comment you replied to. That's rough. We were Jehovah Witnesses growing up, up until I was 8, so it's likely why they were so convinced by scary priest man about Pokemon a year later.
However, they got laxer every year, and by 14 I could play WoW and stuff. You had it bad, my condolences buddy.
Literally me, and I know off-topic blog bullshit but it's like these boomer fundamentalist parents have NO fricking foresight >okay let's make sure our son never interacts with girls, never brings friends over, force our outdated way of life on him, treat him and his problems as minor things and put no attempt in actually understanding his plight >why is our son always alone? why does our son not have girl to marry yet? where's our grandchildren? why are we in a retirement home? why does our son never contact us? 🙁
I kind of feel bad about it, but anytime I try to talk to them it only takes half an hour max before the conversation is end times and the rapture is coming
And sure I vaguely am about it because of my upbringing, but there's more to life than waiting for the apocalypse to finally happen
My oldest brother + sister both had families so they're content with that but you're right shit sucks man
Anytime I brought up wanting to have a girlfriend they insisted she be a zealous Christian one with no concept that even the ones that go to church have onlyfans and 5 boyfriends
No, but they told me that they'd prefer me not playing so much. They didn't offer me any other hobbies to engage in though, so I just recently started having actual interests, and only because the lockdowns kept me from my university work.
>Parents didn't want me playing games and wanted me doing outside stuff >But my mom forbade me from leaving the street we were on, i.e. the literal row of 6-8 houses >Never pieced together that I hated going outside because I couldn't go anywhere and had nothing to actually do out there
Sometimes I wonder what the frick was wrong with them
THIS holy shit. My mother took away my bike when I was like 11 because she didn't like when I was "going too far away from the house". Then she threw a fit when I spent all my time with video games instead of going outside. What the frick did you want me to do?
>dad used to be physically abusive toward me >tried to manhandle me when I was older and not a defenseless child anymore >punched him in the face when he had me pinned to the bed with both arms >can see the absolute seethe on his face and also the grim realization that he's an old man and I'm not >fully ready to get into a violent brawl and beat his fricking ass >he just lets go of me and leaves >had a black eye for weeks and told everyone at work he fell down >ever since then he's become even more of a massively passive cuck and never tries to force me to do anything anymore >to this day claims I "sucker punched" him
anyone who tells you violence doesn't solve problems is a fricking liar
it's literally the only solution to most problems
i just want righties and lefties to stay out of my vidya equally
begone sjws
begone bible thumpers
begone trannies
begone conservitards
begone leftoids
begone moral panic
begone SJWs
FRICK OFF FROM MY VIDYA
I can just imagine your little homosexual dad beating on his child to feel big and then figuring out that he lost his punching bag. you should've beat the shit out of him.
same happened with my mother, except I didn't hit her, just didn't let her hit me
she'd say do X thing (oftentimes illogical and stupid thing)
If I said no, she's start screaming, if I insisted, she'd just beat me into submission and act like a fricking b***h shouting and acting like an ass anywhere between 1-4 days, sometimes weeks
I was (still am) very weak and small, what a pathetic woman
based. when i was 18 and my dad tried to start his shit again and I just looked at him. I'll never forget his face when he raised his hand and I didn't react then he started shouting "you think you grown now huh lil homie? you a grown man now huh? you ain't scared of your daddy no mo huh lil homie" and I just looked at him until he went to his room mumbling something. he never shouted at me again after that.
This happened to me but younger and with my mom. She came at me with a remote to hit me with and I grabbed her arm and stared her down. She would still yell occasionally but never raised a hand to me again.
My mum only ever hit me once when I was 5 and it was with one of those spaghetti forks and each tooth of the fork left a mark on my leg and she felt so bad she started to cry (not as much as me)
I don’t think I ever got anything sharp but I got remotes, a broom handle, a flyswatter (this one was actually one of the top as far as pain goes, those frickers hurt when swung with force/repeatedly) and much else. Funny part was she tried to call my dad and tell him I beat her up afterwards, but he worked a hard ass job 12 hours a day and so didn’t really have the time for it.
I had something like this but a while back my with my dad I've hit him before but he didn't stop so I just stopped talking to him for about half a year.
that is the wrong conclusion out of the right solution
it's a shame you had a dogshit dad m8
I just hope you don't beat your kids when you're old, you'll just perpetuate that shit
>having fun playing vice city and SA as a kid >43-year-old single uncle visits >literally wojak seething as I'm playing the game >"these games are bad, they're violent" >tells my mom >fricking uninstalls them
what the frick was him problem
Actually, I know, it's growing up in a dictatorship and never having a choice and consuming propaganda as a kid, so now he feels the need to police everything he can to balance it out
Also, not having a family and kids after being raised as a normalgay
if I was smarter and knew he was single, I'd say something like
"why don't you tell that to your children"
or
"how the frick would you know"
you know, he's just fricking sitting there
and watching me play and fricking commenting
"yeah, these games are bad"
"this is bad for you
Actually, I think there's another reason
He's just fricking mad because he wasted his youth in a soviet shithole without games and now he can't handle seeing kids having fun
literal boomer behavior
also, guys
this was a HUGE deal for me because I was a child and didn't know how to install games, I just clicked on the colorful icons on the desktop
so these games were just lost to me
didn't even know how to get them, as in I didn't grasp the concept of installation, didn't know I could buy disks and shit, I just played the games the cool cousins and uncles would install when they came
>You remind me of my little sister who used to copy desktop shortcuts on usb sticks and try to launch the games on other computers.
I at least was savvy enough to copy the whole game folder
that didn't work either, of course, but it was better than just the shortcut
No but they convinced me to sell off the Mega Drive, Playstation and all my Gameboy stuff in a car boot sale for a pittance when I was a kid. Thankfully, I got a lot of that stuff back (and more) off eBay years ago way before there was a retro boom so it was pretty cheap.
What the frick is the issue with sleeping in until 9 (which I wouldn't even call sleeping in, I work full-time and wake up at 9) if you're a kid on school holidays? >it's a skill he needs to learn
Doesn't he go to school every day of the term already?
>finally I have ammunition to hurt him more
My mother was and still is 100% this. Most negative emotion literally comes from not understanding why in the frick would they do this. And as soon as you DO understand, it's difficult to see people like this as kin.
He was taught very important lessons >never put a real effort on anything ever, it will not be recognized by anyone, and can be taken away like it was nothing at any moment >never show off your interests or achievements, it'll only be used as ammunition against you >people only care about their own interests, everything else is meaningless to them, so leave them be, but do not tolerate their intromission into your interests
Yeah, talked about it before but this thread is specific so >1999, I'm 9 >LOVE Pokemon, it's my favorite thing >One day parents barge into my room with a trash bag >Demand I throw away every single Pokemon thing I own >Apparently they watched a Fox News segment where a priest was saying how Pokemon is pagan demon summoning witch craft >Teary eye'd throw everything away >Except somehow I pocket my Pokemon Blue, heart pounding that I would be caught >Everything else was trashed though, even my Pokemon Stadium
I'm glad I got to save my Blastoise though from his fate... still I had to play it in secret under my bed from that point on-wards.
I wonder if I embraced National Socialism because someone broke my Nintendo 64.
>dad forces me to go outside >cousin comes over while i'm out >he deletes and overwrites my N64 ocarina of time save >come back home a few hours later, my summer progress entirely gone >attempt to strangle cousin, get strangled instead >few weeks later, mom forces me to go outside >take all my n64 cartridges into a bag with me >cousin comes over while i'm out >he plugs in my playstation to play some oddworld >bastard deletes my save on the memory card >get back home, realize the homosexual did it again >give his shoes to the dogs outside to chew them up >remove the sparkplug from his bike and throw it in the river >"where-are-my-shoes™".jpeg >"my-bike-is-broken™".jpeg >fricker stays over the entire summer since he can't leave >great mistake, all saves on all games disappear one by one >worst summer of my vidya life
I'm still angry about it 20 years later.
Quite the opposite, the idiot couldn't figure out what was missing from his bike for it to not work anymore so he towed it back to his house and left it in his garage.
Fastforward 15~ years and it's still in mint condition (old suzuki k50 built in -77) and got it sold for a premium collectors value. He purchased it for $100 but sold it for $3000.
Bastard is too lucky.
I have stacks of them. >gameboy color came out >managed to cry my way to a 'see-through'-one that was way cooler than the flat colored ones >play warioland and pokemon blue/yellow/gold >after the pokemon movie about mewtwo comes out, go to gamestore with other pokefans >other kid sees my premium see-through gameboy and swaps it for his flat green one >majorly upset, attempt to beat him up >his older brother beats me up >my cousin from prior story trashes him and his little brothers green gameboy, gets my see-through one back >cousin asks to try the game, feeling immense respect for the idiot for once, i let him >he overwrites my 2 out of 3 legendary bird saves with the 'limited time, store only wired mew'
I'm still seething about it, although you can count on him sometimes he's still a homosexual.
>limited time, store only wired mew
this was always fricking bullshit >gotta catch em all! except even if you have a friend with the other version AND the transfer cable you still can't do that without physically going to a limited time event!
even fricking gacha, as vampiric as it is, usually repeats the events and you don't have to physically go anywhere to take advantage of them. It's astonishingly israeli.
I have stacks of them. >gameboy color came out >managed to cry my way to a 'see-through'-one that was way cooler than the flat colored ones >play warioland and pokemon blue/yellow/gold >after the pokemon movie about mewtwo comes out, go to gamestore with other pokefans >other kid sees my premium see-through gameboy and swaps it for his flat green one >majorly upset, attempt to beat him up >his older brother beats me up >my cousin from prior story trashes him and his little brothers green gameboy, gets my see-through one back >cousin asks to try the game, feeling immense respect for the idiot for once, i let him >he overwrites my 2 out of 3 legendary bird saves with the 'limited time, store only wired mew'
I'm still seething about it, although you can count on him sometimes he's still a homosexual.
>deletes saves for no reason constantly >doesn't elaborate >helps you out >still deletes your save
lmao
Why didn't he simply explain what the consequences were gonna be instead of just breaking it to the kid after the fact? Like, did he do it out of spite or something?
There was an attempt but the snes survived being tossed down the stairs over an argument that had nothing to do with games. Now the cheap drywall at the bottom of the stairs didn't fair so well.
The one time I let my younger cousins play my GameCube (mom forced me) at a family party I leave for literally 15 minutes to help my dad with something, and I come back to my 100% completed Melee save file with daily after school autism playthroughs and summers and summers of playing on it erased.
Instead of strangling them and my mom, I instead seethed in a separate room for an hour, and then decide frick it I'll do it all over again, which I did.
How the frick are cousins so good at finding how to delete save files? Why is it so common? These motherfrickers are literate for fricks sake
I deleted my rich cousin's pokemon blue save after he specifically told me not to. My little shitty kid justification was that I wanted to play the game from the beginning and you could only have one save. I only played for like 10 minutes before I got bored and put it down. He never confronted me over it
Parents who break their childrens shit are bad parents. It just teaches the kid that in the future if someone doesn't do something you want break their shit. No wonder we have some many psychos walking around killing motherfrickers for no reason
Everyone said that her kids will never trust her again and called her a moron. But they said it like they were walking on eggshells because it’s reddit
Understanding normie's homosexualry, I would assume half came to shit on OP, and another half come to defend OP for being shit on, saying things like "what he did is wrong, but he don't deserved to get shit on by strangers online"
Every single person basically shits on her. Top comment is how terrible she is, another is how the save might be recoverable and how important that world is to him
I wanted to be nice to the little fricker so he would stop screaming while running around, and he managed to erase my save on LEGO Star Wars (GBA).
I'm still kind of amazed, because I started the game for him and everything.
Lmao, what's the right thing to do here?
"The kids have to learn for themselves", what? I still wake my sister up every morning and she's an adult, she would just sleep until way past 2 if I just let her, I really enjoy doing it, she likes me waking her up too
>There is no difference to a child if their possessions are destroyed violently by the people who are supposed to be their caretakers in a fit of rage vs. confiscated and removed from the household.
If this is normal to you, that's probably one of the reasons you're fricked up
My parents didn’t break anything but they would take stuff away for months at a time. It just teaches the wrong lesson of hide everything you do from your parents, and never show them anything you take pride and joy in lest it be ripped away. It really puts distance between kids and parents and absolutely destroys trust. It may seem like nothing to the parent but to the kid it is betrayal from those closest to them, if their young this can be formative experience of their personality and keep them in fear and distrust of those around them for a long time.
Good parenting means offering good examples for your kids to follow and grow out of their bad behaviour. If you need to repeatedly punish your kids in petty ways such as deleting their stuff or taking it away, you're not a good parent and you should punish yourself before punishing your kids.
>If we all act like better people all those murderers and thieves will stop committing crimes :^)
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>If we all act like better people our children wont grow up to be criminals!
The fact that such a simple concept eludes you is bonafide proof you're an american
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Not him but some people are just genuinely true evil no matter how good their childhood was
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>why yes my 3 year old is a murderer and thief, thats why youre wrong :^)
You explain to him what he did wrong, you make him analyze the causes and understand the effects, and you illustrate all the possible consequences. Taking things away or beating your kid up has never worked and it never will, it's Black person parenting, because you treat your kid like an animal and expect him to understand his mistake as a human. Explain to him his mistake treating him like a human, and he will understand and grow.
That sort of conflict resolution barely works with adults, how about a toddler?
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It would work with adults if they were brought up with it since childhood. Instead they were punished by taking things away, and now as adults they don't understand the concept of cause and effect.
You don't let the behaviour of your kids get to that level. This is the most bitter pill all parents need to swallow. Unless you spend your free time with your kid and involve them in faily routines, house work and even hobbies from day one, they'll do dumb shit.
My brother was probably the worst moron when he was a kid 3. Bad mouthed teachers,drove my mom fricking nuts and had my dad nearly crash the car put pf anger.
Now he's grown up and has two kids. They're well behaved, balanced littke nuggets. I was really confused how he managed to do that.
After visiting for a week I figured out why. He does everything he needs to do with his kids. Cooking? Tells kids what he does and lets them do menial little tasks to help.
He did it so well, that im still in awe. Genuineky did not expect it from him.
>After visiting for a week I figured out why. He does everything he needs to do with his kids. Cooking? Tells kids what he does and lets them do menial little tasks to help.
He did it so well, that im still in awe. Genuinely did not expect it from him.
This, this is all that fricking needs to be done. It is so simple, you simply need to spend time with your damn kids and help them have a fulfilling life. Ridiculous how many people don't understand this.
>Should I give my son a reason to actually wake up early, such as fulfilling activities or motivating rewards? If I'm too inept to do that, should I punish him in a sensible way, or maybe should I wake him up myself? Nah let's SPECIFICALLY delete his Minecraft save like a malicious little goblin israelite, surely that will have no consequences on our relationship and his upbringing. Shalom.
What's funny is that he also forbade him to use his PC for a month. So really, he didn't have to erase his MC world at all. He just did it because he's a c**t.
That right there is the perfect example of Reddit level parenting. >Child is expected to normalise their internal clock >School is cancelled therefore the usual schedule gets thrown off >Parent threatens to destroy something of the child's if they don't immediately fix the issue >As expected, the kid can't >Parent goes through with threat >Am I the bad guy Reddit?
The kid was probably expecting trivial generic shit like being grounded or not being allowed to use the computer for a while. Not even in his worst nightmares he thought that his parent would be petty enough to specifically delete his work.
He probably never went back to Minecraft again after this.
Worse still, work his parent only knew about because he showed it to them because he was proud of it.
It'd be like if your child was into painting and showed you their art, then you nodded along, smiled and next time they failed a test you put your foot through that son of a b***h and told them not to do it again.
I mean god damn of all the butthole things to do.
He was taught very important lessons >never put a real effort on anything ever, it will not be recognized by anyone, and can be taken away like it was nothing at any moment >never show off your interests or achievements, it'll only be used as ammunition against you >people only care about their own interests, everything else is meaningless to them, so leave them be, but do not tolerate their intromission into your interests
What an utterly malicioud and israeli thing to do. That kid is morally justified in dumping his parent in the worst Black person infested retirement home he can find, wallahi.
It's more like they built up an entire treehouse and filled it with years of paintings that they made and loved so you chop the whole thing to the ground, throw some gasoline on it and watch it burn
I never talked about video games with my parents. My mom didn't like me playing them. Not for any of the usual reasons. Just that she was(still is) a lazy c**t and was mad that I was doing something that wasn't cleaning up after her. My dad simply didn't care and anything besides church he didn't show interest in.
Meant I literally never had anything to talk with them about and just ate dinner quietly every night.
The kid was probably expecting trivial generic shit like being grounded or not being allowed to use the computer for a while. Not even in his worst nightmares he thought that his parent would be petty enough to specifically delete his work.
He probably never went back to Minecraft again after this.
you say that, but reddit-tier homunculi existed back then, too, they just didn't have shittit
you don't really know your dad, maybe he was a cuck and liked wieners
You say that, but you don't actually know who the guy really is
old fricks are absolutely mental degenerates, maybe it's intergenerational trauma
at least they kinda cushioned the blow for the next generations
My dad cancelled my WoW sub because I was getting C's so I dumped water on his head in revenge and he took away my internet and I cried for like an hour until I remembered I had a GBA
No they used positive reinforcement. If I did good I got video games and stuff, if I did bad I got nothing, but they never took away or destroyed what I already had.
>If I did good I got video games and stuff
This is the shit. >quiet and well behaved but also apathetic and uninterested in school >do well on these exams and you can have a new NES game >get A`s in everything >TWO nes games
Worked flawlessly until mid teens when sex became my main desire. Shame the teachers cant offer that, I would have sacrificed every other aspect of my personal life and pushed to my absolute limit if dicking a teacher of my choice had been an option.
Don't worry anons, all of your atrocious fricking parents are either going to hell or going to reincarnate as botflies. Have a good day, stay strong brothers
My mom and dad are fine, idiot. I honor them just fine. Never broke my games or consoles. I don't have to honor some random anon moron's mother and father.
That rule, like so many of the Commandments, realistically only applies if the situation is one of genuine good and mutual benefit that hasn't been tainted by evil, one that you allow to bubble over with spite and hatred out of your own willfullness or an excess of a bad thing.
If you no longer perceive shitty parents as kin (and they aren't, they're one step removed from actual abusers), then you have no reason to "honour" them. That's like honouring a dog, probably worse because at least dogs have value.
My parents never got rid of my video game stuff when it started affecting my school responsibilities. They did sell my violin and saxophone though when I started getting really passionate about learning to play, since I'd skip doing homework to practice.
>I really don't understand why parents care so much about waking up early.
I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old. I'm an early riser myself, I'm normally up around 6 and it's a blessing if I wake up and they're both still asleep and I get an hour or so just to have a cup of coffee and stare at the wall. Bliss.
If I am a parent I would do that too. Just wake up before them and relax, or do chores or prepare meals. I would set a bed time but no wake up time unless they had responsibilities like school. My parents were like that. They'd tease me if I slept in really late but otherwise were chill.
I have a relative who made me think I left my PSP at the place we vacationed at. >Be me 15 >Don't want to go swimming, just wanna play FFT >Relative things I'm being lazy >Complains about it to mum >Mum takes my side >Getting ready to go home >Can't find my PSP >Hmm? Mum must of packed it when I was sleeping >Ask her in car, she says she didn't >Immediately ask broth and sister >They don't know either >Panic >Search whole car and then go back to room and search there >Can't find it >Immediately suspect relative >They get ass mad and storm out with their bag >8 Months later it turns up in mums car the same day we had to drop the same relative off at the airport >He mocks me about it and says I didn't look hard enough and it's just proof that I need to do other things >Mum straight up decks him and calls him a c**t >Haven't talked to him since
That c**t made me think the PSP I had literally gotten for my birthday the month before went missing. He fricking stole it then gave it back after almost a year for what? To teach me a lesson? Frick him.
My grandparents have away all my Legos when I decided to play with them a bit in 8th grade. It was really the grandmother calling the shots though. I didn't care much, because I was mostly reading or playing vidya. They are both dead now.
my mother broke my og ds on accident but im over it
it survived for like 2 years with the screens split in half connected only by wiring, screen had a yellow tint
I feel bad for all the anons here, frick your parents. Dump them in a shitty retirement home. I used to play vidya with both my mom and dad, they would have never done such things.
My mother once hit my laptop with her fist really hard, and it broke. But to be fair, that was more of a straw that broke the camel's back.
Joke's on her, now gaming is how I earn my living.
Curiously no, my mom would slam and break things but somehow my games never fell victim. The ones that stuck were when she told me I’d never get a gf and that I’d always be generally worse than everyone else.
Took a while but yeah this happened. Failed to launch for years after high school then snapped or something, moved to the city got a degree and a b***hin (by my family’s standards anyway) job and a gf and am now the stereotypical cool uncle from out of town to my nephews.
Not vidya but I remember when I was a kid I would ask for legos for my birthday in april. I get them, build them then I'd place them on a specific spot in my room where all my other legos were displayed. Then every summer when going to camp or my grand parents, my dad would grab all my legos and throw them in the toy box. They were all broken of course and some pieces always got lost in the process. And even after I asked him to not do this he'd do it again.
>have a LEGO Star Wars Y-wing >tell mum not to let 5 year old nephew near it because he will break it >she tells me he won’t break it >he plays with it >front stick pieces on it fricking go missing >mum acts completely indifferent
I hated being a kid
I think my mom once disconnected the modem, of course she's illiterate when it comes to devices like that so at the end she begged me to put it back together again.
There is this 13 year sold girl I'm tutoring, and it's holidays at the moment. She told me that she's going to bed in the early hours of the morning and waking up at 1pm each day.
Since It's the holidays I said don't worry about it, when school starts you should be able to fall into routine.
But she told me her parents berate her about it, and she gets into arguments with her mum now over sleeping in.
They have two EMPTY bedrooms upstairs, but she is forced to share a cramped room with her younger brother, because they are the "guest" bedrooms.
The mum seems to get angry over the idea she's wasting her days. But the girl told me she has nothing to do (as a typical teen zoomer), which was the case with me when I was her age.
I really don't understand why parents care so much about waking up early.
>I really don't understand why parents care so much about waking up early.
I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old. I'm an early riser myself, I'm normally up around 6 and it's a blessing if I wake up and they're both still asleep and I get an hour or so just to have a cup of coffee and stare at the wall. Bliss.
I remember before puberty I'd I wake up an hour before my parents at 6am, and play wii N64 virtual console games for a good while, or watch cartoon network shows like Courage the Cowardly dog. Good times.
But haven't been anywhere close to that since uni
I think I might have been the same before puberty too, but as a teenager I was the type to stay up all night and wake up at 1pm. Somewhere down the line I became a really early riser and I really do enjoy those hours before everyone else wakes up. Especially in the summer, I absolutely love sitting outside at 6am when it's warm out.
Something about the early morning is magical to me. I bike to the train station just to enjoy the nice cold air (and so I don't become a fatass). I especially love it when it's winter and still dark out, it's very nostalgic to me. Reminds me of when I was a teenager living on my own and making commutes to school in the early morning.
It's funny cause I used to be an early riser and gamed mostly before parents woke up, cause my dad hates noise. But now I'm the complete opposite, I think mostly cause of uni.
I've taken to sleeping days and staying awake nights these past couple weeks. I fricking love it being cool, dark, and alone compared to these hellscape heatwave days.
I think I might have been the same before puberty too, but as a teenager I was the type to stay up all night and wake up at 1pm. Somewhere down the line I became a really early riser and I really do enjoy those hours before everyone else wakes up. Especially in the summer, I absolutely love sitting outside at 6am when it's warm out.
Kids need sleep to grow/develop their body. The growth spurt during puberty will definitely demand you to sleep more.
And people wonder why Asians are midgets.
its boomer superstition. Basically astrology for people over 50. >if you don't wake up on time that means you're lazy and that you care more about wasting your life on things that don't matter instead of getting an education and getting a job!
They hate marijuana for the exact same reason, they think it correlates directly with being a failure.
The reason weed has such a high correlation with failures is because failures are the ones who begin smoking weed. They were failures before the weed. And you've failed to understand simple things.
>bored 13 y/o zoomer with nothing to do
Try and encourage her into some constructive hobbies before she discovers discord/tiktok and gets groomed, many such cases
>All science™ stresses that teenagers need lots of sleep and practically can't fall asleep until midnight and thus need to sleep till atleast 8am >ignore all that and stick to old dogma that you gotta get up when the sun rises
I fricking hate boomers and the boomer-mindset that is prevalent in the school-system.
>be a moronic kid >as a result, Dad takes away the Xbox 360 and puts it in his room >installs a keylock for his door >one day when he is not home >I start at the other end of the hallway and sprint at the door >jump and slam my body against it >keep repeating this until I bust through >play xbox 360 until he gets home
No, they never crossed that line. But as a kid I was obsessed with Warcraft games and they got me a vanilla WoW sub the year it came out. God I fricking loved that game but my parents didn't know how to handle it. Kept getting up hours before school or when I was meant to be in bed to play, used to pull sickies to get out of shit when I knew nobody would be in so I could play it. Probably fried my dopamines and contributed to my failing grades in finals.
Funny thing is it wasn't the actual MMO mechanics that addicted me (I was a tard kid who kept rerolling and never even made 60 before TBC) but the exploration/lore/roleplaying side since I played all the RTS games. I used to write so many shitty fanfics and hang out with the RPPvP guilds, it was like heroin for the imagination when you're still young enough to enjoy it in that pure, childlike way, and not the soulless grind-vision that adults play MMOs with. As an adult I can see the franchise is nothing special in terms of lore or innovation - rather the simplifying of fantasy universes/game mechanics and strong visual style made it more accessible than anything, but it'll always have that 'stalgia value as a focal point of my childhood imagination
I will start a character on a private server every now and then just for that. I don't really miss raiding and all that stuff but I love the atmosphere of the game
>I still enjoy games from this perspective
Me too, but I can't find that magic in MMOs any more despite loving the genre (or maybe the potential I still see in it). There are still lots of good single player games I can find inspiration in, and use that in my own writing or DMing.
>delete effort and time put into a game >kid gets understandably angry >/r/AMITHEbutthole
First off >Reddit
secondly
yes hes an idiot and an shitty parent.
My mom took away my computer privileges from Monday thru Friday for the entire year on my second year of HS because I was failing every class.
It helped me a lot and actually ended up having the highest scores of the class by the end of the year.
Okay anons, these stories are sad. But have you taken revenge on those that fricked you?
Have you painted the streets red with their blood?
I want revenge stories
I beat the shit out of some guy once because him and a group of his friends jumped me about a year before and really fricked me up. For nothing too, I was just there. It wasn't really satisfying tbh, I felt bad about it even as I was doing it. He was crying. He was a complete scumbag too, I heard he raped a girl. He died in a car crash about two years ago and I felt nothing.
The best revenge is living well. The people who fricked me over, stole my video games, made my life a hell, they're all a bunch of losers wasting away their lives with alcohol or junk food. I have an OK job, make decent money, am fulfilled creatively and have a nice woman in my life. Not much more I could ask for, really.
Maybe if I had more money to build a new PC, that'd be nice. It's getting a bit old. On the other hand it's not like there's any new demanding games out that actually interest me. Maybe Spider-Man I guess. On the other hand I could just try emulating 2.
Frick outta here with that zen nonsense. A soul is meant to be blistered by the embers of revenge, destroy the lifes of every shit head that dared to mess with you.
Karma doesn't exist, justice can only be achieved by your own hand
Why would I try to take revenge on people who ruined their own lives by their own hand? My shitty roommate who never did her chores and stole my cash and games had to move back in with her parents even though they hate each other. My alcoholic mother with rage issues has driven away her entire family except for my older brother and has no friends. My shitty landlord had to sell pretty much all of his possessions and move into a shit apartment. I never got those stolen video games back but seeing shitty people destroy the last few good things they had in life and ending up with nothing? Priceless.
>Karma doesn't exist
It absolutely doesn't. What does exist are consequences.
Anon's right.
The best revenge is showing them that no matter how hard they tried (or didn't, technically), you still were able to become happier than they ever could.
Emotional damage goes way farther than a few punches or broken materials.
That's why zoomers get so buttblasted over teabagging and being called Black personhomosexuals.
>be me >can't wake up before 1 pm even if I put 10 alarms, unless I have a really important obligation >go camping with friends every once in a while >I wake up every camping day at 7:30 pm, before everyone else, completely refreshed despite sleeping 5 hours in a cramped tent and doing heavy physical activity
So that's the secret to waking up early huh
>get promised a n64 if i get straight A's in all subjects >work hard and managed to do it >play goldeneye almost religiously for two summers >get to the point i know where friends in multiplayer will spawn upon death >so bored of the game i'm turning insane, poor friends doesn't own a n64 and think the game is the best thing on earth >trade it in for turok >friends get upset i traded JAMES BOND for SHITTY DINOSAUR KILLERS >they somehow scrounge up enough money to buy a second hand golden eye cartridge >when they come over, they put it in to play golden eye again >almost turning insane after a few days of this
I never understood the "one-game" people. How can you stick to a single vidya for so long without getting bored? It's like rewatching a movie 3+ times in a week.
Only time I ever had something like this happen was when my sister and her husband borrowed my ps1 games, about 20 of them. They said they wanted some games to play at their new pad, but I never saw them again. She sold off every last one to put down a payment on a new car. Didn't ask me, didn't get a single penny back.
to this day she thinks I won't remember. Hah, jokes on her.
I want a daughter while I'm still young. Want to hold her hand and show her some beauty before this damage is done. But if it's too much to ask, send me a son.
>this whole thread
Holy shit mane. My Indian Christian family never pulled this stuff. I used to play Pokemon, and GTA, and whatever else I wanted in front of them along with my Muslim buddy (whose parents didn't give a shit either). I never heard of this happen to any of my friends either.
I've always hated children and the idea of having children but this thread is making me want to have kids just to raise them correctly and undo the abuse my horrible parents put me through
every time I hear footsteps coming down the hall I'm filled with anxiety and my room still doesn't have a working lock on it
I know where you're coming from, but I heard it doesn't work
Chances are, your shitty parents had the same motivations and good intentions, but their shitty programming embed into them in their formative years stopped them from being good parents
You remind me of my little sister who used to copy desktop shortcuts on usb sticks and try to launch the games on other computers.
>every time I hear footsteps coming down the hall I'm filled with anxiety and my room still doesn't have a working lock on it
I can't sleep when there's any form of light turned on
Ganker - random sfw > Ganker - /misc/ & GamerGate (8 Years Strong!)
infinitely more relatable, doesn't cause schizoposting and calls to commit violence, doesn't try and make redpill posts normal so discussion just falls off a cliff in favor of going "WHOA REDPILL"
When I was 16 my Dad (who at the time had a drinking problem) came into my room at like 3 AM screaming at the top of his lungs that all of my video game playing was keeping him up at night (I was literally in bed sleeping when he said this) and he walked over to my TV, threw it onto the floor (and fricking cracked the corner) and tried to go after my PC. I literally ended up getting into a physical fight with him but he was so drunk that I basically just pushed him, he fell over something, hit his head on the floor, and just proceeded to lay there. He didn't crack his skull or anything, but he was so drunk that once he went down he just could not get back up and literally slept in my room.
Thankfully my Dad ended up apologizing the next day. He was always a guy who would do something fricking stupid while drunk and then be the sorriest guy for it the next day. Thank God he quit drinking though, our entire family was sick of dealing with him when he was on one of his stupid benders.
I had access to both consoles and PC back in the day, but only the former were ever regulated, as computer was for "work and learning", so I could use it for all time I wanted. For a time, my parents were correct, all PC games I had were shitty "edutainment". But then I got hold of real PC games, and emulation, and my parents still couldn't tell the difference, so I could play all I wanted, as long as it was on PC, since I was supposedly "studying".
to be fair it is studying. I'm an IT consultant these days and all of my troubleshooting abilities come from the days of getting games to work in the late 90's.
frick yeah being both a dumb inexperienced kid and being poor means whenever something broke because of some stupid shit you did or just because wangblows was crap you have to figure out how to fix it yourself
Pretty slow and gradual process though, for example I didn't have working usb ports on my computer for years until I realized the drivers were just not installed.
in fact i brought it to a computer repair guy once who just told me the ports were dead and not powered.
Nope, i grew up relatively poor until i was like 10 so my parents would have just gone for "Sell" over "Destroy", and they never did because me and my siblings shared all our games, so it would been effectively punishing all of us too. got beatings and other punishments though, so don't mistake it as getting a soft childhood.
My dad did a lot of shit. >cracked my laptop in half one time cause he was super pissed I didn't go outside and didn't interact with my family >another time I stayed in school to prepare for new year's show, had a role in a little scene. During the rehearsal I didn't hear the phone ring 30(!) times and when I got home he threw the phone on the ground. After that I was forbidden from using any phone, except for a shitty old nokia for a year >later on they take away my computer cause my grades went downwards >was the most miserable year of my life, since I only had friends online >was once watching a movie with long distance gf and dad came in and threw the laptop on the floor because I didn't work as a 19 yo student
Things are better now, but he still goes insane from time to time. That's what you get when you don't plan your child and don't abort out of principle.
My father's response to anything was screaming at the top of his lungs and hitting me, and my mother weaponized my father by threatening to call him literally any time I did anything even minorly 'incorrect', and of course him being called over something so minor would make him even angrier. Literally didn't even love my father until I got older. I feared and hated him for most of my childhood. Only when I was 15 or 16 did he calm down enough to not fly off into a violent rage at the smallest thing and I began to feel any kind of affection for him.
I mean, it is extremely fricked up but I used to have fantasies about beating up or outright killing my father. I remember every time after he beat me I would think about what I would do in response, and how I'd hurt him more than he hurt me. When I was 15 I actually stole a knife from our garage and kept it in there in case he wanted to attack me again, but thank God I never got the chance to use it.
Hope you had a chance to respond to him in some way anon, not just physical but at leat letting him know what you think, otherwise its gonna eat you from the inside once he is gone
>my mother weaponized my father by threatening to call him literally any time I did anything even minorly 'incorrect'
My mom would do the same thing. It would result in him having major temper tantrums where he'd scream and break shit, and sometimes he beat me too. After he'd storm out of the house my mom would act all innocent and pretend like she didn't set him loose, only to pull the same shit a week later.
Yeah, I remember mostly hating my father but when I came to understand just how much of a part my mother played I also started to hate her. I outright told her when I was older how shitty of a parent she was by basically playing my father against me and then trying to reap the benefits.
>Mom calls Dad >Dad beats me >Mom proceeds to do some minor thing to comfort me >Now Mom has brownie points at the expense of my Dad
What a fricked up situation. I think even worse is how often this happens and how mainstream it is. Almost every single sitcom has those kinds of jokes, where the mom threatens to call the dad on the kids and people just laugh. They don't understand just how fricked up that is.
Hope you had a chance to respond to him in some way anon, not just physical but at leat letting him know what you think, otherwise its gonna eat you from the inside once he is gone
I didn't go as so far as to tell him of my fantasies, but I told my Dad I hated his guts growing up and didn't love him and he seemed to be sorry for it. My father is never the kind of guy to have the big emotional moment, but he did apologize to me and that is something he almost never does.
Good on him for trying to actually raise his kid. However the way he went about it is likely to make the kid hate his guts, which is counterproductive at best.
>Taking away his PC
Totally reasonable and an understandable punishment >Destroying the thing he worked on creatively for a year
Completely unreasonable and just vindictive. You'd have to be a real moron to think that is a good punishment and isn't just gonna make your kid hate you.
>PSX breaks >Dad tell me he is gonna take it to the repair store >Christmas comes >Ask him about the PSX >He tells me that I should open my gifts >It's a PS2, he tells me he sold the PSX for to get me the PS2
Reading through this threads
>play vidya all the time through school >parents are mad that I do but I still get good grades so they don’t anything about it >would give me shit about it all the time anyway >also blame me because my little brother plays roblox all the time and isn’t doing well at school
Sometimes you just can’t win
Learn a skill. You have a computer, learn to program or learn Linux, then become employed doing that. I'm a relatively successful IT guy and I didn't get a job until I was 25, I'm 32 now.
Do you not have a laptop? an old desktop? People sell old computers for dirt cheap, you'll be able to find one for free. If you live near me I'll give you an old computer
here's what you do. I'm assuming you're a big casul consolegay who doesn't even know how to put a computer together, so we'll even cover that. Get on ebay and search for "i3 motherboard bundle" or something like that. You'll find tons of motherboards with old i3 processors on them and memory for dirt cheap. Buy one. Then get yourself some storage, a cheap sata SSD or HDD, whatever, doesn't matter. Find a cheap power supply and a cheap case, spend as little as you can because this PC is cheap shit but it'll be completely functional. GPU is optional if you can get a cheap one, we're not going to go into any details on that. Also get some cheap keyboard and mouse if you need one. And a USB drive too if you don't have one. Congratulations you just built a PC. That's a new skill, check that off.
Next up you'll need to put something on that USB drive and this is the tricky part because you don't have a computer, so borrow a laptop or something. Pick a Linux distribution. Doesn't really matter which but I'd recommend either Ubuntu, Manjaro, or Fedora. Learn Linux commands, learn about the filesystem, even install some games. Get familiar with it. Boom, you know the basics of Linux, check that off.
Congratulations you have a PC and you are now honing your skills with Linux. Linux skills are in high demand in the IT industry since pretty much the entire internet runs on it. Apply for entry level jobs, never stop learning, git gud. It's all one big game, it's like an RPG. The more skills you have the stronger you are and the more money you can demand.
Not that guy, as a failure-to-launch who was also dependent on his parents into his twenties: don't make the assumption that he has both money and the ability to spend it online, he might've never gotten a bank account set up.
Bite the bullet and become a wagie, start saving up, see to get a place for yourself even if shitty you will be self-dependant, keep saving, get a laptop, learn a skill, keep going up.
>if I don't have a license or a car
So now you know what to work on.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm too scared of people to go and take a driving test
You are not trying in the slightest, no single place where people are working near you? are you SURE?
Sell some of your shit, buy a bike, just find your first step and take it anon, sitting around wishing things to be different will not help you
I live in a suburb
everything is miles away and it takes me hours if I try to use a bike because I'm out of shape
2 years ago
Anonymous
You are giving nothing but excuse and not a single option or idea.
Make
the
choice
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I'm too scared of people to go and take a driving test
be scared and do it anyway >I live in a suburb >everything is miles away and it takes me hours if I try to use a bike because I'm out of shape
theres almost definately a dollar store, gas station, gym(lmao) or something of that sort within walking distance and you should easily be able to bike atleast 5 miles within an hour
lotta excuses make it sound like you really just dont want to
2 years ago
Anonymous
>within walking distance
there literally is fricking not
everything is miles away
I tried to bike a few miles recently and it took me multiple hours
2 years ago
Anonymous
Then I guess you'll just die since you have zero desire to actually unfrick your shit
2 years ago
Anonymous
>just do things that are literally impossible
you sound like my fricking dad
2 years ago
Anonymous
if it's impossible then ask yourself how did everyone else manage to do it?
2 years ago
Anonymous
ever think about asking family/friends for rides to work for a few months
Should be able to afford a shitbox car after a few months
2 years ago
Anonymous
I can't do that
my dad works 10+ hours a day
2 years ago
Anonymous
This fricking guy. Either do something or don't.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You don't deserve him
2 years ago
Anonymous
well frick anon start giving blowjobs in the cul-de-sac
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's impossible because you think it's impossible, everyone else did way harder things just fine
Every time an anon gives you good advice your response is >but... >I can't....
You are the problem, not the obstacles you think are in your way
>>I can't work if I don't have a license or a car
if there's anything this pandemic should have proven, it's that you need neither
look I get it man, change is scary and a pain in the ass. my dad once told me something imporant: "having dreams is nice, but what are you doing to accomplish them?" he was right on that. you need to do *something*
well there's your problem, you are stopping yourself from ever improving yourself or your situation. I used to be the same way, and I still am in a lot of respects. The first step is acknowledging this and noticing when you are doing it. Good luck anon
I’m 24, never had a job, no friends, never kissed a girl, 23k in debt due to dropping out of uni twice. They tolerate me because I have Asperger’s and they blame themselves.
>Develop Homemaking skills if you lack them (Cleaning, Cooking, Washing,getting Groceries and budgeting) >Get a job and/or economic help (Autism Bux). >Get a apartment (Doubly so if your parents are living in a location where you are effectively isolated due not owning a car, like the countryside or a suburb) or start working on a license and get your own car/bike/moped, if out of shape badly i would also say you should work on that since shitty stamina would frick with you being able to hold a job too.
Depending on where you live you can potentially seek economic aid to help paying rent if you have disabilities and/or such low income you can just barely cover it.
And most importantly, evaluate your assets both economically and emotionally Including your parents and know that it it is probably best to lose some of them and be able to make clean break on your terms over trying to keep everything and lose it all.
Honestly though, wouldn't surprise me if you are actually one of those spoiled NEETs that thinks being told to shower because guests are coming over is abuse, you know, this place being what it is and all, no offense.
I want to leave but I also don't because it's the only home I've ever known and I'm too attached to all the stuff I have and my cats
and the idea of living in a cramped shitty apartment surrounded by Black folk instead of an actual house with a yard makes me want to kill myself
don't get attached to stuff, it's just stuff. You could probably bring your cats with you if you left. People are giving you the right advice on here, you just need to take a step, any step. Now I'm not saying this to try to appear like I'm better than you because I don't believe I am, but I am probably in a position in my life that you might think is impossible to reach. I have a good career, I make decent money, I have a family etc etc but I was literally the exact same as you are now when I was your age. I was a big NEET up until my mid 20's. You need to take a step. Go and live in an apartment, who cares if its shit? You can just go back to your parents house. You have no dependents, you have true freedom, and you have the safety net of your parents house. You have the chance right now to go and try something and completely fail and it'll be fine. You probably don't realise how good of a position that is but anyone here who has kids and people who depend on them will tell you that is true freedom.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You are as they say, throwing pearls before swine
He's a chris-chan level autist manchild, just let him rot, big F for the parents
2 years ago
Anonymous
Frick off moron
2 years ago
Anonymous
Go eat some more paste sperg
2 years ago
Anonymous
He's not wrong. Start making a vlog, moron.
Go play with traffic you dumb hillbilly frick
2 years ago
Anonymous
Just don't rape your mother
2 years ago
Anonymous
He's not wrong. Start making a vlog, moron.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nah, i'd say he nailed it, did the anon even say what kind of abuse he got across all the posts? Im too lazy to check, but strikes me as a guy less wanting "help" and advice and more just wanting sympathy and validation for living at with his parents at 25 (which isn't that big of a deal honestly) and hating them.
2 years ago
Anonymous
[...]
Go play with traffic you dumb hillbilly frick
>anon is given multiple solutions to his problem >"but no actually I can't because [cope]"
lmao that Black person doesn't deserve any help, his parents probably aren't even abusive
if you're that same homosexual, take your own advice in
I want to leave but I also don't because it's the only home I've ever known and I'm too attached to all the stuff I have and my cats
and the idea of living in a cramped shitty apartment surrounded by Black folk instead of an actual house with a yard makes me want to kill myself
and have a nice day
2 years ago
Anonymous
You're probably right but I feel for him because like I said I was a NEET when I was in my mid 20's too and all it really takes is to put some effort in.
NEETbro, you should start working on your situation right now but if you don't do it right now you better make sure you do it before you're 30.
there's everything wrong with it
the only thing I'm good at is games and I'm not even good at them and I can't make myself learn anything else because I only like games
every time I try to research or learn anything that isn't a video game my brain shuts down and I literally can't make myself care or do anything about it
None of us on Ganker can really influence your decisions and what you do. It sounds like you have bad parents and yet you also need them to actually help and encourage you to get things done. Sit down and speak with your parents and don’t let them leave until you’ve come up with a solution with them. The way you’ve described your life so far makes me feel pity towards you as we have some similarities in lifestyle. If your response to this is ‘I can’t ask my parents’ then you may as well lay down and die because nothing else is going to truly make you change other than a near death experience.
>frick up near the end of high school >dad tells me to unplug the wii u >start unplugging the console >not that, the other screen >pass him the gamepad which he hides away >play a whole bunch of games when he's out and turn it off when I hear the noisy garage door
My mom stole my gameboy color to sell it for drug/achohol money twice
My aunt stole my ps2 and all my games for the same reason
She tried to take my pc when I was 17(it was a piece of shit office machine I got off the side of the road I slapped a gpu and some new ram in) because she was told I had looked at porn on it and I threatened to break both her arms and dump her xanax down the toilet if she touched it
No I stopped going home/to school and became a homeless schizoid shortly after that slept in the woods/couch surfed for a few years
Im almost 30 now and still have never smoke/drank/drugs/gambled
I do have alot of animals though and that might have something to do with her banishing me to my (significantly) older brothers house one summer and she released my pet turtles to sell the aquariums for booze and drug money, I broke all the furniture in the house over that when I returned a few months later(no one was home) and then kept releasing rattlesnakes into the garden hoping shed get bit and fricking die since we didnt have a car or phone
I mean alcoholics and smokers are subhuman golems and I was cognizant enough to not blatantly murder her since I was starting to get in trouble with the law instead of just the school for fighting but yeah I guess
I'm more surprised you didn't become American Steve Irwin since you clearly like animals and hate people because those are the only logical lessons a fricked up childhood like that can give
2 years ago
Anonymous
I had an alligator for several years until a flash flood and still have multiple snakes/fish/large iguana
>No I stopped going home/to school and became a homeless schizoid shortly after that slept in the woods/couch surfed for a few years >Im almost 30 now and still have never smoke/drank/drugs/gambled
So you lived the life of a druggy, but without the benefits of actually enjoying them. You sure showed mom Anon.
It was literally just between 17-20 so I got to be a vagrant teenager with a camp down by the river it was actually very enjoyable during like 65% of the year being on an eternal camping trip compared to the 8 years of wageslaving
>No I stopped going home/to school and became a homeless schizoid shortly after that slept in the woods/couch surfed for a few years >Im almost 30 now and still have never smoke/drank/drugs/gambled
So you lived the life of a druggy, but without the benefits of actually enjoying them. You sure showed mom Anon.
When I was younger I absolutely hated my dad’s guts and felt no love for him whatsoever. He was always the punisher in our household and would always be harder on me than my mom was. Even when I was as young as 13-14 I had fantasies about him either simply not existing, getting killed, or even killing him myself. That ended up changing though, when we took a vacation to Washington. While we were walking back from dinner he collapsed and had a seizure, never seen my mom freak out so bad. When I was that young I didn’t *really* know what a seizure entailed, all I knew was that something fricked up was happening to my dad, and he could *maybe* die. He ended up being fine, but facing a scenario where I thought he could actually die made me realize that I really didn’t want him gone, maybe I disliked him and butted heads with him sometimes, but I didn’t actually want him to die. And even when he does flip out and do stupid shit I kinda sympathize with him because he had a TERRIBLE household growing up, both his parents were abusive. Stories about his dad shoving his mom’s head in a tub of water because she was drinking, being held down and beat up by his own mother, shit was fricked. He’s never done anything remotely close to that extreme though, so when he does have those fricked up moments I just see it as a product of his childhood abuse, and be grateful he’s not nearly as fricked up as his own parents were
>caught smoking when i was 14 >dad promised to pay for my drivers license if i dont start smoking / never do it again >he acts like that never happened when i got old enough
i am eternally mad about this
People with authority over you do that a lot >anon, do this extra shift, then i'll give you extra vacation days. >you want extra free time? Lol, get fricked never promised shit.
>dad promised to pay for my drivers license if i dont start smoking / never do it again
Isn't that like, 30 bucks or something? Or did you mean pay for a car?
>dad promised to pay for my drivers license if i dont start smoking / never do it again
Isn't that like, 30 bucks or something? Or did you mean pay for a car?
Where I'm from you can do that but you still have to take several mandatory lessons with a professional. Not as much as if you had no one to teach you, but still. It costs money.
if youre under 18 usually lessons are required
I go my DL at 24(after driving illegally for 2 years) by taking a single 8 hour class and 2 4 hour driving session "tests" which were just driving around town with an instructor getting fastfood and chauffeuring her to her errands
It cost me a few hundred dollars
I live in Germany, you need to pay for driving lessons and the driving test.
I was a student with barely any income and my family was poor, it was kind of a big deal for him to promise that.
didnt destroy anything, but they have horrible double standards >love me vidya >only allowed to play on weekends. They'd let me watch TV the entire day if I wanted though >can only get one vidya per year either on christmas or birthday, always bought me it reluctantly >if I ever did anything wrong as a kid my vidya was the first to go (don't resent it, it makes sense now) >fast forward 10 years >little brother is born >mother's withering womb birthed an autism spawn >parents spoil the shit out of him >fast forward another 10 to today >they buy him a new game every month, a lot of times fullprice >bought him minecraft FOUR times, all on different platforms >he is a satan spawn, no one will discipline him until he does something extreme >they let him paly 4 hours a day every day, unsupervised. If he spends the entire day playing he gets a slap on the wrist >try to talk my parents down from raising him into a turboautist >'haha you liked video games as much as him when you were a kid' >still don't understand why the double standards in raising us >don't resent little bro, just hope really hard he won't be the kind of zoomer that gets posted in here >distance myself from them before I go insane or lose my head
don't understand why the double standards in raising us
That happens all the time. Parents mellow out as they grow older and have more kids. My mom used to beat my older sister and brother all the time. The worst thing she did to me physically was beat my ass with a belt once cause she thought I was gonna cut off my penis with a bunch of scissors.
Now that I wrote all of that down, I realize my mom might not be the best example. I guess it still kinda counts though.
I didn't wanna cut off my dick, I wanted to cut out a picture of a woman with big boobs in a magazine. The only reason she started beating me with the belt was because I didn't want to tell her what I really wanted to do with the scissors.
God this sounds like the kind of insane shit you'd see on a Malcolm in the Middle episode or something.
I had to wake up every morning at about 7am because of distance and necessity of public transportation use to get to school. It is a thing for extremely low income families.
I was forced to wake up from 6 or 7-am for pretty much the entirety of my childhood. Then at like 4 or 5 when I turned 19 because they enrolled me in a shitty unwanted college course unprompted (and spent my entire summer b***hing and nagging me about college courses too, when all I wanted to do was rest and come down from the hellishly hectic school cycle).
My dad smashed our SNES when my sister ignored him when he wanted to zone out with the TV because she was way too into Mario 3. He was a pretty open dude too with consoles since he got us a NES, too bad my sis was too much of an butthole.
After that, no more consoles for us but he did get us a PC.
I was growing up in a poor household so I didn't have computers or consoles or anything like that. I mean we were properly poor. Most of the toys I got were a handmedowns from rich cousins. Best I had up to age 15 was a tetris.
Father was rough sometimes but by no means abusive.
The only abuse I experienced related to gayming was that at some point, for whatever reason, both of them were convinced that games are ruining the computer and I had to delete all the ones I pirated.
my parents never destroyed or took my stuff because they knew shit was valuable
they did hit me but I learned quick to not be a shithead so they just never had to do it again
honestly, i kinda deserved it so i dont hate them
> Always been too of the class > Parents never had cause to threaten me for anything
What they did do was reatrict me to 1 hour of Vidya a day for most of my childhood.
Unfortunately this gave me a complex of squeezing every second of screen time I possibly can, and now I'm an unsupervised adult I'm a hopeless addict who plays for 16 hours a day
my parents never took or destroyed any of my things
sometimes they unplugged internet for a few hours when I didn't go to school (happened about every other day)
I never did my homework
I dropped out of highschool and have been a NEET for 4 years
Damn. I sure do feel sorry for the parents who had worthless kids who grew up to be manchildren who have unironic PTSD over their scrimblo-bimbo machines being broken and ranting about it with non-hetero subhumans on a video-game board.
If an under 10 year old child isn't getting enough sleep then it's all on the parent for not being a responsible adult. He wouldn't be having problems waking up if he had enough hours of sleep per night.
The only thing I got from this thread is that mexicans are the fricking worst parents ever. No wonder a lot of you end up being ugly pieces of shit. Makes a lot of sense now. You people are trash
not purposefully, but when my OG DS's hinges were going out my dad treid to fix it, but he glued it at a 90 degree angle which made it basically unusable. Then he broke it trying to change the angle. It was really on its last legs though so its nice he tried to help
Yes. My mom has some serious temperamental issues. Abusive home + Latin + alcoholic = not a fun time. The sad thing is, I don't even remember why she broke Jazz Jackrabbit 2, all I remember was it my favorite game at the time and that I cried a lot. I was six.
at least you had a console
LITERAL, ACTUAL post-WW2 boomer parents, not even once
they raised me like it was 1960
they were like fricking 50 when I was born
No wonder why you're here.
Yeah I had a few consoles, never the new ones but that was fine, the games were fun all the same and I got to play the new games at a friend's home. Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a PC game though.
>ACTUAL post-WW2 boomer parents
Mine were actually pretty chill, my mom didnt understood any of it but my father was a computer "nerd" it was always something that interested him in his youth so he was very okay with vidya and computer. He actually made senses to my big bro to go in STEM instead of law school for exemple.
However, he never ever had a diploma and always worked blue collar jobs.
>Abusive home + Latin + alcoholic
How’s the sex?
i thought all the people who spoke latin were dead? is your mom a lich?
>is your mom a lich
it's very possible
Latinx*
I've got a copy of it on my hdd, you want it?
Nah I can buy it for two bucks
Yeah my mom smashed my ds apart at the end of the school year after I failed Spanish and Theatre in 8th grade.
she also took away my PS2 and wii then too, and gave it to my uncle to stay at his house. Didn't get those back until like second year of college
Nah I came close.
I was meant to be revising for exams but was putting it off, and my Dad basically said he was on the cusp of throwing my PS3 out the window unless I sorted my shit out.
I still don't know if it was an empty threat or not, but they never touched my stuff generally.
Yeah, I can't even remember the reason but my mother got angry at me over something, picked up my PS2 and threw it to the ground. The annoying part was her insistence that she actually placed it down gently and it must have been broken beforehand. It's one thing to go overboard disciplining a kid but it's pathetic to deny any responsibility once you're clearheaded.
Once of the worse beatings I got was for destroying the Xbox 360 and giving it to my father in a broken state...Except it never left the house, when he had a fight with mum he whipped the controller off the side desk, missed mother and left a giant gaping dent in it. I always remember that fight clearly because my mother and I had played Dark Souls 2 together just before I was going back to university after the weekend.
Same guy who was devastated after h got mad at trying to fix one of his computers and jumped all over it in anger.
>there are anons who are young enough that dark souls 2 was part of their childhood
>I was 13 when I started coming to GankerI was a gaiagay
>Ive now been on Ganker for 14 years
>Same guy who was devastated after h got mad at trying to fix one of his computers and jumped all over it in anger.
What the frick
That's the same for a lot of shitty parents.
My father literally smashed my first ps1 because he was angry.
Some things you just never forget man. I'm just glad I've been living on my own for 6+ years now.
Sometimes I wonder what it's like to have a father who didn't look at you with unmitigated contempt. Must've be nice.
Monkey paw, he loves you but is terrified you won't make it to heaven so will break or destroy all your "satanic" stuff "for your own good"
It's not all rainbow and sunshine, anon.
>be a failure of a son
>father still treats me like I'm the best thing that ever happened to him
>he never blames me for any of my wrongdoings, he is convinced it's his fault for not being a good father instead
The regret is killing me inside. I wish I could fricking turn back time and do him proud.
it's never too late
I somehow made it and has a pretty comfy and stable life now. It's just that I still feel I could have done so much better for him.
anon you did make him proud in his own way
I think your father is just glad you're here anon. At least you have a father who cares.
>t. someone whose shitty dad went on a 3 week vacation with zero warning, almost certainly to get away from my screeching b***h of a mother
I guess I'd be a shitty dad then cuz thats 100% what I'd do if someone I'm joined at the hip to started screaming at me
Try having a father who loves you but hates your mother and sister and is very violent towards them kek, all the conflicting feelings I have had still eat at me years later.
My father broke all my psx games one day he came back home drunk. 25 years later I still haven't forgotten, I doubt I ever will since I'm a spiteful piece of shit.
15 years later*
We were poor so we didnt break anything when we argued.
Though when I was a kid, my dad tripped on a little piece of lego and fell on my big bro's PS2.
He got nothing but that was shit, couldn't play Jak and Daxter for a months. At least we had Gameboys and played Pokemon.
No, but the absolute worst thing they've done is give some of them away without my permission
>oh anon, the kids of some forgotten friend of your father's visited and they have a playstation too and they liked some of your games so I gave them as a present to not appear rude tee hee
>oh, don't worry! when they visit again you can ask them back!
of course, they never came back again
This happened with my older cousin. We were visiting his parents and were watching him play playstation and when we left his parents said we could all take home a game to keep each since "he had so many". Of course we took the ones we had just saw him play since we were little kids.
Looking back I feel guilty about it but on the other hand that's how I got Abe's Oddysee
This happened with my brother's 1st/2nd ed Dark Angels miniatures lol. Shit's worth cash now. But the kid was a genuine fan and still hasn't sold them afaik
>oh anon you have so many games, surly you can give some of them away
>borrowed MGS4, Heavy Rain and Motorstorm to my ex brother-in-law
>like a month or two after he and my sis divorced, never saw him again so I just kept the games
>borrowed MK:DD, TWW and TTYD to my cousins
>never gave them back
they must all have loathed me but those were some kino games, so no regrets
Black person.
Black person behavior
No, one of the upsides of having neglectful parents is that videogames did the a lot of the parenting for them so they'd often tell me to go away and play vidya or something.
I have kids myself and I couldn't see myself destroying something that they've worked hard on just to teach them a lesson, they're still really young but my oldest is almost 4 and she's smart enough to where I can explain things to her and she gets it. She doesn't like going to bed sometimes but I just tell her that it's getting late and she needs her sleep to grow up big and strong and she'll go. She's a lot like me in a way and one of the things I found frustrating when I was a kid, and still do, is when someone tells me to do something and the reason is because they said so. I try to avoid that as much as possible and give an actual reason why.
>when someone tells me to do something and the reason is because they said so. I try to avoid that as much as possible
That's not always possible but it's good that you try. Good work man.
Yeah that happened to me too sometimes.
>hey why is my old SNES in the shed
>i dunno lol
>ill come back to get it later
>hey why is my old SNES gone
>i dunno lol
>wtf i didnt touch it
Then I went over to a poor friend's house, like even poorer than us.
>hey why do you have my SNES
>it's not yours it's mine
>those are the exact same games I had you're not even using it
>it's mine
Fun times.
>>it's mine
jesus christ
I had a 'friend' who tried that is my PS1. He even went crying to his mum who insisted that it was his. Long story short, the cops got involved and I got my paw back when said 'friend' tried to delete my CTR save that had my initials for the name literally in front of everyone.
>be at school
>play yugioh against during break some dude
>moron kids flock just to watch
>lemme look at your cards anon
>later realize that my red eye dragon misses
>“no anon it‘s mine“
>still ripped on the left bottom corner exactly like my card
>“no it‘s mine“
Trust me, the real bad kids are not the ones of a different race it‘s poor kids.
>and one of the things I found frustrating when I was a kid, and still do, is when someone tells me to do something and the reason is because they said so
Same for me. Now that I'm an adult I realize my dad kept giving that as the reason for everything is because he's unironically stupid.
Are redditors human?
Everyone was really shitting on that alleged troll in the thread, actually.
I mean, it's basic logic that if you take a little kid, and destroy his whole life's achievement, he's going to go haywire...
>do what I say or I'll break your stuff
If we killed everyone who did this the world would be a utopia.
Stop being so anti-semetic anon
I can't
kek, I don't know if you're trolling, but you're doing the same thing
I guess it's fair when they're the first ones to do it, though
>getting rid of harmful people is the same as getting rid of material things
I agree, but I wanted to say it's the same shit from an authoritarian perspective, but I just can't seem to be able to phrase it, but I read your post and can't seem to add anything
Fight fire with fire, makes sense
Guess I wanted to say that this kind of thinking, as in making decisions for someone else based on your personal feelings is what leads to authoritarianism in the first place
Just boomer parenting, if you aren't traumatizing your kids in someway it's not parenting to them. Sadly shit like that carries into the next generation, it's just for the last couple of decades that people are willing to say it.
your cortisol their dopamine
Luckily no, but we had to sell a bunch of shit to help pay for my dad's cancer treatment, and that's how i lost my SNES.
It didn't worked out btw, i miss my dad and my SNES
>buy somewhat expensive thing for kid
>destroy it because you can't control your anger issues
>money not stolen but lost because of your own fault this time
i will never understand those morons
I used to know this old man who watched his daughters kid and any time the kid would play any violent video games he would smash the game. He would always get angry at me when I point out that demonstrating to a child that violence is bad by emotionally and violently destroying an inanimate object is probably a bad idea. I laugh at him every time he has to bail his kid out of jail now.
The money is considered lost when they bought the item for the kid. Most parents don't count their child's toys in their assets or investments portfolios.
>have SNES
>its my most favorite game console
>play it almost daily
>fast forward to Christmas
>don't even care about my presents just want to play my SNES
>can't find it
>ask dad where it might be
>oh I gave that to your friend for Christmas
>Christmas and the following year ruined
dude what
I had a GBA for probably 6 years before I got my DS and my mother forced me to give my GBA and all the games (which I still liked and played) to my nephew and he broke the GBA within maybe a week because he threw it at a wall. Then when I got my first iPod touch my mum forced me to give him my DS (because he lost his own DS) and he then broke my DS within a month.
I once turned the PS2 off right after my brother killed Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts 1
Fricking devilish
Yeah, talked about it before but this thread is specific so
>1999, I'm 9
>LOVE Pokemon, it's my favorite thing
>One day parents barge into my room with a trash bag
>Demand I throw away every single Pokemon thing I own
>Apparently they watched a Fox News segment where a priest was saying how Pokemon is pagan demon summoning witch craft
>Teary eye'd throw everything away
>Except somehow I pocket my Pokemon Blue, heart pounding that I would be caught
>Everything else was trashed though, even my Pokemon Stadium
I'm glad I got to save my Blastoise though from his fate... still I had to play it in secret under my bed from that point on-wards.
Fricking hell religion is a plague and religious people need to be exterminated.
morons gonna moron regardless. They only flipped out because man on TV said so.
dont worry the same kind of people would throw away your vidya because the talking heads on CNN say that it'll turn your kids into transphobes and white supremacists
Cuckservatives would throw it away just as quickly if the TV told them it turned them into transexuals or anti-israel
Leftists are fricking worse
It's not religion so much as a lack of critical thinking that's the issue. If they weren't saying the trend was going to damn the kids, they'll use some other right-wing bait like it'll turn kids gay/trans, make them have pre-marital sex, turn them violent or into drug addicts etc. When a 'news anchor' is screeching this about a harmless new toy or trend, it takes the bare minimum of skepticism to see straight through it, but it's astonishing how willingly people accept the first poorly justified opinion they hear as gospel.
As someone who's constantly conflicted on whether to respect religion or reject it (I live in a religious household), the older I get the more logical religious principals become T B H.
There is a lot of batshit insane moronic things non-religious people do that are completely illogical, western society is absolutely fricked.
Most religions at least have logical reasons for the bullshit they throw at you.
I didn't grow up during the eras of muh satanism but I still genuinely find it hard to believe that people used to think metal music, D&D and Pokémon were made by the devil and would lead kids to Satan. I only remember a tiny bit about the b***hing about Harry Potter but people didn't seem to take that as seriously as the other things I'vev mentioned.
As if today we're much smarter.
>As if today we're much smarter.
No, actually we're being held back by religious NPCs even today. We dont need their faith-based-bullshit and sense of entitlement at all. Religious institutions don't contribute to society, they leech taxes and spread mental illness.
the materialist atheist only understands value in terms of taxes
meanwhile the spiritual religious crusades against pokemon because.....lol lmao?
Because they're a clear and present threat to the safety of children. If they play with Pocket MONSTERS, soon they'll be worshiping Satan with Dungeons & Dragons and Ouija boards.
Were they wrong?
Yes. Children obsessed with pokemon didn't grow up to worship satan, they grew up to get a job working with complex numbers and then proceeding to give their paycheck to online homosexuals calling them a pathetic homosexual while pretending to be a ribbon dog.
Growing up in this era and hearing the story's like this, is why i find the whole leftist moral panic about video games fricking loony land.
>NO YOU OUT OF TOUCH BOOMER VIDEO GAMES DONT MAKE YOU SHOOT UP SCHOOLS AND WORSHIP THE DEVIL
Now
>FRICK U VIDEO GAMES MAKE YOU RAPE WOMEN AND HATE BLACKS
i just want righties and lefties to stay out of my vidya equally
begone sjws
begone bible thumpers
begone trannies
begone conservitards
begone leftoids
begone moral panic
begone SJWs
FRICK OFF FROM MY VIDYA
trump lost.
And everyone hates Biden. Your point?
Because boomers are moronic. Religion isn't the cause, it's just another flavour of the same drink.
you went above and beyond to prove his point, showing that people are in fact getting dumber by the year
well done, gold star for you
they're basically controlled by tribalism on some kind of animalistic level
fricking cattle like that is BEGGING to be told what to do, to be controlled by a leader, devoid of any conscious thought and personality
At least religion started with the best of intentions. Whatever weird shit people worship today - politics, brands, whatever - it's all just shit to make people rich.
>At least religion started with the best of intentions
and that must've lasted a month at best before some frick found a way to exploit it
Also, looking at shit like this, (3:18)
?t=197 it might've been designed to control and manipulate from the very start by an incredibly conniving bastard
>best of intentions
no, its always been used to control people. people suck and will do shit things so you scare them out of it by threatening them with an eternity of suffering if theyre a bad person in life.
>good intentions
Frick no, you can bet your sweet ass religion started after some mud-eating Umbungo saw an eclipse and thought he angered sky daddy for not eating the right type of berries.
That's what I thought when I was 13 anon.
Do psychedelics, think about the world and suffering and compassion and how to end suffering.
>At least religion started with the best of intentions
Yeah I kinda doubt that. Most likely some proto-NEET tribal decided he was tired of hunting and told everyone else that if they brought offerings of food to his hut he could beseech the Great Spirit to bless their hunts or whatever. Thus the priestly caste was born.
Truly euphoric
Atheists can only view the world as materialism and nothing else, very depressing to see and probably why so many let themselves get tricked by materialist ideologies
Ah yes, a phenomenon exclusive to religious people.
bro, that was the point from the beginning if you can't read
morons don't need actual religion to be morons, sjw twatter shit is literally a religion at this point
>BEGGING to be told what to do, to be controlled by a leader, devoid of any conscious thought and personality
Oh that definitely doesn't remind me of anything...
*cough*
Ha, yeah in the 90s my parents wouldn't let me near D&D because they though it would actually send me to hell. It's funny in hindsight. I could watch Jurassic Park and Die Hard but I couldn't roll some dice with nerds... Good times.
>I didn't grow up during the eras of muh satanism
They were still crying about it when Pokemon Go released, I kid you not.
>they put monsters in our churches!
I heard a little bit about that but nobody cares anymore about muh Satanism. No sane person takes that shit seriously anymore.
>No sane person takes that shit seriously anymore.
Did they ever?
Yeah it's absolutely nuts that people associated metal with satan and the devil I really cant see how they could possibly do such a thing
Heh.
was it always like that or did they just play it up after a while?
Depends on the band, mostly.
I know they're all evil and satanic and stuff, but the amount of soul in those covers is mind bending
This happened to me multiple times in my life because my older sisters life purpose growing up was to get me in trouble with religious fundamentalist parents
>banned from neopets for potions being "witchcraft"
>banned from WoW for obvious reasons and computer moved into the lounge where everyone had full view
>almost had life ruined when she snuck in and saw me click on my first malware porn banner ad, managed to get benefit of the doubt because no proof
>no sex before marriage parent talk and discouraged from talking to girls at all
Now 30 years old and virgin, i became very VERY fast at alt tabbing though
I moved out in early 20's the same day they tried to start tearing up all my vidya coffee table art books from collectors editions I'd saved up my own money to buy over the years
Frick man
lemme guess, now they ask you why are you single/when are you going to have a gf ?
Pretty much, don't get me wrong I still care about my parents they literally did everything to their knowledge that was "correct" because they didn't want me to be a hedonist frickup, but the rules they grew up with are inverted from modern societies
I desperately want to find a gf and have kids before they kick the bucket but running out of time
Like I said, I learned how to alt tab or bullshit at lightning speed as a survival mechanism, my ears became attuned just to the creaks of floorboards elsewhere in the house
>I learned how to alt tab or bullshit at lightning speed as a survival mechanism, my ears became attuned just to the creaks of floorboards elsewhere in the house
I had to learn this due to our PC being in the fricking dining room for some reason.
So you wouldn't touch your penis 24/7.
Yeah, exact same situation
I still managed to play borderless window mode WoW on a friend's account and alt tabbed like a motherfricker anytime I heard the sound of creaks on those boards
The very worst was when I snuck out of my room and was doing magisters terrace at 2 am on a school night (resto shaman)
The rest of the party was dead but we had kael'thas in anti gravity phase so I was solo'ing him, hes 10% hp, everyones cheering me on and then
>CREAK
>CREAK
>CREAK
Had to fricking pull the plug and splintercell my way back into my room and pretend to be asleep because dad woke up wanting a cup of tea and to do some dishes
I'm pretty sure a lot of my social anxiety issues stem from living my life like this
Damn dude, I was the guy who posted the Pokemon comment you replied to. That's rough. We were Jehovah Witnesses growing up, up until I was 8, so it's likely why they were so convinced by scary priest man about Pokemon a year later.
However, they got laxer every year, and by 14 I could play WoW and stuff. You had it bad, my condolences buddy.
Literally me, and I know off-topic blog bullshit but it's like these boomer fundamentalist parents have NO fricking foresight
>okay let's make sure our son never interacts with girls, never brings friends over, force our outdated way of life on him, treat him and his problems as minor things and put no attempt in actually understanding his plight
>why is our son always alone? why does our son not have girl to marry yet? where's our grandchildren? why are we in a retirement home? why does our son never contact us? 🙁
I kind of feel bad about it, but anytime I try to talk to them it only takes half an hour max before the conversation is end times and the rapture is coming
And sure I vaguely am about it because of my upbringing, but there's more to life than waiting for the apocalypse to finally happen
My oldest brother + sister both had families so they're content with that but you're right shit sucks man
Anytime I brought up wanting to have a girlfriend they insisted she be a zealous Christian one with no concept that even the ones that go to church have onlyfans and 5 boyfriends
>i became very VERY fast at alt tabbing though
based
yeah
https://twitter.com/MartyAmericaUSA/status/1546914595406766081
>PC he bought with his own money destroyed because he simps on onlyfan
God I wish this was real.
No, but they told me that they'd prefer me not playing so much. They didn't offer me any other hobbies to engage in though, so I just recently started having actual interests, and only because the lockdowns kept me from my university work.
>Parents didn't want me playing games and wanted me doing outside stuff
>But my mom forbade me from leaving the street we were on, i.e. the literal row of 6-8 houses
>Never pieced together that I hated going outside because I couldn't go anywhere and had nothing to actually do out there
Sometimes I wonder what the frick was wrong with them
She didn't give a frick and just wanted you gone.
THIS holy shit. My mother took away my bike when I was like 11 because she didn't like when I was "going too far away from the house". Then she threw a fit when I spent all my time with video games instead of going outside. What the frick did you want me to do?
yeah, by deleting the desktop icon.
>dad used to be physically abusive toward me
>tried to manhandle me when I was older and not a defenseless child anymore
>punched him in the face when he had me pinned to the bed with both arms
>can see the absolute seethe on his face and also the grim realization that he's an old man and I'm not
>fully ready to get into a violent brawl and beat his fricking ass
>he just lets go of me and leaves
>had a black eye for weeks and told everyone at work he fell down
>ever since then he's become even more of a massively passive cuck and never tries to force me to do anything anymore
>to this day claims I "sucker punched" him
anyone who tells you violence doesn't solve problems is a fricking liar
it's literally the only solution to most problems
It's called "the supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived" for a reason.
Based Heinlein.
I agree. Frick them both.
The solution is to kill both of you. You're already a failure. Whatever happens to him is inconsequential.
I can just imagine your little homosexual dad beating on his child to feel big and then figuring out that he lost his punching bag. you should've beat the shit out of him.
same happened with my mother, except I didn't hit her, just didn't let her hit me
she'd say do X thing (oftentimes illogical and stupid thing)
If I said no, she's start screaming, if I insisted, she'd just beat me into submission and act like a fricking b***h shouting and acting like an ass anywhere between 1-4 days, sometimes weeks
I was (still am) very weak and small, what a pathetic woman
Violence is the great equalizer. Never give up your nukes bros.
you should've just beat him up again
based. when i was 18 and my dad tried to start his shit again and I just looked at him. I'll never forget his face when he raised his hand and I didn't react then he started shouting "you think you grown now huh lil homie? you a grown man now huh? you ain't scared of your daddy no mo huh lil homie" and I just looked at him until he went to his room mumbling something. he never shouted at me again after that.
This happened to me but younger and with my mom. She came at me with a remote to hit me with and I grabbed her arm and stared her down. She would still yell occasionally but never raised a hand to me again.
My mum only ever hit me once when I was 5 and it was with one of those spaghetti forks and each tooth of the fork left a mark on my leg and she felt so bad she started to cry (not as much as me)
I don’t think I ever got anything sharp but I got remotes, a broom handle, a flyswatter (this one was actually one of the top as far as pain goes, those frickers hurt when swung with force/repeatedly) and much else. Funny part was she tried to call my dad and tell him I beat her up afterwards, but he worked a hard ass job 12 hours a day and so didn’t really have the time for it.
I had something like this but a while back my with my dad I've hit him before but he didn't stop so I just stopped talking to him for about half a year.
He rarely even raises his voice at me anymore.
He couldn't describe this feeling, but I guess you would feel it someday, young get stronger and you only get older
that is the wrong conclusion out of the right solution
it's a shame you had a dogshit dad m8
I just hope you don't beat your kids when you're old, you'll just perpetuate that shit
>having fun playing vice city and SA as a kid
>43-year-old single uncle visits
>literally wojak seething as I'm playing the game
>"these games are bad, they're violent"
>tells my mom
>fricking uninstalls them
what the frick was him problem
Actually, I know, it's growing up in a dictatorship and never having a choice and consuming propaganda as a kid, so now he feels the need to police everything he can to balance it out
Also, not having a family and kids after being raised as a normalgay
if I was smarter and knew he was single, I'd say something like
"why don't you tell that to your children"
or
"how the frick would you know"
you know, he's just fricking sitting there
and watching me play and fricking commenting
"yeah, these games are bad"
"this is bad for you
Actually, I think there's another reason
He's just fricking mad because he wasted his youth in a soviet shithole without games and now he can't handle seeing kids having fun
literal boomer behavior
uninstalls them
How do you "uninstall" a PS2 game? It's on a disc.
they were on PC too
Oh yeah, I forgot they came out on PC back then
the multiplayer mods were really fun at the time
they're both on PC
lol consolegays have no idea.
also, guys
this was a HUGE deal for me because I was a child and didn't know how to install games, I just clicked on the colorful icons on the desktop
so these games were just lost to me
didn't even know how to get them, as in I didn't grasp the concept of installation, didn't know I could buy disks and shit, I just played the games the cool cousins and uncles would install when they came
You remind me of my little sister who used to copy desktop shortcuts on usb sticks and try to launch the games on other computers.
>You remind me of my little sister who used to copy desktop shortcuts on usb sticks and try to launch the games on other computers.
I at least was savvy enough to copy the whole game folder
that didn't work either, of course, but it was better than just the shortcut
If you had said anything he would’ve probably go all “see? He is talking back! Next he will steal from you! Videogames are evil!”
My mom once lent my cousin one of my Pokemon games while she was over and she deleted my save.
No but they convinced me to sell off the Mega Drive, Playstation and all my Gameboy stuff in a car boot sale for a pittance when I was a kid. Thankfully, I got a lot of that stuff back (and more) off eBay years ago way before there was a retro boom so it was pretty cheap.
i remember my mom complaining 40 bucks for a snes with four games was too expensive. how times have changed
What the frick is the issue with sleeping in until 9 (which I wouldn't even call sleeping in, I work full-time and wake up at 9) if you're a kid on school holidays?
>it's a skill he needs to learn
Doesn't he go to school every day of the term already?
I had the N64 and psx original boxes full of videogames magazines. Mom throw them. I was mad, very mad when i found out.
This kid is never going to open up to his parents again.
>my son shared one of his most precious possessions and projects with me
>finally I have ammunition to hurt him more
Woman moment
>finally I have ammunition to hurt him more
My mother was and still is 100% this. Most negative emotion literally comes from not understanding why in the frick would they do this. And as soon as you DO understand, it's difficult to see people like this as kin.
Pretty much. My mother is the exact same, and my father does nothing about it.
He was taught very important lessons
>never put a real effort on anything ever, it will not be recognized by anyone, and can be taken away like it was nothing at any moment
>never show off your interests or achievements, it'll only be used as ammunition against you
>people only care about their own interests, everything else is meaningless to them, so leave them be, but do not tolerate their intromission into your interests
I wonder if I embraced National Socialism because someone broke my Nintendo 64.
what if they were doing that on purpose
I see you have met my mother.
no but they should've
I wouldn't be wasting my life on here if they would've done that
No because my parents aren't fricking psycho.
>dad forces me to go outside
>cousin comes over while i'm out
>he deletes and overwrites my N64 ocarina of time save
>come back home a few hours later, my summer progress entirely gone
>attempt to strangle cousin, get strangled instead
>few weeks later, mom forces me to go outside
>take all my n64 cartridges into a bag with me
>cousin comes over while i'm out
>he plugs in my playstation to play some oddworld
>bastard deletes my save on the memory card
>get back home, realize the homosexual did it again
>give his shoes to the dogs outside to chew them up
>remove the sparkplug from his bike and throw it in the river
>"where-are-my-shoes™".jpeg
>"my-bike-is-broken™".jpeg
>fricker stays over the entire summer since he can't leave
>great mistake, all saves on all games disappear one by one
>worst summer of my vidya life
I'm still angry about it 20 years later.
what the frick man
Your cousin is literally the worst person and I hope karma has punished him in some way
Quite the opposite, the idiot couldn't figure out what was missing from his bike for it to not work anymore so he towed it back to his house and left it in his garage.
Fastforward 15~ years and it's still in mint condition (old suzuki k50 built in -77) and got it sold for a premium collectors value. He purchased it for $100 but sold it for $3000.
Bastard is too lucky.
I've seen this reposted a number of times already. Any other stories?
I have stacks of them.
>gameboy color came out
>managed to cry my way to a 'see-through'-one that was way cooler than the flat colored ones
>play warioland and pokemon blue/yellow/gold
>after the pokemon movie about mewtwo comes out, go to gamestore with other pokefans
>other kid sees my premium see-through gameboy and swaps it for his flat green one
>majorly upset, attempt to beat him up
>his older brother beats me up
>my cousin from prior story trashes him and his little brothers green gameboy, gets my see-through one back
>cousin asks to try the game, feeling immense respect for the idiot for once, i let him
>he overwrites my 2 out of 3 legendary bird saves with the 'limited time, store only wired mew'
I'm still seething about it, although you can count on him sometimes he's still a homosexual.
your cousin honestly sounds based, he's just an idiot
>limited time, store only wired mew
this was always fricking bullshit
>gotta catch em all! except even if you have a friend with the other version AND the transfer cable you still can't do that without physically going to a limited time event!
even fricking gacha, as vampiric as it is, usually repeats the events and you don't have to physically go anywhere to take advantage of them. It's astonishingly israeli.
>deletes saves for no reason constantly
>doesn't elaborate
>helps you out
>still deletes your save
lmao
No, I just got beat and raped.
that's rough man, me too, but not by parents thankfully
Rape them back and assert your dominance
Why didn't he simply explain what the consequences were gonna be instead of just breaking it to the kid after the fact? Like, did he do it out of spite or something?
Here's a secret.
99% of the people have no idea how to parenting.
>did he do it out of spite
he got butthurt his son was sleeping in while school was out, what else could.it be?
There was an attempt but the snes survived being tossed down the stairs over an argument that had nothing to do with games. Now the cheap drywall at the bottom of the stairs didn't fair so well.
No but I took a hammer to my own Gamecube when I got my Wii because I thought it would be funny now that I "didn't need" the Gamecube anymore.
My mum confiscated my Gameboy colour that I bought with my own money, then lost it in her room for over a year (she was basically a hoarder)
>redditor has two children but is still a manchild
Knowing the dad's ineptitude, the world was probably still sitting in the recycle bin.
no, my parents aren't mentally ill. I was disciplined but not in some moronic way like breaking shit.
My mom breaking my NES lead to the final argument/fight my parents had before their divorce.
Was convinced for years that it was all my fault. ;_;
It’s not your fault, it’s not anyones fault, free will doesn’t exist.
>This whole thread
and boomers wonder why their kids eagerly ship them off to retirement homes where black nurses make them fight in arenas
Anon your comment almost made me wake the rest of my household
Where can i find these old men fighting rings and how can i bet on them?
My parents didn't. My absolute c**t of a brother pawned my old consoles and games after I left home, though.
>no one’s posted the classic yet
>WHY are people sharing their own stories and experiences?? why haven't they reposted the same shit that's been seen thousands of times already
moron
>a bloo bloo bloo my mom sold my favorite copy of de blob on wii™ when I was six
Yeah, wow, what a story
De Blob is awesome homosexual frick you for using it in your gay little example
The one time I let my younger cousins play my GameCube (mom forced me) at a family party I leave for literally 15 minutes to help my dad with something, and I come back to my 100% completed Melee save file with daily after school autism playthroughs and summers and summers of playing on it erased.
Instead of strangling them and my mom, I instead seethed in a separate room for an hour, and then decide frick it I'll do it all over again, which I did.
How the frick are cousins so good at finding how to delete save files? Why is it so common? These motherfrickers are literate for fricks sake
>Melee save
Nothing of value was lost.
do you have any idea how long it takes to unlock some characters
can you not just import the save from other guys
>oooh, let's to the secret advanced settings menu
>mmmh shiny red button
>am I sure? always!
I deleted my rich cousin's pokemon blue save after he specifically told me not to. My little shitty kid justification was that I wanted to play the game from the beginning and you could only have one save. I only played for like 10 minutes before I got bored and put it down. He never confronted me over it
Parents who break their childrens shit are bad parents. It just teaches the kid that in the future if someone doesn't do something you want break their shit. No wonder we have some many psychos walking around killing motherfrickers for no reason
Got a link to the og thread? Do the redditors at least call her out on it, or all they all like "yass, queen video games make children incels"
Not OP but yeah they do call him out on it
Everyone said that her kids will never trust her again and called her a moron. But they said it like they were walking on eggshells because it’s reddit
Understanding normie's homosexualry, I would assume half came to shit on OP, and another half come to defend OP for being shit on, saying things like "what he did is wrong, but he don't deserved to get shit on by strangers online"
Every single person basically shits on her. Top comment is how terrible she is, another is how the save might be recoverable and how important that world is to him
It's Minecraft, what do you think? Reddit loves that shit.
Based cousins teaching the young about the importance of backing up your saves
Cousins = Chaotic Good
wdym, can't cousins be the same age as you
>backing up your cartridge saves
Shoulda hid the games
I wanted to be nice to the little fricker so he would stop screaming while running around, and he managed to erase my save on LEGO Star Wars (GBA).
I'm still kind of amazed, because I started the game for him and everything.
Lmao, what's the right thing to do here?
"The kids have to learn for themselves", what? I still wake my sister up every morning and she's an adult, she would just sleep until way past 2 if I just let her, I really enjoy doing it, she likes me waking her up too
Very cute anon
The right thing to do would be to just let him sleep because school is cancelled, there's no actual reason to be making him get up at 7.
They didn't destroy them but they sold all of my old retro stuff in a garage sale.
so they destropyed them
If you don't understand the difference, you are an idiot.
there is no difference
take off your clothes
>There is no difference to a child if their possessions are destroyed violently by the people who are supposed to be their caretakers in a fit of rage vs. confiscated and removed from the household.
If this is normal to you, that's probably one of the reasons you're fricked up
You can explain them how much money went down the drain by selling that shit for pennies.
My parents didn’t break anything but they would take stuff away for months at a time. It just teaches the wrong lesson of hide everything you do from your parents, and never show them anything you take pride and joy in lest it be ripped away. It really puts distance between kids and parents and absolutely destroys trust. It may seem like nothing to the parent but to the kid it is betrayal from those closest to them, if their young this can be formative experience of their personality and keep them in fear and distrust of those around them for a long time.
How else would you punish poor behavior?
Good parenting means offering good examples for your kids to follow and grow out of their bad behaviour. If you need to repeatedly punish your kids in petty ways such as deleting their stuff or taking it away, you're not a good parent and you should punish yourself before punishing your kids.
Holy shit you're an idiot.
I bet anything you're an american, considering your idea of parenting. Remember to circumcize your kid, shalom.
>If we all act like better people all those murderers and thieves will stop committing crimes :^)
>If we all act like better people our children wont grow up to be criminals!
The fact that such a simple concept eludes you is bonafide proof you're an american
Not him but some people are just genuinely true evil no matter how good their childhood was
>why yes my 3 year old is a murderer and thief, thats why youre wrong :^)
I asked how to punish a child. This does not answer my question.
you pull them into your guard then choke them out
You explain to him what he did wrong, you make him analyze the causes and understand the effects, and you illustrate all the possible consequences. Taking things away or beating your kid up has never worked and it never will, it's Black person parenting, because you treat your kid like an animal and expect him to understand his mistake as a human. Explain to him his mistake treating him like a human, and he will understand and grow.
That sort of conflict resolution barely works with adults, how about a toddler?
It would work with adults if they were brought up with it since childhood. Instead they were punished by taking things away, and now as adults they don't understand the concept of cause and effect.
This is a childless person's idea of parenting. Destroying things is no good but taking things away is like bread and butter child discipline.
Yeah, for Black folk.
ah but he will learn character that way as they do
>Don't explain why, just punish
Who said don't explain why, moron? Explain why AND punish.
You don't let the behaviour of your kids get to that level. This is the most bitter pill all parents need to swallow. Unless you spend your free time with your kid and involve them in faily routines, house work and even hobbies from day one, they'll do dumb shit.
My brother was probably the worst moron when he was a kid 3. Bad mouthed teachers,drove my mom fricking nuts and had my dad nearly crash the car put pf anger.
Now he's grown up and has two kids. They're well behaved, balanced littke nuggets. I was really confused how he managed to do that.
After visiting for a week I figured out why. He does everything he needs to do with his kids. Cooking? Tells kids what he does and lets them do menial little tasks to help.
He did it so well, that im still in awe. Genuineky did not expect it from him.
>After visiting for a week I figured out why. He does everything he needs to do with his kids. Cooking? Tells kids what he does and lets them do menial little tasks to help.
He did it so well, that im still in awe. Genuinely did not expect it from him.
This, this is all that fricking needs to be done. It is so simple, you simply need to spend time with your damn kids and help them have a fulfilling life. Ridiculous how many people don't understand this.
>Should I give my son a reason to actually wake up early, such as fulfilling activities or motivating rewards? If I'm too inept to do that, should I punish him in a sensible way, or maybe should I wake him up myself? Nah let's SPECIFICALLY delete his Minecraft save like a malicious little goblin israelite, surely that will have no consequences on our relationship and his upbringing. Shalom.
What's funny is that he also forbade him to use his PC for a month. So really, he didn't have to erase his MC world at all. He just did it because he's a c**t.
>screencrap thread
kys
My grandma took my super nintendo and playstation and gave then to my cousin, without asking me
That right there is the perfect example of Reddit level parenting.
>Child is expected to normalise their internal clock
>School is cancelled therefore the usual schedule gets thrown off
>Parent threatens to destroy something of the child's if they don't immediately fix the issue
>As expected, the kid can't
>Parent goes through with threat
>Am I the bad guy Reddit?
The kid was probably expecting trivial generic shit like being grounded or not being allowed to use the computer for a while. Not even in his worst nightmares he thought that his parent would be petty enough to specifically delete his work.
He probably never went back to Minecraft again after this.
Worse still, work his parent only knew about because he showed it to them because he was proud of it.
It'd be like if your child was into painting and showed you their art, then you nodded along, smiled and next time they failed a test you put your foot through that son of a b***h and told them not to do it again.
I mean god damn of all the butthole things to do.
Hence this
What an utterly malicioud and israeli thing to do. That kid is morally justified in dumping his parent in the worst Black person infested retirement home he can find, wallahi.
It's more like they built up an entire treehouse and filled it with years of paintings that they made and loved so you chop the whole thing to the ground, throw some gasoline on it and watch it burn
"Don't fail another test... or else....."
I never talked about video games with my parents. My mom didn't like me playing them. Not for any of the usual reasons. Just that she was(still is) a lazy c**t and was mad that I was doing something that wasn't cleaning up after her. My dad simply didn't care and anything besides church he didn't show interest in.
Meant I literally never had anything to talk with them about and just ate dinner quietly every night.
imagine having a fricking redditor parent
I pity the younger zoomies and gen Alpha kids
you say that, but reddit-tier homunculi existed back then, too, they just didn't have shittit
you don't really know your dad, maybe he was a cuck and liked wieners
>you don't really know your dad, maybe he was a cuck and liked wieners
Unlike you, I know my dad.
You say that, but you don't actually know who the guy really is
old fricks are absolutely mental degenerates, maybe it's intergenerational trauma
at least they kinda cushioned the blow for the next generations
My dad cancelled my WoW sub because I was getting C's so I dumped water on his head in revenge and he took away my internet and I cried for like an hour until I remembered I had a GBA
You deserved a beating.
No they used positive reinforcement. If I did good I got video games and stuff, if I did bad I got nothing, but they never took away or destroyed what I already had.
>If I did good I got video games and stuff
This is the shit.
>quiet and well behaved but also apathetic and uninterested in school
>do well on these exams and you can have a new NES game
>get A`s in everything
>TWO nes games
Worked flawlessly until mid teens when sex became my main desire. Shame the teachers cant offer that, I would have sacrificed every other aspect of my personal life and pushed to my absolute limit if dicking a teacher of my choice had been an option.
Don't worry anons, all of your atrocious fricking parents are either going to hell or going to reincarnate as botflies. Have a good day, stay strong brothers
Thank you for the kind words
not honouring thy father and thy mother, you're going to a worse place than them.
Botflies anon, botflies
My mom and dad are fine, idiot. I honor them just fine. Never broke my games or consoles. I don't have to honor some random anon moron's mother and father.
That rule, like so many of the Commandments, realistically only applies if the situation is one of genuine good and mutual benefit that hasn't been tainted by evil, one that you allow to bubble over with spite and hatred out of your own willfullness or an excess of a bad thing.
If you no longer perceive shitty parents as kin (and they aren't, they're one step removed from actual abusers), then you have no reason to "honour" them. That's like honouring a dog, probably worse because at least dogs have value.
My parents never got rid of my video game stuff when it started affecting my school responsibilities. They did sell my violin and saxophone though when I started getting really passionate about learning to play, since I'd skip doing homework to practice.
That's even worse. Cultivating a talent is several hundreds of times more important and fulfilling than homework.
Yeah, even little elementary school me knew it was ass-backwards. C'est la vie.
the most mental parents ITT
Dang anon, hope you were able to play them later.
If I am a parent I would do that too. Just wake up before them and relax, or do chores or prepare meals. I would set a bed time but no wake up time unless they had responsibilities like school. My parents were like that. They'd tease me if I slept in really late but otherwise were chill.
I have a relative who made me think I left my PSP at the place we vacationed at.
>Be me 15
>Don't want to go swimming, just wanna play FFT
>Relative things I'm being lazy
>Complains about it to mum
>Mum takes my side
>Getting ready to go home
>Can't find my PSP
>Hmm? Mum must of packed it when I was sleeping
>Ask her in car, she says she didn't
>Immediately ask broth and sister
>They don't know either
>Panic
>Search whole car and then go back to room and search there
>Can't find it
>Immediately suspect relative
>They get ass mad and storm out with their bag
>8 Months later it turns up in mums car the same day we had to drop the same relative off at the airport
>He mocks me about it and says I didn't look hard enough and it's just proof that I need to do other things
>Mum straight up decks him and calls him a c**t
>Haven't talked to him since
you and your mum sound like homosexuals and your relative did the right thing
why did you hide his psp homosexual
That c**t made me think the PSP I had literally gotten for my birthday the month before went missing. He fricking stole it then gave it back after almost a year for what? To teach me a lesson? Frick him.
>Same day we had to drop off relative at the airport
He took it, hid it for 8 months and your mom saw right through it.
Based mom.
My grandparents have away all my Legos when I decided to play with them a bit in 8th grade. It was really the grandmother calling the shots though. I didn't care much, because I was mostly reading or playing vidya. They are both dead now.
my mother broke my og ds on accident but im over it
it survived for like 2 years with the screens split in half connected only by wiring, screen had a yellow tint
I feel bad for all the anons here, frick your parents. Dump them in a shitty retirement home. I used to play vidya with both my mom and dad, they would have never done such things.
My mother once hit my laptop with her fist really hard, and it broke. But to be fair, that was more of a straw that broke the camel's back.
Joke's on her, now gaming is how I earn my living.
My dad cancelled the card I was using to pay world of warcraft sub back in Wrath.
Probably saved me by the looks of it.
saved you from becoming another Asmongold
most likely, quitting wow early on was one of my best life decisions
Curiously no, my mom would slam and break things but somehow my games never fell victim. The ones that stuck were when she told me I’d never get a gf and that I’d always be generally worse than everyone else.
I hope that filled you with righteous anger and spite to prove her wrong
Took a while but yeah this happened. Failed to launch for years after high school then snapped or something, moved to the city got a degree and a b***hin (by my family’s standards anyway) job and a gf and am now the stereotypical cool uncle from out of town to my nephews.
Not vidya but I remember when I was a kid I would ask for legos for my birthday in april. I get them, build them then I'd place them on a specific spot in my room where all my other legos were displayed. Then every summer when going to camp or my grand parents, my dad would grab all my legos and throw them in the toy box. They were all broken of course and some pieces always got lost in the process. And even after I asked him to not do this he'd do it again.
>have a LEGO Star Wars Y-wing
>tell mum not to let 5 year old nephew near it because he will break it
>she tells me he won’t break it
>he plays with it
>front stick pieces on it fricking go missing
>mum acts completely indifferent
I hated being a kid
>reddit
Gotta go back
I think my mom once disconnected the modem, of course she's illiterate when it comes to devices like that so at the end she begged me to put it back together again.
There is this 13 year sold girl I'm tutoring, and it's holidays at the moment. She told me that she's going to bed in the early hours of the morning and waking up at 1pm each day.
Since It's the holidays I said don't worry about it, when school starts you should be able to fall into routine.
But she told me her parents berate her about it, and she gets into arguments with her mum now over sleeping in.
They have two EMPTY bedrooms upstairs, but she is forced to share a cramped room with her younger brother, because they are the "guest" bedrooms.
The mum seems to get angry over the idea she's wasting her days. But the girl told me she has nothing to do (as a typical teen zoomer), which was the case with me when I was her age.
I really don't understand why parents care so much about waking up early.
>I really don't understand why parents care so much about waking up early.
I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old. I'm an early riser myself, I'm normally up around 6 and it's a blessing if I wake up and they're both still asleep and I get an hour or so just to have a cup of coffee and stare at the wall. Bliss.
>I get an hour or so just to have a cup of coffee and stare at the wall
Felt that
I remember before puberty I'd I wake up an hour before my parents at 6am, and play wii N64 virtual console games for a good while, or watch cartoon network shows like Courage the Cowardly dog. Good times.
But haven't been anywhere close to that since uni
I think I might have been the same before puberty too, but as a teenager I was the type to stay up all night and wake up at 1pm. Somewhere down the line I became a really early riser and I really do enjoy those hours before everyone else wakes up. Especially in the summer, I absolutely love sitting outside at 6am when it's warm out.
Something about the early morning is magical to me. I bike to the train station just to enjoy the nice cold air (and so I don't become a fatass). I especially love it when it's winter and still dark out, it's very nostalgic to me. Reminds me of when I was a teenager living on my own and making commutes to school in the early morning.
Anyway video games.
agreed. when I can pull myself out of bed early. It's very magical, especially just before sunrise, when the streets are almost empty.
It's funny cause I used to be an early riser and gamed mostly before parents woke up, cause my dad hates noise. But now I'm the complete opposite, I think mostly cause of uni.
I've taken to sleeping days and staying awake nights these past couple weeks. I fricking love it being cool, dark, and alone compared to these hellscape heatwave days.
Kids need sleep to grow/develop their body. The growth spurt during puberty will definitely demand you to sleep more.
And people wonder why Asians are midgets.
Parents seethe because they have to do things in the morning while a teen has the god-given right to be a lazy bastard and sleep until 1 pm
agreed. especially since its holidays and her parents dont help her do extra curricular activities just complain she's not.
its boomer superstition. Basically astrology for people over 50.
>if you don't wake up on time that means you're lazy and that you care more about wasting your life on things that don't matter instead of getting an education and getting a job!
They hate marijuana for the exact same reason, they think it correlates directly with being a failure.
>they think it correlates directly with being a failure
it does
The reason weed has such a high correlation with failures is because failures are the ones who begin smoking weed. They were failures before the weed. And you've failed to understand simple things.
relax, I'm joking
it certainly can, just like bad sleeping habits can indicate that someone is lazy or unmotivated, but the correlation isn't absolute.
hey alright amigo
BAGOOSH
>brain dead take
I bet you drink.
How do you control the urge to molest her?
you need help
pretty sure he can handle it alone
>bored 13 y/o zoomer with nothing to do
Try and encourage her into some constructive hobbies before she discovers discord/tiktok and gets groomed, many such cases
>All science™ stresses that teenagers need lots of sleep and practically can't fall asleep until midnight and thus need to sleep till atleast 8am
>ignore all that and stick to old dogma that you gotta get up when the sun rises
I fricking hate boomers and the boomer-mindset that is prevalent in the school-system.
>be a moronic kid
>as a result, Dad takes away the Xbox 360 and puts it in his room
>installs a keylock for his door
>one day when he is not home
>I start at the other end of the hallway and sprint at the door
>jump and slam my body against it
>keep repeating this until I bust through
>play xbox 360 until he gets home
bros, no wonder we're so fricked
My crackhead aunt stole my blue gameboy sp with my golden sun 1 + 2, megaman red sun and the football (american) game the sp released with
Shit like this is why I want to be a father, so I can actually raise my kids right.
No, they never crossed that line. But as a kid I was obsessed with Warcraft games and they got me a vanilla WoW sub the year it came out. God I fricking loved that game but my parents didn't know how to handle it. Kept getting up hours before school or when I was meant to be in bed to play, used to pull sickies to get out of shit when I knew nobody would be in so I could play it. Probably fried my dopamines and contributed to my failing grades in finals.
Funny thing is it wasn't the actual MMO mechanics that addicted me (I was a tard kid who kept rerolling and never even made 60 before TBC) but the exploration/lore/roleplaying side since I played all the RTS games. I used to write so many shitty fanfics and hang out with the RPPvP guilds, it was like heroin for the imagination when you're still young enough to enjoy it in that pure, childlike way, and not the soulless grind-vision that adults play MMOs with. As an adult I can see the franchise is nothing special in terms of lore or innovation - rather the simplifying of fantasy universes/game mechanics and strong visual style made it more accessible than anything, but it'll always have that 'stalgia value as a focal point of my childhood imagination
>but the exploration/lore/roleplaying side
I still enjoy games from this perspective, might be what made me wanna get into art
I will start a character on a private server every now and then just for that. I don't really miss raiding and all that stuff but I love the atmosphere of the game
Loving the atmosphere is why I can still deeply deeply enjoy it to this day while everyone else b***hes about story or balance or whatever
Really looking forward to the next expansion, I have to have something like 30k hours at this point
>I still enjoy games from this perspective
Me too, but I can't find that magic in MMOs any more despite loving the genre (or maybe the potential I still see in it). There are still lots of good single player games I can find inspiration in, and use that in my own writing or DMing.
>delete effort and time put into a game
>kid gets understandably angry
>/r/AMITHEbutthole
First off
>Reddit
secondly
yes hes an idiot and an shitty parent.
don't we have this exact thread like every two fricking days?
why do you think we're here
not destroyed but they took it away, once I got them back I figured out the strat is to not be playing whenever they're around
My mom took away my computer privileges from Monday thru Friday for the entire year on my second year of HS because I was failing every class.
It helped me a lot and actually ended up having the highest scores of the class by the end of the year.
Nope. But they did hide them whenever it's test/exam season.
Okay anons, these stories are sad. But have you taken revenge on those that fricked you?
Have you painted the streets red with their blood?
I want revenge stories
the only serious one is not looking so good these days regardless of what i do. even for the part of me that would want to help him somehow
I beat the shit out of some guy once because him and a group of his friends jumped me about a year before and really fricked me up. For nothing too, I was just there. It wasn't really satisfying tbh, I felt bad about it even as I was doing it. He was crying. He was a complete scumbag too, I heard he raped a girl. He died in a car crash about two years ago and I felt nothing.
The best revenge is living well. The people who fricked me over, stole my video games, made my life a hell, they're all a bunch of losers wasting away their lives with alcohol or junk food. I have an OK job, make decent money, am fulfilled creatively and have a nice woman in my life. Not much more I could ask for, really.
Maybe if I had more money to build a new PC, that'd be nice. It's getting a bit old. On the other hand it's not like there's any new demanding games out that actually interest me. Maybe Spider-Man I guess. On the other hand I could just try emulating 2.
Frick outta here with that zen nonsense. A soul is meant to be blistered by the embers of revenge, destroy the lifes of every shit head that dared to mess with you.
Karma doesn't exist, justice can only be achieved by your own hand
Why would I try to take revenge on people who ruined their own lives by their own hand? My shitty roommate who never did her chores and stole my cash and games had to move back in with her parents even though they hate each other. My alcoholic mother with rage issues has driven away her entire family except for my older brother and has no friends. My shitty landlord had to sell pretty much all of his possessions and move into a shit apartment. I never got those stolen video games back but seeing shitty people destroy the last few good things they had in life and ending up with nothing? Priceless.
>Karma doesn't exist
It absolutely doesn't. What does exist are consequences.
Anon's right.
The best revenge is showing them that no matter how hard they tried (or didn't, technically), you still were able to become happier than they ever could.
Emotional damage goes way farther than a few punches or broken materials.
That's why zoomers get so buttblasted over teabagging and being called Black personhomosexuals.
Would the world be a better place if he set out to destroy their lives?
t. YISUN
Revenge and spite just for the sake of it is pointless.
>be me
>can't wake up before 1 pm even if I put 10 alarms, unless I have a really important obligation
>go camping with friends every once in a while
>I wake up every camping day at 7:30 pm, before everyone else, completely refreshed despite sleeping 5 hours in a cramped tent and doing heavy physical activity
So that's the secret to waking up early huh
>pm
am?
Yeah 7:30 am I got confused
>7:30am
Even when you wake up early you sleep in. 5:30 with the sun or bust, homosexual.
To be fair we go to bed late and drunk when we camp. Some of my friends sleep until 10 lol
>get promised a n64 if i get straight A's in all subjects
>work hard and managed to do it
>play goldeneye almost religiously for two summers
>get to the point i know where friends in multiplayer will spawn upon death
>so bored of the game i'm turning insane, poor friends doesn't own a n64 and think the game is the best thing on earth
>trade it in for turok
>friends get upset i traded JAMES BOND for SHITTY DINOSAUR KILLERS
>they somehow scrounge up enough money to buy a second hand golden eye cartridge
>when they come over, they put it in to play golden eye again
>almost turning insane after a few days of this
I never understood the "one-game" people. How can you stick to a single vidya for so long without getting bored? It's like rewatching a movie 3+ times in a week.
other people's games just have a mystique. especially something like goldeneye
Same, I went to blockbuster to rent a different n64 game almost every other week because I got bored pretty quick
Only time I ever had something like this happen was when my sister and her husband borrowed my ps1 games, about 20 of them. They said they wanted some games to play at their new pad, but I never saw them again. She sold off every last one to put down a payment on a new car. Didn't ask me, didn't get a single penny back.
to this day she thinks I won't remember. Hah, jokes on her.
He fricked that kid up for life
I want a daughter while I'm still young. Want to hold her hand and show her some beauty before this damage is done. But if it's too much to ask, send me a son.
>this whole thread
Holy shit mane. My Indian Christian family never pulled this stuff. I used to play Pokemon, and GTA, and whatever else I wanted in front of them along with my Muslim buddy (whose parents didn't give a shit either). I never heard of this happen to any of my friends either.
I've always hated children and the idea of having children but this thread is making me want to have kids just to raise them correctly and undo the abuse my horrible parents put me through
every time I hear footsteps coming down the hall I'm filled with anxiety and my room still doesn't have a working lock on it
I know where you're coming from, but I heard it doesn't work
Chances are, your shitty parents had the same motivations and good intentions, but their shitty programming embed into them in their formative years stopped them from being good parents
lel, I did that
>every time I hear footsteps coming down the hall I'm filled with anxiety and my room still doesn't have a working lock on it
I can't sleep when there's any form of light turned on
>just to raise them correctly and undo the abuse my horrible parents put me through
typically a recipe for the next school shooter
>Literal Reddit thread gets over 250 replies and lasts over 3 hours
Oh yeah... It's definitely /misc/'s fault as to why Ganker is shit.
Ganker - random sfw > Ganker - /misc/ & GamerGate (8 Years Strong!)
infinitely more relatable, doesn't cause schizoposting and calls to commit violence, doesn't try and make redpill posts normal so discussion just falls off a cliff in favor of going "WHOA REDPILL"
When I was 16 my Dad (who at the time had a drinking problem) came into my room at like 3 AM screaming at the top of his lungs that all of my video game playing was keeping him up at night (I was literally in bed sleeping when he said this) and he walked over to my TV, threw it onto the floor (and fricking cracked the corner) and tried to go after my PC. I literally ended up getting into a physical fight with him but he was so drunk that I basically just pushed him, he fell over something, hit his head on the floor, and just proceeded to lay there. He didn't crack his skull or anything, but he was so drunk that once he went down he just could not get back up and literally slept in my room.
Thankfully my Dad ended up apologizing the next day. He was always a guy who would do something fricking stupid while drunk and then be the sorriest guy for it the next day. Thank God he quit drinking though, our entire family was sick of dealing with him when he was on one of his stupid benders.
I had access to both consoles and PC back in the day, but only the former were ever regulated, as computer was for "work and learning", so I could use it for all time I wanted. For a time, my parents were correct, all PC games I had were shitty "edutainment". But then I got hold of real PC games, and emulation, and my parents still couldn't tell the difference, so I could play all I wanted, as long as it was on PC, since I was supposedly "studying".
to be fair it is studying. I'm an IT consultant these days and all of my troubleshooting abilities come from the days of getting games to work in the late 90's.
frick yeah being both a dumb inexperienced kid and being poor means whenever something broke because of some stupid shit you did or just because wangblows was crap you have to figure out how to fix it yourself
Pretty slow and gradual process though, for example I didn't have working usb ports on my computer for years until I realized the drivers were just not installed.
in fact i brought it to a computer repair guy once who just told me the ports were dead and not powered.
Test
icles
Nope, i grew up relatively poor until i was like 10 so my parents would have just gone for "Sell" over "Destroy", and they never did because me and my siblings shared all our games, so it would been effectively punishing all of us too. got beatings and other punishments though, so don't mistake it as getting a soft childhood.
My dad did a lot of shit.
>cracked my laptop in half one time cause he was super pissed I didn't go outside and didn't interact with my family
>another time I stayed in school to prepare for new year's show, had a role in a little scene. During the rehearsal I didn't hear the phone ring 30(!) times and when I got home he threw the phone on the ground. After that I was forbidden from using any phone, except for a shitty old nokia for a year
>later on they take away my computer cause my grades went downwards
>was the most miserable year of my life, since I only had friends online
>was once watching a movie with long distance gf and dad came in and threw the laptop on the floor because I didn't work as a 19 yo student
Things are better now, but he still goes insane from time to time. That's what you get when you don't plan your child and don't abort out of principle.
My father's response to anything was screaming at the top of his lungs and hitting me, and my mother weaponized my father by threatening to call him literally any time I did anything even minorly 'incorrect', and of course him being called over something so minor would make him even angrier. Literally didn't even love my father until I got older. I feared and hated him for most of my childhood. Only when I was 15 or 16 did he calm down enough to not fly off into a violent rage at the smallest thing and I began to feel any kind of affection for him.
How Boomers raise kids is so fricked up.
To be fair he was probably afraid you would respond to his aggression so he probably stopped there.
I mean, it is extremely fricked up but I used to have fantasies about beating up or outright killing my father. I remember every time after he beat me I would think about what I would do in response, and how I'd hurt him more than he hurt me. When I was 15 I actually stole a knife from our garage and kept it in there in case he wanted to attack me again, but thank God I never got the chance to use it.
Hope you had a chance to respond to him in some way anon, not just physical but at leat letting him know what you think, otherwise its gonna eat you from the inside once he is gone
i had to start punching my dad to get him to keep his hands off of me when he got mad. taught him good and we work together and relatively get along
>my mother weaponized my father by threatening to call him literally any time I did anything even minorly 'incorrect'
My mom would do the same thing. It would result in him having major temper tantrums where he'd scream and break shit, and sometimes he beat me too. After he'd storm out of the house my mom would act all innocent and pretend like she didn't set him loose, only to pull the same shit a week later.
Yeah, I remember mostly hating my father but when I came to understand just how much of a part my mother played I also started to hate her. I outright told her when I was older how shitty of a parent she was by basically playing my father against me and then trying to reap the benefits.
>Mom calls Dad
>Dad beats me
>Mom proceeds to do some minor thing to comfort me
>Now Mom has brownie points at the expense of my Dad
What a fricked up situation. I think even worse is how often this happens and how mainstream it is. Almost every single sitcom has those kinds of jokes, where the mom threatens to call the dad on the kids and people just laugh. They don't understand just how fricked up that is.
I didn't go as so far as to tell him of my fantasies, but I told my Dad I hated his guts growing up and didn't love him and he seemed to be sorry for it. My father is never the kind of guy to have the big emotional moment, but he did apologize to me and that is something he almost never does.
At least that was a sort of end, good for you anon
Good on him for trying to actually raise his kid. However the way he went about it is likely to make the kid hate his guts, which is counterproductive at best.
>Taking away his PC
Totally reasonable and an understandable punishment
>Destroying the thing he worked on creatively for a year
Completely unreasonable and just vindictive. You'd have to be a real moron to think that is a good punishment and isn't just gonna make your kid hate you.
Adults are just as childish as the children they raise
Thank god i have nice parents...
god I wish that was me
>PSX breaks
>Dad tell me he is gonna take it to the repair store
>Christmas comes
>Ask him about the PSX
>He tells me that I should open my gifts
>It's a PS2, he tells me he sold the PSX for to get me the PS2
Reading through this threads
You know that PS2 can read PS1 games? You should be thankful to your father.
>play vidya all the time through school
>parents are mad that I do but I still get good grades so they don’t anything about it
>would give me shit about it all the time anyway
>also blame me because my little brother plays roblox all the time and isn’t doing well at school
Sometimes you just can’t win
>just turned 25
>still living with my abusive parents and completely dependent on them
please help me
I can't make myself do anything
Learn a skill. You have a computer, learn to program or learn Linux, then become employed doing that. I'm a relatively successful IT guy and I didn't get a job until I was 25, I'm 32 now.
but I don't have a computer
I only have a phone
I can't make myself learn anything that isn't video games
>phoneposter
can't help you senpai
Do you not have a laptop? an old desktop? People sell old computers for dirt cheap, you'll be able to find one for free. If you live near me I'll give you an old computer
here's what you do. I'm assuming you're a big casul consolegay who doesn't even know how to put a computer together, so we'll even cover that. Get on ebay and search for "i3 motherboard bundle" or something like that. You'll find tons of motherboards with old i3 processors on them and memory for dirt cheap. Buy one. Then get yourself some storage, a cheap sata SSD or HDD, whatever, doesn't matter. Find a cheap power supply and a cheap case, spend as little as you can because this PC is cheap shit but it'll be completely functional. GPU is optional if you can get a cheap one, we're not going to go into any details on that. Also get some cheap keyboard and mouse if you need one. And a USB drive too if you don't have one. Congratulations you just built a PC. That's a new skill, check that off.
Next up you'll need to put something on that USB drive and this is the tricky part because you don't have a computer, so borrow a laptop or something. Pick a Linux distribution. Doesn't really matter which but I'd recommend either Ubuntu, Manjaro, or Fedora. Learn Linux commands, learn about the filesystem, even install some games. Get familiar with it. Boom, you know the basics of Linux, check that off.
Congratulations you have a PC and you are now honing your skills with Linux. Linux skills are in high demand in the IT industry since pretty much the entire internet runs on it. Apply for entry level jobs, never stop learning, git gud. It's all one big game, it's like an RPG. The more skills you have the stronger you are and the more money you can demand.
Not that guy, as a failure-to-launch who was also dependent on his parents into his twenties: don't make the assumption that he has both money and the ability to spend it online, he might've never gotten a bank account set up.
None of these things are challenges except to the most sheltered hikki creature imaginable
Yes, precisely.
how did you get out of it?
how old were you when you did?
Bite the bullet and become a wagie, start saving up, see to get a place for yourself even if shitty you will be self-dependant, keep saving, get a laptop, learn a skill, keep going up.
I can't move out
I have too much stuff and cats and I don't want to live in some shitty apartment instead of the house I've been in my whole life
You are attached and scared, you have to make a choice, at least one.
Find a job so you can start saving and that would also help you stay outside the house away from your parents.
I can't work if I don't have a license or a car
I literally can't
I have way too much stuff I could never get rid of and I can't leave my cats
>if I don't have a license or a car
So now you know what to work on.
I'm too scared of people to go and take a driving test
I live in a suburb
everything is miles away and it takes me hours if I try to use a bike because I'm out of shape
You are giving nothing but excuse and not a single option or idea.
Make
the
choice
>I'm too scared of people to go and take a driving test
be scared and do it anyway
>I live in a suburb
>everything is miles away and it takes me hours if I try to use a bike because I'm out of shape
theres almost definately a dollar store, gas station, gym(lmao) or something of that sort within walking distance and you should easily be able to bike atleast 5 miles within an hour
lotta excuses make it sound like you really just dont want to
>within walking distance
there literally is fricking not
everything is miles away
I tried to bike a few miles recently and it took me multiple hours
Then I guess you'll just die since you have zero desire to actually unfrick your shit
>just do things that are literally impossible
you sound like my fricking dad
if it's impossible then ask yourself how did everyone else manage to do it?
ever think about asking family/friends for rides to work for a few months
Should be able to afford a shitbox car after a few months
I can't do that
my dad works 10+ hours a day
This fricking guy. Either do something or don't.
You don't deserve him
well frick anon start giving blowjobs in the cul-de-sac
It's impossible because you think it's impossible, everyone else did way harder things just fine
Every time an anon gives you good advice your response is
>but...
>I can't....
You are the problem, not the obstacles you think are in your way
You are not trying in the slightest, no single place where people are working near you? are you SURE?
Sell some of your shit, buy a bike, just find your first step and take it anon, sitting around wishing things to be different will not help you
>>I can't work if I don't have a license or a car
if there's anything this pandemic should have proven, it's that you need neither
look I get it man, change is scary and a pain in the ass. my dad once told me something imporant: "having dreams is nice, but what are you doing to accomplish them?" he was right on that. you need to do *something*
>I can't
You don't want to
well there's your problem, you are stopping yourself from ever improving yourself or your situation. I used to be the same way, and I still am in a lot of respects. The first step is acknowledging this and noticing when you are doing it. Good luck anon
>begging to be groomed
So that's how it happens, huh?
I’m 24, never had a job, no friends, never kissed a girl, 23k in debt due to dropping out of uni twice. They tolerate me because I have Asperger’s and they blame themselves.
If you want to be groomed that badly then post discord
>Develop Homemaking skills if you lack them (Cleaning, Cooking, Washing,getting Groceries and budgeting)
>Get a job and/or economic help (Autism Bux).
>Get a apartment (Doubly so if your parents are living in a location where you are effectively isolated due not owning a car, like the countryside or a suburb) or start working on a license and get your own car/bike/moped, if out of shape badly i would also say you should work on that since shitty stamina would frick with you being able to hold a job too.
Depending on where you live you can potentially seek economic aid to help paying rent if you have disabilities and/or such low income you can just barely cover it.
And most importantly, evaluate your assets both economically and emotionally Including your parents and know that it it is probably best to lose some of them and be able to make clean break on your terms over trying to keep everything and lose it all.
Honestly though, wouldn't surprise me if you are actually one of those spoiled NEETs that thinks being told to shower because guests are coming over is abuse, you know, this place being what it is and all, no offense.
I don't want to leave my childhood home for a shit apartment
you said you were living there, then you asked for help. It's reasonable to assume you were asking for help on how to get out of there.
What do you want? Have you even thought about it?
I want to leave but I also don't because it's the only home I've ever known and I'm too attached to all the stuff I have and my cats
and the idea of living in a cramped shitty apartment surrounded by Black folk instead of an actual house with a yard makes me want to kill myself
don't get attached to stuff, it's just stuff. You could probably bring your cats with you if you left. People are giving you the right advice on here, you just need to take a step, any step. Now I'm not saying this to try to appear like I'm better than you because I don't believe I am, but I am probably in a position in my life that you might think is impossible to reach. I have a good career, I make decent money, I have a family etc etc but I was literally the exact same as you are now when I was your age. I was a big NEET up until my mid 20's. You need to take a step. Go and live in an apartment, who cares if its shit? You can just go back to your parents house. You have no dependents, you have true freedom, and you have the safety net of your parents house. You have the chance right now to go and try something and completely fail and it'll be fine. You probably don't realise how good of a position that is but anyone here who has kids and people who depend on them will tell you that is true freedom.
You are as they say, throwing pearls before swine
He's a chris-chan level autist manchild, just let him rot, big F for the parents
Frick off moron
Go eat some more paste sperg
Go play with traffic you dumb hillbilly frick
Just don't rape your mother
He's not wrong. Start making a vlog, moron.
Nah, i'd say he nailed it, did the anon even say what kind of abuse he got across all the posts? Im too lazy to check, but strikes me as a guy less wanting "help" and advice and more just wanting sympathy and validation for living at with his parents at 25 (which isn't that big of a deal honestly) and hating them.
>anon is given multiple solutions to his problem
>"but no actually I can't because [cope]"
lmao that Black person doesn't deserve any help, his parents probably aren't even abusive
if you're that same homosexual, take your own advice in
and have a nice day
You're probably right but I feel for him because like I said I was a NEET when I was in my mid 20's too and all it really takes is to put some effort in.
NEETbro, you should start working on your situation right now but if you don't do it right now you better make sure you do it before you're 30.
Alright, then stay with your abusive parents forever. I'm sure it'll work out. I'm gonna play Deus Ex.
>I'm gonna play Deus Ex
No one asked.
Same. There is nothing wrong with that, just make sure you are actually developing skills.
there's everything wrong with it
the only thing I'm good at is games and I'm not even good at them and I can't make myself learn anything else because I only like games
have you tried?
every time I try to research or learn anything that isn't a video game my brain shuts down and I literally can't make myself care or do anything about it
What level of education you got? Just become an elementary teacher, even a game addict would be better than average.
only high school
That's enough, at least in my country, to register for elementary.
I don't believe that you've really tried
None of us on Ganker can really influence your decisions and what you do. It sounds like you have bad parents and yet you also need them to actually help and encourage you to get things done. Sit down and speak with your parents and don’t let them leave until you’ve come up with a solution with them. The way you’ve described your life so far makes me feel pity towards you as we have some similarities in lifestyle. If your response to this is ‘I can’t ask my parents’ then you may as well lay down and die because nothing else is going to truly make you change other than a near death experience.
>frick up near the end of high school
>dad tells me to unplug the wii u
>start unplugging the console
>not that, the other screen
>pass him the gamepad which he hides away
>play a whole bunch of games when he's out and turn it off when I hear the noisy garage door
My mom stole my gameboy color to sell it for drug/achohol money twice
My aunt stole my ps2 and all my games for the same reason
She tried to take my pc when I was 17(it was a piece of shit office machine I got off the side of the road I slapped a gpu and some new ram in) because she was told I had looked at porn on it and I threatened to break both her arms and dump her xanax down the toilet if she touched it
Did you grow up to be a druggie, too?
No I stopped going home/to school and became a homeless schizoid shortly after that slept in the woods/couch surfed for a few years
Im almost 30 now and still have never smoke/drank/drugs/gambled
I do have alot of animals though and that might have something to do with her banishing me to my (significantly) older brothers house one summer and she released my pet turtles to sell the aquariums for booze and drug money, I broke all the furniture in the house over that when I returned a few months later(no one was home) and then kept releasing rattlesnakes into the garden hoping shed get bit and fricking die since we didnt have a car or phone
So you grew into a psycho pussy instead. Cool.
I mean alcoholics and smokers are subhuman golems and I was cognizant enough to not blatantly murder her since I was starting to get in trouble with the law instead of just the school for fighting but yeah I guess
I'm more surprised you didn't become American Steve Irwin since you clearly like animals and hate people because those are the only logical lessons a fricked up childhood like that can give
I had an alligator for several years until a flash flood and still have multiple snakes/fish/large iguana
It was literally just between 17-20 so I got to be a vagrant teenager with a camp down by the river it was actually very enjoyable during like 65% of the year being on an eternal camping trip compared to the 8 years of wageslaving
>No I stopped going home/to school and became a homeless schizoid shortly after that slept in the woods/couch surfed for a few years
>Im almost 30 now and still have never smoke/drank/drugs/gambled
So you lived the life of a druggy, but without the benefits of actually enjoying them. You sure showed mom Anon.
When I was younger I absolutely hated my dad’s guts and felt no love for him whatsoever. He was always the punisher in our household and would always be harder on me than my mom was. Even when I was as young as 13-14 I had fantasies about him either simply not existing, getting killed, or even killing him myself. That ended up changing though, when we took a vacation to Washington. While we were walking back from dinner he collapsed and had a seizure, never seen my mom freak out so bad. When I was that young I didn’t *really* know what a seizure entailed, all I knew was that something fricked up was happening to my dad, and he could *maybe* die. He ended up being fine, but facing a scenario where I thought he could actually die made me realize that I really didn’t want him gone, maybe I disliked him and butted heads with him sometimes, but I didn’t actually want him to die. And even when he does flip out and do stupid shit I kinda sympathize with him because he had a TERRIBLE household growing up, both his parents were abusive. Stories about his dad shoving his mom’s head in a tub of water because she was drinking, being held down and beat up by his own mother, shit was fricked. He’s never done anything remotely close to that extreme though, so when he does have those fricked up moments I just see it as a product of his childhood abuse, and be grateful he’s not nearly as fricked up as his own parents were
>caught smoking when i was 14
>dad promised to pay for my drivers license if i dont start smoking / never do it again
>he acts like that never happened when i got old enough
i am eternally mad about this
People with authority over you do that a lot
>anon, do this extra shift, then i'll give you extra vacation days.
>you want extra free time? Lol, get fricked never promised shit.
>dad promised to pay for my drivers license if i dont start smoking / never do it again
Isn't that like, 30 bucks or something? Or did you mean pay for a car?
>driver's license
>only 30 bucks
Don't americans have to pay for lessons?
https://www.insider.com/countries-cost-price-driver-license-comparison-2018-9
>In the US, costs can range anywhere from $20 to $1,000
Man, you guys have it easy.
???
just have somebody that knows how to drive teach you with their car homie, practice a bit and go get the license its easy af
Where I'm from you can do that but you still have to take several mandatory lessons with a professional. Not as much as if you had no one to teach you, but still. It costs money.
if youre under 18 usually lessons are required
I go my DL at 24(after driving illegally for 2 years) by taking a single 8 hour class and 2 4 hour driving session "tests" which were just driving around town with an instructor getting fastfood and chauffeuring her to her errands
It cost me a few hundred dollars
>It cost me a few hundred dollars
For 24hours + 8? That's pretty cheap.
I was 24
16 hours total for the classroom stuff(youtube videos and a test) and the live driving
I live in Germany, you need to pay for driving lessons and the driving test.
I was a student with barely any income and my family was poor, it was kind of a big deal for him to promise that.
didnt destroy anything, but they have horrible double standards
>love me vidya
>only allowed to play on weekends. They'd let me watch TV the entire day if I wanted though
>can only get one vidya per year either on christmas or birthday, always bought me it reluctantly
>if I ever did anything wrong as a kid my vidya was the first to go (don't resent it, it makes sense now)
>fast forward 10 years
>little brother is born
>mother's withering womb birthed an autism spawn
>parents spoil the shit out of him
>fast forward another 10 to today
>they buy him a new game every month, a lot of times fullprice
>bought him minecraft FOUR times, all on different platforms
>he is a satan spawn, no one will discipline him until he does something extreme
>they let him paly 4 hours a day every day, unsupervised. If he spends the entire day playing he gets a slap on the wrist
>try to talk my parents down from raising him into a turboautist
>'haha you liked video games as much as him when you were a kid'
>still don't understand why the double standards in raising us
>don't resent little bro, just hope really hard he won't be the kind of zoomer that gets posted in here
>distance myself from them before I go insane or lose my head
don't understand why the double standards in raising us
That happens all the time. Parents mellow out as they grow older and have more kids. My mom used to beat my older sister and brother all the time. The worst thing she did to me physically was beat my ass with a belt once cause she thought I was gonna cut off my penis with a bunch of scissors.
Now that I wrote all of that down, I realize my mom might not be the best example. I guess it still kinda counts though.
>beat my ass with a belt once cause she thought I was gonna cut off my penis with a bunch of scissors.
based mom saving you from 41%ing yourself
I didn't wanna cut off my dick, I wanted to cut out a picture of a woman with big boobs in a magazine. The only reason she started beating me with the belt was because I didn't want to tell her what I really wanted to do with the scissors.
God this sounds like the kind of insane shit you'd see on a Malcolm in the Middle episode or something.
Damn you hate to see it happen
good job making sure your child will never trust you for as long as they live, frickwad
Obvious troll, who's making their nine year old child wake up at 7am sharp when there's not even any school on.
a narcissist
I had to wake up every morning at about 7am because of distance and necessity of public transportation use to get to school. It is a thing for extremely low income families.
pretty sure it was confirmed real
A redditor
I was forced to wake up from 6 or 7-am for pretty much the entirety of my childhood. Then at like 4 or 5 when I turned 19 because they enrolled me in a shitty unwanted college course unprompted (and spent my entire summer b***hing and nagging me about college courses too, when all I wanted to do was rest and come down from the hellishly hectic school cycle).
Boomer parents are horrific narcissists.
My dad smashed our SNES when my sister ignored him when he wanted to zone out with the TV because she was way too into Mario 3. He was a pretty open dude too with consoles since he got us a NES, too bad my sis was too much of an butthole.
After that, no more consoles for us but he did get us a PC.
Destroying your children's stuff is the #1 way to get them to resent and hate you.
I was growing up in a poor household so I didn't have computers or consoles or anything like that. I mean we were properly poor. Most of the toys I got were a handmedowns from rich cousins. Best I had up to age 15 was a tetris.
Father was rough sometimes but by no means abusive.
The only abuse I experienced related to gayming was that at some point, for whatever reason, both of them were convinced that games are ruining the computer and I had to delete all the ones I pirated.
my parents never destroyed or took my stuff because they knew shit was valuable
they did hit me but I learned quick to not be a shithead so they just never had to do it again
honestly, i kinda deserved it so i dont hate them
Just take away the PC there's no point in deleting the save.
> Always been too of the class
> Parents never had cause to threaten me for anything
What they did do was reatrict me to 1 hour of Vidya a day for most of my childhood.
Unfortunately this gave me a complex of squeezing every second of screen time I possibly can, and now I'm an unsupervised adult I'm a hopeless addict who plays for 16 hours a day
my parents never took or destroyed any of my things
sometimes they unplugged internet for a few hours when I didn't go to school (happened about every other day)
I never did my homework
I dropped out of highschool and have been a NEET for 4 years
The only thing he taught his son is the value of backups
That is a pretty valuable lifelesson honestly. Can still get fricked over by the original AND backup getting fricked up at the same time though.
that's why you need a proper DR system set up. Keep your production minecraft world on your local machine and your backup in an offshore datacentre
He taught his son to never love and cherish anything again because it will only be turned back against him
My parents didn't let me play more than 20 minutes at a time, there was nothing to destroy, I never got anywhere in any game.
My dad gave away my games because I was going to be responsible for a $50m inheritance one day and had to quit the "kiddie shit".
I have an entire floor for my games today.
Post pics?
Who did he give them to, was it to the lying society?
cool
Only my Final Fantasy 7 disc like 20 years ago. And even that was just an accident.
Damn. I sure do feel sorry for the parents who had worthless kids who grew up to be manchildren who have unironic PTSD over their scrimblo-bimbo machines being broken and ranting about it with non-hetero subhumans on a video-game board.
If an under 10 year old child isn't getting enough sleep then it's all on the parent for not being a responsible adult. He wouldn't be having problems waking up if he had enough hours of sleep per night.
The only thing I got from this thread is that mexicans are the fricking worst parents ever. No wonder a lot of you end up being ugly pieces of shit. Makes a lot of sense now. You people are trash
You are the only person in this thread to mention Mexico and Ganker doesn't have flags. What the frick are you on about?
not purposefully, but when my OG DS's hinges were going out my dad treid to fix it, but he glued it at a 90 degree angle which made it basically unusable. Then he broke it trying to change the angle. It was really on its last legs though so its nice he tried to help