Stupid ass bullshit

They werent worried about the things that went on, exactly, they just didnt want me to be there without his parents being there. His mom even said it was ok, so I went anyway. Probably would have anyway. My Grandma is afraid one of my other friends would steal something and we'd all get in trouble. The only person she was partly reffering to was AWS, and he wasnt too happy bout it. As soon as speddy_20 gets Xbox live, we can have matches whenever we want with no trouble.

 

Hey what do you guys think of a dad that hates video games with a passion and refers to them as baby toys as that would surely keep me away from them?

 

Follow madhatter's advice. Get your degree and get the fuck out.

FYI -- my mother thought video games were the spawn of Satan. Literally. I was kept away from D&D... she saw games as D&D basically. My wife, coincidentally, hates them as well. ..especially ones where you kill things.

 

I'd have gone anyway even if they tried to stop me. Sure the house has rules, but the rules should have been agreed in the 1st place, or how else can you break an agreement you never signed up to?

 

Good point. They always have the lazy excuse, "Because I said so!"

 

oooh the powercry , my mother used to do that to me and i am immume to it also.

 

I think that's completely valid until you're out of high school... which you apparently are.

 

Im just gonna sneak out, or just tell my mom and go anyway. She doesnt care.

 

Hey Casual, you could always try to get them on your side. Your grandmother fears the internet? Buy her a book on it, make sure it's one that explains all the cool stuff you can do and not a doomsayers book about viruses and identitiy theft and such. Old people believe everything they read. Besides, you might turn her onto it. Old people sit around watching TV all day and reading anwyay, and what is the internet except a convergence of Books and TV? My mom used to have this problem, until I found a site where she could play cards and chess (and bejewled) against real people. Now she's on there 24-7.

Seriously, the next time she walks into your room and gets mad becasue you're on a BB, hit her with all this technical jargon about how your LAN is inpenteratble and how no hacker could possibly ever invade your system. Impress her with technical knowledge, make her think her grandson is a computer genius. Make it up if you have to. Talk to her about it, tell her how you can make money with a website, google some crap that she's into and get her into it.

As for your dad, leave. That's the best advice I can give. I didn't get along with my father as a teenager at all. But now that I don't live with him anymore, everytime I come over it's the red carpet treatment. "Hey, stay for dinner, here, take this Pocket PC, look at my new computer, stay the night, etc. etc. etc." Our relationship has never been better. You don't have to move to another state, just get a part time job and move in with a couple of friends. But be warned, once you leave you can never go home again. It's a cliche but it's the truth.

Else make it clear that if he sells your games without your knowledge your'e going to sell his car. What's he gonna do, have you arrested? One time my friend Mark (no relation) got mad at his big sister and sold her bike for 1$ so he could buy some ice cream. She beat his ass so bad, but she never doubted his resolve ever again. True story.

 

Hah! I remember hearing that one a LOT when I lived with my dad. He wasn't against video games, but he liked to run the house like a military training ground. Mess up and its "I want 500 push ups NOW!", or "RUN arround the house until you can't feel your legs", or "I want the floors so clean I could eat off them, and if I don't do it right the first time your going to do it again, and again, until im satisfied" or when he would throw everything all over the place and break stuff and then say "Look what you did, clean this mess up right now". Then their were the traditional spankings when he was semi-mad, or the belt-as-a-whip if he was downright pissed.

Irronicly, he passed away in his sleep of what the doctors said was a heart attack. Despite the hell he put me and my brother through most of our lives, I still miss him somewhat.

I lived with my mom for about a year or so after that, but she is very naive and somewhat frightened of technology (She still to this day refuses to get the internet). Asside from that she managed to get ahold of and gamble away my inheritence. But now I live over a thousand miles away from her (and the rest of my relatives, although most of them are good people), and while as I have a difficult time doing well in school and managing enough hours at my job to afford my own place and my hobby (can you guess what it is? ) its in many ways the best time of my life.

 

This is all good advice. Thanks for sharing, guys.

 

I have to do all of my rebellious acts behind my parents' backs. If my mom caught me doing half of the things I do, I'd get the shit smacked out of me. She doesn't cry, she hits .

"I want to go to a party"
"Too fucking bad"
"I'm going anyway"

-Beyond that, it would be anyone's guess what would happen. I'd likely black out from something being thrown at my head.

 

Another friend of mine had a crazy ass mom that was fat and agressive. He had a great CD collection. His mom was sort of sick with power and just took stuff away arbitrarily. For no reason, really. He simply started locking his stuff - and keeping private stashes of CDs - he never lost any of his possessions to Bad-Parent-Theft ever again.

Ironically, he grew up to be an asshole and sort of stole from me (sold one of my paintings for almost nothing - or probably for more than he gave me...?)... but that's a completely different story.

 

You say your dad hates games? Buy a game that's something he'd like, whatever it is (sports, military, sci-fi with hot chicks in it, whatever.) Every man enjoys a game where you get to kill people.

You dad sounds like a "tough" guy, am I right? A tough ass trucker type, a "real men don't play with toys" kind of guy. Well, what kind of toys does he play with? Cars? Computers? Does he collect stuff? Or is he an intellectual? Find a game he can appeal to, make sure he sees you playing it. Also I'd leave a copy of Game Developer laying around, make it an interesting one that shows how much money video games bring in, show him there's a future in your "hobby."

 

He collects Rifles, and likes hunting games. I guess he likes FPSs a little since they could help me aim better when I go hunting.
He is an Intellectual, I guess, Hunts, and doesnt really like kiddy stuff, be it Games, Cartoons, Anime, whatever. Im just glad he doesnt forbid me to be a gamer/ cartoon/ anime watcher, like your own generic gamer.

 

How about that deer hunter game for the Xbox? I haven't played it, but it could be the kind of game which would see that games aren't just for kiddys and can be pretty cool.

 

I would rather kill other things on my Xbox than Deer.

 

My dad is a sucker for Hydro Thunder, oddly enough. He usually hates speedboats and doesn't care for racing games. It's really confusing .

 

I recall my dad being seriously impressed with Starfox, like 10 years ago, but he really doesn't like to play anything.
He seemed confused when he saw the first hour or so of Final Fantasy X, and the Dante vs. Virgil fight in Devil May Cry (Confused as in: "What the fuck? Is that really your new Atari-thing?")- but he wouldn't veer his look from the screen for a second. I think he found it very impressive.

Of course, he's 70 - and not very interested in gaming.
My mom is, however, 66, and she used to kick ass in the Dreamcast version of Soul Calibur (back when I got a DC. It's been a while since she's played, unless she does so when I'm not watching). Weird, huh?

 

GOD DAMN fucking parents. Grounding and taking shit away from people does nothing. It seems like almost all fathers totally suck, the whole reason I don't live with my mom is because of the giant douchebag that resides with her. I never knew my dad, it was always me, my mom, my sister and gramma. We lived in Colorado for awhile in 7-8th grade in a cool conominium type of place...and I loved it. Then I went to utah for the summer, and suddenly some dudes living with my mom. He's a charmer, he totally swept her off her feet, and I actually thought he was cool for a little bit, until I opened the fridge and noticed a 12 pack of Budweiser that was half empty in one day. I asked her about it, she said nothing to worry. Then suddenly, my mom was pregnate, and I didn't find out for a few months.....which is suckage because I was the FIRST to find out when she was going to have my sister (me and her got along fine). Well, out of nowhere, we moved to Virginia because "his family is here and he can get a good work-at-home job here". Ahhhh to make it fast, he turned into an asshole when we moved here, made no money because he didnt do shit, his family is a bunch of backstabbing assholes, he fights with me constantly for no reason, and it turned out he was living with us in Colorado because he had no license from a DUI so he was basically using us. well, eventually him hassling me got to be too much for me, (im talking crazy shit, mind games, spying, etc) and one day we got in a big enough fight it resulted in my whole comp desk collapsing onto all my games and systems (still finding broken jewel cases lol) and my collection of almost 100 cds being destroyed. Now I live with my gramma, and shes pretty nuerotic, but not THAT abd, plus here I got DSL, and I'm actually able to GROW (trying to get a job, graduate high school, and get a car, all of which I wasn't allowed to do at home pretty much) and I'm actually allowed to have FRIENDS again! I'm still working on rebuilding me and my moms thing though.........crap I typed a lot.............lolololool