• Pnut@lemm.ee
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    1 hour ago

    My dad once tried to get to know me. I was playing star wars podracer on the N64. He made it about a third of the way through the first lap, tossed the controller down and said that it was hurting his back.

    We never saw him again.

  • draughtcyclist@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I grew up with games so I get it - but is your other shit handled? I.e. chores, homework and other responsibilities?

    My kids are lazy AF and would probably agree with this.

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      6 hours ago

      Exactly. All my friends constantly fought with their parents about games. I’d ask well did you do your chores? “No! Why should I?”. Okay bud.

      Pretty simple, do your shit and they leave you alone? Unless you have psychopaths as parents which could be the case.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      When I was young my parents would not let me get DDR: Konamix. They wouldn’t even let me buy it to play with a controller. Nevermind that I’m at the arcade with all of my arcade friends multiple times a week.

      I was at my local tiny game store hanging out as I usually did all the time, and the guy working there (I was maybe 12, he was like 24) EXCITEDLY asked “HEY I got my preorder of Konamix, do you wanna play?!” And I was SOOOOO ELATED to try. I told him about my parents and not letting me get the game, and he was like “yo that’s horrible, I am so sorry!”

      I played there for about an hour, until he got off work. As I was getting on my bike, I hear

      “RAI!”

      “Yes?”

      “This is yours.”

      Like a movie with a sports guy handing over his jersey to an eager fan, he hands me his brand new copy of Konamix. It was the sweetest thing anyone had ever done for me. I told him he can’t do that, it’s his preorder, and he said “it’s okay, I can get another one; you can’t.”

      My parents were PISSED (and they knew I didn’t buy it, I couldn’t afford 40USD at that time)… but they ended up buying me a shitty Madkatz pad so I could play at home. I probably put it 400 hours.

      Thank you, video game store dude. I hope you’re doing amazing now.

  • Lenny@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    I hate this meme format because it always reminds me that shitty movie exists and that I paid money to see it.

    Good meme otherwise 👍🏻

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        8 hours ago

        Mark Wahlberg in the Happening. The name of the movie is fairly ironic because nothing fucking happens

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          7 hours ago

          Hey now, something happens:

          spoiler

          Breathing in treekake makes people commit suicide. Other people panic about it, and run around in some fields. Then it ends in some forgettable way.