Comments by "Furious Destroyah" (@furiousdestroyah9999) on "Interview With A Parent Who Hates Video Games" video.

@IncubiAkster "If you are still telling your kid to brush their teeth when they are past 10 or so, youve messed up" You see, the trick here is to give up on them and let them ruin their teeth so you can then go full "I told you" mode because you need to be in the right at all costs At least depression doesn't exist so that can't possibly be what's causing them to be unable to do it /s
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Parents are still responsible though, regardless if they grew up with other beliefs or whatnot. Just the way mine handled gaming was a large factor in our relationship decaying to a point of no return. They taught me that if I need/want to do something that they don't approve of I need to do it behind their backs, as well as always be vigilant in case they walk by so they can't see what I'm doing, whatever it is Oh also don't forget the fact that it made me be unable to open up to them about anything, especially preferences. Not the worst parent-child relationship out there but they didn't do me or themselves any favors by acting the way they did
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Why have fun when you can not have fun? Pretty much sums up the chore thing
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@Sunnywastakentoo What if you just entered loading screen for LoL and your parents come in and say "you have 10 minutes left, after that go out for a walk or something" Like I'd understand if it was something more serious but you have no reason to hard cap somebody like that when it's not a really important matter. It'd be another case if you gave them ample time to finish up and they ignored you and started another match though
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@myhr2320 Yeah, I wouldn't quite call my gaming passionate but it's something that allows me to keep my sanity while attempting to live without saying screw it to everything and actually function somewhat successfully. My entire family gets really grumpy when it comes up and it's honestly quite disheartening. How am I supposedly wasting my life on the one thing that allows me to keep on living? That's so contradictionary
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@galek75 Online friends can be better friends than real life friends
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Pause that multiplayer game the same way you pause those 666 likes baby
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@maiqtheliar2260 Well there are some exceptions, like when you have the drive to become something or just in general are fascinated by a certain subject. I was talking more about generic studying where you have to study everything, not just things you might enjoy or need for your future, that'd be a bit bizarre
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Same here. Mostly self learned English and also kind of started to understand some other languages
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@Sunnywastakentoo Welp, I suppose kids are kids after all. The exception can't necessarily be the rule
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@maiqtheliar2260 Damn, people get addicted to studying and homework?
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@Vallinen92 Damn, I even added an /s just in case and this still ended up happening XD
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@Sunnywastakentoo I honestly couldn't get your point with that reply there, except for the last point, which is ironically rather pointless since nobody would do that without expecting to be punished
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@IncubiAkster 20 years old here and that's pretty much what happens, usually they try to make me promise them emotionally and if I don't do something they do this thing where they try not to show it but they're visibly really disappointed Well, not that I care though, if they don't make me then I'm probably not gonna do anything anyway
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@lapetitefleur3482 Yeah, I'm the same way, though unfortunately I can't maintain this anymore because of depression. Before I was easily able to learn an entire language by myself just because it was interesting to me (I studied all the time, whenever I could), now I can study for maybe a week or two and then completely run out of any motivation, giving up the task until maybe a few years later when I feel like trying again, just to do the same thing.
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@hejhej821 Well it's better to nag than not to, you know, build a habit, something that can override depression? You literally can't even be blamed for using force because teeth are very important. Right now the kid might hate being forced to do it but they'll be thankful once they reach adolescence
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Yup same here, except I wasn't allowed to play on weekends either. "Why play games when you can study?" That said, having to hide my only coping mechanism was a lot of stress I didn't need while growing up, and it's certainly translated into adulthood into various manners
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@ElyskeTheDonut Having been abused doesn't excuse you for abusing others. There are plenty of ways out there to prevent conceiving so a parent not knowing how to not be abusive is 100% at fault, especially if they're rising a child in an insufficient environment
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@3ndeavor Thing is, humans are supposed to adapt. If you didn't know then you can't be blamed but if you knew and couldn't adapt then you have a share of the guilt
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@ivansoto9723 Yeah, but then there are people that have been hurt and don't hurt others, I still don't get how that's supposed to absolve people of the responsibility for their actions
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@dvarjen Karen: hears somebody got murdered on tv Also Karen: Those damn knives!
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@habibishapur Yes, in the context of learning to brush teeth it is. It needs to be done regardless if a kid wants to or not if you don't want them to later live a life of regret and dentist bills. You obviously need to stop once they start nearing their 18s though because it's pointless at that point
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@TheGuardDuck Yeah that sounds really bad. I hope you manage to succeed in whatever it is you're pursing
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@almas4663 To be fair that's how people work, the older you get the less prone you are to accepting change
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@3ndeavor The mother was causing some damage to her son by behaving the way she did but at least she's looking to amend that, even if she didn't know it was wrong until recently. Personally I've had it way worse and still to this day, my mother just gets disgusted when video games get brought up. Somebody has to be responsible for my shame and hiding of everything after all
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@3ndeavor It doesn't, but it doesn't matter either way. The damage is done and there's nothing that can be done at this point
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@cornloin9732 I'm pretty sure that can't be the case? That sounds a bit messed up
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