Your parents are assholes. Calling you "It" or "Thing" is completely unacceptable. To put it frankly, they sound like unfit parents. Sorry if you take offense to that, but it's true.
Bitchy parents help.
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Do any of your friends already have Assassins Creed?
If so, tell your dad you've been left with no choice and you're going to whore yourself out to make the money to buy the game. Two days later, borrow the game and walk home beaming proudly at your new purchase.
You just have to promise me you'll get a photo of your dad's face and post it here.
If so, tell your dad you've been left with no choice and you're going to whore yourself out to make the money to buy the game. Two days later, borrow the game and walk home beaming proudly at your new purchase.
You just have to promise me you'll get a photo of your dad's face and post it here.
Wait.... you're concerned about being a good christian and you want assassin's creed? 99% of that game is stabbing crusaders and crusade age christian civilians! .... well the way I played it at least.
They broke a promise before she had done anything wrong, that you find this is a good thing is unsettling. Yes she yelled and should not have done so, but who is to blame; the instigating parents offering betrayal, or the hurt daughter reacting as any normal person would?DracoSuave said:
try to pay for more things for yourself... seriously.
Times are hard and your parents would appreciate it instead of asking for things all of the time. That might be better to help how your parents see you and relate with you.
Because gaming is expensive and... well youre being a dick for reacting that way
Times are hard and your parents would appreciate it instead of asking for things all of the time. That might be better to help how your parents see you and relate with you.
Because gaming is expensive and... well youre being a dick for reacting that way
To respond in a similar fashion. Why does there need to be privacy between parents and their children when playing video games if the child in the situation is underage? Typically, isn't supervision of children while playing games encouraged? I'm certain you will come up with an enjoyable answer that will most assuredly keep me laughing for quite some time. Thank you for the argument by the way, my night was rather boring before this.Cheeze_Pavilion said:
alright, I'll give you that, in the end, this is entirely subjective. However, the question is how her parents viewed the situation. Based on their response, I believe they viewed it the same way I did. Also, I don't care what yahtzee said. He's an entertainer, not a reviewer. His typical practice is exaggerating the bad parts of any game. Just throwing that last point out there.
Congratulations, you have a belief that differs from the parents in the situation. Can you provide anything useful for dealing with people who do believe she broke their trust instead of just saying they're wrong? If you cannot, then I see no reason for you to be posting here.
Good enough answer I suppose. Though I know from first hand experience that speaking to a family member(father) who holds a different political view than me provided a great amount of insight not only for me, but for him. We didn't end it yelling or having privileges revoked. He was completely fine afterwords and actually happy with me having a different political view than him because I did the adult thing and respected his views while interjecting with my own. I think you can have those conversations with a parent so long as you provide the right amount of respect to their views.
I'm still contending that based off of my personal experience with the issue(as I seem to find myself drawing close parallels with the OP) she was misleading them or at the very least, avoiding talking about certain parts of the game. She also probably didn't mention that one type of those repetitive side quests involves assassinating guards in a time limit without getting caught. I doubt her parents would have approved of it knowing this.
See if you can borrow the game from somewhere, a friend, a rental-place, whatever, and give it to your dad to play. If he plays it and withdraws his statement, then you're nice and happy. If he doesn't, it's his house, his child, his money. There's little you can do about it and challenging him on his beliefs will get you in a whole load of shit for nothing.
Them's the rules of being a child. To be fair, if you're younger than your profile-age indicates (and from my experience, that's about 20% of people here) then you don't have much of a leg to stand on. You haven't got a God-given right to play the game, in terms of the law you shouldn't be anyway. If you are, however, your profile age, I can't help but wonder why you're parents are so protective. I mean, I'm no expert, but Assassin's Creed is about as gory and offensive as some '15' movies I've seen.
Them's the rules of being a child. To be fair, if you're younger than your profile-age indicates (and from my experience, that's about 20% of people here) then you don't have much of a leg to stand on. You haven't got a God-given right to play the game, in terms of the law you shouldn't be anyway. If you are, however, your profile age, I can't help but wonder why you're parents are so protective. I mean, I'm no expert, but Assassin's Creed is about as gory and offensive as some '15' movies I've seen.
hes probably not very old so "buy your own stuff" doesnt really fit here. getting a job at any age younger than 18 is very difficult. a decent legal job that is. apologize to them explain it thoroughly if they still wont do it your screwed.
Yes, they're opposites. Denotation meaning the literal definition where connotation is the implied definitions based upon context, such as "rest" being either relaxing, sleeping or death. Where does 2x =/= 2x? (harkening back to the mathematics) Anyway, this is getting off topic.Cheeze_Pavilion said:
I was involved with a Lutheran church for about 6 months that never once spoke of the Love of Christ. Instead the congregation spoke only of hellfire and of the Law. There was no personal relationship with God or Jesus, there was only walking the straight and narrow. Now, granted, this is most likely a result of the pastor and church elders, etc. and probably shouldn't be generalized with the entire denomination, but churches such as this exist. Once again, off-topic at this point. My original statement still stands that their particular idea of Christianity could have bearing on the overreaction. Leave the statement at that. If you don't like how I said it, too bad? Take the context and get over it.
Aye, true! ^_^ About as unproductive as twisting my words out of context or misunderstanding the connotation used. :shrug:
In my frame of thinking, someone who doesn't provide good clothing, healthy and varied nourishment, a proper education (preferably post-secondary), a loving, nurturing and caring environment, etc... to the best of their ability is a bad parent. One who does provide those things is a good parent. What's the argument here?
"Generally a parent is responsible for support of a minor child. This responsibility encompasses the essentials of food, clothing, and shelter, as well as education and medical care.
The parent has the obligation to furnish a home for the child. A parent has the right to use Corporal Punishment, but it must not be so excessive as to constitute child abuse.
A parent's power over his child includes the authority and obligation to oversee medical treatment. A parent will most likely be held guilty of criminal neglect if he disregards the health requirements of his child."
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Parent+and+Child
Not once does it list the state of which the clothing, food or shelter must be in (besides basic furnishings).
Or maybe they didn't.
It's funny too, because this discussions could take place at almost the exact same level even with out the healthy dose of religion it has.
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Maybe being a parent myself gives me a unique perspective on the situation since I've actually experienced similar scenarios with my own children as this. Any time there is a downplaying of something such as "oh, it's not so bad, really see look!" with an emphasis on a new direction, it generally means there's some funny business going on. Actually, I can't think of one time where there wasn't something fishy going on that that hasn't happened, kind of like slight of the hand that magicians use, except slight of the... video game content? Of course, I only have my own experience to go on and she may be nothing like my boys, but that's all I have to go off of.
This entire debate is a matter of opinion and personal experience. You and I don't see eye to eye on if she mislead her parents. I feel she did because I've heard "descriptions" incredibly similar to her own that had just enough truth but intentionally left out information because of a desire to deceive. Most kids have done that with their parents actually. I know I did, I didn't get away with it though, and neither has she, in my eyes.
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