My parents have sort of learned to tolerate it, but they both think it is a waste of time, and they make fun of me for doing it. They go on about how in their day they were out with their friends doing stuff and flying kites and building stuff.
I would love to hang with my friends but it is hard when they all live on the other side of the city and my only local friend is a computer type, who believes fresh air/sunlight is bad for him. As for making stuff, if I want it I will make it, I wont make stuff for the sake of it.
They have gotten better recently especially my mum, but my Dad can be really awkward.
What they do not understand though is that a video game is more than a book or a film, it can be a completely immersive experience where you are more than a spectral observer you are central to the plot and the keystone of the whole thing. It is to my mind a far more sophisticated method of delivering a story.
So any comment on my gaming that they make,that is in anyway negative or derogatory, angers me as they have never experienced it themselves, and are therefore simply being ignorant. They often say I am wasting my time playing games(they are wrong however because gaming is the best method of story telling). I have never told them but I have similar thoughts about their hobbies. My Fathers is utterly pointless he likes sailing around on a lake, he doesn't go anywhere in his boat just around the lake, I find it maddeningly dull. I have more respect for my mothers hobby. She likes to weave/spin/knit. I can see the point of this as she is making something, and will have something to show for it. However she does not need the clothes she makes, and the repetitiveness of the craft would be dull.
They say I spend too much time on games I do not agree, it is merely a form of entertainment. If I have any school work to do I will do it. If there is work around the house to do I will help. I only game in my leisure time.
My Mother wishes I was more productive, I can see where she is coming from but when you are young you are not interested in things like work and learning to do things. You live a more hedonistic existence.
Maybe in my older days I will look back and think ohh I wish I had listened to my mother and learnt a skill like netball. I think it far more likely I will be adjusting my spectacles with shaky arthritis cursed hands, stroking my beard and thinking to myself "Now then. Which of the new starter Pokemon from generation 21 shall I pick?"
