this is very sad | TheaterFire

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TarantinosFavWord@reddit

I tried to get my dad to play Skyrim once and he just couldn’t figure out how to move. Like the dude would just be staring at the ground walking into a wall. Id tell him he was just walking into a wall and he’d say “oh” and slowly correct himself then do it again. After about an hour we managed to beat the tutorial and he said he never wanted to play again.

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MundaneRefiner@reddit

I miss my dad..

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Bks_Hail@reddit

That’s sad I’m sure he loved you very much

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Rohen420@reddit

repost subhuman

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Calfan_Verret@reddit

I wish my parents asked about my interests

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GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT@reddit

my parents know i'm a reddit addict but they'll never know my username

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incompletetrembling@reddit

Son?

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GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT@reddit

oh god no

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MrBlueW@reddit

Mommy?

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Smurtle1@reddit

Dw I’ll tell your mom in bed tonight.

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bitt3n@reddit

"so, uh, are all these pastel-colored pony figurines anatomically correct?"

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Ben_E_Chod@reddit

Right? lol I raised myself from 10, would have loved this kind of engagement

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Tommy2255@reddit

I wish my parents were alive.

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MADMAXV2@reddit

Mood

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OberstGankbar@reddit

Devious to post this on fathers day

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AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit

This is why most anons dont have a dad.

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Hot_Garage_2920@reddit

Dad and I were cod zombies guys. He’s a pretty straight edge guy who will routinely have a cup of tea and be in bed before midnight, but Der Riese has us hunched in front of the CRT at like 3AM grinding zombies. I miss those days and i don’t see him very often anymore.

I do know he recently purchased a next gen console for purely for himself, which is unbelievably out of character for his tight ass. Maybe i should call him

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HubrisOfApollo@reddit

my dad hasn't played video games with me since contra on the NES. i miss those days.....

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srcactusman@reddit

Buy an emulator, one of those ones that has like 300 games in it, I guarantee you’ll spend hours with your dad playing old school titles

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PotemkinSuplex@reddit

His dad might have grown out of the games.

I know a dude, who used to play a LOT in his 20s. He had sabotaged all the work in our office by bringing the likes of Diablo 2 and homm3 there. Nowadays he doesn’t play at all. No new games, no old games. He is just not interested in it. It happens.

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qwerty_9537@reddit

The NES classic is good. Can load up your own ROMs too

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Bloody-Maria@reddit

Guiding my mom through Elden Ring is a top 5 moment in my life.

Sure I had to recite essentially an entire guide to her three times over but we had fun. Anon should appreciate his dad more and learn to enjoy the time spent together.

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Champigne@reddit

Your mom is better at video games than me.

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Nadiadain@reddit

Hell yeah that’s my grandads favourite game. He’s not the best at it but one of my favourite memories with him was watching him beat Malenia after he’d struggled for weeks

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Pope_Aesthetic@reddit

That sounds really fun. Did she end up completing the game? And what was the biggest hurdles for her learning?

In my experience I think learning controls is probably the biggest hurdle as things just aren’t intuitive for people who aren’t immersed in gaming already.

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Bloody-Maria@reddit

She did! She even beat the DLC and every Remembrance boss. I think her biggest struggle at first was stamina management since it wasn’t something she dealt with in other games. She even beat Bloodborne later.

As someone who started with DS2 my biggest learning curve was everything ngl. (Still love the game.)

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squirrelbait99@reddit

Im so proud my mom also just got to level 165 on elden ring she always asks me to play that or hytale or Minecraft but life has been so hectic to game with her. Hopefully I can and make up time

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Narcissus_the@reddit

Holy shit dude that’s pretty cool.

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BionisGuy@reddit

Biggest reason i got into gaming was thanks to my brothers and my dad. When ocarina of time came out me and my dad played through it together, he wasn't that good at playing but he could figure out stuff so having him figuring out puzzles and me playing it was a pretty good memory growing up.

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pevznerok@reddit

Valid crashout

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Ashamed-Wealth2452@reddit

What's a dad

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Accurate_College_864@reddit

anon should appreciate his parents while they're still around

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MagiksSon@reddit

Is that a threat????

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_Pin_6938@reddit

Bold to assume anon cares about anything in the world other than anime girls and the war in ukraine

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TellurianTech50@reddit

No fr, I regret every moment I never spent with my dad

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jjulieea@reddit

when i was younger, my dad bought LOZ Twilight Princess for our Wii console thinking it was the same Zelda game he played when he was younger only to find out it wasn’t and he didn’t know how to work the wii controls anyway so he let us have a whack at it. any time we progressed in the game or did something cool he’d go “how’d you do that??”

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AsterlovesTedK@reddit

gay

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toiletman74@reddit

https://i.redd.it/75v4qtx8h11h1.gif

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AsterlovesTedK@reddit

erm.. this does not quirk the chungus 🤣

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neontiger07@reddit

oof

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RaiderCat_12@reddit

True and straight

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Time_Math_966@reddit

straight

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Trevor_Gecko@reddit

You don't connect with someone by getting them to do something you like. You connect with them by doing something they like.

Anon's dad understands this, but Anon is stupid.

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zhico@reddit

Teach him and get a gaming partner. I remember playing against my dad in unreal tournament. He would panic at run when we shot at him. So much fun.

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Shadokastur@reddit

I'm doing... ok? Sometimes it's hard to know, feeling so inept and powerless most of the time, how you're doing as a dad. I'm a different dad than my dad. I have a hard time motivating myself to do things any more (I'm coming back from a really bad mental... event) but I sit with my kids while they do their hobbies and it's really awesome to see the stuff they're into. I can see some of my influence in there (music) and some from their mother (books) and then there's what they pick up on their own. It's such a cool thing to see. I was afraid it wasn't enough, like it didn't really matter if I was there or not. But by reading this comment section I think I'm doing ok.

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Munnin41@reddit

Sounds like you're doing just fine. Your kids will remember you being there for them, and that shows them you care and love them

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GobiPLX@reddit

If he wanted to connect, he would put some effort into it

Asking "Are you winning son" 100 times, and you have to all over again answer him "no dad, you don't win in minecraft, I just build stuff" is freaking annoying, and dad doesn't fucking care and keeps forgetting it 5 min later

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lavafish80@reddit

my dad really enjoyed watching me play Minecraft as a kid

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Previous_Air_9030@reddit

My dad sucked at every videogame except for bowling and pinball which he always beat me at. It's like pure dad DNA ran through him, giving him abilities beyond comprehension specifically for those 2 game types.

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RaiderCat_12@reddit

Anon 2 is absolutely correct, true and straight

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NeedAChange_123@reddit

Wish my dad had ever played games with me besides maybe once. Wish he had even watched me play. Wish he had even watched me. Wish he had even been in my life before I was already grown.

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CandidateMiserable74@reddit

Same, my dad died when I was 13 y/o. It fucking sucks big time

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NeedAChange_123@reddit

:(

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kypris@reddit

One of my best friend's mom got him Twilight Princess on Wii and she ended up loving the game. She was so stoked to tell us when she beat it. I was genuinely impressed. I miss her, she was awesome. Cancer is a fucking bitch.

OP of green text is a donkey, cherish your parents trying to invest in your interests

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Ye_average_edgelord@reddit

Please be ragebait

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Shaggy1316@reddit

My parents never even tried... best i could get out of them was to give up their video game witch hunt. After a couple decades...

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NoscoperSans@reddit

gladly my mother takes interest in whatever shit i get interested in, and i’m very happy to tell her about it, even if she doesn’t understand, i’ll just try to simplify it and it works 99% of the time. same with helping her with her phone/laptop, i just explain what i do/did and give instructions what to do with it/what to do to prevent it(if it’s a program crash for example) // my father on the other hand doesn’t care even a little, ever since i became a teenager he stopped caring, not even talking about adult age

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