1. You may only play Vidya after you finish your homework. 2. Any vidya must be age appropriate unless parent supervised 3. You will only recieve vidya on designated occasions such as christmas and birthday from me, if you want money, you'll work up an allowance, no if ands or buts 4. Your first Videogame will be Mega man 2. This is non negotiable and you will beat it before you are allowed anything else. 5. There will be no Sonic the hedgehog in this household. You will be disowned if I ever catch you with anything of that furry Antichrist.
Thomas Stewart
I'm not buying my kids video games or any electronic device until they're at least over 12.
Justin Reed
This
Video games fucked my life up, why would I do that to my kids?
Daniel Rogers
>kids
Charles Bennett
Hopefully by then video games will be dead so my child doesn't grow up with a useless hobby
Jeremiah Howard
Way to make your children hate an otherwise passable game, and probably the entire franchise along with it.
Jacob Torres
>kids
i prefer money and free time
Jack Perry
Forcing them to play your favorite game is stupid. It won't help give them good taste. Give them a range of solid games to pick from. Let them choose what they like from a curated list. Then, they aren't just drones following your dumb ass...
Logan Thompson
My children can be gay. My children can be homocidal maniacs My children can even be SJW supporting liberals...
BUT MY CHILDREN WILL NOT BE CASUAL SCUM
Matthew Fisher
not video games
Austin Brown
you sound like a horrible parent
Landon Butler
Just get them into speedrunning, then.
Matthew Scott
>Sonic >Mega man
>Not vidya
You got corn in your ears?
Chase Morales
>no Sonic The Hedgehog
Ian Cook
>ears boi I sure do love listening to Sup Forums!
Nathaniel King
>Implying I will have kids
My daughterfu will never touch vidya I will tell her to pick up tennis or some refined sport
Evan Stewart
>That terrifying realization when the previous generation of parents forcing their kids to be successes and follow their careers to keep up their image, is now applicable to "Gamers" and their Gamer cred
Oliver Bennett
>kids Enjoy JUSTing yourself.
Owen Jenkins
>all those Sup Forumsirgins implying they'll ever get a kid TOP FUCKING KEK
Nathaniel Taylor
>Dads wall of trophies and accolades is a picture frame with printed screenshots of Xbox and Steam achievements
Andrew Perez
>age appropiate
Thanks to That i ended up bieng the least popular kid in shool
>couldnt play GTA SA cause muh M >couldnt play A FUCKING FINAL FANTASY game cause T >But everyone could
Fuck you op You are a bad parent
Jonathan Scott
>Being exposed to the vulgar shit that goes on in GTA as a kid
Your parents did you a favor. We had enough wannabe rapper gangsters shitting up the streets and getting into trouble.
Owen Torres
I will try my hardest to play video games secretly so that my child will never be interested in them. My life was shit until I hit 18 because video games all the time turned me into a lazy sack of shit that never left my bedroom because I was playing video games all the time. Any parent that tries to get their kids to like video games is an absolute shit tier parent that is condemning their child to a life of depression and regret.
Jason Lopez
You must take at least one extracircular activity, whether that's sports, music, or something else. If your grades are all B or better, then we can talk vidya.
John Peterson
Nintendo games only, no degenerate trash like witcher cowadoody or whatever
Adrian Allen
>thinking What happens on a videogame happens irl
Someone call Thompson and Anita
Brayden Stewart
Yeah, I remember I was 9 when FFX came out, and I wasn't allowed to get it because it had animated blood
Jacob Rodriguez
>Thinking kids arent dumb shits who try to imitate what they see in media
Someone call a psychiatrist for this bozo.
Isaiah Wilson
No credit card info for this phone and I'm not buying you that stupid bling-armor. If I catch you making purchases on mine I'll beat your ass.
Adrian Roberts
I had a half brother born when I was 13 and I tried so hard by the time I was 18 or so to not get his parents to let him play video games.
He's 11 now and plays casual bullshit all day every day and is even more of a brat than I was about playing. He also watches and adore's twitch streamers and LP'ers.
I feel bad he's going down the same path I did except at least I still had outdoor activity as a kid since online wasn't a thing yet. He plays 0 sports/instruments and has terrible coordination.
Ryder Perry
>"Stop playing cod and come shoot real guns in a 3 gun match with daddy" I can only hope
Lincoln Wood
Bullshit, you would be a lazy fuck even if video games weren't there.
Alexander Martinez
Fucker makes my skin crawl.
Christian Torres
This is actually pretty true. I had a few acquaintances growing up that weren't ever allowed to play video games and are even more lazy pieces of shit than me. Except all they do is drink and do drugs.
Blake Baker
1. No vidya with autistic writing. People who like Sonic the Hedgehog or Kingdom Hearts were raised on piles of absolute dogshit brain tumor inducing writing. Won't let that happen.
Robert Richardson
>wanting kids Nah, I enjoy money, free time, and sex way too much to ruin it with having children.
I'm at that age where all my buddies are settling down and having kids. They always give me shit like I'm gonna fall into the same trap. I can plainly see they're unhappy and just deluding themselves. Nobody wants a 2nd mortgage and to give up every second of free time to either work for money or work to keep your future entitled shit head alive. They try and tell me they're leaving a "legacy" behind or some shit. I just laugh since they don't even know where their great grand parents are even from or who they were. Some legacy, huh?
Dylan Sanchez
No particular rules, I just won't be buying him bad games and not anything too gory until at least teens. Even though I was playing GTA before I was ten, nope. Bad =/= popular, in fact, raising a normie who spends couple of hours with his football team in Call of Duty in weekends would be preferable so he could have everything I didn't.
If it's a girl, then she won't be interested in anything beyond phone games herself.
Evan Edwards
they only get to play JRPGS
Jaxon Bell
>He doesn't put the page on a Microsoft Sam reel and go do something else while it plays
Alexander Turner
Kids these days don't care about playihng video games. He's just going to watch let's plays on youtube all day.
Noah Gomez
>Having kids and not adopting one It's like you would rather have a chance of your child having birth defects or being hedious and not adopting a desirable kid
Blake Green
Aslong as they go outside, do as they're told and do their homework, they can play all they want.
This is what my dad did and it seems like the most reasonable thing.
Jaxson Williams
This kind of Stalinist parenting will cause them to wither hate you or video games. Probably both. Just make sure they don't play shit games.
Gabriel Hughes
>being a genetic cuck impressive desu
Cooper Martin
>allowing your children to be SJWs
Sebastian Jones
Yeah, I thought this too
Then I spent my free time drinking, fapping and playing video games. I was wafting in and out from feelings of neutrality to suicidal depression. I couldn't laugh anymore or even enjoy video games. The only time I felt human was when I drank a whole bottle of whiskey and listened to pirate songs on full blast. Then I noticed I need more and more booze to actually get fucked up and that shit costs too much money.
Now I have someone to protect and live for. That's worth 20 cases of booze. Plus, shit's just easier if you have someone on board with you on everything.
Gavin King
Oh, come on, the first Kingdom Hearts game got the whismical Disney vibe mixed with anime just right. After that I don't wanna know about.
Jonathan Davis
>Not being the super cool bro parent that treats their child as an equal and lets them do whatever they want
David Wilson
>Okay son, today we're starting with SMT IV
Noah Gonzalez
>2016 >no longer need children to maintain your quality of life (ex: farmer needing sons to help with farm as you age, daughters to marry to other men in order to create business bonds, shit like that)
I'd really love to hear arguments by new parents about why they did what they did. Maybe its because its what everyone has been doing forever, or maybe they feel that they'd "enjoy it," as if having all your money be shovelled into this kid is enjoyable, not to mention to burden of not raising a sociopath or a NEET weabo
And its not like we need to procreate to maintain our fucking civilization either. Population growth is retarded as it is
Dylan Kelly
>There will be no Sonic the hedgehog At least let him play from 1 through 3 &Knuckles Those are good games!
Lincoln Bennett
>being a fucking faggot dad
Friend's dad did this gay shit when we were growing up. Banned Pokemon cards from entering the house too. Guess who never had anyone who wanted to stay over on the weekends?
Ayden Sanders
>Not starting him on Nocturne Dante is in it, so you can use that as a gateway into him playing Devil May Cry
Michael Rivera
That doesn't ever work right
Logan Rivera
That's why you sneak shit from your folks and get into trouble
Leo Davis
You cant visit Sup Forums
Cooper Myers
I intend to enforce rules 1 and 3 for my children. However, I'm more concerned with social media turning them into narcissistic little shits. Smartphones and apps like Snapchat are poisoning the minds of our youth much more that vidya ever has/will.
Regardless of all these advancements of mobile tech in the future, they won't have a smartphone during their youthful years, they will spend more time outside. They will use a basic flip-phone or touchscreen phone that doesn't use apps, until they are in their final school years before moving onto college/military. Practically the same will go for anything social media. No Facebook-equivalent usage until they are practically ready for college/military.
Matthew Murphy
This takes you to NEET loser country faster than you can say basement dweller.
Thomas Scott
1. As long as you get good grades you can do what you want provided it does not hurt you or others. If your grades start slipping I'll crack down on you.
Caleb Wood
>Not teaching them fightin games >Not raising the strongest fightin game player ever Its like you don't want to create a monster, imagine your child starting with all your knowledge and then learning more, its beautiful
Evan Lewis
If you say so man. Reading that I'd say you replaced one addiction with another, but that's from a brief paragraph here so don't take it too personally. I know people who felt like their kids "saved them" or they had no direction until having kids. For some I'd say that's fine and good. I know some where becoming a born again Christian did the same thing. I think the people who should be parents are people who genuinely want to have and raise kids. They turn into the best parents cuz they love their kid unconditionally which is all a kid needs at the end of the day.
Life has whatever meaning you want for it. If having kids does it for you, cool.
Anthony Morales
My parents were like that, letting me do and believe whatever i wanted.
There is something to be said for having some sort of direction
Evan Carter
You could have just bought a pet a or planted a tree instead of ruining your life with such a burden.
Ryan White
having kids is cool. fun to hang out with when they get around 3 or 4
unfortunatly for you, you will have to get a woman to willingly fuck you atleast once
Owen Davis
I'm sure he'll be real intimidated by you once he sees your stash of autistic anime reaction images, fucking weebshit.
Gavin Morgan
Nope. Just rape someone and then go back to them after 9 months, kidnap them, take the child, boom. Free baby.
Jayden Martinez
This. Vidya ruined my grades. I will not allow it to happen to my children.
James Morales
>Forcing shitty outdated anything on your kid
Grayson Bennett
All the 16 y/o expert parents in here. Letting your kids do whatever the fuck they want is why we have the degenerate youth of today.
Joshua Sullivan
There is literally nothing wrong with the first three rules.
4 and 5 are kind of autistic and weird.
Oliver Turner
Well, it's that or alienating them in primary school levels. Having a mobile phone is now required for socialising, and absolutely indispensable from high-school on.
Adrian Brown
They won't have friends if they only know what you allow them to know.
Joseph Kelly
I should have clarified that I meant rules 4 and 5.
Jace Sanchez
If I ever have children I'll just hand em down my super nintendo, if it even works by then and if we still have it around in the family. I actually plan to give it and all the games I've recently accumulated to my nephew when he reaches 5 or 6, whatever my sister deems appropriate. She's really not the kind to let him get on cellphone garbage bullshit too, and she likes the older games anyway. Pretty hyped for him to grow up actually.
Jayden Flores
>all that shit the only autist here is you, OP
Cooper Bennett
"Nintendo only" "No trash" Pick one or the other faggot.
Elijah Walker
I've heard lots of reasons but most boil down to: I want to watch a smaller version of me learn and grow up. Essentially, it's ego driven.
Justin Gray
>tfw only have a niece Have fun with your cousin. Make sure he isn't an autistic faggot.
Camden Lewis
wow. Sup Forums came a long way. Looks like a middle age daddy forum at this point
Xavier Cook
I don't see myself having kids in the foreseeable future.
Anthony Johnson
This, children are so gross and also make loud obnoxious crying noises
Caleb Gomez
>tfw spic It's happening whether I want it or not. Might as well prepare for it while I'm ahead.
Luke Lee
>can only play vidya after homework >no smartphones/tablets or youtube on the console >encourage doing chores to earn an allowance, otherwise you'll only get vidya from christmas/birthdays >buy/play whatever the fuck game you want >shit gets taken away if you start slacking off or being a little shithead
I'm sure I'd make a pretty shit parent though.
Zachary Reed
I don't even think I even have to worry about that myself, sis is fucking hardcore about not raising a little shit. Kid will probably end up twice the man I am.
I'm just here to make sure he has good vidya taste. His father is pretty cool too, I think it's gonna be as much a gift to him as to the kid. Hopefully gaming is going to be a family thing instead of just him developing into an addicted shutoff.
Easton Hernandez
>Tfw I wabt a life companion >but dont want to throw all my dreams away for a family /marriage
Should I buy an ukrainian sex slave, pat her on the head and try to make her love me? Or atleast my dick
Alexander Carter
You can allow kids to have phones without letting them do whatever the fuck they want. Your kids can have social lives without letting them do whatever they want. And having your kid be socially popular =/= good parenting. In fact it usually means the opposite.
Colton Ramirez
When I feel my kid starts to rely too much on hand holding, i'm gonna buy an NES, or at least something that can play nes games, and force him to play battletoads until he beats it, without help. Until then, he's not allowed to go to any friend's house, have any friends over, and I wont get him anything he wants. My kids will need to EARN victory.
Isaiah Nelson
1. Video games are stupid play football my wife's son.
Mason Howard
Kids don't even like video games anymore. They'd rather watch Markiplier play through a dozen games in a week rather than autistically play the only game your parents got you for your birthday for a year.
I assume by the time I have kids some other new stupid thing will be popular.
Luke Miller
Myself and millions of others had rules and we all managed to have friends. Maybe that is a you problem.
Dylan Jackson
1) I will buy you new games only if you have nothing to play/you dislike the one you have right now/there is something really cool coming out 2) A game must be approved by me before you can buy it, so no GTA at age 8 and other shit like that 3) Emulators are allowed, but yet again, only approved games 4) You must play Sonic Adventure/Heroes to realise how stupidly bad Sonic is 5) No online games until the age 12, and no microphone is allowed 6) ALL YOUR SMARTPHONE STUFF IS REGULATED. No snapchat/vine/etc. 7) If I recieve a message from you containing more that 1 emoji we are going to have a talk
James Turner
books?
James Cooper
>That Megaman 2 rule
As much as you're a faggot OP, I've genuinely thought of the exact same rule before.
Angel Harris
yeah that won't happen. It's not like kids suddenly start being motivated to do whatever autistic thing you want them to. If you were an actual parent you'd realize pretty quick this kind of black and white thinking leads you nowhere.
You can be strict and enforce rules with your kids without having to turn it into an autistic power fantasy. The kid won't do it anyway, he'll just turn to something else and make your life miserable again.
Mason Russell
Forgot to mention 8) No access to the Internet at all until the age of 12, and no cancer like Markiplier is allowed in this house
Ryan Martin
>7) If I recieve a message from you containing more that 1 emoji we are going to have a talk
I don't know why, but that's actually kind of funny
Adrian Sanders
Plan on having family video game nights to reinforce the importance of using games as a way to socialize rather than playing games alone as a means of isolation.
Also, no moe or furry games.
>being your child's friend instead of parent yeah no
Daniel Long
Times change. What might have worked in 2006 doesn't work any more.
James Evans
>Having kids
Cooper Reed
>all this autismal rules good job Sup Forums now your son will always remember that vidya is your thing and stay away saving his social life on the process