>A mum has spoken of her anguish after watching her 14-year-old son's behaviour spiral out of control due to a serious gaming addiction. >The teenager from East Yorkshire was spending 11 hours a day playing violent games such as Call of Duty and Titanfall on his Xbox until his desperate mum Lesley was forced to take the console away and hide it out of the house. >However, he still suffers constant mood swings and has resorted to violence and swearing at his younger siblings – something which Lesley has put down to him playing on the Xbox which she bought for the family home a year ago. >Lesley said: "The first thing he thinks about when he wakes up is his Xbox and it's the last thing he thinks about when he goes to bed. >"For a couple of days I was just crying. I didn't know what to do. There are no answers. Everything revolves around this Xbox and it's like having a monster in the house."
Please don't make your mum, Sup Forums. Play vidya in moderation.
Joshua Powell
no
Justin Morales
make my mum what
Zachary Ross
>mum
Ryder Robinson
>Parents keep letting kids buy M rated games
When will they learn? I see it all the time in stores.
Andrew Perry
Maybe you shouldnt have divorced his father you cunt
Kevin Hughes
>let kids play online games
Christopher Sanders
>Bad parenting
Jordan Thompson
I hope she realizes that she is the monster in the end
Colton Ross
Mum's the word.
Leo Williams
Lol this.
> get off the xbox user! > and do what? > kick the ball around with my dad?
Nolan Evans
>xbox Everytime
Ian Anderson
>implying the parents wouldn't then go and watch tellie for the same lengths of time It's a stupid double standard but even so she's just being a shoddy parent, limit the amount of time the kid spends on it sure but don't take it all away from him he's probably pissed off all the time now because all his friends are allowed to play and he can't
Isaiah Wood
>tfw you spent most of your childhood hanging out with friends >tfw you look in the windows and never see kids playing outside >tfw you ended up browsing chinese picture forum 24/7 where did it go so wrong bros
Lincoln Young
i'm like this except i'm 21
William Brooks
these people shouldn't blame vidya.
Some people have a genetic predisposition for addiction, vidya is just an outlet for them to get hooked. If not vidya it will be the bottle or cigarettes etc.
Blaming vidya for addiction is like blaming guns for war.
not making this up, i am a psychiatrist
Christian Jones
>I am too dumb to restrict my childrens playtime
Seriously, what the fuck is the matter with parents. If you have a child, you give him a limit of time to play every day.
Ryder Hernandez
And why are you on Sup Forums? Looking for study cases?
Luis Lewis
Same
Life is suffering.
Anthony Reyes
when puberty hit and everyone just started making gay jokes 90% of the time
Chase Mitchell
>Please don't make your mum, Sup Forums
Sebastian Long
>child has anger issues >buy him M-rated games >take away his only output >"I didn't know what to do. There are no answers."
Holy shit. How are people this fucking dumb? Find him another output for his anger. Sign him up for sports. Take him to see a child councilor. There are dozens of things she can try.
Jacob Nguyen
Is this an Xbox shill article?
Christopher Long
This is what happens when youre the child of a single mother video games are the only escape
Jordan Hill
psychiatry is just a means to buy more vidya and fuck around with people
Ryder Gonzalez
>tfw you look in the windows and never see kids playing outside
Ethan White
>See kids hanging out >They're a bunch of retarded jerks who ride electric bikes with pedaling >They talk obnoxiously loud and spout curse words as if they got tourette >They have the latest ugly skrillex-esque haircut the mainstream media tells them is cool These kids will run the world one day...
Connor Brooks
What is your educated opinion on the whole 300 different genders some folks are claiming to be?
Henry Edwards
In globalist Earth, world runs you!
Bentley Morgan
People are dumb and only care about results in everything and not good methodology. They just attack symptoms of problems without actually addressing the causes of those problems. It's like trying to fix a leak in a ship by removing patches on previous leaks that sprung instead of figuring out why all your ships keep sinking.
Jack Rogers
Buy your kids good games. Don't buy your kids CoD or Titanfall.
>or even just an Xbox
Dominic Morales
Chavs gonna chav
Connor Young
>FPS on console
Forget taking the xbone away, he needs to be sectioned.
Ryder Cook
>Good games >On Xboner
Oh user you scamp!
Sebastian Miller
>11 hours a day
thats not even half the day, what a faggot
Oliver Gonzalez
I tried telling a guy I know that plays games on PSN for 12+ hours a day about blood clots. He wouldn't believe me, and told me how his girlfriend would feed him so he didn't have to stop gaming.
Joseph Davis
read the whole post
Nathaniel Morris
>gaming marathons Maybe I'm getting old but a proper gaming marathon has breaks for food, stretching, and maybe even a shower. Healthy body, healthy mind and all that.
Wyatt Russell
>11 hours
In secondary school I remember getting out at around 3PM. So he's playing from say 3.30 PM to 2.30 AM and his mum allowed that?
Christopher Brown
>tfw the guy next to you on a long ass flight dies
John Peterson
Yeah ill play vidya all day but i take breaks to eat, shit, get drinks or just lay on my bed browse Sup Forums for half an hour. I never understood how people could just sit there fucking 12 hour stretches and not move at all.
Brody Peterson
Contorary to popular right wing opinions gender(not what's in your groin but your brain) really is on a gradient.
No expert can state with 100% accuracy if a person is male/female just by looking at their brains. Transgender brains are a bit more complicated than ours. For example Click-Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions studies done on transgender have shown that their brains tend to lean more towards the sex opposite to the ones they were born with.
Therefore they are not merely pretending, they actually have an intense feeling of gender dysphoria. Whether it be classified as a congenital disorder or be accepted as normal is beyond me.
Theoretically there are infinite "genders" but to give each one its individual identity is not feasible. Grouping ones which share largely similar characteristics is a much more feasible option. So therefore instead of grouping people into 2 or 300 groups a middle ground must be found.
inb4 libetard or cuck or some other shit. This is just my informed opinion. I couldn't give less of a shit about what people identify as and so should you[\spoiler]
Jason Collins
I remember when i was 10 and thought having a 6 hour marathon was stressing, but id still do it every weekend.
Joseph Wright
Arent female brains 9% smaller on average, Id think thats a good giveaway
Nolan Baker
>you spent most of your childhood hanging out with friends Fuck off normie
Joseph Watson
>No expert can state with 100% accuracy if a person is male/female just by looking at their brains >their brains tend to lean more towards the sex opposite to the ones they were born with.
These two things don't add up.
Hunter Rodriguez
Remember that mother who put her baby in the microwave to stop the screaming so that she could play more World of Warcraft?
Luke Sullivan
middle aged mums are the fucking worst cunts, nothing is ever their fault
>wooooooooow what do you mean it's my child and my responsibility to stop them from playing video games 11 hours a day >what do you mean he hasn't got anything productive to do ever since I divorced his father cause I was bored of him
Logan Reed
as i said, no can state with 100% accuracy. female brains are generally smaller than males because of reduced cranial volume ( no exact measure as 9%).
Hudson Ramirez
gender is made up nonsense for special snowflakes you're either a male or a female (outside of fucky mutations)
Dylan Diaz
You appear to have mistake the words "gender" and "personality".
Got a dick? Male Got a beaver? Woman Got neither? Intersex - a rare freak of nature
Got a dick and a feminine personality? That's just who you are, it's fine but it doesn't make you a woman. Yeah, there are infinite personalities and to give each one is not feasible but there are only two genders.
Ryder Adams
Adrenaline is one hell of a drug.
Elijah Stewart
>>A mum has spoken of her anguish after watching her 14-year-old son's behaviour spiral out of control due to a serious gaming addiction. >>The teenager from East Yorkshire was spending 11 hours a day playing violent games such as Call of Duty and Titanfall on his Xbox until his desperate mum Lesley was forced to take the console away and hide it out of the house. One can wonder where the hell were his parents.
Eli Wilson
>child has anger issues >Sign him up for sports oh joy
Juan Nelson
stating examples :-
Normal male brain 75% M 25%F Normal female brain 75%F 25%M tranny f to m 55%m 45%f tranny m to f 55%f 45%m
Connor Turner
He bought an XBox One, he was obviously a headcase right from the start.
Robert Harris
Yeah i agree. It pretty much boils down to this.
just depends on how you define words.
Brandon Cook
>These kids will run the world one day... Implying.
Camden Russell
>kid has untreated bipolar disorder >old technophobe blames it on videogames
Maybe raise your fucking kids instead of being "empowered"
Nathan Martin
>Please don't make your mum
Austin Ward
What does that even mean? The brain has a penis in it?
Caleb Cruz
>spent most of my childhood with friends >play yugioh and talk about maple story and shit >2nd year of middle school >puberty or some shit kicks in for my friends >they go full hormonal rage and all my friends formed into cliiques with popularity hiearchies and only weird nerds still played yugioh that shit fuckig sucked and ive been forever left behind with every social aspect of teenagehood up to current time. fuck me for having hobbies instead of wantng to get attention of girls amirite
James Fisher
wait so different parts of brain can have different X/Y chromosomes or what
Jacob Cooper
No it means male and female exist but only when it helps my argument then they stop existing and we have infinite genders instead.
Jackson Moore
You should write a manifesto, I enjoyed My Twisted World.
Luis Taylor
>Call of Duty and Titanfall Good goy
Noah Sanders
>only 11 hours a day Fucking casual. I've spent upwards of 16 hours a day playing video games during holiday periods before.
Carson Williams
>Cigarette >addiction Your fell for the propaganda meme. Bad doctor confirmed.
Oliver Torres
but each gender has physical traits that make them be that gender. men has testosterone, making them more physical beings. Not a single person that ive seen identify as male does anything outstandig physically, their label is meaningless if their behavior doesn't correspond with what they identify with meaning they innately and logically matches their physical sex more than the opposite most of the time
Landon Cooper
>I'm not a bad parent! It's the games fault! >I'll let him play games the whole day because I'm too lazy to actually be a parent. >I'm don't even trust my own ability to teach him so I'm too afraid to let him outside. Shitty parents are the reason we can't have nice things.
Jayden Stewart
I play almost 24 hours on the PC and I have not yet died
Sebastian Moore
>Titanfall >Bad
Josiah Sanders
my mother was a saint yet I spent 10 hours a day smoking cigarettes and playing games
Jack Phillips
>tfw I live in Hull >tfw I keep seeing this article everywhere
Please I come here to forget I live in this shit hole
William Young
>Some people have a genetic predisposition for addiction, Yeah. It's called being weak willed.
Cooper Walker
>men has testosterone Heh, not around here.
Leo Adams
Just what england needed...more chavs
William Jenkins
We are reaching the point now where children raised by Babysitter Xbox are becoming adults. Let's see how they turned out.
Dominic Peterson
>addiction on xbox >xbox literally impossible
Tyler Fisher
Should have bought games that befit his age
Austin Howard
i probably could, i gone through a phase where i hated normies for being sheeple and thought that they were blinded by the allure of social success instead of beig themselves
but now, it doesnt matter anymore. i really felt bad for elliot rodger, because im basically him except i am more self aware and understand why i have no social life and would rather focus on improving myself for me
Luis Russell
I JUST WANNA PLAY VIDEO GAMES
Joshua Butler
>because all his friends are allowed to play and he can't
The only "friends" he probably had were from online gaming. Those people hardly give a fuck about you but as a teenager you think you're some big shit that others will cry about when you're no longer online playing.
Its the mom's fault for letting her kid game for 11 hours a day (I mean at 14 he has school, he should have bedtimes too). She made it spiral out of control thinking a 14 yo can act like an adult and realize long term effects of bad decisions.
I had that same phase when I was young, I grew out of it because he realized how stupid it was but some people I met during university did not and they all dropped out because they spent all their time gaming and when they were told they were going to get kicked off school they went "whaah, but but.. my grandma died a year ago!" and so on.
Nathaniel Watson
Who is to blame underage shitter or shitty parents?
Hunter Wilson
You would think a single mother from Hull would know more about real addiction eh?
Jordan Anderson
>spelling mom with a u Why haven't we nuked these degenerates yet?
Carter Gonzalez
Both. Also East Yorkshire is depressing as fuck so why would the kid want to go outside?
Adam Hughes
What bothers me with these kind of explanations, is that "gender is on a gradient".
Yes, maybe it is. I'm not informed enough to say this isn't true. What's true is that the gradient goes from male to female. There's no third option because there's no third gender.
Blake Murphy
Both for having absolute trash taste and getting a fucking X-Cock
Kevin Bailey
ALL THE TIME AND EVERY DAY
Isaac Butler
>Pictured: What "videogames" may look like
Carter Wilson
Gab that about me mum again, tosser. See what comes about.
Dylan Cooper
I don't care about what you think you should be, but if you consider fake tits and a pussy made from a dick enough to make you a woman, you have a real mental illness and you probably have been brainwashed. I consider the surgery the modern equivalent of lobotomy.
David White
Well at least the son isn't outside doing drugs or raping people
Justin Brooks
I was addicted to CS 1.6 12h day playing it
Jayden Baker
Years ago when Sup Forums were younger they would projecting more on the kids like "fuck the adults",
but now with the "underage poster fuck off" I would say they are more with the parents then.
Sebastian Perry
I can assure you the religious inbred degenerates with the hats and the payot are NOT the ones running things. They're a circlejerking tumor that doesn't contribute to anything practical. You should learn the difference between the hasidic Jews and the down-to-earth-business-doing Jews. And I still find kids, not hasidic, this days to be obnoxious. t. Israeli
Juan Collins
T. Literal autist
Mason Sanders
>not handing in assignments in on the day they're assigned