Vidya trauma thread? I'll start
>dad hates video games so much that he whipped me with his belt after I bought a game with my allowance
It was Mario Superstar Saga if that matters.

>Mom stopped gaming.
It's over.

not so subtle thread

>>716521160 (OP)
>getting whipped for having good taste
You should've taken that belt from him and whipped him right back.

I feel like this is going to be a very depressing thread.

>>716521160 (OP)
Your dad sounds like he was a fucking freak

>parents give away your consoles behind your back

I got picked up and thrown into a door because my dad heard swearing on resident evil outbreak because he thought it was me

>>716521160 (OP)
My Dad loved video games so much he told me that I ruined Nintendo for him by enjoying the games too.

>>716521160 (OP)
only real oldfags remember the powerpoint presentation

>>716521160 (OP)
>It was Mario Superstar Saga if that matters.
Your dad fucking sucks but you could've found a way to emulate each of those games in the bundle instead of shilling out 60 dollars for a L I M I T E D B U N D L E

>>716521549
my lousy ex step dad worked with my mom to sell 70% of my games he thought i didnt play anymore when i was gone probably for cigarette money

>>716521808
what the fuck are you talking about retard

>it's another "my parents were neurotic psychopaths" thread

A nice girl I had been dating came over to my dorm room to break up with me because we had grown distant, but all I could worry about was my MMO character idling afk in a dangerous spot.

>>716521904
Bro, if the guy is at least paying rent then it's his console. When you're a kid you're entitled to jackshit, so I don't know why everyone acts like consoles were theirs just because they played on them.

>>716521160 (OP)
shit I got one
>be little me on 5th grade if i remember correctly
>life is fucking shit and parents fight all the time over money and whatever the fuck else couples fight about
>when at home I only liked playing vidya and staying in my room, sometimes I would play with friends on my apartment complex
>was also really shitty at school
>parents saw my grades during parent teacher meeting
>they screamed at me from school to home
>my dad started beating me up on the garage all the way up to our apartment
>they yelled at me for hours, beat the shit out of me again, even when I showered
>dad took my Ps2, literally the only thing i ever had that was my own, threw it on the ground and stomped on it until there was a whole on the top part of the console( fat model)
>made me pick up the pieces and store it in his closet while I cried in desperation
>they also grounded me for the rest of the year, so for around 8 months, and I was not allowed to anything else besides go to school and study
> I couldn't watch TV or even listen to music, only study and go to school
>weekends were spent In my room studying as well
>My father would constantly call my school to see how my grades were as well.
Pretty sure I peed a little blood that day.

After that my grades did improve but I was never the same and neither was the relationship with my father, I basically stopped talking to him from that point onwards until it was absolutely necessary. I never went out with him or accepted any of his gifts either, I basically just rejected him as as a person which is probably why he takes extra care of my sister. I still ahve that Ps2 though, years later I found it again and fixed it.

>>716522504
I hope the cigarettes were good at least

>>716521160 (OP)
>it’s another my parents are assholes and I’m definitely not at fault 4chan social outcast thread

You’re allowance is for food, clothes and stuff you need retard, not $60 for some Mario game, good on your dad lmao

>>716521549
I used to keep all my discs in a carry case and my mom used that as an excuse to trash all my disc cases, including my saturn games. rip panzer saga etc...I still have the actual game of course which is the most important thing but damn.

>>716521160 (OP)
god damn, I take it your father was an overly religious type? My parents are religious too but still always bought me whatever video game I wanted.

>>716522504
lol some of those games were gifts from other family members

I posted this before but my dad threatened to destroy my ds if I ever played it in front of him.

>>716522658
>future why did my kids dump me in a home victim

>>716522839
The ones that write books about their 'abusive children' are fucking hilarious

>>716521160 (OP)
>dad sees me playing san andreas
>starts screaming at me for driving like a maniac, and not stopping at the red light
>gets legit mad and thinks this is how I will drive in real life
>I was 15

>>716521160 (OP)

Me and my brother stayed up late playing N64 (pic rel color). Dad was pissed and grabbed the controller by the wire, swinging them like a mace and slamming them into the TV while screaming at the top of his lungs. He then grabbed the console and repeatedly threw it against the wall, making multiple holes in it. To this day my body enters fight or flight mode anytime I hear someone coming up stairs because of this incident.

>>716522184
Never mind, my bad, I thought you were talking about All Stars. Sorry!

>trauma
>WAHHHHHHHHH MOMMY AND DADDY MADE ME TAKE THE TRASH OUT WAHHHHHHH AND GO TO BER EARLY WAHHHHHHH

>>716522504
>t. nIKKKa who sold his son's shit

>>716521597
You should introduce your dad to this board, anon.

>>716523076
I have that whenever my father enters the room

>>716523008
>>716523076
kek

>>716523162
helicopter parent zoomer manchild hands typed this post. Enjoy your NTR Mommy fetish.

>Played Spyro the eternal night when my uncles visited
>They pointed out how gay the whole game was
>remember crying in my room and defending Spyro

I'm glad my mom and dad were chill on this. I used to play every resident evil title with him but we stopped after 5 because it was terrible. We went back for 2 3 and 4 remake though

>>716523336
>AHHHHHH WAHHHHHH FUCK YOU MOM AND DAD NO I HATE YOU AND CHURCH CAUSE YOU WONT LET ME FUCK ANIMALS AND WEAR A FUR SUIT AND TAKE COCKS UP THE ASS IN PUBLIC FUCK YOU WAHHHHH

>>716523368
Spyro is gay and was never good

While I was playing Super Mario World, my mom said video game music sound like shit. It wasn’t exactly a trauma, but it did make me feel bad at the time.

>>716523502
keep going

>>716523531
FUCK YOU SPYRO IS COOL HE CAN FLY AND SPIT FIRE-

>>716521549
Last time I visited my parents I randomly asked if they still had my old Pokemon cards, since the reselling/trading market seems to be going crazy these days.
I probably wouldn't have sold them since they had sentimental value, but I thought it could be fun to look up what some of them were worth. I had a bunch of holos from the base sets and a few ultra-rare ones from gen 3/4
>Oh Anon, I'm sure we threw those out at some point, you're way too old to be playing with that stuff!
>mfw I look it up and the gold star Regis are $500 a pop (I had all three and IIRC two Vaporeons)

>older brother is a tyrant asshole
>tells I'm not allowed to play GTA4 or Oblivion
>autistic so I obey him
>never play neither, nor ever want to

>>716523591
YOUR KIDS IN HERE PLAYING A GIRLS GAME

AND THE CAT'S IN THE CRADLE AND THE SILVER SPOON

>>716523368
Lol

>>716521160 (OP)
>>716521421

My sisters pawned.
>my n64
>turok
>turok 2
>turok rage wars
>OoT
>MM
>Smash Bros 64
>Pokemon stadium
>Mario Party
>Killer Instinct
>Goldeneye
>Body Harvest
>Starfox
>castlevania: LoD

All in one night when I was staying with a friend for like $120 for a party. I took great care of everything I had as a kid (I still have Pokemon Gold and the sticker is only chipped in a corner).

Sometimes I wonder what I could get on a retro market for all that stuff today.

>>716523608
Okay so tell them
>Hey you know those pokemon cards you threw out? Did you know some of them are worth thousands of dollars now? The gold star Regis cards were $500 a pop
Then they'll feel like retards at least

>>716523546
Seems like a rite of passage kek. My older sister jokingly calls all vidya music "devil-worshipping music".

>>716521160 (OP)
>>dad hates video games so much that he whipped me with his belt after I bought a game with my allowance
I would've thrown acid in his face

It's kind of weird how the human brain is wired to trust your family but most of the time your family fucks you over, right?

This thread really made me realize my privilege of having parents that got the shit beat out of them as kids, and realized "Yea...not doing that to my kids."

Fond memories of me and my mom playing Crash Team Racing. She still always says she'd only play again if she had the steering wheel controller.

>YOU DONT UNDERSTAND I HAVE TRUAMA AND RELIGIOUS TRUAMA CAUSE MY MOMMY AND DADDY WONT LET ME WEAR WOMENS CLOTHES AND CUT MY DICK OFF AND MOLEST CHILDREN IN BATHROOMS WAHHHHHH

>>716523813
I assume most people here are 30-40 years old and had boomer parents that were neurotic lunatics that never taught them anything but always freaked out anytime they tried to proceed in life

>>716523368
Man this reminded me of a weird one.
>be 15
>at cousin's birthday party
>sitting outside eating a hotdog
>uncle comes up and sits next to me
>"Anon I need to ask you something really serious"
>asks if I ever had sex before
>reply with no
>he looks at me like I was the biggest idiot in the world
>he asks why not and starts pressing me on if I'm gay
>call him a weirdo
>he scoffs like he's an anime villain and says "whatever"
>never saw him again after that

>>716521160 (OP)
>>dad hates video games so much that he whipped me with his belt after I bought a game with my allowance

good, fuck you

>>716523903
Lol

>716523903
aww babby needs his (You)s

>>716523907
>that were neurotic lunatics that never taught them anything but always freaked out anytime they tried to proceed in life
For the anons in this thread, if this statement reminds you of your parents it's likely they had NPD/BPD and I encourage you to look into it

>>716523546
One time I was chilling on a weekend trip to Moms and I was on the couch playing some Nier Automata on steamdeck and she was watching Youtube videos.

"Anon, what is that Yoko ripoff dogshit that's playing? Sound like fucking shit." (this is just how she talks. She is Xbox lobby tier 90% of the time).

>I was at the opera boss part
I kinda felt bad, but mom listens to assloads of Kiss and Pink Floyd.

>>716523907
>Don't play with THAT kid
>Stop playing with the kids, it's time for lunch, GET INSIDE
>don't bring that kid to my house
>that girl kissed you? THAT ugly girl?
>20 years later
>why are you such a recluse?

>>716523903
Who raped you?

>>716524003
That's pretty much the situation I've been living with. I've managed to get it slightly under control, the only draw being that I'm addicted to amphetamines. They help so much though that I ain't even mad. It's a small price to pay when you've been living with lunatics for your entire life.

>>716523813
Most parents genuinely do love their kids but they learn bad practices either from their own upbringing or how they think a child should be raised that end up causing damage to their kids, also raising kids in general can be exhausting and have a lot of pressure so they might take shortcuts or lose their temper. Complex Trauma is a real thing.

>YOU DONT GET IT MY TRUAMA IS BAD CAUSE MOM AND DAD MADE ME TURN OFF MY GAME ONE TIME CAUSE I HAD SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY, THATS WHY I WEAR TAIL BUTT PLUGS AND CAT EARS AND FUCK PEOPLES PETS IN THE PARK

project a little harder lil bro

>>716523208
My dad says that 4chan is for nazis.

I saw Chicken Little in the OP and all I could think of was that insane storytime of that Chicken Little fancomic that took place here a year or two ago.

>>716524393
I'm sure he'll come around eventually. He'd fit right in with some of the anons here.
Hell, you two could tell each other to kill themselves in a future thread and you'd be none the wiser.

>>716521160 (OP)
My parents got me a PS2 and bought me I shit you not every good game the system had at the time. The Sly series, the Jak and Daxter Series, Ratchet and Clank series, HP1, and 2, Hulk Ultimate Destruction, The Spider-man series, Ultimate Sider-Man, Kh1, and 2, GTA San Andreas, etc. They did their homework at the time, and completely warped my expectations for games going forward. Nowadays it takes 10 fucking years to MAYBE get a game of the same quality as any of the ones listed.

>>716524321
one more

>>716523852
Yeah, hitting your kids is terrible parenting. You may get them to stop a behavior right there but you're doing much more long term damage to them and their behavioral problems will only get worse in addition to making them more prone to mental health problems. Also, you're literally teaching your kids that violence is an acceptable way to solve your problems, what kind of example is that. Of course whenever I bring this up, people get angry and defensive as if I'm encroaching on their God-given right to abuse their kids and be shitty parents.

>>716524280
>>716524320
Yeah my mom was diagnosed schizophrenic + BPD and my dad just had weird NPD parents himself that raised him all fucked up from what I can tell. Dad is a good guy but a really shit parent, mom was a freak who enjoyed hurting other people, especially children. My life is pretty peaceful now at least. I don't think I'm going to have a family myself, for a multitude of reasons, but having all these different inheritable problems in my genetics is one of them.

>>716524003
and what would that accomplish? my parents are retards who think autism/adhd/whatever is all scams made to sell meds and fixed by shit like spanking/bullying/simply "going outside and meeting people"
there is only one healthy solution to this level of egocentrism and that is cutting them off from your life

>>716522839
Yeah we know anti social narcissistic kids are usually ungrateful

>>716524780
We learn from the best :)

>>716524393

>>716524754
Well learning about NPD might help you realize that parent is hopeless and cut them off sooner. My dad didn't believe in mental health either, and ended up getting manipulated and scammed for most of his life by people with said personality disorders.

More nephews need to be told they're playing slop

>>716521160 (OP)
>playing Crash Team Racing on the PS1 in my room
>play it for a shitton, like 4 hours straight
>get out of my room and go to my parents
>tell them I had fun
>they tell me they could hear every sound and make fun of how weird the game sounded

From then on I have been obsessed with my privacy. Dropped learning the piano because I didn't want anyone else to hear me practice, refused to read in public because I didn't want anyone to see what I was reading and so on.
I can't rationalize this in any way. I tried. I only feel comfortable if I'm 100% sure nobody has any idea what I'm doing, even if I'm not doing anything wrong

I got one
>be me 13 yo playing kotor2 on the hueg xbox in the living room
>dad walks by, hears the alien speaking gibberish
>calls me a fucking retard, what the fuck are you playing
>i try telling him that they are aliens speaking in an alien language but im reading what they are saying bottom of the screen
>even point to the letters
>calls me a retard again calls my mom over and tells her to watch what your retard son is playing
>orders me to continue playing and talk to the alien again
Pic related

>>716521160 (OP)
My dad actually introduced me to a lot of series I still enjoy today, like Prince Of Persia or Musou. Unfortunately he also beat me, otherwise we might still be in contact.

>>716522658
>You’re allowance is for food, clothes and stuff you need retard
The implication behind this post is fucking hilarious. Do Americans really need to start working at nine to feed themselves? Lol no wonder your society has become this collapsing, sociopathic cesspit focused on everything but keeping ones' humanity.

>>716522658
My stepfather smashed the SNES I bought with the money from my paper routes (making like 300 bucks a month that young was fucking awesome)I had when I was 12, along with the copy of Super Metroid I had bought earlier that day. I was in the process of bringing the console back down to my room (my mom liked to play A Link to the Past and Mario World) because I knew my mom and him would be home soon and he'd always get pissy if we were using the TV for gaming whenever he wanted to watch sports all. He came in, thought I was hooking it up to that TV despite me telling him otherwise, then went apeshit.

Kicked me down the stairs that led to my room and threw the console down at me. When he came downstairs after, he had a hammer and used it to smash the system, the game, and then he hit me in the ribs with it.

The sad thing is, this was regular behavior for him, but he always made everyone else believe he was a perfect person. Shit went on for years until he had a seizure (brain cancer, apparently. I still think he got out easy) and took a very bad fall down the stairs that ended up with him busting his head pretty hard on the concrete floor of the basement. My room was right next to where he fell and I still remember his pitiful cries for help echoing behind me as I left the house to go to a friend's house.

We were told by the paramedics that if they has arrived sooner that he likely would have lived, and that it was "terrible luck" that he was alone when it happened.

>>716524970
I never had allowance and it would never go through my head to spend $60 on a video game when that’s some extra money your parents give you to spend on some food or snacks when your hungry, maybe a movie or transportation, stop defending irresponsible impulsive immature behavior

>>716525054
>the SNES I bought with the money from my paper routes (making like 300 bucks a month that young was fucking awesome)I had when I was 12
I would genuinely be proud of my kid if they were doing this.

>>716524970
don't feed the trolls anon

>NOOOOO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND MY TRAUMA MY PARENTS MADE ME GO TO CHURCH WITH MY DYING AUNT ONE TIME CAUSE IT WOULD MAKE HER HAPPY THATS WHY IM A STAUNCH ATHEIST AND HATE MY PARENTS AND THINK THERE IS 69 GENDERS AND WHY I WEAR BDSM STUFF IN PUBLIC AND FUCK MY ASSHOLE WITH A DILDO WHILE WALKING DOWN THE STREET IN FRONT OF SCHOOLS

>>716525145
Unironically, who raped you?

>>716522658
nigger, he was a FUCKING KID

>>716525054
That's fantastic

>>716525161
That's why you probably wouldn't be the kind of father that has a son trauma-dumping on an imageboard.

>>716521160 (OP)
how did you even have a gba if he hated vidya so much

>>716525054
Ok but that’s way different, no parent should lay their hands on their kid, the only time I got whipped with a belt was when my dad found out I missed school for 2 weeks to smoke cigs and be in a “gang” and got suspended

>>716525054
I guess I'm lucky that none of my mother's boyfriends stuck around long enough to turn into that. In case you haven't heard it from anyone, you don't owe anyone anything after that. If you turned out to be a serial killer, nobody could say "How did that happen?". Live for yourself and be happy. You owe nothing.

Why is America like this? Is it the water?

>>716522554
>I basically just rejected him as as a person which is probably why he takes extra care of my sister
This shit pisses me off to no end. Of course a shitty parent fucks up his relationship with one kid, then instead of apologizing and owning up to it, he just realizes "wow maybe i went a bit overboard-better not fuck up like that with the other one so i dont wind up abandoned in an old person's home!"

idk but my father fucking hated seeing me play vidya even though he never said it outright and even denied it when I confronted him about it. Like he would be in a bad mood all day if he saw me play on my ps3 in the living room lol
I think he tolerated it partly because I got into reading thanks to vidya magazines which I'd read all the time

>>716523162
kys tvjeet

>>716525582
yeah i get you but it didn't do him much good anyways. My sister doesn't like him too much because he is too intense but at least she doesn't need to worry about money

>>716525407
I was friends with a kid that my parents would let stay over for days at a time but would never let me stay at his place.

His dad was just a freak. Apparently molested him, which got him hemmed up and was the main reason he just suddenly disappeared (which was my view as a kid).

But he beat him constantly for video games despite allowing him to have them and even letting his mom buy them for Christmas. It was a power thing, the whole "I can ruin your smile when I want, how I want" kind of power thing.

Friend still has very mixed feelings about the whole thing. Hates him with all his heart, but still feels that his life was sometimes better with someone just deciding when and where he'd feel pain.

Not saying OP has that, but when people trauma dump about parents, 99% of the time, it's some real fucked shit that makes you appreciate the life you had.

>>716522658
>Tfw gave my 5-year-old son his allowance
>$5 per week for food, clothes, and other necessities.
>Retard doesn't buy any food, healthcare, or rent a place to stay
>Dies
Why are children so useless?

>>716523907
>boomer parents that were neurotic lunatics that never taught them anything but always freaked out anytime they tried to proceed in life
so a boomer

>>716525565
>boomer parents
Literally yes, lead pipes were in use

>>716523608
Yeah but they have to be the highest grade to sell for that much, like near perfect condition. Most of our cards would of had some creases, stains, signs of aging on them.

i always feel bad for (you) guys but at the same time i wish i could show my brother how shitty some parents can be when he bitches about my dad

>>716522658
>>716525895
You guys got an allowance?

>>716523907
>mother constantly whining younger generations are lazy, spoiled and useless and always had a comment about "bad parenting" ready to go whenever it's relevant
>"teach you how to cook? why don't you just google it?"

>>716521549
Same

>>716526139
Reminds me of that video with the zoomer not knowing how to use a can opener, and the boomers laughing at him. Gee, how about TEACHING him to use it instead magically expecting results.

>>716523813
it means sense from a survival perspective, living thanks to the protection/safety of numbers even if it makes you miserable is better than being dead

>>716521160 (OP)
>>716521549
And then American boomers wonder why do their children leave them to rot in resting homes while being abused by the caretakers.

>>716525565
The 50s normalized a lot of parenting behavior that could probably be traced to PTSD + lead exposure which came from gasoline until changes were made. The lead exposure is a big one, and you can see massive shifts in criminal violence in the decades following that to a level that (by comparison) makes us look like we're in peaceful age.

Couple this with the fact that mental health was treated like a pseudo science and you have a generation raised on the idea that closed-fist striking your kids was "maybe a bit far" but spanking and slapping and verbal abuse were all just fine and even encouraged. Kids used to be seen as just property instead of living beings.

Nowadays, there's a lot of healthy philiosophies to raise kids to be the best they are, but there's still lots of crazy ass grifters trying to sell those rape retreats for troubled youths and other fucked shit.

>>716525145
>wahhhh i hate fun

>>716525145
>a videogame is irresponsible impulsive immature behavior
>a movie isn't
what is wrong with you? mentally, i mean

>>716523162
>PARENTAL CONFORMITY IS BASED ACTUALLY
fuck off, they need to earn it first

>>716526390
> mental health was treated like a pseudo science
It is, it's mostly a scam.
>Take these pills so you'll feel good. That'll be $4,000 please
Drug trafficking.
>How do you feel? Oh sorry times up, that'll be $4,000 please
Word prostitution.
Now you got them running around telling men they're a woman. That boys need their dicks sliced up to help the delusional thinking.

>>716526707
At least try to make an effort when baiting.

>>716526808
I said nothing incorrect.

>>716526842
>I said nothing
Correct.

I've seen some shit you wouldn't believe
>dad tried hard to get me into Playstation instead of Nintendo so he could get a modded console and save money on burned copies instead of legit ones, told me "it's literally the same stuff with different characters"
>mom doesn't understand how controllers work, the one time I got her to try a game she gripped the analog stick like a pencil
Haunts me to this day

>>716526887
I see no actual rebuttal. You're just going "alalalalalaa" because I'm exposing the bullshit.

>>716526887
Don't bother feeding him. He's been here since the start raving about shit.

>>716527026
>mostly a scam
Is not an argument.
>drug trafficking
Is not an argument.
>word prostitution
LMAO

Anon, pls.

>>716526139
>>716526307
>https://www.youtube.com/@DadhowdoI

I still go to his vids to give me an idea. Dad didn't even teach me how to shoot a gun, that was one of my mom's FWBs after they separated.

>>716527145
It is an argument, saying it's not one when I say it is the very definition of argument.
Drug trafficking is also an argument because medication also fucks you up physically. Antipsychotics lowers your life expectency. All medications have horrible side effects to them.
How is therapist not word prostitutes? You unload on them for an hour, you pay them by the hour, and if you go too free with your words and scare them you'll be reported to the police.
Therapy itself is fucking ridiculous to begin with. It's for people who don't have anyone around to talk to because they surrounded or were raised by shit people.
People with trauma? Get over it and find a hobby or be addicted to drugs and be homeless.
Those are your options.

>>716523907
being a neurotic lunatic wouldn't be so bad if they were SO FUCKING STUBBORN.
like how the FUCK can my mother, who has never bothered with higher education or worked a single fucking day in her life, think younger generations have it easier when even with two higher educated people you can't afford a fucking house? one of my fucking grandparents has a FOURTH GRADE EDUCATION and his life was fucking solved by the ripe age of 30. fucking moronic

>>716523731
>Then they'll feel like retards at least
Not at all, it'll be his fault for not telling them!

>>716521549
My dad threw away my nintendo wii a couple of years ago to plug in his music player without asking me. I have no idea why parents find it so difficult to fucking ASK before they do this shit.

>>716527145
???

Literally 0/10 bait

>>716527580
You own nothing.

>>716527428
So what you are suggesting is that instead of seeking one of the numerous helpful options available out there, a person should just shut the fuck up and silently endure their abuse?

Sounds like you're projecting your own cowardly lack of initiative onto others. As someone who has sought the kind of help you are discouraging and has benefitted from it greatly, all I can really say is that I pity people like you.

>9 years old
>ugly and awkward so don't have a ton of friends and hate going outside, dad constantly signs me up for sports but I'm miserably awful at all of them and have to beg him to not play on them
>he sexually abuses me for years but spares my brother because he is good at sports and he can't risk ruining his body/mind
>playing some shitty Disney shovelware platformer for ps1 in the living room
>dad says to mom 'he came home just to fucking do this'
>start crying and run to my bed, my mom tries to console me
It took me many years to figure out my dad hated me, and a few more to puzzle out why, but I think that was the first major clue. I still play Mario and Halo and shit, and I'm still a virgin in my 30s, but I have way more money than my dad and he's a fat drug addict who will probably be dead in a few years.

>>716525262
Thanks for the blogpost anon but let the actual adults that don't need diapers talk, thanks.

>>716522554
esl brownoid
I still feel sorry for you though

falling through a level in some old game and seeing endless void while level geometry gets drawn over itself

>>716527685
No, I'm saying our species have survived and flourished under harsher times and our generation is becoming so weak that men are believing they're women.
It's fucking us up. Grown men don't need to pay hundreds of dollars to essentially "get over it".
That's what you're doing when you pay a therapist. You are paying them to tell you the most obvious shit on the planet.

>>716521160 (OP)
bruh i have several from a narcissistic piece of shit mother

doesn't matter though i have the best of everything gaming related that i could have ever wanted, and i am never talking to that piece of shit ever again and if it ever contacts me (it wont) ill harass the living fuck out of it with a smile

>>716522680
it is usually just narcissism
>noo cant like thing i dont like
>if you like thing, then you cant have it/i'll take it away to "control" you
>you can only have thing if you dont like it, so you cant claim that you have nothing. i let you do things and youre the problem
if they arent religious they will reason their stupid shit some other way. you cant attack the problem by reasoning with them

>>716527535
That stubbornness is a defense mechanism they've built up over the course of decades. Any bit of it they compromise can tear down the whole thing, so you better believe that they're gonna be fucking stubborn no matter how stupid it is.

I remember being like 7 and my dad kicked my ps1 while I was playing because he was mad at my mom.

>>716524003
Or just low/middling IQ. Idiots rage at what they don't understand.

>>716521160 (OP)
>Night time, playing Tekken Tag tournament.
>Get up from my chair to go to my bedside to grab my drink.
>Suddenly I hear some haunting noise coming from the TV in some raspy voice.
Later on I found out when the Vs screen loads Yoshimitsu sometimes makes a weird sound.

>find paper mario the 1000 year door in a shop, it would have been new about the time
>I'm allowed to pick one game, choose this
>mum looks at it
>'I'm not paying that much for a game with those bad 2D graphics'
>my little brother gets 'street hoopz' or some shit for the xbox instead

>>716521160 (OP)
Turning off my gameboy for the night after playing Pokemon. I hear Lavender Town. But the gameboy is off.

>mom called my dad when we were at gamestop and stopped me from using all my allowance/yard work money to buy a used PS1 and used copies of FF7-9 for like $90 (what a steal, looking back) because "we already have a computer"

>>716527757
>esl brownoid
well yeah but what did I do wrong there. Aside from maybe misspelling have because I type too fast.

>>716523813
>most of the time
anon...

>>716527894
what are they even fucking defending? they are clearly aware the world they grew up in no longer exists because they will happily consume shit like social media and AI and blindly trust the brainrot slop they feed you. sometimes almost like they're selecting the worst parts of it on purpose

>>716527824
No, you're paying them to so that your grievances can be *heard* by another person who has been trained to listen to you in a way that will allow them to help guide you. People like you who have no interest to begin with or don't think there's anything wrong with your life wouldn't benefit from therapy in any case.

>our species has survived and flourished under harsher times
This has literally nothing to do with anything. Suffering is a universal truth of the human condition and suffering takes many different forms. We now have the knowledge and resources to help individuals who have complex issues that they recognize but do not understand. Your refusal to use those resources to your benefit is a choice that I don't agree with, but that I respect in any case. But don't judge others for trying to improve their lives just because you're an ignorant twat who thinks he knows best about things he clearly knows NOTHING about kek.

>>716528289
This is nonsense.
You're paying them to vent? You're that right now for free.
It's not real anon. If you believe therapy is real, why won't they make blacks take therapy?

>>716526113
just take a screenshot of this thread

>>716528159
They're defending their sanity from the painful reality that they've been living a lie. I used to try to get my mom to realize it until I saw her reaction to it once. I've decided that she's better off being ignorant. It's not fair for me to try to change what has worked best for her.

>>716525548
>>716525364
People always ask how I am so well-adjusted after I tell them stories from my childhood, especially when dealt with all of my issues without years of therapy or drugs. I tell them that I've already experienced things that'd absolutely destroy (if I had to rank the SNES incident versus the other horrors on a 1-10 scale, it would be a 3 or a 4) most people, so I feel like things could only get better from there. I just work on keeping myself and my family happy and safe, all while I work towards making sure my children never have to experience the things I did.

I feel like a lot of you would've been better off if you killed your parents back at an age when you don't go to jail for it, but simply lacked the hindsight to come to this conclusion.

>>716528440
>why won't they make blacks take therapy?
As I wrote before, therapy doesn't work for people who don't want it.

Venting on 4chan can be useful to the extent that some anon will read what you write and give you a thoughtful response. How often does that happen? Lmao. More often than not it's just ignorant retards like yourself saying they should just man the fuck up. That has never in 10,000 years been useful advice to anyone. No one has ever said, "Wow, I never thought of it that way. Thanks for changing my worldview by making me realize that I should just "man the fuck" up!" Have you ever asked yourself what that even means? It's just nonsense lazy fucks like yourself say when you don't have an answer but want to feel better about it.

>>716521160 (OP)
>parents too poor to buy videogames, I only got to play bargain bin shovelware so i never played
>addicted to videogames ever since i got my pc in highschool

>>716524739
>Also, you're literally teaching your kids that violence is an acceptable way to solve your problems, what kind of example is that.
But anon, violence IS an acceptable way to find some problems. Sometimes, it's the only solution. But yeah, it should be 1 tool in a toolbox, and not the 1st option.

>>716521549
So is this millenials version of parents throwing away comic books or baseball cards?

>>716528753
>As I wrote before, therapy doesn't work for people who don't want it.
Because it's not real.

>>716528724
Don't kill your parents, Chris. That's not cool.

>>716528724
That's fair

Hey Chris, when's Bowlbo coming out?

this one is a little spooky and unexplained
>be me, like 5 years old playing tony hawk pro skater late at night with my uncle
>dad calls him up to smoke a joint
>I continue playing while he goes upstairs
>feel hungry so I decided to go look in the fridge
>see two white figures that look like kids standing in the kitchen looking at me
>feel immediate chill run down my spine and book it the fuck upstairs while screaming
>parents and uncle are clearly freaked out
>can't even explain to them what I saw, just shaking and sweating from the fright
>barely able to say I saw ghosts (house was super fuckin haunted)
>family decides to smudge the house to try rid it of evil spirits just in case

to this day I still don't know what the shit I saw was, aliens?? ghosts? demons?

>>716528724
Unironic trvke, I wish I had

>>716528823
Are you really too dumb to understand why a person who refuses to participate in something that requires participation gets nothing out of it?

>>716528724
>wexford couple found scalded with boiling milk

>>716528975
Anon it's made up bullshit like prayers.

>>716521549
Worse - she threw them all in the trash after promising they'd just go into storage. Most of them were the same consoles all of my siblings had grown up with, so we were ALL pissed off about it.

>>716522504
Great way to breed resentment and paranoia in your offspring at least.

my mom bought me some games and I wasnt appreciative of them
I mean, I genuinely wasnt thankful but in retrospect if I had my adult brain I could've faked it.
Also my father didnt physically hit me and I wasn't sexually abused.

>>716529035
Man, you really are a pseud. It's not worth trying to convince someone like you of the benefits of anything, anon. Deflecting everything with skepticism doesn't make you clever, btw.

>>716529192
They got you well programed don't they?

>>716521549
>mom goes to prison when Im 3 for messing with lesbianfriends teen daughter
>when Im 4 she proudly tells my dad and I she doesnt want to be a mother, she wants to be a lesbian, with her prison girlfriend sitting there
>she gets out when Im 9 and I visit her like 15 times over the course of 2 years
>meanwhile it was her mother who actually did some things for me and who I visited every couple weeks as a kid
>mom moves in with her when Im 14
>I go to visit grandma when Im 15 after not having been there 3 or 4 years
>my pristine n64 with about 25 games, almost every accessory made and all the neat games that needed them, 3 controllers
>the bigass tub with about $100 in lego sets, legos being something I had wanted FOREVER and had access to these for like 2 visits as a 10 year old
>all gone
>I go to ask her what happened
>"Oh yeah I sold that stuff since you werent using it and bought some fishing stuff with it" (she was flipping stuff she got from the little bait shop she worked at on ebay...)
Dont worry she ended up not getting to be a mother or a lesbian, just stewing alone with her nasty mother till death.

>>716529217
Lol whatever gets you to sleep at night, sunshine.

>be in first grade
>school has a campaign to teaching students about how bad drugs are
>teacher talks about how dangerous cigarettes are
>one day I steal my dad’s cigarettes to throw them away
>he catches me and slaps me in the face
>cry
>mom was working so I couldn’t go to her for help
>tell her what happened when she comes back and they have a screaming match
And that was the day I stopped caring about him.

>>716529340
You're one groomed mother fucker

>>716529374
Actually I WAS molested, bud. Doesnt affect anything like you being a dumb faggot.

>>716529374
>programmed
>groomed
Refer to >>716529340 for more information. You're starting to bore me now, so I think I'll drop this conversation here. Thanks for your time, anon.

>>716529458
>Calls me faggot
>Was groomed
>Thinks therapy helps because other adults groomed him to submit to the "treatment".
How much money they getting out of you?

When i was a kid i was never much into video games. I had a ps2 but only played on occasion, i rather ride my bicycle or play with toys(specifically transformers toys). When i was 9, my family moved to an apartment in another city. There were a lot of other kids in the building and i made friends with them. After some months my mother got in a paranoid state for some reason and decided to not let me play with other kids anymore. I was a very obedient kid so i never talked with anyone else and just spent my days riding the bicycle. Eventually she thought even leaving the apartment was too much and i was never allowed to leave it ever. So i started getting really into gaming since i couldnt leave to ride the bicycle and my toys vanished when we moved. I remained a shut in like this until i was 17. I did talk to people at school, but since mom said no friends, i just kept everything school related.
Unrelated but i got really into crash twinsanity and im pretty sure i beat the current speedrun world record for it, but sadly i have no proof.

>>716529316
Yeah the only silver lining to these stories is usually that the people themselves end up rotting alone despite wanting to be near others, completely unsatisfied and hating themselves. The issue is that they've always been deeply unhappy and fucked in the head, they just want to drag others beneath them so they feel a bit better about themselves before the end. The main thing holding humanity back at this point is mental illness, if science finds some sort of machine to fix personalty disorders on a large scale we'd enter a utopian age.

>>716529513
>For me informaion
I didn't ask nor care about your nonsense kid.
You're clearly wanting attention, you're pathetic. You're a grown man, act like one.

>>716529373
>beta sees two paths
>man or guy
>chooses guy
Poor baby, he should have slapped the shit out of your mother too. If I heard his weak ass actually screaming at a female Id beat the shit out of him and play with your sisters ass.

>have N64 for years, played the shit out of it
>kid moves in next door, he's poor and hangs around all the time to play it with me because no console of his own
>brother gives me his Playstation when he moves out, start using that more
>kid comes around one day and says his parents will buy my N64 by paying it off $20 a week, if I want
>couldn't say no because I don't use it much now and he's hyped as fuck
>3 months later his dickhead Dad gets angry, takes the N64 out into the driveway and runs it over repeatedly
>kid still had to come around for a few weeks after to give me $20, most miserable looking human I had ever seen
Wonder if he does drugs now

This is just depressing, boomers left a trail of destruction behind them

>>716521160 (OP)
I got news that my Grandpa died while playing Kirby's Epic Yarn shortly after Christmas.
I was playing Cloudy Palace when I got called out for the news.
https://youtu.be/4PrN-ioqL1E
The song is arguably one of my favorites in the game initially, but I can't really listen to it anymore because of the linked memory of losing your innocent and realizing "Holy shit, the people you love won't be here forever."

>>716521549
This too, with my N64. It was a gift hand-me-down from my cousin when he went to college with most of the N64-era essentials, completed save files, multiple controller to play with my brother and friends, and they just fucking gave it all to goodwill one day behind our backs because they thought having a GCN and Wii meant we had no need for it.

>>716529682
>3 months later his dickhead Dad gets angry, takes the N64 out into the driveway and runs it over repeatedly
What is terrifying is that people like this are so retarded they genuinely won't comprehend why their son doesn't talk to them later on. Like they will be absolutely baffled and feel as if they are being treated unfairly

>>716529610
>raped baby
>grown man
He was diddled by a man and that fucked him up, if hed stop being an annoying ass whole we wouldnt bother him about it but his little micro trauma dump up there is just sad. Go be a gay raped baby somewhere else
>>716529458
>>716529340

>>716521904
The opposite happened to me, my dad stole one of his exes entire SNES collection along with the consolenand gave it to me

Billions need to be neutered

>>716529846
>ass whole
>whole

>>716529846
I don't give a flying fuck.
It's the past. Get over it or die. I don't care which.

>>716529649
>Söy still at it.
Here, since nobody is giving you any (You)'s.

>>716525145
>Spending money on a 2 hour movie for entertainment is good
>Spending money on a game that can give hundreds or thousands of hours of entertainment is bad
Retard.

>be me, anon
>always playing pokemon blue on gameboy
>one day my dad asks to borrow it
>gives it back later
>he caught a pokemon and called it anon (my name)
you guys have fucked up parents lol

>>716529748
sorry you found out that way anon, had something similar happen while I was playing overwatch during release days. got a call from my mom saying her little brother passed (we were around the same age and grew up together) and it threw me into an 8 year depression

>>716530095
That means he thinks of you as his pet that he has to train and wants to fuck in the ass when he's groomed it like the good faggot you are. Just be a man, you spineless fag. If it was me, I would've raped my dad so hard it would've made the room stink. God I hate fags.

>>716521160 (OP)
I got groomed by a 34 year old woman in WoW when I was 12. Long story short she had her boyfriend rape me while she filmed it, so I guess there's cp of kid-me out there somewhere.

>>716530330
Did you at least cum?

>>716526116
Yeah, I was a useful day laborer for those fuckers. Fat as fuck mom never left the couch after getting home from her job as a receptionist.

>>716530386
No, it was just a lot of pain.

80% of the stories here wouldn't have happened if men weren't slaves to roastie flaps and BPD women didn't exist

>>716530330
how does being gay raped even work? Don't you need to have an enema before anal so you don't get shit on your dick? Or are gay rapists just fine with shitdick?

Fortunately my parents never threw out anything I owned.
My bro borrowed my PS2 to play party games with his normalfags friends, and pretty sure he has no idea what happened to it. Still have all my games tho.

>>716530521
>Or are gay rapists just fine with shitdick?
NTA but I'm certain the concept of 12 year old shit on their dick is actually arousing

>>716530609
ew

>>716529458
dont care no one asked but also no shit, you fuckin act like it

>>716530330
were they from area 52? just seems like an area 52 thing

>>716530679
Not even the same anon. Retards who genuinely assume that therapy is only for people who got molested are probably just projecting, as always.

>>716530521
Americans poop wrong, unironically. squatting pulls shit outta ya like a slinky. sitting on a throne and tensing is cutting those shit logs up. it's why Americans wad toilet paper and the rest of the world can use 3 pieces. and why the us has the highest hemorrhoids rate. terrible ass hygiene. so yeah gross if it's in America, not as gross elsewhere

where vidya?

>>716530840
and yet you post. curious

>>716530839
>squatting bad
at opposed to what?

>>716521160 (OP)
my father slapped me in the face after i deleted his ff7 save, i'm not even mad, he had tens of hours and we had another memory card i don't even know why i did it

>>716530521
They make you suck it off.
t. got violently raped by babysitter

>>716522504
And anon will be entitled to let him rot in the retirement home with Shaniqua, at least he'll finally be with his kind

>>716526707
This
>Let's sell you pills forever that numb your negative emotions instead of fixing the material reality that is causing your negative emotions.
What a fucking retarded strategy.

>>716530440
>mom never gave me a proper allowance
>would just give me money now and then when i asked for it
>criticizes me now for never learning how to save money
I'm turning 34 and have a near perfect credit score so I have no idea what she's bitching about. She just has this idea in her head that I'm bankrupting myself every time I decide to spend money on food that somehow leads to her criticizing my financial competence.

Cry about it.

>>716531047
L+ratio

>>716523731
>what the fuck is a regis? why do you still know about all this kiddy shit? when are you giving me grandchildren?

>>716522554
>fixed the ps2
based, it's the small victories

>>716530839
>dude from the third world has a nasty poop-stained ass because he can't afford toilet paper
As someone who has been to Iran and has had the misfortune of being subject to those nightmare hole-in-the-ground toilets they use in the east, I can safely say I do not envy you in even the least bit.

I hope you at least wash your ass with water.

>>716528107
>on 5th grade
>sometimes I would play with friends on my apartment complex
>up on the garage
In, not on

>until it was absolutely necessary
unless, not until

the on/in thing is extremely common with ESLs, but it was what made it obvious.
Plus the beatings.

Every time I read these threads I feel like Nathan Explosion. I love my dad.

>describe the setting of Fallout New Vegas to my dad as part of a discussion of human nature and progression of governance
>he looks at me like I'm a retard
If I lied and said it was a book, you wouldn't have acted that way
>videogames were my cope because dad was an authoritarian jerk
>he clearly wanted a son that played sports
>he never spent time with me, when he did it was to belittle me, smack me, or force me to exercise
>found out I looked at porn at 12, drove slowly with the windows down by the girls practicing sports yelling about what a pervert I am
>become afraid of women and ashamed of natural feelings
>date a tranny in an abusive relationship for 10 years, throw my 20s away, just start recovering from a 20 year spiral
>have to be honest with new girls I meet to not be a liar like my dad at 31 years old
I know I made it harder on myself but FUCK
Back to bidya

>>716522658
You guys are getting paid?

>>716531473
Just don't tell them it was a tranny

>>716521160 (OP)
>Mario Superstar Saga
I'm imagining your dad whipping you in rhythm to the battle theme.

>>716528070
I never tire of these tech retard boomer stories.

>>716527721
>dad constantly signs me up for sports but I'm miserably awful at all of them and have to beg him to not play on them
I feel you bro... my mom made me sign up for baseball when I was a kid and I sucked so much. I was complete dead weight and my teammates hated me. After an instance of me getting bullied to tears I was able to convince her to let me quit. I was relieved and just secluded myself with vidya after that, but she hated them with a passion despite how they made me happy.

>>716531604
i'm considering the idea that half this thread is some psyops to attack the morale of people and being a cunt to people falling for it is just the icing on the cake

>>716530203
>I want to fuck men in the ass like a faggot
>Also, I hate faggots
What?

>>716528879
demons, the world is inhabited by them and they pose as other supernatural entities like ghosts and aliens.

>>716531829
Nah it's just a few specific freak anons feeling called out and chucking a tantrum while everyone else shares

>>716531813
Same
My parents tried forcing me to be an athlete for some reason. I never cared about sports at all.

>>716521549
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me, and I walk alone

>>716531473
Simple.
Belt the fuck out of your dad.
It is LITERALLY the only way you're gonna get closure.
And then spit on him and tell him that that spit is from a mouth that tonguefucked a tranny because of him.

I'm actually being genuine right now, I feel like a lot of you need to just flog the fuck out of your fathers because they're absolutely the cause of a lot of your problems.

>>716524078
Your mom sounds awesome.

>>716532194
I think the rise of surveillance is actually harming people more than it helps them, because people can't get away with justified acts of violence against anyone anymore.

>>716524887
this one hits a bit too close to home for me. Had a mom who had no concept of privacy or personal space and through repeated behavior of invading my space and making absolutely sure she knew everything I was doing currently made me paranoid and very self-conscious about my own hobbies and interests, also to the point of hiding any activity for fear of judgement regardless of how normal or mundane it is.

>>716531859
He's "being based" rn you wouldn't understand

>>716531951
I think there's projection where they want their kids to be superstar athletes because that's what they wanted, but they don't realize not all kids are meant for that. When I was little, the best kids at sports had good genes for it, as well as a tryhard dad that knew everything about the sport and practiced with them everyday.
I didn't have any of that shit and playing baseball felt like a rigged game. Vidya was much more approachable as a solo autist.

>>716531829
The last 3 to 4 generations have been systematically propagandized against at a global scale due to prussian method teachings and cabalist interests. What you're reading in these threads is the proof that the plan is working.

>>716530928
You misunderstand, squatting good, sitting like one sits in a chair bad, which makes sense since obviously we didn't evolve to shit from a seated position like that

>>716525145
An allowance is for kids to understand the value of money, the importance of saving, delayed gratification, etc. If the kid makes a shit purchase, the important thing is that they LEARN from it and make better decisions later. It's good for kids to make mistakes in low-stakes environments.

>>716524078
Based mom

>>716532575
>Source: Old people bad, young people good.
I was your age once too, there's a reason why we don't want zoomers on this board.

My parents were pretty normal.
My friend's, however, were the biggest archetypical boomer retards ever when it came to games (and computers in general).
>friend's dad insists video games cause viruses
>shouts at us when he caught us trying to install Diablo on their computer
>after he leaves we sneak onto the computer again and I discover the most obscene, vile fucking filthy interracial gangbang scat born I've ever seen just saved all over the desktop
>internet browser has what must have been 10 of those gimmick malware toolbars stacked on top of each other
>as soon as you open a browser it redirects to porn sites
>computer running at an absolute crawl
>the dad comes back and accuses me of hacking his computer and tells me to leave
Friend just came over to my house to play games from that point until he was old enough to buy his own shit

My disc of Mercenaries 2 broke and tooth paste + rinsing it under tap water didnt fix it

>>716523608
>Sentimental value
>Yet you left them with your parents
I made 10k selling rares I didn't cared about and could probably make twice as much if I sold my favorites today

>>716532756
I remember having a bugs life game for the PS1 that was cracked right through one side and had a chunk missing but could still play the first level of the game. It felt like a cursed magical object to my child mind

>all these stories about sexual abuse.
I've been coming here since fucking 2007 and these threads have always been parents just beating them or pawing their stuff. The fuck is up with all the molestation?

>>716532830
there's a reason people are as miserable as they are, I don't think everyone is lying

>>716521421
Dude what's with your parents. Like fuck the worst mine ever did was get drunk alot and fumble fuckup dinner.

Yall had some terrible shit done to you.

>>716526139
>Mom wants me to develop better housekeeping skills
>"Why don't you come out while I'm cooking so I can teach you things"
>Do so
>Mom constantly complains about how it's taking her longer to do things while teaching me and makes me feel bad about wasting her time.
>Makes fun of me anytime I don't know where a specific kitchen utensil is stored in the kitchen
>Anytime I make a mistake, instead of telling me what I'm doing wrong and letting me correct myself, she just silently grabs the tool out of my hand starts doing it herself while you watch and feel dumb about it
My dad's actually pretty great at teaching me how to household chores and cooking without being an ass about it, but my mom was kind of a control freak with everything.

>>716524078
>Kiss
Tell your mother that Gene Simmons is the biggest fucking sellout in the entire industry and buy her this and make fun of her for listening to Hello Kitty music.

>>716532920
had the absolute opposite experience learning to drive a stick shift

>>716529827
I think I believe in the "conspiracy" theory that Boomers all have systemic lead poisoning from leaded gasoline pollution in their younger years
It's the only rational explanation for how mentally ill they are on a generational scale.

if I mention kart racers to my mom in any way, she will always say "I remember not being able to do anything because you kept hitting me with everything." She laughs it off, but deep down she's probably eternally salty about it.

not vidya but
>mom let my 2 year old brother play with all of my "astronaut toys" (army of space marines I'd assembled and painted together with my dad)
>only two survivors

>>716532661
>generation 1: same as gen 0
>generation 2: more offloaded to government, learned less from gen 1
>generation 3: more offloaded to government, learned less from gen 2
>generation 4: more offloaded to government, learned less from gen 3
This isn't "boomers bad, zoomers good" it's "nobody realized how much we were losing every generation, because they were too busy blaming the generation before and after"
Boomers are idiots because their lead-poisoned brains believe their kids and grandkids can succeed as easily as them. Millenials are idiots because their sõy-fueled brains believed fully that the government could save them from the pollution and evil bad people across the ocean. Zoomers are idiots because their microplastic-lined brains were intentionally not taught anything by their millenial parents or the school system. This is the failure of successive generations that cannot be rectified without active effort from multiple age groups.

>Drug addict parent who wont admit they have a problem cause they dont think they do

Hope they rot in hell honestly i never want them to call me again.

>>716532307
The upside of the legal system being against men and fathers is that if your father is actually a huge piece of shit you CAN belt the shit out of him and your claim of him having abused you throughout your childhood WILL be taken into consideration, because as a man and father in the legal system he's already on the back-foot.

Immediately after you belt the fuck out of your dad, check yourself into a mental health clinic. It will add veracity and validity to your claim.

>>716533107
>Space Marines
you deserved it faggot

>left a holo lugia card out on top of my dresser and go out
>grandma thought it was garbage and threw it away

Not really traumatic at the time but realising the gold mine my parents threw away
>Gameboy Advance
>DS
>PS2
>PS3
>PSP
>Xbox
>Xbox 360
All gone. Some of them broke down though. Also had a massive bag of Yugioh cards that they just threw away. Wish I still had all these

>>716533358
My grandmother was really slow and I remember I saw her sweeping one of my sister’s books into a broom handle.

>>716521549
>get gamecube as christmas gift when i was kid
>for some reason not allowed to keep it at house, parents make me keep it at grandparents next town over
>cousin comes over grandparents and see's me playing mario sunshine
>"thats so cool, i wish i had a gamecube"
>next time visit grandparents, my gamecube is fucking gone
>"oh anon, [cousin] said you'd told him he could borrow it"
>never ever get my fucking gamecube back, even after telling parents
i still see this cousin twice a year and every fucking time i do i think about how much i hate him for stealing my shit as a kid.
the hatred is also helped by the fact he is monstrously obese

>>716522554
>but I was never the same and neither was the relationship with my father,

Damn anon I fell out with my dad too after he beat the shit out of me for no reason. Never forgave him for that. You did the right thing.

>>716521549
My dad threw away my Dreamcast without asking
I lived like 5 mins away you could've just fucking asked me to come get it and I would've come over and picked it up FUCK

>>716533525
Why was it not with you?

>>716525145
>Saving money until you can buy a sixty dollar videogame is impulsive
>Spending your money immediately on snacks is not

Ok, Somalian.

>>716522658
I wish my parents were at fault, but honestly, we're all victims of each other. They grew to hate each other, but somehow they still love me, despite the fact that I'm such a huge fuck up
>father was always away from home because of work and because he'd take any chance to be away from my mom
>but never shied away from giving me expensive education and covering for any extra costs related to me during childhood and teenage years
>mfw I was never better than a below average student (or human being, as a matter of fact)
>mom is a career woman that was always harsh on her expectations of my father (idk why)
>grew to resent him for not being a model husband
>became delusional when it came to me, has spent literal decades talking about how I'm so great, so full of potential
>obviously total bullshit, since I dropped out of college twice and never earned anything above minimum wage
>mfw I'm in my mid 20s and they still haven't grown tired of my existence

tl;dr: great parents hate each other but love their shit son, for some reason

>>716522554
>beat the shit out of me again, even when I showered
https://youtu.be/8Ft_OgL5sU4?t=74
I'm sorry Anon but that visual is really funny

>>716533580
I had it put away in a cupboard and forgot about it when I moved
I came looking for it like a year later and it was gone

>>716524887
With the self-awareness I gained in my teen years, I developed a habit of only really playing console games really early in the morning or late at night when other people are sleeping to avoid that feeling of judgement from my parents overhearing or walking in on the games I was playing.
My Mom always scoffed at video games and how much I enjoyed them, and it made me feel bad for playing them in her presence.
I still usually keep my steam account as offline or invisible to keep my friends from being able to comment on what I play for the same reason.

>>716527721
your dad was trying to smash the autism out of you but little did he know the autism was a very part of your being and in doing so he hurt you anon.
i will play a small violin for you tonight.

>Parents sell the N64 and all the games at a garage sale for 12 dollars even though I still use it
>Years later they "loan" our NES to our neighbor for his heavily autistic foster son to play
>Eventually foster son gets sent to a different home and his wife leaves him to be a Jehovah's Witness
>Ask him about my NES years later
>"I sold it for booze money lol"
>More years later he drank himself to death in his empty cat shit filled house
I just want my copy of Mario DuckHunt back at least

I remember sitting downstairs, terrified when my older brother would play Madden and lose his shit whenever he was fucked up. It was once so bad the neighbours called the cops on him

>>716534239
It's not really traumatic but I'm still salty about it.
Especially when my parents gave the whole "Well they weren't even yours why are you mad?" schtick

>>716531473
I went into autistic detail about the general plot of New Vegas in a conversation with my Dad, and while I feel like a complete autist in retrospect, my dad has the patience to act mildly interested in my tangents. I should be more grateful.

>>716534352
whenever he fucked up*

>all these stories of boomer parents just fucking throwing away the silly children blip blorps or giving them away to the neighborhood retards
It's like doomscrolling, I just can't get enough of it

>why are boomers violent?
The fault of the silent generation, the fallout of the great depression allowing for the spoiling of boomers without having any real reasonability.
To the point many a child born during this time being brought fourth as the golden one, unable to do wrong as the finical hardsips were over do to this birth.
Meanwhile in their inept mind they pop out mistakes never valued or loved in their eyes, the sheer weight of the responsibility of family causing what can only be called "a mass chimpout"
Most dug themselves into finical ruin, pop out more kids, and would have most likely died if ww2 had not rolled around to offer an outlet for such repressed retardation.

no trauma induced upon me by other people. my parents are great people and while my siblings could be annoying growing up we generally all got along well. I was my own biggest enemy growing up and basically felt irrationally ashamed of everything I did for no reason, in particular with video games or anime or other hobbies. the idea of people knowing I played so-and-so game for instance could fill me with dread like nothing else. I've mostly grown out of it as an adult but it made me good at hiding my power level unless I'm talking with someone I trust. makes me boring for a lot of people though since I tend not to care about comparatively "normal" hobbies like sports or tv shows.

>>716521160 (OP)
>PS1 disks we played with grandma were getting old and scratched
>wanted to make copies so she could play Bubble Bubble again which she liked a lot
>found ISOs but couldn't figure out how to burn them properly cause young and retarded
>forget about it for a while
>gran gets pancreatic cancer and passes away
>years later friend in highschool comes over for vidya and shows me how to burn disks
>later realise and start bawling

>>716533951
>a year later
You had plenty of time.

man reading this thread makes me realise i landed the 1% jackpot of parents who were always supportive and loving and it somehow feels worse for growing up to still be a gigantic loser that wants to an hero every day.
i think the second my dad ever beat me i'd legit would've just killed myself before 18.
respect to anons for sticking it out.

>>716533864
just like that but he used a belt

>>716531624
I am trying to be an honest man now
My dad cheated on my mom and made false promises all the time, I won't run from the truth anymore
>>716532194
Lol he could still whip my ass, he's not 60 yet and regularly exercises, 7" taller than me
I also am trying to be forgiving, I get consumed by rage and lust too so I have to understand
>>716534414
That's good, anon, enjoy it
I feel like what I really missed out on was being myself. He tried to push me into a mold and I was punished for not fitting in it so I just made myself small, quiet, and easily forgotten. So be yourself with your dad and appreciate the stupid shit he goes on about too, he won't be here forever

>>716534427
Are your millennial parents that just threw you in front of an ipad to get groomed on roblox and minecraft any better tho

>>716534794
Yeah, guys like you really don't realize how lucky you are since the vast majority of people grow up with louse parents but its so common its kind of normalized to the point where YOURE the weird one for having good folks.

>Mom talks shit of me every time I see her for no reason
>I distance myself from her for being a cunt
>She tries to get back to me
>Repeat

I don't know what the fuck is her problem, I gave her like 30 chances.
She didn't even raise me, you can't even argue for 'I had to take care of my child so I couldn't live my life, i hate my son' type of shit.

>mom would sell my video games for drug money when I visited my grandma
>would lie and say it must've been her alcoholics anonymous friends
>got mad at me when I was rude to the friends she said were thieves
>years later don't trust people anymore and overly protective of my stuff
She sexually abused me too but that's besides the point I still miss my Pokemon Emerald.

>>716521160 (OP)
Dad didn't like that I liked vidya instead of sports so he tried to bully me a bit one time when I played spyro, calling him a "dragon for girls" because he was purple. It was only one time but I still remember it to this day, among other things. Dont know why he thought that would make me want to suddenly pick up football.

not me but my cousin
>cousin is half-black, dad left her just mom (aunt) raising her after he went insane and tried to kill them both (in prison)
>playing wii together at family christmas party, having fun
>aunt got super drunk
>and immediately started dropping n-bombs and saying insanely racist shit
>in front of my cousin
>who was 13 at the time
>ask if cousin is okay
>completely emotionally dead "im fine, mom does this all the time"
>tfw get a glimpse at the fucking hellscape that is my cousins life

>>716521160 (OP)
YOU FUCKING ITLING!

>>716534854
I lucked out and got gen X parents.

>>716534854
My parents are boomers but they respected my property and never did any of this gaslighting abusive shit that's the meat of this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1PoSz6xYw

Confession, I was the kid that my family members would give their stuff away to. My mom’s friend gave me her son’s ps2 collection.

>>716524470
It has been two years already? don't scare me like that

>>716528659
Shit, how bad did it get, if you don't mind me asking? My condolences, Anon.

>"What console do you play on?"
>"P-PC..."
>"Oh... What do you play?"
>"Team Fortress 2"
>"...I dont know what that is"
It hurt everytime. It was a lonely childhood

>>716521160 (OP)
>trauma dump thread
>>>/reddit/

>>716531746
kek

>>716536164
Why didn't you use that as an opportunity to introduce them to that and make friends?

>>716536331

>>716536331

>>716534053
>still usually keep my steam account as offline or invisible to keep my friends from being able to comment on what I play for the same reason.
same reason most likely as me. but it grew out into everyone starting families and shit and even if some of old friends do play from time to time I personally don't want to be seen online at 2 am. even though I know some of them are as well.

>>716536331

>>716536376
I am deeply autistic and I always had a sense of embarrassment talking about the stuff I liked. The times I tried they would just give me blank stares and I eventually gave up trying and just said I played Call of Duty

>>716528724
That bastard killed himself before I could get to him.

>this thread
Wow, there are some shitty fucked up parents out there. Worst my dad ever did was getting me to play World of Warcraft with him, only for him to hijack my character once we hit max level and outright told me he didn't like playing with me and only played with me so he'd always have DPS backup. Which did suck, don't get me wrong, but it's nothing compared to these stories.

who else was on vomit watch and making sure they don't mess up too much or kill themselves drunk

>>716536965
same
i cant talk about my interests irl without cringing to this day

>>716532917
Some "people" just aren't built to be parents, but still can't resist the urge to stick pp in pussy.

>>716536747
based deathray poster

>>716537459
that's normal, or at least not was. being a "good parent" is an invention

>>716530330

>>716524078
>"It's called Yoko... taro, mom"

>>716537216
Based dad

>>716524887
I felt that
One time, when I was around four, my dad walked into me watching Yugioh, said something along the lines of "What's this ridiculous shit" without swearing, laughed and left
He probably wasn't even being mean, just saw something he thought was weird and joked about it
Well that little comment made me never trust anyone with my interests
I hid the toys I liked, watched tv only when there was no one around at 1% volume and never played or even mentioned vidya in front of my parents
He still makes offhand comments you could call bantz but it was never in my character to insult his taste in stuff, so his attitude always comes off as admonishing
He wasn't abusive in any way and loves our family to death but it often feels like he wanted a son who's tough and into sports/music and I really couldn't be that
I can't get through to him cause I'm afraid he will say something snarky and dismissive out of the blue, hence I stopped trying to show him things I like

>>716535546
most functional mixed race household

>>716536965
I feel this, though for me it didn't really begin until high school. I used to be able to goad friends into playing tendie games and have a good time, but once I realized I was cringe, I started avoiding talking about my interests as a defense mechanism from being mocked. I never really recovered from that and use 4chan as an outlet.

>>716538527
It's pretty ironic that all the parents that want tough guy sports dudes tend to sabotage any chance of that happening by undermining the confidence of their children before they're even ten

>>716524739
Nobody tell this faggot about what's the purpose of armies lol

>>716535428
>2nd grade
>played "football" with friends at recess
>tell dad about it
>he gets really happy
>I mean uncomfortably happy, like he found out he won the lottery
>tells my mom I want to play football and that they should both sign me up
>in reality me and my friends made up a game and called it football
>it was basically reverse tag where someone throws a ball and everybody chases whoever catches it
>dad just says "Ohhh...." really disappointed

>>716521160 (OP)
Why did you buy Mario Superstar Saga without owning a gameboy advance? Alternatively, why did your dad get you a gameboy advance but then punished you for trying to get a game for it?

>>716537216
Reading this thread, I feel like a lot of baby boomers REALLY shouldn't have had kids, and just did so because they fucked and refused to abort because of Christianity or because their Silent Generation parents brainwashed them to breed no matter what.

>>716538729
I don’t know why dads are so fucking obsessed with niggerball. It’s so fucking gay.