(Look, first blog post in two days
Blogorrhea is gone)i didn't feel right taking sympathy over being unable to use computersconsidering thisConversation from 21 / 12 / 11, late at night
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You know, I would love to buy you a laptop for Christmas- but you don't seem to exercise any sort of self control. I don't want to see you spending eternity in front of a screen. For example, you've spent all of your adolescent life in front of one- instead of outside, exploring the world, hanging out with friends. You didn't do any of that.
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Dad, you have to understand that I wasn't a very… "socially apt" person until I was like, twelve. I didn't have any friends then, and anyone I was close to friends with was alienated by my temper or my habits or whatever. It was at about that age where I was just like "fuck that."
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Well, I understand that, but you still don't seem to
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What, have friends? I know lots of people. Probably more than I ought to, because I forget some people every day. But that isn't really the point, is it? I just prefer to spend my time doing something at least somewhat constructive. My friends are all almost universally incapable of helping me with anything I'm doing.
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Well, yeah, okay. But Game Maker?
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I just use it because it takes care of almost everything for me. If I knew how to put together rooms / objects / collision handling / resource management in C++ I would. Producing something in GM is eons faster for me than in anything else.
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How do I know that I can't trust you to not throw away all of your time on a computer, though, like every other time you've had free access to one?
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Well, I'm not now, am I? I can't use this thing :P
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But you can't use it because I can't trust you to balance yourself.
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Do I use computers for playing games or watching porn or listening to music? Not really. I program games or compose music or create art with them. I don't understand how that's such a negative thing.
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You might as well be if you actively choose to forego things like homework or chores in favor of it.
If you're marginally upset, try using butter instead!
"butter upset" doesn't work for a title whether or not I hate margerine (which I do)
I like butter
I can't believe it's not butter!
& your father needs a reality check. He still appears to think that going outside and doing things is what everyone does, and it's not. Teens don't like going out as much as they did when he was an adolescent. And aren't you younger than me? What a jerk for saying your adolescence is over before you're even my age. >:(I think he meant that in a "current" sense.
As "you are currently throwing away your life for programming" or something.Eh.Well, I concur with the antisocial new generation of teens though.Facebook is like the outside for everyone now, except within the comfort of inside.It's a shame I don't Facebook.so roneryEh, who needs Facebook. You know my old blogs? That's all Facebook is.
I like Bertolli olive spread
Ooh I like Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) on my pastas!
Bertolli olive spread on french toast. mmmm, oh hey what was this blog about?
That sounds a lot like my Dad.
If he's anything similar, he won't change his mind until you've turned 20.I envy you though.You have friends and you get to hang out with them and stuff…I never did anything like that.