(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.
Your dad is a meanie.
@Juurian
You can have half my friends. Of the 80-ish people I interacted with on the last day before break I remembered about a third of their names.Some friend I am.(Don't… don't tell them that)@AcidDad's comment when I call what he says "mean" is usually that it's "the truth."Which is something he says with relative accuracy.Your dad just pulled a SOPA on you.
look on the bright side, he's preparing you for the upcoming SOPA apocalypse.
Well then you're not as antisocial as a lot of the people in my city. At least you talk. I think you're alright. :)
It gets better.
I… would point out that you *are* sneaking on to his computer at night in a relatively consistent manner, so perhaps he has a point that if you had a computer you would spend all day in front of it?
Not that I don't most of the time, but still.Which is why I don't feel quite right taking sympathy on the internet about not getting to use a computer *shrug*
The nighttime internet debauchery is probably on a frequency of two to three days a week, and for two hours. Typically.Otherwise, though, I wouldn't get to finish anything. I have gotten bored and logged out of a computer before, but they don't believe what they don't see out of me :V@PounceAww, thanks.I… kind of talk in school? Um…I think it's only on the internet, mostly…Suggestion: Why not let them set up Parental Controls on this hypothetical laptop? That way they can control how many hours they think you SHOULD be on the laptop (or what time ranges, Win7 has fairly flexible controls), and you still get a laptop to use at least some of the time.