tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post3517679536131219966..comments2024-01-17T19:11:06.286-08:00Comments on Orange and Silver: I Hate Video GamesTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665343970056841693noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-51051124279893872902014-06-19T14:47:00.337-07:002014-06-19T14:47:00.337-07:00Thanks for stopping by! I actually don't mind ...Thanks for stopping by! I actually don't mind if other people play video games, as long as I don't have to deal with them. I know lots of people love them. It's just the way they affect my life that makes me want to throw something through a plate glass window. And since I don't "get" them, I have a hard time sympathizing with my kids in their love for them.<br /><br />The really infuriating thing is everything but one laptop (mine, purchased) and the iPad (my husband's, won in a sales incentive program at his office) is that they ALL came from my father in law. Laptops, Kindles (one a gift to my oldest for his bday, one an old one he didn't want anymore), even the money for the DSs came from him. He was an electronics addict. When he died, I just happened to stumble onto his Amazon account (on one of the aforementioned laptops) and found that there was a $300 Samsung Galaxy that was on backorder or something waiting ship! I cancelled it fast, but seriously? He didn't NEED it--he had two other cell phones! GAH!Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-28625008024683061852014-06-19T11:39:10.393-07:002014-06-19T11:39:10.393-07:00Here by way of @RageMichelle (Rubber Shoes In Hell...Here by way of @RageMichelle (Rubber Shoes In Hell).<br /><br />You wouldn't enjoy coming to our house, then: my daughter is OBSESSED with Minecraft, and she regularly joins me playing old-school arcade games on MAME with my X-Arcade controller. We just finished up a round of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a little while ago.<br /><br />We only have one mobile device, though-- my wife's tablet. Everything else is firmly stationary on a desktop. We are poor.jaklumenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03345447676400281082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-58378945527900349812014-06-19T06:59:50.032-07:002014-06-19T06:59:50.032-07:00Thanks! Yeah, I vacillate on the videos--he does w...Thanks! Yeah, I vacillate on the videos--he does watch them to get ideas, which is fine (I read plenty of magazines to get ideas for stuff, so I can't exactly criticize), but they make him want to make his own, and I'm just worried about him putting himself out there with all the creeps and weirdos on the internet, you know? And yes, trolls on video game videos--they tell the person who made it how they suck or they're just copying someone else--stuff like that. There are some real assholes out there. Glad you enjoyed it, and nice to know there are other moms in the same boat! In this case it's misery loves company!Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-53970052509523905542014-06-19T04:33:03.481-07:002014-06-19T04:33:03.481-07:00I think I love you. Great last line. Also this: &q...I think I love you. Great last line. Also this: "The house could flood and he wouldn’t notice until the internet connectivity was affected." Oh.My.God. So true. I also loved the line about Webkinz & Pokemon having a baby. Too funny. My son's 11 & the exact same way. He watches the videos to "get cheats" on how to do things on Mine Craft so I don't mind that as much. He never asked to make a video & I'm surprised to hear there are even trolls on Mine Craft videos writing nasty things. Really? On a video game? One Funny Mothahttp://onefunnymotha.comnoreply@blogger.com