r/childfree - Where child-haters congregate

[Wormy]

Kind of doubt that a 3 year old is actually capable of playing a Mature 17+ game, but assuming that's true, games like Mario or Tetris are heavily pattern and puzzle based, they are absolutely nothing like a point-and-shoot FPS. You are retarded for thinking a 3 year old would be able to figure those out.

Again, I'm obviously retarded for a lot of reasons in this situation and have learned. I am never, ever agreeing to this again and I am not responding anymore. I've deserved my shellacking, but it's time to stop now.

 

[Matt Damon]

I agreed to take care of my neighbor's dog yesterday but when I took him bowling, he just sat there with his tongue hanging out like a drunk retard and never played a single frame!

What an asshole. Dogs are the worst and I'm never agreeing to this again.

 

[Secret Messages]

if kids are going crazy just take them on a walk outside to a park where they can throw sticks and rocks until they tire themselves out instead of your fragile consoomer crap. Anyway feel free to not procreate if you can’t handle it, better for everyone that way.

Like I said, I sorta got drafted for this one as a favor to an in-law. In the future, ain't making that promise again...

And since when does a TV or computer count as "consoomer crap". We're not talking Funkopops here. I still only have a goddamned landline phone!


TRIED to get into knives. And cried when I prevented her. Being annoyed does not mean I want the kid to get fucking injured, shit.

"Hurr durr, he doesn't like a destructive little brat trying to mess up his house, that must mean he never touch grass!"

No excuse.

If you knew her father, who's pretty much a poster child redneck with LOADS of knives and guns in easy reach, ya might rethink that.

Never discount the ability of any child to be a born psychopath, Tex. James Bulger made that mistake, and look where he is. And while her father (he's a single father) isn't a monster, his raising is questioning in a lot of ways I don't have time to get into here.


I did. Fridge magnets had her interested for a few minutes, but only that. Dug out my old Game Boy for her try out, it got thrown (thank the Gods for Nintendium). Then gave her my miniature arcade cabinet of Joust (got it at a white elephant game one Christmas), it got thrown. I really have no games appropriate for her, and even though she's entertained by her dad playing CoD, I don't have that. I THOUGHT I'd found a reprieve when I brought up my wife's Disney + (I don 't watch it, but she does) and sat her in front of Maya and the Last Dragon (fuckin obsessed with that film the kid is), but she was quickly back up and back into shit, including making a play for the knife holder on the kitchen counter.


Frustration at her constant babbling and trying to get into shit.

 

[discombobulate]

When their dad says the kid is already playing Call of Duty Zombies, I figure they can figure out Tetris or Super Mario Land.

I guarantee you that the dad means the kid sits in his lap and maybe helps move around or shoot. Their hands aren't big enough and they aren't aware enough to do more than one thing at a time.

 

[Matt Damon]

I guarantee you that the dad means the kid sits in his lap and maybe helps move around or shoot. Their hands aren't big enough and they aren't aware enough to do more than one thing at a time.

I don't think I even understood the basic concept of using buttons to control what was happening on the screen until I was probably five-ish?

That's a long time in developmental terms and I'm sure it's even more difficult now with how much more mechanically complex games are today. Learning how to manipulate a character and camera in concert using two independent 3D axes is a tricky thing to do.

 

[Shaka Brah]

I don't think I even understood the basic concept of using buttons to control what was happening on the screen until I was probably five-ish?

That's a long time in developmental terms and I'm sure it's even more difficult now with how much more mechanically complex games are today. Learning how to manipulate a character and camera in concert using two independent 3D axes is a tricky thing to do.

I doubt the kid is actually playing the game. Think of it like when your dad sits you in his lap and lets you pretend to drive the farm truck around. He's got his hands on the wheel, but you feel like you're turning it. It's just a way to involve the kid in his hobby.

 

[Corpun]

I don't think I even understood the basic concept of using buttons to control what was happening on the screen until I was probably five-ish?

That's a long time in developmental terms and I'm sure it's even more difficult now with how much more mechanically complex games are today. Learning how to manipulate a character and camera in concert using two independent 3D axes is a tricky thing to do.

Almost certainly correct. I didn't even understand how to play 3d games correctly until I was like 8, I just spent my time running around hub areas not sure what I was doing.

As for this idiot who can't keep track of a toddler or play with her correctly, I'm amazed how much he hates her for being a toddler and doing toddler thinks. Like wow what did you expect? Toddlers love to run around to touch random shit, it's what they do. Let them run around for a while swinging sticks or whatever until they tire themselves out. I was keeping an eye on my cousin's toddler when we all visited our grandparents house a few months ago and loved running around the house with him pointing at random stuff and tossing him a little stress ball. It's very easy to get and retain a toddler's attention until they play themselves out.

 

[Matt Damon]

As for this idiot who can't keep track of a toddler or play with her correctly, I'm amazed how much he hates her for being a toddler and doing toddler thinks. Like wow what did you expect? Toddlers love to run around to touch random shit, it's what they do. Let them run around for a while swinging sticks or whatever until they tire themselves out. I was keeping an eye on my cousin's toddler when we all visited our grandparents house a few months ago and loved running around the house with him pointing at random stuff and tossing him a little stress ball. It's very easy to get and retain a toddler's attention until they play themselves out.

But that would require, like... physical movement and paying attention to the kid. This dude seemed to expect a three-year-old to sit quietly in a corner and entertain himself all day so he could get back to his vidya.

It's amazing how even after decades on the internet, you still come across exotic new species of socially-oblivious autists.

 

[Corpun]

But that would require, like... physical movement and paying attention to the kid. This dude seemed to expect a three-year-old to sit quietly in a corner and entertain himself all day so he could get back to his vidya.

It's amazing how even after decades on the internet, you still come across exotic new species of socially-oblivious autists.

He probably sees those trashy parents giving their 6 year olds phones to play YouTube videos about shark songs and shit while at the store and thinks he can replicate that will a literal corporeal form of raw energy.

 

[marisa #]

Almost certainly correct. I didn't even understand how to play 3d games correctly until I was like 8, I just spent my time running around hub areas not sure what I was doing.

Was I the weird one? I remember playing Crash Bandicoot when I was in kindergarten. Don't think it's too much of a stretch...

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

But that would require, like... physical movement and paying attention to the kid. This dude seemed to expect a three-year-old to sit quietly in a corner and entertain himself all day so he could get back to his vidya.

It's amazing how even after decades on the internet, you still come across exotic new species of socially-oblivious autists.

It is literally because you can have entire generations now raised with no children much younger than them in recent memory. If your parents have you at 40 and you are an only child or none of your siblings even shit out one kid until you are 38 and you have literally no contact to young children because your family is a genetic deadend and you aren't a pedo...how else are you supposed to know how kids are?

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

Was I the weird one? I remember playing Crash Bandicoot when I was in kindergarten. Don't think it's too much of a stretch...

That's a game actually intended for children, unlike Call Of Duty.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

I agreed to take care of my neighbor's dog yesterday but when I took him bowling, he just sat there with his tongue hanging out like a drunk retard and never played a single frame!

What an asshole. Dogs are the worst and I'm never agreeing to this again.

r/dogfree moment.

 

[Corpun]

Was I the weird one? I remember playing Crash Bandicoot when I was in kindergarten. Don't think it's too much of a stretch...

Not really no. I played Zelda: Wind Waker games in kindergarten as well and just deleted the save when I got to Forsaken Fortress because I didn't know how to play actually.

 

[The Great Chandler]

That's a game actually intended for children, unlike Call Of Duty.

That's the biggest lie I ever heard since Satan

 

[XANA]

r/dogfree moment.

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I can get why some people join /r/childfree to make friends with other people whose lives aren't taken up by raising kids and trying out different hobbies that they normally would never try before. I don't understand the purpose of /r/dogfree, though. Like, you don't have a dog and don't want a dog. That's literally quite a sizeable chunk of the population that don't have dogs, much less pets.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

It is literally because you can have entire generations now raised with no children much younger than them in recent memory. If your parents have you at 40 and you are an only child or none of your siblings even shit out one kid until you are 38 and you have literally no contact to young children because your family is a genetic deadend and you aren't a pedo...how else are you supposed to know how kids are?

Through common sense, and remembering how you were when you were a kid.

It's really not that hard.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Through common sense, and remembering how you were when you were a kid.

It's really not that hard.

I'd agree but these are mostly R*dditors.

 

[Lady Bizness]

r/dogfree moment.

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I'm just assuming this is a cute lil' cartoon of the moment their cyclopia baby jettisoned out of mom's crotch. What tasteful people.

I can get why some people join /r/childfree to make friends with other people whose lives aren't taken up by raising kids and trying out different hobbies that they normally would never try before. I don't understand the purpose of /r/dogfree, though. Like, you don't have a dog and don't want a dog. That's literally quite a sizeable chunk of the population that don't have dogs, much less pets.

From my time on both boards r/dogfree was mostly venting about unwanted experiences with people's dogs or making fun of flower crowns on pitbulls. I live in a doggy epicenter and it was nice to know I'm not the only one on the planet who thinks dogs in the grocery store are gross. I have since lost interest in complaining about it on the internet. r/childfree should have been a place to make friends with other people whose lives aren't taken up by raising kids, which was what I was looking for at the time, but I felt like I was living on another planet with some of the reactions and hot takes these people came up with. Ultimately I realized it was just a collection of immature misanthropes prone to hysteria. I know childfree people who are perfectly well developed adults, but you don't find them on reddit.

 

[The Great Chandler]

I'm just assuming this is a cute lil' cartoon of the moment their cyclopia baby jettisoned out of mom's crotch. What tasteful people.

From my time on both boards r/dogfree was mostly venting about unwanted experiences with people's dogs or making fun of flower crowns on pitbulls. I live in a doggy epicenter and it was nice to know I'm not the only one on the planet who thinks dogs in the grocery store are gross. I have since lost interest in complaining about it on the internet. r/childfree should have been a place to make friends with other people whose lives aren't taken up by raising kids, which was what I was looking for at the time, but I felt like I was living on another planet with some of the reactions and hot takes these people came up with. Ultimately I realized it was just a collection of immature misanthropes prone to hysteria. I know childfree people who are perfectly well developed adults, but you don't find them on reddit.

That's just Reddit really! It's always been the hive of socially maladjusted weirdos if it's not tech bros and the occasional shitposter