I was at work and got suddenly got really salty about all the electronics-related mishaps that have happened over the course of my life on account of my dysfunctional family.
To whit:
When I was too young to remember, I think my father stomped my brother’s SNES because my brother was ignoring him in favor of the game.
I think the same thing happened with our N64, but our mother did it that time.
My original GBA got chewed up by my dog because I had the audacity to leave it on the living room table. Age: 6-7
A TV at my dad’s house suffered permanent visual issues after he tossed at the wall while in an argument with my brother. Age: 9(?)
My first DS got snapped in half because I let my little brother use it and he jammed in a GBA game into the bottom slot too hard. My older brother laughed at me. Age: 10
My second DS got cracked and slowly died because my younger brother punched it while I was playing it. Age: 11/12ish?
My original Xbox was crushed by the previously-mentioned TV while my father was moving from one house to another. Age: 10ish?
My copy of Pokemon Diamond was broken by my older brother after he got mad at the game. I don’t remember why I let him play in the first place since the game only has one file. I missed out on the Sinnoh region for this reason. Age: 10ish?
My brother punched our laptop’s screen because it was going too slow. Laptop did not run faster afterwards. Age: 12ish?
Bought one of the newer black Xbox 360 models from a pawn shop with some money from myself, my younger brother, and a little bit from our father, because my older brother had basically claimed our original 360 and it was getting old anyway (more on that later.) At some point after I stopped being able to see my father regularly, he sold it. Age: 15
My 3DS’s screen broke after my mom tossed my backpack- containing several heavy textbooks and the 3DS- at me in an argument. Age: 15
Our older Xbox slowly lost functionality because it was left in a damp basement, and stopped working entirely after my mother tossed it on the ground after getting angry with me one night. Age: 16
My computer monitor was chucked onto the pavement by my mother because I had the audacity to be on my computer on the weekend while having bad grades. Age: 17
The family TV was broken by my little brother because our mother was insulting him for his bad grades in front of our grandparents (”He doesn’t ever have time for school. He’s too busy with his video games. But he sure is great at them! How’s your game going? I bet you’re really good at it. Bet you don’t need good grades when you’re so good at that game”-type comments for like fifteen minutes until he snapped and tossed his controller at the TV screen.) Age: 18
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i still dont understand over-the-air tv stations airing commercials for tv antennas
if im watching this commercial i dont need your product
Kex, your family seems disturbingly violent. Mainly your older brother but in general there's just a lot of semi-intentionally breaking things in anger going on and that's not normal or right.
Like, I come from a family where people blow up and scream when they get really mad and say regrettable things, but never has a member of my family destroyed something valuable to make a point or out of pure frustration. The closest thing I can think of to these incidents would be my mom chucking a shoe or book at someone and intentionally missing them by half a foot to make a point, and that's not even close to the same thing. It's also, y'know, really rare.
(The point being, "Please leave my room. I am in a biannually terrible mood and you lingering in the doorway is a terrible idea. Also, I have extremely good aim.")
Kex, your family seems disturbingly violent. Mainly your older brother but in general there's just a lot of semi-intentionally breaking things in anger going on and that's not normal or right.
Yeah no fucking kidding. Looking back some of this stuff makes me even angrier because like sometimes this stuff was all I *had*
I mean granted a lot of it got replaced but fuck's sake it really hammered in how powerless I was and how little control I had over my own possessions.
(Forgot to mention the time when my brother lost his N64 when he was evicted- and as a result I had to go without an AV cable for my GameCube for a long, long time, and the time a few months ago when my mom smashed the 360 I bought for my little brother)
Sometimes I realise that for as dysfunctional as my family can be, I lucked out in certain respects, and I'm grateful for it and horribly sad at the same time.
Mostly because I was too cognisant of the fact that taking an axe to all of the windows and then doing something horrible to myself wasn't exactly a viable option.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
On the way out of the hardware store i noticed they sold bows. Like real aluminum compound bows, four feet tall. One had a picture of a girl on it like to encourage you to buy it for your niece
(and I'm not sure if some of the louder criticisms are actually plot holes as much as people thinking "Are they still on Namek Alpha Earth? When are we going to see the plot move and not more endless side quests?")
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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if im watching this commercial i dont need your product
Like, I come from a family where people blow up and scream when they get really mad and say regrettable things, but never has a member of my family destroyed something valuable to make a point or out of pure frustration. The closest thing I can think of to these incidents would be my mom chucking a shoe or book at someone and intentionally missing them by half a foot to make a point, and that's not even close to the same thing. It's also, y'know, really rare.
I mean granted a lot of it got replaced but fuck's sake it really hammered in how powerless I was and how little control I had over my own possessions.
Sometimes I realise that for as dysfunctional as my family can be, I lucked out in certain respects, and I'm grateful for it and horribly sad at the same time.
can't remember any other acts of violence toward objects in my history
Phone wanted to autocorrect catboy to carbon. Sounds kind of impractical tbh.
i don't understand why she seems to dislike the man so much
obviously twitter harrassment is bad and the people bugging her need to stop and chill out
This evening, the shower is fixed.
Now the oven is broken.