Topic: My 12 year old son is crying because I deleted his 5 year old Minecraft world. How do I explain to h

Anonymous A started this discussion 9 months ago #120,317

im it's just a game.

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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 7 minutes later[^] [v] #1,317,019

Simply undelete the minecraft world and this problem goes away.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 29 minutes later, 36 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,021

You're an idiot. Why did you do that, and what did you expect?

I bet you're the kind of person who tramples on sand castles and then tries to explain that it's just sand.

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Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 14 minutes later, 51 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,022

@previous (C)
The story is fake, because everyone who posts here is gay.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 17 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,026

@previous (D)
I think it's an old reddit thread. I remember reading something very similar many years ago and the comments really tore into op

Anonymous D replied with this 9 months ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,032

@previous (E)
That's fair, it's the equivalent to stomping on a Lego set a child spent many days building.

Anonymous E replied with this 9 months ago, 29 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,037

@previous (D)
Agreed, it just shows the child that the parent doesn't give a shit about what's important to them.

Anonymous B replied with this 9 months ago, 13 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,040

The child lights your house on fire, "It's just a pile of lumber, dad!"

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,059

I hope OP dies of a slow and painful cancer.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 1 minute later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,061

@1,317,026 (E)

The kid refused to wake up on time, so his video game got deleted. A bunch of terminally online retards didn't like that. They pulled the old "you're gonna die in a nursing home" thing, because they forget that not everyone is a snowflake like them.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 6 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,062

@OP

> im it's just a game.

Be thankful he isn't crying because of Father Dave.

Anonymous E replied with this 9 months ago, 15 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,064

@1,317,061 (G)
That's still extreme. It isn't about the game, it's about something that the kid worked hard on being destroyed. Whether you see it as a valid hobby/creative pursuit or not is irrelevant. The only lesson that kid learned is that his interests don't matter. There are a million better ways to discipline a child.

Anonymous F replied with this 9 months ago, 3 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,065

@1,317,061 (G)
I will ally with the kid to eventually end your miserable life.

Anonymous G replied with this 9 months ago, 20 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,068

@1,317,064 (E)

The simple fact is that this is a lesson about the world. If you cannot approach it with an iron discipline, then worse things will happen than someone deleting your video game save.

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 36 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,069

@1,317,061 (G)
Some people hold grudges and this absolutely happens

Anonymous G replied with this 9 months ago, 3 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,072

@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)

It does, however I think redditors exaggerate.

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 9 months ago, 53 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,079

@previous (G)
This us true, but I think parents need to understand that small things add up

A parent who does this rarely ends it there. It's usually a childhood full of "small things". Then when their children become estranged, they act like they don't know why. It's called missing missing reasons

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,216

You can't. You're an asshole. I can't believe how much projection and assumption there is in your even asking ‘How do I explain it was just a game?’.

If he was 10 years older it would be ‘just a game’. You have dismissed how attached he was instead of trying to understand him and now he's going to resent you for years. Congratulations. That was a seriously dick move.

boof joined in and replied with this 9 months ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,317,222

religious purists have a habit of deleting entire histories of cultures. we've lost the Library at Alexandria, the Afghan Buddhist giants, and more. We may someday lose the works we've enjoyed growing up over the last 120 years.

Minichan