I wonder why Soriku is not replying maybe his parents discover him and he got grounded(lol).
Yeah definitely his parents discover him and he got grounded he is not even online now, poor soriku.
@ MDMAniac
well obviously he shouldn't get a full time job. He needs balance, but part of balance is learning to work hard for the things you want. So yes, he should definately foster passions and learn, but he should also go work for some scratch rather than begging his parents to buy him more videogames.
lol, let's raise soriku, everyone! He can be our adopted child!
You can find me on facebook as Markus Van Rijn, if you friend me just mention you're from VGchartz and who you are here.
We should all give soriku a penny through paypal. Then he would have 2.40 cents if everybody online chipped in.
| MDMAniac said: @konnichiwa: Of course my words are not appied to working four or five hrs/week, if he could find such a job. |
^^'' Oh I thought it was obious I was not talking about a full time job =p Just a small job because he is 13 and I don't think he has to study much on his age =/. Oh well I didn't had to =/.
| DMeisterJ said: Soriku. You are so full of excuses. Sadly, I don't think that it is totally your fault, but the fault of your parents. You don't need them to buy you games, you need to buy games for yourself. My parents hardly ever bought me games, but somehow I amassed over seventy PS1 games, adn 100 PS2 games. How and the hell did I do that? Looking back, I don't really know. But what you can do is trade games with your friends. There are twenty one million Wii owners out in this world. I'm sure you know one or two, and maybe you could trade games with them. It's too bad that many parents are raising their kids to grow up and not giving them tools necessary for life. Did your parent's buy you the Wii? If so, have they bought all the games and accessories for said Wii? What have you bought in your lifetime? Did you buy the computer/laptop you're using to post this sob story? Did you buy the chocolate milk that you're drinking right now? Did you buy the pencil with which you complete your homework? I'm most assured that the answers to all of these questions are no. So here's what you do: First, don't just go up to them and ask them to buy you Super Smash Brothers Brawl, drop hints all around the house. Leave the flyer from best buy opened on the living room table with SSBB circled. Or gently mentin it when your parents are in a good mood. The kicker is to go above and beyond and do things around the house that you don't normally do like cook dinner, clean up the kitchen, etc. Maybe they will reward you. |
ROTFLMBO ... as a parent, the flyer on the table tactic is funny ... my son is 4 and asks for everything. I give him a present every now and then, but mostly, it's not the parent's fault. When I was 14 - over 20 years ago - I wanted a remote-controlled helo. My dad made a deal with me - he said if I saved half of the amount, he'd match the rest. To this day, I still don't have a remote controlled helo (nor am I interested in it).
I believe as a parent, if I buy my son a toy/game/console, if he wants more games and the like, save for it. It's not my responsiblity to just buy games or toys just because they ask. I didn't see that passage in the manual that was attached to my son and daughter at birth.
Seriously, Soriku, I know you want a ton of games, but some parents aren't able to pay for several games. Parents are in no way, shape or form obligated to buy anything except your basic needs. That's the truth. It took me several years past my 14th birthday to get the toys I wanted. The good thing about gaming - if you wait long enough, you'll get the system, sometimes much, much cheaper.
I wish you the best in your endeavour - but you can do like I did every year around Christmas until I hit 18 ... grab a Wishbook from Sears, circle my wants and hit the Christmas tree and find socks, shoes and shirts.
Keep your head up, son ...
| Magnific0 said: DmeisterJ is right. You should show some interest in helping around the house or something, Maybe you can agree on some kind of deal with them. Have them assign you some chores to do everyday and that way you could justify earning a weekly or monthly allowance. Also, if all your parents see it's YOU WITH YOUR BUTT STUCK ON THAT CHAIR TYPING on the computer THE WHOLE DAY, they won't be encouraged at all to give you MONEY THEY KNOW you'll just spend it all in games that will keep you stuck in front of a screen the whole day. So, get up, move your lazy butt and go work some kind of deal with them. Of course, even if you're not doing anything besides school right now (sports, foreign language class, play music, etc) that doesn't mean you should spend the whole day in front of a screen. You're young, it doesn't take any reading to know better. |
No trolling or flaming, but Magnific0 is right ... sans the lazy butt comments ...
| Magnific0 said: ^then forget about "your games"....See, it was the same with my parents when I was your age. And now you go read my profile. Yeah, I've played them all. Then you ask me how. To tell you the whole truth, my parents NEVER bought me one of those consoles. Not one. They disapprove of them, period. I have an older brother, that helped of course but not because he was buying the consoles. He would make deals with his friends, you see. He would get consoles like Atari 2600, Intellevision, and NES BORROWED for MONTHS from his friends. Of course I'm not asking you to do that. But you can trade games, you can borrow games, you can make deals with your friends. The first thing you have to do is forget about having your own brand-new games. Just forget it, it doesn't matter either. I never missed having dozens of games around my house and none of them were my own. My brother did make some deals and eventually got some of the systems. From that list in my profile I'll tell you we owned an Atari 2600, an Intellevision, a Commodore 64 (the games on this one were almost exclusively piracy of course, but nvm) only those 3 without working. By the time we were making money it was 1996, and the first console I bought with my own money was PlayStation. |
Wow ... agreeing with you in the same thread? Is the sky falling?
Truth be told, my parents had 4 children and couldn't afford to buy me a console ever. I used to go to my peep's houses and play their games. I can remember dreaming about playing games. All we had was a Commodore ViC-20 and a Commodore 64. I played the devil out of those games.
When I was in college (my folks didn't let me get a job until I was finished with high school), I finally bought a SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Gear and *found* - no joke - found a working NES in the garbage. After that, I bought a PS1 - the weekend it dropped while I was in college - I was the only kid on campus with one. After the PS1, I took a break from gaming until I bought an Xbox and PS2 - but I was out of college for a few years. Now, I am collecting old systems - and I have a mortgage, a fam and just a few bills. I have a room that's big - and I have tons of games, systems, and a library of old skool games (I LOL at folks who buy VC games - I can't do it especially when I own the physical game).
Soriku, it will come. I know you love it here and it hurts to not be able to get what you want right now. Shoot, I want to buy a Samsung 46" LCD with Auto Motion plus - but I pay cash for everything and I can't swing it right now - plus, my wife would bust caps at me - but eventually, I know I'll get it. Being patient will help you appreciate it a lot more - trust me.
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