>Marry Christmas zoomer son!>It is 500 robux, 200 vbucks and a 20$ steam gift card!How depressingModern kids dont even get real games as gifts, just digital crap
>>729235467I miss getting Zelda for Christmas/my birthday.
>>729235467I always tried to buy my nephews real gamesWhen I had a job lmao
>>729235467How is it depressing if it's what they want and makes them happyDid you get what you wanted and made you happy as a kid for Christmas?
Beats getting socks and briefs gotta be honest
>>729235467You don't have kids.
>>729235590>How is it depressing?
>>729235467Merry Christmas son-daughter here's you HRT!
>>729235590When I was a kid my parents didn't have too much of a clue about PC games though we did have an NES to play with so they took me like big electronics stores in December and let us choose whatever game we wanted as a presentSure the element of surprise was taken away and we still had to open it on Christmas day but that was how I got and played, to this day, one of my most memorable games of all time, Soul Reaver.To me that freedom of choice and end result with it was what made me the most happy. That's what these digital gift cards for kids these days seem equivalent to so I see no problem with it.
>>729235467When (You) don't take interest in your son's hobbies or his life, and it turns out your son doesn't have any hobbies or a life to begin with, what else are you supposed to do?I always got really thoughtful gifts from my parents growing up, and I always gave them as thoughtful of gifts as I was able to back then because we all communicated and actually knew each other as people, not merely as entities occupying a similar space as one another.Though, I'll admit, my dad was always really good about picking interesting vidya when he'd get me vidya gifts back in the day. I still appreciate him for getting me shit like Destroy All Humans 2, SSX3, Burnout 3, and Elite Beat Agents. I don't honestly know whether he was getting advice from gaming magazines/review sites or just making really good guesses, but he rarely disappointed.
>>729235650Love you dad :)
>>729235467>Marry ChristmasNow that was a good episode.
>>729235871*took us towtf is wrong with googles autocorrect lately?
>>729235467I buy my sister's sons books every Christmas and birthdayI figure the faster they become literate the faster they can realize that algorithms keep feeding them slop and they can instead manually search for something worth watching
>>729235467>OP is presumably an adult>still hasn't understood the actual gift is love and attentionThis site sure has some dumb people.
>>729236620>love and attentionmillennials don't know what those are.
>>729236506I was doing the same for my niece and nephew but I was having conversations with them and understanding what they liked and I recommended things. I got them nice collections of books and individual novels as well which they appreciated. Initially. However they were forced to read by their mom and very strictly so like a set timeframe for mandatory reading and there's cameras all over the house so the mom can also see and know exactly when and where and how long they were reading. Because of this over the years it seems they grew a dislike for reading and now aren't as happy with my gift of books for them. They still begrudgingly read and I hear it's stricter than ever now that they're both past 10 yo getting into middle school and all that but any other free time they have when they're allowed to, they're just on their devices the usual youtube and roblox.I don't know what advice to give them or talk to them but at this point it is what it is.It feels a little sad and maybe even confusing but such is generation divide but back when I was young, I wanted to read and read for fun on my own time. Oh well.
>>your grandpa sent the family mony as a present to be divided among us>oh boy i can upgrade my CPU>>so i bought you 200$ in gift cards for a grocery store you never go to>thanks mom
>>729236506>my sister's sonscuck.
>>729235467I got my daughter a gaming laptop, an 8bitdo controller, and a copy of street fighter 6.
>>729236793>>729236506>that out of touch boomer grandpa unc who gave you fucking BOOKS for Christmas>>729235607which is worse?
>>729235467>B-but mooom>Fortnite is for babies, I'm a Gacha whale now
>>729235590I just know these kind of posters would totally shit on boomers for wasting their life watching dogshit tv, but suddenly it's "LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS" when it comes to their generational brand of slop.
>>729236793school wasn't any bettereven 20 years ago english classes in american public schools were reading edgy coming of age books about situationships and other terrible modern shitno LOTRno Fahrenheit 451no Odysseyno classics like The RepublicOne of my teachers made us read some terrible book about a boy who crashed out because he groped his girlfriend and then she broke up with him and then "found himself"You could obviously tell only women chose the booksNothing we read was actually enriching for the SOVLIt was all slopSo of course millennials and their children hate reading
i wish my parents got me presents for christmas that weren't trauma and cheapest chocolate + 10 bucks in my currency
i never buy gifts for anyone it feels awkward when parents and uncles and grandparents still all send me just money. I wish they'd stop but the one time i asked them they thought i was about to blow my brains out or something and got all defensive about how i "deserve" it lmao.
>>729237281What a damn shame
>>729237281our teachers made us read mostly german classic literature. Pretty gud actually.You can still consider yourself lucky, imagine being forced to read modern literature
>>729236793>a set timeframe for mandatory reading and there's cameras all over the house so the mom can also see and know exactly when and where and how long they were readingyikes
>>729238637>>729236793>>729237281You faggots here don't seem to understand that this is mandatory because genxers are all fucked in the head so you need to give them hard limits and tough lovegod I hate you zoomers so much
>>729238741>i hate you -oomersI hate newfags like yourself as well.
>>729236793Why doesn't your sister love her kids?
>>729238741Putting cameras up to make sure your children are spending x amount of hours a day doing something is crazy. Just sit them in the same room as you or take away their phone/tablet for a few hours.
>>729238878How does that enforce them to read?
Why do kids these days have to be "enforced" to read?
>>729235590They don't want things that I want, which means they're committing the most unforgivable crime of all: NOT BEING MEEEEEEEEEEEE.
>>729239248Are you your dad?Why should your kids be you?
>>729235467>just digital crapI got a pepe mug, pepe keycap and some pepe socks. Feels good to have someone that cares about your interests.
>>729239295>Why should your kids be you?Because EVERYONE should be me. Me is better than not-me because me is me. If that wasn't true, me wouldn't be me, because what's the point of me being me if me isn't better than not-me?
>>729235467200 v-bucks is nothing won't even buy you a wrap fuck you mom
>>729235467>200 /v/bucksThe fuck? What do you use /v/bucks for?
>>729239550Fortnite
>>729236290It's hooked into and powered by their AI. That should tell you everything you need to know.
>>729239603That's vbucks not /v/bucks
What did you buy for your family this christmas?For my sister I bought a vintage plushie of a 80s Olympics mascot, my mom is gonna get a DNA kit (she wants to know if she has injun blood, she's pretty dark), my dad I got a few books and those wooden brain puzzles (he loves that shit).
>made up what a kid is getting for christmas in his head just to post it on /v/ and be mad about it
>>729239175Because adults force them to read generic "classics" instead of something they could have genuine interest in.I read tons of various books as a kid but I still hated being told to read le classics.
>>729236793>such is generation divideAfter I got SNES I didn't read a single book on my own for about nine years.
>>729239767Actually in the story above>>729236793The books gifted to them to read were based on recommendations that connected with them that they wanted or were intrigued in reading. Initially at least.
>>729235467thats what they gets for being cheap retards playing freemium games
>>729239660Shut the entire fuck up
>>729239727My mom got a botanical painting painted by my friend (botanical painter) since she loves his work and has mentioned she would love to have an orchid painted by him on her wall. My dad got some car parts for his hobby car + non-alcoholic beer collection (former heavy user who now only drinks non-alcoholic beer). My granpa got a joint gift from me and my brother: brother uses his leftover cruising points to buy him a cruise to Sweden. I'll join him as company. Being an old sailor, my gramps has always wanted to see the Vasa ship (galleon?), a huge sailing ship that sunk, was lifted back to the shore hundreds of years later and a museum was built around it.
>>729238878>Putting cameras up to make sure your children are spending x amount of hours a day doing something is crazy. Just sit them in the same room as you or take away their phone/tablet for a few hours."Hey boss, I gotta bring my kids in to work today again. Yeah, making sure they don't grow up terminally retarded. What do you mean I'm up for review, that's not until next quarter, right?"
>>729240095wow..........
>>729240352Really makes you think.
>>729239248>>729239402I hate when I start recognizing one of the jerkoffs here
>>729235467>buying anything for kids nowadaysabsolutely soul crushing experience when i bought my niece a big plushy she wanted and said she wanted money instead when i bought it for her last year
>>729240708Kids know the value of cold hard cash now. You can't buy other things with plushies.
>>729240650The Me poster is one of my favorite posters
>>729240915But will they ever work for that cold hard cash?
>>729240708Asking for digital shit is really fucking cringe, just money sidestep that somewhat, we are living in times when even kids have their own cards.
who cares
>>729235525>this is what I want you to haveOur time is over, my man
>>729241221gladfully not. work is gay and i'm glad more people are waking up and not doing stupid garbage like blue collar jobs and instead become neets
>>729235467>200 vbucksnigga that's 2 dollars
>>729237281Oh yeah, we also got books about gay dudes being gay in middle school. 24 years ago or something.Shit has always been like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JAk9334PNw
>>729241506you're my favourite avatarfag as of recent
>>729241481The solution is simpleGet rid of female teachers
>>729236971>I got my daughter a gaming laptopDoes he know?
>>7292395504chan nitro
>>729240650I speak for my kingdom, what can I say?
>>729241623Good luck selling school cheating as a career for men.
>>729242532I'm confused, are you me or are you not me but me?
>>729241465Ha dumb kids getting ripped off
>>729235467I fucking hate figuring out what gifts to give people. I'd rather we just spend the holidays together eating and watching holiday classics.
>>729242769I'm the little voice in your head that whines "But what about meeeeeeeeeeee?" Every time someone makes a thread that can be boiled down to "people who aren't me exist and I'm angry about that", they let me take the wheel. I am the ego embodied. I live in the mind of every self-absorbed narcissist who can't stand the fact that the world doesn't revolve around them.
>>729243592>>729242532Shut the fuck up fr
>>729243079Eh it's not that big an issue. The only people who take presents seriously are kids and scumbags. Normal people are happy with chocolates, candles, slippers ect.
>>729244076>normal people are happy with a big list of things that still go on too "etc"So what the fuck do I get them?
>>729244981If it's a guy then axe body spray/body washIf it's a girl then you need to pretend to put some effort into it and buy something girly like candles or nightwear
>>729242532>my kingdom>my
