Every ‘goal’ my family gave me and then forced me into pursuing?

Sure, they praised me when I accomplished those things.

Every goal I actually chose for myself, and achieved?

At best, absolutely no help of any kind when I’d ask them for help, general constant dissuasion and negging, and then after I achieve those goals, massive, massive passive aggressive jealously and constant belittling.

I now live several states away, don’t communicate with them, and have finally been able to establish a sense of self, and self-esteem, based around my own assesment of what are good traits and goals, instead of basing them on trying to please incompetent bullies.

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If your goals are, as you say in another post, learning how to make a vidro game, learning to draw, learning basic programming/web design…

These are literally all goals that pretty much most people with sufficient spare time and diligence could figure out the basics of and even become decently competent at with a few years of time… not even in a formal education setting, though that could likely help.

Your goals are extremely reasonable, your family is being ridiculous.

Are you guaranteed to become wealthy via pursuit of these goals? No, of course not.

But you aren’t guaranteed that in most other careers or lines of work either.

If you don’t already have gobs of money and/or influential connections… chances are, you never will.

Unless you are like abadoning a fairly solid career path that you’re already significantly time/money invested in, and just completely abandoning all means of keeping yourself able to eat and sleep indoors for the full time pursuit of hobbies…

Then no, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to learn more skills.

Fuck, that sounds awesome!

I used to have a set up like that, though it was wired, not wireless. I’d just haul the rig out to the living room lol, had a fairly small and light pc, so it wasn’t too much work, did cable management to make the transitioning easier.

Also somewhat related… I was just talking with another person who was unable to get that level of quality, resolution and frame rate via streaming their PC to their living room TV… also they mentioned input latency with very fast paced and fine tuned racing games.

You mind if I ask how you’re actually doing the streaming?

I meant it jokingly, meta referencing the toxicity of the entire ‘real gamer’ elitist nonsense.

You are still a real gamer to me lol.

Though I genuinely would suggest you play Ocarina of Time, if you can.

You say you’re a PC gamer? Yesterday I was in a Nintendo Switch 2 / Steam Deck discussion, and I just set up an emulator and am running the 3ds OoT remaster at 60 fps!

(Somebody just asked 'hey can you run 3ds games on a Deck? So I just… did it, and reported back lol)

If I can do that on a Deck, you can do it on a PC =D

Above post has good info, and also, apologies for broken alpha layer, I’m literally using a… now 3 year old phone I bought at a gas station.

I think the common denominator is that everyone thought of something with… basically big, scary, straight teeth, as a promiment design element, attached to some kind of monster.

Ah, yes, but what about the Super Rainbow Black Moth?

Reminds me of:

(real gamers can hear this image rofl)

Wyvern mentioned that medicating someone without their knowledge is bad.

So I provided an example of that, taken up a notch.

I know a guy who put magic mushrooms in his family’s coffee maker.

After a month of hallucinations, his mom checked herself into a psych ward for two weeks.

Guy thought it was really funny when he told her what he did, after she got back.

Guy is now homeless (unemployed 26 yo was living with his parents.)

‘Marxist banking parasites.’

That’s a new one, time to update the bingo cards.