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Some people think that gaming is just for children. But why can't parents have some fun with the controllers sometimes? It's a common misconception that people stop gaming once they reach adulthood. In reality, 70% of American parents play video games, according to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). What's more, 82% do it together with their kids.
There's an Instagram page that is all about the fun part of being a dad and a gamer – "The Dad Gaming." So, if you're a parent and like to relax in front of the screen taking out zombies or planning world domination in an RPG, these funny posts might just be for you!
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MeFromTheFBI 6 days ago
It’s like that one shirt I have that says “I’m not procrastinating, I’m doing side quests”
sturmwesen 6 days ago
ha! I have watered the plants, sorted my teas and changed the aquarium water before 7 am. yet I did not manage to clear the table of all the knick knacks I meant to put away since the start of november
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Dave Nalesnik 6 days ago
The two big game changers for acceptable retirement home living are video games and legal weed 😝
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Remi (He/Him) 6 days ago
And then he gets mad and the music gets more intense
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Pferdchen 5 days ago (edited)
Brian's mother: What star sign is he? Wise Man #2: Capricorn. Brian's mother: Capricorn, eh? What are they like? Wise Man #2: He is the son of God, our Messiah. Wise Man #1: King of the Jews. Brian's mother: And that's Capricorn, is it? Wise Man #3: No, no, that's just him. Brian's mother: Oh, I was going to say, otherwise there'd be a lot of them.
UnclePanda 6 days ago
Dad gets his first glance at his new son, his eyes pop, and he says, "All RIGHT!" "SIR!, that's the umbilical cord."
Andrew Keir 5 days ago
That's why we thought our second child was male until birth ... (quite a few years ago, 'tis true...)
Load More Replies... R1MV4Superleggera 5 days ago
I don't blame him! Am not a Father (yet!) But If that was me, I'll be saying to the Midwife: "Yeah, yeah, yeah! I only want to know if, he or she is able to ride a Sportbike? Because I have a brand new Ducati outside, with his/her name on it, in the parking lot waiting for him/her!
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Tom Brincefield 5 days ago
There is an app that supposedly does this. But at $30, I'm not going to find out.
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Zephyr343 6 days ago
First laptop I had was only in black and white. It came with a game called Reversi, which to this day I still dont understand
Rali Meyer 6 days ago
lol, reminds me of the finding: today's kids won't understand mine sweeper. - Cos neither did their parents!
Remi (He/Him) 6 days ago
who doesn't get the concept? If the opened square has a number, the surrounding 8 squares have the equal amount of mines, if you can see a place that has to have a mine, mark it and if some square has all it's mines marked, open the rest of the squares. And sometimes you just need to press at a random square and hope for the best
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Laserleader 6 days ago (edited)
My first computer was around 4yr old and was green and black, and we had to Type into DOS the names of the files we wanted. There was a maze game I can't name or find but all the characters were made of @ # $ &, with swords like +--- and treasures like [□].
Dan Schreckengost 5 days ago
I had this game. You're talking about Rogue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)
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JD Key 5 days ago
Can you ever catch up? It seems there's a dozen new ones each week, not counting those that require hardware you don't yet have.
Emilu 5 days ago
I'm a game collector, so I'm resigned to the fact that I'll be dead before I've actually played every game I own.
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Marat Singh Farout 5 days ago
All your passwords have been used, try one that you haven't used before, oh you can't remember what hasn't happened yet. Poor stupid human.
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Trophy Husband 6 days ago
Married 6 years and your husband still has time for video games, either you don't have kids or you have managed to find a way to pause time.
Devin Schmitt 6 days ago
I don't want vague instructions from my wife. I need explicit directions, preferably with diagrams.
R1MV4Superleggera 5 days ago
Hahaha! My brother and my SIL! They both are hard-core videogamers, if one needs help there's the other one next to him or her!
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Zig Zag Wanderer 6 days ago
Currently doing this. Game update actually forced instant use of this resource most of the time. I can't help feeling it's because of me...
Blackmoon The Dragon 5 days ago
But dragons don't hoard video game resources! They use them! I use them a lot! We just hoard random stuff we like. Do YOU like random video game resources you don't use?
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Stardrop 6 days ago
i would be a billionaire if all of my stardew valley money suddenly became real
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 5 days ago
I say this all the time when playing with my friend and we have our harvest of ancient fruit wine...
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Ghostchaplain16 6 days ago
The fact you called it a "boring story" means you have much to learn, young one.
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Andrew Keir 5 days ago
Children have minds open to new learning, and a tablet is a perfect example of a soft learning opportunity, where mistakes are free and carry no long-term penalty. There was once a phrase "You've blotted your copy-book" - meaning a permanent mistake that can never be erased or forgotten. Fortunately, today's youngsters have no word for this, and need none. They learn faster and deeper as a result, since fear has ben removed from the equation.
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Child of the Stars 4 days ago (edited)
My kids's dad would just set the baby in the bouncer next to him. When they got big enough to hold the controller, they "played" with him. Now the kids are 12 and 7, and gaming time is family time for them.
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Andrew Keir 5 days ago
School is for them to realise they're separate from you, making their own way in the world. When your kid goes into school for that first morning, they will never totally return. That's why you were crying when it happened.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 6 days ago
Oh, I maxed the right stats. Starting with programming abilities ....
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Stardrop 6 days ago
to add: it's not bad to play minecraft with keep inventory on. the point is to have fun.
FoxThatHasFennecaphobia 6 days ago
To be fair keep inventory is a great quality of life feature, especially if you forgot where you died
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Blackmoon The Dragon 5 days ago
YES. HALLELUJAH. Find a game you LIKE and play it, who cares if everyone hates it. If you like it its good enough for you.
SnarkyPixelPanda 5 days ago
Yes. Was playing one that I had several $k invested in, but it got tiring and then they started making terrible changes to it, so I stopped playing. I should have sold my stuff...
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Freddy M. (He/Him) 6 days ago
And listening to tunes while doing it, clearly! No goofing off here
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 5 days ago
They aren't though? The kid's hair is flattened from wearing headphones.
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reuben kift 6 days ago (edited)
Years ago, my mum brought my brother and I a Nintendo 64 for Christmas. What she didn't tell us until a year ago when my brother is in his late twenties and I'm in my early thirties, was that she had the thing for six months prior to Christmas Day, just so she could play Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
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reuben kift 6 days ago (edited)
Oh, I'm always doing this. I cannot count the number of times I've been acing Fallout 4 when I hear that key in the front door and I've done absolutely nothing. So, I have to hurriedly turn the console off and try to look busy. Never works.
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Michael Largey 6 days ago
"Every man"? Sorry, but for some of us videogames didn't exist in our childhood. Or in our adolescence.
Doug Moyer 3 days ago
Why would thinking about a video game from your childhood make you cry? I guess I'm too old to understand, but I can't think of a single reason.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 6 days ago (edited)
We didn't. It was the Lord of The Rings film franchise and then Game of Thrones. It's almost as if we beat Hollywood at its own game....
spacer 6 days ago
narnia definitely came before game of thrones and its about as british as it gets
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Remi (He/Him) 6 days ago
Using Homelander for that makes it seem like the op is either cheating or such a bad loser that the kids feel compelled to let him win though
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Bonnie Gardiner 5 days ago
Ugh... Not a dad... Mom here, but yeah.... I do this. My backlog is like a massive Steam sale where I already own everything and I just forgot I had it already.
Emilu 3 days ago
I do that too. Buy something... oh, I already had that? That's awkward! *Gift it to a friend*
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Lukas (he/him, it/its) 5 days ago
Link in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Pit in Smash Bros. What does that say about me lol
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Rali Meyer 6 days ago
I wish now, 30 years later, that I have the time each day which I used to spend gaming
Beak Hookage 6 days ago
I gamed with my dad growing up. It's one of my fondest memories of my childhood. He didn't react well at all when later on I repeatedly kicked his backside at Doom, though.
Child of the Stars 4 days ago
My kids and their dad play Xbox most evenings. When they're with me, we play tabletop games together. It's great together time!
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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 5 days ago
My kids and I used to play Crash Bandicoot on Christmas morning as a tradition. Until they got a bit older. Then it was CounterStrike for a few years, lol.
Kerry Borthwick 6 days ago
My bf has many a times brought a game on his ps5 saying it's for me when he knows I'm no good at horror games example being phasmophobia
Zephyr343 6 days ago
Reminds me of the Simpsons when Homer bought Marge a bowling ball lol
Load More Replies... Rali Meyer 6 days ago
I wish now, 30 years later, that I have the time each day which I used to spend gaming
Beak Hookage 6 days ago
I gamed with my dad growing up. It's one of my fondest memories of my childhood. He didn't react well at all when later on I repeatedly kicked his backside at Doom, though.
Child of the Stars 4 days ago
My kids and their dad play Xbox most evenings. When they're with me, we play tabletop games together. It's great together time!
Load More Replies... Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 5 days ago
My kids and I used to play Crash Bandicoot on Christmas morning as a tradition. Until they got a bit older. Then it was CounterStrike for a few years, lol.
Kerry Borthwick 6 days ago
My bf has many a times brought a game on his ps5 saying it's for me when he knows I'm no good at horror games example being phasmophobia
Zephyr343 6 days ago
Reminds me of the Simpsons when Homer bought Marge a bowling ball lol
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