Nah, I'm just angry because my parents attitude towards Xbox time is "We won't give you shit and you will like it". Just tonight I was trying to play BC1, and it was one of those rare games where my k/d ratio was above 0-20 by 3 minutes in. The only people who play BC1 anymore are the cults and the fanatics who live, breath, eat, and excrete Bad Company 1. So to a casual gamer like me, a kill is a rare moment of luck and I spend more time waiting to respawn than I do shooting. But tonight I was actually getting points as a rate higher than 2 every half hour, and my dad just came in and said, "Off, now." I hadn't even been on for 7 minutes, and he was going to put on a movie for my mom. I know he doensn't give two shits for my games, but I do, and every time i turn on the box he starts counting minutes on his fingers until he can boot me off. and if I ever show any signs of irritation, he claims I lost my temper and loosing my temper is a bigger crime to him than nuking Tokyo. the thing that really irks me is that I can't do shit about it. Number one: I can't play with any of my friends because my games are anchient and cult-infested, Number two, what little time I do get is always cut off in the middle of a game, usually the first one of the nght. My parents have no respect for video games whatsoever, and see it as a brainwasting activity that has no place in society and I'm just wasting money and time on something that will consume my life and turn me into a deadbeat with no future.
I do have a future. I get excellent grades in school; my GPA hasn't dropped below 3.6 for two years, and I participate actively in Civil Air Patrol and hold a staff position as Squadron recruiter,and I just got to the rank of Cadet Technical Sergeant I aslo have nine award certificates hanging on my wall. So yes, Dad, I have a future. I am working my ass off so I can get an AFROTC scholarship to Embry Riddle in Prescott, Arizona. I go on a mission trip to impoverished areas in the US and surrounding areas, including Canada and Puerto Rico and Indian Reservations with my church youth group every summer. I also work out regularly in the school weight room to stay in shape. But when I want to unwind and have some fun with friends, apparently that is completely unacceptable becuase my mom is morally opposed to to any semblance of violence in the house, and yet she watches Westerns where everyone(including the horse) gets shot up by badits and Indians who just get shot themselves by a sheriff or a dashing bounty hunter with really big guns strapped to his legs. "How can this be fun?" they ask. "All you do is shoot people" News flash! in a game, that IS fun. "It de-humanizes the struggle that real soldiers go through. you want war, go to Iraq and see how you like it." Bigger News Flash! I'm joining the Air Force after college, one way or another! chances are I will see the middle east at some point or another. "You are choosing Xbox over chores. when you do this, you are being immature and showing you can't handle temptation." Well, I guess I was so busy busting my ass in just about every other aspect of my life i wanted to sit down and relax for at least an hour on the weekends. MY MISTAKE. "it's not educational. go do something fun that's constructive." BIGGEST NEWS FLASH OF THEM ALL. Fun was educational when I was four feet tall. no longer. I'm not going to go practice my math and language skills by finding some sort of game that has you save your friends by solving math problems carved into a cliff and make grammar corrections on planks of wood that make up a bridge over a river. Education is not fun anymore. Education is a duty and a way to secure a future. Yes I am black, and yes, 150 years ago black people were lynched for reading. Guess what! It's not 1859! If it's obvious someone is being racist when I go to get a job, I can sue their socks off. So now let me have some fun MY way and respect that little trickle of freedom teenagers are entitled to.
Sorry for the hellishly long rant that has nothing to do with the thread, but I'm really pissed off right now and need somewhere to vent. If one of the admins or mods want to delete this, feel free. just wait a few days. Then I won't mind if this post is erased.
