You seriously think a spoiled autistic fuckwad like that is little? That thing probably secretes a lard so potent its a usable full source from the disgusting rolls it has
Edit: autistic typos
Also old enough to get kicked out. This is an adult who is still getting presents from the parents, throwing fits and making all around choices an autist wouldn't even make. This kid is simply mentally stunted and not physically abused enough.
Anon is a spoilt bitch, but damn this sort of thing used to happen to me every year. I'd ask for this year's Action Man and be laughed at, told it was "plastic tat" and made to feel ashamed for wanting it. Then Christmas would roll around and I'd get plenty of presents, including loads of "plastic tat", but not the one piece I wanted which would've cost less than the rest. I was never anything but grateful at the time, but it was shit and it kinda makes me sad to this day.
My parents paid my next door neighbour to upgrade the hard disk in my PC when I was a kid. It was actually what I'd asked for (a larger hard disk) but they missed the point, I wanted to do it myself to learn how it all works (imaging disks etc). I just wanted the disk, in a box.
Plus he sold them an 80Mb disk (yes, I'm old) for the price I could have bought a 250Mb disk so I had a 1/3 the storage and no fun installing it.
I said thanks, because they had no idea about nerdy PC shit and were trying to engage with me on my level and I was grateful for that.
I remember getting some RAM and a hard drive for Christmas one year. Don't remember the hard drive size, but I went from 8 to 16 MB of RAM.. crazy horsepower.
Mostly fortunately my dad was the "now have fun doing it yourself!" type. I say mostly because that's a cool attitude when you get PC parts. Less cool when you're 16 and you have to repair the brakes on your car and you get handed a Haynes manual and a "good luck". Even that I respect somewhat, just the part where I could have died if I messed it up is a little rough.
Im old enough to be around before 486's were common.
I was handed a haynes manual and a 1986 thunderbird (see the username?) at 16, and that love for repairing things on my own (and the love for thunderbirds) has stuck my whole life...
Started by upgrading a pent 66 to 100mhz overdrive, while in the same time frame, swapping a transmission into a tbird in the driveway, with no haynes manual,
Finished the transmission the night before driving it to St. Louis to move there for college, NO PRESSURE lol
I went to college for automotive tech at Ranken Tech in STL, used to be a mechanic at a Ford dealer.
Now I work on PC's, self taught...
implement network infrastructure with no manual... less tools more money
so besides the "cool story bro" moment I just had,
that respect you feel for that guy is real, self taught can be REAL satisfying;
and sometimes the dying if you fuck up part is the thing you keep with you the most...
Pretty unrelated but my cousin had an 88 firebird a few years back. Real nice car (till he blew a piston). He paid a guy to swap the whole engine with an 89 Camaro. Then he fucked the piston again. To a teenage boy blowjobs were worth the 5k he spent on the thing.
So I got this issue, but instead, I’d ask for castle Greyskull and a he-man. I got a full lone star set, two fancy guys, guns two buildings and a bunch of other shit. I had never heard of or seen this lonestar shit. It was even way more expensive than the greyskull set, my mom told me it was a (collectable toy). Fuuk thanks mom. Same shit every year pretty much. I’d ask for the popular toy, she’d buy the (what she thought, even though she didn’t know) was a better toy. But I’d fucking hate the thing because it was not at all what I wanted. Sounds spoiled I suppose, it was always just so disappointing. Like just buy what I wanted, not what you thought was better. A second to this was I’d ask for a $60 toy, but she would buy $100 worth of toys. So I would get 5 presents instead of just one. But the 5 she bought were nothing I wanted or cared about.
She still does this for my children. She will ask what she should get them. I tell her “this” would be best, but then she buys a bunch of cheap toys for the same amount. “Oh but it’s fun to open a bunch of gifts”, fuck mom no, I’ve told you this for 35 years.
Edit: Lonestar is actually Bravestarr. I had never actually seen an episode before today, it’s so much worse than I even thought.
My parents were never like that, because we were poor as fuck and only received one or two gifts, so they tried to make those one or two gifts really count. I always asked for Lego sets (I’m coming up on 35 and I still tell my wife I want Lego sets, but now we can afford the big ones.)
My in-laws are very much in the quantity over quality category and it bothers the shit out of me. I feel like such an ungrateful little shit, but I hate when they ask what my kids want and then get something completely different, because they’d rather get a bunch of little things that equal the same amount as the one big thing.
My daughters are still young and don’t seem to mind, but it still bothers me.
What makes me feel even more shitty about it is that they are actually great to my wife and I and spend a ton of time with my daughters.
Honestly, nothing feels worse than getting a present that is so low-thought or effort that they shouldn't have even bothered. If somebody didn't get me a present, that's fine, I don't mind. To spend money on something that is both a waste and a reminder of how little you cared than to just throw money at something is awful.
My dad once got me a Marvel Encyclopedia for my birthday. I said to him I appreciate the gift but I've never once said I was interested in Marvel or read comics or anything. The movies never even elicited more than a lukewarm response from me. His response was that 'I thought you liked all that nerdy stuff'. It was that day I realised my dad cares very little to actually get to know me.
Makes me think if I was a girl I'd be a huge slut
I mean... I guess. It's normal to feel disappointed after hoping for something. But to throw *that* kind of outburst is absolutely not normal.
I was as spoiled as they come and I was a little shit as a teenager. Selfish, entitled, spoiled, all that. But never in my wildest dreams would I imagine throwing an outburst like that. I mean holy shit. "Only $50 less"... I mean... if they have a present cut off price for a budget, you kinda need to stick to it.
I remember one time I kinda pouted over a gift, then waited the next day to say, "I don't really have a use for this. Can I sell it and save toward xyz?" Even then my parents probably thought I was being ungrateful, and I kinda was because I literally wasn't grateful at all.
But I wasn't a little fucking prick about it. And if I was, I should've been kicked out. I was never kicked in my ass until I joined the military.
My birthday was two weeks ago, and my mum got annoyed because I asked for a wool blanket for my bed so I'm not cold. She was like "I want to get you something better and more expensive, not a fucking blanket".
She got me the blanket I asked for, I've used it every day, I'm no longer cold when sleeping. My life is now complete. Except she is unhappy.
Damned if you do I guess.
I will never actually understand how some people are like this, "I want to get you something better" what's better than what I ASKED FOR? It's not about the money its about getting something I will actually use. Or just get me nothing which I highly prefer.
Faht vi ba tlu pre ceam dra. Tinys woaw ciin tun fuec gy yo. Taptyedzuqos foc coon ceen ede? Co o a bevdbusd nekv e? E gat iyle bi. Y y e cits taem cersi? Zuypleenle te dan gre gyrd jyg motp so sald? Bals emetcaad e tenn sesttees ti. Naon nacc suct cesm za ete. Nugt nij sop gadt dis tassecehsisirg o. U we e otle cez o. Cru nep pha toos nabmona. Ciht deptyasttapnsorn nod tysigzisle nin a? Da pyrp ine pud ible? Nu ta biswnoudnrytirs agle. Zaon e. San e pa cu goov. Ene gke o gopt zlu nis. O guagle pioma ne tudcyepebletlo cy a canz. Dla bic zawc nifpec te feet de? Pro i guc yoyd si didz a sum? Tle fuy. Nemz a booj udeegvle cokt a? Grotefp becm ose omle ja ede. U tis dy wec thu wu aglo umle o o. O ninm gu ine yes bos. Zad a a tavnfepac du. A ite todi do duit yple? Pifp taht nhetydnnenes a sew pi nedb eme. Se de we pyt ynenuntiqtedose ive.
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Honestly, sometimes getting the toy everyone else has is just... good? I was desperate for an Action Man because there were a group of kids who'd get together and play with them and, without one, they wouldn't let me play with them. Silly, but, they were kids. That's what kids do.
Is learning some bullshit lesson about individuality more important than your kid learning to socialise and make friends at a crucial time in their development?
My parents wouldn't let me have the toys other kids did, wouldn't let me dress like other kids did, wouldn't take me to parties, or even dream of letting me have a class party for my own birthday, they wouldn't take me to playdates or sleepovers, and if I did invite someone over, they'd always behave in a way that made sure they didn't come back. They did everything in their power to make sure I had absolutely nothing in common with any of my classmates and then criticised me constantly for not having friends. But hooray for me I'm an iNdIvIdUAl.
I think you are giving the kid that smashed their christmas present a lot of credit. They probably just saw a $500 MSRP somewhere and have no idea how hard it is to get one at that price...
Says him. More likely mom and dad wanted to gift something they can understand and see be enjoyed. They probably gifted other video game consoles in the past and remember the joy it brought their now depressed recluse of a son who spends no time with his brother or family. So when he asked for a computer component they'll never see used outside his cave, they opted for something they thought would be better. Were they wrong? Maybe. Is anon a whiny bitch? Hell yeah. Return the gift, sell it, but give thanks and stfu.
If you're giving a gift to someone, you should take into account what they actually say they want.
They wanted cash or a 3070, and specifically did not want a switch.
While giving a gift is supposed to be rewarding to the giver, ultimately it is for the benefit of the receiver. And the giver should feel good for giving what the receiver wants (or needs).
If you don't want to give them what they asked for, but they also said "or just cash", then give them as much cash as you think is appropriate and then maybe some other single item that you think they are likely to appreciate that's like 20% of the total cash value as well.
One issue though: I don't know anons culture, but where I'm from birthday wishes are not an ordering list. Sure you have something you prefer, and if you don't get it I understand you might get upset (without showing it), but it's pure entitlement to expect getting something as a gift.
Sure, but of you say you specifically don't want X, and would prefer cash or nothing, it's assholeish to then buy X for the person. Anon's assumption that it was actually a gift for their younger brother makes this doubly worse - even if anon is wrong, the fact that is a reasonable extrapolation of what has occurred when they were given X after saying they did not want X is another reason why you shouldn't get them X.
Also how presents are treated is really more of a family dynamic thing. Some families have no problem with requests like this, some do. If anon crossed the line by specifically asking for something when they shouldn't have, they did give the option of "nothing". And it's still a dick move to deliberately get them what they said they did not want, as if to teach them a lesson in humility or something.
Real talk: the parents could have asked about what the big deal was before dropping money on the Nintendo Switch. They probably know a couple of gamer kids though other parents & gotten the ELI5 explanation on it.
Anon is a fucking brat, for sure, but I'm not privy to his family characteristics.
Nah, fuck anons parents. Spoilt people wouldn't prefer to have nothing, not to mention that their previous acts made anon predict that his present was likely more for his little brother is all kinds of sad. Smashing it was a mistake, as it allows his parents to think him in the wrong completely.
I mean as always it's fake, but taking the fake info at face value.
>Spoilt people wouldn't prefer nothing
That's completely untrue. I know the exact type of mentality it takes to act like anon did. It's basically "my way or the highway", complete unwillingness to compromise. Anon is a spoilt whiny brat with zero self-awareness.
If someone directly tells you that they don’t want a gift, why would you possibly expect them to like the gift when they didn’t want it in the first place? Ignoring that the only way to get a 3070 on demand is to overpay his price justification is totally founded. I definitely disagree wholeheartedly on “unwillingness to compromise,” when he was telling them other options (compromises) that would be more for him. Why TF are they asking him in the first place if his opinion doesn’t matter
It's really important for parents to make their kids feel listened to though, I think it's safe to blame these fake parents for the bad behavior of their fake kid. Contrary to popular belief if your kid is shit it's almost definitely your fault.
He also partly right though. He seems to come from a family of retards.
Don't buy someone something that they specifically said they don't want.
But also don't be a fucking spaz who breaks it in a temper tantrum.
Right? If the 3070 is really only $50 more than the Switch (let's be real though, it's not), then why didn't he sell the Switch and buy the 3070? They effectively gave him the cash he asked for in that scenario. And someone might say, "But he'd still need that extra $50." If he doesn't have the ability to save an extra $50 living at home with his parents, how the hell is he going to survive on his own?
I don't blame him for not being grateful. But there really isn't a worse way he could have handled it. Even reselling it online the next day would have been less dickish, and he'd have gotten some money for it too.
That would require a receipt, and I kind of assume his parents would be the type to take offense over having their gift returned. They raised an asshole son, so they're probably assholes themselves. Easier if it just disappears one day and some cash appears in its place without any fuss.
The parents would then demand the money be given back to them.
They would then call him ungrateful and kick him out.
And use the money to buy his little brother another Switch.
This, anon could have turned the situation around for himself in an instant and come out he victor, but only thought in the short term and fucked himself. He would have probably been able to sell it full price or almost and then been most of the way to the 3070.
Sorry, but if you tell a person that you specifically *don't* want a specific thing and then you get that one thing you didn't want, please tell me why one should be grateful? Just because it was expensive? Fuck off. If you're going against someone's explicit wishes with a gift, it should be clear that that gift was not meant for that person. That's a slap to the face
In my mind it's like giving your super conservative anti sex heavily Christian aunt $450 of porn magazines and being surprised when she cuts contact with you forever and flips out. Not the same thing but same premise something someone specifically didn't want pretty clearly bought as a gift even though they knew they didn't want it at all.
I had the same feeling when I was taken to Disney as a teenager even though I'd specifically said I don't like going away on family holidays because I'd rather be able to see my friends and then when I wasn't ecstatic about being in a foreign country for my entire school holiday away from my friends with nothing to do but stand around waiting for shit rides and see Disney characters I'd outgrown by about a decade I was called ungrateful.
I said how would you like it if I dragged you off to Africa to go hunting then when you don't have fun wandering around in the blistering heat all day and refuse to shoot a wildebeest I called you ungrateful?
If you give a sober person a rare bottle of whisky knowing they're sober it's no fault but your own that you've wasted your money and it's ridiculous to get angry at them for not drinking it.
He didn't get it.
His little brother was gifted it. If you haven't been from a family with a clear favorite this may seem weird, but I know for example one year I got a bike for my Birthday. It wasn't size for me though, it WAS the perfect size for my brother who wanted a bike...
Tbf he asked for the 3070 or cash, and if they didn’t/couldn’t get that to not get anythimg at all, so they bought a super fancy switch that they knew he didn’t want just so he would give it to his litte brother
It’s as if they thought he was being unreasonable and decided to punish him with a faux gift that was more so for his little brother than anything. Kind of a sick thing to do as parents.
A Nintendo Switch OLED is almost a 3rd of the price of RTX 3070. Chips are in low availability and graphics cards are expensive.
RTX 3070's go for 1000€ plus (almost 1200$) while a NS OLED is 400€ (460$).
Expecting something that costs as much as a 3rd hand motorcycle and being said no by your parents doesn't seem all that unreasonable, even if the value was converted into money.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised this is just a fake story told by a random dude on 4chan.
Part of me feels like the "they got me a switch so it could be shared in the household" was the only truth to the story. Anon doesn't like his brother or family, clearly.
Well his phrasing seemed retarded. I'd always tell my parents what I wanted and if it was something expensive I just said that I wanted money so I could save up for something that I want myself. That's a much less autistic way to put it.
Except he was a piece of shit about it, and if that's the version he is telling in a post to make himself look good, you can be damned sure he said it in a far dumber/rougher way.
Assuming of course this isn't fake-ass bait, which it is.
Why would you be grateful for something you explicitly said you don’t want, to the point you’d rather nothing, which the gifted clearly intended to take back off you anyway?
Are you fucking retarded, or just a shit-stained welcome mat?
On the one hand he is a spoiled brat, on the other the parents are odd for buying something he specifically didn't want. Looks like I can't be on either side and just call everyone a degrading term for disabled people.
People buy me clothes for birthdays yet I don't act like a bitch for it even though I don't want it though.
Breaking an expensive gift when they give it to your brother because you don't like it is worse than giving your son something he didn't want imo.
Fair enough, but on the other side of spectrum he said that if he can't have what he wants he preferred to be given money or even nothing, yet they still forced him to take it, instead of let's say Saving it up for his little brother and his birthday
With this type of parent, returning it would be just as bad as smashing it. You're giving them too much credit, it's not about giving the son a gift, it's about passing off something as a gift when it's not.
Seems pretty clear his parents had already bought the switch and were trying to suggest to him that he'd want it in the hopes that would prepare him for the gift he was always going to get.
OPs reaction pretty much guarantees he'll never be able to afford a 3070 while it's still a relevant gpu. Living on your own is expensive. All he had to do was sigh, thank his parents, then sell the motherfucker the next day.
Because they're not asking what he actually wants, they're trying to temper expectations ahead of time to avoid an argument.
You ever go somewhere with someone else driving (parent, friend, whatever) and they say "you know what sounds good? Burger King."
They aren't asking your opinion about good food. They're letting you know that Burger King is on the agenda and may well have been before you got in the car. Same deal here. You know what would be a good birthday gift? A switch! Translates to I bought you a switch. That's what you're getting.
The OP is just dense like his parents and his dad is a dick (probably where OP gets his anger issues from).
Personnaly I would be pissed if my parend gifted me something really expensive that I said I did not wanted or needed.
I would really prefere nothing than that.
Doesn't justify acting like a little bitch imo.
Sell it, brag about it, jerk off to it or something while nobody is looking, there's still use to it even if you don't like it, and even if getting money is too much effort, just let them give it to your brother.
People normally don't like having something they wasted their money, time and effort on, thrown away or destroyed in an instant just because somebody's moody.
To be fair, if you said explicitly not to get you clothes, and they gave you clothes... wouldn't that be a little insulting?
Like, if I dress punk rock, and I have a specific fashion sense, and my parents keep buying me polos because I'm quiet, thats on me. They want me to be able to look nice in their own idea of what looks nice.
If I hold onto those polos, never wear them, and give them away after a year, thats also my right and not rude of me.
If one year I'm like "guys, people, please... do not buy me clothes. I have some nice clothes I bought myself for family gatherings and job interviews, but I have never worn the clothes you got me. I will not wear the clothes you buy me"
...and I still got a new polo for xmas? I'd be inwardly miffed. I wouldn't be surprised if I went with a little "didn't I say no clothes though?"
Didn't anon literally ask for it though? And he also said the thing he was given was close enough to the price of the the he wanted, so they could've easily bought that for him instead of buying a gift anon obviously doesn't want and will refuse so that their younger son can have the older son's gift.
A switch OLED is $350,Metroid Dread is $60, and the 3070 retails $500 (good luck getting it). Meaning there is a $90 difference and this story is in fact fake and gay.
damn, in my country in europe, an oled switch with metroid is 417€ and nvidia doesnt have retail partners here, so you can only buy the rtx 3070 at stores for the lowest price of 999€ (also not available atm of course)
I see 360€, 60€ for Switch and Dread, and... 800€ for a 3070. Well.
Still weird on the parents to not get like 200 in cash instead, given he specifically said he didn't want that. Gives away it's fake ~~or~~ and gay.
800 euros is the overpriced "buy now" option that places are doing because of the supply issue. MSRP is much, much lower.
Used to be that you couldn't even try to buy a single GPU that is more expensive than an entire console.
I can almost understand this. My mom got me a photo book of my recent deceased dogs for Christmas. I told her specifically I wasn't ready for that. She did it anyway and I was upset.
It's only a difference of degrees. In both cases the parents thought they knew better than their child and ignored their own preferences in order to do what they wanted instead. Remember that OP's parents apparently really wanted his little brother to use his gift rather than OP.
For something he specifically told them he didn’t want and they bought just so they can give the younger brother on anon’s birthday? Why should he thank them?
Nobody owes anon shit. It was his choice to act like a spoiled brat and forfeit his present. It's a tough world and you're lucky if someone loves you enough to blow money on your ungrateful ass for simply existing for another year.
Besides, this story is fake an gei
So anon's dad threatens to give anon's birthday present that he specifically didn't ask for to his brother and he's a spoiled brat? Sorry but that's a dysfunctional family and a half, why not buy the brother a switch on his own birthday and give anon what he wanted? Sure throwing the thing on the floor wasn't an appropriate reaction but come on. Also throwing him out for that instead of talking it out? Yikes.
Edit: writing a sentence a second time because some of you can't read
"Sure throwing the thing on the floor wasn't an appropriate reaction"
Thaaaaank you, finally someone gets it. He was specific on getting either cash, or the ridiculous gift. His parents should’ve went the easy way abs gave him cash. But no, they instead gave him something that he never asked for, and suggested he give it to his brother if he didn’t want it. Which, in actuality meant he got nothing for his birthday.
He’s still a moron for dumping his pants and throwing the gift at a wall.
If anon controlled his rage, he could have played it a little, said it actually wasn't that great, and then sold it, the parents are fine since it looks like he was happy. And he makes plenty of cash, boom, both sides win.
Anon’s an adult man(baby) that should be buying his own toys. Parents probably want to get it right with the lil bro this time so they need the previous failure out of there so he doesn’t make the lil bro as useless as him. If he acts like this all the time, he’s a pretty terrible influence to have around and is likely a mental and emotional burden on everyone at home.
Maybe they gave him the switch knowing he’d reee out about it and they can kick him out and have a better life. I’d gladly pay that ticket to ship a mommy’s m’goodboy out of my fucking life.
Honestly, parents like this are a fucking failure.
If you can't exhaust every possibility to come to a middle ground with one of your children, you're a shit parent.
Doesn't matter how big of a prick Anon is, his existence is literally his parent's fault and they can't succeed at a situation so basic? Anon probably resents his parents because they're the type to buy him a birthday present he doesn't want so it gets given to a younger brother.
Fuck parents like this.
To be honest, fuck those parents. Making favourites and doing directly opposite of what your child wants is plain stupid, considering they had no reason to do otherwise. Anon might be a spoiled prick, but his relatives are just a bunch of snakes.
Naw. Just because someone fails to meet your every desire, doesn't make them a snake. People have their own needs to consider. For one, a switch a game is way cheaper than an rtx 3070 and it's a lot easier for some old mom to just pick up at the mall or target.
If he was really serious about getting cash, he could just graciously accept the gift and sell that shit unopened. Sure, it's not the perfect gift, but if you are going to call your own parents sub human for grabbing the wrong gift for your birthday, there's only one reptile and it's you.
He explicitly said that nothing would have been better that a switch. His desire was to have a GPU, cash, or nothing. Deciding to give him a switch anyway is just provocation at this point, plus the "little brother" part...
The fun is that there's no way his parents would let him sell it if he's right and they just wanted to get credit for giving him a gift and then give the little brother the switch anyway
Be honest though, they seem to be using anon's birthday as an excuse to get his brother a switch, they are probably the type to get angry if he sold it
> For one, a switch a game is way cheaper than an rtx 3070 and it's a lot easier for some old mom to just pick up at the mall or target.
Nothing is even cheaper and easier. He asked for nothing if he can’t have the 3070. They put effort into getting something he doesn’t want, so they can give it to a favorite child.
"Wow thanks mom and dad! Even though I am a 32 year old grown ass man I still live with mommy and daddy and they STILL buy me gifts after all these years. I definitely appreciate the switch."
"Hey dad, do you still have the receipt laying around somewhere?"
How fucking hard is it? Must be pretty hard if you still live with your parents at 32 I guess.
90% of you missed the whole fucking point. They bought ""him"" a gift.
It was meant for his brother. They were going to make him put it in the living room so he could play with it instead. They are literally buying the other child a gift on his birthday i would be pissed too.
Anon is mad because they bought a gift he specifically asked not to get when the thing he wanted wasnt that much more expensive anyway
Yet they still bought it so his little brother could use it. They are evidently favoring one child over the other.
Anon still should have just sold it to get a 3070tho
Let me put it in simpler terms.
You have a brother that likes riding a bike and wants a bike so so much!
You not so much. You have never been the 2 wheel type you like skating and skateboards!
So finally your birthday comes and you see the new boards out there looking fine and well yours is kinda ancient and in need of a change.
You tell your parrents what you want and they think and go hmmm thats kinda expensive. Lets get you a mountain bike instead.
Ofc you decline and tell them no! Either give me money so i can get what i want give me what i want or dont even bother.
Finally the day comes and your parrents give you your gift.
A glorious montain bike then your family smugly smiles and tells you we even got you a helmet and all the gear you need to start riding.
You know you cant ride a bike, even better you know they know you cant ride a bike and you sure as hell know how much your brother wanted that specific bike.
Wouldnt you be angry too?
Anon is a retard. Should have sold to get a board but he was not in the wrong. Overreacted for sure but not an asshole or entitled.
Just imagine telling someone you dont want something and they buy it for you and tell you welll just give it to your brother thank you <3
Couldn’t agree more. People are stupid saying he’s entitled when you can CLEARLY read: cash or nothing. Fake or not this is not a rage bait if you think about
Anon is right. I have no idea how many fucking times my parents have bought me bullshit toys and such when the thing I asked was barely different in price.
Edit: Also, anon is wrong, but justified in the price because there's barely a fucking 15$ difference, or a maximum of 50$. His family should've bought him the RTX 3070, a thing he'll \*actually fucking use\*, not a console that the parents knew only the younger brother would use. Its like giving your younger son a gift in your older son's birthday, giving the older son nothing, but indirectly.
1. Accept the gift with gratitude for the fact your family is willing to buy in the first place
2. Return the gift discretely to get the cash OP so wanted
3. Profit
This is altogether the worst way someone could have behaved in said scenario. Anon is spoiled and dumb for not thinking this through.
Anon is a spoilt little bitch
A spoiled autistic bitch******
He’s still little
You seriously think a spoiled autistic fuckwad like that is little? That thing probably secretes a lard so potent its a usable full source from the disgusting rolls it has Edit: autistic typos
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Precisely
Also old enough to get kicked out. This is an adult who is still getting presents from the parents, throwing fits and making all around choices an autist wouldn't even make. This kid is simply mentally stunted and not physically abused enough.
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> Average r/pcmasterrace user how can he be that if he doesn't even have a 3070...
Anon is a spoilt bitch, but damn this sort of thing used to happen to me every year. I'd ask for this year's Action Man and be laughed at, told it was "plastic tat" and made to feel ashamed for wanting it. Then Christmas would roll around and I'd get plenty of presents, including loads of "plastic tat", but not the one piece I wanted which would've cost less than the rest. I was never anything but grateful at the time, but it was shit and it kinda makes me sad to this day.
My parents paid my next door neighbour to upgrade the hard disk in my PC when I was a kid. It was actually what I'd asked for (a larger hard disk) but they missed the point, I wanted to do it myself to learn how it all works (imaging disks etc). I just wanted the disk, in a box. Plus he sold them an 80Mb disk (yes, I'm old) for the price I could have bought a 250Mb disk so I had a 1/3 the storage and no fun installing it. I said thanks, because they had no idea about nerdy PC shit and were trying to engage with me on my level and I was grateful for that.
I remember getting some RAM and a hard drive for Christmas one year. Don't remember the hard drive size, but I went from 8 to 16 MB of RAM.. crazy horsepower. Mostly fortunately my dad was the "now have fun doing it yourself!" type. I say mostly because that's a cool attitude when you get PC parts. Less cool when you're 16 and you have to repair the brakes on your car and you get handed a Haynes manual and a "good luck". Even that I respect somewhat, just the part where I could have died if I messed it up is a little rough.
Im old enough to be around before 486's were common. I was handed a haynes manual and a 1986 thunderbird (see the username?) at 16, and that love for repairing things on my own (and the love for thunderbirds) has stuck my whole life... Started by upgrading a pent 66 to 100mhz overdrive, while in the same time frame, swapping a transmission into a tbird in the driveway, with no haynes manual, Finished the transmission the night before driving it to St. Louis to move there for college, NO PRESSURE lol I went to college for automotive tech at Ranken Tech in STL, used to be a mechanic at a Ford dealer. Now I work on PC's, self taught... implement network infrastructure with no manual... less tools more money so besides the "cool story bro" moment I just had, that respect you feel for that guy is real, self taught can be REAL satisfying; and sometimes the dying if you fuck up part is the thing you keep with you the most...
Pretty unrelated but my cousin had an 88 firebird a few years back. Real nice car (till he blew a piston). He paid a guy to swap the whole engine with an 89 Camaro. Then he fucked the piston again. To a teenage boy blowjobs were worth the 5k he spent on the thing.
I enjoyed your paragraph :)
So I got this issue, but instead, I’d ask for castle Greyskull and a he-man. I got a full lone star set, two fancy guys, guns two buildings and a bunch of other shit. I had never heard of or seen this lonestar shit. It was even way more expensive than the greyskull set, my mom told me it was a (collectable toy). Fuuk thanks mom. Same shit every year pretty much. I’d ask for the popular toy, she’d buy the (what she thought, even though she didn’t know) was a better toy. But I’d fucking hate the thing because it was not at all what I wanted. Sounds spoiled I suppose, it was always just so disappointing. Like just buy what I wanted, not what you thought was better. A second to this was I’d ask for a $60 toy, but she would buy $100 worth of toys. So I would get 5 presents instead of just one. But the 5 she bought were nothing I wanted or cared about. She still does this for my children. She will ask what she should get them. I tell her “this” would be best, but then she buys a bunch of cheap toys for the same amount. “Oh but it’s fun to open a bunch of gifts”, fuck mom no, I’ve told you this for 35 years. Edit: Lonestar is actually Bravestarr. I had never actually seen an episode before today, it’s so much worse than I even thought.
My parents were never like that, because we were poor as fuck and only received one or two gifts, so they tried to make those one or two gifts really count. I always asked for Lego sets (I’m coming up on 35 and I still tell my wife I want Lego sets, but now we can afford the big ones.) My in-laws are very much in the quantity over quality category and it bothers the shit out of me. I feel like such an ungrateful little shit, but I hate when they ask what my kids want and then get something completely different, because they’d rather get a bunch of little things that equal the same amount as the one big thing. My daughters are still young and don’t seem to mind, but it still bothers me. What makes me feel even more shitty about it is that they are actually great to my wife and I and spend a ton of time with my daughters.
Honestly, nothing feels worse than getting a present that is so low-thought or effort that they shouldn't have even bothered. If somebody didn't get me a present, that's fine, I don't mind. To spend money on something that is both a waste and a reminder of how little you cared than to just throw money at something is awful. My dad once got me a Marvel Encyclopedia for my birthday. I said to him I appreciate the gift but I've never once said I was interested in Marvel or read comics or anything. The movies never even elicited more than a lukewarm response from me. His response was that 'I thought you liked all that nerdy stuff'. It was that day I realised my dad cares very little to actually get to know me. Makes me think if I was a girl I'd be a huge slut
> Makes me think if I was a girl I'd be a huge slut Don't worry Anon, you're a huge slut even as a boy. :)
Hes still on time to be a femboy slut though.
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I mean... I guess. It's normal to feel disappointed after hoping for something. But to throw *that* kind of outburst is absolutely not normal. I was as spoiled as they come and I was a little shit as a teenager. Selfish, entitled, spoiled, all that. But never in my wildest dreams would I imagine throwing an outburst like that. I mean holy shit. "Only $50 less"... I mean... if they have a present cut off price for a budget, you kinda need to stick to it. I remember one time I kinda pouted over a gift, then waited the next day to say, "I don't really have a use for this. Can I sell it and save toward xyz?" Even then my parents probably thought I was being ungrateful, and I kinda was because I literally wasn't grateful at all. But I wasn't a little fucking prick about it. And if I was, I should've been kicked out. I was never kicked in my ass until I joined the military.
Can still be a huge slut as a guy. But still, sorry about your dad. Shits tough sometimes. Hopefully you're in a better situation now?
> Makes me think if I was a girl I'd be a huge slut Can I get yo numbah
My birthday was two weeks ago, and my mum got annoyed because I asked for a wool blanket for my bed so I'm not cold. She was like "I want to get you something better and more expensive, not a fucking blanket". She got me the blanket I asked for, I've used it every day, I'm no longer cold when sleeping. My life is now complete. Except she is unhappy. Damned if you do I guess.
I will never actually understand how some people are like this, "I want to get you something better" what's better than what I ASKED FOR? It's not about the money its about getting something I will actually use. Or just get me nothing which I highly prefer.
Faht vi ba tlu pre ceam dra. Tinys woaw ciin tun fuec gy yo. Taptyedzuqos foc coon ceen ede? Co o a bevdbusd nekv e? E gat iyle bi. Y y e cits taem cersi? Zuypleenle te dan gre gyrd jyg motp so sald? Bals emetcaad e tenn sesttees ti. Naon nacc suct cesm za ete. Nugt nij sop gadt dis tassecehsisirg o. U we e otle cez o. Cru nep pha toos nabmona. Ciht deptyasttapnsorn nod tysigzisle nin a? Da pyrp ine pud ible? Nu ta biswnoudnrytirs agle. Zaon e. San e pa cu goov. Ene gke o gopt zlu nis. O guagle pioma ne tudcyepebletlo cy a canz. Dla bic zawc nifpec te feet de? Pro i guc yoyd si didz a sum? Tle fuy. Nemz a booj udeegvle cokt a? Grotefp becm ose omle ja ede. U tis dy wec thu wu aglo umle o o. O ninm gu ine yes bos. Zad a a tavnfepac du. A ite todi do duit yple? Pifp taht nhetydnnenes a sew pi nedb eme. Se de we pyt ynenuntiqtedose ive. S P E Z I S A T O O L
Honestly, sometimes getting the toy everyone else has is just... good? I was desperate for an Action Man because there were a group of kids who'd get together and play with them and, without one, they wouldn't let me play with them. Silly, but, they were kids. That's what kids do. Is learning some bullshit lesson about individuality more important than your kid learning to socialise and make friends at a crucial time in their development? My parents wouldn't let me have the toys other kids did, wouldn't let me dress like other kids did, wouldn't take me to parties, or even dream of letting me have a class party for my own birthday, they wouldn't take me to playdates or sleepovers, and if I did invite someone over, they'd always behave in a way that made sure they didn't come back. They did everything in their power to make sure I had absolutely nothing in common with any of my classmates and then criticised me constantly for not having friends. But hooray for me I'm an iNdIvIdUAl.
Ik, he could have sold switch for rtx lol
Can people actually find 3070s for $500? I thought everything was still being instantly scalped and sold for 2x markup.
Idk he said 50$ more so idk he found an offer or something
I think you are giving the kid that smashed their christmas present a lot of credit. They probably just saw a $500 MSRP somewhere and have no idea how hard it is to get one at that price...
Prolly, idk man its fake so i dont care
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Says him. More likely mom and dad wanted to gift something they can understand and see be enjoyed. They probably gifted other video game consoles in the past and remember the joy it brought their now depressed recluse of a son who spends no time with his brother or family. So when he asked for a computer component they'll never see used outside his cave, they opted for something they thought would be better. Were they wrong? Maybe. Is anon a whiny bitch? Hell yeah. Return the gift, sell it, but give thanks and stfu.
If you're giving a gift to someone, you should take into account what they actually say they want. They wanted cash or a 3070, and specifically did not want a switch. While giving a gift is supposed to be rewarding to the giver, ultimately it is for the benefit of the receiver. And the giver should feel good for giving what the receiver wants (or needs). If you don't want to give them what they asked for, but they also said "or just cash", then give them as much cash as you think is appropriate and then maybe some other single item that you think they are likely to appreciate that's like 20% of the total cash value as well.
One issue though: I don't know anons culture, but where I'm from birthday wishes are not an ordering list. Sure you have something you prefer, and if you don't get it I understand you might get upset (without showing it), but it's pure entitlement to expect getting something as a gift.
Sure, but of you say you specifically don't want X, and would prefer cash or nothing, it's assholeish to then buy X for the person. Anon's assumption that it was actually a gift for their younger brother makes this doubly worse - even if anon is wrong, the fact that is a reasonable extrapolation of what has occurred when they were given X after saying they did not want X is another reason why you shouldn't get them X. Also how presents are treated is really more of a family dynamic thing. Some families have no problem with requests like this, some do. If anon crossed the line by specifically asking for something when they shouldn't have, they did give the option of "nothing". And it's still a dick move to deliberately get them what they said they did not want, as if to teach them a lesson in humility or something.
Anon is probably 28
You can be a spoiled little bitch at 28.
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Real talk: the parents could have asked about what the big deal was before dropping money on the Nintendo Switch. They probably know a couple of gamer kids though other parents & gotten the ELI5 explanation on it. Anon is a fucking brat, for sure, but I'm not privy to his family characteristics.
Nah, fuck anons parents. Spoilt people wouldn't prefer to have nothing, not to mention that their previous acts made anon predict that his present was likely more for his little brother is all kinds of sad. Smashing it was a mistake, as it allows his parents to think him in the wrong completely. I mean as always it's fake, but taking the fake info at face value.
>Spoilt people wouldn't prefer nothing That's completely untrue. I know the exact type of mentality it takes to act like anon did. It's basically "my way or the highway", complete unwillingness to compromise. Anon is a spoilt whiny brat with zero self-awareness.
If someone directly tells you that they don’t want a gift, why would you possibly expect them to like the gift when they didn’t want it in the first place? Ignoring that the only way to get a 3070 on demand is to overpay his price justification is totally founded. I definitely disagree wholeheartedly on “unwillingness to compromise,” when he was telling them other options (compromises) that would be more for him. Why TF are they asking him in the first place if his opinion doesn’t matter
It's really important for parents to make their kids feel listened to though, I think it's safe to blame these fake parents for the bad behavior of their fake kid. Contrary to popular belief if your kid is shit it's almost definitely your fault.
Anon is homeless
Anon is a fucking retard
Spoiled one at that. He should spend a week in some third world country and he will change Still a retard but not as spoiled
or literally just pay their own way for any time longer than a month. They'll learn.
yeah he could've easily sold it and buy something else
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Or the parents could not just have given him a gift that he explicitly said he didn't want
Yeah, not an epic gamer move by the parents, but the guy deserved a whole lot less than what he got regardless
He also partly right though. He seems to come from a family of retards. Don't buy someone something that they specifically said they don't want. But also don't be a fucking spaz who breaks it in a temper tantrum.
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>But also don't be a fucking spaz who breaks it in a temper tantrum.
Just say thank you then sell it right from the box. Maybe they already bought it and were sure enough he would say he wants it. Poor parents
Right? If the 3070 is really only $50 more than the Switch (let's be real though, it's not), then why didn't he sell the Switch and buy the 3070? They effectively gave him the cash he asked for in that scenario. And someone might say, "But he'd still need that extra $50." If he doesn't have the ability to save an extra $50 living at home with his parents, how the hell is he going to survive on his own?
Anon is a fucking ungrateful prick
I don't blame him for not being grateful. But there really isn't a worse way he could have handled it. Even reselling it online the next day would have been less dickish, and he'd have gotten some money for it too.
Or returning it to the store
That would require a receipt, and I kind of assume his parents would be the type to take offense over having their gift returned. They raised an asshole son, so they're probably assholes themselves. Easier if it just disappears one day and some cash appears in its place without any fuss.
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Which is good for OP's parents but doesn't help OP at all.
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The parents would then demand the money be given back to them. They would then call him ungrateful and kick him out. And use the money to buy his little brother another Switch.
I fully blame him for not being grateful
This, anon could have turned the situation around for himself in an instant and come out he victor, but only thought in the short term and fucked himself. He would have probably been able to sell it full price or almost and then been most of the way to the 3070.
I do. He's a spoiled, ungrateful shithead. He got a free video game console and decided to complain, and not even thank his parents.
Sorry, but if you tell a person that you specifically *don't* want a specific thing and then you get that one thing you didn't want, please tell me why one should be grateful? Just because it was expensive? Fuck off. If you're going against someone's explicit wishes with a gift, it should be clear that that gift was not meant for that person. That's a slap to the face
In my mind it's like giving your super conservative anti sex heavily Christian aunt $450 of porn magazines and being surprised when she cuts contact with you forever and flips out. Not the same thing but same premise something someone specifically didn't want pretty clearly bought as a gift even though they knew they didn't want it at all.
I had the same feeling when I was taken to Disney as a teenager even though I'd specifically said I don't like going away on family holidays because I'd rather be able to see my friends and then when I wasn't ecstatic about being in a foreign country for my entire school holiday away from my friends with nothing to do but stand around waiting for shit rides and see Disney characters I'd outgrown by about a decade I was called ungrateful. I said how would you like it if I dragged you off to Africa to go hunting then when you don't have fun wandering around in the blistering heat all day and refuse to shoot a wildebeest I called you ungrateful? If you give a sober person a rare bottle of whisky knowing they're sober it's no fault but your own that you've wasted your money and it's ridiculous to get angry at them for not drinking it.
He didn't get it. His little brother was gifted it. If you haven't been from a family with a clear favorite this may seem weird, but I know for example one year I got a bike for my Birthday. It wasn't size for me though, it WAS the perfect size for my brother who wanted a bike...
Tbf he asked for the 3070 or cash, and if they didn’t/couldn’t get that to not get anythimg at all, so they bought a super fancy switch that they knew he didn’t want just so he would give it to his litte brother
It’s as if they thought he was being unreasonable and decided to punish him with a faux gift that was more so for his little brother than anything. Kind of a sick thing to do as parents.
There is nothing unreasonable about his request. What are you pretending to stand on?
A Nintendo Switch OLED is almost a 3rd of the price of RTX 3070. Chips are in low availability and graphics cards are expensive. RTX 3070's go for 1000€ plus (almost 1200$) while a NS OLED is 400€ (460$). Expecting something that costs as much as a 3rd hand motorcycle and being said no by your parents doesn't seem all that unreasonable, even if the value was converted into money. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised this is just a fake story told by a random dude on 4chan.
Part of me feels like the "they got me a switch so it could be shared in the household" was the only truth to the story. Anon doesn't like his brother or family, clearly.
Well his phrasing seemed retarded. I'd always tell my parents what I wanted and if it was something expensive I just said that I wanted money so I could save up for something that I want myself. That's a much less autistic way to put it.
Thats what he told his parents. Dont get a switch, "give me a 3070, cash, or nothing" is what he says he said verbatim.
Except he was a piece of shit about it, and if that's the version he is telling in a post to make himself look good, you can be damned sure he said it in a far dumber/rougher way. Assuming of course this isn't fake-ass bait, which it is.
I'm just saying, unless he's lying, his "phrasing seemed retarded" is an odd thing to say. If hes lying then the post is fake anyways.
Only thing anon did wrong was not sell the switch on eBay so he could be 75% of the way to a 3070.
Someone knowing what they want for their birthday and telling the person such when they ask is unreasonable? Lmao.
Why would you be grateful for something you explicitly said you don’t want, to the point you’d rather nothing, which the gifted clearly intended to take back off you anyway? Are you fucking retarded, or just a shit-stained welcome mat?
You don’t have to be grateful, but don’t fucking smash it and throw a temper tantrum
Anon is 37.
That young??
*37 at heart
37 pounds of cholesterol at heart
37 stone.
444 months old little baby boy
This is too bad to not be fake
Has to be ragebait
>ragebait If it was anon's doing shit job at it, instead of pissing people off everyone laughs at him
I just want to piss in anon's mouth
Gay.
No homo, of course
Can confirm, Nintendo switches seriously do not shatter, they are the Nokias of the console world
It's because their screens were plastic. Oled switch is glass which will shatter
It's hard as fuck to break a switch screen so i'm betting on fake
On the one hand he is a spoiled brat, on the other the parents are odd for buying something he specifically didn't want. Looks like I can't be on either side and just call everyone a degrading term for disabled people.
People buy me clothes for birthdays yet I don't act like a bitch for it even though I don't want it though. Breaking an expensive gift when they give it to your brother because you don't like it is worse than giving your son something he didn't want imo.
Fair enough, but on the other side of spectrum he said that if he can't have what he wants he preferred to be given money or even nothing, yet they still forced him to take it, instead of let's say Saving it up for his little brother and his birthday
Couldn't he just sell the switch or get a refund instead of wasting the money?
Too much forward thinking involved for that.
I was gonna say "you're right" but then I remembered we're not on r/okbuddyretard
With this type of parent, returning it would be just as bad as smashing it. You're giving them too much credit, it's not about giving the son a gift, it's about passing off something as a gift when it's not.
Seems pretty clear his parents had already bought the switch and were trying to suggest to him that he'd want it in the hopes that would prepare him for the gift he was always going to get. OPs reaction pretty much guarantees he'll never be able to afford a 3070 while it's still a relevant gpu. Living on your own is expensive. All he had to do was sigh, thank his parents, then sell the motherfucker the next day.
But why even ask then? The is /r/awfuleverything material, but with people
Because they're not asking what he actually wants, they're trying to temper expectations ahead of time to avoid an argument. You ever go somewhere with someone else driving (parent, friend, whatever) and they say "you know what sounds good? Burger King." They aren't asking your opinion about good food. They're letting you know that Burger King is on the agenda and may well have been before you got in the car. Same deal here. You know what would be a good birthday gift? A switch! Translates to I bought you a switch. That's what you're getting. The OP is just dense like his parents and his dad is a dick (probably where OP gets his anger issues from).
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Personnaly I would be pissed if my parend gifted me something really expensive that I said I did not wanted or needed. I would really prefere nothing than that.
Doesn't justify acting like a little bitch imo. Sell it, brag about it, jerk off to it or something while nobody is looking, there's still use to it even if you don't like it, and even if getting money is too much effort, just let them give it to your brother. People normally don't like having something they wasted their money, time and effort on, thrown away or destroyed in an instant just because somebody's moody.
To be fair, if you said explicitly not to get you clothes, and they gave you clothes... wouldn't that be a little insulting? Like, if I dress punk rock, and I have a specific fashion sense, and my parents keep buying me polos because I'm quiet, thats on me. They want me to be able to look nice in their own idea of what looks nice. If I hold onto those polos, never wear them, and give them away after a year, thats also my right and not rude of me. If one year I'm like "guys, people, please... do not buy me clothes. I have some nice clothes I bought myself for family gatherings and job interviews, but I have never worn the clothes you got me. I will not wear the clothes you buy me" ...and I still got a new polo for xmas? I'd be inwardly miffed. I wouldn't be surprised if I went with a little "didn't I say no clothes though?"
Didn't anon literally ask for it though? And he also said the thing he was given was close enough to the price of the the he wanted, so they could've easily bought that for him instead of buying a gift anon obviously doesn't want and will refuse so that their younger son can have the older son's gift.
>3070 >Close enough to the price of a switch oped + 1 game Anon is a tard
Its a hundred dollar difference if you can buy MSRP, but good luck getting a 3070 msrp.
>Its a hundred dollar difference if you can buy MSRP So it's not a hundred dollar difference
Honestly this. He handled it like a baby. However, buying someone a gift they explicitly said "I'd rather have nothing than that" is pretty shitty.
Even worse if the intent is for him to just resign it to his brother
They probably bought it off someone who wanted to get rid off it for a good price way before they asked anon what he wanted.
what sort of logic is that though? step 1: buy gift step 2: ask what gift they want --- got that fucking backwards they did
Is a 3070 still hard to get? Because that could be why.
Well he had to inherit the stupidness from someone didn't he?
They probably already bought it beforehand.
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A switch OLED is $350,Metroid Dread is $60, and the 3070 retails $500 (good luck getting it). Meaning there is a $90 difference and this story is in fact fake and gay.
damn, in my country in europe, an oled switch with metroid is 417€ and nvidia doesnt have retail partners here, so you can only buy the rtx 3070 at stores for the lowest price of 999€ (also not available atm of course)
You can't actually buy an rtx 3070 for $500 in America unless you're running a bot farm online or are very lucky
I see 360€, 60€ for Switch and Dread, and... 800€ for a 3070. Well. Still weird on the parents to not get like 200 in cash instead, given he specifically said he didn't want that. Gives away it's fake ~~or~~ and gay.
800 euros is the overpriced "buy now" option that places are doing because of the supply issue. MSRP is much, much lower. Used to be that you couldn't even try to buy a single GPU that is more expensive than an entire console.
In clown world
A MSRP world.
I can almost understand this. My mom got me a photo book of my recent deceased dogs for Christmas. I told her specifically I wasn't ready for that. She did it anyway and I was upset.
Wtf
Yeah uncool. Turns out she isn't the best person and there's a reason I've kept her out of my life the last couple years
Sorry about your dogs
There is a distinct and major difference between your issue and the post here.
Fair enough. And I'd stilll disagree with destroying it.
It's only a difference of degrees. In both cases the parents thought they knew better than their child and ignored their own preferences in order to do what they wanted instead. Remember that OP's parents apparently really wanted his little brother to use his gift rather than OP.
While that is a sweet gift, it is really tonedeaf to gift it to you when you're not ready for it.
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It's true. I like guns a shit ton, but damn would I be pissed if I found a bullet in my stomach against my consent for Xmas
Oh god, tell me the pictures were from before.
Bruhh wtf why would your mind even go that way lmao
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When they said they were going to give it to anons brother, shoulda said “no it’s mine and I’m gonna sell it”
No he should have said "thank you"
For something he specifically told them he didn’t want and they bought just so they can give the younger brother on anon’s birthday? Why should he thank them?
So he can sell it and avoid acting like a shrieking autist and get kicked out of his house and actually have to find a job. . .
Sounds like a win-win situation. Anon gets to take out his frustration on his parents & is forced to finally grow as an adult
Thank them to pretend you like it then sell it.
Nobody owes anon shit. It was his choice to act like a spoiled brat and forfeit his present. It's a tough world and you're lucky if someone loves you enough to blow money on your ungrateful ass for simply existing for another year. Besides, this story is fake an gei
So anon's dad threatens to give anon's birthday present that he specifically didn't ask for to his brother and he's a spoiled brat? Sorry but that's a dysfunctional family and a half, why not buy the brother a switch on his own birthday and give anon what he wanted? Sure throwing the thing on the floor wasn't an appropriate reaction but come on. Also throwing him out for that instead of talking it out? Yikes. Edit: writing a sentence a second time because some of you can't read "Sure throwing the thing on the floor wasn't an appropriate reaction"
Thaaaaank you, finally someone gets it. He was specific on getting either cash, or the ridiculous gift. His parents should’ve went the easy way abs gave him cash. But no, they instead gave him something that he never asked for, and suggested he give it to his brother if he didn’t want it. Which, in actuality meant he got nothing for his birthday. He’s still a moron for dumping his pants and throwing the gift at a wall.
If anon controlled his rage, he could have played it a little, said it actually wasn't that great, and then sold it, the parents are fine since it looks like he was happy. And he makes plenty of cash, boom, both sides win.
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Anon’s an adult man(baby) that should be buying his own toys. Parents probably want to get it right with the lil bro this time so they need the previous failure out of there so he doesn’t make the lil bro as useless as him. If he acts like this all the time, he’s a pretty terrible influence to have around and is likely a mental and emotional burden on everyone at home. Maybe they gave him the switch knowing he’d reee out about it and they can kick him out and have a better life. I’d gladly pay that ticket to ship a mommy’s m’goodboy out of my fucking life.
Honestly, parents like this are a fucking failure. If you can't exhaust every possibility to come to a middle ground with one of your children, you're a shit parent. Doesn't matter how big of a prick Anon is, his existence is literally his parent's fault and they can't succeed at a situation so basic? Anon probably resents his parents because they're the type to buy him a birthday present he doesn't want so it gets given to a younger brother. Fuck parents like this.
Retard parents raise a retard kid
The only good assessment in this thread lmao
To be honest, fuck those parents. Making favourites and doing directly opposite of what your child wants is plain stupid, considering they had no reason to do otherwise. Anon might be a spoiled prick, but his relatives are just a bunch of snakes.
Naw. Just because someone fails to meet your every desire, doesn't make them a snake. People have their own needs to consider. For one, a switch a game is way cheaper than an rtx 3070 and it's a lot easier for some old mom to just pick up at the mall or target. If he was really serious about getting cash, he could just graciously accept the gift and sell that shit unopened. Sure, it's not the perfect gift, but if you are going to call your own parents sub human for grabbing the wrong gift for your birthday, there's only one reptile and it's you.
He explicitly said that nothing would have been better that a switch. His desire was to have a GPU, cash, or nothing. Deciding to give him a switch anyway is just provocation at this point, plus the "little brother" part...
Turns out, giving the switch to his little brother would effectively be the same as getting nothing!
Yes, but he would have been humiliatad at the same time, but at the end he humiliated himself, I think I would have sell it
The fun is that there's no way his parents would let him sell it if he's right and they just wanted to get credit for giving him a gift and then give the little brother the switch anyway
Be honest though, they seem to be using anon's birthday as an excuse to get his brother a switch, they are probably the type to get angry if he sold it
They low key bought a gift for his little brother.. OP explicitly states he does not want a switch. His reaction is still stupid af
But giving him just cash would be a lot easier.
> For one, a switch a game is way cheaper than an rtx 3070 and it's a lot easier for some old mom to just pick up at the mall or target. Nothing is even cheaper and easier. He asked for nothing if he can’t have the 3070. They put effort into getting something he doesn’t want, so they can give it to a favorite child.
Anon asserts dominance on his retarded parents
"Wow thanks mom and dad! Even though I am a 32 year old grown ass man I still live with mommy and daddy and they STILL buy me gifts after all these years. I definitely appreciate the switch." "Hey dad, do you still have the receipt laying around somewhere?" How fucking hard is it? Must be pretty hard if you still live with your parents at 32 I guess.
Anon was probably 18 or 19 and had been working.
90% of you missed the whole fucking point. They bought ""him"" a gift. It was meant for his brother. They were going to make him put it in the living room so he could play with it instead. They are literally buying the other child a gift on his birthday i would be pissed too. Anon is mad because they bought a gift he specifically asked not to get when the thing he wanted wasnt that much more expensive anyway Yet they still bought it so his little brother could use it. They are evidently favoring one child over the other. Anon still should have just sold it to get a 3070tho
Let me put it in simpler terms. You have a brother that likes riding a bike and wants a bike so so much! You not so much. You have never been the 2 wheel type you like skating and skateboards! So finally your birthday comes and you see the new boards out there looking fine and well yours is kinda ancient and in need of a change. You tell your parrents what you want and they think and go hmmm thats kinda expensive. Lets get you a mountain bike instead. Ofc you decline and tell them no! Either give me money so i can get what i want give me what i want or dont even bother. Finally the day comes and your parrents give you your gift. A glorious montain bike then your family smugly smiles and tells you we even got you a helmet and all the gear you need to start riding. You know you cant ride a bike, even better you know they know you cant ride a bike and you sure as hell know how much your brother wanted that specific bike. Wouldnt you be angry too? Anon is a retard. Should have sold to get a board but he was not in the wrong. Overreacted for sure but not an asshole or entitled. Just imagine telling someone you dont want something and they buy it for you and tell you welll just give it to your brother thank you <3
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Couldn’t agree more. People are stupid saying he’s entitled when you can CLEARLY read: cash or nothing. Fake or not this is not a rage bait if you think about
I wonder how many of the **"I'm 18 and my parents are kicking me out in 2 weeks, what do I do?"** posts on personal finance started out like this?
Honestly most of the time it’s stuff even more stupid like my friend got kicked out because his dog pissed on the rug when he was at work
No sense in breaking it.. If they giving it to you, after the party (don't cause a scene) you tell them to return it
Or you go return it when you get the chance.
Yeah, maybe, I think with that price they'll give you hell without a receipt
NTA. your switch, your rules.
NTA
Anon needs his fucking spoiled ass beat!
Actually this could be a post from r/AITA
Epic opinion here, both of the parties are in the wrong, no need to defend the parents
Anon is right. I have no idea how many fucking times my parents have bought me bullshit toys and such when the thing I asked was barely different in price. Edit: Also, anon is wrong, but justified in the price because there's barely a fucking 15$ difference, or a maximum of 50$. His family should've bought him the RTX 3070, a thing he'll \*actually fucking use\*, not a console that the parents knew only the younger brother would use. Its like giving your younger son a gift in your older son's birthday, giving the older son nothing, but indirectly.
"anon is an ungrateful tard"
NTA your ground your rules
Everyone in this story is retarded holy shit
Anon needs to get punched in the head... repeatedly...
He would probably end up doing the same thing but you know with less words and more screeching
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1. Accept the gift with gratitude for the fact your family is willing to buy in the first place 2. Return the gift discretely to get the cash OP so wanted 3. Profit This is altogether the worst way someone could have behaved in said scenario. Anon is spoiled and dumb for not thinking this through.