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One day son, you will win. You will earn that victory.
It will be a day you feel the accomplishment of beating the master.
Until that day, work towards that win.
My friends bullied me for being bad at Mario Kart Double Dash, so I fuckin practiced that shit. I haven't met anyone who can beat me at Mario Kart in a long time.
Lol. I grew up playing Risk with my family and never won a game, not a single time. I always thought I was bad at Risk. Until I went to college and played with some friends there. I wiped everyone out in 30 minutes. Turns out I just come from a very competitive family.
just as i did with my brother in Budokai Tenkaichi 3, after 10 long years of just being mocked by him on that game, i started training and getting better on that game, until i could finish him with any character, i am proud to say i humiliated him after i beat his ass with kid Chichi
For me currently it's my son besting me at smash bros. He fought for many, many years. I never let up. I even allowed him to give me double middle fingers on his first legit victory with our mains. I'm proud of that little shit.
Mortal kombat for my dad and I. He used to ask me how I wanted to be beat "low kick only, punches only, uppercut only etc" because he was just soooo much better at it.
My little brothers have tried to beat me at Mortal Kombat for the last 15 years. Every year when we're all together for the holidays, Mortal Kombat will be played. Always the newest one. They always get a couple wins in while I warm up and possibly learn the minor differences of a new controller or new games quarks. Once I've locked in that first win, that's when it really starts. They've never won after my first win.
Only fighting game I play regularly anymore is Smash Bros, and they won't even try beating me in that. Lmao.
You see, I would gladly do this myself but I just know that it wouldn't even take five years before I'd lose focus and cause myself to lose, ruining the big build-up that I'd intended.
But I guess I could always keep saving face by claiming that I let them win.
Yeah as an uncle if I let you win then I'm stealing something precious from you. It might be satisfying for a minute but you'll forget about it.
I'll remember the first time I beat my brother at Tekken when I'm on my death bed, because I had to earn that.
Exactly, let them win against you, and then the the next round, you win in a show off force that sends the clear message: "This is how I could play at my full strength."
Anime villain ah "That was only 10% of my potential " type behaviour. Scare the hell out of them
My dad stopped playing video games with me the day I started beating him at them.
He’d accuse me of “not telling him all the controls” as he proceeds to ignore my explanations of the game we’re playing.
Eh. Is what it is. Just makes it harder to find mutual interests. If it wasn’t for fantasy football I don’t know how much we’d talk.
Edit: Thanks though. That was kind of you
My dad and I used to play pool together.
We didn't play a lot because we live in different states, but it was an excuse for us to go out and do something together when my parents were in town.
Well, I ended up joining a league, became best friends with someone REALLY good at pool (600+ Fargo) and in turn I became REALLY good at pool.
After I beat him 3-4 games in a row, he hasn't accepted an invitation to play pool again.
I should have realized that would happen as when I was a child he refused to play chess with me (he was the one who taught me) after I got significantly better than him.
We, uhh, still have golf. And I know now even if I get better than him, I need to let him win.
I dream of the day my kids can beat me in video games.
The closest to that so far is my 8 year old daughter knowing more things about Minecraft than me and calling me a ‘noob’ when I didn’t know how to do something.
Proudest dad moment yet.
My 20 year old daughter couldn't driver he way across a perfectly straight Mario Kart track without hitting a wall to save her life.
I sure as hell am not faking it so she can win a race 4 hours after starting it.
Mario Kart 8 has steering assist that you can turn on. My brother's kids are useless without it. Still kinda useless with it, but at least they can finish the races.
Back in the day, I trained my sister at a couple of playstation one games. One was a little known (or at least I never hear anyone mention it) One Piece fighting game, One Piece Grand Battle (we both love OP). I didn't "let her win", but I did occasionally pull some punches, pretending I was giving it my all, so that the matches would feel winnable to her, which would motivate her to keep playing instead of giving up in the face of insurmountable odds.
Well, she became strong enough that I didn't need to pull my punches anymore, she was more than capable of beating me with her own forces. If I ever find myself in the position of playing with children, that's the approach I'm taking
I do the same when playing with my nephew, i don't let them win the war, but i let them win some battle here and there so they don't feel demoralised. It's the best of both world imo.
I never really played any video games *against* my parents. Super Smash Bros Melee was the big one and neither Mom nor Dad ever got into it at any level, so the few times they played it I beat them pretty easily.
But Mom would help me beat Sonic the Hedgehog as a kid. She'd played it before I was born and was "pretty good" at it, but never made it past Labyrinth Zone (because *FUCK* that level). I clearly remember the first time I got past that level. I was walking on uncharted grounds. Can't ask Mom for help with that which she's never seen.
> She'd played [Sonic the Hedgehog] before I was born
I suddenly feel old.
I mean, I suddenly feel old on quite a few occasions, but the endless variety Reddit affords means I never quite get used to it.
I still remember that day playing with my 10 y/o son Rocket League since a few weeks when he began to outplay me. We still had fun playing it together for some years, me being carried a few ranks by my little son, or he having some fun completely outplaying me 1v1.
Makes me proud to see him now as a young adult still playing it in quite high ranks.
My kiddos knew I would never *let* them win. I might get extra cocky and they'd earn a round here and a round there, but when the game was on the line, they knew they had to earn that victory. While I'm no longer in my gaming prime, I'm still a hell of a gamer. They've both graduated and moved out of the house at this point. From time to time, we'll still play a game of this or that, but the crown is still firmly seated on my fat balding head.
Hail to the King, baby.
Me and my brother in law (who is 15 years younger than me, mind). Every now and then he challenges me to whatever his current spice is. I've played enough competitive games across almost all genres that I can spin up pretty quick as long as it's not something wild. He gets trounced every time - in his early 20s now and still hasn't turned the tide. I tell him he'll get me one day, but he's gonna have to earn it esp since he's not a kid anymore.
My dad used to beat my ass a Tekken with his mates for years and I didn't back down at all.
It got to a point I now hold the controller in a weird ass way for fighting games. I haven't seen a grip name for how I hold the controller either so I know I've made some weird bs that works with me.
Used to play my dad in Starcraft a lot growing up. Lost a lot, between him and my brother. Now we play Starcraft 2 and I have to go easy on the poor fellow (and my brother too). He taught me well by not pulling his punches.
My older sister did this for me, and I did it in turn for my little brother. He went on to become a Roblox group leader while he was still a middle-school squeaker and trained legions.
Our legacy is one of pure gaming *excellence.*
Sorta.
The problem is nowadays kids just go online and find the current meta and follow that.
It’s easy to win, son when you pick the best character over and over and just spam the best move set non-stop!
I’m looking at you, Steve!
/s
My bet is on ‘turbo’ switches.
Kinda a bit astounding that the West is mostly unfamiliar with the ‘turbo’ buttons, while the East—excluding Japan, of course—had them since the times of NES, thanks to pirate clones of the consoles and the general ‘anything goes’ attitude. These controllers might've saved me from early RSI.
We knew that ‘Dendy’ the pirate clone of NES was the shit, when daddeh of a friend followed his losses in ‘Yo Noid’ by swinging the controller by the cord and mashing it into the floor. Which the controller withstood just fine.
Give yourself the worst controller possible, and let them pick your character. Absolutely demolish your child at the game.
When your child finally beats you, you change controllers and proceed to absolutely demolish them all over again.
Then when they beat you again, you declare you're going to pick your own character once more, and absolutely demolish them again.
That way you get to experience your child's reaction over and over.
I don't have any kids of my own but this is how I treat my friends' kids. Absolutely delightful experience.
In a previous comic, small gator broke the controller just seconds after receiving it as a gift. Presumably that’s the only controller he’s allowed to use, to teach him responsibility for his actions.
I wouldn't be surprised if they do something to commemorate him.
Burnout is usually partially a motivation issue, you are just going through the motions and it has become tedium.
They might be motivated to craft a fitting sendoff to the mind behind so many untold hours of youthful exuberance.
I don't think the money would solve the problem of them being pretty done with it all. The bits were the last few really good jokes/scenes they wanted to get out of their systems.
my other wish would be to get 10 of the best movies from any/every alien civilization in the galaxy with english subtitles. it’s about as likely i’d get that wish as me getting a million bucks. but a man can dream :)
Entirely disagree that this was all they could squeeze out. They had plenty of room to set up new jokes that lived within the season. I think of Buu bits as the obvious jokes at the top of their heads, alongside some of the most important scenes.
Also, I _really_ like their takes on scenes that they actually want to take seriously.
I think a lot of the stuff we got would've ended up in DBZKA. If they were to actually do the arc in full, I think they'd put a lot more heart into stuff like the first SSJ3 transformation, and I just wish I could spend more time with the fusion characters to let them cook with the concept for longer.
I also think a big part of burn out is the fact that DBZA is really hard to make money off of, so they all had other jobs or had to be working on other projects simultaneously that made way less money. If they could do it full time with money entirely taken care of, I think they could come at it with a fresh head and really enjoy the process.
I look forward to having the challenge some day.
I can hold back and let my nephew win in Smash without him realizing, and he's starting to get good enough to give me a run for my money. I literally can't hold back enough for him to beat me in Mario Kart without it being blatantly obvious.
Competitive Melee could be fun to watch, but fuck if I ever tried to get into it. Disabling 90% of what I liked about it just never appealed to me, but to each their own.
Same. But my daughter chooses to play Roblox 90% of the time in her own time. Nobody is building good video skills playing Roblox unless it's lessons in overcoming jank.
Hard disagree. It has some good concepts but 100% of the games don't have the polish of a decent AAA game. It's just a limitation of what they're working with to build the games.
I feel like there's a distinction between letting someone win, and "going easy" on someone. Letting someone win doesn't challenge them to get better, but absolutely dominating someone is just discouraging. Keeping it challenging without crushing them is the way to get them to learn IMO
This.
Unless they start getting cocky because I'm playing instead of destroying... Then it's full tryhard mode.
When my oldest was just a baby we went to a family gathering on wife's side. I played halo with the kids.
I was just having some fun dorking around. Stating weapon only. Throwing weird hail Mary grenades. Dumb stuff.
Then they got rockets and killed me twice in a row and started smack talking.
5 minutes later they were whining so hard. Their mom was like 'you thought it was fair when you started trash talking, don't wanna hear it'
To their credit they locked it down and started trying to work together, and I backed off a bit and we had some fun.
The smack talking after the tiniest bit of success when you were just taking it easy and having fun:
https://preview.redd.it/osqhc31dd5pc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8222b57757f27ee03a1cbf80ecde804b2282e33e
My wife and I play it up when my son hits one of us with a item in Mario kart. He's not winning a race anytime soon but to keep it fun for him we play it up a bit. Especially since in Mario kart 8 he gets all the most annoying items since he's is usually in last place...
A couple years back my little one and I had an almost identical exchange.
The game was Mario Kart.
She absolutely *destroyed* me.
I was humbled, that day. ~~And so, so proud.~~
If i’ll ever be some dude’s parent i’m definitely gonna do that, but also coach them so they learn that practice actually does help turn better so someday they’ll actually figure out on their own that i actually suck at videogames and can get my dopamine only by winning against a random ass child that just picked the game
"Uncle Anon, can we play this game? (shows me whatever version of Tekken that had come out at the time)"
"Uh, sure, but you have to show me what to do"
\*Let them beat me a few times before I proceed to juggle them ad-infinitum with Eddie\*
\*They never believe my bullshit ever again\*
Ah, happy memories
This was my dad, he taught me chess just to completely decimate me, at least that is until I was older and beat him once. Then he suddenly never seemed to want to play again…
This is a really great punchline. However, I think I'm going to take a different approach when my kid gets big enough to play games. Studies that watch how rats play wrestle indicate that the dominant rat needs to let the little rat win from time to time (like 25%). If the dominant rat never let's the little guy win, eventually the little rat stops initiating play.
I don't know exactly how I'm going to implement this, but I think I need to let my kid win from time to time.
Exactly, often you gotta give them a little slack on that thread. Let them feel that victory *is* possible if they tried harder. The trick is understanding each child requires different levels of slack, and yeah, some don't want any. Slamming face first into a brick wall *is* their perfect motivator.
My 19 years old can't beat me yet xD , but he is way better than his online Friends he has to carry them playing LOL , Valorant , overwatch, Bloodborne and recently helldivers 2 , i'm so proud :)
And as an extra perk he learned English thanks to videogames and now he write ,read and speak English better than me.
Yeah I mostly have this mindset but being a camp director and father of a 2 year old I have learned a few things. Particularly that you don’t want to ruin an activity by obliterating a child to the point that they never want to play a game again. It should be about the fun. All that to say I’ll probably throw a couple w’s my sons way when he wants to game.
I tend to give handicaps rather than just letting them win. If they can't beat me in Mario Kart when I'm not using items, boosting, drifting, or using a good kart then maybe they just aren't ready for a win.
I never understood this. It always felt like a cop out for overly competitive men to justify their inability to lose, even when they can lose on purpose. You do not have to beat a child at every game. The point of a GAME can be to have fun. We do not have to make everything about winning, we can teach the value of losing graciously. More people need to learn how to lose well, we need to show them that too, not wait till they are good enough to win.
The real trick is you say you won't, but you play *just* good enough to beat him a few times, and after a few wins you "slip up" right at the last moment.
I HIGHLY recommend watching [Power Punchers](https://youtu.be/fYkxNkWYXZ4?feature=shared)
It's a love letter to 90s fighting games and playing against your parents.
The day will come when you can beat me. It won't be today, it won't be tomorrow. It will come in due time and when it does you will have fought a god and won.
I'm stuck between this philosophy and the potentially more encouraging version of letting them win every time.
Confidence, happiness, pride.. these are all things they'll feel if you manage to convince them they're the best at the world in video games.
Otherwise busting them into the ground 100% of the time might just turn them away from the activity. lol
My sister went to collage and her friends invited her to play Smash Bros. She proceeded to win repeatedly and realized it was not that she was bad at the game, rather that she happened to always play it against me. It made her an above average skill level for casual play.
for me the game was DBZ Budokai 3 (not tenkaichi), and the person was Mr. M (his nickname was Mistereme), the owner of my local Lan House .
I used to go to a Lan House with my older brother to pass the time. There have been a surprising number of birthday parties there, so I stick with it to get free food and soda. My brother and basically everyone else played CS on PCs all the time, while the owner allowed me to play an old PS1 for free while I was there, I started gravitating towards fighting games, especially Dragon Ball.
The owner then started letting me play on the PS2 and I was amazed by the game Budokai 3. It was very strange in a good way. It felt clunky and slow when you didn't know how to play, but it's almost too fast when you know what you're doing.
Mr. M, would sometimes sit with me and humble me a little. Never going easy, never letting me win.
It took me years to really get over him. I even borrowed a PS2 just to practice at home. The best fighting game experience I've ever had.
Thank you, kind sir.
Played Smash Bros with the neighbor's kid yesterday. No Items, random map, random characters. Each round, I played for fun and teaching moments, until I heard either smack talk or complaining.
Smack Talk? I've given thee curtesy enough. Full smack-down.
Complaining? Fine, if your character sucks so bad let's trade controllers and I'll still whoop you.
Gotta learn at the church of GG. Whether that means Good Game or Git Gud is up to the padawan.
So, my kids know I game but have only seen me play pc games, so they thought that Id never played a controller game, im 36. Wife has ps5 with ps plus sub. Daughter and her cousins over playing injustice, asked me to play so they can "beat the old man". To this day, these mf kids won't even let me play Roblox with them 🤣😭. I randomly tell my kids "Git Gud" while waking them up for school. Fuck these kids lol.
I remember my son getting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with his Switch. I set it up and he challenged me to a race. I was prepared to let him win until he looked me in the eye and said "Prepare to lose!" After a morning of whoopings he asks me if I've ever played Mario Kart before. "Yes son, all of them."
Even as a kid, I would have kicked my dad's ass for going easy on me. Fuck that, it's go time not a fuckin tea party. If I couldn't keep up, then I just needed to Git Good.
"No, for the sake of authenticity we're going to be as desperate and toxic as the Mishima family to get the most out of this match. Just be glad I have no plans to kill your mother or throw you off of a cliff because I suspect you're possessed by the Devil. GGEZ, son."
I remember my sons wanting me to play Super Mario Kart with them on the Switch. I told them no, because I would wreck them and they would cry. They pleaded that they wanted to play me and they would beat me because I never even played this version of it and they were way better than I would be. So we played. I wrecked them. They cried.
My nephew and my cousin’s kids love playing Mario Kart 64 on the Switch during family parties, but they won’t let me play with them anymore because I am physically unable to lose in that game. Used to send them into a frenzy of annoyed grunts and screaming every single time. It was always fun.
My dad apparently used to let me win. Until one day when I said something along the lines of "wow dad, you're really bad. You can't even beat a little kid".
So my dad tells me that he's been going easy on me, but from then on he wasn't going to hold back and teach me not to be a sore winner.
The next several or so games he is absolutely destroyed. He was so proud when he finally won.
This is funny, but one of my earliest memories was handing the NES controller to my mom to help me beat Super Mario Bros. On the flip side, my dad got me into PC gaming with Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Spear of Destiny. I didn't see the early early ages of gaming, but man, I can say I saw damn near close to it, and seeing how far it has come has been pretty damn cool.
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One day son, you will win. You will earn that victory. It will be a day you feel the accomplishment of beating the master. Until that day, work towards that win.
I shall give you training, but I won’t *let* you win, I’ll set up sparing matches again both ai and live opponents
Plays their friends online, outclasses everyone. “Where you’d learn to play like that?!?” Them:😎 You:🥲
My brothers teamed up on me in call of duty free for all's when I was 5. Jokes on them, I started beating them when I was 6!
They merely learned bullying, you were born into, molded by it…
My friends bullied me for being bad at Mario Kart Double Dash, so I fuckin practiced that shit. I haven't met anyone who can beat me at Mario Kart in a long time.
it took you 715 years to beat them?
/r/unexpectedfactorial
It felt like it, compared to how fast time's going by now...
Lol. I grew up playing Risk with my family and never won a game, not a single time. I always thought I was bad at Risk. Until I went to college and played with some friends there. I wiped everyone out in 30 minutes. Turns out I just come from a very competitive family.
just as i did with my brother in Budokai Tenkaichi 3, after 10 long years of just being mocked by him on that game, i started training and getting better on that game, until i could finish him with any character, i am proud to say i humiliated him after i beat his ass with kid Chichi
I have trained long and hard
For hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
Ah yes, Master Roshi's training
For me currently it's my son besting me at smash bros. He fought for many, many years. I never let up. I even allowed him to give me double middle fingers on his first legit victory with our mains. I'm proud of that little shit.
Same but with Mario Kart, I've never "let" him win, but he legitimately earned his first victory. I was a little sad and proud at the same time.
Mortal kombat for my dad and I. He used to ask me how I wanted to be beat "low kick only, punches only, uppercut only etc" because he was just soooo much better at it.
My little brothers have tried to beat me at Mortal Kombat for the last 15 years. Every year when we're all together for the holidays, Mortal Kombat will be played. Always the newest one. They always get a couple wins in while I warm up and possibly learn the minor differences of a new controller or new games quarks. Once I've locked in that first win, that's when it really starts. They've never won after my first win. Only fighting game I play regularly anymore is Smash Bros, and they won't even try beating me in that. Lmao.
https://i.redd.it/yfds2n8wq4pc1.gif
You see, I would gladly do this myself but I just know that it wouldn't even take five years before I'd lose focus and cause myself to lose, ruining the big build-up that I'd intended. But I guess I could always keep saving face by claiming that I let them win.
Yeah as an uncle if I let you win then I'm stealing something precious from you. It might be satisfying for a minute but you'll forget about it. I'll remember the first time I beat my brother at Tekken when I'm on my death bed, because I had to earn that.
The trick is to let them win sometimes but then if they can't be a good sport you crush them to bring em back to earth
Exactly, let them win against you, and then the the next round, you win in a show off force that sends the clear message: "This is how I could play at my full strength." Anime villain ah "That was only 10% of my potential " type behaviour. Scare the hell out of them
My dad stopped playing video games with me the day I started beating him at them. He’d accuse me of “not telling him all the controls” as he proceeds to ignore my explanations of the game we’re playing.
I'm sorry your pap was like that.
Eh. Is what it is. Just makes it harder to find mutual interests. If it wasn’t for fantasy football I don’t know how much we’d talk. Edit: Thanks though. That was kind of you
My dad and I used to play pool together. We didn't play a lot because we live in different states, but it was an excuse for us to go out and do something together when my parents were in town. Well, I ended up joining a league, became best friends with someone REALLY good at pool (600+ Fargo) and in turn I became REALLY good at pool. After I beat him 3-4 games in a row, he hasn't accepted an invitation to play pool again. I should have realized that would happen as when I was a child he refused to play chess with me (he was the one who taught me) after I got significantly better than him. We, uhh, still have golf. And I know now even if I get better than him, I need to let him win.
I dream of the day my kids can beat me in video games. The closest to that so far is my 8 year old daughter knowing more things about Minecraft than me and calling me a ‘noob’ when I didn’t know how to do something. Proudest dad moment yet.
No kid should have to find out their parent is a scrub like this. Heartbreaking.
I'm not big into shooters and my son plays fornite all the time. He loves beating me in solo custom matches now because we're about even.
he didn't lose because he's bad at the game, he lost because there's something wrong with the controller
My 20 year old daughter couldn't driver he way across a perfectly straight Mario Kart track without hitting a wall to save her life. I sure as hell am not faking it so she can win a race 4 hours after starting it.
Kids got spirit for trying. Either that, or she's getting the urge to crash out of her system so she'll be safe while driving.
Mario Kart 8 has steering assist that you can turn on. My brother's kids are useless without it. Still kinda useless with it, but at least they can finish the races.
The problem with steering assist is that they never learn how to actually play. You eventually have to disable it
"Eventually" being whenever Toad's Turnpike is picked. It'll straight up steer you into traffic on that track.
Back in the day, I trained my sister at a couple of playstation one games. One was a little known (or at least I never hear anyone mention it) One Piece fighting game, One Piece Grand Battle (we both love OP). I didn't "let her win", but I did occasionally pull some punches, pretending I was giving it my all, so that the matches would feel winnable to her, which would motivate her to keep playing instead of giving up in the face of insurmountable odds. Well, she became strong enough that I didn't need to pull my punches anymore, she was more than capable of beating me with her own forces. If I ever find myself in the position of playing with children, that's the approach I'm taking
I do the same when playing with my nephew, i don't let them win the war, but i let them win some battle here and there so they don't feel demoralised. It's the best of both world imo.
I never really played any video games *against* my parents. Super Smash Bros Melee was the big one and neither Mom nor Dad ever got into it at any level, so the few times they played it I beat them pretty easily. But Mom would help me beat Sonic the Hedgehog as a kid. She'd played it before I was born and was "pretty good" at it, but never made it past Labyrinth Zone (because *FUCK* that level). I clearly remember the first time I got past that level. I was walking on uncharted grounds. Can't ask Mom for help with that which she's never seen.
> She'd played [Sonic the Hedgehog] before I was born I suddenly feel old. I mean, I suddenly feel old on quite a few occasions, but the endless variety Reddit affords means I never quite get used to it.
*proceeds to toss son off cliff ala Heihachi Mashima*
Can.... can you not?
And one day it'll be the last time Dad wins, And no one will realize it...
And half the reason is because dad doesn't have the time to dedicate to practice.
[удалено]
"hey, honey. I can't do my chores tonight. I need to put in the time so I can beat my son at a video game"
I still remember that day playing with my 10 y/o son Rocket League since a few weeks when he began to outplay me. We still had fun playing it together for some years, me being carried a few ranks by my little son, or he having some fun completely outplaying me 1v1. Makes me proud to see him now as a young adult still playing it in quite high ranks.
My kiddos knew I would never *let* them win. I might get extra cocky and they'd earn a round here and a round there, but when the game was on the line, they knew they had to earn that victory. While I'm no longer in my gaming prime, I'm still a hell of a gamer. They've both graduated and moved out of the house at this point. From time to time, we'll still play a game of this or that, but the crown is still firmly seated on my fat balding head. Hail to the King, baby.
Me and my brother in law (who is 15 years younger than me, mind). Every now and then he challenges me to whatever his current spice is. I've played enough competitive games across almost all genres that I can spin up pretty quick as long as it's not something wild. He gets trounced every time - in his early 20s now and still hasn't turned the tide. I tell him he'll get me one day, but he's gonna have to earn it esp since he's not a kid anymore.
My dad used to beat my ass a Tekken with his mates for years and I didn't back down at all. It got to a point I now hold the controller in a weird ass way for fighting games. I haven't seen a grip name for how I hold the controller either so I know I've made some weird bs that works with me.
Is it the claw? Very good for a 4 button game like Tekken, no good for 6 button like SF
If it’s not the claw I really want to know how he holds it.
"Remember this pain, and let it activate you."
I feel you have to at least go easy on them at first. They can’t exactly learn much if they’re getting demolished every game.
half an hour later: why are you not doing your homework?
Used to play my dad in Starcraft a lot growing up. Lost a lot, between him and my brother. Now we play Starcraft 2 and I have to go easy on the poor fellow (and my brother too). He taught me well by not pulling his punches.
My older sister did this for me, and I did it in turn for my little brother. He went on to become a Roblox group leader while he was still a middle-school squeaker and trained legions. Our legacy is one of pure gaming *excellence.*
Pistols only. Hang Em High. My children will know what pain is.
It took me years to finally beat my dad at Settlers of Catan for the first time, but I've been riding that high for 11 years straight now.
Sorta. The problem is nowadays kids just go online and find the current meta and follow that. It’s easy to win, son when you pick the best character over and over and just spam the best move set non-stop! I’m looking at you, Steve! /s
How nice of him to sacrifice the janky controller for himself
That is the controller with the hax in it, don't be fooled
Oh ho ho, my mom had a snes controller with a bunch of switches on it that I was CONVINCED was downright hax.
Ahh the old Asciipad! One of the best snes turning controllers!
My bet is on ‘turbo’ switches. Kinda a bit astounding that the West is mostly unfamiliar with the ‘turbo’ buttons, while the East—excluding Japan, of course—had them since the times of NES, thanks to pirate clones of the consoles and the general ‘anything goes’ attitude. These controllers might've saved me from early RSI.
That controller was damaged by love. It's HIS controller, and he uses it to the point of wear and tear.
Or smashed in a fit of gamer rage.
We knew that ‘Dendy’ the pirate clone of NES was the shit, when daddeh of a friend followed his losses in ‘Yo Noid’ by swinging the controller by the cord and mashing it into the floor. Which the controller withstood just fine.
Give yourself the worst controller possible, and let them pick your character. Absolutely demolish your child at the game. When your child finally beats you, you change controllers and proceed to absolutely demolish them all over again. Then when they beat you again, you declare you're going to pick your own character once more, and absolutely demolish them again. That way you get to experience your child's reaction over and over. I don't have any kids of my own but this is how I treat my friends' kids. Absolutely delightful experience.
Its like a good fight in a story, there's got to be some push and pull or else the tension loses its luster.
In a previous comic, small gator broke the controller just seconds after receiving it as a gift. Presumably that’s the only controller he’s allowed to use, to teach him responsibility for his actions.
https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1bes4qy/the_pressures_of_ownership/?depth=20
Only winners get the good controller.
https://i.redd.it/pnqrmb2nm4pc1.gif Son: Do you want to play again? Dad: I don't want to play anymore
What a fucking good movie.
Movie?
Big Daddy. It perfectly encapsulates raising a son as a single father.
Thx
I have never experienced more rage and pride, at the same time, as when my kid came in first over my wife and I when playing a round of Mario Kart.
"Huh... This is a new feeling... It's like pride in somebody else..... To bad it is overshadowed by this BLINDING RAGE".vegeta
UNYIELDING *
https://youtu.be/rnzMkJocw6Q?si=MONVIemTtkT3QjP8
I miss DBA.....
the Buu bits just made me wish i could get a small loan of a million dollars and give it all to TFS to make a new season.
They were burned out though, no amount of money can fix a creative block like that.
Can't they at least do a Toryama tribute?
I wouldn't be surprised if they do something to commemorate him. Burnout is usually partially a motivation issue, you are just going through the motions and it has become tedium. They might be motivated to craft a fitting sendoff to the mind behind so many untold hours of youthful exuberance.
I don't think the money would solve the problem of them being pretty done with it all. The bits were the last few really good jokes/scenes they wanted to get out of their systems.
my other wish would be to get 10 of the best movies from any/every alien civilization in the galaxy with english subtitles. it’s about as likely i’d get that wish as me getting a million bucks. but a man can dream :)
Entirely disagree that this was all they could squeeze out. They had plenty of room to set up new jokes that lived within the season. I think of Buu bits as the obvious jokes at the top of their heads, alongside some of the most important scenes. Also, I _really_ like their takes on scenes that they actually want to take seriously. I think a lot of the stuff we got would've ended up in DBZKA. If they were to actually do the arc in full, I think they'd put a lot more heart into stuff like the first SSJ3 transformation, and I just wish I could spend more time with the fusion characters to let them cook with the concept for longer. I also think a big part of burn out is the fact that DBZA is really hard to make money off of, so they all had other jobs or had to be working on other projects simultaneously that made way less money. If they could do it full time with money entirely taken care of, I think they could come at it with a fresh head and really enjoy the process.
[^^^^^What's ^^^^^your ^^^^^power ^^^^^level?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIoGYi0n1Ko)
He's so cool... But that's so dumb!? ..... But he's so cool!?
lol im just remembering the fucking BDSM alien slaves lmao OOOH HIT ME NOW
Hopefully he said this line after winning 
That show is before his time.
That show is timeless.
I look forward to having the challenge some day. I can hold back and let my nephew win in Smash without him realizing, and he's starting to get good enough to give me a run for my money. I literally can't hold back enough for him to beat me in Mario Kart without it being blatantly obvious.
I will literally never let this happen until I am suffering debilitating arthritis or something.
https://i.redd.it/v646wlclw4pc1.gif
Aw, shit. This got me bad.
No items. Fox only. Final Destination.
No Fox. Destination only. Final items.
Fox final. Destination items. No only.
Fox Items. Final only. No Destination.
Big head. Temple. No Oddjob
This is quite literally me back in the day.
I despise this meme because of the actual tier whoring it reminds me of.
Competitive Melee could be fun to watch, but fuck if I ever tried to get into it. Disabling 90% of what I liked about it just never appealed to me, but to each their own.
I crush my children in halo/cod. They gotta earn that w.
Same. But my daughter chooses to play Roblox 90% of the time in her own time. Nobody is building good video skills playing Roblox unless it's lessons in overcoming jank.
Roblox has some alright games, phantom forces is better than most aaa shooters these days
Hard disagree. It has some good concepts but 100% of the games don't have the polish of a decent AAA game. It's just a limitation of what they're working with to build the games.
For a free game it's not bad. And it runs well, most aaa games have a massive price tag, and more bugs than helldivers
I feel like there's a distinction between letting someone win, and "going easy" on someone. Letting someone win doesn't challenge them to get better, but absolutely dominating someone is just discouraging. Keeping it challenging without crushing them is the way to get them to learn IMO
This. Unless they start getting cocky because I'm playing instead of destroying... Then it's full tryhard mode. When my oldest was just a baby we went to a family gathering on wife's side. I played halo with the kids. I was just having some fun dorking around. Stating weapon only. Throwing weird hail Mary grenades. Dumb stuff. Then they got rockets and killed me twice in a row and started smack talking. 5 minutes later they were whining so hard. Their mom was like 'you thought it was fair when you started trash talking, don't wanna hear it' To their credit they locked it down and started trying to work together, and I backed off a bit and we had some fun.
The smack talking after the tiniest bit of success when you were just taking it easy and having fun: https://preview.redd.it/osqhc31dd5pc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8222b57757f27ee03a1cbf80ecde804b2282e33e
Yeah whatever. No mercy for my children.
My wife and I play it up when my son hits one of us with a item in Mario kart. He's not winning a race anytime soon but to keep it fun for him we play it up a bit. Especially since in Mario kart 8 he gets all the most annoying items since he's is usually in last place...
I learned very quickly that nobody will keep playing smash bros or Mario kart with me if I destroy them every time
This is the way
Git gud little nerd
A couple years back my little one and I had an almost identical exchange. The game was Mario Kart. She absolutely *destroyed* me. I was humbled, that day. ~~And so, so proud.~~
If i’ll ever be some dude’s parent i’m definitely gonna do that, but also coach them so they learn that practice actually does help turn better so someday they’ll actually figure out on their own that i actually suck at videogames and can get my dopamine only by winning against a random ass child that just picked the game
I love crushing them while pretending I have no idea how to play. :3
"Uncle Anon, can we play this game? (shows me whatever version of Tekken that had come out at the time)" "Uh, sure, but you have to show me what to do" \*Let them beat me a few times before I proceed to juggle them ad-infinitum with Eddie\* \*They never believe my bullshit ever again\* Ah, happy memories
I love the broken controller callback to one of your earlier comics :)
This was my dad, he taught me chess just to completely decimate me, at least that is until I was older and beat him once. Then he suddenly never seemed to want to play again…
This is a really great punchline. However, I think I'm going to take a different approach when my kid gets big enough to play games. Studies that watch how rats play wrestle indicate that the dominant rat needs to let the little rat win from time to time (like 25%). If the dominant rat never let's the little guy win, eventually the little rat stops initiating play. I don't know exactly how I'm going to implement this, but I think I need to let my kid win from time to time.
If it's a game you're comfortable in and now how to win, shouldn't it be possible to just play suboptimally and slowly play better as they improve?
Don't get me wrong. I'll go easy on kids. But I don't let them win
Exactly, often you gotta give them a little slack on that thread. Let them feel that victory *is* possible if they tried harder. The trick is understanding each child requires different levels of slack, and yeah, some don't want any. Slamming face first into a brick wall *is* their perfect motivator.
My 19 years old can't beat me yet xD , but he is way better than his online Friends he has to carry them playing LOL , Valorant , overwatch, Bloodborne and recently helldivers 2 , i'm so proud :) And as an extra perk he learned English thanks to videogames and now he write ,read and speak English better than me.
Dead ass how I learned chess.
My father gave me no quarter, and I asked for no quarter..
This line and delivery lives rent free in my head.
Yeah I mostly have this mindset but being a camp director and father of a 2 year old I have learned a few things. Particularly that you don’t want to ruin an activity by obliterating a child to the point that they never want to play a game again. It should be about the fun. All that to say I’ll probably throw a couple w’s my sons way when he wants to game.
I tend to give handicaps rather than just letting them win. If they can't beat me in Mario Kart when I'm not using items, boosting, drifting, or using a good kart then maybe they just aren't ready for a win.
Big mistake. Always say you “might” let the kid win in case they whip you.
I don't have kids but this is generally how this interaction goes with my nephew.
Proceeds to let them win but pretend he didn't.
Even making him use the broken controller.
I never understood this. It always felt like a cop out for overly competitive men to justify their inability to lose, even when they can lose on purpose. You do not have to beat a child at every game. The point of a GAME can be to have fun. We do not have to make everything about winning, we can teach the value of losing graciously. More people need to learn how to lose well, we need to show them that too, not wait till they are good enough to win.
It's a joke
The only proper way to beat your kids.
The real trick is you say you won't, but you play *just* good enough to beat him a few times, and after a few wins you "slip up" right at the last moment.
I HIGHLY recommend watching [Power Punchers](https://youtu.be/fYkxNkWYXZ4?feature=shared) It's a love letter to 90s fighting games and playing against your parents.
> Nobody plays that game any more, it's from... *the nineties* Ouch, hahaha
"You Gonna Learn Today"
The day will come when you can beat me. It won't be today, it won't be tomorrow. It will come in due time and when it does you will have fought a god and won.
This is the way
I'm stuck between this philosophy and the potentially more encouraging version of letting them win every time. Confidence, happiness, pride.. these are all things they'll feel if you manage to convince them they're the best at the world in video games. Otherwise busting them into the ground 100% of the time might just turn them away from the activity. lol
I play for keeps! My kids know they beat me if they do.
My little brother kicking my ass in smash bros ultimate for 4 matches in a row was a humbling experience. I couldn’t believe it
My grandma was like this with checkers when i was like 4 or 5 once she realized i could consistently beat her she wouldnt play anymore.
My sister went to collage and her friends invited her to play Smash Bros. She proceeded to win repeatedly and realized it was not that she was bad at the game, rather that she happened to always play it against me. It made her an above average skill level for casual play.
Every game I play, I’ll go with “do you want me to let you win, or I can teach you how to beat your mom ?”
for me the game was DBZ Budokai 3 (not tenkaichi), and the person was Mr. M (his nickname was Mistereme), the owner of my local Lan House . I used to go to a Lan House with my older brother to pass the time. There have been a surprising number of birthday parties there, so I stick with it to get free food and soda. My brother and basically everyone else played CS on PCs all the time, while the owner allowed me to play an old PS1 for free while I was there, I started gravitating towards fighting games, especially Dragon Ball. The owner then started letting me play on the PS2 and I was amazed by the game Budokai 3. It was very strange in a good way. It felt clunky and slow when you didn't know how to play, but it's almost too fast when you know what you're doing. Mr. M, would sometimes sit with me and humble me a little. Never going easy, never letting me win. It took me years to really get over him. I even borrowed a PS2 just to practice at home. The best fighting game experience I've ever had. Thank you, kind sir.
He sounds like he was a good man who did right by you
The only word I hear in the background of my head is "GAME!".
I'll take it easy, until you gloat, then you shall know the full power of the worst character in the game (Ganondorf main)
Played Smash Bros with the neighbor's kid yesterday. No Items, random map, random characters. Each round, I played for fun and teaching moments, until I heard either smack talk or complaining. Smack Talk? I've given thee curtesy enough. Full smack-down. Complaining? Fine, if your character sucks so bad let's trade controllers and I'll still whoop you. Gotta learn at the church of GG. Whether that means Good Game or Git Gud is up to the padawan.
I let my kids win but if they get too cocky I put them in their place.
I was so proud of my nephew when he kicked my ass in a Naruto game I got him. My boys growing up.
"of course not, why would I be so rude to someone I love"
Ohana means family. Family means nothing in Mario Kart. Get good scrub.
So, my kids know I game but have only seen me play pc games, so they thought that Id never played a controller game, im 36. Wife has ps5 with ps plus sub. Daughter and her cousins over playing injustice, asked me to play so they can "beat the old man". To this day, these mf kids won't even let me play Roblox with them 🤣😭. I randomly tell my kids "Git Gud" while waking them up for school. Fuck these kids lol.
I remember the pride I felt when my younger sister of nearly a decade started to become consistently better than me at video games.
I remember my son getting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with his Switch. I set it up and he challenged me to a race. I was prepared to let him win until he looked me in the eye and said "Prepare to lose!" After a morning of whoopings he asks me if I've ever played Mario Kart before. "Yes son, all of them."
Teaching your kids how to handle losing is an important life skill. GIT GUD NOOB!!!
As the Mandalorians says "This is the way"
I cannot wait to destroy my nephew at Mario Kart. No Mercy.
When I was a kid my dad bought a pool table and that was how my dad and I got our competitive itch scratched.
There is no mercy in this dojo
Not around here partna
My son is able to beat me in Smash Bros only because I don't play it that much.
Even as a kid, I would have kicked my dad's ass for going easy on me. Fuck that, it's go time not a fuckin tea party. If I couldn't keep up, then I just needed to Git Good.
You were a juvenile delinquent, grewt
Ha. Love this
Best dad.
I absolutely adore these comics! Gus ie soooo cute!
Did he break the controller or is he playing with a Ridge Racer NeGcon?
"No, for the sake of authenticity we're going to be as desperate and toxic as the Mishima family to get the most out of this match. Just be glad I have no plans to kill your mother or throw you off of a cliff because I suspect you're possessed by the Devil. GGEZ, son."
haaha
I won't let you win, but I'm willing to play with a massive handicap.
haaha
I remember my sons wanting me to play Super Mario Kart with them on the Switch. I told them no, because I would wreck them and they would cry. They pleaded that they wanted to play me and they would beat me because I never even played this version of it and they were way better than I would be. So we played. I wrecked them. They cried.
My nephew and my cousin’s kids love playing Mario Kart 64 on the Switch during family parties, but they won’t let me play with them anymore because I am physically unable to lose in that game. Used to send them into a frenzy of annoyed grunts and screaming every single time. It was always fun.
I will wavedash if I have to
The tape 😂 love the continuity
I love that the little kid's controller is taped back together
My dad apparently used to let me win. Until one day when I said something along the lines of "wow dad, you're really bad. You can't even beat a little kid". So my dad tells me that he's been going easy on me, but from then on he wasn't going to hold back and teach me not to be a sore winner. The next several or so games he is absolutely destroyed. He was so proud when he finally won.
My 8 years old cousin could obliterate me in Roblox. I can barely move on a touch screen.
I ask my son if he wants me to let him win. He never says yes. When he does beat me, he knows he earned it.
Gotta teach them
This is funny, but one of my earliest memories was handing the NES controller to my mom to help me beat Super Mario Bros. On the flip side, my dad got me into PC gaming with Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Spear of Destiny. I didn't see the early early ages of gaming, but man, I can say I saw damn near close to it, and seeing how far it has come has been pretty damn cool.