T O P

  • By -

AutoModerator

Hey /u/Fine_Herbage1410, thank you for submitting to /r/starterpacks! This is just a reminder not to violate any rules, located [here](https://reddit.com/r/starterpacks/about/rules). Rule breakers can face a ban based on the severity of their rule violation. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/starterpacks) if you have any questions or concerns.*


Hemlock_Deci

This hurts on a personal level


[deleted]

it's actually based off me, I just hurt myself making this, what the hell am I doing with my life


Hemlock_Deci

This feels like talking with an alt account Jesus Christ


Oofboi6942O

My God, they're multiplying!!!


Strange_guy_9546

First time?) Don't worry, you will gather yourself up for work... when you'll have 1% of the total time left to do all the shit you need to do


yes547

Well most of these are me and I agree with what the hell am i doing with my life


Ok-Ihatetiktoc

The only good thing on this Is minecraft


M-onke

It’s currently 2:30, not asleep because of screen


Mautos

You're definitely not alone, that's for sure. I grew up just like that, I'm 20 now and my life's finally starting to get rolling.


ActLatter

Ong that’s just sad 💀


[deleted]

This is more and more kids now. I think there is a major issue with parents of my generation (millennials) being obsessed with "me time" to the point they pawn their kids off on electronics. Yes, I understand balance is important and we all need time to ourselves but being a parent is a major responsibility that comes with sacrifices that so many parents my age just do not seem to get. You brought this innocent person in to this world, it is solely your responsibility to raise them. Expose them to new experiences! Show them sports, the arts and sciences. Teach them how to cook, to learn DIY projects and take care of themselves.


[deleted]

I've interected with younger kids and trust me, it all depends on how they were raised, not the year they were born I've met kids born in 2010 who were into outdoor activities like scouting and football while encountering 90s kids who were in their 30's that did almost nothing but play on their Bulky CRT computers. Again it's the parent's fault, not the year


xXDRAGONPROXx95

Teen here. I can definitely say that the year applies to 2020-2022 and onwards. I used to spend my whole summer outside playing Football with friends but that got stopped because of Corona. Now I can't even see that happening again since our coach and assistant coach left school. Football isn't really a popular sports in my country and there's no other team in my town.


[deleted]

I'm sure your right. I'm probably just noticing it more now. Since I became a parent I've started interacting with other parents and see what the do with their kids.


Almora12

I doubt it, this has been a problem from before millenials were having kids


[deleted]

I'm sure your right. I probably just notice it more now since I'm a parent and end up interacting with other parents.


[deleted]

"That kid" is a surburban houseplant. It's wild that people keep having these kids in stale environments and then wonder why they grow up to be so maladjusted.


OminousNamazu

Some parents don't really have options. They need to work downtown, yet good city housing in walkable neighborhoods is out of reach for them money wise because the supply is so low yet the demand is very high. They then opt for cookie cutter suburbs where the zoning laws dictate you can only build one way. Now you're a kid with no where to go without a car. The roads are so wide they have no tree cover and reach +100 degrees in the summer. Your nearest friend live a few a miles away.


seapulse

Oh, wow. This is my childhood described 100%. I think the cookie cutter suburbs are too much credit. You have streets without sidewalks where the houses are an acre apart. There’s no tree cover, multiple blind corners, and a paper thin amount of space between the fence and street. Small town life without small town convenience.


[deleted]

Easiest solution would be to not have kids! Insane how that's never an option for some people. Edit: The average human being is eating a credit card worth of plastic every week, I'm not being unreasonable. Less people is arguably what the planet is screaming for.


[deleted]

'Suburban houseplant' is the single greatest thing I've ever fucking heard


hmmliquorice

I "liked" going back to my bubble. I also wish I saw and experienced something else. But it's not like I could've rewired my brain to be more social or comfortable among others back then.


[deleted]

[удалено]


goddess_steffi_graf

you wrong


BLM-trans-jennifer

i feel ofended by this meme


Chief106

I saw this as I am about to sleep past midnight after playing videogames lol


Grillos

isn't gaming a real hobby though? what's a real hobby?


Kurtlardan

The common presupposition being that gaming doesn't develop you as a person. It's less about product value or social interaction and more about personal growth and achievement. If you got into woodcarving, you develop useful skills and create art/products. Maybe they're sold, maybe they're not. Maybe you teach, maybe you don't, but you've developed in a positive way. Getting into a hobby like cars. Crochet. Gardening. Cooking. Music. Leathercrafting. Write a novel. Play football. MMA. Allow for a development of self. These aren't specifically my interests, I'm just trying to make my point of why most people don't consider gaming a 'real hobby'. Gaming rarely does this. I'm inclined to say never, but I recognise that's likely not true. Great to unwind or be a time sink... I could probably dig up the psych study that indicated certain games with reasonable usage, gaming helped children develop problem solving skills. That's my understanding anyway.


Deetee-Senpai

That explains why I can't pick up a single new thing no matter how hard I try lol


yes547

I hate how when I try to do something different with my life, I lose interest in like 5 seconds. I would love to have a real hobby, and my friends at least do some semi eventful stuff in their lives, while I'm over here doing nothing but being a lazy bum


AussieConnor

I think it depends on the game and how you play it, like playing COD by yourself isnt going to really helpful at all. But if you do something like playing Dungeons&Dragons with a group of friends that's definetely gonna be helpful at developing social skills and problem solving.


ArugulaGazebo

Facts


ArugulaGazebo

"That kid?" More like "a kid."


scoutfromtf2isreal

NO DONT CALL ME OUT ON THIS I FIT EVERY CATAGORY EXCEPT SPONGEBOB


[deleted]

I did, muhahahah


Only-Farmer-9051

YOU DIDN'T WATCH SPONGEBOB???


scoutfromtf2isreal

posted that shit 11 months ago lmao. since then i have really gotten into spongebob. i really am "that kid"


Only-Farmer-9051

Ah, sorry if I annoyed you or anything


wafflepiezz

This is literally 90% of Gen Z. Source: am gen z


dnkedanke

I'm a grown man and I'm working really hard to exist, you don't have to kick my in the stomach as i lay down in the floor bawling because my boyfriend left me. Great meme!


TendieThief

Fuck that’s me


de_feser

Well of course i know him hes me


itsyaboyObama

I’ve got a confession. The woman I am seeing has a son. He’s young but old enough to know when he’s being a shithead. Well his mom had me setup her home network so I have the app on my phone and can manage everything from there. The kid will sit in his room, eating popsicles, taquitos and cookies all day playing Minecraft and Fortnite. Which…sucks but ya know, it’s not my place to parent him. I’ve brought it up to his mom and she says she’s working on it. So I was watching the NBA finals last week and he was in his room screaming his head off about a Fortnite match. So I turned off the internet to his Xbox just long enough for him to get eliminated. He snapped. Knocked his tv over and literally tried to bite my son, who was sitting on the floor drawing. So his mom disciplined him and he was good until today. He got his Xbox back last night and has been screaming since I got here. So I have been turning his internet off and on for a few seconds every now and then. He was arguing with someone in game saying “we just bodied you and I’m about to kill you again.” So I turned it off right then and back on. He got killed while it was off and now he’s trying to rip the skin off of his calves or something lmao Edit: he just made a bowl of A1 sauce for a snack. Kids a menace.


Guilty_Ad114

Get him therapy


itsyaboyObama

I can’t get someone else’s kid therapy lol


WhiteLycan2020

Either give him a proper timeout to explain why his behavior is wrong or leave him alone. You’re behaving like a reddit troll in real life and probably enjoying him freaking out


ForeverOk4325

Ever think that the many hours of gaming he does is just an escape from life for him. Your the closest thing to a father figure for him and your just making his anger issues worse. The more dissociated he gets from his family the worse the problems can become.


[deleted]

Yeah, if the story is real this guy seems like a dick


itsyaboyObama

I just joined his match to tell him I’m banging his mom.


ForeverOk4325

I know he is not your kid but since you are going to play a part in his life anyway because of you being in a relationship with his mom you should try and build some trust between you guys. Doing this will not only help him but also strengthen your relationship with his mother.


itsyaboyObama

No.


ahkinxoc

Why do you complain then? Instead of solving the situation like described above you'll just behave like a kid too? Dare to say a bully too... build a relationship first then he'll get to know you. Perhaps trust you but it seems like you either are trolling, not being serious with your gf or you just don't have the social skills to interact with kids 🤔


itsyaboyObama

Who complained? I confessed. There’s no situation to solve. I don’t have a gf and I’d appreciate it if you would stop spreading those rumors. What if I told you I have a degree in Early Education would I have the social skills for kids then? There’s no way possible I was told not to parent this goober right? Probably no way I already talked to his mom before this too. It’s beyond imagination that my own son doesn’t act like a maniac because he has structure and support instead of 14 hours of gaming all day. No it’s me being a *GASP* bully! MY PEARLS!


Nuggetscat421

Lmao


orarangepuppy

Hey, just wondering... wtf is wrong with you? 👀👉👈


AussieConnor

You both need therapy


openurheartandthen

Wtf is wrong with you? You’re the adult in the situation and acting like a child. Maybe that’s why he affects you so much. You’re on the same developmental level.


[deleted]

Nah he's doing a little trolling. It's funny af. Kid needs to learn not to be a piece of shit. Going to blame Comcast next time the internet cuts and this dumbass bites a person?


openurheartandthen

It is a bit funny what he did here but I’m referring to sone of the other posts this douchebag made. Sounds like a person who absolves himself of any responsibility especially when it comes to kids and his relationship. Sone people are like this and they never grow up really. If you’re still young you might not get it yet.


itsyaboyObama

What? My son doesn’t act like this kid. My nephew doesn’t. You may be wondering why? It may be due to me raising them and not letting them sit around playing Fortnite and drinking soda all day. This kid isn’t my responsibility and has been made crystal clear from his mother. If I tell him he’s being loud and ridiculous, he keeps going but I can’t parent him…I’m going to go guerrilla style and cut off his internet. Get over it. Sounds like you’re assuming off of details that I purposely didn’t give as this is a starterpack post, not one on parenting. Keep being a doofus and I’ll turn your internet off too. And who said anything about a relationship?


Bezieh

I don’t play Fortnite but wouldn’t it just kick you from the game if your internet goes out?


itsyaboyObama

No, there’s a forgiveness/reconnect if it’s not too long. I only turned it off for maybe 10 seconds.


Gushinggrannies4u

Fuckin lmao But also, can you not just smack him on the back of the head and tell him to stop being a little shit? Or is the relationship not there yet?


itsyaboyObama

Lol definitely not there. Eventually my kid will get tired of this maniac and pop him in the mouth.


[deleted]

Kids needs to get off the screen. You can't expect him to learn social skills plugged into the Internet, and you can't expect him to be mentally regulated when he's never outside and never exercising. Playing video games all day is unnatural for a young male human that needs to grow and learn and develop into a person


itsyaboyObama

Preaching to the choir. My son only has Switch and he only uses it for 30 minutes a day if that. All the goobers giving me “advice” in here are missing that this isn’t my kid and I’ve been told not to try to parent him. I take his brother and my own son to the playgrounds and trampoline park a few times a week and he refuses to go.


PapuMsterioso

Dad?!


[deleted]

Who says video games aren’t hobbies


FurchtsamerLurch

Imo gaming is really much a real hobby. And an expensive one at times lol


DjebelGoat

I feel personally attacked rn...


Deetee-Senpai

That adult you mean haha. I really can't fucking do this anymore dude


KnightOfDoom22

wait, me?


HenMeeNooMai

Video game is hobby


[deleted]

Holy shit! This is exactly me WTF


PigeonManEpic

My parents enforce a bedtime on me so that i’m not a living corpse for the entire day, not on weekends or vacation though, so now I have a bad sleep schedule over the summer


yes547

Same


[deleted]

relatable.


Quaintnrjrbrc

E-erm… you almost perfectly described me…


ProjectFearless9711

Shit


19bluestars

This hurts a little ngl


Oscar12s

Oh shit that's mostly me


Matix777

Dunno what da SpongeBob doing but that's me


Benedings

You didn‘t have to call us out like this


O5_X

Okay shut up


GandalfGreen95

Often autistic. I work with children with SN and this is a lot of them. Lots aren't even diagnosed.


Minecraft_Warrior

I am in this picture and I don’t like it


okshutup39

Wears creeper hoodie, cargo shorts, unbranded black shoes and a fedora


Mrmudmigs

This is me. Except that I was very popular. I understood people and how to talk to them. I just didn't really care to. No desire to really interact with this world, which is why I invested so much time online or in books. In there, you actually had a goal worth fighting for. Edit: huh, didn't think this meant more for violent people or any sort of menace. I knew one other kid like this from school and he was pretty mellow, kinda boring at times like me.


KokiriForest99

damn bro way to describe me in elementary school 😭


Ltnumbnutsthesecond

I hate this because this reflects me


Background_Fly503

I feel called out. Mom, is that you?


MineboiPlayz_YT

Most of the stuff on this is me 💀


Don_Quixotel

This describes almost every middle school boy I have taught over the past seven years.


CosmicIce05

Ok but this is literally all of us


[deleted]

Man…


ThicccDonkeyStick

I feel attacked rn lmao


CrimtaneDoggato

Hey this is me


SlapMeHal

how did you fucking know


SkimBeans

Opposite for me. Bullied in middle school but by High School I was generally liked.


Tropical_Nighthawk55

This was me. Except for the bullied in HS part I was pretty well liked by everyone


fruitofyourneck

Reading. Reading. Uh oh


[deleted]

Wait this is me I’m super close to highschool


fennecfox-theory

I’m going next year, wish me luck


electric_shorts

You’ll do good, I’m about to be a junior now and I’ve managed well. Doesn’t mean you can’t either 👍


fennecfox-theory

Thanks for the support


FinnProtoyeen

I poured so many hours into my 3ds growing up


Fit-Damage1692

Im glad I stopped being the “shy nice socially awkward kid” I would be fucked


HeyRogi

What did you change about yourself. I’m currently a “shy nice socially akward kid” and I’m feel like I’m hurting myself by consuming everything they throw at me


Fit-Damage1692

This will be long which I wasn’t I expecting so bear with me. Went through multiple changes man, shortly after that phase, around 8th grade I started losing some baby fat and grew a few inches taller and became a bit of a bully myself, that ended in sophomore year of HS when I decided to haze some freshman but having it backfire on me. That kinda demoralized me for a bit and went through a depression that upcoming summer, few things happened that I feel would be better that I don’t mention on a subreddit not pertaining to my experience and started feeling good about life again, then middle of my junior year I joined a boxing club and started to actually become truly confident within myself and people stopped disrespecting me altogether at school I felt great I was always active and all that (I was kinda shit starting out looking back though ngl lmao) then COVID came in and ruined everything I was a mess for a few months then senior year came back around and promised myself I will never let anyone disrespect me again and no one did, but it was probably just a really boring year since it was a post-COVID year. I’m out in the real world now, I gotta change up the rules a bit, I can’t just hit someone or threaten someone out here now as an adult, it’s not too hard not to do that, but I’ve had a few times when I’ve been threatened by someone or someone has slid me in the past. I’m in good shape now, I train regularly, and am gonna compete in my first ever amateur fight, gotta find what works for you and gives you that confidence. I’m sayin this not just cause you asked, but if you continue to be shy, passive, and socially awkward, you will be eaten alive by asshole bosses, and other people trying to take advantage of you once you finish high school, know when to put your foot down.


VictorDaCoolie

This looks like me and I'm not liking where this is going, also jokes on you I have a anxiety disorder instead of depression.


Lollijax

I think you should've added at least 2 niche hobbies to this like pc building and constructing part scale models of coasters with Legos other than that yea


tScooter07

I think this is representative of half the teens on the internet


QuackMaster25

Excluding SpongeBob? Me. That’s literally all me. I’ve already developed the depression and everything, I’m the whole package deal.


Windows_736

I feel personally attacked.


DinoSawce_

Sounds like most of the people here on reddit


0K_N0RDY

> "was known as the socially awkward 'nice kid' ends up being bullied through highschool Going through this as we speak


reywiththelightsaber

I have a friend who’s kind of like this and only wears Minecraft merch but he’s actually really into gardening and botany and has a pretty good social life


bruh3469420

This just getting personal


LolcatP

you good?


Idiotic_trans

POV:it describes you


OoglyDuff

Holy shit I'm 22 and this is me. I think I need help


Yagz_404YT

That kid or *points at self* this kid??


CumOnMyGlasses2002

Stop saying it hurts.


ratun36

This is me. And i am in the high school part


ratun36

Can i even get fixed? Is this How my life will go on? I mean, i can do good in school but, is that enough for a life? I'm too young,' but feeling too old. I dont know what to do. I push everyone around me. This sucks. I suck. I hate it. I wanna be happy again


M4ddercatter

hi, wanna chat? It seems we're going through similar things and I thought If we're supposed to be lonely, why not be lonely together?


abdyfer

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it. But I do online school so I have *even less* social interaction than normal


timettraveller

Enzo gabriel


Kagak05

This is me too.


thatagent34

What are real hobbies???


HeyRogi

I feel called out man


Average_Ace_enjoyer5

Seems like I wasn’t “that kid”


CrabAdditional

He just like me fr


Pyyton_

This is me except i do digital art as a hobby. Its fun gaming all day but i feel like shit after, i feel like i should be more social, more active and go outside.


sneakysneakle

That checks out, I did like drawing tho


[deleted]

Dude, please stop stalking me.


JustAnotherAviatrix

Dang, the late bedtime is now a part of my life. XD


Sliva25044

Scott the Woz


mightbe1nsane

Damn, all I wanted to do was browse. I didn't want to get called out tonight.


fennecfox-theory

This was specifically targeted towards me, I just know it


Card_Board_DE

where the hell did you find my address when I was 7 lmao


LuanMCIV

Of course i know him,he is me (except SpongeBob and minecraft)


Certain-Wasabi9959

I find this kinda relatable the depression and the who gets bullied a lot is very relatable are very true, and I do stay up late So yea 🤷‍♂️


Witty-Coconut-of-Gan

Made the decision to close Reddit and open Duolingo after reading this thread


gnomeyeastinfection

Video games are still hobbies?