Help! This isn't supposed to happen?!

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:10 pm

OK, I went to have a shower this morning at about 11:00, and I left the computer on. When I came down quarter of an hour later...I'm so traumatised I can't say it...here goes...my Dad was playing Morrowind!!! I mean, what the hell is going on there? 50-year olds shouldn't be playing my computer games!! (Apologies @fable

) I've only managed to wrest control of the mouse and keyboard from him now, almost eight hours later. I need help! What can I do?? Has anyone else come through a horror like this and survived with their dignity intact? This is too much...

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:34 pm

my dad (50) is an avid bust-a-move player, but that's a wierd puzzle game, so technically he's allowed. basically, buy him a cheap games console with some horribly addictive game to lure him away from the beloved PC. or sabotage it, and blame it on him, and threaten that you may need a new one if he does it again.

OR get him hopelessly hooked on gaming so that he pays to get the PC upgraded.

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:37 pm

LOL Sounds like your dad has been a computer-gamer for sometime, unknown to his son...

My father bought a computer in April, after years of pursuasion from us (all my family) even to go to the Akihabara, Tokyo's famous eledctrical stores district. When me and dad went there, he was so impressed by monitor, ("wow, they are so beautiful", said he, looking at the display of displays

). Then, I found a computer with game of Go in it, and shown it to him. As a master of the game, he immediately began playing against the machine. After 20 minutes, he came back by saying, "it's not bad, but not my standard, really".

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:39 pm

Originally posted by Robnark
OR get him hopelessly hooked on gaming so that he pays to get the PC upgraded.

It's a good idea

, but seeing as I'm going off to Uni in a couple of months, my efforts would probably be wasted on him getting a replacement so he can play when I've taken the computer with me...

Maybe I can get him a Gameboy

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:39 pm

Oh, and my dad will be 63 next weekend, and now sends me email every week.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:41 pm

Originally posted by Minerva
LOL Sounds like your dad has been a computer-gamer for sometime, unknown to his son...

I don't know about that...he's mainly played Tetris on his laptop. I tried to get him to play BG once, but he just went around Candlekeep talking to all the cows, saying "This isn't very good is it, they don't say anything!" and being annoyed that he couldn't hold a different conversation with every commoner in the game

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:42 pm

@Kam: hmmm... get him to buy you a new one for uni (with better specs) so he can keep the one with morrowmind?

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:45 pm

originally posted by Kameleon
I don't know about that...he's mainly played Tetris on his laptop. I tried to get him to play BG once, but he just went around Candlekeep talking to all the cows, saying "This isn't very good is it, they don't say anything!" and being annoyed that he couldn't hold a different conversation with every commoner in the game

yes, my parents both do that. they're perfectly happy with a game where you fire bubbles around a screen, or twizzle blocks about, but introduce a bit of realism and they expect real life.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:50 pm

Originally posted by Robnark
yes, my parents both do that. they're perfectly happy with a game where you fire bubbles around a screen, or twizzle blocks about, but introduce a bit of realism and they expect real life.

You've hit the nail on the head there - the weirdest question I think I've had to answer today was regarding whether the zodiacal month in which you make potions affects their potency, and hence whether he should keep the book about the 13 constellations

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:54 pm

lateral thinking to the exclusion of good old fashioned common sense there, i feel

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 1:37 pm

@Kameleon:
Your computer has been contaminated! There is only one solution: You must get rid of it. Tell your old man that Morrowind and the computer are his . . . and he has to buy you a new one, preferably with one of the new Athlon XP2200+, 1 GB of DDR Ram and a GeForce4 Ti4600 in it.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 1:43 pm

Originally posted by HighLordDave
@Kameleon:
Your computer has been contaminated! There is only one solution: You must get rid of it. Tell your old man that Morrowind and the computer are his . . . and he has to buy you a new one, preferably with one of the new Athlon XP2200+, 1 GB of DDR Ram and a GeForce4 Ti4600 in it.

I'll try that as soon as I've come up with a master plan to clear my parents' overdraft, shall I?

I need cost-efficient solutions here, guys

Nice try though

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 1:51 pm

password-protect the PC? hide all the icons?

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 2:09 pm

Originally posted by Kameleon
I'll try that as soon as I've come up with a master plan to clear my parents' overdraft, shall I?

Solution: Twelve months, same as cash.

Mysteria · Post by **Mysteria** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 3:37 pm

even weirder?

Well, it's my dad actually who got me hooked onto computer games ...

The first game I ever actually played was the EF2000 as my father is a plane simulations fan. Afterwards, he wanted to know more about other games and bought a magazine ...

I read the magazine and he asked me what I liked most. I said 'the Dig' and he bought it ...

After that, I was lost to games.

I'm fortunate ... he rarely ever plays now, leaving me to squat the computer.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 3:57 pm

Ahhh...The Dig...I must've gotten stuck so many times playing that one! Especially where that guy got killed and then came back to life - it just seemed that there was nothing else I could do...never completed it and it's all forgotten now. Thanks for that trip down memory lane

Ode to a Grasshopper · Fri Jun 28, 2002 9:36 pm

@Kam-Oh no! My grandma discovered computer games, and now every time she comes over she's always hogging the PC.
It's so terrible when old people who have never played video games before suddenly discover them, isn't it?

Mysteria · Post by **Mysteria** » Sat Jun 29, 2002 1:09 am

Originally posted by Kameleon
Ahhh...The Dig...I must've gotten stuck so many times playing that one! Especially where that guy got killed and then came back to life - it just seemed that there was nothing else I could do...never completed it and it's all forgotten now. Thanks for that trip down memory lane

I was royally stuck at one place too ...
I spent days trying to figure it out, I was really motivated.

Finally, it was just one tiny place I hadn't noticed before that one had to click on ...

lol

I did complete it, took rather long, and even played through it a second time. So, if you ever pick it up again and get stuck again, you know whom to ask

Hm, I'm glad my grandparents haven't taken to playing too ...

!

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sat Jun 29, 2002 2:13 am

Well here is an event that occured a while ago.

We have a GameCube hooked up to the big TV. My younger brothers were playing it one day (Rogue Leader) and my uncle comes over. Says something about having an interest in flying and wants to have a go. Now this game contains actual bits from the Star Wars trilogy, "Use The Force Luke", "The Force Is Strong In This One" and "That Death Star Is Operational" and other nifty sound bits.

Now my uncle is having some fun, and I tell him to shoot down those TIE fighters, and he says whats a TIE. I say have you seen Star Wars before, he says no and then expects me to summarise the whole trilogy which the game covers in a few minutes.

Not exactly one of the best conversations that I've ever had...

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Sat Jun 29, 2002 3:09 am

Well My Dad never bother to play PC games since he know his son can beat the crap out of him after a real painful experience back on NES 8 bit days

He mostly spent his time listening to classic and nostalgic songs nowadays. But my lil bro is a real pain nowadays. He can be in front of PC for around 8 hrs + and the next scam I'm gonna do is installing some electrical wiring unto the chair so he can feel certain "state of shock' if he's been playing too long