fantadomat
Arcane
Show him games and let him chose. Also try to make him enjoy real life and don't let him use the games for escapism until he is 20. Game should't be the core of any life.
I wish I could but I only see him like once every 6 months and his parents are lazy asses who just let him do whatever he wants on his ipad. Seeing him watching stupid try hard morons play video games worries me greatly.Don't let him watch let's play videos on Youtube, that's a huge waste of time and you'll be surprised at how those low effort content can easily attract kids like flies.
I would be so proud. I wanna be like that! I don't think I see him enough to be able to steer him this way. I think I might do what Beastro suggests and get him a cheap PC with a bunch of stuff pre installed.11 years old daughter dictated how I played Divinity OS2
I'm still salty because my kid is better than me in XCOM 2
If he gets hooked on the pc,let him reinstall his windows alone. I still remember when i messed my win 97 a few times. I was carrying it to the other end of town to a garage tech guy to reinstall the windows. After a the first few times i said "fuck it" and asked a friend to make me win cd. It was fun messing around and learning shit.I wish I could but I only see him like once every 6 months and his parents are lazy asses who just let him do whatever he wants on his ipad. Seeing him watching stupid try hard morons play video games worries me greatly.Don't let him watch let's play videos on Youtube, that's a huge waste of time and you'll be surprised at how those low effort content can easily attract kids like flies.
I would be so proud. I wanna be like that! I don't think I see him enough to be able to steer him this way. I think I might do what Beastro suggests and get him a cheap PC with a bunch of stuff pre installed.11 years old daughter dictated how I played Divinity OS2
I'm still salty because my kid is better than me in XCOM 2
Forcing children to use windows is child abuse. Please do not ever, under any circumstances do that. I know this is just a silly Codex joke, but this happens in real life and scars innocent children forever.If he gets hooked on the pc,let him reinstall his windows alone. I still remember when i messed my win 97 a few times. I was carrying it to the other end of town to a garage tech guy to reinstall the windows. After a the first few times i said "fuck it" and asked a friend to make me win cd. It was fun messing around and learning shit.
Suck my dick,retard! I take it mouse and keyboard is far too hard for you.Forcing children to use windows is child abuse. Please do not ever, under any circumstances do that. I know this is just a silly Codex joke, but this happens in real life and scars innocent children forever.If he gets hooked on the pc,let him reinstall his windows alone. I still remember when i messed my win 97 a few times. I was carrying it to the other end of town to a garage tech guy to reinstall the windows. After a the first few times i said "fuck it" and asked a friend to make me win cd. It was fun messing around and learning shit.
Apparently it also gives people tourette's.Suck my dick,retard! I take it mouse and keyboard is far too hard for you.Forcing children to use windows is child abuse. Please do not ever, under any circumstances do that. I know this is just a silly Codex joke, but this happens in real life and scars innocent children forever.If he gets hooked on the pc,let him reinstall his windows alone. I still remember when i messed my win 97 a few times. I was carrying it to the other end of town to a garage tech guy to reinstall the windows. After a the first few times i said "fuck it" and asked a friend to make me win cd. It was fun messing around and learning shit.
So this kid is my nephew and he is 10, he has an ipad and he plays games on it regularly. But they are all shitty tablet games. He likes flying games, and random crap shovelware. He is always asking his dad to buy him some gems or whatever for all the free to play crap. The only 'real' game I've ever heard him play is Minecraft, but he played it so much and maybe has started to grow out of it. When he visits me I set him up with Simpsons Hit & Run and some other stuff and he plays with a gamepad and LOVES it. But I run it from a PC and he has no PC in his house.
Anyway, I see him flying little kid Ipad games and he wishes it could do more, and I think to myself, shit.... imagine if he saw Arma3, DCS, or Microsoft Flight Sim, etc. It would blow his mind. He also plays Minecraft but I see games like FortressCraft which is so much bigger and better. He has never played an RPG, loves sport but never played a sports game. Etc.
So the pros of me trying to get him into real gaming are:
It will grow his mind. Tablet games make you dumb. Real games make you smarter. No debate.
He will be a lot less bored, and with generous me and Steam deals he will have millions of games to play instead of the same 5 shit ipad games.
He will be less of a spazzy noob.
Instead of wasting his time watching cunts like Pewdiepie on youtube, he will be busy playing games himself, and instead of being a drooling social media millennial retard who lives on Facebook and takes pictures of their food, he will be busy googling solutions to quests in some RPG or whatever. Far better.
However the cons of me getting him into gaming are:
He may become a long fingernailed socially retarded nerd loser like a lot of gamers.
His parents will hate me because PC gaming is the only way to go, and it isn't cheap. Especially when you are starting from scratch.
He might resist my teachings because using a keyboard/mouse and having so much to learn will be a chore for him when he is so used to pressing an icon on his ipad and he is flying a plane 5 seconds later.
He can browse games all day on iTunes without any danger, but as soon as he starts using Steam, he is open to lots of troll conversations that wouldn't be good for young eyes, and lots of games that wouldn't be suitable for him. 10 is a bit young for GTA5 etc. It wasn't for me, but he is sheltered.
He is outgoing, sporty, and good in school, and gaming is addictive and may fuck all that up.
So currently the cons outweigh the pros, which is why I have a 10 year old nephew who I never told all about my secret life as a hardcore gamer. There are things about serious gaming that I think would be so good for him, especially compared to what he does now (which is shit), but I'm not sure it would be a good thing long term. Maybe it would be better to let him discover his own hobbies? Or should a good uncle try to guide and help?
Forcing children to use windows is child abuse. Please do not ever, under any circumstances do that. I know this is just a silly Codex joke, but this happens in real life and scars innocent children forever.If he gets hooked on the pc,let him reinstall his windows alone. I still remember when i messed my win 97 a few times. I was carrying it to the other end of town to a garage tech guy to reinstall the windows. After a the first few times i said "fuck it" and asked a friend to make me win cd. It was fun messing around and learning shit.
Give him computer from the nearby trashcan and CRT display, install Heretic, Doom, Fallout and bunch of action games like Gods.His parents will hate me because PC gaming is the only way to go, and it isn't cheap.
Especially when you are starting from scratch.
Don't connect computer to the Internet. Problem is solved.He can browse games all day on iTunes without any danger, but as soon as he starts using Steam, he is open to lots of troll conversations that wouldn't be good for young eyes, and lots of games that wouldn't be suitable for him. 10 is a bit young for GTA5 etc. It wasn't for me, but he is sheltered.
They now all play popamole games and MMOs. With the niece it's somewhat different because though she played pointless iPhone games I am a little bit hopeful because she now dies
Don't give kids the Internet early, or it will ruin them completely.