Am I a bad papa?
 

If I'd rather listen to the Dead Kennedys on my Walkman than sit with my son and learn how to play Vice City?

Can you not get your son to listen to Dead Kennedys on your walkman with you then?

they should've put dead kennedys on the soundtrack of the game to avoid families getting torn apart like this.

No, he doesn't like them.

Raymond Scott perhaps?

Seriously,kids love music and are more open minded about it than you think.My friend's son is a serious Spacemen 3 and Crime & The City Solution fan. He's only four.He also thinks that Raymond Scott has sold out.

hehe No, I think our common ground is Sonic Youth. Some of it. He doesn't like it when they get too noisy or weird. He likes parts of Washing Machine but thinks The Diamond Sea is lame, and forget about SYR 4!

We also dig the Beasties together. And Hendrix.

my nephew went to see Metallica and Alice in Chains supported them and now they are ALL he talks about. its Alice in Chains this Alice in Chains that! fuckin mental. its his birthday next week, he'll be 9 and i've to get him "Facelift"

my little sister listens to merzbow.

That's a bit like a recipe for a dysfunctional family,isn't it?

i played black sabbath to my baby cousin and i think i scared her. she likes willie nelson though.

Yeah, I could try that.

Actually, I tried doing VC with my son a couple years ago and he just got pissed off. My hand-eye coordination was shit and I couldn't keep the car on the road. He looked at me and said, "What the hell is wrong with you? You know how to drive, why can't you do this?" like I was messing up on purpose. I think that scared me away from trying again.

He's off to college in a few weeks for the first time, by the way. I'm feeling a little sad about that.

oh he is big kid?
then fuck him!

i thought you were talking about a little kid...

haha I was thinking the same. I thought he was 6 or something.

Oh. So becuz he's all of 18, I should stop caring? Sound advice, thanks.

& for the record, not that I'm a huge control-freak, but still, I'd be loathe to let a 'little kid' of mine play VC.

You can't play vice city???
Learn how to play it, it's way more fun then listening to the dead kennedys.

I'm a real klutz at gaming. I can't handle the controls. No coordination. And I also get bored after about 30 minutes.

tell hime you will play it but then he has to go for a walk with you or something. a drive i dont know.

I think it would be weird if my Dad wanted to playing video games with me.

& it's not that he's asking me to play. It's that he spends so much time playing, that I feel guilty I'm not playing with him. It's a weird parent thing, exacerbated by his imminent departure for college. Clinging Dad Syndrome.................

You are way cooler than my dad.....tell him to get over it.

That's hard fucking core.

Kill The Poor tonight!

i play video games with my daddy all the time...

mine tried and was rubbish at it so left. i think he wanted to talk to me about the birds and bees but didnt have the balls.

Vice City is probably the worst GTA game out there. Be a GOOD papa and get your son a better GTA game.

I think your son is the bad one, wanting to play Vice City instead of listening to Dead Kennedys with his father.

If things continue like this, then one of you is going to need counselling at some point. Why not get it out of the way sooner rather than later and book yourselves in for family counselling now?

My dad fucking pays me to play video games...

"Beat this game by the end of the month and I'll give you $20."

The sad thing is I hardly finish them. I'm not much of a videogame player.

Video games suck. Dead Kennedy's rock. It's as simple as that.

And yeah, you are a bad father.

I'm a bad dad. I wouldn't want to be any other way.

Wow.