Be me
>programming since I got up
>don't have much time to program because job sucks up all my time
>dont know the best solution to a problem so decide to take a small break
>open rocket league
>start 1v1 match
>4 minutes later
>dad walks in my room, demanding I go pretend to be a stone age nibba
>pic related
>wants me to dig some dirt for his crops
>wants me to carry multiple buckets of water
>wants me to plow literally fields
>no.jpg
>thisIsRealLifeNotMinecraft.wav
>tells me that I'm addicted
>tells me that he's getting rid of the Internet again
>fuckyou.png

Only my girlfriend and programming bring me joy and you reduce my capacity to interact with both. Fuck you.

@rutee07 I'll grief his real house soon enough

Gardening is a golden opportunity, hear me out.
Measure/track everything; plot size, water used, number of seeds (estimate), weather conditions.
Model in software (custom that you build)
Plants grow and mature at a fixed rate, nothing you can do to make it faster
Track harvest and research methods to improve bounty, code into software (tracking high in hot days, increase water by X)
Now you have experience of writing software, you are doing something outside, and you and Dad have a common goal.

@theKarlisK Maybe, or maybe he's just a jerk. Mine was the latter no matter what I did or said or tried.

@Root @theKarlisK there are a non zero amount of people who have no connection with their children but are emotionally stunted so that they cannot bond with their child so they grasp at anything they can in order to form that bond before they die.

There was a song by Harry Chapin about it https://youtu.be/KUwjNBjqR-c

@bkwilliams I once suggested writing software but he thinks that my hard work learning to code is a waste. Wants me to be like him and do manual work.

The only thing he wants from me is that I'm self sustained, but I can't be because I'm still in uni (but I'm going to make sure I'm going to get my own house at the end of next school year). My mother tricked me into staying here and now I regret it deeply.

My father promised that if i get a job, he will keep the Internet as it is but he broke that promise by getting rid of the contract and making me fend for myself using LTE. I'd set up my own Internet but the set up cost is too high for now.

@theKarlisK my dad literally doesn't give a shit about any of my hobbies. He doesn't try and understand. He's never spoken to me. He just comes up to me and demands I do things. Kinda like a dictatorship.

@Root I feel your pain my dude. My is definitely the latter.

@theKarlisK I'm jealous of people with dads that are actually parents. My girlfriend's dad helps her, talks to her and is a really cool dude. I've spent considerable amount of time at her house to know this.

@bkwilliams and well, maybe that's it. I keep threatening that I'm going to move far far away, and they keep grasping harder and harder. When I'm finally independent, I'm not going to talk to them for years.

@Nanos we're not farmers. My parents basically have a plot of land that they just grow things on.

@Nanos i mean, I know. I'd love to do something normal like washing the dishes or any other chore but *no* I have to be a farmer.

Also, wtf is a that thing in the end?

@Nanos you had fun right, or at least enjoyed your parent's comlany? And were you pressured into doing it?

@Nanos i guess we're in a similar boat, you possibly even worse. I'm going to fight the resistance though.

@Nanos that's insane. I couldn't imaging doing that.

@Nanos sorry, but you reminded me of this scene https://youtu.be/pd9As_DlH6E

Man this thread is deep. Makes me feel lucky that I never grew up with my ‘father’.

Genuinely

@-AJ- why is that?

@c3ypt1c it sounds like a lot of unnecessary pressure.