Probably not, but the Steam Deck would blow his mind.
That kid was the WORST
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would’ve shat myself over VR and so many other things.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I would still shat myself over vr if i could ever play it
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He would admire my game library, maybe even hate me for it. I wouldn’t tell him I don’t play any of them.
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah I’m what my 14 y/o self never wanted to become and I’m fine with disappointing him lol
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Look man, If I wanted to disappoint two people at once I’d take my parents out for dinner or find a couple of neurotypicals and have a threesome.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If dinner goes well enough with your parents, maybe you can kill two birds with one stone.
vanillama@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Made me actually laugh out loud
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’m going to enjoy torturing my 14-year-old self. My 14-year-old self was a shithead. But I was raised in a conservative Catholic house, and at that age I firmly embraced the version of reality common among the Fox News set. I was that annoying conservative high schooler. Sure I was repping hard, but I was still an idiot.
Now I’m a late-30s trans woman, about to celebrate 8 years of marriage to my wonderful husband.
The things I can say. I’m going to haunt this kid’s dreams.
vanillama@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I’m happy you found yourself and your husband, that’s awesome!
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Thanks!
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Haha oh fuck yeah!
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Hell yeah she would. I’m relatively safe and no longer being traumatized, that’s all she ever wanted.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
14-year-old me would not be impressed, but 24-year-old me would be.
The difference is experience and understanding what the hell we’re all up against.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Good answer
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That little fuckhead got me into this mess.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m playing video games all day every day. He would be amazed. It’s adult me knows it’s bad
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m one of the few people who’s 14 yo self would fucking admire, mostly for stupid teenage horny reasons but also video game industry reasons.
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You work in the cultured video game industry?
You’re doing the lord’s work 🫡
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even better (by 14 yo me standards), I met a pretty girl online, whom I later married and got into the industry (albeit, less cultured? Lol).
When questioned by my childhood self why I am not making games myself, I point to my backlog and we both nod in agreement before I thoroughly wreck him in Smash Bros.
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not sure if I’d be proud or disappointed.
trigger warning
By age 10, I’d already decided I was going to kill myself at 24, and I was looking forward to it, assuming I hadn’t already died by then. By my 14th birthday, I was doing my annual countdown from 10.
I don’t know if I’d be excited that I found things that made life worth living, or consider myself a failure for getting it wrong when I tried. Reflecting on that age, I don’t think myself an idiot or anything, I just see a kid who tried their best with what they had, and had already given up on what seemed like an inescapable situation. I feel bad for 14 year-old me, and I’m not sure I’d be able to face that kid without feeling completely destroyed.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Why 24? If you don’t mind asking. That’s kinda odd number.
Like i chose 18, as im an adult by then and all the drug lectures at school painted a picture that I’d be offered drugs everywhere. So the plan was to OD at 18th birthday, seemed kinda nice way to go and a better alternative than become communal Fleshlight in the prison. Not that there was even any realistic threat of that happening, but thats in hindsight.
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
From a school assignment asking what I would be like at 25 years old. I decided that I never wanted to be 25.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So, I don’t know if there’s some kind of psychological phenomenon at play here — but it sounds like something very similar to a circumstance my mom went through (albeit, the stakes were much different).
She used to smoke, and when she decided she wanted to have a kid (eventually me) she gave it up. What she told herself was that if she quit and wanted to start back up at 65, ok? Who cares, she’s already old at that point so it’s not like it’s worse than having smoked for the previous 45 years.
Eventually never went back to them. She is actually repulsed by cigarettes now.
I think what I take from that is my mom didn’t really give up cigarettes, at least not psychologically. In her mind she could go back at any time and there was no issue, she’d just go back to not smoking (and she didn’t even do that, she just quit). I wonder if maybe a similar thing happened to you here? You gave yourself a goal so far ahead in the future that you also gave yourself ample time to grow — even if that goal was inevitably death. It’s almost like sewerslide was your way of equalizing the playing field.
Idk, I could be wrong — I’m glad you didn’t, though.
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I accredit proper medication, scaring the shit out of my friends and family who I thought would have been happy if I were gone, and LARGELY that change in mindset that you’re talking about.
Thank you for sharing that story
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I just want to hug him and tell him and anyone his age that “teenage/school years are the best years of your life” is a bold-faced LIE.
It gets better.
It gets WAY better.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Leaving a small town, with small people, with small minds was a revelation
I was finally able to start becoming who I am, rather than what was needed to survive
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Am happy for you and hoping for the best of you in the future :D
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“teenage/school years are the best years of your life”
I think it’s a point in your life when you are old enough to do things you’ve never done before but young enough to still have plenty of room to take risks, fuck up, and come out better for it.
Not the apex of your career or the peak of your romance life or anything. But the moment when anything is possible and you shouldn’t feel hedged in by obligations or fear of failure.
osanna@lemmy.vg 3 weeks ago
At 14 I was self harming and only couple years from my first suicide attempt. I don’t do either now, so yes, probably
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Listen, I’m not here to impress a mentally ill child. But also no.
ftfy.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Look, I’d like to see that little shit do better.
Lawyerator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If I had advice to give my younger self, I’d have to be very careful about the whole causality problem. At 45 I have two awesome kids aged 5 and 2. I have an amazing wife who multiplies both my happiness and ability to make a living. Both my wife and I were previously divorced. I wouldn’t change anything that might prevent me from meeting her and helping to bring my kids into the world.
If I had perfect temporal guardrails that would ensure this family path, I’d tell my younger self that it works out pretty well in the long run, but huge mistakes were needed to forge me into who I am today. Also, buy Nvidia stock.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
14 y/o me would be pretty damn jealous.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a good feeling
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, 14 y/o me had a lot of shit to wade through before he could be me.
0ops@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Probably not, but I’m not very proud him either soo…
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
He’d probably give suicide a lot more consideration.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
14-year-old me would be shocked that I’m even alive at 38, let alone living comfortably with a loving family.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think 14 year old me would be most disappointed that I’m no longer catholic. She’d probably be a mix of angry and excited that I’m trans. Shocked and confused when I explain to her that her parents’ marriage is really really bad and she’s going to need therapy for the way her dad treats her. Then she’s going to be kinda pissed when I tell her that her dad is right about her needing to do better in school, it’s just that he shouldn’t be yelling at her until she self harms about it. She’ll be proud I’m still friends with her friends and that I got out of Ohio to somewhere cool.
Oh then she’s going to be incredibly disappointed I married someone with tattoos, especially since I’ll call her a classist little shit about it.
nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
14-year-old me would also be very disappointed that I’m no longer religious. She would be afraid for me because I have gay and trans friends.
Poor little Nicki. She was brainwashed and didn’t know better. Fortunately, she got better after her first semester at university.
STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I dunno about “proud”, 14-year-old me was around when saying “gay” was usually a punchline, or an insult. Maybe he’d be surprised about my ex-boyfriend. Or my current boyfriend.
Whatever problems he might have with my current self, he’d definitely come around after all the insider trading information I’d give him.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Real talk, i was on Accutane back then and i seriously don’t remember much of my life between 13-15yo. I was only supposed to be on it for 6 months but insurance crap left me taking half doses for a couple year. The pros of that time are, ill never have a pimple again… cons include, i have extremely dry skin all the time, i tried to murder my mom, i tried to kill myself several times, i have limited memory of my early teen years, it took me years afterwards to feel “like me”. Would 14 year old me be proud of me? He’d probly pull a knife on me and forget it ever happened.
Ha ha sorry got a little dark there for a second. IDK if its even available anymore but stay away from that crap if it is.ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I had no idea it could do all that.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was also on Accutane in high school. The worst was after swimming in a pool – the chlorine made my face and lips literally crack. Never tried to kill anybody, at least.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m an incredibly lucky man
I’ve led a life that even I sometimes have to remind myself isn’t a dream
I have loved deeply, been married, divorced, engaged again to the person who is my best friend
I have travelled, seen amazing things, lived in a few countries and experienced things I couldn’t have imagined
I have studied at university, as well as getting a trade and progressing a very long with that
I have been wealthy, I own some stuff that the younger me would think is pretty cool, but I have few material possessions now because “stuff” doesn’t really matter to me
I have lived in some of the biggest cities in the world, and now I enjoy peace and quiet in one of the most beautiful places in the world
The porn I create has tens of millions of views, I’ve done things that are wild, creative and on occasion, sexy
I’m the luckiest bastard on Earth
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The porn I create has tens of millions of views, I’ve done things that are wild, creative and on occasion, sexy
Username checks out
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t believe in false advertising
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
more people need to make pornos, it’s a rite of passage
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not something I recommend
Mine is performance art more than porn, but for those who enjoy it, they really like it and that’s lovely for them
I just think it’s funny
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would just encourage 14 year old me to knock my dad out until he figured out I wasn’t his beast of burden to yell and scream at. The last time he laid hands on me was 14. At the time I didn’t realize I physically intimidated him.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I think i would be mostly proud of myself. I did a lot of things right, but recently i keep asking myself the question “would i want to spend time with myself”? Like if there was a perfect clone of myself, same mindset, same body, same everything, would i like them?
Most of my time, the answer has been “Yes”. Now, i’m starting to respond to it with “no”, actually not. I’m just not the kind of person myself that i myself would like to be around; ironically that’s what makes me more popular among other people, it seems. So i’ve traded liking to be around myself to others liking to be around me. I still like myself, but i wouldn’t wanna be with another version of myself, if that makes sense. Of some things, there better exist only one of it, if you know what i mean.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably not 14-year-old me, but 12-year-old me, yes, because I used to lie to my classmates that I lived in a three-story geodesic dome home with a hot tub on the top main floor, and now that I am an adult, by complete and total happenstance, I live in a three-story geodesic dome with a hot tub on the top main floor.
I am not attempting to defend my lying, I know it was stupid, it was foolish, and I regret it to this very day, but it is interesting that it became the truth eventually.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I always wanted a geodesic dome house!
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
They’re fine…until you see the monolithic concrete dome home!
I want a house that laughs at tornadoes, earthquakes, and the rare simultaneous tornadoquake.
OR3X@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
14 year old me would be very impressed with the things I have in my garage, but I’m not sure he’d be impressed with a depressed man in his 30’s.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i transitioned, my 14 year old self would cry from joy
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
More than anything he’d probably be enlightened by the fact that I like banging dudes too.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Considering how horny I was at 14 I’d have been stoked to know there was even more sex I could have.
Shame I not even a little bi.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
Well as long as you did your due diligence, I’m sure no one will complain.
EonNShadow@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Relatable lmfao
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did he think he’d stop banging dudes when he got older?
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No, he didn’t realize that he totally wanted to