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What would you have done in this situation?

What would you have done in this situation?

  • The same thing. You did nothing wrong.

    Votes: 26 44.1%

  • I would have at least said something about the guy letting his kid watch.

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • I would have shown him the Chill of Despair

    Votes: 23 39.0%

  • I would accept his friend request

    Votes: 5 8.5%

  • I don't know...

    Votes: 4 6.8%
  • Total voters
    59
Rickyraws

Rickyraws

This mean you don't like me?
So I was minding my business, eating my curds and whey when all of a sudden I run into a gentleman in player matches with a Sonya icon. Having known someone with a similar name in real life (Sony) I decide to accept his challenge even though the displayed stats insinuate that he is not exactly REO. The poor masochist chooses Kitana and I choose the one true Empress. After Kitana loses (#what else is new #Shitana #Laosboyz) he chooses Sonya. It is at this moment that I realize that what I hear is not in fact the voices in my head and are instead the static riddled conversation of a man and his son. His son sounds young. Like really young. Anyhoo, I pay no mind to the complex and philosophical musings in word form that is typical of a middle age-toddler conversation. But then I realize the child is commentating on what is actually going on in the match we are playing.

Now, I'm old skool. Back in my day Tom and Jerry was the norm, and we were more worried about cooties and tree houses than we were about the latest gadgets and iPhones of the privileged youths of today like @EMPR_MURK . Hell most people here were kids themselves when they first played MK. By today's standards Tom and Jerry is considered gratuitously violent, and some children have unfortunately replicated to lethal effects the things that they have seen on TV. But that's not to say that such a blanket statement is prevalent in all cases. Not all children are the same. Hell some kids are even more cool with violence than some adults. With that said, I felt strangely uneasy whenever I landed Mileena's b21 1+4 dude to how painful, bloody and visceral it now seemed knowing the kid was watching, not to mention the X-rays. So I started altering my combos, and ending each match with a grab. The matches were close due to me being a good guy Ricky and sandbagging. But this is the real world, and so I wouldn't actually let him win. I don't run a charity organization. After match 5 the hispanic American (I assume this due to him sounding like DEA agent Steven Gomes from Breaking Bad) was hype and happy by how close he thought he was getting the matches to go with his Sonya then proclaimed that we should play one more match. I should mention that I was talking to this individual albeit indirectly. You see I realized a few days ago that I actually make a very good D'Vorah and Mileena impression IRL and so was canonizing the battle as it went along. His son was cheering him on, and asking questions like 'why does she do that?' whenever I rolled or 'are they bad sisters daddy?' or 'is she dead?' during Sonya's X-ray. Since it was the last match, I decided to give them a show. I again allowed the match to be very close, but this time let Steven Gomes win. As a fellow father, I can sympathize with wanting to look like a hero in front of your little guy, so I lost and heard the both of them roar with joy as the little man's dad finally took a match when it counted. Excited, Mr. Gomes asked if I could add him as a friend.We exchanged goodbyes and dispersed.


Everything was fine. Until my alter egos started quarreling.

-You should have said something about his kid watching. How could you condone this?!
-The fuck is wrong with you?! You should have gone all out and hit him for 45% into a mix up then teabag that fool and fatality.
-You should have screamed obscenities into the mic and proclaim "You gon learn today'' before switching to Sub Zero and showing his son that the corner is a very harsh place
-Add him and give him more shows. Perhaps you can teach him one day to not be a scrubcicle.


All in all, I do not know if I handled that situation in the most Lin Kuei of ways. As a man who does not typically make mistakes, I have been having doubts.




There is still time to make this right. But I wonder if there's even a wrong to right...
 
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redeyes

redeyes

Button Masher
do the most bloody gorey things possible.

if hes letting his kid watch thats on him not you.

tbh i watched / played MK with my mom and her friends when i was like 4 and its part of the reason i love the franchise so much. it was a part of my childhood.
 
SaltShaker

SaltShaker

In Zoning We Trust
You should have ended every match in Fatalities and Brutalities, while doing the most vicious looking combos and using X-Rays once per match.

This is what you should have done.
 
Xerclipse

Xerclipse

"I saw you staring"
I read the whole thing. Mileena is so much fun. I fool around with her. You can't downplay yourself when using her.

Nothing is worth deskilling or holding back certain moves from yourself. Esepcially if it involves a kid too young. Kids these days are to blame, not the video game. Go for Xrays, brutalities, or any combo no matter how brutal it looks. I sometimes hear little kiddies from the other mic, and I just go for broke like I always do. Im like "Oh you got a kid there? Come little Timmy, this is what competitive video games with gore effects look like!"

If he is gonna learn what real violence is, take him to war or make him fight a person for real (I would definately not support that and no one should get into that situation). He isn't going to rip someone's spine out with his bare hands or open someone's chest and say "Here's Johnny!". If he somehow manages thats his fault and the parent's upbringing.
 
SEV

SEV

Apprentice
You played it right; unfortunately, so long as something wouldn't be considered abuse by societal standards you shouldn't comment. Back when I competed in MLG for GoW there was an 11 year old kid that competed, named Gringo Jr, and started when he was 9(he was actually decent at the game and placed semi-pro in GoW 1). If you're familiar with the game, and the community(by far the most uncouth group of people gaming), it simply wasn't the place for someone that young.

I had a friend actually team with him for MLG Columbus '09. The father would always coach his teams, and would always be with him during scrims(practice matches), but my friend would say that he could occasionally hear the father raise his voice at the kid for making mistakes in game, the same way a bad parent would when their kid makes mistakes while playing sports.

Bottom line is, some people just don't have the where-with-all to understand what their kids should and shouldn't be subjected, whether it comes from forces inside or outside of their home, but it just isn't your place to comment, unless it undoubtedly puts the child in harms way.
 
Faded Dreams V

Faded Dreams V

Retired June 2012. Unretired June 2013.
I had a similar experience in MK9. I fought a dad and son. The kid yelled "WHY CAN'T I HIT HIM!!?!?!" as I looped Smoke's 100% combo in succession. After a double flawless, luck would have it that I found him again in ranked. This time, his father played. He picked Sub-Zero, so I did what I felt was the right thing: I chose pre-patch Freddy, spammed his broken glove projectile, and mercilessly teabagged as he failed to make it through the mine field of gloves. At one point, it seemed he caught me with an iceball, which led to a slight cheer on his end, but it went through pre-patch Freddy, so I teabagged even more viciously. He disconnected.

After the match, I patted myself on the shoulder and told myself, "You done good, Faded. You done good."
 
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