Help! i made my daugher a nerd!

Maximus_Black · 06-09-05, 08:59 PM

So here i am, asking my 4 yrd old daughter what game she wants to play on the pc - her barbie, bob the builder, or the blues clues game,and she replies:

"no, daddy, I want the play the scary game where you shoot the skeletons with the lightning!"
The game in question was diablo 2.

That was actually 2 years ago (she is six now), and she got quite skilled at it (she loved pressing the hotkeys for the potions for me- and it was quite handy in a hectic fight).
It became a bit of an injoke that we wouldnt tell mummy that we have been playing the"scary game".
Nowadays she loves Sims2, so I dont have her mother warning me that i am going to turn her into a serial killer or something (LOL), but that memory always gives me a smile.

Milo · 06-10-05, 05:46 AM

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.........^_^

Leanthar · 06-10-05, 05:54 AM

*smiles*� Raylynn (2 years old) loves to sit on my lap and control my DM character when I am in the game...Does that scare anybody?

There have a been a few times that she almost jumped everybody to the DM avatar.

Aurhinius · 06-10-05, 06:09 AM

we have discovered the brains behind layonara ;-)

Dorganath · 06-10-05, 06:30 AM

My 6 year-old daughter is scary good at some games, like the web-based ones my wife likes playing on MSN.

She knows the pictures down the right side of my screen are my "friends" and gets concerned when I'm talking to someone in-game and they're NOT lined up down the right side.

And I think I'll reserve comment on the issue of L's 2 year-old daughter driving the big bus....

regnus · 06-10-05, 07:44 AM

Heh my 7 year old daughter plays NWN OC. She doesnt really understand yet what to do or anything but she loves to bash things and she just figured out how to cast spells. She is a fixture on my shoulder over the weekends when I am on Layo.

All my kids (ages 7, 5, and 3) love Halo of all things. They tear it up. Although when they run into the Flood they all run from the room screaming about monsters.

ZeroVega · 06-10-05, 08:03 AM

� My litte brother first hopped on the PC when he was four, immediatly he knew more abouth PCs�than my mother, and by age five, he had completed over 50 levels of hard core 3D Pac Man, many of the levels I couldn't even complete.

Milo · 06-10-05, 08:19 AM

My younger sister only does IM and xanga....>_<

aragwen · 06-10-05, 08:44 AM

My daughters (3 and 5) are also on my lap sometimes when playing Layo.

The young one just loves Achane (my bear companion) and she wants him the whole time.
The other will sit for hours and watch me play.
She just wants to play but I had to tell her only when she is much bigger.

They both play kids games and I tell you it is scary how good they are.
In a couple of years I might have to fight for my computer. hehe

Vyris · 06-10-05, 08:50 AM

My 6 year old PLAYED D2 quite a bit until two days ago he snuck into my computer room while I was taking a shower and accidentally uninstalled it.. hehe that'll learn 'im. He loves Halo, but gets frustrated because his 5 year old brother has a bit better coordination than he does with moving the mouse around, and can usually machine gun him to death if I set up a LAN game for them. My little girl could care less about computers unless there are ponies on the screen. If anyone ever makes a unicorn videogame I am not getting to get any play time at all, she'll live in my computer chair.

Ah well, at least in a few more years I'll have someone to play all those FPS games with

Vyris

lunchboxkilla · 06-10-05, 06:27 PM

My nephew plays a lot of the games I used tyo play, Doom 3 makes this 7 year old boy flince. I think its funny to see him play the old counter strike (not CS:source mind you) He sits there and crys for a few moments saying the other players wont let him kill them. I pearsonly shake my head hand him hotwhhelsss the game and rather quickly walk away. Its been a constent war between my brother over stupid things. I get a free X-Box from my FG tyhe next day he gets one and my bloody nephew steals my games... I had to hide halo 2 on him and I'm already missing 5 games. Just the iother day I had to scream at the Kid beacuse he was in my computer stash tossing cds about trying to find halo 2. I love the kid for his persistance in gamming but I fear this will ruin him. I didn't get inot hard core gamming till I was 18 and My high school grades showed it. I'm nolt telling any on eto rase their kids but please blace games with other fun stuff.

My friends have a sayings (insert any game you want here or) WarCraft... my anti job..

ExperienceWithStyle · 06-10-05, 07:09 PM

For a long time, this following site was one of the few things that could make my 10 months old daughter relax. Talk about being scared

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

KageKeeper · 06-10-05, 07:38 PM

Quote:

ExperienceWithStyle - 6/10/2005 10:09 PM

For a long time, this following site was one of the few things that could make my 10 months old daughter relax. Talk about being scared

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

Whoa. Scary. haha

Talan Va'lash · 06-10-05, 09:28 PM

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I still dont know what to say about that....
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*the dots represent my utter lack of having any idea what to say about that

regnus · 06-10-05, 09:37 PM

Ok I have clearly ingested too much adult beverage. I cannot stop laughing at that.

mushroom...mushroom...mushroom.....

snake...a snake!..a snake!...ohhhhhhh it's a snake!!!

Am I the only one that finds that mindlessy funny?

It reminds me of those little kittens with the evil mouths singing punk songs.

LoganGrimnar · 06-25-05, 09:06 AM

..wow... that is... wow...

Eloyn · 06-25-05, 09:46 AM

Freaks! Your all freaks!� Actually, when I was young I used to OWN my dad on starcraft.� Me and Statix used to own clan EmD on starcraft, which started from a garfield poster that said 'Eat My Data" which we changed to "Elite Masters of Destruction: Those were the days

� I stil remember being 5 and my mom would call me "HOW DO YOU PUT THIS ON THE DESKTOP?" or "Why wont this work"� Now that my parents are divorced and I live with my dad, she always calls me asking for help with her computer :P

Polak76 · 07-07-05, 08:39 PM

Hehehe, I know Maximus RL and can confirm his daughters expertise in Diablo 2. there is something amusing when the little hand of a child makes the mouse look like a bus. But she's fast!!

The other funny thing is when I was on diablo 2 and she'd sneak in the room and lean over my shoulder telling me what to do ....hahahaha from a 3 year old!! God it was hilarious.

Rhizome · 07-08-05, 01:22 AM

I remember someone posted a link to that badger song a while ago.� I showed it to my son not realizing that he'd become sucked into it like he did.� He demanded to see it over and over and then ran around the house flapping his arms up and down singing: "Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM."� It was hilarious.� I encouraged it because it was so enjoyable to see him do it.� We had him sing the song at family paries.� They all curled over in pangs of painful laughter.
Then, I'm standing in front of my "Introduction to Physical Anthropology" course, just jam packed with students as it was the beginning of the term.� Class hasn't started yet, and I'm sipping some water and writting the day's agenda on the board when I hear from the corner of the room someone singing:� "Badger badger badger badger..."� I whirl around and after a few glances here and there see the singer.� I erupted into obnoxiously embarrasing laughter and spurt water all over the floor in front of me.� Luckily I didn't spray the front row of students.
Then, of course, I had to sit there and explain what was so funny.� So I'm trying to describe this rediculous cartoon about badgers and snakes and mushrooms, flapping my arms up and down and singing just a bit of the song for effect.� I was a few minutes into class time already, struggling to get away from this situation I was finding increasingly unbearable.� When I'm at the peak of embarrassment, realizing that nobody in the room but the person who sang has any appreciation for how ludicriously entertaining the whole thing is, I notice someone standing in the doorway.� It was my dean, looking in on my class to see how the new teacher was doing.
So, I start saying, "Yes, well, mushrooms have been a part of the human diet for tens of thousands of years.� Most animals tend to avoid mushrooms entirely, due to thier poisonous nature and the creature's inability to distinguish between one kind of mushroom and another.� Having the mental plasticity to learn about one's environment through parental training, made distinguishing eadible from inedible mushrooms possible."��The students began to look at each other with that kind of expression that suggests they are in the presence of someone on the edge or well over it.� They began to whisper to each other and look around the room.� Crazed already, I felt compelled to continue:� "And thus, we can see how mushrooms, and other extraction intensive food resources, have played a key role in the evolution of human mental faculties..."
At that point I saw him walk from the doorway back down the hall out of the corner of my eye.� I didn't want to stare at the observing boss after all.� When he left I hurled my head down into my hands in shame.� The class, at least a large part of it, must have realized what was going on.� Because as soon as I covered my face like that, they erupted into some of the�most boisterious laughter I've ever experienced in a classroom.

Sakura · 07-08-05, 03:03 PM

http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/archives.php Its scary to think that the Badger started from Weeble and bob (Watch at your own risk) http://www.weebls-stuff.com/ -The page that Badgers came from http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/footy/ - The counter goes up.. just watch http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical+trevor/ Now who's the nerd? Eep.. >_<