Fortnite fear!

jonnyburgo

om theradio today how all th kids are addicted to this game, feckless parents telling tales of how little darlings spend hours every day on it sitting in their own piss at 4am getting angry and assaulting their parents and not going to school. Parents are saying they don’t want their kids left out because everyone else is on it or talking about it at school  

My message to the parents is take control, they are going on about this like it’s a mystery illness with no known cure and they can’t control it.

stop being such useless shitbags and turn the fucking thing off, take it out of the kids room and ration it on grounds of good behaviour.

but you know what that then means that these feckless wankers might have to interact with their kids. Out of sight out of mind til it goes tits up.

well glad I got that off my chest.

crunchman

Different game, but my 10 year old likes Roblox.  After a while she is told that she has played it enough and go and do something else.  I must say it is tempting to leave her there as it keeps her quiet.

stickyfiddle

I agree.

Not least because I'm shit at it  

57Deluxe

I heard too that kids were even soiling themselves cos couldn't break away to go use the bathroom...

joeyowen

The game is shite as well, makes it worse

To play devil's advocate, most parents want their kids involved with what is the current big thing, and don't want them excluded.  However, it isn't hard to cap the time they spend on it

Flanging_Fred

It could be worse,.

It could be the parents soiling themselves playing Fortnite, while the kids sat glued to youtube watching videos of parents soiling themselves playing Fortnite.

stimpsonslostson

We were discussing this at work today.

One of the guys was saying that after reading about it he unplugged the WiFi at 2300 on Sunday night. His two teenage kids SHOULD have been asleep. They'd "gone to bed" and he'd checked on them- lights out & all quiet. He immediately heard movement in their rooms indicating that they weren't asleep. 

He got up at 0600 & the WiFi was somehow back on. Someone had been up, sneaked down & plugged it in. 

 Tonight he's taking the router to his room. 

My kids are just starting primary school. I've got all this to look forward to! 

crunchman

Sometimes it's nice to have more traditional problems.  My 10 year old reads for a bit when she goes to bed.  I had to stop her at 11 o'clock on Saturday night when I went up there - completely engrossed in a Famous Five book.

DefaultM

stimpsonslostson said:

We were discussing this at work today.

One of the guys was saying that after reading about it he unplugged the WiFi at 2300 on Sunday night. His two teenage kids SHOULD have been asleep. They'd "gone to bed" and he'd checked on them- lights out & all quiet. He immediately heard movement in their rooms indicating that they weren't asleep. 

He got up at 0600 & the WiFi was somehow back on. Someone had been up, sneaked down & plugged it in. 

 Tonight he's taking the router to his room. 

My kids are just starting primary school. I've got all this to look forward to! 

Just tell him to change the WiFi password at night. It's not like they'll ever mention it cos they know they're meant to be in bed.

Grumpyrocker

Or set a time when the wifi is off, my router can do that.

All the major consoles have parental controls. There's no excuse for not setting these up so you can limit what your kids can do and make sure they can't spend any money without permission. 

Stuckfast

I thought Fortnite was now officially old hat and the kids had moved onto something else?

Moominpapa

crunchman said:

Sometimes it's nice to have more traditional problems.  My 10 year old reads for a bit when she goes to bed.  I had to stop her at 11 o'clock on Saturday night when I went up there - completely engrossed in a Famous Five book.

That is truly old school and very cute. Kudos to your daughter for being a reader. 

MattBanshee

Stuckfast said:

I thought Fortnite was now officially old hat and the kids had moved onto something else?

Knife crime

Heartfeltdawn

jonnyburgo said:

om theradio today how all th kids are addicted to this game, feckless parents telling tales of how little darlings spend hours every day on it sitting in their own piss at 4am getting angry and assaulting their parents and not going to school. Parents are saying they don’t want their kids left out because everyone else is on it or talking about it at school  

My message to the parents is take control, they are going on about this like it’s a mystery illness with no known cure and they can’t control it.

stop being such useless shitbags and turn the fucking thing off, take it out of the kids room and ration it on grounds of good behaviour.

but you know what that then means that these feckless wankers might have to interact with their kids. Out of sight out of mind til it goes tits up.

well glad I got that off my chest.

I have no idea why people are so afraid of taking control. My partner's ex husband is a perfect example. The kids are 8 and 6. In six months with me living with them, they are so much better because I don't stand for the shit that he does.


When I moved in last November, they had free reign on devices: PC, Xbox, iPad. Not now. Every device in his house is now controllable from my Chromebook, PC, or laptop with regard to screen time and I can switch the router off at will. They have clear timetables of when and where for everything. It has been a baptism of fire to go from being someone who hated children to constantly living with two of them but if I can do it, so can other people. 

As for the game.... it really is fucking shit. It's absolutely horrible in every single way. Roblox is more mercenary but has some fun bits, Minecraft is something I like, but Fortnite's simply crap. 

TheMarlin

I like Fortnite.  It's still incredibly popular with all ages, but kids, in particular seem to be addicted.  I like that it's snack size, you can play a game and be done in a half hour.  I don't get playing it for 12 hours solid, but I get bored easily.  I get regularly slaughtered by my nephews, much to their amusement.

In the middle of renovations, so playing it in my iPhone at the moment.  Not the best experience.

Iamnobody

I should say that as complete non-gamer I don’t understand the attraction to any sort of gaming. 

But I’m led to believe my nephew spends a lot of time playing this one online with his mates

Personally I don’t think it’s healthy. If I look back on what I did at that age - going out on my bike and playing football I know what I’d rather be doing...

I’ll be a bit controversial here and say that a lot of 30/40 somethings are now parents now but weirdly (to me) still play computer games.

Kids must see this as normal, get exposed to it at a young age and follow suit. We don’t have any games consoles set up in my house and surprise surprise my kids (both girls and maybe that’s why) don’t play any computer games. 

The down side to that is they may not be as tech savvy as some kids the same age. But I’ll take it.

They do look forward to going out to play in the garden and spend hours in there just playing and using their imaginations. I love watching and hearing them play.

So for me yes let them play computer games if they must, but get a balance between other ‘healthier’ activities.

ToneControl

stimpsonslostson said:

We were discussing this at work today.

One of the guys was saying that after reading about it he unplugged the WiFi at 2300 on Sunday night. His two teenage kids SHOULD have been asleep. They'd "gone to bed" and he'd checked on them- lights out & all quiet. He immediately heard movement in their rooms indicating that they weren't asleep. 

He got up at 0600 & the WiFi was somehow back on. Someone had been up, sneaked down & plugged it in. 

 Tonight he's taking the router to his room. 

My kids are just starting primary school. I've got all this to look forward to! 

my idea was to invent a device that subtly introduces lag into your internet connection

Emp_Fab

Fuck that.. just punch them in the face if they go more than ten seconds over the allocated time for playing games.  Then burn their console / Pc in front of them.

I’d have made a good dad.

Nitefly

Emp_Fab said:

Fuck that.. just punch them in the face if they go more than ten seconds over the allocated time for playing games.  Then burn their console / Pc in front of them.

I’d have made a good dad.

Well you certainly sound like mine...  

skunkwerx

Easier to blame it on someone else. Thats the mentality I seem to feel these days. 

Never your own fault. 

I’d have had a slipper wrapped around my ass and had my sega’s power cable taken away and a long chat about what i want my life to be when I grow up. 

The result wasnt a high flying businessman, or a super motivated individual, but I did learn a sense of morality, how to earn my privileges, and how to stand on my own two feet without feeling the need to constantly fit in with what everyone else is doing.

Most of all I learnt how life aint fair, but to value what I do have.

They gladly bought me a guitar or a bike though.

Hell I used to love tearing up the streets with my mate, discovering, riding! 
Lotta scabs and close calls with traffic, but hell, we turned out fine. N further back my parents were down the mines as kids and theyre bloody better people than me! 

Now as an adult, I do enjoy playing soldier on battlefield, sometimes for hours on end, but I can never shake how much of an actual waste of time it is. Fine for a couple hours here and there when the important stuffs been done, or as personal chill time though. 

Infact, I realise how damn right they were! If I’d have spent as much time playing guitar or practicing maths, I could be paying someone else to work for me now.  

Then again I take the same view of watching tv. 

I’d rather have a brain and experience the world, and learn. 
Kids these days experience life through a screen, and grow up to be the entitled fucks that run the place, or worse the criminals we pay to suppress. 

Legionreturns

Yet there are millions of adults around the country currently glued to endless hours of Love Island... if that isn't brain melting drivel then I don't know what is.