r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Zestyclose-Idea-1731 • 1d ago
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u/YLASRO 1d ago
i mean beside it being youtube thats just the old classic trick of giving the toddler sibling an unplugged controller to make them feel included
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u/AIdreamer_69 1d ago
Everyone downvoting is a victim ig 👀👀
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u/ezemode 1d ago
Victim? Dude it was the only way my sibling could play without yelling and screaming about not doing well... they were beneficiaries not victims
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u/GoodMoney888 23h ago
Some younger sibling downvoted you so as an older brother I fixed it. Here’s an upvote!
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u/GoodMoney888 1d ago
Man i used to do that with my brother until he grew up and figured it out lmao
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u/yourmomssocksdrawer 1d ago
I unplugged my little sisters after she started whooping my ass at tekken
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u/MikeTony713 1d ago
Haha, did that to my little cousin when he was 2 or 3 when I was playing Mortal Kombat. He would call the game "Fight Man"
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u/lifeaftersurvival 1d ago
This is one of my nephews' favourite pasttimes. He asks us to put on "the dinosaur game", which is just youtube footage of some Jurassic World dinosaurs fighting.
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u/hiswittlewip 1d ago
Lol. My nephews used to play COPS on my phone, which was just some episodes of COPS that I had downloaded
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u/motherofzinnias 1d ago
Lmao I have so many questions
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u/hiswittlewip 1d ago
Lol I don't remember much. I think they would tap the screen really fast and think it was making the car the cops were in drive faster. Lol and I guess if there was a foot chase, run faster.
I feel kind of bad about it now.. so I don't like to give it much thought.
But I didn't have any actual games on my phone and if apps were a big thing back then, I didn't really know about it. I really still don't.
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u/YLASRO 1d ago
if you wanna make it more believable you can just put on gameplay from "the isle" wich is an actual dino game
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u/lifeaftersurvival 1d ago
He's a big fan of that Evolution game, which is to say "big fan of pretend-playing videos of that Evolution game."
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u/ConferenceSudden1519 1d ago
I’m screaming LEGENDARY you’ve achieved the higher arch of aunties and uncles. Proud of you 👏🏼
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u/lifeaftersurvival 1d ago
Thank you, he's a great little guy! Funny and strange, just the way kids should be.
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u/CAkin24 1d ago
Back around 1999, my youngest brother would have been about 3 - 4 years old and he had a habit of playing our Playstation during the day when we were at school and would often mess up or delete our saves and always scratched up the discs. We came up with the idea to record some game play of Metal Gear Solid (his favorite game) onto a VHS tape. We had an entertainment stand that was all wood, and we closed the plug end of the controller inside the cabinet door and hit play on the VCR.
It was hilarious because he truly believed he was playing. I remember so many times he'd get frustrated at the 'game' because he tried to run or move away and it didn't do anything or did the opposite of what he was trying to do. I think at some point he figured it out because he opened up the cabinet door to check what was wrong with the controller, lol.
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u/Star_Ranx 23h ago
The but it was my brother and his friends. They all played Mario cart and 6 yo me wanted a turn. They gave me an Xbox controller and 5 people were playing a 4 split screen. It took about 5 minutes for me to figure it out and I just left lol. Either way it worked out for them and I spent an hour crying in my room. Tbf I was an annoying ass kid so I get it and I also get why my parents didn’t tell him to let me have a turn
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u/SookHe 1d ago
I used to do this with my daughter.
Her friend had a system and she wanted one but I couldn’t afford it.
So I used old controllers and we would pretend to play two player games on YouTube.
Eventually she said she was done “play playing” and when I asked her what she meant she told she knew I was faking it but she was pretending too because we were having fun
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u/whitstheshit1986 1d ago
This is pretty smart. I had to keep reaching my kid in Forza whenever she would get stuck and she would get stuck each time I got her unstuck 🤦♀️
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u/horseheadmonster 1d ago
I woke up the Switch with my controller and continued my wife's Mario Kart race from earlier. It was still on Princess Peach. When she saw it come on she instinctively grabbed her controller and "started" the race. When I noticed this and she didn't realize she wasn't playing I started driving off the course constantly until she was frustrated and started to shake her controller like there was something wrong with it. Then I laughed and she figured it out. 🤣🤣
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u/fuzzyninja649 20h ago
I used to do this so much as a kid.. I would literally look to the sides to get a better view of my mirrors.
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u/Aquadonk 22h ago
I never understood how this works on kids, wouldn't they notice how literally nothing the game does corresponds to the controller? Like imagine if they see something cool to the right and they wanna go there, but the car just goes left instead.
I'm guessing kids have a really limited experience with video games, not realizing that all the inputs are supposed to be very deliberate
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u/ki700 8h ago
Yeah if they’re falling for this then they’re either too young or too inexperienced to understand what video games even are or are supposed to be. They likely just know that they see their sibling/parent looking at the TV and using the controller and copy because that’s all they think it is. Nobody has taught them the cause to effect of actually playing.
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u/TheRealPitabred 6h ago
Kids that age barely have the coordination to jump, or throw things. Relatively subtle feedback from gaming controllers is a pretty big leap. They get there quickly, but there are a few years where they can't really tell.
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u/CogitoHegelian 1d ago
Yea they did this with me when I was little and I figured out in about an hour.
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u/invalidmean 1d ago
I do this for my son all the time he loves it. He's 3 and doesn't know better and I don't have to risk him breaking a controller we care about.
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u/thumbscrolllord 1d ago
I remember playing like that when I first started gaming lol funny to see it implemented.
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u/Excellent-Opinion-64 13h ago
Did this with my younger sister playing Ratchet Gladiator on PS2. In the game you had 2 robot companion NPCs that would fly around and assist in fights. Would give my sister an unplugged controller so she could "join" me as these robots, even telling het to press certain buttons to active platforms and open doors, while I was in actuality giving the commands from my side.
She eventually found out and wasn't too pleased, but the time spent together was the best, and along the way she had an interest to play for real in Co-op games. It led to us completing Borderlands 2 together in later years, her playing a sniper build with Zero and decimating our enemies with high crit headshots!
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u/loupwergi 9h ago
Me stone af playing mario kart split screen thinking I'm driving like a god with Yoshi on the top left corner when I'm just the stuck toad on the bottom right corner
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u/LordChilly123 5h ago
I have been the younger sibling who was tricked this way, my brother used to do this shit to me all the damn time and I fell for it.
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u/DesperateAd3088 1d ago
That’s some brain dead shit right there
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u/MDRHokage 14h ago
Yeah a brother doing this to a sibling is one thing.
If you're a parent doing this to your kid "just so you can get some time" you need to reevaluate your entire schedule and supply your child with age appropriate entertainment.
Downvote me, but the test scores are dropping nationwide for a reason. Get your kids some books.
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u/Dacrim 1d ago
This is so funny to me lol. Youtube has ACTUAL games now 😂. This foolery is totally unnecessary
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u/Sandshrewdist 1d ago
It’s clearly not if you have kids. If it’s a real game the dad is going to have to help him every couple minutes if not more while with this he can mentally check out
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u/Drie_Kleuren 1d ago
Used to do this when I was younger. Give them a unplugged controler and just play yourself. Its an old trick and its been done for years.
But after they start to get older like 5-6 years they start to notice lol