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[Aostia]

http://kotaku.com/my-son-has-ruined-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-1797004429

Great article. Made me laugh. Also made me glad I don't have kids.

Ahahah
I have kids
Specifically I am along BotW with my 4 YO son and we love it.

 

[OriginalPoe]

Why don't you make another account and play there?

This is really stupid =___=

Because then he wouldn't have an article.

 

[RobotVM]

I got to the end of the beginning trial on the DLC and had to go take a shower so I put my Switch in safe mode. When I got out my 4 year old son had taken my switch and started playing a different game. Man that sucked. He also will just start playing my saves. Luckily I haven't lost gear yet just food.

 

[franklyshankly]

That first post magic.
Nice of him to blame kids rather than him simply being ill-equipped to provide him with his own account. Blaming kids for your own stupidity makes me think he really should have followed his own advice, feel kinda sorry for that kid.

Except, as explained like 20 times in this thread already, the article explains why he didn't do that.

 

[family_guy]

I have a 4 digit code on my PS4 that you have to enter to access my account. Shame Nintendo doesn't do this.

 

[Betty]

I guarantee the first time his kid started fucking with his account little page view hits started floating around his head like dollar signs

 

[AndrewDean84xX]

Good grief. Learn to say no to your kid. We get it, you love your kid but it's ok to tell him no sometimes. He's fucking 4 - he would be fine playing literally anything else, no reason to give him your save file.

That's my takeaway. Kids have their toys and I have mine (phone, Switch, PC). I don't let my daughter touch my PC. She knows she's not allowed to move it, or turn it on. She's got plenty of toys (only child) of her own to play with. She doesn't need to play with my stuff.

I think people are afraid to tell their kids "No" these days though. Kind of pathetic.

 

[Inferno313]

Hyperbole aside, a game like this definitely should have space for 2 or 3 files without the need to create several accounts. I don't like this recent trend from Nintendo AT ALL (Pikmin 3, Xenoblade X and Paper Mario Color Splash suffer for the same even when prior games from their series had the option).

Why though? Creating a second account is the easiest thing. There's even a + icon on the account selection screen when you start the game up, so that you don't need to navigate through the settings to make a new account.

 

[Servbot24]

Do people seriously mean it when they say "Don't have kids!". Like, would you have wanted your parents to think the same? And why not make him a different user profile?

Obviously they don't mean this literally...

 

[takriel]

What a useless article. Be glad that you have an awesome son who likes Zelda. Make an account for him. Provide him with 100+ magical hours that he will never forget. The end.

 

[Schnozberry]

My daughter uses my game to dress Link in the Gerudo outfit and then goes on murder sprees in the countryside with my powered up master sword.

 

[Filben]

I swear, it seems that some people just read the world "Zelda" in an article and immediately goes into defensive mode. This is a cute anecdote about a Dad and his son, and yet people claim this is click-bait and stupid

Welcome to the internet. No place for humor except for websites dedicated to that. I'm a Formula 1 fan and don't you dare doing jokes about Lewis Hamilton. So it's not only Zelda. It is people. Some just want to be offended for its own sake.

I find the article entertaining and funny.

 

[atr0cious]

Good grief. Learn to say no to your kid. We get it, you love your kid but it's ok to tell him no sometimes. He's fucking 4 - he would be fine playing literally anything else, no reason to give him your save file.

He's not saying no, because he doesn't want his kid to attach negative feelings to exploration and experimentation while playing video games. It's a video game, and he obviously understands what's more important. This is pretty much cleaned up Louis Ck material who calls his kids assholes.

 

[Servbot24]

What a useless article. Be glad that you have an awesome son who likes Zelda. Make an account for him. Provide him with 100+ magical hours that he will never forget. The end.

He is glad. He's just sharing a personal moment with readers.

He's not saying no, because he doesn't want his kid to attach negative feelings to exploration and experimentation while playing video games. It's a video game, and he obviously understands what's more important. This is pretty much cleaned up Louis Ck material who calls his kids assholes.

Exactly. If your toys are more important than your children... well, that's not good.

 

[prag16]

Couldn't the guy make a separate account for his kid and let him play his own adventure without interfering with his?

And we're done here.

 

[theangrypirate]

That's my takeaway. Kids have their toys and I have mine (phone, Switch, PC). I don't let my daughter touch my PC. She knows she's not allowed to move it, or turn it on. She's got plenty of toys (only child) of her own to play with. She doesn't need to play with my stuff.

I think people are afraid to tell their kids "No" these days though. Kind of pathetic.

Yep. Causes lots of issues down the road for these type of children too.

 

[xaosslug]

gaming sites must REALLY be struggling for content that this guy literally had to create his own story... >__>

 

[Corpekata]

Yep. Causes lots of issues down the road for these type of children too.

Is one issue that they aren't able to tell when an obviously goofy and silly article is not meant to be a referendum on parenting?

 

[Prince of Space]

Children are a cancer, stop having them people

 

[psynergylover]

Couldn't the guy make a separate account for his kid and let him play his own adventure without interfering with his?

The first thing that came to mind, I don't have kids but when all my little cousins came over I always made sure they were on a different account/save file; always had a save file backed up, one way down on the bottom, or in the cloud!

Gotta think ahead....unless they break your system, don't have multiples of those.

 

[DunpealD]

Couldn't the guy make a separate account for his kid and let him play his own adventure without interfering with his?

Haven't played BotW for quite some time, but didn't older Zeldas have the option to copy a save file to another account? Would have helped him out of the predicament.

 

[Servbot24]

Couldn't the guy make a separate account for his kid and let him play his own adventure without interfering with his?

He addressed that in the article.

Not that that is in any way the point. Sheesh. Only gamers could turn a cute moment between father and son into a controversy.

 

[franklyshankly]

Is one that issue they aren't able to tell when an obviously goofy and silly article is not meant to be a referendum on parenting?

Seriously, this thread is giving me an aneurysm. So many people not only not reading the article, they aren't even reading the thread, and spitting their hot take du jour on parenting.

 

[RobotVM]

I have a 4 digit code on my PS4 that you have to enter to access my account. Shame Nintendo doesn't do this.

God that would be the best. Please Nintendo.

 

[doop_]

Jesus christ, can yall just relax. The writer is not actually seriously mad about this.

 

[Not]

Children are a cancer, stop having them people

But then only DUMB PEOPLE WILL HAVE THEM

DUMB PEOPLE WILL NEVER HAVE SMART KIDS

IDIOCRACYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

 

[cyba89]

This thread was a mistake.

 

[keltickennedy]

Couldn't the guy make a separate account for his kid and let him play his own adventure without interfering with his?

I sure he knows this....But he also knows that it would make for a cute article on Kotaku.

 

[AndrewDean84xX]

Fake News?

 

[Caelus]

Jesus christ, can yall just relax. The writer is not actually seriously mad about this.

I'm starting to think GAFers on average failed their elementary school reading comprehension exams.

 

[PSqueak]

Couldn't the guy make a separate account for his kid and let him play his own adventure without interfering with his?

But then how does he get to make a snarky "down with kidsssss!" article?

 

[Boy Wander]

Jesus, some of you guys needs to relax when you read the word "Zelda".

I'm completely relaxed. I didn't find humour in the article and it was written to elicit that response but it's flawed because its writing about a problem that doesn't exist outside the bounds of explicitly creating it to write about it.

 

[theangrypirate]

He's not saying no, because he doesn't want his kid to attach negative feelings to exploration and experimentation while playing video games. It's a video game, and he obviously understands what's more important. This is pretty much cleaned up Louis Ck material who calls his kids assholes.

eh, I think he's not saying no because he doesn't want to say no to his child because he loves him just so much.

"Thirdly, why do I keep letting this happen?

Love, ladies and Gentlemen. Love."

Cool story, you love your kid so much, just like every non shitty parent out there.

 

[woopWOOP]

in the op writer's defense i think it mentions that the kid doesn't want to play on a blank game file, the kid likes all the endgame toys even if he ends up throwing some away.

It's why I always loadded up my brother or cousin's endgame save in OoT instead of continueing my own. The difference being ofcourse that I didn't save after whatever I messed around with

 

[Team Filler]

Pretty funny writeups by the guy, kind of reminds me of reading old Dave Barry stuff.

Also: if those pictures are accurate, then the kid not only replaced his ancient sword with a soup ladle, but also got him a lynel sword. If that's the case, I'm impressed.

 

[Gaz_RB]

You guys are taking this way too seriously

 

[KAOz]

I sure he knows this....But he also knows that it would make for a good article on Kotaku.

Which the majority of users on here doesn't read anyway going by all these posts.

He adresses this, which has been echoed several times.

 

[Calm Mind]

Buy your kid a Switch ya bastard!

 

[Beartruck]

Couldn't the guy make a separate account for his kid and let him play his own adventure without interfering with his?

.

 

[TankRizzo]

That's why I got my 6 year old his own Switch. $300 is easier to swallow than hours and hours of lost time.

 

[cyba89]

I'm starting to think GAFers on average failed their elementary school reading comprehension exams.

But they are exceptional at giving parenting advices!

 

[Huge Succeeded]

This thread is like whoa

like seriously what the fuck you guys

 

[ZeoVGM]

Funny article but considering how easy the fix is, a bit silly.

(Screw having kids though.)

 

[Ivan 3414]

That's my takeaway. Kids have their toys and I have mine (phone, Switch, PC). I don't let my daughter touch my PC. She knows she's not allowed to move it, or turn it on. She's got plenty of toys (only child) of her own to play with. She doesn't need to play with my stuff.

I think people are afraid to tell their kids "No" these days though. Kind of pathetic.

Yeah, anyone saying "Oh kids" after this story tells me that they have a problem with telling their kids "no". Which is...hey, raise your kids how you want, but don't expect everyone to sympathize with you, and don't assume everyone who doesn't sympathize with you to be childless and/or a minor. That's certainly not the case.

 

[Aurongel]

Okay so is there context to this that I'm missing? The author doesn't seem to be actually upset by any of this yet the first page of this thread seemed to have a different read on it.

 

[GitarooMan]

This thread is like whoa

Yeah that about sums it up. Yikes.

 

[Filben]

This thread was a mistake.

I'm starting to think GAFers on average failed their elementary school reading comprehension exams.

Yep.

I have expected more from fellow GAFers. God forbids someone writes up a story for entertainment.

 

[TankRizzo]

But they are exceptional at giving parenting advices!

I literally LOL'd

 

[Catvoca]

This thread was a mistake.

Yep.

 

[TankRizzo]

Okay so is there context to this that I'm missing? The author doesn't seem to be actually upset by any of this yet the first page of this thread seemed to have a different read on it.

that's because none of those dummies can read.