Out of Pod Experience

While they may be misguided about some things, never forget that they love you and want only good things for you and your life ahead. If they didn't, they wouldn't care what you did with your time.

Good luck.

"Parents hit your leisure time (Wrecking!), for Infinite damage."

Define weirdo loser.

Personally 8hr/day TV watching, vapid socialite, and entitled jacknapes that you see in your local mall seem like a more typical loser than the average EVE player.

Also tell your parents that people who list EVE online experience in their resume have actually gotten jobs out of it. Quite regularly in fact. Many aspects of this game mimic real world skillsets and shockingly enough plenty of companies out there are figuring this out.

i would ground the **** out of my kids of they said they would pod me,
better yet id make them do all my watchlisting and locating for me

Moving out of your parents house is an important and positive move in any young person's life.

Talking about how its a shame you cant kill them is.... less positive.

As disturbing as it is to point out...
Parents often do not have their childs best interests at heart. I know we like to hope(especially when we are the parents) that this is true but a not so insignificant minority of parents have other priorities in life above that of their children. This has been proven and played out in countless studies and general social common sense.

Additionally from a psychological standpoint you want your children to challenge, question, and develop their own opinions of things.. even including your rules and manner of raising them. Note this doesn't mean stomp all over your parents. It just means if you set a curfew for your daughter and she asks why have an answer ready that is more honest than "just because I said so". Kids challenge us because they subconsciously are learning HOW TO BE PARENTS from us. Weird but true heh.

All relationships, even parental, are give and take.. we learn together how to react and grow socially. Dogmatic absolute situations often lead to hurt, misunderstanding, and lack of social openness.

/edit stupid me hit the button by mistake
To make a final comment dont ever assume age denotes ability to understand. My cat understands social situations. So does your kid. Even babies learn to identify social behavior. What our youngsters can't do is reference our insane amount of MISTAKES that we call experience. Understanding without experience is a dangerous thing.. its our job to see they understand the gravity of choice... not to make choice for them.

Solo Pos bach not go as well as expected?
Have a freak out?
Are they wanting you to get help?

Are you in fact a weirdo?

Funny how people assume everyone they dont agree with is somehow younger and never apparently have any children.

The kind of misinformation that a parent has an automatic right to micromanage a childs life is mentally insane. We guide. We teach. We warn. Automatically assuming you know best always and forever without fail is a surefire way to lead your child down dangerous paths. It's a cheap dominance trait. Does a child know more about life than we do as parents? No. They havent experienced life yet in any volume yet to allow them to know. Does this mean they cant understand the concepts? No. Does this mean they have no right to question? Hell no. There is a fine line between being a parent and being a warden.

As to parents not valuing their children as number 1 priority.. well I guess this is just a factor of education or lack there of.
This is a fact. A significant majority of young parents actually find their children a burden to their lives. Mostly due to rushing into it to meet fake social needs or general lack of understanding of what being a parent means. Want a brutal example? One of my coworkers has never said a kind word about his son in 12 years. He does all the right parent things(school, sports, social events) but he never mentally wants to be there. The reason? He never wanted children. He socially caved to his wifes wishes because "happy wife happy life and I can deal with it for 18 years".
Stop pretending every family is a fairy tale of perfection and realize we are all a big pile of screwed up trying to figure out each other as human beings.

My legal rights and responsibilities of guardianship beg to differ with you on a lot of that.

And to be clear, I don't presume to know anything about you beyond what you've posted in this thread ,
I was just going for levity so chill out mate , it's nothing personal.

Eh Ralph I'm Canadian and quite impossible to anger no matter what tone my post seems like :).

I'm also a bit of an ass and love debates.

Legal rights though are variable.. we generate them when some bright jacknape does something so terrible or stupid that the rest of us attempt to make every other idiot not do that thing :D.