simugeek
Gotha, United States
Today, my mother gave me hell for my "video game addiction". The "game" in question? A professional flight simulator program that I'm using to complement my flight school lessons. FML
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erptwerp 26
Tell her to quit her comPLANEing.
mattzawesome 28
Try explaining to her the purpose behind it. Surely she'll understand once she knows why you are on it so much.
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kovalsky_fml 10
"Get off the game son!" "Mommmm I can't get off or the plane will crash and cause an international tragedy with dozens of casualties!"
thefmlman2011 37
Yep, i agree
PePziNL 20
"I don't care, these dishes don't wash themselves!"
tantanpanda 26
It wouldn't really be an international tragety of only a few dozen people died. More like hundreds.
JHPugh 19
3 hostages and it becomes an international tragedy/crisis.
rileyrae0000 23
Older people can be so ridiculous, it's exhausting
mattzawesome 28
That's pretty inconsiderate. Yes we (are)grew up in a society filled with technology. That doesn't mean other people understand and doesn't mean they have to conform to how we do things now. Try to have some empathy for difference in generations and how they react to new things.
rileyrae0000 23
I don't have empathy for someone who is giving their child hell for something she doesn't understand. She jumped to conclusions and therefore I don't have sympathy for that.
mattzawesome 28
Yes but your first comment is generalizing all elderly people...
bandaidstations 28
A lot of older people think that what they don't understand is therefore bad. My grandma says the word internet like its a curse and refuses to look at any computer even to read an article or see a picture. I agree with #17. As a whole, the baby boomers are close minded and ignorant. Exceptions do exist though my father-in-law is kickass.
mattzawesome 28
Close minded and ignorant? I can't believe I came back to read that. Baby boomers parents and themselves fought through wars and raised many people through hard times (Great Depression etc.) You are inconsiderate and narrow minded, only care about what is to come, everything in the past is nothing to you. Nice.
jvanevery 19
really I'm sixty seven years old and I wrote my first FORTRAN program in 1965 and I finished my most recent Android app last week
thefmlman2011 37
I use a Flight Simulator aswell, and I use it in my spare time, my luckily my parents understand why I use it so much. 1. it's a passion 2. the virtual airline I'm with raises funds for bowel cancer, which is the cancer the CEO's dad died from, and using the flight sim is his only connection left with his dad. Before every flight, he gets his dads ashes frok the living room, and puts him in his room.
tj4234 36
Why does your post swap from first to third person half way through?
leogachi 15
@21 Because he's talking about a different person in the second half.
tj4234 36
Ah sorry. My dyslexia pulled one over on me. I thought point 2 was solely about the ceo hah
I_Like_Dogs 28
But...it is.
prostar9993 15
Seriously, what the actual **** are you high on?
thefmlman2011 37
would you like some?
AutisticAbyss 10
Counter the drunkenness with cocaine & you'll be good!
MRSwick2525 23
WTF?!?!?!?
chosha_fml 27
#32 It's a reference to the movie Flight.
Mortoli 30
admit it it was gta5 lol
Dayovernight 7
what's funnier is that gamers have a quicker reflex time than those who watch tv because they're still actively using their brain. people will find anything to complain about.
worldclassrager 41
She probably has her own addiction as well...she quits hers you'll quit yours...even though it's a good one to have
prostar9993 15
Yeah, those programs are useless and are a waste of time and money. All you end up doing is chasing the bubble when in a real plane. Any instructor will tell you the same.
acsisek 11
What's the simulator? I've been looking for a good one for a while.
cheesyfeet2001 31
Was it fsx, x-plane or something else?
simugeek 16
It's FSX with VATSIM and plenty of addons!