I just bought Switch with cart and Smash with two extra controllers for my son for xmas.
while i was purchasing it, he was yelling about some remote control car grammy got him for his bday and how she got him a bad gift. I talked to him about it and tried to give him what perspective I can and I don’t mean to rain on any parades...
But sometimes I get perspective what a different fucking universe our kids live in that we can just sit in this thread and buy our kids switches and games and it’s no problem. Right now there are kids digging fucking mines in other countries while our kids play these. Even here in America plenty of kids aren’t getting shit for Christmas. If they’re lucky somebody else is buying it for them.
I’m sure some of you guys grew up dirt poor, some middle class, I was upper. “Nice things” mean different things to everybody for different reasons based on how you grew up. Not our fault or anything, just crazy that my kid could say that literally while I was sitting there buying him that on amazon.
Almost made me re-think it. I say almost because he will be giving other toys of his away and volunteering for the rest of his life. No way what I heard will be what he thinks long term.