Gamers are used to all kinds of battles in video games, simply the most fearsome enemies of all are non axe-wielding skeletons or goombas— they're parents. With a difficulty level more extreme than any Nighttime Souls title, sometimes the hardest part of a video game is simply getting to play it. Parents of gamers can ofttimes act like prison wardens; in that location are those who turn down to even let their kid spend half an hour a day on the screen. In that location are others who blithely buy their eight-year olds the latest Grand Theft Auto and so go screaming to the retailer because the game is as well mature. But most of the fourth dimension, parents but don't get video games if they haven't grown upwardly around them.

I've collected a series of hilarious web comics and memes that explore this separate. Parents take the wackiest misconceptions when it comes to what their children are playing. These misunderstandings can be hilarious (every character will forever be Mario and every console will forever exist Nintendo). There are other memes that envision what information technology will be similar when future generations come into their own and finally take over the world with a gaming population. The results might exist less utopian than you'd think. These comics and memes will no doubt resonate with some of your own experiences growing upward.

Here are 25 Hilarious Gamer Memes That Bear witness Parents Merely Don't Understand.

25 What Button Exercise I Press To Bond With You?

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Every gamer has a story virtually trying to play video games with their parents. In a rare fit of trying to bail with their kid, dad or mom awkwardly try to sit down and "game" with you. It'due south the only way they'll ever get to spend fourth dimension with you after all. What oft happens is something alike to a toddler taking their get-go steps or an awkward teenage male child fumbling with his starting time tryst. They brandish the controller like the flight controls in a cockpit. Before long, mom and dad decide that, you know what, spending time with you isn't all that it's cracked up to be— and you get to go dorsum to your precious games all solitary! All…. All alone….

24 Advanced Theoretical Physics

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This ane hits home for me. Afterward a decade of watching me waste my life playing games, my female parent finally assimilated the bare-bones concept of pausing a game. For her, information technology became something of a sacred incantation: "break it, pause it" whenever— ugh— she wanted me to eat the dinner she laboriously prepared and bond with me. Gross. Just past the time my mom figured out you could suspension games, I had already graduated to online games. Suddenly the sacred incantation didn't have the same effect. Parents seem to have a hard time understanding that, no, you can't pause an online game. That would require every single player on the server to agree to a time-out. Oh god, that would actually work. Don't tell them! What accept I done!?

23 This Is Always The Problem

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To the parents of a gamer, blaming video games is an age-old scapegoat. This is especially true if the parents in question didn't abound up effectually video games. Shigeru Miyamoto, the towering giant of the industry who gave united states of america Mario and The Fable of Zelda, once summed up this trend incisively: "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll." Next fourth dimension mom and dad become on your case virtually playing too many games — provided you lot're lucky enough to have a mom and dad who get on your case most it — drop the mic with this quote. They know all too well what it was like growing upwardly with parents who in one case blamed rock due north' ringlet music for all their issues.

22 Bad Case Of Xbola

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Yous might have the type of parent who love blaming games for your every problem. Feeling sick? You play besides many video games. Feeling neglected? Y'all play too many video games. Suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome brought on past a sedentary lifestyle? Okay, that one might actually exist video games' bad. I'grand non proverb every parent who harries you to become off your backside and cease gaming is in the wrong. Video games tin can become an addiction similar annihilation else (psst don't tell my bosses I said that), so it's on mom and dad to rouse y'all out of your rut. Merely lots of other times, video games are often an like shooting fish in a barrel bullseye for parents who might not desire to confront their own poor parenting skills. Perhaps they need to level up that particular skill-tree.

21 I Learned It From You!

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Sometimes the hypocrisy of mom and dad tin can exist beyond frustrating. Some of them get all aptitude out of shape when you spend an afternoon gaming— even though they spend their whole nights in front of the Boob tube. "I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, MOM AND DAD!" When Allow's Plays became a thing several years ago, parents couldn't wrap their head around the fact that their kids weren't even wasting their time gaming anymore— they were wasting their fourth dimension watching other people waste product their fourth dimension gaming. But as this comic from LoadingArtist and then aptly captures the hypocrisy, watching others play games has been a pastime since the offset caveman painted a wild herd of antelope and signed information technology, "don't forget to like and subscribe."

twenty Bless His Pacemaker

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The all-time grandparents, you know, the photogenic ones from shutterstock, tend not to berate their grandkids for gaming as well much. Instead, they enable their addictions just to win their affections. They did their tour in the trenches of parenthood and they don't have to deal with the nightly fights anymore. Just no matter how well-significant your grandparents, they're often delightfully clueless when information technology comes to modernistic games. They've managed to absorb a few terms— Nintendo or Pikachu— and now everything is Nintendo or Pikachu. Information technology's ambrosial. That is unless we're talking virtually a degenerative memory disorder and suddenly this becomes a very night meme indeed.

19 A Monster's Mind

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In add-on to apparently creating entire lazy and apathetic generations, video games are seen equally the bogeyman when it comes to criminal action. Paranoid parents have long decried intense video games as a bane on society that will lead to Clockwork Orangish hyper hurtfulness. The argument makes sense superficially. If young kids are taught to point and shoot from the earliest ages, then it stands to reason that Nintendo has been convenance a cell of sleeper agents since kindergarten. Only that theory has been debunked fourth dimension and again, and as recently as this week. What parents never seem to grasp is that kids aren't going to go out in the streets and get their Stanley Kubrick on because that would hateful actually leaving the house! There's no time for crime because there are fashion too many not bad games like these to play!

xviii Parenting Priorities

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From the very first time your parents close off your console and forced you lot to go play outside, you probably swore an oath that when y'all'd be a cool parent when you had kids. Instead of making them embrace the great outdoors, you'd sit down them down and make them revisit the classics in the pantheon of your youth. The only problem, of grade, would exist leaving your room and convincing someone to take kids with y'all in the first place. Unfortunately, one of the side-effects of aging is realizing that your parents weren't merely being hateful, they had adept reasons to get yous exercising so you wouldn't, yous know, waste away. Just as you get your freedom to do whatever you want. Nonetheless, yous swear you'll be a absurd gamer mom or dad. Unless your kid wants to be an athlete.

17 They Only Want The Best For You

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Some parents — whether rightfully or wrongly — deny their kids video games based on the ESRB rating. If you reject to purchase your 10-year-former an M-Rated game, well then I tip my fedora to you. If y'all refuse to buy your eighteen-year-old an K-Rated game at Christmas, which also happens to be their birthday, and then I even so tilt my fedora to you but at a disrespectful cant. In the futurity, modern gamers will be parents themselves. Having grown up on a steady nutrition of games, they're non going to deny children games because they're besides intense. They're going to deny their kids games that suck. "Information technology's sucks" indeed. Information technology seems that mom and dad spent besides much time playing video games that they forgot to learn grammar.

16 Commencement World Gamer Problems

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This one'southward for the parents in the house. The tongue-in-cheek self-awareness of this offset-earth-problems meme is on betoken. For all the complaining in this article how misunderstood gamers are, it has to exist said that gamers take their parents for granted. The only reason that we have video games and a squeamish warm house in which to play them is considering their parents honey them and provide for them. In fact, the only reason why gamers exist in the commencement place is that their parents wanted them (or they were peradventure too lazy to go to planned parenthood). And if you lot didn't be, how would yous own all the n3ewbz in CoD? Checkmate, gamer kids.

15 Not Just For Kids Anymore

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So yous play games to escape to a fantasy world where you don't accept to deal with your loser parents who are constantly trying to "make you into someone" and "simply want the best for yous"? Well, how would you experience if the state of affairs was flipped? This comic hilariously imagines how your parents would react if they suddenly discovered the magic escapism of video games. What if they started talking as harshly about you equally you lot do almost them? Not that fun, is it? All those games you lot played where you romanticized beingness an orphan is starting to seem kinda mean in hindsight at present, isn't it? You're certain to feel injure when they start playing Planned Parenthood Simulator.

14 Books Are Ruining Our Kids!

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No matter what generation you grow up in, the older generation invariably believes things were amend when they were around. As a millennial, I tin attest to this miracle. It took me some time to have that fidget spinners weren't the harbingers of the apocalypse I thought they were (I'chiliad not withal totally convinced). As this comic incisively shows, new engineering science is always feared by parents. Video games are the big bad today, but not so long agone it was TV, and before that books. I'thousand not fifty-fifty kidding nigh the books. Less than a couple centuries ago, in Victorian society, novels were considered morally corrupt. Now we have classes studying novels from that period. If the trend continues, yous could one day hold a graduate-level conference on how to no-scope a muddied camper in Call of Duty! Progress!

13 Using Your Imagination

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Parents may lament how video games sap their children's imaginations. They demand simply await to their ain childhood and see the manifest testify: they used to frolic in the hilly groves to the beat of their own imaginations, playing pirate and cops and robbers. But that's because they grew up with parents unbound by modern liberal constraints on physical penalization and they had a proficient reason to get out of the business firm. So information technology tin can seem similar information technology's only when children are deprived of getting to play their favourite games that the imagination goes wild. That's true. After all, kids notice all sorts of artistic ways to sneakily play games instead. Speaking from my own experience, some of my favourite games opened up my imagination. If you lot're going to make creative stuff, you could do a lot worse than spending time in the lush virtual worlds of the xx-start century.

12 Nintendo Practiced

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The Far Side by Gary Larson is the legendary one-panel comic that ran from 1980 to 1995. If you've ever laughed at a i-panel webcomic, I can pretty much guarantee that the creator's passion was inspired by the Far Side. Hither, Larson puts a twist on the stereotype of parents fearing for their video game-fond children's futures. Fabricated at some point before 1996, the comic is intended to be ironic (having been around in 2005, there were no job offerings for Mario experts; believe me, I checked). But the comic is unintentionally prescient. Not but will people pay you to sit around testing games (though that gig'due south not the golden goose it's cracked up to exist), only game designers and programmers are highly in demand.

11 Can Never Unsee

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Sometimes your parents' lack of video game knowledge tin can requite them an objective perspective. In that location are times they encounter things that tin never be unseen. While you traipsed along gleefully squishing goombas and knocking your noggin against floating blocks in Mario, your parents are the only ones to inquire, "just what the heck is going on here?" Why practise those blocks look like power outlets and why do those turtle shells look like little santas? Of a sudden you tin never unsee it. Not unlike piffling children and their accidental wisdom, parents meet the world as it actually is earlier the games had brainwashed you.

10 Mind To Your Parents

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If you were always a human child with at least a passing interest in video games, your parents likely badgered yous to become outside every moment you touched the controller. There are certainly times where that badgering is warranted, specifically if y'all've been in your cavern for days on stop. Other times, your parents kick you out when you just started playing. And I don't mean when you lie about having only started playing when it's really been half-dozen hours, I hateful you lot really just started playing, like, three hours ago. On those occasions you cannot escape adjournment to the dreaded realm of vitamin D, modern games got your back. Nintendo Switch is making information technology easier than ever to have your games on the go and resist all efforts to healthily practise in the sunshine. Take that, mom!

nine No Family Of Mine Is A Filthy Casual

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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking your parents are lame and don't know anything that matters about pop culture. I hateful, they're the ones who are always doing the boring things like paying the bills and putting food on the table. You, on the other hand, are well-versed in all the tertiary graphic symbol trivia in all the spinoffs of the Marvel universe. But more than often than non, your parents possess a bank of pop culture trivia that may astound you. In their day, they knew all the hot deets nigh tv set and movies that would put any schoolyard chum to shame. It'due south non that they don't care about modern pop trivia, it's that modernistic stuff will invariably suck to their romanticized youth. I'll permit this sentiment be expressed in the immortal words of Grandpa Simpson.

8 King Of The Colina Mode

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King of the Loma was a striking animated cartoon that ran on FOX from 1997 to 2010, or as yous might have known it growing up, that annoying show nigh Texans you had to sit through while waiting for The Simpsons to come on. Personally, I realized that I hadn't given Rex of the Hill well-nigh the risk it deserved after coming across such wonderful material from the evidence over the years. Take this excerpt for example. Hank Hill is playing a Chiliad Theft Automobile-like game for the beginning time when he accidentally harms a parking attendant. His flustered reaction is all-too-familiar to whatever kid who has tried in vain to bond with their parent over they favourite video game. The feel usually only reaffirms the brutal nature of the game in the parents' eyes.

vii Nothing Left To Teach

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Gamer parents get to lord it over their kids that they've been playing games since before their child's conception. In the first few years, that might hateful that their kids will idolize their superior skills. Yet, quite a different story volition accept shape in the years that follow. All those times you were "showing your kid how information technology was done," he was learning and watching and biding his time. Soon, your ain ten-year-one-time is whipping you in the games you lot once had mastered. Information technology tin be embarrassing. You lot inadvertently trained your child into a video game super soldier similar Tiger Woods' dad stuck Tiger on the golfing green earlier he barely could walk.

6 Why Can't You Be On Twitch Like The Other Kids?

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This is the dark side of hereafter gamer parents. When nigh gamers fashion pic themselves every bit hereafter parents, they fashion themselves much the aforementioned fashion Amy Poehler does in Hateful Girls: "I'm not similar a regular mom, I'm a absurd mom." But what happens when, in a roughshod twist of fate, your child doesn't intendance well-nigh important stuff similar gamerscores and only wants to report so they tin go into a decent college? Oh my, it's almost too terrible to fathom. In contrast to the twentieth century, the stereotype of the nerdy gamer with no friends has been all but reversed. Nerds push button jocks into lockers in VR for declining to go their SAT scores in the 2000s.