No, that was was actually a whole other incident onto itself. He didn’t know about CRT burn-in until I had to explain to him what the point of a screensaver was when he kept turning it off and leaving the monitor on all day.
He actually ruined our old Apple IIc doing that shit. We had a “>” symbol burned into the upper left corner of the screen. We ended up having to use the flat panel screen which was absolute ass to game on except for text adventures.
My dad heard something from some random person about burn in and as a result was convinced every time I turned on a console it was going to ruin the TV. He had all kinds of weird bit of false knowledge gleaned from listening to random strangers. Somehow their unsubstantiated claims about how the world works had more weight than my demonstrated ability to make things work. He would never run the AC in the car on max. Thinking it made the compressor work harder not realizing that max just closed the outside vent on the car. He hated for me to succeed and enjoyed every mistake I ever made.
That is some of the least shitty stuff he did to me but thanks. Having shitty parents is something only someone who had shitty parents can really understand.
No, that was was actually a whole other incident onto itself. He didn’t know about CRT burn-in until I had to explain to him what the point of a screensaver was when he kept turning it off and leaving the monitor on all day.
He actually ruined our old Apple IIc doing that shit. We had a “>” symbol burned into the upper left corner of the screen. We ended up having to use the flat panel screen which was absolute ass to game on except for text adventures.
My father is just worst kind of stupid: angry.
My dad heard something from some random person about burn in and as a result was convinced every time I turned on a console it was going to ruin the TV. He had all kinds of weird bit of false knowledge gleaned from listening to random strangers. Somehow their unsubstantiated claims about how the world works had more weight than my demonstrated ability to make things work. He would never run the AC in the car on max. Thinking it made the compressor work harder not realizing that max just closed the outside vent on the car. He hated for me to succeed and enjoyed every mistake I ever made.
What an asshole. I’m sorry you had to have that for a father figure. Mine was stupid and belligerent but never malicious.
That is some of the least shitty stuff he did to me but thanks. Having shitty parents is something only someone who had shitty parents can really understand.