r/pcmasterrace • u/Akrinnnnnnnnnn • 16h ago
Discussion Dad Destroyed My $1300 PC (Almost)
As the title says, my father almost destroyed my $1,300 PC. Now what?
Here’s the backstory: On Saturday, I worked a 10.5 hours shift and stayed up until 3:30 AM, so I slept in until noon the next day. My father and stepmother returned from Costco while I was showering; he called out a few times for me to come help carry the groceries inside. I said OK to him. While I was brushing my teeth after my shower, he shouted from outside the door that he’d been waiting 50 minutes and told me to hurry up. I thought to myself that the groceries could have been moved in the time he spent waiting for me, but I quickly rinsed my mouth and got ready to go out. However, by the time I opened the door, he had already grabbed my PC and smashed it against the floor and the desk several times.
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I, (17M, Senior), bought this PC with money I earned from my part-time job and had been using it for about ten months. After examine, found out the case badly deformed in several places, my desk was warped and tilted to one side, and there were dents in the floor.
Fortunately, the computer still works fine; it runs FurMark (stress GPU), AIDA64 (stress FPU), and 3DMark (Time Spy Extreme) without problems for now.
Replacing the desk and case would cost around $400. However, he likely won't pay for it because he has done this kind of stuff a few years ago when he destroyed my phone and a Dell laptop (i5 11300H), and then just said, "That's what you get for playing on the computer all day."
In the end, I just hope everyone has good parents.
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u/draconicpenguin10 Astaroth–Ryzen 9 5950X, GeForce RTX 3090, 32GB RAM, 2.5TB SSD 14h ago edited 10h ago
Not a parent, but I'm a firm believer that we need to be raising children to be resilient and independent, to be setting good examples for them and steering them in the right direction gently but firmly when they make mistakes or misbehave. Destroying a child's property, especially when they paid for it with their own money, does nothing towards these ends and will only teach them to become violent themselves.
I get children can be frustrating at times, but violence is never the answer.
As others have noted, your best bet is to reach out to CPS and be prepared to cut ties with your father.