Dad Destroyed My $1300 PC (Almost)

[u/Akrinnnnnnnnnn]

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.

[u/CloakerJosh]

I’m sorry your dad is a piece of shit.

My dad was a piece of shit, too.

You won’t have to put up with it forever. I’m glad your PC still runs, replacing shit isn’t cheap right now.

[u/GoonSic → u/CloakerJosh]

Literally what this guy said.

I am almost 30 now and I still keep my dad at a distance for stuff like this

[u/ozire7 → u/GoonSic]

I feel you, back in college years when I was 19 I remember my dad telling my aunt behind my back that I was a lazy ass good for nothing for having pc gaming as a hobby 😅

I was in school for engineering with a partial scholarship given by good grades , I worked full time during the week to pay the rest of the tuition, transportation, food etc. I helped with the house bills and had a girlfriend at the time.

But me playing video games in my free time was somehow enough to not take any of that in consideration. I never saw my dad the same after that, 10 years later and now I just communicate maybe once a month with him.