Hello reddit, I'm writing this because a situation just happened with my little brother that I think is absolutely ridiculous. Back in July, my family and I were vacationing in France, I asked for an XBoX controller for my games. My little brothers both had controllers, I initially asked for an Elite controller which is 160-ish USD, but my parents declined, so I went for a run of the mill white controller. I got it, and this was unacceptable for my brothers, they had black ones and apparently their black controllers now sucked. They tried to take if from me and swap it for their own controller, they claimed that there was a difference other than the color which justified them taking it. At least that didn't work. 

In December, my little brothers and I asked for rechargeable batteries for our controllers, my dad agreed to buy us the chargers, I also asked him if I could buy a condenser microphone, an AT2020, I would be paying for it from the money I earned obviously.

My parents and my siblings come back from their vacation in Dubai, and there are only two batteries in their luggage, my dad tells me that he forgot I wanted them, though my little brothers told me that they had convinced him that I don't need it. I don't know who to believe but that's irrelevant, I find the microphone, but it's not an AT2020, I won't complaint since it's still a condenser and better than my blue snowball ice, I take it into my room, but then my sister gets angry that her microphone is missing, I thought my dad must've gotten her a mic too, my dad the finds me using the mic, grounds me and gives it to her, turns out he bought the mic for her in the first place. At this point I'm clearly pissed off, so I retreat to my room and go to sleep.

Later that week I ask my dad for the battery, my little brothers had gotten a knock-off battery, I asked my dad for an original Microsoft one, which was somehow cheaper than the knock-off, he agreed. My little brother whined about it but I didn't think much of it. Come delivery day, there are two batteries in the box, I excitedly thank my dad and unbox them in my room. I thought he had also gotten me a spare charger. Nope. My little brother comes into my room screaming and starts kicking my stuff, turns out he also got an original charger too, even though he already had one. I thought this was unfair because he had two batteries while I had one. 

When I asked my dad how come he gets whatever he wants and I have  to consistently ask him about it he tells me when I was his age I had everything I wanted, which consisted of a PSP and a Pentium powered PC that couldn't do jack shit. I was grateful that I did have them as a child though so I decided to drop it. For reference my brother's PC is has an i7 and a respectable graphics card. My current PC is way better than his, but that's irrelevant to the argument.

A few weeks later my brother buys his second and third copy of Minecraft, the third copy is an XBox one edition which he can't even fucking play, my dad gets it for him anyways because it's cheap. He then goes on a buying spree where he buys Just Cause 3 and FIFA 19, which I asked for as well. My dad did give me the origin login details for FIFA 19 which was nice of him, and I did already have Just Cause 3 on my steam account, I still don't understand why my dad didn't just force me to share my account with him instead of buying the game twice.

Last night shit really begins to hit the fan, as my brother buys his third copy of the same star wars game, and my dad agrees to get him GTA V (he hasn't bought it yet), which he rejected when I asked him a few months prior. This pisses me off.

This morning all hell breaks loose when my other little brother and I learn that my first little brother is not only buying the 200USD controller that I asked for in July, but he's also buying a PS4. Even though he has a computer than can run all the games he plays and he doesn't own any PS4 games. I get angry, and my dad tells me that there are certain things which are appropriate for my 8yo brother that aren't appropriate for me (15yo). Like 3 copies of minecraft, 3 copies of starwars, a PS4, fucking GTAV, and a 200USD Xbox elite controller. 

He also told me that I have many things to be grateful for that he doesn't have, like a very powerful PC, and an XPS laptop, a massive collection of Rubik's cubes, which I had to restart a year ago when he destroyed all 37 cubes I owned and had been collecting for 7 years and were worth over 500USD. (I never got compensated and my little brother never got punished).

That's not my point, I recognize that I am privileged and that I do have many things to be grateful for, my point is that it's unfair that my brother gets to spend my father's money in whatever ways he wants, to buy whatever he wants whenever he wants, even though he doesn't use most of the shit he gets, and on top of that, if we both ask for something he gets it and I don't.

Thanks for reading through this if you did, please give me your feedback, what do you think, am I the asshole?