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[PA Comic] Friday, November 30, 2012 - Mindcraft
Geth
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Indeed.
Games: Ad Astra Per Phalla | Choose Your Own Phalla
Oh yeah, it's because I'm getting older.
Steam
STEAM
And this comic is one of the sads.
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Hop'n'bop over to my bed.
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Very nice comic.
/cry
Oh yes, and I had to pretend that I had sleepy eyes in work when I read it, rather than have everyone tell me to man up. If there are any witches that need the ‘tears of worried parents’ for any spells, line up!
The innocence and trusting nature of a child is amazing, and their complete reliance on you as a parent to protect them from the big wide world... hell you ARE their world. As they grow they may become more "street-wise" and savvy, but the loose their charming innocence.
I would imagine most (if not all) parents here have watched their child sleep and just thought "I love you" and not wanted that bond to change.
Third panel really hits hard. Amazing work, all around.
Yeah.
I also like his Web Comics MVP trophy.
There's no turning back the clock, there isn't even holding the clock back. We are at the tail end of his childhood, and there will - too soon - be a day when he doesn't want me to tuck him in anymore, when he won't tell me, "I love you, Daddy," every day. But, God willing, if we don't screw him up completely, that affection won't actually leave. What we do together may change, the niceties will change, but that love and affection will still be there.
Besides, he has to keep being nice to me if he wants to go to PAX ever again. ;-)
EDIT: Oh, and it goes without saying, but great comic today.
My daughter is about to turn 4, so this hits close to home as well, but I try to look at this in a more positive manner. The fact that world is filled with all sorts people, good or bad, has never changed and parents have always had to deal with this reality. What we can take heart in is the fact that little Gabe is getting a lot of guidance from someone who knows about what actually does happen and can happen on the internet. The PA parents community will probably prepare our children better to deal with cyberspace then most. Just have to talk to our kids and equip them the best we can to be aware and avoid the things that can happen on the vile intertubes.
Now, the fact that we know what does happen and can happen on the internet is probably the reason we are so freaked out when we realize that our kids will at some point, probably sooner than we'd like, become part of that "community". There's no avoiding that though.
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
Same here. Read XKCD, got a bit choked up, then came here for teh funnyes and got gut-checked again instead. Terrific comic. My two little girls are 2 1/2 and 2 months, so not in Gabe's shoes yet but it definitely hit home.
Plus I'll take any excuse to post Tom Waits.
At least it's a happy ending.
STEAM
Darkewolfe, I didn't either. I grew up the youngest of four, and the next oldest was six years older than me. So I didn't know what the hell I was getting into when we started having kids.
What I didn't know was that, if you have any emotional connection with your child, that you are no longer strong and self-reliant. If you care about your child, you're going to be worried about the cat sleeping on their face, about them falling out of the crib, putting shit in their mouths.
Dying.
When the daughter climbed the school bus to kindergarten, I worried even more for awhile. She was the smallest in her class. She didn't go to pre-school. She had no idea what was going to happen. (Fortunately, she may be a princess, but she's Hulk as well. Princess Hulk.)
When the daughter hit 15, I worried about boys. The son's 13 and so calm and self-assured that it's scary. My dad died when I was 15, and it fuqued me over for decades (no grief counseling back in the '70s), so I got to worry about dropping on them when I reached dad's age.
All of this sounds incredibly self-centered, and it is. But also I love them so goddamn much. I love seeing the world through their eyes. I love what they're creating. I love what they say and how they argue and fight (even when it enrages and hurts me). I tell them this as well, to reassure them that I'm here for them, and that some day they'll move on and (I hope) keep in touch.
For those of us who connect to our kids -- not a given thing -- it lets you experience life at its most basic level.
Yeah, between this and XKCD, it's been one of those days.
I lack whatever instinct it is to make a child and be responsible for it, though. I don't see why you'd even want to. My fiancee and I got a dog and we can barely muster up enough caregiver empathy to get by there.
If it makes a difference, I love my son more than anything in the universe, but our cat can go to hell!