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Penny Arcade - Comic - Parenting As A Service

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Parenting As A Service !

**Penny Arcade - Comic - Parenting As A Service **

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Tell 'em to go play in the street

  • Johnny17Johnny17 Registered User regular
    "Son, for your 18th birthday I have a special present for you: A special edition of PA featuring all of the strips where I regret having kids."

  • OverkillengineOverkillengine Registered User regular
    Lul I liked how this one rapidly shifted from "I need internet to work" to "I need internet to abuse as a surrogate parent/babysitter".

  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    Overkillengine wrote: »
    Lul I liked how this one rapidly shifted from "I need internet to work" to "I need internet to abuse as a surrogate parent/babysitter".

    For every decision, from pasta sauce to school activities to college that is a major factor.

  • PyrianPyrian Registered User regular
    C'mon, Gabe, you should have at least three different ways to connect to the internet from home.

    Pyrian's Watercolor Game Art
  • LttlefootLttlefoot Registered User regular
    Parenting as a service - getting a babysitter for one night is more flexible than having a full time nanny

    Transport as a service - this passenger train has been running along the same rails for 200 years. Bad luck if you want to go somewhere else

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    I can hear Jerry doing that guys voice in my head.

  • Armored ChocoboArmored Chocobo Registered User regular
    So what he's saying is he should sit down and tell a bold-faced lie to his kids

  • GrendusGrendus Registered User regular
    Armored Chocobo wrote: »
    So what he's saying is he should sit down and tell a bold-faced lie to his kids

    I mean, he works for the cable company. He's used to lying. Does it all the time.

    That internet? It ain't comin' back for a while, man. Make alternative arrangements.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Johnny17 wrote: »
    "Son, for your 18th birthday I have a special present for you: A special edition of PA featuring all of the strips where I regret having kids."

    I mean any parent that doesn't admit they have regretted their children at least once is lying.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Johnny17 wrote: »
    "Son, for your 18th birthday I have a special present for you: A special edition of PA featuring all of the strips where I regret having kids."

    I mean any parent that doesn't admit they have regretted their children at least once a day is lying.

    FTFY

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    dennis wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Johnny17 wrote: »
    "Son, for your 18th birthday I have a special present for you: A special edition of PA featuring all of the strips where I regret having kids."

    I mean any parent that doesn't admit they have regretted their children at least once a day is lying.

    FTFY

    Look I wanted to not scare the childless people. But like today my son was complaining we wouldn't buy him a minecraft Mod and like boy no, god damn it you get so many things.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • MarcinMNMarcinMN Registered User regular
    Sounds like I dodged a bullet with the whole kid thing. And the only cost was dying alone and forgotten someday in the nursing home. But hey, I suppose that could happen even if I did have kids. ;)

    "It's just as I've always said. We are being digested by an amoral universe."

    -Tycho Brahe
  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    Every time a "regret having kids" comment comes up I'm reminded of the time we had a babysitter panicking when we got home because our then four year old son had done "something" to the toaster. "What did he do to it?" "I DON'T KNOW I CAN'T FIND IT!"

    He turned seven this year and we have not found that toaster. It was a nice toaster, and I hate the one we got to replace it.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    That reminds me of Suicide Kings, but that was a completely different usage of a toaster

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • YoungFreyYoungFrey Registered User regular
    MarcinMN wrote: »
    Sounds like I dodged a bullet with the whole kid thing. And the only cost was dying alone and forgotten someday in the nursing home. But hey, I suppose that could happen even if I did have kids. ;)

    Having been in serious relationships with both a doctor and an elder care provider, I can promise you it does. People's kids put them in homes and never visit all time.

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    Every time a "regret having kids" comment comes up I'm reminded of the time we had a babysitter panicking when we got home because our then four year old son had done "something" to the toaster. "What did he do to it?" "I DON'T KNOW I CAN'T FIND IT!"

    He turned seven this year and we have not found that toaster. It was a nice toaster, and I hate the one we got to replace it.

    In 50 years somebody is going to be remodeling that house and find the toaster behind some pristine drywall half embedded into a stud.

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  • LttlefootLttlefoot Registered User regular
    This explains how enemies in RPGs drop random items when you kill them

  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    Lttlefoot wrote: »
    This explains how enemies in RPGs drop random items when you kill them

    I discussed this with my wife but she was unconvinced it would get us out toaster back.

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Cybertronian Paranormal Eliminator Registered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    Every time a "regret having kids" comment comes up I'm reminded of the time we had a babysitter panicking when we got home because our then four year old son had done "something" to the toaster. "What did he do to it?" "I DON'T KNOW I CAN'T FIND IT!"

    He turned seven this year and we have not found that toaster. It was a nice toaster, and I hate the one we got to replace it.

    Watch it turn out he traded it for a 9.8 graded copy of Incredible Hulk #181 (First appearance of Wolverine)

    Which he then drew on in crayon.

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