Best day ever
Best day ever
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My eldest lad is growing up too fast - he's got lots of hobbies, one of which needs a lot of fitness so I try and get out with him once a week for a half hour run - partly to introduce him to cardio training but mainly to just get some time alone with him before he realises his dad is an arsehole.
It's great. Admittedly, he's just "Roblox Roblox Roblox Roblox Roblox Roblox can we go to the shop Roblox Roblox" but it's time with him to talk to me about whatever he wants and it's time that I absolutely adore. I hope when (if) he chooses to have kids, he'll look back and think "hey that was some decent dad time I had outside the house".
I'm also secretly hoping that if he's ever going through a rough time in life that he's keeping to himself and we're still out banging miles into the tarmac, then somewhere between "what's your favourite Grow Your Garden pet?" and "I just got a badge in Doors for using a crucifix on door 69 while getting chased by rush", there'll be a little breadcrumb or hint at a drama that we can talk about and ease his mental health just a tiny bit.
Who knows. A dad can hope.
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Awwww. A caring dad. They will see and remember this.
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Honestly I'd be happy if they remember it and adopt the same approach to spending time with folk - whether it be their friends, colleagues, maybe even their own bairns in due course.
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Omg, I feel this so goddamn much
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arsehole
Nah. I don’t give a shit about anything else you do or have done, you being a good dad to your kid negates all that shit.
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Yeah fingers crossed!
I think there's a point in most people's lives though where they look up to their leading figure in life - be it father; mother; caregiver; whatever - and realise that they're not perfect and they're just as prone to making daft mistakes as anyone.
It was a sobering moment for me - I suppose it just makes you realise that they're just another person trying to make the best in life and sometimes shit just goes sideways.
I mean, twenty years later I still feel like I've got my shit held together by thin string and willpower - adulting is hard work 😂
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Since OP decided not to post it, here's the extra text:
"This is one of those comics that causes a bunch of readers to check in on my mental health, isn't it?"
I much prefer when OPs include it in the description.
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Did not know SMBC features extra text, but in my defence I've linked the source
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It would do you honour to link to the source, too. It is not that hard.
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Ah, sorry. My apologies. Thanks for linking it though, that's great. I do recommend checking out the extra text (I think it's on every comic), it's sometimes better than the comic haha. Sorry again, I shouldn't have assumed you knew about them.
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FWIW I checked the comic at SBMC and Im not sure what extra text they are talking about unless the author shared said extra text on a social network, but I don't see anything you missed from your source.
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Even after all these years, I recognized this as Saturday morning breakfast cereal!
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Reminds me of the self aware board game commercial family on Community.
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Couldn't remember it so I had to look it up. https://youtu.be/lMW58MiSLe0
Sounds like a rewatch is due!
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How about the Twilight Zone episode:
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But they were alive in my head and my existence is only validated by my perception. Thus, they were real. I perceived therefore I experience reality.
I dunno. I'm not like a philosopher or anything
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Heart breaking
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you stupid child
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Big Community: The Board Game energy.
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They are having the best day of its life, for ever.
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You woke up with a memory of this day but it never happened.
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I enjoy how much he appeared to revel in it:
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been lying!
The little scamp...
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Ce ne sont pas des gens.
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Young Zach was really going through some shit, huh?
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Worse, they were AI generated.
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As I said the last time I saw this, the early-aughts webcomic 1/0 covers this in some depth.
It's exactly 1000 strips, and holy frick how is it 25 years old
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I had read this once before a long time ago. You sent me down a rabbit hole of reading the whole thing straight through again. Thanks for that, good memories.
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I mean, this is literally the same concept I used to stop myself from crying whenever I remember the time Lucario sacrificed himself in place of Ash.
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A small chip of my childhood and joy has fallen by the wayside.
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Immersion ruined
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Yes, but what they represent is what's beautiful. Things do not need to be real to have inherent meaning.
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After all, it's not what is real, it is what we experience that matters. Ever found yourself in another place when reading a book? Experienced a game so immersive that you are the character? Cried over a movie?
None of this is real. But all of this matters.
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I had a dream once where a woman grabbed my head, looked me in the eye, and said “when you wake up I won’t exist.”
Freaked me out
I had a dream where I was in a group project back in high school, and I was apologizing to all of my group mates because I knew it was a dream and I was gonna wake up soon and leave them with all the work.
Do you know what would be even more freaky? If you saw her again.
If you do see her again, make sure you go straight to her and give her your most affectionate kiss. Worst case scenario is that it is the reality and you go to jail for two weeks. It's totally worth it.
Oh my god, are you okay? That's one of those you never let go of.
He's okay, it's the woman who's in trouble here.
Was your dream this xkcd?
Oh good it wasn’t my idea so she’s not actually real
Relevant xkcd
She does, though. Your brain created her.
She is you.
Get rekt dream lady
This is the idea of this song, which I love https://youtu.be/k7kSKU4cD-g
Edit: the song is Make Me Real by shemusic, in case the YouTube link is a problem for anyone. Available everywhere including Bandcamp.