Gamer dads everywhere both laugh at and share your pain!
Rafał
6 years ago
…and that’s why I play only after my children go to sleep.
Besides, that kid’s face says: “Read that goddamn book, or I’ll tell mom, that you don’t play with me!”
Yeah unless my kids are sleeping, no way do I get to play games. I managed a little Super Mario Odyssey for about 5 minutes after my son woke up from his nap yesterday. And there was one day where in the morning he actually sat and watched me play Knack 2.
Maybe when he’s 4-5…
Boltasar
6 years ago
He’s playing on ps4. He could have suspended the software to pause.
Not mine, I’m preaty sure he’s a force of the nature, a primal being, something that came out of the legends. Other day I was trying to catch up in destiny with my pallas, they already have burned all the damn content. But they are such a nice bunch and were giving me the condescending walk trough the game. And I already had put my boy to bed. So he wakes up, goes to my living room and lay down on the sofa at my side… Stays up trying to help me until 3:30 Am. Then I finished the game… Read more »
One day, the child goes out to see the ocean. While on the boat, you hear a rumbling. Suddenly, water begins to froth, and the waves are hurled upwards, creating a vortex around your boat. The ring of water closes in on your child, and places him gently into the grand whirlpool. For the time has come for the child to no longer walk among the ilk of men, and to instead begin his training as heir to the throne of Pontus, the Primordial Titan of the Ocean.
Either you do not have young’uns, or it’s been a long time since you’ve had a child that young, or you somehow got the magical million-in-one-chance unicorn child who actually sleeps when they’re supposed to and doesn’t horribly murder your own sleep.
No. When the kid sleeps, you sleep. If you stay up to play video games, that is sleep you do not get back.
Sincerely, a guy who only got three and a half freakin’ hours of sleep last night, thank you very much.
I have a kid, thanks. And she sleeps, thanks again. I get my gaming time, my wife time, everything. Maybe it’s just the way we treat her, maybe we’re lucky. Your choice 🙂
We do not sleep when the kid / infant / baby sleeps.
Go play MH3 Ultimate for a few days
You’ll think it is a recolored Great Baggi
Gwen Soul
6 years ago
Hahaha, I knew that book as soon as the first panel was up. This is the reason for no online games for me right now.
Adam Hackney
6 years ago
I have 3 kids, 8, 5 and 2. That’s all I hear, play with me or read to me. The only time I can play any games is after they go to bed. I feelnyour pain. Cheers
Auns
6 years ago
Welcome to modern fatherhood. Good job buddy!
Hamstermer
6 years ago
“Jaws are bad, claws are bad, tails are bad”
Eldest Gruff
6 years ago
Oh my god. That is actually, down to the glare on Panel 3, exactly my life yesterday. Except replace that book with “Hippos Go Beserk!” by Sandra Boynton.
I remember these days. It was Brown Bear for my son. Now he would rather play portal knights with me. Which is fun for a bit. But it’s all he wants to play now. Oh well it’s time together that counts.
GadgetGirl
6 years ago
Don’t worry….when they get older, they ask you each night; “Are you gonna go play games now?” and then you wonder why they are so insistent about getting you out of the room where their computer is. And when they move out, you get to turn their room into a gaming room.
Chinpo
6 years ago
kids are simultaneously the worst and the best.
Annales
6 years ago
This is why I go work in an office in daytime.
Charlie
6 years ago
Replace the kid with a dog. And the book with pacing back and forth. And the talking with grunting about needing to shit and or piss and thats how it goes for me.
Brent
6 years ago
All it’s missing is your teammates wondering where the —- you are while they’re getting slaughtered
tiamatt
6 years ago
I know it’s regarded as a pain but I loved reading to my kid and imo moments like those are priceless. Video games or any other sort of entertainment will come and go but your little kid will only stay a little kid for such a short amount of time, all too soon they’ll read their own books and find their own ways to have fun without you. Just saying treasure the time when all they want is for you to spend time with them and read their favorite books because that time goes all too quickly.
I don’t think he is either, just wanted to say that you’d never realize how true the phrase “they grow up so fast” is until you’d experience it for yourself.
Mitoni
6 years ago
Just wait Tim. Mine is 6 now, and if I don’t lock my PC, he will load up Overwatch when I’m not looking…
Alex
6 years ago
This is so damn true.
Joe Snuffy
6 years ago
It is heartening to see all the support in the comments. Gamer parents who have their priorities in line. Dig it. Good job.
James
6 years ago
This is SOOOO accurate i literaly LOLed when reading this comic; the wife wondered what I was laughing at and then joined in with me hahahaha
Daminica
6 years ago
From expierience I can tell this is very, very accurate.
Gaulwa
6 years ago
Get yourself some farcaster. At least you can jump back to camp while your allies finishes the monster.
Biff Tannen
6 years ago
Kid and a dog. If it not one, it’s the other. Makes playing anything online hard. Although can’t wait til the lil ones old enough to play tabletop dnd. And walk the dog while I game.
Jenny
6 years ago
So real. Right in the “GO TO SLEEP!!!” feels.
Forge
6 years ago
Oh man, as the father of a soon-to-be One year old, I can relate. Though, she does love sitting in my lap and watching Link roaming the wilds, I had to get her her own controller (unplugged) so she could “play” too.
This. It’s HOW you do it. My girl will be a great gamer ^^
Kyle
6 years ago
Anyone else hear “Cat’s in the Cradle” in the background?
Ryan
6 years ago
And sadly this is why I have limited my game play to Civilization other turn based games… I don’t ask for one more turn… just one turn… seriously… daddy only wants to have one… fine… The Magic Bunny…
Merlin
6 years ago
My nephew has a book called “go the f**k to sleep” and there is a video of Samuel L. Jackson reading it on youtube.
Dan
6 years ago
I get this everyday when I get home from work. 20 minutes (if I am lucky) until the bus drops my son off. I have lost count of the number of times I’ve had my Y-Wing in SWBF2 just fly off in to nothing whilst I answer the door and then lose the game to my son lol
Jose
6 years ago
My daughter used to do this when she was younger. Then she asked if she could play and now she’s the healer to my tank in Final Fantasy 14. She’s 7. Not sure if I did a good thing lol.
Matt
6 years ago
You’re a good dad, Tim. Never forget that. When he gets older, he’s going to tell you otherwise, but he knows. He knows..
Agustin
6 years ago
If you had truly read it 400 times you could say it ad verbatim while hunting the monsters.
Aaron
6 years ago
OH. MY. GOD.
My kid wants me to read that book so much that we both have it memorized. He’s 3. Glad to know I’m not the only one tortured with the 5 black cats that sit in a row beneath the moonlight.
MasterofBalance
3 years ago
Besides, one hunt could take hours, maybe more. Might as well kill twi birds with one stone.
Gaelex
3 years ago
“Children should be seen, not heard.”
Old but gold.
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Gamer dads everywhere both laugh at and share your pain!
…and that’s why I play only after my children go to sleep.
Besides, that kid’s face says: “Read that goddamn book, or I’ll tell mom, that you don’t play with me!”
Yeah unless my kids are sleeping, no way do I get to play games. I managed a little Super Mario Odyssey for about 5 minutes after my son woke up from his nap yesterday. And there was one day where in the morning he actually sat and watched me play Knack 2.
Maybe when he’s 4-5…
He’s playing on ps4. He could have suspended the software to pause.
Oh, does it magically pause time for the other people in the match, too? 😉 You can suspend MHW, but it doesn’t pause so well.
Ive had the same issue w overwatch
Predator in the Wildlands DLC has killed me many times because of this.
An exercise in patience.
*sigh* look mom there are things called online games. You can’t pause online games. No they won’t just wait.
Next time she’s on the phone: Mom can’t you just pause the phonecall? Waddya mean it can’t wait?
As a father of 3, i can totally relate to this.
Sums up parenthood well.
Love the five black cats! At least it’s not Dora…
Every day at my house.
You a good dad. I know people who’d yell at their kids instead of pausing the game for five minutes.
You can’t pause online sessions. But the true solution remains… Play when they sleep.
Wait… kids sleep? 😛
Not mine, I’m preaty sure he’s a force of the nature, a primal being, something that came out of the legends. Other day I was trying to catch up in destiny with my pallas, they already have burned all the damn content. But they are such a nice bunch and were giving me the condescending walk trough the game. And I already had put my boy to bed. So he wakes up, goes to my living room and lay down on the sofa at my side… Stays up trying to help me until 3:30 Am. Then I finished the game… Read more »
One day, the child goes out to see the ocean. While on the boat, you hear a rumbling. Suddenly, water begins to froth, and the waves are hurled upwards, creating a vortex around your boat. The ring of water closes in on your child, and places him gently into the grand whirlpool. For the time has come for the child to no longer walk among the ilk of men, and to instead begin his training as heir to the throne of Pontus, the Primordial Titan of the Ocean.
Either you do not have young’uns, or it’s been a long time since you’ve had a child that young, or you somehow got the magical million-in-one-chance unicorn child who actually sleeps when they’re supposed to and doesn’t horribly murder your own sleep.
No. When the kid sleeps, you sleep. If you stay up to play video games, that is sleep you do not get back.
Sincerely, a guy who only got three and a half freakin’ hours of sleep last night, thank you very much.
I have a kid, thanks. And she sleeps, thanks again. I get my gaming time, my wife time, everything. Maybe it’s just the way we treat her, maybe we’re lucky. Your choice 🙂
We do not sleep when the kid / infant / baby sleeps.
I thought the magical solution was to not have children.
I agree.
And This is why I don’t Procreate.
…yes, that’s the only reason…
I know that pain. I’ve read “Oh the places you’ll go” so many times I just recitw it from memory now while she looks at the pictures.
I feel that the evilness that the anjanath is is pretty well represented here.
First monster in world that killed me until i got to hight rank … he has some nasty wombo combo that one
Go play MH3 Ultimate for a few days
You’ll think it is a recolored Great Baggi
Hahaha, I knew that book as soon as the first panel was up. This is the reason for no online games for me right now.
I have 3 kids, 8, 5 and 2. That’s all I hear, play with me or read to me. The only time I can play any games is after they go to bed. I feelnyour pain. Cheers
Welcome to modern fatherhood. Good job buddy!
“Jaws are bad, claws are bad, tails are bad”
Oh my god. That is actually, down to the glare on Panel 3, exactly my life yesterday. Except replace that book with “Hippos Go Beserk!” by Sandra Boynton.
Oh, and replace Monster Hunter with Axiom Verge on my Switch.
1 Hippo all alone, calls 2 Hippos on the phone!
3 Hippos at the door bring along another 4!
I remember these days. It was Brown Bear for my son. Now he would rather play portal knights with me. Which is fun for a bit. But it’s all he wants to play now. Oh well it’s time together that counts.
Don’t worry….when they get older, they ask you each night; “Are you gonna go play games now?” and then you wonder why they are so insistent about getting you out of the room where their computer is. And when they move out, you get to turn their room into a gaming room.
kids are simultaneously the worst and the best.
This is why I go work in an office in daytime.
Replace the kid with a dog. And the book with pacing back and forth. And the talking with grunting about needing to shit and or piss and thats how it goes for me.
All it’s missing is your teammates wondering where the —- you are while they’re getting slaughtered
I know it’s regarded as a pain but I loved reading to my kid and imo moments like those are priceless. Video games or any other sort of entertainment will come and go but your little kid will only stay a little kid for such a short amount of time, all too soon they’ll read their own books and find their own ways to have fun without you. Just saying treasure the time when all they want is for you to spend time with them and read their favorite books because that time goes all too quickly.
I don’t think Tim is saying otherwise here. Notice he still puts down the controller and reads the book, even if it is time number 401.
But showing it as a precious moment wouldn’t have had the same impact, probably wouldn’t have fit them theme of CAD.
I don’t think he is either, just wanted to say that you’d never realize how true the phrase “they grow up so fast” is until you’d experience it for yourself.
Just wait Tim. Mine is 6 now, and if I don’t lock my PC, he will load up Overwatch when I’m not looking…
This is so damn true.
It is heartening to see all the support in the comments. Gamer parents who have their priorities in line. Dig it. Good job.
This is SOOOO accurate i literaly LOLed when reading this comic; the wife wondered what I was laughing at and then joined in with me hahahaha
From expierience I can tell this is very, very accurate.
Get yourself some farcaster. At least you can jump back to camp while your allies finishes the monster.
Kid and a dog. If it not one, it’s the other. Makes playing anything online hard. Although can’t wait til the lil ones old enough to play tabletop dnd. And walk the dog while I game.
So real. Right in the “GO TO SLEEP!!!” feels.
Oh man, as the father of a soon-to-be One year old, I can relate. Though, she does love sitting in my lap and watching Link roaming the wilds, I had to get her her own controller (unplugged) so she could “play” too.
This. It’s HOW you do it. My girl will be a great gamer ^^
Anyone else hear “Cat’s in the Cradle” in the background?
And sadly this is why I have limited my game play to Civilization other turn based games… I don’t ask for one more turn… just one turn… seriously… daddy only wants to have one… fine… The Magic Bunny…
My nephew has a book called “go the f**k to sleep” and there is a video of Samuel L. Jackson reading it on youtube.
I get this everyday when I get home from work. 20 minutes (if I am lucky) until the bus drops my son off. I have lost count of the number of times I’ve had my Y-Wing in SWBF2 just fly off in to nothing whilst I answer the door and then lose the game to my son lol
My daughter used to do this when she was younger. Then she asked if she could play and now she’s the healer to my tank in Final Fantasy 14. She’s 7. Not sure if I did a good thing lol.
You’re a good dad, Tim. Never forget that. When he gets older, he’s going to tell you otherwise, but he knows. He knows..
If you had truly read it 400 times you could say it ad verbatim while hunting the monsters.
OH. MY. GOD.
My kid wants me to read that book so much that we both have it memorized. He’s 3. Glad to know I’m not the only one tortured with the 5 black cats that sit in a row beneath the moonlight.
Besides, one hunt could take hours, maybe more. Might as well kill twi birds with one stone.
“Children should be seen, not heard.”
Old but gold.