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[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do your mom

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Afterwards, could you give me a hug and tell me you believe in me?

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

After? During!

Of course I beleive in you. If you didn't already know that, then I'm sorry for letting you down.

Instead, how about afterwards I give you a hug and we work on helping you beleive in yourself?

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Zink@programming.dev 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ouch. Nerve hit.

I am unashamedly the engaging and fun dad/uncle, and I have had multiple kids of friends straight up say to me I’m their dad, like while playing with them and my son who is their age.

It seems sad at first, but then I think to myself that if they’re so hungry for a father figure I’m going to give them attention and set the best example I can, because these little humans matter. And I do not feed into the father label, of course.

The couple kids that come to mind do have fathers at home. Though admittedly one I never see at get-togethers and the other is a proper piece of shit.

[–] subterfuge@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is so wholesome. Please, keep being kind to those kids.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Always! 🫡

[–] Doxatek@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeaaah I'm really good with kids and play with them interactively when some of the parents never do and are pretty mean to them. It's really awkward to me when they unpromptedly refer to me as dad. One even repeatedly tells his mom and dad he wished I was his dad instead. I can tell the father doesn't like me now and it makes it really awkward

[–] hex@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

That sucks that you're being punished with awkwardness just because they don't know how to listen and interact with their kids the way the kids want to be interacted with.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It seems sad at first, but then I think to myself that if they’re so hungry for a father figure I’m going to give them attention and set the best example I can, because these little humans matter. And I do not feed into the father label, of course.

It seems sad at first, but

It just seems sad.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Agreed. I probably could have phrased it better, but I was trying to describe how I make the choice to not dwell on it and instead put my energy into making the world a little better for them however I can.

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I've been around in my time, but I seriously doubt I'm your pops.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Well ... You could stop having sex with their moms.

[–] CptInsane0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That happened to me once like 20 years ago. A kid I ran into on borderlands wanted me to pretend I was his dad. I was not old enough to do so.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You should have said “sure” then fucked his mom and gone out for a pack of cigarettes

[–] CptInsane0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went one further, and now I've been married to his mom for 20 years. She doesn't know it's because the kid and I are still role-playing.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I’ve heard some people play that way. The kid gives you more quests, but you don’t level up any faster.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When i was a kid, that would've been a baseball game he's talking about.

Edit: and the banter would have taken place in a bar. With the same chance of no one hearing my banter, like it is online nowadays.

I guess nothing beats the chance of eventually being heard by billions online.