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Has anyone said Hootie and the Blowfish yet?
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- Rolo
- Nov 16, 2005
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Hmm, what have we here?
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Oh yeah that’ll do it.
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- Rolo
- Nov 16, 2005
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Hmm, what have we here?
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I used to be pretty indifferent to people suffering in media because, c'mon, it's just pretend! But things change when you get kids.
I watch this guy Campster on youtube sometimes, he does pretty decent reviews of indy games and stuff. Two years ago I was sitting at home, my infant son finally asleep, and I was watching a review of a weird indy game called That Dragon, Cancer. It's a video game about a dad coping with his infant son suffering from cancer. Weird loving premise for a game. I haven't even played it, I've only ever seen (part of) that review. Anyway, there's a scene in the game that's shown in the review, where the protagonist walks round and round inside a darkened hospital room, carrying his son and trying to calm him down. The baby won't sleep, won't eat, won't accept any toys, he's just in pain from the cancer and cries and cries.
I had to shut the video off at that point. I was just a sniveling, bleary-eyed mess. I'd been carrying my own son around just twenty minutes earlier, trying to make him sleep, and that poo poo just triggered some parental angst in me.
I can't stand to see young kids hurt anymore, even if it's just in fiction. I barely got through the first ten minutes of the new IT movie.
My buddy I’ve known for 20 years grew up watching gory mind numbing horror movies but he has a kid now and it’s the same for him. I’m reading The Road for the first time and I was describing the book to him and he’s all like 
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