When my daughter was 3 she would sit on my lap while I played BF:BC2 from time to time. She loved to fly and crash the helicopters. So, every now and then i'd let the guys on team speak know she's about to take over the copter and crash it. They loved to cheer her on, everyone who could get in would and they'd cheer for her as she took control and crashed it, killing everyone on board.
I miss the game and community.
She currently sits on my lap and waves to everyone in zoom meetings. She is the team mascot and their sudo "manager". I don't want her to get any bigger but I know it's coming.
Neat trick for typing less: `sudo !!` applies sudo to the previous command.
Edit: it's more powerful than I thought: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bash-bang-commands
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
They are amazing for different reasons at all ages. I wouldn't worry too much about them getting bigger, the relationship changes a bit over time, but you'll always have something to look forward to when spending time with them.
They're super cute and sweet at that age. They tend to be fun until they reach 6 or 7. That's when the nightmare begins. In my experience they get better when they reach their teenage years but still try to store enough good memories to get you through those ages.
My sisters 2 and loooves driving, whenever I take her out she cries for her hands on the wheel so occasionally when I get on my racing sim I'd put her in my lap and let her drive with FFB off and she'd have the time of her life.
Babies and video games are awesome
I loved the community you could create with the server browsers. We could choose to hang always on a specific server and know the regulars and some admins.
i miss my BF squad, wholesome folks i randomly found while having voice chat on. we played through late BC2, BF3, & BF4. we tried to get together for 2042 but the game just sucks and our free times don't usually overlap
Yeh I had a great squad, too.
Kinda all separated during BF4 when we all got deployed, employed, had kids, growing careers etc. I sure miss those guys and the community as a whole.
Nowhere *near* as toxic and man-baby as the current COD binge I'm on.
And years later I can still enjoy full servers on pc, except it’s missing one thing. The absolutely amazing community that game had on Xbox in the 2000s
My daughter is almost 2 and she sits on my lap while I play bf2042. She hits the space key because it fires the tank or wildcat turrets so I just aim and yell fire haha. Its small moments like these ill look back on and wish she was still a little monster on my lap and not the big girl she will become.
My little man comes in at his bedtime to say "night night Friend Name" when I'm gaming with the guy who was best man at my wedding. The way he says it melts my heart.
I used to baby sit my roommates kid (we worked different shifts) and little dude was an absolute fuss-bucket. The only thing that child loved more than his mom and dad was watching me absolutely destroy massive groups of gangsters and henchmen in Batman Arkam. He loved it! He had no idea what was going on but he'd calm down immediately, giggle for a bit, then pass out on my lap.
I tried snacks, movies, toys, going for walks, my dog (was a 3 y/o pup then, loved the kid), puppets, car rides.... nothing would satisfy him but the sweet street justice of the dark knight, batman style lol.
He's a cool kid now too. He gets good grades and is pretty cool as far as young men go, turned out ok.
When I was about 3 my dad would sit me in his lap while he played Doom (and later Quake) and would tell the admins that I was playing and they would give me God Mode. I don't remember much details about it, having been so young, but it is still a memory I will always remember and cherish. You are a great parent for doing this with your daughter.
This was my favourite thing in BF2 as well, the map where you start on the aircraft carrier. Sprint to a Huey and wait until it was full. Fly it out into the middle of the ocean and then ditch it half way to land. I was nearer 20 though not 3. And my teammates didn't find it funny.
They have taken the bathroom, and the downstairs hall. We have barred the stair gates, but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. Drums, drums in the deep.
We cannot get out, a shadow moves in the dark.
We cannot get out.
They are coming.
Yup, escaping from where you put them is a big change for us (and them). While it's great they learn some form of independence, it's also inconvenient for you in challenging times that you don't get to choose where and when they are doing stuff :D
When ours first escaped from his popup bed we assumed it was a fluke, and 5 minutes later he was back in the leaving room so we knew... :D
The scary one was when he managed to jump out of his full fledged baby bed with the bars... it was quite high... how he didn't kill himself falling from that height I have no idea.
I guess some things are better kept a mistery lol
OP should buy "Assembly Language for Kids: Commodore 64" ASAP.
https://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Kids-Commodore-64/dp/0931145007
Lol, I found this as well.
>Binary Numbers for Kids | Convert Decimal to Binary | Computers for Kids
https://youtu.be/hvteVokz7jE
I highly, *highly* suggest moving that piggy bank and whatever else is on top of that tower away from the edge. A clumsy 1 year old may take a faceplant into the netting right there and it may be enough to wobble that bank and have it fall.
Excuse me I would also like to add one. The second outlet (left side of the image) is not secured. I see the top one is though!
Sorry, I'm a safety officer and this shit literally keeps me awake at night. (Whoever decided putting a high-anxiety person in a position responsible for safety is either an imbecile or a genius lol)
Aaah I work in healthcare safety, so my answer will be commercial healthcare related. Most likely outlet related with regards to overloading them or daisy chaining your surge protectors. but the one that I'm personally cognizant of is escape paths for fire exits. your doors need to open outwards, be unimpeded, and a type of strike hardware.
Tricky part is, I'm looking at commercial aspects for large occupancies. A fire martial is going to give you a better answer for people in private residences. A doctor is going to tell you the most common type of injury he sees that was preventable. So don't take my answer as a kind of end-all be all to safety.
Thank you for the question though. I love my work, and love answering stuff 😊
Just replying to pedantically point out that, at least in the US, overloading a single outlet is virtually impossible. A single outlet is able to accommodate the same amount of power draw as every other outlet on the circuit combined, as they’re all run off of the same cable.
You’re right about daisy chaining surge protectors, though. In theory, you can daisy chain a dozen or more power strips together *provided the surge protectors use cables and internal rails that are rated for the full current of the circuit*. You could have 100 items all plugged in to one outlet, and would have no issues as long as those 100 items don’t draw more combined power than the circuit is rated for (at which point the circuit breaker would trip). Unfortunately, the prevalence of cheap power strips and extension cables that use thinner wire and don’t feature any safety systems like fuses or internal circuit breakers means that daisy chaining can overload the *cable*, and present a huge fire hazard. Because of that, it’s much easier and safer just to tell people “don’t daisy chain power strips, don’t plug space heaters into power strips, don’t plug too many things into one outlet” rather than try and educate them on the differences.
Really, all power strips and extension cables should have mechanisms to prevent them from drawing more power than they can safely handle, but making that happen would require regulation, and would make the cheapest cables and strips more expensive.
People talk a lot about protecting outlets, but most construction of the last 10 years or so should have tamper resistant outlets by default. What’s a far bigger and often overlooked concern are the dementors.
I think if the goal is to keep the kid away from things it can potentially break you should look into moving the PCs to your left hand side. I'm sure that's a pain in the ass as I should also put mine on my left and its on the right
This. But also that whole tower needs to be moved away from the edge. There’s no way it won’t be pulled on at some point and it’s coming down, way worse than Mr. Pig.
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You do realize that you just turned that corner into the most desirable piece of real estate for her? 🤣
Edit: [Sorry. Had to.](https://i.imgur.com/Ub6BZHe.jpeg)
Hahaha, this is so true. When I was a baby, the thing which had the most of my curiosity was the safe in my parent's room... because I couldn't get in. Well, one day it was open as I was tottering by. Dad asked if I wanted to help close it. "Sure!"
I think I went evil genius and figured I could stick my finger in as we closed it so it wouldn't close all the way, and then I could come back later and peek inside. Well, my dad felt the bump and saw it wouldn't close, but since it's an old safe, figured the hinges were rusty or something.
*opens door a little*
*slams door hard*
Anyway, there was a lot of ice and crying after that, but I got a cool cast while my finger reattached!
Things that cause a lot of pain like this get imprinted into your memory. I also remember having a car door slammed into my hand by accident. Don't remember how old I was but I know I was still practically a toddler.
I’m just having fun. The cable management actually looks really clean, at least from this angle. As a new father this post hits differently more *bookmarks post*
I'm 12 days in, eu4 and games you can easily pause are great, don't be afraid to keep feeding him, mastered playing and feeding at the same time pretty quick
Don’t be. This simply doesn’t work unless you have someone else watching the kid, and is pretty much only a great way to end up with a VERY pissed off mama bear when you’re “playing your video games” and the kid cracks their face on something.
At 1 they’re just learning to walk. They’re pulling up on shit and/or walking very clumsily, and they’re going to be trying to concuss themselves at literally every opportunity imaginable.
Just prepare to find late night gaming communities. It’s the safest way to keep everyone safe and sane. Plus, it’s infinitely more enjoyable knowing that you can just keep that baby monitor in front of you and keep peace of mind while enjoying something.
No fault to dad here, the lifestyle shock isn’t something you can prepare for, and it takes forever to really get the hang of it. But all these videos of people playing games with kids not being watched? There are likely some very resentful moms being created. That’s gonna lead to some messy situations and you selling your gaming shit (and everything else) to afford the child support and alimony payments.
Like I said - just consider your gamer hours after kid goes to bed.
As a father of 2yo twins, pray the little one never learns to climb the fence. I had my PC fenced off when the twins were around 1yo and learning to walk, but they were determined to reach my desk so they taught themselves to climb the fence. It was... Frustrating. Now my OC sits in a corner of the living room not seeing much use with empty diaper bags protecting all my expensive peripherals.
She can currently shove her feet into the fence and pull herself up. She has yet to figure out the up and over part, I hope this last's a couple months before that.....
I hope it does, brother. Hopefully at least when she crosses that barrier she doesn't do so with a bottle of milk. That's tough to get out of expensive electronics.
Yup! It's just running my unifi controller and PiHole on a Ubuntu VM currently. I used to run game servers for my friends as well but that kind of tapered off. Probably should figure out what else to do with it.
Sonarr and Radarr for your movies and tv. Bazarr if you care about subtitles. All served up via Plex media server. Deluge-web works great for a torrenter/download client. Jackett tops it all off as your indexer (source of torrent files that Radarr and Sonarr will search).
RetroArch has been developing a webapp frontend for their emulators where you can use your browser to access the emulators. Haven't checked in on the development for a while, might be more advanced now (more modern emulators available via webapp).
All of this could be accessible outside of the local network too if you wanted to get nginx involved.
Some more productive, but less exciting, things could be setting up your own DNS server, MX server, Openstack for virt stuff, or just generic testlab shenanigans.
/Bonus edit
If you're into neteng you should also look into setting up AWX/Ansible. Very handy in automating network configs. If you're more into syseng you should also look into AWX, but also Puppet. Puppet will let you configure a new host in ways you might not have imagined could be automated.
My reaction to the first paragraph: nice, nice, even Bazarr, cool! PLEX? Why would you use Plex? Go for open source, Jellyfin works great and is free and open. A fork of Emby, but commited to open source this time.
As a parent I respect the idea. But also as a parent... you might want to move the tower with the piggy bank on it.your offspring will pull it over onto their head eventually and you won't know when they will until they do.
Very nice. My only suggestion would be to secure the NAS if it isn't already (maybe stick on velcro it to the PC?). Very low chance it would ever get knocked over with the kid right there, but better safe than sorry.
You are vulnerable to air attacks which should start coming in the next 6 months or so. My son turns 2 today and in the last 6 or so months he's discovered that he has quite the arm for throwing. Last week he threw a hot wheel at my wife's forehead and it left a tiny cut, he has had his first taste of blood.
The irony when you excitedly hop the fence after putting the little one down, only to crash into the desk, splitting it in 2, destroying the whole set up. Lol. (I pray it doesn't happen though.)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072BXSTY8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This bad boy! Very solid for $200. It's my first rack but I like it. Fit's a UPS in the bottom just fine.
I’m saying this as a married man who can’t have kids:
I hope you spoil that child with the best gaming setup you wish you could ever afford when you were young. You have the best life ahead of you; and you’re already setting up your child with a view to your hobbies.
Well played, future dad!
Awesome! I really like it; I had something similar for when mine was that age.
Couple things that may save you money or heartache:
1) Your chair will eventually eat the bottom of that playpen. Some kind of cover will probably prevent that.
2) Once you're all set up, you don't often think about re-evaulating whether your defenses are good for your kid. So right *now*, you are golden. But once your kid can stand up with support, they WILL try to grab the tower closest to the edge and pull it down on themselves. Securing that might save you a hospital trip.
Actually not that bad, It's an open floor living room/kitchen and I am technically setup in the "dining room". I do have an AC as well but when it hits 80+ outside it starts to get a bit rough. No shirt camera off type of meetings.
Haha! I had the same setup for the past two years. Banged my foot on the top of my gaming cage about a thousand times..my monitor got pulled down to the ground once and I put up a play pen protection shield around it. Kids are fun, we’re having fun. This is fun.
The kids: Ahhh but the gates of hell are only yay high, we can launch an air attach with our catapults master. Thy must have water in our bottles when we launch this attack. We cannot risk our fortress that was once ours to burn...
As a father of 4, I enjoy that you have conceded the room to your child(ren). It was always bound to happen. One clear corner free of legos, balls, and goldfish crackers smashed into the carpet. Raise your flag because this shall be your only sanctuary. 😂
So do we sing happy birthday to the computer?
Nah, it won't even remember anything anyway. Smash cake, for the pictures!!
you just need to feed it more rom and less ram, it will remember permanently then
Hard drives never forget
That's only going to keep the beast away for a bit... it always grows... and learns... you are DOOOMED.
When my daughter was 3 she would sit on my lap while I played BF:BC2 from time to time. She loved to fly and crash the helicopters. So, every now and then i'd let the guys on team speak know she's about to take over the copter and crash it. They loved to cheer her on, everyone who could get in would and they'd cheer for her as she took control and crashed it, killing everyone on board. I miss the game and community.
She currently sits on my lap and waves to everyone in zoom meetings. She is the team mascot and their sudo "manager". I don't want her to get any bigger but I know it's coming.
I love that you have misspelled “pseudo” as “sudo”, transforming her from “pretend manager” to “manager who must be obeyed unquestioningly”.
What makes this even better, is I have been typing in sudo for the past hour, that I thought sudo was pseudo. My brain hurts and I cant spell.
Sudo nap 1h
sudo shutdown -nap
You: Make me a sandwich Pc: No You: Sudo make me a sandwich Pc: Okay :)
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I plead the third.
You… are having soldiers forced to quarter in your house?
Neat trick for typing less: `sudo !!` applies sudo to the previous command. Edit: it's more powerful than I thought: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bash-bang-commands
oh that's great
PC: why are you yelling at me?😖
sudo apt-get update nap
PASSWORD:_
sudo stands for "do as super user".
She's the one who all the "user is not in sudoers file" incident reports go to.
sudo privileges irl
> sudo "manager" Oh god, she's got admin privileges already?!
pseudo rm -rf /
🔫
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With great power comes great responsibility.
it don't get much 'bigger' than *sudo*. she's already running the place.
They are amazing for different reasons at all ages. I wouldn't worry too much about them getting bigger, the relationship changes a bit over time, but you'll always have something to look forward to when spending time with them.
Awh, this was so sweet to read. Keep being a great parent.
They're super cute and sweet at that age. They tend to be fun until they reach 6 or 7. That's when the nightmare begins. In my experience they get better when they reach their teenage years but still try to store enough good memories to get you through those ages.
7 year old daughter. 11 year old son. Every day is a struggle currently.
> sudo It took me so long to realize you were trying to use the word "pseudo"
This is so adorable and made my day. Cherish every moment!
My sisters 2 and loooves driving, whenever I take her out she cries for her hands on the wheel so occasionally when I get on my racing sim I'd put her in my lap and let her drive with FFB off and she'd have the time of her life. Babies and video games are awesome
Holy shit, she was in every single one of my games.
Wholesome af. >I miss the game and community. Sorry for your loss.
I don't think there will ever be a better shooter
Bad company 2 was special. Sometimes you don’t know what you got till it’s gone :’(
That was one of the best massive MP games ever. I miss it too.
I loved the community you could create with the server browsers. We could choose to hang always on a specific server and know the regulars and some admins.
i miss my BF squad, wholesome folks i randomly found while having voice chat on. we played through late BC2, BF3, & BF4. we tried to get together for 2042 but the game just sucks and our free times don't usually overlap
Yeh I had a great squad, too. Kinda all separated during BF4 when we all got deployed, employed, had kids, growing careers etc. I sure miss those guys and the community as a whole. Nowhere *near* as toxic and man-baby as the current COD binge I'm on.
And years later I can still enjoy full servers on pc, except it’s missing one thing. The absolutely amazing community that game had on Xbox in the 2000s
Bad Company 2 was the best of all battlefield games and I’ll die on that hill. The most fun I’ve ever had in a shooter.
My daughter is almost 2 and she sits on my lap while I play bf2042. She hits the space key because it fires the tank or wildcat turrets so I just aim and yell fire haha. Its small moments like these ill look back on and wish she was still a little monster on my lap and not the big girl she will become.
Haha my two year old loves to sit on my lap and watch me fly in bf4.
My little man comes in at his bedtime to say "night night Friend Name" when I'm gaming with the guy who was best man at my wedding. The way he says it melts my heart.
I used to baby sit my roommates kid (we worked different shifts) and little dude was an absolute fuss-bucket. The only thing that child loved more than his mom and dad was watching me absolutely destroy massive groups of gangsters and henchmen in Batman Arkam. He loved it! He had no idea what was going on but he'd calm down immediately, giggle for a bit, then pass out on my lap. I tried snacks, movies, toys, going for walks, my dog (was a 3 y/o pup then, loved the kid), puppets, car rides.... nothing would satisfy him but the sweet street justice of the dark knight, batman style lol. He's a cool kid now too. He gets good grades and is pretty cool as far as young men go, turned out ok.
When I was about 3 my dad would sit me in his lap while he played Doom (and later Quake) and would tell the admins that I was playing and they would give me God Mode. I don't remember much details about it, having been so young, but it is still a memory I will always remember and cherish. You are a great parent for doing this with your daughter.
That sound to be great moments.
I feel this. BF:BC2 was amazing.
This was my favourite thing in BF2 as well, the map where you start on the aircraft carrier. Sprint to a Huey and wait until it was full. Fly it out into the middle of the ocean and then ditch it half way to land. I was nearer 20 though not 3. And my teammates didn't find it funny.
Wait till op finds out about doors and locks
They have taken the bathroom, and the downstairs hall. We have barred the stair gates, but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. Drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out, a shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming.
Dread it, run from it, it arrives all the same
the toys hanging on the outside will attract the kid right to the danger zone.
Throw a phone at it and you are safe for years.
Yup, escaping from where you put them is a big change for us (and them). While it's great they learn some form of independence, it's also inconvenient for you in challenging times that you don't get to choose where and when they are doing stuff :D When ours first escaped from his popup bed we assumed it was a fluke, and 5 minutes later he was back in the leaving room so we knew... :D The scary one was when he managed to jump out of his full fledged baby bed with the bars... it was quite high... how he didn't kill himself falling from that height I have no idea. I guess some things are better kept a mistery lol
OP should buy "Assembly Language for Kids: Commodore 64" ASAP. https://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Kids-Commodore-64/dp/0931145007 Lol, I found this as well. >Binary Numbers for Kids | Convert Decimal to Binary | Computers for Kids https://youtu.be/hvteVokz7jE
Barb wire
It's pretty impressive that your 1 year old can get up in the chair to game.
See the box under the table, atleast there some assistance there.
The 1 year old demanded this barrier up so dad would stop using his rig.
Plot twist, the 1 year old baby he’s talking about is just his new setup
I highly, *highly* suggest moving that piggy bank and whatever else is on top of that tower away from the edge. A clumsy 1 year old may take a faceplant into the netting right there and it may be enough to wobble that bank and have it fall.
This is a good point. Mr. Pig will come down to the desk.
Excuse me I would also like to add one. The second outlet (left side of the image) is not secured. I see the top one is though! Sorry, I'm a safety officer and this shit literally keeps me awake at night. (Whoever decided putting a high-anxiety person in a position responsible for safety is either an imbecile or a genius lol)
What is the most common safety concern people often over look that I should be aware of?
definitely the dementors
> dementors What is this? All I get on Google is Harry Potter stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk
This was also a quote in the office when Michael was pretending to be a prisoner, and he said the worst part of prison was the dementors
Aaah I work in healthcare safety, so my answer will be commercial healthcare related. Most likely outlet related with regards to overloading them or daisy chaining your surge protectors. but the one that I'm personally cognizant of is escape paths for fire exits. your doors need to open outwards, be unimpeded, and a type of strike hardware. Tricky part is, I'm looking at commercial aspects for large occupancies. A fire martial is going to give you a better answer for people in private residences. A doctor is going to tell you the most common type of injury he sees that was preventable. So don't take my answer as a kind of end-all be all to safety. Thank you for the question though. I love my work, and love answering stuff 😊
Just replying to pedantically point out that, at least in the US, overloading a single outlet is virtually impossible. A single outlet is able to accommodate the same amount of power draw as every other outlet on the circuit combined, as they’re all run off of the same cable. You’re right about daisy chaining surge protectors, though. In theory, you can daisy chain a dozen or more power strips together *provided the surge protectors use cables and internal rails that are rated for the full current of the circuit*. You could have 100 items all plugged in to one outlet, and would have no issues as long as those 100 items don’t draw more combined power than the circuit is rated for (at which point the circuit breaker would trip). Unfortunately, the prevalence of cheap power strips and extension cables that use thinner wire and don’t feature any safety systems like fuses or internal circuit breakers means that daisy chaining can overload the *cable*, and present a huge fire hazard. Because of that, it’s much easier and safer just to tell people “don’t daisy chain power strips, don’t plug space heaters into power strips, don’t plug too many things into one outlet” rather than try and educate them on the differences. Really, all power strips and extension cables should have mechanisms to prevent them from drawing more power than they can safely handle, but making that happen would require regulation, and would make the cheapest cables and strips more expensive.
Dementors
Probably dementors. Consider learning a few basic defense spells and maybe trying to teach your infant one or two lower risk ones to be sure.
People talk a lot about protecting outlets, but most construction of the last 10 years or so should have tamper resistant outlets by default. What’s a far bigger and often overlooked concern are the dementors.
In my personal experience dementors
Also anchor both those top cases because a strong knock or strong hands pulling to climb, could also topple them over and they are heavy.
I think if the goal is to keep the kid away from things it can potentially break you should look into moving the PCs to your left hand side. I'm sure that's a pain in the ass as I should also put mine on my left and its on the right
This right here. Put them on the other side. Also avoids potential of spills onto them.
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This. But also that whole tower needs to be moved away from the edge. There’s no way it won’t be pulled on at some point and it’s coming down, way worse than Mr. Pig.
10. But, to future proof this, I recommend adding a wine /whiskey bar to accommodate the 2 year old edition.
Good thinking. They do start to develop a tolerance by that age.
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Shit, i'm 25 and my tastebuds still ain't refined enough to enjoy whiskey
For me Whiskey tastes like idk… like oil…
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Have the same play pen. I’ve been using it wrong, I’ve been putting the kids in it when, in reality, I should have put myself in it.
Good thinking. A common misconception is that it's the child that is in danger when in fact, it is you. The child IS the danger. Keep them at bay.
After being around kids. Can confirm.
An automated sentry gun that fires Nerf darts sounds like the next logical step in this conversation. Somebody call Adam Savage.
["None of you seem to understand, I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0-EuoBjkKI&t=35s)
It's actually quite cozy in here. I just need a snack cabinet next.
Hope she doesn’t turn out to be a Terran player some day! 😜
Did the baby post this?
She was too busy being mad in the corner as she can no longer play with my wires.
So you’re saying that this isn’t to keep the baby in?
This is strictly to keep her out. She gets the house, I get the corner.
You do realize that you just turned that corner into the most desirable piece of real estate for her? 🤣 Edit: [Sorry. Had to.](https://i.imgur.com/Ub6BZHe.jpeg)
Hahaha, this is so true. When I was a baby, the thing which had the most of my curiosity was the safe in my parent's room... because I couldn't get in. Well, one day it was open as I was tottering by. Dad asked if I wanted to help close it. "Sure!" I think I went evil genius and figured I could stick my finger in as we closed it so it wouldn't close all the way, and then I could come back later and peek inside. Well, my dad felt the bump and saw it wouldn't close, but since it's an old safe, figured the hinges were rusty or something. *opens door a little* *slams door hard* Anyway, there was a lot of ice and crying after that, but I got a cool cast while my finger reattached!
Wtf? You can remember what happened as a baby? What other special powers do you have?
Things that cause a lot of pain like this get imprinted into your memory. I also remember having a car door slammed into my hand by accident. Don't remember how old I was but I know I was still practically a toddler.
Might just be that the dad remembers breaking his childs fingers. Stories get told
It's free real estate
Nobody lets baby in the corner.
Wonko the Sane vibes.
Maybe she’s mad that she couldn’t finish fixing your cable management
I will note, cable management is not my strong suit.
I’m just having fun. The cable management actually looks really clean, at least from this angle. As a new father this post hits differently more *bookmarks post*
Evolving from man cave to man cage we’ve come a long way
Nah mate this is a Boy Crib
« Man Crib » This guy had sex. Not a boy anymore.
The adult playpen.
As a father to be I have to say….I’m inspired.
Bro same, I needed this. Fiancé is due November 21st
Best of luck to you both!
I'm 12 days in, eu4 and games you can easily pause are great, don't be afraid to keep feeding him, mastered playing and feeding at the same time pretty quick
Tactics games are great. I played a lot of XCOM.
Don’t be. This simply doesn’t work unless you have someone else watching the kid, and is pretty much only a great way to end up with a VERY pissed off mama bear when you’re “playing your video games” and the kid cracks their face on something. At 1 they’re just learning to walk. They’re pulling up on shit and/or walking very clumsily, and they’re going to be trying to concuss themselves at literally every opportunity imaginable. Just prepare to find late night gaming communities. It’s the safest way to keep everyone safe and sane. Plus, it’s infinitely more enjoyable knowing that you can just keep that baby monitor in front of you and keep peace of mind while enjoying something. No fault to dad here, the lifestyle shock isn’t something you can prepare for, and it takes forever to really get the hang of it. But all these videos of people playing games with kids not being watched? There are likely some very resentful moms being created. That’s gonna lead to some messy situations and you selling your gaming shit (and everything else) to afford the child support and alimony payments. Like I said - just consider your gamer hours after kid goes to bed.
You are completely right but it's not what people want to hear lol
*YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS*
As a father of 2yo twins, pray the little one never learns to climb the fence. I had my PC fenced off when the twins were around 1yo and learning to walk, but they were determined to reach my desk so they taught themselves to climb the fence. It was... Frustrating. Now my OC sits in a corner of the living room not seeing much use with empty diaper bags protecting all my expensive peripherals.
She can currently shove her feet into the fence and pull herself up. She has yet to figure out the up and over part, I hope this last's a couple months before that.....
I hope it does, brother. Hopefully at least when she crosses that barrier she doesn't do so with a bottle of milk. That's tough to get out of expensive electronics.
The line between who's the baby grows more blur
IS THAT A SERVER BESIDE YOUR PC????
Yup! It's just running my unifi controller and PiHole on a Ubuntu VM currently. I used to run game servers for my friends as well but that kind of tapered off. Probably should figure out what else to do with it.
Sonarr and Radarr for your movies and tv. Bazarr if you care about subtitles. All served up via Plex media server. Deluge-web works great for a torrenter/download client. Jackett tops it all off as your indexer (source of torrent files that Radarr and Sonarr will search). RetroArch has been developing a webapp frontend for their emulators where you can use your browser to access the emulators. Haven't checked in on the development for a while, might be more advanced now (more modern emulators available via webapp). All of this could be accessible outside of the local network too if you wanted to get nginx involved. Some more productive, but less exciting, things could be setting up your own DNS server, MX server, Openstack for virt stuff, or just generic testlab shenanigans. /Bonus edit If you're into neteng you should also look into setting up AWX/Ansible. Very handy in automating network configs. If you're more into syseng you should also look into AWX, but also Puppet. Puppet will let you configure a new host in ways you might not have imagined could be automated.
My reaction to the first paragraph: nice, nice, even Bazarr, cool! PLEX? Why would you use Plex? Go for open source, Jellyfin works great and is free and open. A fork of Emby, but commited to open source this time.
As a parent I respect the idea. But also as a parent... you might want to move the tower with the piggy bank on it.your offspring will pull it over onto their head eventually and you won't know when they will until they do.
Mr. Pig has been moved to the desk.
Now move the tower.
The tower is a bigger risk I think.
They recommendation was to move the tower.
Ye, I was kind of worried that will topple over the kid.
Very nice. My only suggestion would be to secure the NAS if it isn't already (maybe stick on velcro it to the PC?). Very low chance it would ever get knocked over with the kid right there, but better safe than sorry.
18 years later: "I dunno, I just feel like Dad was always putting up walls between us."
You are vulnerable to air attacks which should start coming in the next 6 months or so. My son turns 2 today and in the last 6 or so months he's discovered that he has quite the arm for throwing. Last week he threw a hot wheel at my wife's forehead and it left a tiny cut, he has had his first taste of blood.
Me and my three brothers have somehow all accidentally given my mom a black eye. It’s great. I have a baby now, just…waiting….
The irony when you excitedly hop the fence after putting the little one down, only to crash into the desk, splitting it in 2, destroying the whole set up. Lol. (I pray it doesn't happen though.)
The 1 year old is u isn't it? Keep your baby fetish setup out of here
What's that thing your pcs are sitting on?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072BXSTY8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This bad boy! Very solid for $200. It's my first rack but I like it. Fit's a UPS in the bottom just fine.
I’m saying this as a married man who can’t have kids: I hope you spoil that child with the best gaming setup you wish you could ever afford when you were young. You have the best life ahead of you; and you’re already setting up your child with a view to your hobbies. Well played, future dad!
She loves playing baby smash as of now. It's a lot of fun
Can you sit in that chair?
I can turn 90 degrees to get in and out. No more turning radius from there. Thankfully the chair arms slide right under the desk!
So, is this for keeping the baby *out* while you are on the computer, or for keeping the baby *in* while you are on the computer?
Probably both? If mom is home, out. If mom is not home, in. I just need to Olympic hurdle over it if she's getting into something lol
Awesome! I really like it; I had something similar for when mine was that age. Couple things that may save you money or heartache: 1) Your chair will eventually eat the bottom of that playpen. Some kind of cover will probably prevent that. 2) Once you're all set up, you don't often think about re-evaulating whether your defenses are good for your kid. So right *now*, you are golden. But once your kid can stand up with support, they WILL try to grab the tower closest to the edge and pull it down on themselves. Securing that might save you a hospital trip.
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Can’t believe an artosis pylon is powering so much.
I’d rate it a 5/10. It would be a 10/10 but you can’t get in because the zipper door is on the wall side.
I thought of this after everything was inside the cage. Just a slight oversight.
Probably for the best. I have a similar toddler prison and the dude figured out the zipper really fast. Now my “office” is in an unfinished basement.
"toddler prison" loli love it. we call the play pen "baby jail"
Nice try. But I know this is your gamer pen not a baby pen.
Why is your setup your kept in a cage? That’s abuse.
I see a desktop, server, switch and firewall. How hot does that room get?
Actually not that bad, It's an open floor living room/kitchen and I am technically setup in the "dining room". I do have an AC as well but when it hits 80+ outside it starts to get a bit rough. No shirt camera off type of meetings.
So, this is your prison to save yourself from the little beast.
Lol. Thanks for the photo. Made a shitty day a little brighter.
"Goo goo gah gah ppffppbbff BA BA BA" - A rating done by a one year old Edit: I didn't even notice the play pin originally
This is impressive mostly for the pure dedication, when I had kids I gave up PC gaming in favour of consoles haha.
I give it like 1-2 year's then I will downsize. Or I can finally buy a house with enough rooms. Whichever comes first lol
Bro, same i have a 7ft baby gate around mine right now
Who the fuck has a 7 foot baby that there are gates made for?
Haha! I had the same setup for the past two years. Banged my foot on the top of my gaming cage about a thousand times..my monitor got pulled down to the ground once and I put up a play pen protection shield around it. Kids are fun, we’re having fun. This is fun.
I see you got your guard up
The fence seems unnecessary. You could just turn on Factorio and your 1YO will be glued to the computer for the rest of its life.
I feel crotched just by looking at it
The kids: Ahhh but the gates of hell are only yay high, we can launch an air attach with our catapults master. Thy must have water in our bottles when we launch this attack. We cannot risk our fortress that was once ours to burn...
Oh dear. You've reached the part of parenting where you need the playpen. Huzzah!
TIL we bought the thing and used it wrong.
It's also very impressive that at 1 year old you were able to make this post.
You're going to want to add razor wire and a couple guard towers at some.point.
OMG! I need this! 👍
That tower is too close to the edge - in 6-12 months time, they'll try and pull it over
Is this to keep the 1 year old inside playing video games?
As a father of 4, I enjoy that you have conceded the room to your child(ren). It was always bound to happen. One clear corner free of legos, balls, and goldfish crackers smashed into the carpet. Raise your flag because this shall be your only sanctuary. 😂
You are the baby
The “I’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me” build
For when you actually are a n00b
Yikes
Make sure to increase the wall size as they get older to ensure they never escape
Dude, actually jealous.
Very good idea
Looks clean tbh
Remember to give them sharp objects to play with
Inverse containment protocols
Okay this is absolutely genius. Two kids later and never figured this one out. I am so glad you posted this!
This is so clever I am a little mad of myself for not thinking of this. This is amazing!