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Parents hiring handicapped people so their kids can jump in line at Disney World is now apparently a thing

Lines at theme parks can be long and torturous, but Disney honestly does everything it possibly can to make your wait shorter and less excruciating at its parks. Apparently, that’s got good enough for some parents, who have gotten into the habit of paying random handicapped people to pose as part of their family long enough to get bumped up to the front of the line.

Sims are the best parents.

Website of the day: Reasons My Son is Crying

One dad with a camera and a baby that cries over everything, because little kids aren’t all that bright.

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Dad hacks Donkey Kong to make Pauline the hero

My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games together. Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked me if she could play as the girl and save Mario. She’s played as Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally just assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong. I told her we couldn’t in that particular Mario game, she seemed really bummed out by that. So what else am I supposed to do?

Now I’m up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline. I’m using the 2010 NES Donkey Kong ROM. I’ve redrawn Mario’s frames and I swapped the palettes in the ROM. I replaced the M at the top with a P for Pauline.

“Can you see Jesus yet? Keep looking.”

Better safe than sorry…

Spotted at CES 2014: iPotty is the training toilet with a holder for an iPad.

Also good for teaching kids how to sit on the toilet backwards. Photo by IHCer DigiDiva.

posted 12 January, 2013
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Father hires in-game assassins to grief his lazy son’s video game character

After he was unable to keep his son from obsessively playing MMOs, one Chinese father resorted to hiring other players to constantly grief his son’s in-game character. Every time the son would log on, he would be killed by these paid higher level characters with the hope that the boy would soon grow bored with getting his ass kicked.

posted 05 January, 2013
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Old video switching equipment turns a bunkbed into an awesome spaceship

One of the most awesome dads of the year took an old video switching board from a local TV station, slapped some old NASA stickers on it and turned his son’s bunk bed into an awesome fucking spaceship.

posted 29 December, 2012
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Feel good read of the day: ‘I am Adam Lanza’s mom’

This has been passed around the internet quite a lot over the weekend, and for good reason. In the aftermath of one of the most shocking mass shootings America has ever faced, this is a beautiful, poignant and informative essay by Liza Long (not actually Adam Lanza’s mother), who is the mom of a son struggling with violent mental illness.

Even though each person is different, everyone’s minds and circumstances and lives are different, Liza Long’s story is a good place to begin if you’re looking to try and understand. Also yes, I’m just going to keep posting cute kitten pictures every time I post something about the Sandy Hook shootings.

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posted 17 December, 2012
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Sophia and Aiden top the list of the most popular baby names of 2012 in the US

Trends in baby names come and go.. there were the Jennifer and Jason years and then periodically parents like to go with more old fashioned names. This year, the top girl’s name was Sophia, followed by Emma, Isabella and Olivia. For boys, the top names were Aiden, Jackson, Liam and Ethan.

See the full list here