@SteelandSouls like JP says, if you want a kid to like you, just pay him some attention and then you're best friends

So as much as I love them... I’ll only die happy after I’ve managed to teach my grandkids to play chess (etc, whatever their thing is)

Aww

I can only play checkers, still no idea how to play chess x_x

....wow, don't set your goals too high...

I've pretty much always wanted to get married and have kids. It was just sort of a baseline assumed endpoint

Which is apparently weird now

@Paradox that's a pretty good goal

How so?

I question marriage these days. Laws aren't exactly accommodating

All kids suck and need to die.

Sounds good to me

if you say so...

I'm over here, just mgtowin' in up...

My sister and her husband are probably going to have kids within the next five years and I'm already dreading being blasted by my family for not giving a shit about them

@Shadows fuck off

lol

because unless my mindset completely changes, that's going to happen

@Paradox I could have equally have said “take their first scalp” ... if that’s their thing

Then find someone who will stay with ya and lives ya

seems like a lot of effort for not a lot in return.

It's not about return

The less kids the better.

then what's the point?

@dottypurrs it's not hard to learn the basics of Chess or Go. It's hard to get good with those basics though

Scalping children

😉

@Paradox I don't understand your question

It doesn't make sense

Meet mine @Sanpe - two of them would be doing the scalping 🤣

people generally do something for a reason, for a goal. If that isn't present, then what is the purpose of their action?

I see people split up for stupid reasons and I'm like " but you still love them and you left them for a minor thing? I would stay with anyone i loved enough to marry to the grave"

At the most basic level, procreation is a biological immperitive.

So, the men and women who don't want kids are actually the odd ones.

Not that odd king

Anti natalism has spread super hard though

It's probably the only reason we exist

Bitches be getting spooked out of parenthood

Also most people don't seem to think that far ahead tbh

AOC isn't helping

Honestly, most things should be framed as "how will this help my offspring" and not yourself