Babies and gentlemen

have my babies

"But daaaaaad Chris and Steve have iPads!"

"Shut the fuck up (insert child's name here), and go outside. You can have one when you're older."

bit harsh for kids...

Not my kids.

Your kids are going to hate you. Maybe not when they're 20 or so, but at that age they are going to hate you.

Sorry, by "at that age" I meant like 10-12 years old.

Kinda closed minded. I like your ideas, but the ;that's how I grew up' mentality is never good.

I disagree. I think it'd be close minded to just go with the flow and do what every parent is gonna do and just give their kids unnecessary electronics. And like I've been saying all over this thread. Its only while they are children (which pretty much means 12 and under) and it's not like I'm gonna keep them from all things technological. I just plan on minimizing their interaction with technology for the early years of their life so they have a chance to be children and use their imagination. And the reason why I say "the way I grew up" is because my best memories are from playing outside with my siblings and friends, not watching TV or playing video games in the living room, which I did too.

Okay, fair enough. I obviously will not be spoiling my kids.. but I really liked video games growing up, as well as sports music and everything else. I don't think video games are too bad in moderation,

What?
No videogames, even?

Wot about single player non online computer games. like games like the old harry potter games, dungeon siege, pokemon, mario, charlie the duck, worms (I grew up with all of these, except pokemon and mario, i just think it's cruel not to let them play those at least, i was never interested myself but it seems alot of people grew up with it.)

No video games until they are 12? That seems kind of ridiculous.

Don't take this the wrong way, but wouldn't that be limiting the amount of things they get to play with and enjoy? I'm not really trying to get you to have "gamer" kids. I just wanna know what you think is wrong with them growing up differently than you.

Not really, I mean its only for a few years. They'd start playing games at what? 6? 8?I'm just trying to hold off until they are around 12.
I wouldn't have a problem with them playing games at a young age, if it wasn't something that they'd get hooked on and spend all their time doing.The problem with how advanced video games are now-a-days, they aren't something you pick up casually, once you start playing, it's kind of something you do almost every day. I just don't want to deal with fighting my kids to get them to go play outside because they wanna sit on their butts and game. Once they get to be teenagers, they can sit on their butts and game all they like, what else do they have to do?

I get it. Thanks for answering instead of thumbing down.

No problem buddy. I posted this well knowing not everyone has the same opinion. It'd be real shitty of me to just thumb everyone down that disagreed with me.

I'd also like to point out that you don't have to buy your kid whatever he wants. If you want to buy him an iPad (or whatever the fuck you 90's kids try to hide from to save your stupid reputation) buy him one. If you don't want him to own one, don't fucking buy it. Simple.

BUT I'M A MISERABLE FUCK WHO HASN'T EXPERIENCED ANYTHING OUT OF MY CONFORT ZONE. I DON'T LIKE CHANGE MNEEEHHHHH


Totally agree with you... I don't see what's so wrong with kids playing on iPads and whatnot. I have a problem with people who have problems with things that are different. Times are changing at a faster rate.

Say's the all-wise eighty nigger on scooba.

My little brother and sister don't beg for any of this new shit. It's nice to have family that isn't technologically oriented...

I thought I was the only one who saw it

I actually thought he tweeted it a while back, but I was wrong. Those guys are identical though.

They do not look alike at all, only thing similar is the hair.

And that haircut is pretty mainstream

Hair is similar, can't tell otherwise though.

no he looks nothing like macklemore

the hair is pretty similar

no

Nintendos were aimed at kids and cost $200, iPads are designed for teens/adults and cost upwards of $500 (not able to find exact prices due to the internet seeming to lack that data) so the Nintendo games consoles and iPads are different, not hugely but still different, also as a kid most houses had 1 decent TV to play on so gaming time was quite limited due to other family members wanting to watch TV.

The last generation pushed hoops with sticks

wall-e in a nutshell

The later part will be so true in the next decades

K I'm gettin' real tired of this shit, using technology as entertainment is not fucking evolving it's entertainment, if we say grew wings and beaks and flew in outerspace that would be evolving. Creating something that gives us entertainment is not evolving.

other than that you are a complete douchebag.

P.S. legos fucking rule.

I'm pretty sure evolving doesn't just mean a physical evolution of our own forms. We've evolved culturally from medieval times by developing new technology to increase efficiency in our society. Now we can live well over 100 years old where back then we only lived till what, 40?

They develop anything. If I was that age and someone shoved something like an iPad in my hands with tons of games, guess what? I'd play it ever fucking day. Would be hard to get bored with it too. I'd grow to be more dependent and less creative. And why do you say "how dare"? The picture isn't scolding anyone.

Or did you just feel like being a douche?

I'm just tired of people always like, "Oh my generation is the best, everything after is just people losing all creativity." All generations do it. My dad said it when I was playing with legos and playing N64, his parents did it when he started listening to that evil 80's rock music.

Like I said the culture of each generation evolves and there's no reason to condemn an entire generation because of that.

didn't*

No evolution means one thing changing form completely, like if a car turned into a bug or a bug turn into a car. Not people figuring out "if we build a castle like this it will last longer".

There is more than one definition of evolution, I hope you know.

yeah man freestyle that shit

Actually it's Macklemore, a rapper, so no, but good deducing sir.

Well, i tried. I know nothing of 99% of rappers.

I hate rap but Macklemore is great, he's like Eminem but with Seattle and his raps tend to be more comedic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes
Here's my favorite one by him :D

It's Evening call to Quarters in my barracks so I'll give it a listen tomorrow.

Well then you have a good night and thanks for serving, my step dad and dad are both commanders in the navy so I understand how tough it can be.

I'm not serving yet, friend. I'm currently a freshman at Virginia tech and a cadet, preparing to commission as an Ensign in the Navy, but thank you.

"Macklemore is great, he's like Eminem" Oh my God the ignorance in that statement. Oh my God.

It was Diablo 2 for me

Same here. I remember freaking out whenever people dropped edited charms that disabled your inventory and begging for good items.

Then I discovered how to use item editors and I would put so much properties in my items that I clogged up whole servers. Later on, I would make overpowered small charms with the inventory disabling property and troll people who asked for items by handing them out to them.

And then I discovered the Battle.net online play, where no one could hack anything, and I would play until level 58 before forgetting about the game forever. Good times, good times.

For me, it would be World of Warcraft, oddly enough.

wait for me dammit! i'm going too!

Hell, I'll come too.
want me to write a Mars Outpost OS so we can all stay readily connected?

write a what now?

An Operating System for the Mars Outpost we'll live at.

care to elaborate? you have my attention

All right. say you have this big-ass Mars Outpost, obviously on Mars.
What if you didn't want to walk all the way across the base to talk to someone, or get to a file cabinet (hope you didn't forget those existed)

Think of it like MAC OS X, but for a completely connected Mars Outpost.

the only part i didn't like is the mention of MACs haha

but that sounds like an awesome idea.

what, you don't like MACs? that's not a problem.

It probably wouldn't look like any current OS that is around today anyway.

I would like to know why you don't like MACs though...

i will admit, they have their uses. i'm not 100% closed minded. but, they're totally useless for me. they don't do games and they software doesn't mix with things i like. if you like them, cool. whatever blows your skirt up. but in my personal opinion i prefer PCs

Don't do games...?
NO computer does games without modification, even PCs...
I get it though. The only reason I really brought it up is because if I was going to mention an OS I was going to use the Original version, not Windows.

I hear scientists are recruiting people to move to Mars... forever.
So I guess the answer is soon!

Welcome to the Heist

I'd rather walk on lego then be forced to use an ipad.

What lego teaches you: How things work, following instruction in manuals, creativity, building.
What sitting on facebook teaches you: How to be a douche

no it isnt. not everyone in the older age group is a brony. everyone played with legos man. EVERYONE

I'm talking about majority. And I wasn't allowed to play with legos because I kept trying to put them in my sister's food.

the majority of people my age arent bronies. the majority of people my age played with legos. you are unfortunate in that you werent able to and for that i am sorry.

I only say majority because I can't play one game without someone there being a hardcore brony.

this may be true but i bet if you went into the chat of the same game and said "who here loves legos", every person would respond yes.

Played, he says.

How amusing.

I can't really say it's bad. That kids get expensive electronics may be a bad thing, because you just know they will drop it on the ground or something like that, breaking it and wasting a lots of money. Another thing is that lego (which I assume the older guy is pplaying with) may help you develop yourself to be more creative, since you can build pretty much anything, if you have the parts. While you get creativity out of the lego, but some game made by some company on the screen I'd say the Lego is better

come on, our parents reacted the same as you when we were little and their parents when they were little. i bet nowadays' kids will develop as well as we did. don't be a douche

Don't take this wrong, I wasn't trying to be a douch,e and when you mention it, I did react as any other parent xD. I was also thinking of the responsbility issue. You know, a 4 year old with an iPad? That iPad will go through some hard times :S Lego can at least take a beating.But if the parents can afford it, I don't see too much of an issue

true, i agree with you. But there is a difference to own and be able to use.