126 replies to this topic

[ComradeCuttlefish]

Cuttlefish posts bullshit like this all the time, why is this one actually a thread people are paying attention to?

 

He is a troll who only starts drama to try and stay relevant and sell stuff/make money here.

 

He has been doing this for years, no idea why jkaris keeps him around, unless its for the board to have someone to shit on.

 

I make a lot of money here. Like 1 billion dollars in the last 8 years.

[imperfecz]

I make a lot of money here. Like 1 billion dollars in the last 8 years.

In before ---

[ComradeCuttlefish]

My kid LOVES Battle Beasts. She always wants to go into the room I have my toys, and "check their powers." This includes every time I get a new, we must always "check the power." She's four-and-a-half. She also loves Beast Saga. (She calls the dice "blood dice"). I bought her a clear bat and she shot his dice all over the house until they were lost.

 

Like others, I also think you're making a bit of a jump between tech and toys. Not all tech is toys, so it's hard, (impossible, really), to compare holo-cards to an ipad. They're just not the same category.

 

It's definitely a leap. But that was the point. The thread is drawing an exaggerated distinction between our toys in the 80s and early 90s to their toys in 2013. Our form of toys from our childhoods make us look like grandpas to kids today.

 

Unfortunately for a lot of kids today their "toys" are not even toys. They are electronics to facilitate communication and adult entertainment, like tv.

 

It's still "play," which is good. If kids weren't playing they'd have all sorts of developmental problems and our society would be screwed. It's just that their form of "play" is now a lot closer to adults' form of entertainment. Classic plastic toys with cheap gimmicks like color change abilities, holograms, etc. are now in the minority of what kids choose as their "toys."

 

I'm simply bemoaning the fact that what our generation calls "toys" is now no longer the most common form of entertainment for kids today.

(Even though are still many kids who do play with "cool" toys, as you've mentioned and others have as well.)

 

I personally enjoyed the era of Starting Line-Ups without articulation, Visionaries with holograms of animals, Garbage Pail Kids with graphic gruesome shit (instead of all snot and poop jokes like the reissues), video game CARTRIDGES instead of discs, etc.

Edited by ComradeCuttlefish, 28 May 2013 - 05:04 PM.

[Draznar]

 

I'm simply bemoaning the fact that what our generation calls "toys" is now no longer the most common form of entertainment for kids today.

I'm going to assume that you aren't a parent. I don't mean that as a dick joke or anything, but you just don't talk like one. (Hard to explain).

Here's the thing, my kid calls her toys "toys" because that's what they are. She calls the computer the computer because that's what it is. Parents who don't use technology as baby-sitters for their children will have kids who can tell the difference.

I can agree with you that some kids don't know the difference, but it isn't because kids are changing. Parents are just getting lazy. In fact, toys are still pretty cool. Look at the Imaginext dinosaurs as an example. Some of them are even ROBOT DINOSAURS, so I don't think toys are getting less cool.

[ComradeCuttlefish]

How much money do you keep in your wallet?

 

Do you prefer to use cash or cards?

Edited by ComradeCuttlefish, 29 May 2013 - 08:59 AM.

[KingJefferson]

i don't have money, My queen takes it all from me!!!!

[Ridureyu]

Either 0-40 or 41-75, but I usually like to keep about 40 there for emergencies.  I usually use cards, though.

[iwao]

I can agree with you that some kids don't know the difference, but it isn't because kids are changing. Parents are just getting lazy. In fact, toys are still pretty cool.

This. Some kids have their own smart phone, ipad, or facebook account before the average kid stops playing with toys. That's on the parents. Toy stores are still filled with actual toys. Kids still play with them. They haven't been replaced by technology.

[Draznar]

Whatever is there, to be honest. It's a bad habit, but oh well!

[89cpe]

Yea mine varies greatly from like 30 to hundreds

[TMAN]

About $300 for emergencies. Card not working, Or if I see a good deal and want to bargain them down with cash.

[Behemoth]

[Ericnilla]

Zero

[imperfecz]

Yeah, I don't own a wallt.

[bigburty]

I only ever carry cards, unless I know I'm heading to an antiques/collectables fair or a car boot

[jkaris]

Is this the "Who is a good mark for a mugging?" thread?

[SmokinGun]

Yeah, I don't own a wallt.

 

So you carry a purse?

[Er0k26]

None my wife takes it all!

[imperfecz]

So you carry a purse?

More like a sack

 

And then I keep the money in a wallet.

[walker13.1]

0, lately if I do have cash on me it's only for a donation to church. 

[ironmask]

I make a lot of money here. Like 1 billion dollars in the last 8 years.

 

Ah, more *passive aggressive* histrionics. 

 

I don't know what our day would have been like, without those.

Edited by ironmask, 29 May 2013 - 01:53 PM.

[Ridureyu]

Hey, don't mock Cuttle.  He's made an average of $125,000,000 a year for the last eight years.  He can buy and sell your ass.

Edited by Ridureyu, 29 May 2013 - 02:00 PM.

[jkaris]

He can buy and sell your ass.

Isn't that supposed to be l.design's job? Selling ironmask's ass?

[imperfecz]

Isn't that supposed to be l.design's job? Selling ironmask's ass?

Are you now calling me a dirt merchant?

[jkaris]

Are you now calling me a dirt merchant?

 

Fertilizer maybe, but not dirt.