Decal fail

[olds45512]

Originally Posted by DoubleO7

So why is this thread not locked out?
J-Mech does not like it and your head hurts.

Why would it be locked? Nobody is getting angry or throwing nasty insults around so I don't see the issue. Just because some us have a hobby that some others might not agree with doesn't mean we can't talk about it in the general talk section. Cooperino said he likes to golf and I'm sure others do to and if they had a thread talking about it I wouldn't be posting just to say that I thought it was stupid.

[Mudrig150]

At this point the name should just be: "Mudrig talks about messed up decals while everyone discusses video games."

[J-Mech]

Only by 2 guys though really Chad.
Doesn't surprise me Tim is a gamer....Terry though? That got me. Didn't see that one coming.

Yeah, I'm at a loss too. To me, it's as hard to understand why anyone can sit around playing games as it is understanding why people spend all their spare time and energy playing, or watching organized sports. Games just don't appeal to me. My son plays summer baseball. I'm happy he likes it. I go to every game. At the beginning of the season it's ok. We're down to a couple games left now, and you almost have to drag me to them. I hate it. I don't get into sports... but they are games. I did used to play golf on occasion and enjoyed it. But it is a bit different. Although it has order, it isn't organized. I mean, you can play alone if you want. No time limit. No "outs", or really rules you have to follow at all if you don't want to. You don't like that hole.... fine. Skip it. (Playing alone I mean.) Everyone does need a way to unwind. But unwinding is different than spending hours playing a video game. I unwind by coming on here and tell you guys what your doing wrong, lol! Or cutting my grass, working in my garden.... but my big stress relief is my motorcycle. That's what I like. And I can do it with my wife, and it's just as relaxing. It's interactive. It's challenging. It's outside. It's fun. I don't see how playing a war game could be relaxing. Any sport can be I suppose, as long as it doesn't end up in a brawl, lol. Anyway.... there's probably other threads to go visit now.

[Terry C]

I wouldn’t call myself a gamer. My boys yes. But they are straight A students and play sports so I feel they are well rounded. Their grades cannot slip or no video games.
I have vowed to keep up with modern trends as not to be old. My grandparents couldn’t get their vcr or the remote on their tv to work. I had to go get things straightened out for them all the time. I said to myself that would never be me.
Do I agree with all the new trends? Of course not. But I am aware of what they are, at least things that concern my kids.
I am intrigued by the realism of new games. The graphics of the call of duty series is like watching news footage.

[J-Mech]

See, and that scares me too.... the "reality" of the games. Anything in excess can be bad..... anything. Even excessive sex. I remember those days. But what does that do to a kids brain? Messes with it. They just can't understand the difference between real and the game. For example: we are a divorced family, so my kids and my step kids have other houses to go to. In our house, they are monitored on what and how long they can play on electronic devices, and we don't allow "mature" or any kind of fighting games. My oldest step son is 12. At the other house he plays black ops and other sh!t he shouldn't be. Well, then he comes back home here where we actually own firearms, and he wants to know why he can't shoot them. Then proceeds to tell me everything he knows about guns that he "learned" from the game and.... which isn't accurate... and how shooting a gun is so easy. I won't let him near them. He literally thinks he could just grab one and start blasting birds out of the sky. I started locking them up. I try and try to teach them.... but no matter how much time I spend, they go back to dad's for 3 days and spend 20 hours playing video games. Then come back and we start all over. It messes them up. In my opinion.... better to let kids grow up without ever playing video games, than with. What will they miss out by not playing video games?? What life lessons will they lose out on by never playing a video game??? Nothing. They can still be well rounded and great people having never picked up a controller. In my opinion probably better. They can still be tech savvy and nwver have played. There's a lot of kids now... there are adults now... that can barely read and write. And no one can spell or use proper grammar it seems. Too dependent on technology. (Not saying this is true of anyone's kids on here, that is a broad all inclusive societal statement.) This really is a problem in my opinion.... but I won't likely change anyone's mind. In my house: no video game consoles. We will never have them. The kids will be fine.

[Mudrig150]

Originally Posted by Terry C

I wouldn’t call myself a gamer. My boys yes. But they are straight A students and play sports so I feel they are well rounded. Their grades cannot slip or no video games.
I have vowed to keep up with modern trends as not to be old. My grandparents couldn’t get their vcr or the remote on their tv to work. I had to go get things straightened out for them all the time. I said to myself that would never be me.
Do I agree with all the new trends? Of course not. But I am aware of what they are, at least things that concern my kids.
I am intrigued by the realism of new games. The graphics of the call of duty series is like watching news footage.

I think games are higher quality than news footage at this point.

[drcjv]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

.... but my big stress relief is my motorcycle. That's what I like. And I can do it with my wife, and it's just as relaxing. It's interactive. It's challenging. It's outside. It's fun.

Jonathan We all know we rarely agree but if you take the word motorcycle and replace it with Mustang I feel the exact same way. I'm not sure why it is a problem with some, for any of us to share our hobbies and other interest on this forum especially in a General talk section. It's ok to share jokes, prayers, ect... All our lives are way more than just Cub Cadets. I just don't get it.

[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by drcjv

Jonathan We all know we rarely agree but if you take the word motorcycle and replace it with Mustang I feel the exact same way. I'm not sure why it is a problem with some, for any of us to share our hobbies and other interest on this forum especially in a General talk section. It's ok to share jokes, prayers, ect... All our lives are way more than just Cub Cadets. I just don't get it.

Charles, I totally get it. Honestly, I was just teasing. It doesn't bother me in the least to share other hobbies on here. I'm not a Ford guy is all. Lol. I hate working on a Ford, but I recognize the Mustang as a really cool car. I think you just take it negatively because of the animosity between you and I. On occasion we can agree. Maybe if you and I had met under different circumstances we would have gotten along fine. I really don't think we are all that different.... You do have a really cool car.

[ACecil]

We all can agree on one hobby, Cub Cadets!

[cooperino]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

They just can't understand the difference between real and the game.

This I agree with 110% I allow my 12 yo son to play certain games and in limited time frames. 30 Min is the max allowed in any one sitting. He plays Minecraft.. Well he came to me once and said Dad, I need a Minecraft 25$ gift card. I said for what? He responded to buy "mods" in game. I asked what do mods do? He said they are for building things in the game. So I thought for a second and said, wait, I thought the game itself was to in fact build things and we already purchased the game. He said well you have to buy mod packs to get more stuff. I told him no-way and told him why. When I was a kid my step brother has an Atari. If you bought asteroids for 20$ you had asteroids and never had to buy a thing "in game" I guess times have really changed now that you need to spend 50 or 60 bucks on a game just to find out you only purchased part of the game.

Now as to how I agree with the statement of not knowing difference between real and game. Back when asteroids was hot, No one ever thought they would one day be flying around in a triangle shaped little ship shooting up odd shaped rocks that no one cared about. The game was not violent in any way whatsoever. Today however we actually train our service men and women in very very similar ways as these games work. I am all for our fighting men and women learning whatever they need and however they need to do their jobs but these games today are geared much much older people than 12 and 14 year old's. On top of that they are geared to be addictive in nature. I swear some of these kids get withdrawals "my nephews" if they are away from that box for too long.