[QUOTE=macdoo999;32187445]Get him railworks and all DLC.[/QUOTE]
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"daniel, for this christmas we got you a train simulator! also we had to sell the house and we're rationing food for the next 2 years"
There's no social hierarchy in the two Highschools I've been to. People only dislike you if you are an incredibly annoying asshat most of the time. Most of the people here are gamers/anime fans/tech geeks/furries/otherwise internet based hobbies. In fact, the smarter you are, or the better you do with grades, people tend to like you more.
The only guy who ever made fun of a hobby of mine was an internet-obsessing neckbeard. He was fat, and [I]actually had a beard on his neck.[/I] But even he was just kind of joking around.
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;32190046]There's no social hierarchy in the two Highschools I've been to. People only dislike you if you are an incredibly annoying asshat most of the time. Most of the people here are gamers/anime fans/tech geeks/furries/otherwise internet based hobbies. In fact, the smarter you are, or the better you do with grades, people tend to like you more.
The only guy who ever made fun of a hobby of mine was an internet-obsessing neckbeard. He was fat, and [I]actually had a beard on his neck.[/I] But even he was just kind of joking around.[/QUOTE]
My experience here too.
I know kids who are into anime and all around dorky that befriend people on the total opposite side of the spectrum. A lot of high schools are like that, not all unfortunately.
That said, I have seen people made fun of for acting odd about their interests. I knew one girl who wrote about the L4D2 Passing update on her hand, and some kids started joking about it, and the next period friends of mine were talking about how weird she was. It's not the hobbies that are weird, it's what you do with them. If you dress up on non-halloween days and write and draw on your body about your interests, of course people are going to pick on you. If you like anime, no, they're not.
[QUOTE=OreoExtremist;32189153]Yeah see i like guns, and in the school i go to, where most people arent into hunting or anything like that, they instantly think of columbine or something, when im going into the military to pursue my Gunsmithing.
its not that people are so much intolerant as much as ignorant in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
I think I would want to get into gunsmithing simply because I would want to design and build the most ridiculous guns you can think of, and then sell them as art! Think about it, you could build anything you're mind comes up with and then mark it up to ridiculous sums, and then sell it to the artsy-farty types.
Functional modern artwork!
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;32188104]But why do you want to know the plays? Knowing how to play sports right doesn't really much, well it helps you with planning and shit, but the plays in itself are uyseless.
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play's are never useless
if you don't have any plays you are going to lose, you can't just play the sport and expect you're going to do well(unless you're in recreation then it doesn't matter at all), too many people do that dribbling up all the way thinking they can do it alone without any plays and lose the ball
Those type of sports-minded kids are swarming in my school. If you have a hobby that they don't do, you're weird. I don't really understand why its so hard to accept another kids hobby or opinion.
Those people who think you're weird for having a different hobby are usually the people who cry over a 5 day old relationship. If you ask me, that's pretty fucking weird.
That's the point, why is it important to play well?
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;32190223]That's the point, why is it important to play well?[/QUOTE]
why is it important to do anything well
most people want to play world wide when they're older, playing sports also looks good on your college record
why wouldn't you want to play well, it's the same reason you want to do good in school
it also feels good when your team is doing good
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;32190223]That's the point, why is it important to play well?[/QUOTE]
I don't know. Ask competitive gaming.
Get him OpenTTD he's going to like it
[QUOTE=Lazyboy0337;32187221]I live in one of these. It sucks.[/QUOTE]
poor me i'm rich
oh you
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;32190264]why is it important to do anything well
most people want to play world wide when they're older, playing sports also looks good on your college record
why wouldn't you want to play well, it's the same reason you want to do good in school
it also feels good when your team is doing good[/QUOTE]
And what's the point of having a good college record, and what's the point of playing world wide?
It boils down to happiness, and there are many more things you can do to achieve happiness for yourself and others than playing sports.
[QUOTE=Atlascore;32190129]I wish my school was that awesome.
:suicide:[/QUOTE]
I've made 3 friends just by wearing one T-shirt :v:
There are tons of people who share my interests. Then it kind of branches out to friends of friends and loops back, like everyone knows each other in some way, shape, or form.
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;32190405]And what's the point of having a good college record, and what's the point of playing world wide?
It boils down to happiness, and there are many more things you can do to achieve happiness for yourself and others than playing sports.[/QUOTE]
then why are you playing games, why are your posting on a forum if you can do many other things than these worthless things
i don't even know what you're trying to argue now sports is more useful than this, sports unite the world infact. ever heard of the olympics? world cup?
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;32190223]That's the point, why is it important to play well?[/QUOTE]
Because no one wants to play like shit. It's a lot more fun if you're winning a game than if you're losing it.
That said, especially with rec leagues, for a lot of people the fun of the game is the game. Playing is fun. Not everyone feels like that though, and they want to hone their craft. Nothing wrong with working to improve on a skill, even if it's just a hobby.
[QUOTE=J!NX;32187859]I find sports stupidly pointless and boring.
Just another over-hyped thing in the world really, its stupid. People are obsessed with dreams of becoming their favorite sports hero, and its pathetic.[/QUOTE]
How is beating your road cycling, hill climbing record boring?.
I practice road cycling, and i thoroughly enjoy it.
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;32190405]And what's the point of me having a good college record, and what's the point of me playing world wide?
It boils down to happiness, and there are many more things I can do to achieve happiness for myself and than playing sports.[/QUOTE]
Fixed what you wrote.
Just because you don't find happiness in it doesn't mean, universally, no one does. You don't like it? That's cool. You don't have to like it. But that doesn't mean it's a waste of time to other people.
[QUOTE=Reimu;32190467]Because no one wants to play like shit. It's a lot more fun if you're winning a game than if you're losing it.
That said, especially with rec leagues, for a lot of people the fun of the game is the game. Playing is fun. Not everyone feels like that though, and they want to hone their craft. Nothing wrong with working to improve on a skill, even if it's just a hobby.[/QUOTE]
I'm bad at sports in general, so people don't exactly expect much out of me in PE classes and such. However, when I do make some great play, more praise comes of it since no one really expects it.
I love my school, it is the best.
I even remember one amazingly hilarious occasion:
We were playing ultimate football in the gym, and I was trying to play defense. Well, the other team had been passing to the same, incredibly tall, guy that stayed near our goal-line. Once, as they threw the ball, I jumped up to block as he went to catch the ball. As I jumped, I had my arms out, so he accidentally carried me up above his head while going for the ball, thus giving me the advantage. I slammed that damn ball out of his reach. It was so awesome, and I felt awesome.
that kid needs to learn robotics or nanotechnology or something
bring his badass laser arm of doom to school one day
then everybody puts him in a pile of 100 dollar bills while doing weird african rituals around it
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;32190502]I'm bad at sports in general, so people don't exactly expect much out of me in PE classes and such. However, when I do make some great play, more praise comes of it since no one really expects it.
I love my school, it is the best.[/QUOTE]
the best part of sports is the praise
At my school it's the whole "sports vs. non-sports" thing, except both groups keep to themselves and typically get along rather well, which is pretty shocking. Some of the jocks that I know are pretty cool guys that don't even pay attention to the fact that I like computers and gaming and whatnot. Especially the ones that I've grown up with.
Of course, you always have the handful of jocks that are fully convinced they're better than everybody else...
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;32190520]the best part of sports is the praise[/QUOTE]
There's really nothing better in the world than making a great play.
When you win, you win big in Sports.
i ride horses, if that is a socially acceptable hobby
Wars unite the people pretty well too.
And yeah, there are many things I should be doing that I'm not doing. But that's because I'm an irrational fuck. But that doesn't make what I'm saying any less true or wrong.
And not worthless, less worthwhile.
Sports strengthen the body. The forums strengthen your mind with debating and the sharing of knowledge, not to mention that it allows for far more extended social interactions.
Sports are necessary and important, but not more important than Forums.
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;32188379]How legal is that?[/QUOTE]
It doesn't even have the proper CLASS IV LASER warning labels, UV filter, key-switch interlock/safety features. Under law it's not even classified as a laser pointer, lol
[QUOTE=Reimu;32190467]Because no one wants to play like shit. It's a lot more fun if you're winning a game than if you're losing it.
That said, especially with rec leagues, for a lot of people the fun of the game is the game. Playing is fun. Not everyone feels like that though, and they want to hone their craft. Nothing wrong with working to improve on a skill, even if it's just a hobby.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but drawing fun from being superior is pointless.
And go back nd read that wall of post I posted, I'm not saying your taste is shit, I'm saying it's less efficient.
It's is the normal state of society to form collectives and to through whatever means persuade others of their beliefs. There is certainly a large difference between the feel of high school and college, or at least I noticed one. At college, people were far more accepting of very weird stuff. There was a kid who had his hands down his pants 90% of the time he'd be talking with people, and for no reason, and nobody would really question it.
I am a proud owner of Railworks 2
[editline]8th September 2011[/editline]
But honestly, at least people respect my level design work irl
Best thing about Christmas when I was little was whipping out the train set so those people can go fuck themselves.
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