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    Kids today and their imagination

    AK47, I've had my inner child get the best of me sometimes, and you're right we should never let that overcome who we are as a person. But we should never lose it either. There's always a time and place for it to show just a bit, and then there's a time not to where you have to be mature around company.

    As for imagination, as a kid, I think their imagination should go as far as they want it to go, especially if they are very young. As you grow older, you learn to use your imagination in more constructive ways. Even with technical things, imagination still comes in use. It allows the brain to think outside the box and away from some of that closed thinking our world has today. Like our inner child, we just have to learn to control it and use it in a proper manner so it doesn't overcome us or let us lose perspective of life as it is, but still keep it so everyday is never a dull moment, but a moment worth living for.

    At least, that's how I see it. :o
    Posted December 28th, 2010 at 11:29 AM by Guy Guy is offline
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    Kids today and their imagination

    @ Lornami, I agree that parents hold fault to this to an extent. Rather than giving their kids everything they ask for, especially more of the electronics, they should hand them some of those classic toys we used to play with. Let them build their imagination rather than depend on the easy life a lot of younger kids are being handed today. I never even got my first phone until my freshman year of high school when I actually needed it. Kids today get them all in elementary school, and I think..."Are you serious?"

    @ TheSmartOne, while it's true the computer and other versatile electronics are shaping our world and future, it still shouldn't mean kids should get it all or make it run their lives. They grow bored of it so quickly, and they're used to getting handed things they want that their creative mind doesn't have time to grow. I agree with you.

    I remember as a kid, I would be outside almost everyday with my friends, and even if we didn't have some kind of toy to play with, we'd think up some kind of game to play. Whether it'd be pretending Digimon or Pokémon were real and we'd be playing out a Pokémon battle, or we'd pretend we were on some kind of scavenger hunt of the sorts.

    My parents always had me on restrictions to time on the computer and my video games too. So, it wasn't like I could play it as long as or any time I wanted to. Something a lot of kids today don't get restricted on, so they play it all day and lose that imagination they have stored somewhere, because it's not being exercised or used very often.
    Posted December 28th, 2010 at 11:23 AM by Guy Guy is offline
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    Kids today and their imagination

    Creativity, I have plenty. But imagination is something I fear a lot. It got out of hand in my childhood, and I refuse to let it get the best of me.

    The "kids" you say want to focus on growing up probably includes me. But that's not because I don't appreciate imagination, I fear it. You don't know the deep piling I had in my childhood thanks to it. And now it's something I don't ever want to acknowledge because it's the source of my past immaturity and blindness. And I know pre-2009 people around here know what I'm talking about if they've met me.

    I actually wish there was more of a care for academics in children. So society today sees that children should just be children? I don't. Neither did many past and present societies. I refuse to let the acts of children condemn me again.
    Posted December 28th, 2010 at 11:19 AM by Spinor Spinor is offline
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    Kids today and their imagination

    I agree with this. When I was a kid I had cardboard bricks and markers and other simple toys. I had so much fun building and coloring and going places in a Calvin & Hobbes-esque time machine.

    And my little step-brothers have MP3 players and a DS and more toys than they can count... and they get bored. They don't imagine what things could be, because they have everything. It's just... not what I like to see.
    Posted December 28th, 2010 at 11:11 AM by Aquacorde Aquacorde is offline
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    Kids today and their imagination

    I have a big imagination >(

    Kids these days care about CoD.
    Posted December 28th, 2010 at 11:10 AM by Spinosaurus Spinosaurus is offline
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    Kids today and their imagination

    I went outside everyday where I used to live and I'd find something to do. We'd explore a construction area we wern't supposed to, find junk and hide it in a treed area to make a fort area, or decide we were going to find 100 rolly-pollies in the cracks of the sidewalk.

    I have to admit that when we moved I found the internet and became much more withdrawn, but it seems like the younger kids I know just want to text on their phone to their "boo" (holy crap, you're 12!!) and play with their iphones.

    For the older kids everything they think and say that they want to do is just a mini-version of what they see adults do. For the younger kids they would just die if they can't have their DS/Shiny Toy to play with. They always have to have something with them and don't know how to get along by themselves. They can't think for themselves or use just a little bit of imagination. (I blame this on parents shoving toys at them because they don't want to deal with them.)
    Posted December 28th, 2010 at 11:08 AM by Nina Nina is offline
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    Kids today and their imagination

    Haha, I kind of let my imagination get the best of me though. :3 Sometimes my imagination are combined with my awkward humor. <3

    But I should say: kids should also combine their imagination with the truth; or else they can spin outta control or something like that. <3
    Posted December 28th, 2010 at 11:04 AM by Miss Doronjo Miss Doronjo is offline
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    Kids today and their imagination

    Or even worse, they let the imagination around them control them and don't have a sense of their own. That's what happened to my sister, I think.

    But I agree. I was always quite the...interesting child. I don't think that's changed. I'm still childish and think of strange things all the time and I don't have to try to think out of the box. It just happens. Seems like a lot of that is dying these days, so you're not the only one that's taken notice. :(

    Edit: I used to play with erasers, markers, the bag with the markers, pencils, my own clothes (overalls and belts mainly), my hair, my face, my chair, etc. I could make anything and everything fun! :) And I made up stupid songs when I played video games...that I...totally don't still sing today...if that's...what you're thinking. ._.
    Posted December 28th, 2010 at 10:52 AM by Sydian Sydian is offline
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    The Day After Christmas Blog

    Awww I'm so happy to hear your day went good! You gotta tell me how much you like all that stuff since you guys wanted an Xbox pretty badly. Oh, and what did you guys bake? :D

    .. We got lots of talking to do haha. I'm happy for you Hiiromaru! <3
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    Sounds like you got a lot of great gifts. You'll like FFXIII.
    Posted December 26th, 2010 at 4:01 PM by .Seth .Seth is offline
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    Nice gifts you got, gurl! <3
    Posted December 26th, 2010 at 2:50 PM by Belinda Belinda is offline
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    The Day After Christmas Blog

    I'll make sure to take use of my video gaming category in my blog to update you as much as you want I can. :P

    I was really happy to have gotten FFXIII. Only played a little bit of it yesterday, so I need to play it some more and get further into the story.
    Posted December 26th, 2010 at 11:17 AM by Guy Guy is offline
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    Seems like a lot of people are getting XIII. This makes me very happy~ I demand full reports of your progress, sir :U

    Seriously though: Glad it was a good one ^^
    Posted December 26th, 2010 at 11:01 AM by Riku Riku is offline
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    Staff colors woosh~ 2.0

    i think the green looks great on pretty much everyone. maybe it's just the theme i'm using.
    the color just..pops o_o;
    Posted December 22nd, 2010 at 2:43 PM by professor plum professor plum is offline
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    Staff colors woosh~ 2.0

    [QUOTE=AdvancedK47;bt52322]^ Has broken internet rules 1 and 2.5[/QUOTE]
    [color=asifIcareaboutthosevirtualrulespeoplecomeupwith]as if I care about those virtual rules people come up with.[/color]
    Posted December 17th, 2010 at 12:28 PM by KanadeTenshi KanadeTenshi is offline
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    Staff colors woosh~ 2.0

    ^ Has broken internet rules 1 and 2.5
    Posted December 17th, 2010 at 6:36 AM by Spinor Spinor is offline
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    Staff colors woosh~ 2.0

    [color=deepblue][b]KanadeTenshi[/b][/color]
    [color=forever][b]KanadeTenshi[/color][/b]
    [color=rukario][b]KanadeTenshi[/b][/color]
    [color=staff][b]KanadeTenshi[/color][/b]
    [color=ktblue][b]KanadeTenshi[/color][/b]
    [color=KanadeTenshi][b]KanadeTenshi[/color][/b]
    [color=crap][b]KanadeTenshi[/b][/color]
    [color=grandtheftauto][b]KanadeTenshi[/b][/color]
    [color=gaypink][b]KanadeTenshi[/b][/color]
    [color=4chan][b]KanadeTenshi[/b][/color]

    I like the third and the fourth the best. I also like all the other green ones.

    [side note - making those /b felt gross]
    Posted December 17th, 2010 at 4:48 AM by KanadeTenshi KanadeTenshi is offline
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    Oh... my user name looks so deliciously wonderful in AA Green.

    <3
    Posted December 16th, 2010 at 9:22 PM by Hiidoran Hiidoran is offline
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    Staff colors woosh~ 2.0

    SA Red is just an overall great color. XD
    Posted December 16th, 2010 at 6:51 PM by Livewire Livewire is offline
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    Staff colors woosh~ 2.0

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by colcolstyles View Comment
    By the way, I sure hope you used some sort of script to do this. I can't imagine how painstakingly boring it would be to do this by hand. :(
    I just C&P'd Went's block of colors, pasted it every time, and wrote everybody's username in place of it.

    ...does that makes sense? O_o;

    Did I mentioned I was really bored? XD;


    By the way, after doing this I think SA red just makes everyone look dashing!
    Posted December 16th, 2010 at 6:23 PM by Guy Guy is offline