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Originally posted by The17sss lotta out doors shit too. Bikes, swimming, basketball... haha when I moved to Florida from Bostom at age 8, I had never seen a lizard before and spent at least 2 years catching them. Loved those little bastards.

lol me too

I used to write a lot when I was little, mostly stories and journals of my thoughts. Then when I was an angsty teenager in seventh grade, I ripped them all up because I thought they were silly and childish.

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost I mainly had a thing for planes at the time, so I never really got into cars and trains. So in other words, I made a bunch of primer fuselages without any landing gear; and if the decals were attached to anything, it was to my wet fingers. You know that you've more or less given up on making a decent model when you look at all the small parts you can't manage to make stick as "extra parts you don't really need"- you know, insignificant embellishments like wings and propellers. Ah, what a trip down some of memory lane's more dark corridors.

Yea I had a thing for WW2 heavy bombers.

I had a B-17, B-24 and a B-29 I never finished, as well as numerous B-25s and other medium bombers...

The B-29 I got had markings to be Enola Gay or Bocks Car and also came with little models of Little Boy and Fat Man... Of course I always put together the models of the ordinance together first.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles I used to write a lot when I was little, mostly stories and journals of my thoughts. Then when I was an angsty teenager in seventh grade, I ripped them all up because I thought they were silly and childish.

holy shit me too. it was around the same age as well (a little older like 13/14). they were such stupid teenager type of stories like Mean Girls i loved creating the characters.

i had a little radio with a mic and i used to sing on it.

i used to hide a lot at the mall inside the clothing racks.

i liked cutting the hair off of my dolls and undressing them.
--i used to make them sit inside my shoe and use the shoe as a car.

i collected rolli pollies in a ziploc bag to make a farm but they were always sleeping the next day.

i collected weird rocks and leaves into a barbie box.

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Yea I had a thing for WW2 heavy bombers.

Actually, now that I think of it, I think it was a B-17 that was the only model I ever put together that turned out semi decent (that and possibly a YF-22 I worked on).

This was mainly due to the fact that the thing was so fucking huge that you couldn't tell it was missing 65% of its components.

I even managed to get the lady decal on BOTH sides of the plane!

I used to gaze at maps for hours on end. Before learning how to read, I loved car spotting (which is like train spotting for infants, I suppose) - I'd know all the brands and whatnot. Then I grew out of it and, along with Lego, I spend my days with encyclopaedias, biographies and... maps. Staring for long at the latter proved to be both a blessing and a curse.

I think the more childish thing I'd do as a child was record random video tapes with my siblings. My brother was the comedian of our "TV Channel", my sister was the singer, and I was the news host.

Hell, I was really a rather annoying kid

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Originally posted by Lira I used to gaze at maps for hours on end.

Me too... I still do it now (but not for hours). I would bet my knowledge of geography in the US is probably better than 95% of the people here.

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Originally posted by The17sss Me too... I still do it now (but not for hours). I would bet my knowledge of geography in the US is probably better than 95% of the people here.

The US used to be among my "favourite countries"... probably because it was one of the very few countries that had state limits and whatnot in my atlas. I was fascinated by native American/Canadian names, reason why I was one of the very few kids in class that knew what a Milwaukee and a Saskatchewan were

edit: Canada had too few provinces, so I thought it was piss boring

only 2 things I did when I was a kid. Ride my bigwheel and thrw tomatoes at cars. I came from an italian family we had lots of tomatoes.

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Originally posted by winston

that's me alright

Just bought a bike today! Havent biked in atleast 10 years, used to love doing that as a kid. Building tree house and looking at my friends dads porn magazines in it was cool. My other hobby was riding around with my sling shot and breaking windows(no joke).

Lego's, yep played with them and put them together.worst part about it I had little ideas of what they would or would not do so when anyone would come over to play I'd freak the fuck out! No No No the scuba people hate fire fighters, they can't coexist. Ahh to be a young whipper snapper again

Oh, I was also a decently involved amateur astronomy enthusiast.

I had my subscription to Astronomy magazine and me very own 60mm refractor!

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost ...not to suggest that my enthusiasm for this game has waned upon becoming an adult, mind you.

LOL, we were just talking about this with my brother a few days ago. I was making fun of him because he was such a big fan of these types of games and how he used to go hang out to this store on the mall to play on Saturdays. Then he said, "well, at least I was 14...there were some grown ass men, with women and children that used to go there"

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Originally posted by woscar LOL, we were just talking about this with my brother a few days ago. I was making fun of him because he was such a big fan of these types of games and how he used to go hang out to this store on the mall to play on Saturdays. Then he said, "well, at least I was 14...there were some grown ass men, with women and children that used to go there"

Yeah I used to play but I always lost, not even sure if I knew how to play. Still have my cards.... wonder if these things are worth anything?

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Originally posted by woscar LOL, we were just talking about this with my brother a few days ago. I was making fun of him because he was such a big fan of these types of games and how he used to go hang out to this store on the mall to play on Saturdays. Then he said, "well, at least I was 14...there were some grown ass men, with women and children that used to go there"

My friend tried to get me into Magic but I don't think I ever had much enthusiasm for it. I was a more traditional nerd and always preferred chess.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles My friend tried to get me into Magic but I don't think I ever had much enthusiasm for it. I was a more traditional nerd and always preferred to be on my own

Fixed (at least, that's what it was like for me )

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Originally posted by woscar LOL, we were just talking about this with my brother a few days ago. I was making fun of him because he was such a big fan of these types of games and how he used to go hang out to this store on the mall to play on Saturdays. Then he said, "well, at least I was 14...there were some grown ass men, with women and children that used to go there"

Heh, yeah, it's kind of hard on the ego when I attend FNM tournaments at my local card shops, and I'm sitting on ultra small chairs with my knees positioned in front of my chest...then the store owner makes the annoucement "we're closing in ten minutes- does everyone have a ride home?" But the age brackets at these tournaments is impressively broad, and there are some really skilled younger players who can put up quite a challenge.

In any event, Magic is one of those games that could go either way for you as you age; you can view it as something you've 'outgrown,' or you could just as well develop a greater appreciation for its emphasis on strategy and creativity (which is the camp I fall into).

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Originally posted by Dj Nacht Yeah I used to play but I always lost, not even sure if I knew how to play. Still have my cards.... wonder if these things are worth anything?

If they have the words mox, lotus, time, or ancestral in the titles, they're worth nothing; send them to me for immediate disposal.

I was a bike riding fool when I was a kid.

I used to play with beetles and insects that I found outside.. think I caught a wasp once when I was like 2 and didn't know what it was and freaked my parents out.

a bit older like 8 - 12 years old I used to love drawing.. went to proper drawing classes and everything where we just sat there for hours drawing still lifes.. always had slightly obsessive, introverted hobbies I guess.

I liked insects as well. Praying mantises, beetles, and woolly bear caterpillars were some of my favorites:

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Originally posted by Slylee lol my mom told me one time she came home from a jimmy hendrix concert on acid and she painted this awesome picture of jimmy hendrix while tripping and even when she was sober, it looked awesome, but her mom threw it out because she found out my mom was taking drugs when she painted it

find out which one...my parents' first date was a hendrix concert.

and yeah, i really liked doing science experiments at home, like making volcanoes out of baking soda and vinegar

By the way, independent as to how you feel about the game (and I suppose this is the Magic apologist in me talking), but it needs to be said that it has been responsible for some seriously great artwork in the 15 or so years it's been around:

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