You're a manchild

[jackfaire]

My daughter last christmas gave me this toy gun that shoots these yellow hardish balls. Best gift I ever got hugged her and told her she is the most awesome daughter ever.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

That's sweet! I bet she was all proud giving it to you, too.

I have probably as many "toys" as my kid does. I have boxes of plastic cowboys, cap guns, rubber snakes, tabletop RPG miniatures and stuff to make scenery, modeling clay, etc. Of course, my kid has confiscated most of it.

[jackfaire]

That's sweet! I bet she was all proud giving it to you, too.

Yeah she was. She had picked it out all by herself and didn't listen to the other adults in her life who said I wouldn't like it.

[Tanasi]

Well I'm gonna age myself here but I'm nearing 60 and I still like to play with my kids. I used to play barbies with my daughters, legos and cars with my boys. I played video games with them and some sports. When the 360 came out the wife bought two of them, one for the kids and one for me. When the Wii came out she bought two of them one for the kids and one for her.
Years ago before we married I used to watch GI Joe, Transformers and He-Man/She-Ra with the youngest sister and brother. We played with their action figures and they especially liked Teen-aged Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Personally I think the ability to continue to play leads to a longer and more enjoyable life. Nowdays my youngest is 11 and has been skipped ahead to 9th grade and is very much into her studies and girl stuff and my youngest son is nearly 16 and he's busy chasing girls and practicing for his DL.

[Arcade Man D]

And the ball pit, for god's sakes will someone get me a ball pit I can get buried in!

Because it needed to be linked after that.


And yeah, I would be all *over* an adult-sized ball pit.

[Fashion Lad!]

I don't understand why people think that just because you get older, you have to find new hobbies. *sigh*

I'm definitely not a teen anymore. mid-late 20's and I *love* video games. There was one night my girlfriend wanted to talk on the phone and I wanted to play video games. So, I talked with her on the phone while playing Resistance 2 online with my buddies from work. She got to hear me curse out my opposition, she laughed at me. I buy RC helicopters and fly them in the house while chasing them up and down the hallway. I'd take them outside but I live in Minnesota, they're dainty and likely to end up in Canada with a large gust of wind. I go shopping for toys. Whatever, it's stuff I enjoy doing.

So, I have a huge problem with people who have a huge problem with me still playing video games. It's not just for kids.

[protege]

I don't understand why people think that just because you get older, you have to find new hobbies. *sigh*

They're just jealous I still get flak from certain relatives over my models (aka "dust collectors" as my father calls them), the occasional Lego item ("why are you still playing with those?") and other bullshit. In fact, not long ago, my brother trashed my Lego city...causing me to kick his ass. I'd spent several days putting it all together as a Christmas display. He ruined it in a few hours. Needless to say, he couldn't understand why I was upset, since it was "just Legos," and that how Mom wouldn't ground me for beating the crap out of him

There are some people though, who "hobbies" have a way of taking over their lives--look at my brother, who is unemployed and plays video games all day, for example. I have nothing against the occasional GTA kill-fest--I've been known to do that every now and then--or a couple of hours idly playing. But to play all day? I don't care how good the game is--sitting at the computer or PS3 all day has gone long past being a hobby, but an *obsession.*

[tabbyblack13]

When I get into the mood I love to play video games. It is a great way to blow off steam after a rough time. It also helps that I have found games that I can get into. I'm not one for Halo or Call of Duty.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Color Wonder crayons, people. Not the markers, the crayons. They are hard to find. Not sure if they even still make them, I have not been able to find any.

They just...feel good! They are soft and waxy and you rub on the paper and they just spread right on and all these cool designs pop up. Me and my kid will go through an entire Color Wonder coloring book in one sitting with those things.

EDIT: Oh, man, check it out. Color Wonder coloring book on line. Play with this and then come back here and tell me this is not fun. I do like using the crayons better, still, because it's a tactile thing for me and I love the soft, waxy texture of the crayon, but this is really fun, too.

Wait till my kid sees this.

[blas87]

Someone said ball pit?

I get so mad nowadays that I'm considered "too big" to play in the Hardees ball room.

Or that people at McDonalds frown upon adults going in the playland.....but hell, if you can still fit in there, why not?

[DesignFox]

I love the ball pit. I wish they'd make an adult sized one. That XKCD comic is one of my favorites.

I remember the playground equipment seeming so big when I was a kid. *sigh* adult size monkey bars and a slide would be awesome. Half the time they don't make that stuff for kids anymore...everything is so... "safe". Booooring.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

In Savannah there is a playground with a flying fox that adults can play on. In fact, I have to wonder if it's not MADE for adults, it's high enough off the ground that I, at five an a half foot tall, have to stretch for it.

Oh, man, I had fun on that.

[HYHYBT]

Or that people at McDonalds frown upon adults going in the playland.....but hell, if you can still fit in there, why not?

Three probable reasons: 1) it's less fun for the little kids if they have teenagers or older in with them; 2) it's less safe, because (for example) a six-foot-tall person crashing into a two-foot-tall person on the slide is likely to cause injury; 3) parents don't like to see adults they don't know playing with their kids.

Having said that, so long as no actual children wanted in there we only chased people out if they were being loud and obnoxious, or else unsafe.

[jackfaire]

My daughter is going to have her birthday party at Chuckee Cheese again this year and sadly I won't be allowed to join her in the ballpit. *sighs* At least we can kick butt at skee ball again.

[IDrinkaRum]

I <3 Skee Ball! That is my game! Woohoo!

Yeah, I want an adult ball pit.

My husband is a manchild.

Since I'm a female, am I womanchild?

My daughter is a child-child, I know that already.

It would be completely awesome to enjoy a ball pit with my daughter.