Times change but why?

[Lankhoss]

You do realize that your body COMPLETELY changes chemically and hormonally during puberty, right?

On top of that, the stuff you do as a kid is fun only because it's new. At some point tag gets boring, backyard football where you score a touchdown everytime you get the ball and score 14 touchdowns during the half hour during recess get boring, trying new "dangerous" stuff like jumping your bike off something or jumping out of a swing....either the thrill is gone after trying it a few times, or you broke a bunch of shit and learned your lesson.

Not only do these things become boring, but you realize there's no point to it. As you get older, you become more logical (some more than others). Games have absolutely NO POINT to them, and as you get older things that are pointless aren't as fun because you're smart enough to know better. But even in your adulthood, you'll find the same pattern. The stuff that was fun when I was in highschool annoys me now, the stuff I was doing in my early 20's, I have no interest in now. My interests are changing once again, and hardly anything that kept me entertained has the same affect on me today.

For me, personally, I've found patterns are what make me uninterested in things (games mostly). When I was a kid, it was fun to take a football, and run the SAME ROUTE everytime to score a touchdown....I just outran people. It was fun playing baseball with my friends when I could hit a homerun EVERY time. Because I didn't realize I was getting a "gimme" everytime. I could repeat it over and over and over again, and be completely oblvious to the "pattern" I discovered and repeated. Now I don't have fun with anything that doesn't challenge me.

Maintaining a career, balancing finances, planning out vacations and nights on the town....doing all of that stuff by myself is more challenging than any game I play anymore. I'm sure I'll find new challenges to take on a decade from now.

[One_Bad_SHO]

You do realize that your body COMPLETELY changes chemically and hormonally during puberty, right?

On top of that, the stuff you do as a kid is fun only because it's new. At some point tag gets boring, backyard football where you score a touchdown everytime you get the ball and score 14 touchdowns during the half hour during recess get boring, trying new "dangerous" stuff like jumping your bike off something or jumping out of a swing....either the thrill is gone after trying it a few times, or you broke a bunch of shit and learned your lesson.

Not only do these things become boring, but you realize there's no point to it. As you get older, you become more logical (some more than others). Games have absolutely NO POINT to them, and as you get older things that are pointless aren't as fun because you're smart enough to know better. But even in your adulthood, you'll find the same pattern. The stuff that was fun when I was in highschool annoys me now, the stuff I was doing in my early 20's, I have no interest in now. My interests are changing once again, and hardly anything that kept me entertained has the same affect on me today.

For me, personally, I've found patterns are what make me uninterested in things (games mostly). When I was a kid, it was fun to take a football, and run the SAME ROUTE everytime to score a touchdown....I just outran people. It was fun playing baseball with my friends when I could hit a homerun EVERY time. Because I didn't realize I was getting a "gimme" everytime. I could repeat it over and over and over again, and be completely oblvious to the "pattern" I discovered and repeated. Now I don't have fun with anything that doesn't challenge me.

Maintaining a career, balancing finances, planning out vacations and nights on the town....doing all of that stuff by myself is more challenging than any game I play anymore. I'm sure I'll find new challenges to take on a decade from now.

You will not be invited to the grand opening of my Adult Playground.

[Lankhoss]

You will not be invited to the grand opening of my Adult Playground.

Check this out.

So I went to work in Seattle for a couple of months, and I actually had a friend that lived out there so we'd hang out after work a lot. He, his friend, and I all went to this place that was owned by his friend's dad. It was VERY similar to what you described, and it totally kicked ass. I hit some baseballs in a batting cage, played ping pong, blew up this GIGANTIC air-filled boxing ring and beat the piss out of each other with huge gloves on, then jousted like they do in American Gladiators after that. It was an awesome night, and also gave me a headache.

[Elbow]

You will not be invited to the grand opening of my Adult Playground.