5 posts tagged “childhood”
Who is your favorite Muppet? Why?
QotD submitted by knitwitology.vox.com.
Hard to say...there's so many good ones. Like the big guy that runs after Kermit and Fozzy from the car lot. Even some of the recent additions, like the French crab guy. He's funny. The muppets are often representatives of a certain type of person, and as a child, I didn't always understand who they were supposed to be making fun of. This one in particular confused me, so I thought she was just damn funny...
What was your most memorable or favorite school field trip?
I can honestly say that I don't have a single memory of any school field trips. I remember I did go on some, but I have no idea where they were to. However, my sisters ex had parents that were government spies and they couldn't tell him until he was grown up and government finally cut the program and admitted to its existence. When he was growing up, he thought his dad worked in a peanut butter factory and they would even take him on tours of it. I thought that was awesome. So I like to think that I've taken school field trips to the peanut butter factory that was really a cover for spy parents. I'm pretty sure I haven't though.
Asking me what my favorite arcade game was is like asking a guitar player what his favorite string is. There really isn't any one that is my favorite, but more like, a bunch that make up a whole. Each game offers a different set of logic, which, by itself, does not help offer any answers to life. Combined with what can be learned from other games, the picture comes together, revealing a universe of understanding. Take what you learned from Pong and apply it to pac-man, you begin to understand speed and hit states. Learn from pac-man how to improvise, or see the map and its characters as a whole (even when you can't see it all at once like in pac-man). Take what you learned from pitfall and you start thinking about how to maximize your scores. Tron offers insight into how to choose a proper route. That sometimes you shouldn't go back to where you just got taken out. Double Dragon teaches you about working together as a team, that during a 2 on 2 battle, sometimes its better to both focus on one enemy, sometimes its better to distract each, and always be looking for objects that may assist you. Street Fighter offers a lesson in how to think like your opponent.
Take everything you learned, and apply it to my all-time favorite game, Halo, and you suddenly have a chance. Take what you learn from there, and apply it to life, and the possibilities are endless.
As a child, I hated, and I mean really really hated...with a passion...like, if I was in the same room with this, I would punch it! Hate like Satan does God! Loathed eggplant!
I still do.
Anyway, regarding the QotD, I hated tomatoes. I also still hate them, but now I really enjoy them diced (not sliced!) on a pizza...mmmm...especially with bacon.
Stratego has got to be the best game ever. Or so I thought until I got it as an adult. Now I might go for Cranium, if that counts as a board game.
