scrap collectors: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I am a scrap collector, and I do scrap collecting every single day. When I get a great find, I will usually take it to a scrap yard and give it a home. Every scrap is a story and a life. I have several that I have kept for over 40 years. They are well thought out and well loved.
I don’t know how many of you have a favorite scrap (or at least one that you’ve kept for a long time), but if you do, scrap collecting seems to be a pretty big part of your life. Not only do I collect things, but I also collect old newspapers, old magazines, old books, old photos, old video games, old toys, old clothing, old cars, old electronics, and even old dog toys.
I mean, it’s not that I’m really into collecting them, but I’m still in the scrap business. After a divorce nearly 20 years ago, I sold most of my things and moved in with my wife and adopted two little girls. I have one daughter who’s almost 26 and another who’s almost 5. I got them both a new computer and a new video game.
Yeah, I know its kinda weird that I keep talking about my “new” computer and video games but I really do like them. They are just so much fun to play. My kids are also into them, and we play them all the time. I think that is what keeps me going. I have played so many other games because they were too complicated to play with my kids, and after a while, I just became too lazy to do the same thing over and over.
Yeah, the computer game I have now is the third one I’ve played in two decades. I have to say that I’ve never played an older computer game, and I’ve also never played a newer one. Like I said, it’s just so much fun. My kids just play computer games all the time. They also play on my computer and watch TV. They are as into TV as I am.
I guess that’s because they are more of my age. But I’m not talking about my own kids. I’m talking about the old school computer games. I’m talking about games that were made for a very young audience. They’re not games the way the computer game is today. They’re more like a video game version of the Star Wars movies which is why so many of them are so bad.
This may be old news, but before you argue with me, you should know that computer games are not as easy for kids as they are for adults to appreciate. Not only are they difficult to learn, they are also very much a game to themselves. The reason is that computer games are so much more like an interactive experience, rather than a simple action-filled game.
To play a computer game, you use a game controller. The controller allows you to move and move the game board. There is a joystick which you use to swing the controller around. The motion in this game is the same as swinging your controller. In many ways this game is the same as a movie. Instead of just watching someone punch a button, you are actually controlling someone punching a button. The difference is that you are also controlling the actions of the video game.
If you think of computer games as movies, then this is a movie. But it’s more like a television show. The game is the television and the controller is the camera that is taking you to the movie theater. The camera’s job is basically to make it seem as if you are watching a movie. The best part about this is that I’m pretty sure there is only one person in the world that actually likes watching a movie when it is playing on television.
There are, of course, many types of video game and some are much smaller than others. If you look at the list of video games here, you can see that most are pretty low budget or free games. But if you are a hardcore gamer and consider yourself a video game junkie, you really want to own a game that is at least $10. Unfortunately, most of these games are not so much fun to play on your own that you would consider them as a hobby.
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