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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2011, 09:44:07 PM »
If I still had all my old books from when I was about 7, they'd be full of similar drawings.
I remember I could only draw mechs facing towards me, and missiles were always circles with lines coming out of them, no matter what direction they were heading in. Artistic prodigy.

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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2011, 10:20:41 PM »
He's already rivaling the Epic Paint Skills artists in perspective skills  :D

If I still had all my old books from when I was about 7, they'd be full of similar drawings.
I remember I could only draw mechs facing towards me, and missiles were always circles with lines coming out of them, no matter what direction they were heading in. Artistic prodigy.
I still have my 2nd grade journal laying around somewhere, full of Mad Cats, Marauders, and Thors (covered with guns)  ::)

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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2011, 10:38:46 PM »
I think the right one is a Bushwacker; those elements that stick out at the rear remind me of its arm and shoulder pod. Those are quite characteristic for the Bushwacker, while the Raven has none of this.


Left one could indeed be a Hollander shooting Gauss, or an Osiris shooting PPC.



But nerd-talk aside, you teached that kid well :D
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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2011, 02:46:15 AM »
Yes I have some doubts in the right one too, it looks to me like a Raven with the upper arms of a Catapult. I had some trouble keeping up with his concept. :P

And those comments about him... Haha! Thanks! He can't understand them (we're in Portugal, he's still a bit young to understand English well :P) but SquareSphere path seems okay for me. He likes to play the game, that's a start. :D

My little brother (5years old) draw stuff like this, too. I could scan some of his masterpieces and post Žem here, if you want.
Cool. I'd like to see that.

It was the first draw I saw he made about this game, he only knows about BattleTech from MWLL like me, that's why I got surprised.
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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2011, 03:08:02 PM »
your nephew will be in a class of cool all his own :D  9 is about the right age for learning mechwarrior.  I think I was about that age when i got MW2 and learned all the in and outs of common DOS commands which propelled me down my interest in technology which turned into a education plan and later a career :D

And on some strange planet you see getting obsessed with something that traces it's evolution to a board game involving strange dice, played in mom's basement, while eating cheetos, cool?

I mean, yes, it's cool to us, but for all of existence these activities have been the antithesis of cool.

You want him to be cool, teach him to play an instrument. You want him to make piles of money, teach him to play RPG's.
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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2011, 06:52:26 PM »

I mean, yes, it's cool to us, but for all of existence these activities have been the antithesis of cool.


I'd think he was cool 8)  If it was the ONLY thing he did, sure i'd agree.  But like many of us, we're not that one dimensional ;)
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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2011, 09:40:17 AM »
I finally had to get my 10 year old his own copy of Crysis Wars to play MWLL on his computer.  He kept asking for his turn to play. When I would take a break from playing he would sneak into my chair and start jumping around the hanger and spawn point as a BA. He is a definite inner sphere fan, which is funny because he has no idea why.     
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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #22 on: September 13, 2011, 02:10:01 PM »
He is a definite inner sphere fan, which is funny because he has no idea why.     

If he is prone to jumping around the hanger as BA I bet he simply prefers the Longinus look over the elemental armour.

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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #23 on: September 13, 2011, 03:12:45 PM »
He was freeborn, of course he likes IS better.

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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #24 on: September 13, 2011, 03:49:51 PM »
I can't think of a better way to raise a psychopath

So limited in imagination...

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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #25 on: September 14, 2011, 04:59:02 AM »
I can't think of a better way to raise a psychopath

So limited in imagination...

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Seriously. Christians do it waaay better.

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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #26 on: September 17, 2011, 12:54:53 PM »
He's 9, and yep really likes when I'm charging ahead going boom-boom with UAC20's and seeing stuff getting destroyed.

When he plays he seems to have some problems handling a Mech's movement sometimes, so its been using more like hovercrafts with auto-target missiles. And when I let him play I change my nick from Str1k3r to noob_here, just to avoid being asked of doing something weird while playing. :P

When I was 9 I was playing the hell out of Cresent Hawks Inception.
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Re: MWLL influence on Kids
« Reply #27 on: September 18, 2011, 05:34:39 AM »

  :)  So my son has been playing all day. I told him to find an empty server to play on so he wouldn't bother people who were playing on teams in real games. He responds with "Dad... I'm not a trainee anymore. " and he rolled his eyes at me.....    :o  I had to leave the room to laugh.  ;D   I apologize to those who were trying to play a serious game and one of your team was bouncing around as a BA shooting at nothing of value and provided points for the other team.  His learning curve is pretty much straight up and he is having a blast.
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