Seriously, todays youth?
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That is some skillful engineering. The single peg that shoots toothpicks, I could not even understand how it works, but it does.
It would be far more lethal to throw a rock at someone than use these, they are terrible as weapons for anything other than target practice. This kid would make a great engineer.
I can remember making a Elastic band rifle out of a piece of wood and a peg, and depending on how many elastic bands you loaded it with, it could punch through up to an inch of polystyrene, but it was impossible to aim past 8 meters.
It would be far more lethal to throw a rock at someone than use these, they are terrible as weapons for anything other than target practice. This kid would make a great engineer.
I can remember making a Elastic band rifle out of a piece of wood and a peg, and depending on how many elastic bands you loaded it with, it could punch through up to an inch of polystyrene, but it was impossible to aim past 8 meters.
I think the youth of today is growing up too fast is a real issue.
This is fucking awesome! I'm sorry, but that kid is really creative and innovative - the pin gun is awesome, I want one!
This is fucking awesome! I'm sorry, but that kid is really creative and innovative - the pin gun is awesome, I want one!
I have problems with todays youth, but this kid is just creative. Bad example.
However, most of todays youth are spoiled disrespectful brats who backsass any authority and complain constantly when they don't get their way. I was pretty spoiled I guess, but I was taught very good manners. However, there may be another part of it: role models. I did play Quake 3 with my dad when I was little, but he very thouroughly taught me that this was a video game and how awful this would be in real life. My role models were pretty much the Power Rangers (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, not that new crap that nobody likes), Rescue Heroes (lol, I was porbably one of the few people that liked that show), and G.I. Joe. Were these show particularly well written? No. Were the special effects or animation quiality very good? No. Did it generally attempt to teach good morals? Yep. Todays role models consist of sassy teens like Hannah Montanna who only complain because they can't have more and completely ignore everything their parents say. Role models like Katy Perry, whose album artwork consists of her naked, censored only by suggestive white clouds, or Lady Gaga (well, my little sister loves her) who dress in straps, skin tight outfits of various obscure materials, or yes, just bubbles (or Yog Sothoth). It may also be the parents who were taught good morals and manners the hard way as a child, so they won't punish their children for bad behavior.
It's sad because we can't do too much about it except raise our children better and hope they'll do the same.
However, most of todays youth are spoiled disrespectful brats who backsass any authority and complain constantly when they don't get their way. I was pretty spoiled I guess, but I was taught very good manners. However, there may be another part of it: role models. I did play Quake 3 with my dad when I was little, but he very thouroughly taught me that this was a video game and how awful this would be in real life. My role models were pretty much the Power Rangers (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, not that new crap that nobody likes), Rescue Heroes (lol, I was porbably one of the few people that liked that show), and G.I. Joe. Were these show particularly well written? No. Were the special effects or animation quiality very good? No. Did it generally attempt to teach good morals? Yep. Todays role models consist of sassy teens like Hannah Montanna who only complain because they can't have more and completely ignore everything their parents say. Role models like Katy Perry, whose album artwork consists of her naked, censored only by suggestive white clouds, or Lady Gaga (well, my little sister loves her) who dress in straps, skin tight outfits of various obscure materials, or yes, just bubbles (or Yog Sothoth). It may also be the parents who were taught good morals and manners the hard way as a child, so they won't punish their children for bad behavior.
It's sad because we can't do too much about it except raise our children better and hope they'll do the same.
All it is is a bunch of crap that wouldn't even be able to kill someone. He can barely shoot sharpened wood into a clay square and he can take a rectangle out of an aluminum can...ooooo, how dangerous. When I was a kid, I had sniper points mapped out in my schoolyard. I knew where I was hidden and from where I could see others. I had homemade knives made out of rocks hidden in our field. I was more dangerous than that kid, and I can't even bring myself to emotionally hurt someone....I'm not a psychopath! Just prepared.Hardcore_gamer said:
You obviously don't realize that the over all intelligence of today's youth is actually rising.Terminate421 said:
I also have to be around douchebags all day, they hardly ever use the word gay.
86 here... and to be fair, when I see your generation I see slackers...jojoemon said:
No matter how you see it, when you remember things from your youth, it's with your current level of maturity... truth is... you were as bad as what you see. Nobody was "mature" as a kid, period!
However, some do get stuck as children until they hit their 30s... but we need those people to pump gas and bag groceries!
This guy blows the toy guns that my brother and I made in 5th grade right out of the water.Bravo Company said:
So how is this bad, again?
Yeah, but you have to remember that once we all were all that stupid and forgetful. Quite frankly it took us years to figure out that slavery and child labor were a bad thing so really this is a step up. Kids will be kids, let them have their fun for now. It's not like he is showing how to make a molotov cocktail just some child playthings.Terminate421 said:
I see nothing wrong with this video. He's just being creative, a quality that is sorely lacking in the world today.
Kinda reminds me of that guy that made an AK-47 out of legos a while back.
Kinda reminds me of that guy that made an AK-47 out of legos a while back.
This is pretty much what I had in mind. We tend to forget that we weren't much better in our youth. Who can honestly tell me they didn't play with fire even just a little bit when they were a kid? Or blow up something in your microwave by accident because you wanted to see what would happen? How about disobeying parents/guardians just for the sake of spite and rebellion, even if they were being reasonable? I know a couple of kids who get annoyed when I joke that teenagers are stupid, and when they call me on that I just say "I know they are, because I used to be one of them."RandomWords said:
Well he's conquered the principal of if you can't beat them with brute force then cheat. He'd be handy if society falls to a zombie plague but really he's just a child. It's obvious that he doesn't mean harm; he's just so excited to show us this new and cool skill he has gained that he hasn't thought of the consequences. Those incidentally are us judging him as 'disturbing' and maybe some impressionable thicko killing another person.
So he gain a little basic knowledge of ballistics and has created some weapons (which follow similar designs). He doesn't document any particular way of using them to a deadly effect, unless you fucking hate balloons and to be honest he'd have a hard time actually doing harm because by the time he's loaded and aimed the people he's aiming at will already have mobbed him what with children being brutal little bastards when they're unsupervised for five minutes.
So he gain a little basic knowledge of ballistics and has created some weapons (which follow similar designs). He doesn't document any particular way of using them to a deadly effect, unless you fucking hate balloons and to be honest he'd have a hard time actually doing harm because by the time he's loaded and aimed the people he's aiming at will already have mobbed him what with children being brutal little bastards when they're unsupervised for five minutes.
Kind of creepy I guess, just because of some of the things people decide to share on youtube.
At the same time, it's not like this is new or anything. You say "today's youth" when I'm sure kids have done this for generations, I know I made little "weapons" when I was a kid for the sake of playing with toys so I could add drama, or knock one of my GI Joes over without touching them to make it look more cinematic
Plus as long as the kid doesnt use them on people or is actually trying to hurt other people, I see nothing wrong with it.
At the same time, it's not like this is new or anything. You say "today's youth" when I'm sure kids have done this for generations, I know I made little "weapons" when I was a kid for the sake of playing with toys so I could add drama, or knock one of my GI Joes over without touching them to make it look more cinematic
Plus as long as the kid doesnt use them on people or is actually trying to hurt other people, I see nothing wrong with it.
I love what this kid has done.Really,he is gonna end up as some kind of super genius in his own right
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint."
You know who said that? Hesiod in 700 BCE. Just think about that for a moment.
You know who said that? Hesiod in 700 BCE. Just think about that for a moment.