Originally posted by Laxpunk2006
...Dre, what's wrong with having an Angel when you're 14. I worked up to 12 hour days last summer when I was 14, and bought mine. Not all kids are spoiled, some really do work for these luxuries.
...Dre, what's wrong with having an Angel when you're 14. I worked up to 12 hour days last summer when I was 14, and bought mine. Not all kids are spoiled, some really do work for these luxuries.
Ok, well, I'll tell you since you asked. Personally, I don't feel any 14 year old kid should have a $1,000+ marker. I know everyone I grew up with including myself never had anything that resembled a grand in value until we got cars (I grew up in a middle class neighborhood, working a job too). It's not that I think people in this age group can't take care of something that valuable, but do they know enough to appreciate it's value?
Basically what it comes down to for me is this: I've been playing for ten years now (started as a high school junior). In that time I've come from Splatmaster Rapide pistols, to several "middle of the road" guns, to E-Mag's. I think of it as kind of a gap in the maturation of a player when they start at the top with the best marker out there and don't have to spend years moving through the ranks of other guns. Almost every player I know worked up from a cheap gun, to an intermediate, and then to a high end gun based on what they could afford at the time. Skipping those steps gives you less of an opprotunity to accurately appreciate what you have IMHO.
However, there are always exceptions to the rule and I hope you are definitely one of them. If you worked hard for a long time to buy yours, I certainly respect you at that age then. But I think you know the types of kids I'm really talking about here and how truly annoying and resentful it is to see them in full swing.
IMO, If you work that much for an angel, you earned it. Sometimes I wished I had just saved my money and skipped my first gun and just bought the mag I have now (or even save for more!). I am too annoyed by the 90% of the other young kids who's parent bought them angels cause paintball was the "cool thing" of the time. Although I havent played with many of these types of people, I would guess that they suck real bad and get out once they find out it takes actual skill 
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