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mtj
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 Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 09:31 Post subject: Gaming at an 'advanced' age of almost 30 |
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So...
Anyone here facing hmm... ridiculing for playing games at the age of ~30?
I've found out that none of my colleagues (ages 23-70+) are playing any computer games (I'm working at a software development company so figure that....)
And I'm being ridiculed by some of them because I haven't 'grown' out of games at this age (29 1/2).
Not that I care about what others really think of my gaming, but I find it really weird.
What's the stigma against gaming, why should it be replaced with watching TV or some such. (The ridiculing is coming from people in their early 30s)
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Saner
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 09:32 Post subject: |
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30 plus is NOT ADVANCED! (unless its your dress size)
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mtj
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 09:34 Post subject: |
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couleur
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 09:37 Post subject: |
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I don't give one flying fuck what others think about me playing games, and i'm 27.
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mtj
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couleur
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 09:45 Post subject: |
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What does it have to do with kids?
My kids will master their own builds in BGII as soon as they learn to read!
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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mtj
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VonMisk
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 10:49 Post subject: |
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31 here.
Still play games, not as much as I used too.
All my high school friends (30+) still play fuck load of games (though none have kids).
My department coworkers (34+) are Battlefield nutjobs.
My other friend from work (37) is playing MMO's with me, another one (29) is into WoW although doesn't have too much time for anything because of spawning an offspring.
But it's usually an argument of people with small kids that suddenly noticed how they fucked themselves and are jealous of people who still have time for pleasure and not jumping around crying shit generating monster.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
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Morphineus
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 10:50 Post subject: |
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31 myself and in every job and age bracket I have bumped into gamers. My boss at one work was 54 and talked with passion about Delta Force games to me and other games. My coworkers of the last job all had a family yet they still enjoyed their gaming 35 and 38 their age.
Dunno I never thought it as weird, that was in Belgium and I can honestly say it's the same in Sweden, worse in the younger brackets over here, but they all seem to just play the same game: CS,LOL,HON but even my gf has a hard time calling them real gamers because how they limit themselves 
So nah it's not an age thing, how others fill their free time is as odd as how I fill mine so I don't really care. And I don't think software development is where most gamers are at. It's as bland and generic as it can get in most cases. I saw more gamers in: Engineering side of IT, Admins,retail...
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 11:08 Post subject: |
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I've worked in a mid sized software dev company and among 30 people there was one barely-gamer. So I can agree that most of them aren't gamers. Not even people studying software dev with me in college were gamers.
Working in a game dev studio now and everyone is a gamer of course. We're all 27+.
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Ankh
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 12:08 Post subject: |
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42 in januari and still playing shitloads daily
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 13:22 Post subject: |
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Losts of people from all classes and ages here play games, ive encountered people who race cars professionally playing games competitively etc, if they never found the love in young ages they probably avoided following the gaming entertainment when they grew and found other things to do. But whoever followed it and spent 30 years having fun (because thats all it is ffs) should have the knack to enjoy having fun playing games for 30 mins or an hour to have fun even at advanced ages.
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 13:28 Post subject: |
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Keep in mind that many people won't just come over to you and ask you what games you play. Some you actually need to find out as they actively conceal their interest for games in the workplace.
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 15:25 Post subject: |
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I am 29, developer, have car, motorbike, rented apartment, play at least 4h a day 
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 15:59 Post subject: |
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I'm 35. Do play some games, not as much as I did in my prime. Two reasons.
1. Not a lot of games excite me anymore. I like games that surprise me. The immersion factor needs to be there. A lot of the games follow the same formular with small changes.
Not all games are bad that way, take for example GTA. This game is great, the gameplay is nothing new but the story are great and so fort.
2. I HAVE YOUNG KIDS. This takes a huge chunk of my time. I have some time after they are tucked in to play, usually 1-2 hours.¨
Also I have to be able to pause the game if one of them needs me, so I need to be able to pause the game.
so when the kids are all grown and if I'm not sitting in my diaper drooling by the time they have left the house. THEN ITS FUCKIN GAME TIME!!!
Hardware: Ryzen 3700x, B450 MSI Gaming Pro carbon AC, GTX1080, 32 GB 3200 Mhz cas 14, 256 EVO SSD, 1 TB EVO SSD and 4 TB HDD.
Console: xbox, wii and xbox 360
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 16:26 Post subject: |
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I'm also almost 30 and I play games every week, usually every day if I have the time. Most people I know don't, but they were never gamers anyway, and they have that mentality of "oh, aren't you too old for that?"...
For me it's kinda like being an atheist, if someone asks I will tell, but I don't advertise it.
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Dec 2013 16:27 Post subject: |
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They're probably just jelly because you're not a foosball dumbo instead 
"OMFG did you see the match last night? That penalty, we would won if it wasn't for it!"
"ZOMG did you see that goal?!"
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