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The fuck with this question. My youngest is barely 31. I guess I’m dust and fading memories. I will watch my anime and horror movies and shout at the clouds with an onion tied to my belt, fuck you very much
An onion? At what time was that the style?
The ancient 80s
Is that back when you could get 5 bees for a quarter?
30’s?? That’s rookie numbers, I’m nearing my 50’s.
Same. And I still game. Who the fuck quits when they pwnd everyone and still have tea bags to spare?
The tea bags are a bit saggier, but they’re still good!
It just means you don’t have to squat as far.
Right on time too my knees are shot
Maybe it’s been an evolutionary trait all along!
At 45 my knees are hanging in there (even with the cycling and skiing). It’s my ankles that are becoming an occasional problem oddly.
You youngsters can eat my shorts, I’ll be gunning for you (in game f course). Excuse me, I need to yell at those damn kids to GET OFF MY LAWN
Nearing? I’m already there and I’m the young 'un in my group of gaming buddies. The eldest is in his 60s and we’re all playing most evenings.
50+. Play every chance I get. Don’t know why it would be surprising, other than Lemmy being an echo chamber of tech-minded younger people who forget my generation started out gaming with Atari and the like.
It really feels like everyone is 8-12 in here sometimes…
It’s such a fucking kid move to not have enough imagination to understand adults needs recreation too.
Do you think you’ll stop gaming in, like 20 years when you’re 30?
It’s somewhat based in reality, isn’t it? I’m still gaming in my late 30s and most people I get to play with are on average 10-15 years younger than me. People leave the hobby with time, en masse, and almost no one my age seems to be joining. There are some games that let you ignore that more (single player, matchmaking. Although even in single player, what’s the point of gaming, if you don’t get to discuss it with most of your friends), but some are really difficult to continue playing (coop :().
Although even in single player, what’s the point of gaming, if you don’t get to discuss it with most of your friends
… The point is to… play… the game? I have exactly two current games that I play or talk about with friends. The others are all single player games that I play solely for the enjoyment of playing the damn game. Like, what do you mean, what’s the point? This view is utterly baffling, just play it?
Same here. I’ve got a handful of friends that only want to talk about the latest call of duty or rainbow six, but I’m just not into the competitive gameplay. I just want to play the game. Single player is the way I go and I play it because it’s like an immersive movie. I get to control the character and see the story unfold, it’s like magic. Every now and then I get to talk about how amazing the story in that one game was, and it’s just like talking about a movie, but I don’t play the single player games solely for the purpose of being able to talk about it. I got to experience it, and play it the way I wanted.
Yeah, most of the playerbase is young, as young people spend more time playing videogames.
I think the amount and maybe type of game change a bit, but that’s about it. Ofc some people just stop, because there’s always some people, but I don’t think our generation (I’m roughly the same age) will leave out gaming as much as the previous one did. And I still know plenty of people from gen x who still game avidly. Relatively avidly, at least.
Gaming was more of a “kids thing” when we were young. Like a lot more. Now it’s a viable career. Not a common or easy one, but probably more viable than say “racing-car driver” in the 80’s.
You are just playing the wrong games if you think everyone is young. I play on a lot of classic wow private servers and the average age is probably 35+
No, not “everyone”, but if you look at the games being played the most and look at what age the people are who put in most hours, it’s obviously teenagers.
That isn’t to say that “everyone is young”. Me saying America has a majority of white people wouldn’t mean me saying “everyone is white”.
Ofc a private server for a group that has probably existed for 10 years or more will not have the same statistics as looking at just what age plays most.
“Wrong games” lol. Yeah my brother plays a lot of OSRS and the average age for that playerbase is probably higher than 20.
But it’s a very minor part of the whole group of “everyone who games”.
On a side note I play and follow the classic Tetris scene and it’s been wild seeing the game change in terms of age demographics in only a couple years. Went from mostly middle age 30+ to kids 14-25 at least at the top of the game.
No, it’s not. Some adults wake up and trade video games for board games.
It’s like having friends you can spend time with, for real, instead of just being a joke and without real social engagement. Regardless of how many subscriptions to a gorram MMORPG.
being a fucking joke and without real social engagement.
Aww, guess remote work isn’t real work either, huh?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
It’s not like we’re interacting now, because this is just text so ofc it isn’t real engagement. What about split-screen party games? Those not “real engagement” either? So… where’s the line? Because for instance for TTRPGS, especially for D&D, people definitely use tablets and phones while playing to keep notes / character sheets. What’s the difference between an online session of D&D and an IRL one? Sharing a bathroom?
All of your rhetoric sort of strongly implies you can’t be have “real social engagement” with friends who aren’t in your immediate vicinity. To say that in this era of technology is a pretty strong tell you don’t have any friends outside your small town, I guess.
Have you ever tried telling a partner that texting and phone calls (or even video calls) aren’t “real engagement” and “it’s a fucking joke” to think it is?
“My preferred choice of recreation has more pieces and doesn’t use electricity, so it’s clearly more mature.”
Honestly, grow up.
Learn Kharma Mr. Behind.
It’s possible to like both board games and video games. Don’t be a dick.
Sure, but not to have real friends anymore.
This is a you problem, and everyone but you sees why.
Don’t stop VideoHallucinating
So, how many more generations before people finally escape Nintendo’s crafted stereotype that games are for young boys? Never? Fantastic. I’ll try not to think about how I’ll magically be too old for games in 7 months.
I’ve been playing video games since they existed and I’m in my 50s. There are plenty of people older than me who can say the same.
The reason kids have the games they have is because we were playing games in the 80s on Atari 800s that you had to type into basic from Compute magazine
I wrote a choose your own adventure game in basic in the '80s. Had to save it on audio cassette and play the audio back to load it. You can’t do much with 2k memory but I still wrote like six endings.
I had a friend online who was a gamer grandma until she passed. She was the sweetest person and such fun to play with, may she rest in peace.
Gamer grandmas have a special place in my heart. I salute your gamer grandma.
I’m too old for movies.
44 and I have clocked about 40 hours in Final Fantasy XIV this week. When I get home from work, it’s game time.
Over 30. New Path of Exile league this weekend-- 12 hours Sat/Sun because I can’t do all day gaming anymore, what with being ancient and all.
30… That’s funny. I’m 50+ and clap asses hard in Tarkov PvP.
I grew up playing video games in the 80’s - of course I still play video games even though I turned 50 this year.
I swear the younger generations forget gaming has been around for a LONG time long before they were born, also that people don’t change what they enjoy doing just because they get older……
in the '80s*
The artist: https://www.instagram.com/psychosuzanne
You can have my game controller when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. And I’m not alone. We are many. We are legion.
You’ve heard of dementia villages that mimic old city neighborhoods? Gen-X is gonna need that to look like a mall. A video arcade would make sure over half of them never try to leave1. We’re not done gaming, not by a longshot.
1 - The rest are going to tend to cluster up in the food court or Tower Records.
I’ve got unplayed games older than you!
Yall GOTTA stop pretending 30 is old
ive only been an adult on my own for like 5 years, relax
As I said in another thread, I’m 37, I’m not old, I’m lower middle age. I make noise sitting down but I don’t make noise putting my feet up yet.
Damn! Ease off on the aging there, gramps. I’m 50 and I can still touch my toes without groaning! The only “old person noises” I make are exclusively of the “get off my lawn you whippersnapper” type. ;-P
(And I’ve been gaming since Pong)
meh i don’t have s future worth staying young for. my main goal is to die relatively quickly instead of rotting alive for years like my grandparents did.
my first video game was Freddy’s Rescue Roundup on MS-DOS. It was a bit like Lode Runner.
I’ll be 37 soon, I was doing well untill my motorcycle accident. Even in full gear a lot of stuff broke that shit aged me fast. That being said my best friend is 22 and I can still beat his ass at most games.
I turned 37 recently, and fortunately both of my motorcycle accidents were relatively minor lowsides at ~20mph so I think most of me is 37 and my right knee is 41 years old.
Some lady on a phone basically ran me off the road and fled the scene. 4 ribs broken, fractured scapula, and a partial lung collapse along with soft tissue damage all on the right side. Oh and my left thumb broke and needed surgery. Kept the helmet though, did it’s job admirably.
Oof, every piece of that is a deep level of suck. I’m sorry that happened to you. Except for the helmet keeping your brains in, that’s a good thing.
Same. I’m 35 and I’ve only been independent for 5 years as well. This is the new norm. Adulting is expensive. 30 isn’t old; you’re just starting your life.
exactly
i got married last year
im literally a level 1 husband.
Im a level 32 human but only a level 6 Adult, really. I moved out at 22 but spent the first 3 years partying and barely making rent
I think 25 was the year i started actually trying to do a good job at life, so im still pretty new at it
I’m 38 and I’m extremely anxious about what to expect from adulthood in two years.
if 30s is grandpa then what the fuck am I.
My back and knees hurt just thinking about this.
Worm food?
Can confirm, am 44 and worm food. Lower back but no knee trouble, yet. Some ankle trouble from an injury at 33, my grandpa years.
for some reason people around 30 years old always call themselves old lol
Lol people can be so weird.
I have 70 year old family/coworkers who are like “hey 70 isn’t old!”
And then there’s Lemmy “hey 18 year olds, what’s it like to be minutes from death?”
Man we sure are suckers for this Facebook level interaction bait.
