Poll: Gamers Over 30 Are ?Weird?

[Britisheagle]

What a load of rubbish.

My dad is a gamer, we are always fighting over and trading games. He has a job and is married so I have no idea how they can be considered "weird".

Oh and he's 54, 55 in a few days.

 

[jamesworkshop]

And this is why i hate the label "gamer". It implies, and morons like those guys infer, that we have no other interests. Imagine if they made up a group name for people who enjoy a certain food. "Oh, you're a PB&Jer! You only eat peanut butter and jelly!"

Exactly. Like ExtraCredits pointed out, we don't call people that read books "bookers".

no we call them bookworms or film lovers as movie buffs, I mean why do people define themselves by their job, why do we say "i'm a crash investigator" or do we say

"I get in late and watch reruns of buffy the vampire slayer in a room with a carpet stained with dried tears..And yourself?"

I think it's a stupid thing for EC to have said and for other gamers to repeat.

I've never understood the "destroyer of lables" crowd if we had no lables the entire idea of meaning and meaningfull language/discussion would be negated

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Seriously, this is a real double standard. If I got a bunch of old men together, and bitched about women into their 30's doing something, like I dunno, gossiping like high schoolers, I'd get an earful. But yet women here can ***** about men gaming. DOUBLE STANDARDS AHOY.

 

[Tjebbe]

Oh yes. And singing "Kumbaya, My lord" on air is the epitome of sanity.

 

[Blubberburg]

Once we found out one of our friends dads was a gamer and we were all like 'oh cool man thats cool wish my dad was that cool'

 

[LobsterFeng]

And this is why i hate the label "gamer". It implies, and morons like those guys infer, that we have no other interests. Imagine if they made up a group name for people who enjoy a certain food. "Oh, you're a PB&Jer! You only eat peanut butter and jelly!"

Exactly. Like ExtraCredits pointed out, we don't call people that read books "bookers".

no we call them bookworms or film lovers as movie buffs, I mean why do people define themselves by their job, why do we say "i'm a crash investigator" or do we say

"I get in late and watch reruns of buffy the vampire slayer in a room with a carpet stained with dried tears..And yourself?"

I think it's a stupid thing for EC to have said and for other gamers to repeat.

I've never understood the "destroyer of lables" crowd if we had no lables the entire idea of meaning and meaningfull language/discussion would be negated

But their point was people that read books obviously do other things. Or should be anyway. Which is what you said in your first post.

 

[jamesworkshop]

And this is why i hate the label "gamer". It implies, and morons like those guys infer, that we have no other interests. Imagine if they made up a group name for people who enjoy a certain food. "Oh, you're a PB&Jer! You only eat peanut butter and jelly!"

Exactly. Like ExtraCredits pointed out, we don't call people that read books "bookers".

no we call them bookworms or film lovers as movie buffs, I mean why do people define themselves by their job, why do we say "i'm a crash investigator" or do we say

"I get in late and watch reruns of buffy the vampire slayer in a room with a carpet stained with dried tears..And yourself?"

I think it's a stupid thing for EC to have said and for other gamers to repeat.

I've never understood the "destroyer of lables" crowd if we had no lables the entire idea of meaning and meaningfull language/discussion would be negated

But their point was people that read books obviously do other things. Or should be anyway. Which is what you said in your first post.

why should gamer imply exclusivity or be infered by the listener when said by the speaker, that they only do one thing, than when people say audiophile or bookworm.

Nobody is just one thing, my political views are largely conservative but that doesn't mean that their is absolutly nothing that I am liberal about.

It's a semantic argument that really seems to belong to the idea of either the "euphemism treadmill" or simply trying to avoid the question, instead of defending gaming lets runs and "bait and switch" and hope that people are to dumb to notice

 

[monkey jesus]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8564342/Average-video-gamer-is-37.html

I'm not even average age yet. I can't see me stopping playing games ever, TBH those Today show a-holes are just a symptom of how the games industry is seen by people with no experience of it.

Fuck 'em in their stupid ears.

 

[Manji187]

Ha!

Medium war! Fight for validity! Slander be thy weapon...

The newspapers have been attacking television for years, it's tv's turn to be worried and take it out on the internet and gaming.

You forgot "generational clash". I wonder what our generation will ***** about...

 

[TrevHead]

Ive skipped through most of this thread. I just wanted to throw this in for discussion: that the whole give up your hobbies when your an adult and take up beer and golf is still widespread in Japanese culture. This includes video games where an adult who plays games at home (handheld on the train seems ok) is seen as taboo (suprisingly anime is even worse).

Thats why the average gamer age in Japan is mid teens compared to 30ish in the west. Taking this fact into context its explains why the adult otaku are so goddam creepy, as they are outcasts in front of their peers for been gamers anyway.

I havnt been in Japan myself, Its just what i learned from this VERY intresting podcast called The Outcasts http://theoutcastpodcast.blogspot.com/2010/01/out-cast-episode-0-final-fantasy-xiii.html

 

[OpticalJunction]

Pfft. Everyone's weird to someone. It just depends on who you know really.

 

[DeathWyrmNexus]

Inorite? I know I haven't even received word on when I will receive my golf clubs and mistress since I apparently need a more "mature" form of fun when I turn 30 this year...

Golf and mistress are paid options. The freebies are a beer gut and a form guide for the ponies.

Well played, I knew I should have gotten a premium account when I was born...

 

[PimpHandofGod]

I plan to die with a controller in my hands or a visor on my head if virtual reality ever pans out.

 

[Double A]

I love it when idiots criticize people who enjoy different entertainment venues than them.

And if you want to talk about what's really weird... plastic surgery.

 

[The Cheezy One]

I'll probably have stopped gaming to the extent that I am now when I turn 30, and I'm ok with that. I wouldn't say it was weird, but it depends on what kind of game. Pokemon is always awesome. Yellow, that is.

EDIT: I expect to be working hard and have very little free time, because that's the kind of person I am. If my kinds want to play games, I'll join in, but I'll probably hang up my 'hardcore' gaming sahs when I go to uni this September. I'm not embarresed about being a gamer, but I don't want to become 'a gamer' to everyone else. I've already reinvented myself as an active guy this year, so I might stick with that. I'll still game occasionally, but not seriously.

 

[T-Bone24]

I thought that the average gamer was over 30? I swear I read that somewhere, and I don't have a hard time believing it.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Mind telling me who writes all these games? Coz I'm pretty sure Schafer, Molyneux, and a lot of the rest are over 30.

In all fairness from what ive seen of Molyneux, hes preaty weird.

Weird...LIKE A FOX!

 

[EradiusLore]

no way, most of the people who make games are over 30 and people who have been gamers since the beginning will obviously be older then 30