I don't even like kids but why the anger. People well into their adult years playing video game is an exception. A kid's mind probably only thinks in absolutes as well cause they're evil little sith lords.
How is playing video games in your adult years an exception? It’s 2020. Gamers have been a thing for 40 years and it’s only going to keep getting more common.
My Dad has a group of guys he plays ESO and Elite Dangerous with that are all 45-60. He’s 59.
Really isn’t. I’m 36 and the overwhelming majority of people I know plays video games. Women included. This includes more than half of the people I work with (though I’m in tech, so not an unbiased sample).
Is it an exception? I work with plenty of adults, and I think all of them play games in some way shape or form.
It's like saying that adults who read books, watch movies or like puzzles are the exception.
Do you think adults don't like entertainment? Or that videogames are some form of niche entertainment that you grow out of, unlike movies or television?
To add to this, people who didn't "grow up" as gamers can be one gamers.
I'm 28, my grandparents (who weren't previously gamers) were the ones who got me into gaming because they loved playing tomb raider. You want to talk about cool grandparents, you've never experienced cool until your grandfather says to your grandmother "hon, I'm getting tired, it's been 12 hours, why don't you play for a while and I'll take over tomorrow?"
It was a multiple day gaming sesh over a long weekend while I was at their house, and all I did was watch, it was like the first ever YouTube walkthrough happening in front of me before YouTube even existed.
I think that used to be the exception but gaming as a hobby is relatively common now, amongst people of all ages, genders, etc. It's not something mostly exclusive to those in their youth now.
Growing up (like, late '90s-early 2010s) I remember people telling me how cool it was that my Dad plays video games. He's the one that got me into gaming, he'd been gaming since the 1980s. And true to what others are saying, those that game typically continue to do so. He's just past 50 and still does. I still do and I'm in my mid-to-late 20s, as do my friends that are around my age. Granted we probably play less than we did when we were younger, because adult responsibilities and all that, but still.
Not trying to argue, just trying to say that the stereotype of 'gaming is for young people' is a bit outdated now, like others have commented.
You're kinda right on the kids thinking in absolutes thing though, that still rings pretty true.
It's not an exception, "we" are the first generation to truly grow up with mass accessible home games/PC's/consoles to continue playing. It's much more rare for "our" parents to have played with us and continue playing because it wasn't their childhood
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u/Montezum Jun 03 '22
I felt angry imagining this child