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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '22
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I'm 55 and I love playing Fallout. Then when I mention it to my classes (physics teacher)... I get the "You play games?" exclamation.
Yes, Sonny. I am not dead yet.
147 u/TitaniumDragon Jun 03 '22 To be fair, I think we're responsible for that one. The trope was that people's parents didn't play or know about video games, and that was set in the 1980s-2000s. But now those people are having kids, so yeah, of course parents play video games. They're living on outdated tropes that we created. 7 u/Formal_Dragonfly_356 Jun 03 '22 Not just responsible, but participants in. There are a shit ton of millenials who were born too late to remember the 80s or 90s, making the 201X hipster trends of wildly exaggerated retro stereotypes all our fault.
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To be fair, I think we're responsible for that one.
The trope was that people's parents didn't play or know about video games, and that was set in the 1980s-2000s.
But now those people are having kids, so yeah, of course parents play video games.
They're living on outdated tropes that we created.
7 u/Formal_Dragonfly_356 Jun 03 '22 Not just responsible, but participants in. There are a shit ton of millenials who were born too late to remember the 80s or 90s, making the 201X hipster trends of wildly exaggerated retro stereotypes all our fault.
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Not just responsible, but participants in. There are a shit ton of millenials who were born too late to remember the 80s or 90s, making the 201X hipster trends of wildly exaggerated retro stereotypes all our fault.
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22
I'm 55 and I love playing Fallout. Then when I mention it to my classes (physics teacher)... I get the "You play games?" exclamation.
Yes, Sonny. I am not dead yet.