4mo ago

Wow, they really attacked gamers. Conservatives speedrunning how to be hated by everybody.

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I'm really sick of the age thing when it comes to gaming. Tons of middle-aged and older men spend hours watching sportsball every week, but nobody gives them shit.
- HE WAS WATCHING SO MUCH SPORTS AND GETTING SO DRUNK HIS WIFE HAD TO UNPLUG THE TV AND THROW THE BEER IN THE TRASH. Isn't that quirky and relatable? Dare I say demure?
- I overheard a probably-55 yo guy saying something about playing Assassin's Creed this morning. Games are for everybody.
  
  My dad is 72 and builds amazing stuff in Cities and Skylines
  
  Games like Cities: Skylines are perfect for middle-aged and older dads. It fits right into things like fixing up and old car or building some wooden stuff.
  But also any games for any people. I'm a 43yo dad who just got my kids interested in hotseat Mass Effect (they don't enjoy doing the combat so much).
  
  hotseat Mass Effect
  This sounds like a great way to spend time with your progeny, my sister and I used to do that with Actraiser. She'd do all the city building and answering prayers, and I did all the combat acts.
  The family that plays together stays together.
  My dad was a city contractor before he retired and several bridges and roads locally built by his company. When he retired he got really listless and started drinking way too much. So I updated his PC to something reasonable and got him a ton of city builders from Simcity2000 all the way to Cities and Skylines II. Completely turned his time around. I mean he still drinks, but a lot less and he and I always have something to talk about.
  
  I was watching youtube yesterday, and some elderly 72 year old gamer actually came up.. https://www.youtube.com/c/GrandpaGaming
  So definitely. He was also part of the Navy for 20+ years... People like this and walz actually give me a whole new respect for the people in the military honestly. In the past I actually pictured it as incredibly toxic due to someone I met from the Army.
  But, at least in the case of the Navy, everyone I've met or heard about are so incredibly honorable and respectful.. They're literally normal people
- I bet people said the same thing when baseball just started pro leagues.
  'It's a children's game, they'll grow out of it as they mature'...
- God yes..
  Here in Australia everyone watches the AFL (Aussie Footy).
  We had a customer who was a major footy player, and it was obvious he was surrounded by "yes men" his whole life. I watched as everyone around me started laughing at everything he said the moment he stepped in the room...
  What he was saying at the time really wasn't that hilarious honestly..
  And it reminds me of the time we got a phone call from danii minogues family to tell us a "special guest" was coming to our store. The room was full of a bunch of nerds. None of us really cared (even if it was Kylie) lol.. None of us even recognised her. Even my audio engineer friend who works with good celebrities (like she's worked with Tim Minchin) just sees them as normal people (and yeah, she's a gamer)
  Yet I guarantee, lots of people super into celebs dislike gamers.
- ☝️🤓 akshully sportsball bad
  
  That wasnt their point and ya damned well know it. Ya aint being quirky youre being obnoxious.
  
  Agreed

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