• kid4today
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    1382 months ago

    30’s?? That’s rookie numbers, I’m nearing my 50’s.

    • GladiusB
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      492 months ago

      Same. And I still game. Who the fuck quits when they pwnd everyone and still have tea bags to spare?

        • @TexasDrunk
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          372 months ago

          It just means you don’t have to squat as far.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 months ago

              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.

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      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

    • @yokonzo
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      42 months ago

      Godspeed you magnificent bastard

    • Brewchin
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      32 months ago

      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.

  • @frickineh
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    892 months ago

    Everyone I know turned 30 and immediately turned to dust from their advanced age. So sad. Also, really messy.

  • @rhacer
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    682 months ago

    61 in about 3 weeks. I’m older than Pong, and I game every day.

    • @[email protected]
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      172 months ago

      I’m 50 and pong was my first video game. I had to play it on amateur with the bigger paddles because the small ones were insanely small.

      • @AA5B
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        122 months ago

        Alright, we have enough to run a tournament. Who’s streaming!

        • @Agrivar
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          102 months ago

          I’m also 50 this year, and Pong was my first game as well!

          So funny to think that it took an entire console to play one black and white game with primitive graphics and like 4 options… and now we have 3D rendered racing sims we can run on our phones!

    • @AA5B
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      62 months ago

      Dude, that was my first game too! I kind of wish I still had it (and a screen it would play on).

    • @TexasDrunk
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      42 months ago

      My dad is a couple of years older than you and he’s the one who introduced me to gaming on his Atari back in the 80s. We play Battle for Wesnoth semi-regularly together.

      There was a space of about a decade where we didn’t and honestly I regret that. We don’t live close to each other but it’s how we stay in touch.

      Honestly, that and grilling (and eventually motorcycles, but I was already on my way out of rural nowhere when that happened) are the only things we bonded over. I have always had hobbies that kept me at arms length from “normal” people and my dad is the guy you’d think of if you thought of a regular dude born in the 60s. I’m still pretty weird (and happy about it), but it’s nice that I can be close to him through gaming.

    • Swordgeek
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      55 here, and I got to play lunar lander on my dad’s lab PDP-8 even before my grandparents got Pong.

      Currently working my way through Fallout London.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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      122 months ago

      Grandma is over 60 and I recently had to upgrade her to a 4060 instead of my old 480 just to play Guild Wars 2 lol.

      • @Agrivar
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        32 months ago

        You are good grandchild, and I hope she knows it!

  • @[email protected]
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    30s are rookie numbers. I’m 52 and still game regularly. I started out playing pong clones in about 1975 hooked up to my tv. I played a lot of zx spectrum games in the 80s, failed my degree in the early 90s because I spent far far far too long playing civ1 on my Amiga. Etc etc.

    • @adam_y
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      92 months ago

      Fellow Amiga civ veteran, eh?

      I blew most of my youth, and a chunk of my degree, on football manager too.

      I regret nothing.

    • Flying Squid
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      32 months ago

      Remember when Lemmings finally made it to PC and all us people who had Amigas were like, “I know, right?”

  • @[email protected]
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    432 months ago

    Yall GOTTA stop pretending 30 is old

    ive only been an adult on my own for like 5 years, relax

    • @Psythik
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      152 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        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

    • Captain Aggravated
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      102 months ago

      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.

      • @Dud
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        32 months ago

        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.

        • Captain Aggravated
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          32 months ago

          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.

          • @Dud
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            12 months ago

            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.

            • Captain Aggravated
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              22 months ago

              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.

      • @Agrivar
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        32 months ago

        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)

        • Captain Aggravated
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          22 months ago

          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.

    • @ivanafterall
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      22 months ago

      I’m 38 and I’m extremely anxious about what to expect from adulthood in two years.

    • @[email protected]
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      142 months ago

      I’m 46 and a PC gamer, but I don’t give a shit what platform anyone plays on. This “PC master race” stuff is infantile bullshit and needs to disappear.

      • Farid
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        62 months ago

        Technically, the members of the subreddit claim the name is ironic, but you’d be hard-pressed to tell by the way they often act.

      • @pyre
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        12 months ago

        PC master race is about knowing it’s the best gaming platform, not about owning one. “it’s not about the hardware on your rig, it’s the software in your heart.”