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Luminous

08-17-2006, 10:30 AM

I wonder if I am the only member that is over 30? I think Newport is close.

Anyway.....

http://www.joystiq.com/2005/11/11/29-no-nos-for-gamers-over-age-30/

29 no-nos for gamers over age 30
Posted Nov 11th 2005 9:57AM by Vladimir Cole
Filed under: Culture

The ESA says that the average gamer is 30 years old. It's time that those of us who are 30 or older realize that some of the things we grew up doing as gamers are no longer really appropriate, cool, or kosher given our new demographic bucket. Here, then, is a helpful guide to 29 things a gamer should never do past the age of 30.
Participate in LAN parties with minors

Quit your job to pursue a pro-gaming career

Start a Star Wars themed PC case mod in the living room

Ever use the jargon OMG, BBQ and WTF together in the same phrase

Pirate games - shouldn't you have an income by now?

Find the idea of teamkilling funny

Choose a female avatar so that you can try to upskirt her

Refuse to play games that are rated lower than mature

Tea-bag a downed opponent in Halo 2

Play any game with Princess Toadstool in it

Choose a gamer handle including any form of the words "hell," "killer," "death," or "-inator"

Yell "pwnt" in a public virtual space

Play a female character in an MMOG in order to troll for "Crying Game" victims

Disconnect when losing at Starcraft or any other RTS

Ninja loot

Get your gaming news from a print publication

Replace the letter S with a dollar sign when writing Microsoft, Sony, or PlayStation

Live in your parents' basement to support a gaming habit

Break mice in a fit of rage after being served in an FPS game

Try to win an argument in a gaming forum

Pretend that movies like Doom and Tomb Raider are anything but crap

Carry softcore anime porn on your PSP to show the guys at work

Hadoken someone as a greeting, complete with hand motions and sound effects

Play competitively against anyone under the age of 10

Read or write fanfiction

Yell or type, "Laggg" when losing an online game

Bogart the controller

Work at GameStop "just for the discount"

Type liek JeffK

08-17-2006, 12:14 PM

I wonder if I am the only member that is over 30? I think Newport is close.

Anyway.....

http://www.joystiq.com/2005/11/11/29-no-nos-for-gamers-over-age-30/

Pirate games - shouldn't you have an income by now?

:rofl:

Don't post this on the CSB.

:rofl:

YankeeH8er

08-17-2006, 01:09 PM

I am over 30.

Try to win an argument in a gaming forum

Pretend that movies like Doom and Tomb Raider are anything but crap

I definitely thought that Doom was a good movie. I bought the DVD, but the other day I saw the HD-DVD running at Sears and it looked awesome so I will be buying that.

Luminous

08-17-2006, 04:55 PM

Hunter

08-17-2006, 05:02 PM

I'm 12.

Conjoshus

08-17-2006, 05:26 PM

I liked DOOM... I thought it would have been better if they included hell though as opposed to making it a mutation... I think the mutation would be just fine if it were a different title, but DOOM really needs hell. Def. a good movie though and I bought the "hell" out of it.

You really 12 hunter?

Hunter

08-17-2006, 08:51 PM

You really 12 hunter?

I'm curious. What do you think?

08-18-2006, 06:56 AM

I'm 22 bitches!

Youngin' up in this bitch. :sneak:

Luminous

08-18-2006, 09:12 AM

You really 12 hunter?

I'm curious. What do you think?

After playing with you online and hearing you I would say you are a bit older than that. You remind me of someone else I play online with who is young, but not a jackass. I say around 17.... :shrug:

Hunter

08-18-2006, 01:14 PM

Any other guesses? I'm curious what people surmise from my posts and the little bit I've played online. :p

Conjoshus

08-18-2006, 02:11 PM

Any other guesses? I'm curious what people surmise from my posts and the little bit I've played online. :p

I've never seen you online. Maturity is not determined by age so it's impossible to tell or even get close through text on a screen. I'd have to either hear your squeaky or deep voice online to make some kind of guess.

Newport420

08-18-2006, 03:01 PM

Refuse to play games that are rated lower than mature

Tea-bag a downed opponent in Halo 2

Yell "pwnt" in a public virtual space

Get your gaming news from a print publication

Replace the letter S with a dollar sign when writing Microsoft, Sony, or PlayStation

Try to win an argument in a gaming forum

Pretend that movies like Doom and Tomb Raider are anything but crap

Play competitively against anyone under the age of 10

Yell or type, "Laggg" when losing an online game

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Those are the ones I am still guilty of but I got reasons for em all! :E

DarthArcturus

08-18-2006, 05:10 PM

what a bunch of old farts i'm 21 8)

Newport420

08-18-2006, 05:35 PM

+1..... decade on DA FTW!!!!!!!!

:fingers:

08-18-2006, 07:33 PM

+1..... decade on DA FTW!!!!!!!!

:fingers:

...old people...

:satan:

Newport420

08-20-2006, 07:43 PM

:cool:

Luminous

08-21-2006, 10:48 AM

Be nice to us old people, when you were just a litle baby JP I had already beaten my Atari 2600 to death. ;)

*shakes fist*

Damn you youngins'!

*mumbles to self*

Newport420

08-21-2006, 12:41 PM

RESPECT...... your elders son! :SM35

I had the honor of being there for the birth of gaming...... and it was good.

<-----Had an Intellivision on launch day! :hump:

Hunter

08-21-2006, 02:07 PM

For those who care, I will be 23 this year. :)

Conjoshus

08-21-2006, 02:35 PM

RESPECT...... your elders son! :SM35

I had the honor of being there for the birth of gaming...... and it was good.

<-----Had an Intellivision on launch day! :hump:

Really? You were there for the first pong type game that was operated via a dip switch on a board connected to an oscilloscope in the 40s for a college demo? Meh... most people don't consider that the first videogame since it wasn't on a TV... to me, it was still the first videogame though!

Intellivision games kick ass though! And the intellivision with it's weird woodgrain body... Isn't it true a later version of the Intellivision could also play the Atari games in higher resolution?

YankeeH8er

08-21-2006, 02:43 PM

<-- Also had an IntelliVision. SNFU and D&D both kicked much ass.

Newport420

08-21-2006, 07:55 PM

Sorry I wasn't trying to say the Intellevision was teh birth of console gaming. I did have a pong machine, and just about every major console that came out. I probably missed one here and there and definitely did not have rare and or super expensive stuff, but if it was mainstream my family owned it.

:)

Luminous

08-22-2006, 09:58 AM

For those who care, I will be 23 this year. :)

Alright so I was off a bit...congrats though.

I never had an Intellivision, I played it and wasn't a big fan of the controller. Also I was very young and there was no "multiple consoles" when I was young. I didn't have more than one console at a time until the 32-bit era. (Saturn and Playstation).