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[–] Kid4today 138 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] GladiusB 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The tea bags are a bit saggier, but they're still good!

[–] TexasDrunk 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Right on time too my knees are shot

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[–] AA5B 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

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[–] Olhonestjim 96 points 4 months ago

Listen here you little shit.

[–] frickineh 89 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] Iheartcheese 18 points 4 months ago

Their poor grandchildren

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[–] rhacer 68 points 4 months ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago

I've got unplayed games older than you!

[–] shish_mish 54 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] blanketswithsmallpox 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Yall GOTTA stop pretending 30 is old

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

[–] Psythik 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)

41 here. PC master race gamer 4 lyf.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] capt_wolf 39 points 4 months ago (5 children)

30s? My steam account is about to turn 20! My first computer was a C64 and my first console was an Atari 2600... I remember the video game crash... hell, I still have my copy of ET!

[–] FlyingSquid 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a bunch of young whippersnappers in here. I'm around your age.

You little shits today know nothing about gaming.

This is a Star Wars game:

It even had audio from the movie.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

posting this on lemmy of all places is hilarious, i have a hunch that half of the userbase is 40+

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[–] Subverb 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know an 84 year old man that has played WoW since vanilla.

Im 60 and been gaming since Wolfenstein 3D.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago

Even most people in the 50-64 years range play videogames: https://www.techopedia.com/video-game-statistics

[–] Tugboater203 34 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Look, it's a cheaper hobby than drinking, or outfitting my vehicle. I don't have the time to retreat to a fishing hole and there's no hunting nearby.

Yes I play video game, geez.

[–] zibzanna 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Turning 50 this year. Still balling. Love a drink when I play. The combo remains cheaper than going to dinner

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People act like video games are some niche hobby, while it's a bigger industry than movies and music combined. And it's not even close.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it was bonkers learning that video games are no longer niche and are now cool

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

Lol people can be so weird.

I have 70 year old family/coworkers who are like "hey 70 isn't old!"

And then there's Lemmy "hey 18 year olds, what's it like to be minutes from death?"

[–] jordanlund 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  1. Passed a Linux exam by installing Doom and getting it running with audio.
[–] SpaceNoodle 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

LOL, the formatting is making you say that you're one.

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[–] Karmanj 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

56 here , started with pong , atari 2600 and still play PC games daily.

[–] DelightfullyDivisive 11 points 4 months ago

57 and same.

[–] kitnaht 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think I find more people in the 28-45 age range that are gamers, than I do people younger that consider themselves such.

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[–] MeatsOfRage 21 points 4 months ago

Man we sure are suckers for this Facebook level interaction bait.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The fuck with this question. My youngest is barely 31. I guess I'm dust and fading memories. I will watch my anime and horror movies and shout at the clouds with an onion tied to my belt, fuck you very much

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[–] slingstone 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

48 year old here. Now I feel old.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My mom recently retired from tanking in wow. She was 74.

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[–] donmoxxa 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

Late 40s here... Gaming since 1986 on Amiga

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[–] stoly 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Original video gamers are like 75. It’s weird to assume that most won’t at least occasionally play.

I’m 48 and play daily. Husband is 43 and has like 2k hours in Baldurs Gate.

[–] PugJesus 12 points 4 months ago

My literal grandparents play video games. They were in their 70s. In fact, they were the ones who taught ME how to play, and my mother (who is not a gamer) remembers them always having the latest console when they were growing up.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

50+. Play every chance I get. Don’t know why it would be surprising, other than Lemmy being an echo chamber of tech-minded younger people who forget my generation started out gaming with Atari and the like.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Turning 40 on two months! Where my going grey bush gamers at? I got over 600 games in Steam alone and play like 10 of them! Who else?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

44 and I have clocked about 40 hours in Final Fantasy XIV this week. When I get home from work, it's game time.

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[–] peopleproblems 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Look, honestly, I'm more disgusted by the amount of people who don't play videogames.

Some people just hate fun I guess

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

"Where are the old gamers?" Yo! "The thirty year old gamers?" Never mind.

[–] Tugboater203 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

60 seems like a better cutoff. Now get out of my yard

[–] Agent641 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

When I retire, my Factorio factory production will accelerate exponentially.

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