Way Ot: But good for all of you with kids, college kids etc
I know we are closing in on football season and these threads come to an end, but wow! Great deal from Best Buy for those buying early Xmas gifts or birthdays! Sale lasts for a week.
Amazing Best Buy deal: $500 for Xbox One and 40-inch Samsung Smart TV bundle
it's a good thing. Or bad for that matter either I guess.
insightful...
I loved NHLPA 93 more than most of my girlfriends. I played that game at least 4-5 hours per day junior year at UM. Which is probably why my girlfriends dumped me. Which gave me more time to play NHLPA 93.
The other half has pet kangaroos.
They also spend a significant amount of time doing physical activity. It's called balance. There's nothing wrong with video games if you have balance.
This whole thread is a bunch of out of touch, middle-aged men knocking a college-age man doing normal college-age bullshit like playing video games during down time.
You don't know shit from apple butter about me unless it's something I put online, so keep making assumptions about what I do when I'm not on here as you usually do.
WD: Whoa. I'm a middle aged guy who fully encourages video games. Have loved them since my dad brought home pong in 1978 (played it on a 13 inch B&W), to Intellivision, to 2600, to NES, to Sega, to xbox, to PSP on the pooper every night, to playing minecraft with my 5 and 7 year old kids, not to mentionl thousands of hours in arcades. It's great down time entertainment. Play on, young man.
That is the comparison you made.
No. It really wasn't. There wasn't even a comparison made, at all.
I brought that up because, well, the players on Michigan's Football team are my age and a good chunk do one of the free time things that I do so......believe it or not, it's not only nerds (the typical stereotype) that play video games. Playing sports video games is something college-aged guys do.
You also implied that I sit behind a screen all day and never get out, which couldn't be further from the truth. But you're gonna make assumptions off of message board posts so, I don't know why I expect anything else.
We'll just end this here before things get ugly.
Serious Gamers: The most defensive of the virgins. Usually found in parents basements all across America, often tend to stick around the parentals even in their late 20s. Have poor diets(mountain dew and funyons) and tend to be a bit nocturnal. Great with their hands.
Why would they hate you?
There is a nerd hierarchy? Why should one gamer dislike another. It's like not liking someone for playing tennis when you play baseball.
What do they call sixty year olds who only play Starcraft (now only against the AI because the XP machine is no longer on the internet) ?
I hope you grow up soon and learn that other people have different hobbies than you, and that's okay. I'll just go back to playing Rocket League in the meantime.
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Literally not everyone your age does. This I know.
So all of your friends is "literally" everyone, eh?
Real friends or internet friends?
"has played at least once" isn't at all what you said. For the love of fuck, man. It was absolutely clearly implied (outright stated) in your comment that ALL kids your age play (that doesn't mean just once) those games. You are wrong, it's okay to admit it.
I am quite positive that not every 19-year-old is playing video games. Poverty, lack of interest, too busy...there are a variety of reasons why, but I am sure that not every person of your age are playing video games.
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I don't plan on owning an XBox 1 or PS4 anytime soon, but I am seriously considering buying a 3rd 3DS.
As a parent of kids addicted to screens, are screens something that we older folk don't understand, kind of like the parents of the 50's and 60's didn't understand rock music?
I don't know...my parent's (66 & 62 now) bought me a Nintendo when I was a kid and never had any interest in it until I had them both try a game of Dr. Mario.
They were completely hooked...it was kind of cool but also terrible because they played it all the time for a few months. My Tecmo Bowl skills declined significantly. It was a dark time.
Now we make my Dad play Wii...which he gets into, especially with my daughter.
I don't mind my kids playing games but when they have a hard time putting down the phone at meals......that's when I wonder if this is a generational divide or the end of the world.