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Does anyone know when you become too old to play video games? I'm interested in what people think because it seems everyone has a different opinion on this topic. Just the other day on live some clever little chap worked out that my age is 23 and said why are you still playing a game at your age? I know it's best to ignore 99% of the 'special' people online but this annoyed me for some reason. I play games because I enjoy them.

I guess to some younger players I might seem old but I still feel quite young. People usually place an initial judgement on people by that little number, age. I don't think it really works that way. Just because someone is a certain age it doesn't mean everyone has to think, act, do the same as everyone else of the same age, I know lots of people my age or younger who are married with kids etc, that's their choice but I don't want to waste my youth on something I can do when I’m middle aged, I want to have fun!

I think gaming is becoming a mainstream form of entertainment now so it more socially acceptable than it used to be way back in the 80's 90's and lots more adults are playing games, families play games together and the hardcore geeks of course play games This is great but I still wish there was more of a gaming culture in the UK like in Japan, everyone plays games there, I mean everyone! I just can't help feeling people still look down upon gamers in Western society, well from my personal experience.

I know real life is an unavoidable pain in the ass but people really need to start enjoying themselves instead of trying so hard to be grown up. Me and most of my friends all still play Pokemon together,most people say we are sad. I think some people feel bitter towards people who want to enjoy themselves as they don't know how to have fun anymore.



To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found ...doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

~ CS Lewis

Ryan
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