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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 9047241" data-attributes="member: 10738"><p>First....ugh, I'm in the 7% right now, not too far from the 2%ers on that chart. OMG.</p><p></p><p>(EDIT: another way I can look at that chart: 78% of the people here are young enough that I could be their dad or granddad. Various curse words are forming in my mind).</p><p></p><p>Second: I wonder if there's a way to compare who is posting relative to age. I'm not at all sure if older gamers are more likely to post or younger gamers are. Based on the one younger gamer I know in my household (my son), he has gone purely video/audio for most interactions, and otherwise texts but would never even bother with a forum.</p><p></p><p>Further edit: For those advocating to just wait out your youth: I am 52 and still spend time trying to forget those years. And I had parents who were supportive of my interest in RPGs; virtually every friend I had was not so lucky*. My mother is one of those people who do not grokk gaming, though she understands I always have. She's 79, going on 80 now. She was watching a youtuber she likes recently (history guy) when she noticed his back shelf contained D&D books. She called to tell me about it, she was shocked herself to realize this guy, who is younger than me, was in to D&D. She thought that was something kids did in the 80's, and it hadn't really occurred to her it was still a thing, and I was still into it. She had her moment of cognitive dissonance there.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*They grew up, and did not keep the hobby due to the strong pressure to conform to the "games are for kids" mindset so prevalent in prior generations. Most of these guys got ahold of me on Facebook in the last few years, and brought up the old college games I ran, and how fun those were. None of them had gamed since, and were generally shocked to learn I had never stopped.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doctor Futurity, post: 9047241, member: 10738"] First....ugh, I'm in the 7% right now, not too far from the 2%ers on that chart. OMG. (EDIT: another way I can look at that chart: 78% of the people here are young enough that I could be their dad or granddad. Various curse words are forming in my mind). Second: I wonder if there's a way to compare who is posting relative to age. I'm not at all sure if older gamers are more likely to post or younger gamers are. Based on the one younger gamer I know in my household (my son), he has gone purely video/audio for most interactions, and otherwise texts but would never even bother with a forum. Further edit: For those advocating to just wait out your youth: I am 52 and still spend time trying to forget those years. And I had parents who were supportive of my interest in RPGs; virtually every friend I had was not so lucky*. My mother is one of those people who do not grokk gaming, though she understands I always have. She's 79, going on 80 now. She was watching a youtuber she likes recently (history guy) when she noticed his back shelf contained D&D books. She called to tell me about it, she was shocked herself to realize this guy, who is younger than me, was in to D&D. She thought that was something kids did in the 80's, and it hadn't really occurred to her it was still a thing, and I was still into it. She had her moment of cognitive dissonance there. *They grew up, and did not keep the hobby due to the strong pressure to conform to the "games are for kids" mindset so prevalent in prior generations. Most of these guys got ahold of me on Facebook in the last few years, and brought up the old college games I ran, and how fun those were. None of them had gamed since, and were generally shocked to learn I had never stopped. [/QUOTE]
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