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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6086337" data-attributes="member: 87792">Um no.&nbsp; That's not what they do.&nbsp; Anyone who tries mocking people for being older gamers gets mocked in that thread as hard as anyone else.&nbsp; What they mock people for is generally either a &quot;Get Off My Lawn&quot; attitude or creepy sexual fetishes infecting gaming (and there are far too many of those latter).&nbsp; If you're e.g. RPG.net's Old Geezer (playing D&amp;D since 1972, never wanted to update but quite happy with the idea others have their fun most of the time) they generally quote approvingly.If they'd mocked people just for being older gamers, they'd have been mocking any mention of Monty Haul DMs as a very old trope.&nbsp; Instead the insight picked up there was a measure of respect - why Monty Haul DMs used to be considered a problem and why it was sensible that they were.&nbsp; Actually approving of the old ways where the old ways were useful.&nbsp; But seeing them as tools that worked well under set conditions (that normally don't apply these days).&nbsp; This is the absolute opposite of targetting people for basically being older gamers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 6086337, member: 87792"] Um no. That's not what they do. Anyone who tries mocking people for being older gamers gets mocked in that thread as hard as anyone else. What they mock people for is generally either a "Get Off My Lawn" attitude or creepy sexual fetishes infecting gaming (and there are far too many of those latter). If you're e.g. RPG.net's Old Geezer (playing D&D since 1972, never wanted to update but quite happy with the idea others have their fun most of the time) they generally quote approvingly. If they'd mocked people just for being older gamers, they'd have been mocking any mention of Monty Haul DMs as a very old trope. Instead the insight picked up there was a measure of respect - why Monty Haul DMs used to be considered a problem [I]and why it was sensible that they were.[/I] Actually approving of the old ways [I]where the old ways were useful.[/I] But seeing them as tools that worked well under set conditions (that normally don't apply these days). This is the absolute opposite of targetting people for basically being older gamers. [/QUOTE]

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