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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9597015">My perspective may be different because I am talking more about the 80s and 90s. But even in the 00s, I didn’t refer to that generation sneeringly. It was the same with music or musicians. The old guard were all hippies from the 60s who complained about our heavy metal. But we understood we could learn a lot about playing and about the history from them. We might bicker about matters of taste if Obituary came up (but I also understood the aesthetics of death metal were probably justifiably incomprehensible to a person who came of age with Hendrix)Also we were often playing with and learning from older gamers. If I met someone who was older than me, I would generally be interested in hearing their account of how things were before my time. I saw terms like that as having a lot more good natured running to them then than how I see them get used online today (but again I do think there is a big difference between IRL and online so it is a lopsided comparison I am making)</blockquote>