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Re: OT: How old are you ?
The "mid-thirties" seem to be leading it uncontested.
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Re: OT: How old are you ?
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The "mid-thirties" seem to be leading it uncontested.
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Probably because all the hypercaffeinated teenagers are off playing RTSes, while we old codgers ruminate over a single turn for an hour 
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Re: OT: How old are you ?
In another hobby area I paint miniatures, and I've found that most younger people don't have the patience for competitive painting... Some of the best results take many small steps, and I felt that what I lacked in raw talent I made up for in approach and determination.
I think that turn based games, especially complex ones, appeal to the more mature crowd for the same reason: Older folks are more patient and prefer to chew on things for a while.
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April 12th, 2005, 03:28 PM
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Re: OT: How old are you ?
Hey, I've been playing Turn Based strategy since... well, before Starcraft came out. Since my very first computer access, so call in 1995. When I was ten.
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Re: OT: How old are you ?
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Probably because all the hypercaffeinated teenagers are off playing RTSes, while we old codgers ruminate over a single turn for an hour
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Not all of us I've been playing Turn Based Strategy's since I was 12 (I'm now 17). Not all teenagers are vacuous fools  
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Re: OT: How old are you ?
I was only referring to the twitchy, ADD-afflicted subset of teenagers, not teenagers as a whole.
Of course, when I was a teenager, there were no such things as RTSes (and games were loaded from cassettes!  )
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April 13th, 2005, 01:16 AM
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Re: OT: How old are you ?
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I was only referring to the twitchy, ADD-afflicted subset of teenagers, not teenagers as a whole.
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Heh, since said subset accounts for about 90% of teenagers, I'd say you're right on the money!
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Re: OT: How old are you ?
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The "mid-thirties" seem to be leading it uncontested.
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Yes, interesting. I was wondering what the heck my generation was doing (well, ok, I really wasn't wondering, but,,,,,)? Playing turn based strategy games it seems. 
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Re: OT: How old are you ?
Hey, I fell into the hyper-excited ADDH RTS / FPS crowd! I just like TBS too
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Re: OT: How old are you ?
I play pretty much anything if it's interesting. (Although sports games and abstract strategy are rather low on that list)
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