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chromedog wrote:@Melissia: Our "YHTBTM" are mostly visual/auditory memories. How can you capture that in a non-visual/audio, non-F2F medium? Text can only convey so much.

Sometimes it's specifically BECAUSE of the nature of text-based communication.

On SWTOR today I tortured a man.

You had to be there...

Henners91 wrote:On SWTOR today I tortured a man.

You had to be there...

"Why are you torturing me?!?!"

"Because I have this new light saber but I'm not enough of a jerk yet to use it...."

@OP I really don't know, I am 20 and pretty much have the same problem, hell I'm even struggling to keep an interest in 40k.As far as video games are concerned I know some of it is so many games seem like they are just a rehash of a previous video games, and since I am one of those increasingly rare campaign players I find FPS' frustrating(woo $60 for a 3 hour campaign). However I have found a new hobby....shooting , hopefully I don't lose interest, since firearms are friggin expensive.

notprop wrote:I was watching QI the other day and they were discussing the way that Teenagers use their brains differantly to adults.

This just seems to highlight that fact even more. I stopped playing Wargames at university for all the usual reasons and only dabbled until I moved in with the Mrs and started a family. Once you have kids you get a few hours when they have gone to be to sit down and do something different. I got back into wargaming.

When we are younger we have the time to play games excessively but also the idea that it is some how important/necessary. Being a level 20 berzerker is a big deal when you are 17 pretty irrelvent when you are 29+ and have to go to be by 10PM because you have work tomorrow and you know the baby will be up at 2AM!

Now I have a high end PC and an Xbox 360 that I would have killed for when I was younger, I use the former for Dakka, music and the odd game the latter only gets used to play DVDs and the occassional game. Indeed there was a cross over period where I was still buying 360 games but not playing them and as a result have about half a dozen games that have been collecting dust in their cellophane for a few years.

I do occassionally get into new something that catches my eye (Spce Marine was good as was Gears 3) but If i do get an inkling for a game it's something old school (usually a bit deeper I would suggest), so I have been running XCOM Apocalypse, Close Combat 2-5 and catching up with all those DoW expansions I bought but never played.

OP don't see it as getting old, I would suggest you are just growing up like the rest of us old(er?) farts.

It's funny I was listening to Dr.Drew while driving home last from D&D (yeah, i listen to that when I'm driving late haha reminds me my life isnt so messed up) and one guy was talking about having an issue with confidence and women, and he was a younger 20-something and they brought up a good point.

When you are a later teen / younger twenty, you really haven't contributed anything to the world yet - and keep in mind they aren't saying this in a derogatory way - but they just elaborated saying as a later teen / early twenty, there is not much you can show off and be proud off and work at other than basically going to school and working a part time job (or two... lol) so smaller things become a lot more of a big deal, but you don't have a lot to share/talk about with other people (and women lol).

Thinking back, when I was 20, all i cared about was keeping up in my MMO's and having a kick ass car and drinking on the weekends.

I look at my life now, I bought my own house (rented for the last 6 years) so now I spend a lot of time cleaning it or learning how to fix things around the house... should have seen me this summer with my lawn and fertilizing it / yardwork

9 years ago though, that would have never crossed my mind. I sorta regret not helping my dad build his deck when I was younger because I helped 2 buddies build their decks this summer , helped about 4 people move and had a great time doing all of it. The decks were the best, cause after you're done you pull out the lawn chairs and enjoy a few beers.

I guess my priorities are just changing and I'm seeing the value in things that I never thought about before and it's consuming more of my time.... and honestly i don't think that is necessarily a bad thing .

Btw FabricatorGeneralMike... i gotta get those roms from you NES/Master system , Genesis / SNES were the glory days of gaming, one of my old roomates from 4 years ago we went on an ebay buying spree and bought about 60 games and played them all , was a blast! I started with Atari / NES when I was about 5.

Wait does this make me like 40? If i do about everything that 'normal' wargamers don't do?

No. I am still the age I am at its just your maturity might be evolving into a new form.

Asherian Command wrote:Wait does this make me like 40? If i do about everything that 'normal' wargamers don't do?

No. I am still the age I am at its just your maturity might be evolving into a new form.

Well it's just strange because you hear the average age of gamers is something like 25-35 now because it's our generation that grew up with it. Just feels weird to sorta fall out of it.

chromedog wrote: The rest, we're using mostly ADSL at 512Kb/s - Even skype voice chat has issues with it. .

ACKKKK, I am in Canada and got 1GBps and I am even finding that slow. I couldn't go back to 512kb/s.


Damn you aussies always get the crappy end of the stick. Then again your daily life is like a D&D adventure. "You walk outside your house into the back yard, and a king brown looks back at you, what are you going to do?" [/sarcasm]

Melissia wrote:

chromedog wrote:Sitting around a table with beers, roleplaying with mates is where it is at, not pushing pixels around a screen and hearing "until I took an arrow the the knee" umpteen million times.

Why do you think these two are mutually exclusive?

Most of my friends have moved away and the ones I hang out with most are online. So when I roleplay, we grab our beers (or iced tea in my case), sit down at our desk, get on a map tool of some sort and push pixels (namely, icons on a dnd 4th edition map) around while listening to one of our group inevitably make some stupid arrow to the knee joke (and then be punished by the GM for it)

I walked past a guard while playing Skyrim today, he said that, and I started laughing and instantly thought if you were playing instead of me, he would of been killed

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

chromedog wrote: The rest, we're using mostly ADSL at 512Kb/s - Even skype voice chat has issues with it. .

ACKKKK, I am in Canada and got 1GBps and I am even finding that slow. I couldn't go back to 512kb/s.


Damn you aussies always get the crappy end of the stick. Then again your daily life is like a D&D adventure. "You walk outside your house into the back yard, and a king brown looks back at you, what are you going to do?" [/sarcasm]

Back away slowly and hope it notices the bunny first, then close the door on it.* (Yes, I really do place my own safety over that of some bad tempered feral )

We have a feral rabbit that comes into the backyard - it's a brownish Dwarf rabbit with an attitude problem (yes, even compared to dwarfs ). We think it was some family pet - but they moved away and abandoned it (no matter what they seem, they are NOT a pet for children. They are bad-tempered little things.).

*Unless you were expecting ... "leap into the saddle of my kangaroo and ride off into the sunset."?

I've got a pile of games on the shelf that I was really excited about, and are still sitting there in the wrappers, unplayed, Gears3, Batman, Skyrym, I can't get up the enthusiasm at the moment.

Just remember, that dirt has an average life of 32 years (read that somewhere) so youve got to be 33 to be older then dirt. So your doing well for yourself

chromedog wrote:

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

chromedog wrote: The rest, we're using mostly ADSL at 512Kb/s - Even skype voice chat has issues with it. .

ACKKKK, I am in Canada and got 1GBps and I am even finding that slow. I couldn't go back to 512kb/s.


Damn you aussies always get the crappy end of the stick. Then again your daily life is like a D&D adventure. "You walk outside your house into the back yard, and a king brown looks back at you, what are you going to do?" [/sarcasm]

Back away slowly and hope it notices the bunny first, then close the door on it.* (Yes, I really do place my own safety over that of some bad tempered feral )

We have a feral rabbit that comes into the backyard - it's a brownish Dwarf rabbit with an attitude problem (yes, even compared to dwarfs ). We think it was some family pet - but they moved away and abandoned it (no matter what they seem, they are NOT a pet for children. They are bad-tempered little things.).

*Unless you were expecting ... "leap into the saddle of my kangaroo and ride off into the sunset."?

Would of been beter if you leaped into your kangaroo's pouch then hopped off into the sunset.