Now who's l337, you whippersnappers!?!?

MonsieurEvil

<div class="IPBDescription">Friday's are boring</div><a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1009story2_business.shtml" target="_blank">Older gamers now the norm</a>

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->When the computer gamers get excited in her household, Lisa Ackerman’s husband sometimes has to tell them to keep their voices down so he can watch television. Never mind that the gamers are Lisa, 46, and her 13-year-old son.

Their game of choice is Half-Life: Counter-Strike, in which they take the roles of commandos gunning down terrorists. Sometimes the mother-and-son commandos cooperate, and sometimes they compete -- not that mom is much of a challenge yet.

“He thinks I stink,” Lisa said.
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If only I get my fiance to jump on the bandwagon. All your nursing homes are belong to us!!!

Freemantle

Lol! I should get my girlfriend involved in NS. But I think she'd get offended if I kept calling her fatty all the time.

Legionnaired

Mwuahahahaa.

Yeah, i actually know a girl gamer.

When I found out she was a gamer, I wanted to ask her to marry me.

Dunsby

LMAO.

Necrotic

Although psting this takes me well over my psot quota for this millenium I jsut need to say that my ex is a complete game freak, and yes she is female, so like the older gamer, females aren't as rare are we would expect in the gaming world.

Spyder_Monkey

You know... on a semi-related story... we have a family in my clan (KIR). Mother, father, and 10-year old son. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

Battousaix

LOL, i know 10 gamer girls....... In argentina, we have a lot of lans so you meet a lot of ppl in there......

DOOManiac

my coworker and his wife (my guess is early 40's on their ages) both met on irc. in their house they have a LAN and play dungeon siege and other RPG's, occassionally w/ their 10 year old son.

Freemantle

Wow. SBV used a Period.

CrouchingHamster

My missus is a Tony Hawks ninja.. she rarely gets less than 94.0 on a compo..

Legionnaired

<!--QuoteBegin--Freemantle+Oct. 11 2002,16:23--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Freemantle @ Oct. 11 2002,16:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Wow. SBV used a Period.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
My entire belief system has shattered.

Jedisar

My girlfriend plays tons of differant games with me, including HL mods..she's learned to join my team, or I'll make her my "Mark"...she hates that, because much pwning of her and her team insues..hence she prefers to join my team so I suck =op

TychoCelchuuu

<!--QuoteBegin--Freemantle+Oct. 11 2002,13:23--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Freemantle @ Oct. 11 2002,13:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Wow. SBV used a Period.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yet he managed to do it in one of the only sentences ever that is commonly written without one. I think he has Inverseperiodcitis, where he puts periods where there shouldn't be and leaves them out of the places they should be. And I don't know any girl or old weenie or young kid gamers.

Dunsby

<!--QuoteBegin--Freemantle+Oct. 11 2002,21:23--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Freemantle @ Oct. 11 2002,21:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Wow. SBV used a Period.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You only just noticed? I have been using them for ages now.

Tzarcon

I'm happy to see that the newspapers are starting to realize that the average video game doesnt involve lots of jumping on the heads of monsters and collecting coins. This means that the whole "Violent videogames make violent youth" trend is going to disappear soon.

Scythe

My GF believes she is a gamer because she plays "The Sims".

*sob*

--Scythe--

TychoCelchuuu

It's okay Scythe. Same with a large number of boys and girls who got into comp games because of the Sims. And then never bought anything other then the expansions.

C0nan_The_Librarian

Well, I knew a kid in junior high and i asked him if he was a gamer and he said yes(he played diablo). So I asked him what his connection speed was and he said AOL....I just sat there and stared at him, then walked away slowly after about a minute.

GobyWan

My girlfriend is an experienced RollerCoaster Tycoon player. She just shakes her head when I start playing Half-Life.

Monkla

people who call themselves gamers because they play the sims should be shot...or atleast locked in a cage.

i say in order to call yourself a gamer you have to play more then one type of game and for a long period of time

Freemantle

I know a girl who thought she was a gamer because she played the sims. I laughed. The next time i visited her, she was feeding children to her evil avatar in Black & White.

Battousaix

Lol, i remember when i played black & white....... My hand sheez was  all red with the veins and all that stuff, it was always night on my territory..... Pure evilness mwhahahahahahhaha

DOOManiac

<!--QuoteBegin--Monkla+Oct. 12 2002,00:23--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Monkla @ Oct. 12 2002,00:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->people who call themselves gamers because they play the sims should be shot...or atleast locked in a cage.

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so by your definition, 90% of the CS community aren't gamers either.

Gamers are gamers. Doesn't matter what taste of games they like, they are still gamers.

WaffleSpoon

My moms above the 40ies, she plays CS and even AvP2 with me  <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->

My ex plays tons of games, mostly SC and AvP..

At my reg server there is a family. Dad, Mom, three children (11, 8 n 6) they all play =X.

But I must agree with you legionnare, when u finally meet a girl that says she plays games, u become all frantic and wanna mark her from other male-gamers  <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

Insane

My Dad loves video games.  He thinks Half-Life and Deus Ex are the best things to ever happen to the PC.

I agree with him, with the addition of NS <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

Woggy

Bah! I have parents who dont even know the name of ONE game.

Jedisar

A gamer is ANYONE who plays ANY game, as long as they spend a good amount of their day playing. Someone who plays the sims for 3 hours a day is a Gamer. Someone who plays CS for half an hour every so often is not.

Ginger

if you play CS for half an hour why are you not a gamer?

Jedisar

Because you're barely dedicating any time to it. A Gamer is someone who plays games for large amounts of time, almost every day. Anyone else is just your average player. What separates the Gamers from the Players is the time spent playing games. Gamers live for the games. Players merely play them when they have nothing else to do.

Also, if you had read my orginal post, you would see I answered your question in it. I notice you don't seem to read many posts before you comment on them. This is something you may wish to do.