Am I just too old for an Xbox?

[Spymaster]

Every night from the age of eight? Yeah right.

When I was eight I was too busy smoking fags and nicking cars to waste time pissing about with Kwalish Apparatus, and a Potion of Jump meant something quite different to what you nerds thought!

 

[kabbes]

I'm sure Danny is posting from the pub whilst being given a back rub by three Amazonian beauties.

Hmm. Not sure I can square those claims with this thread. Time Team as "perfect Sunday night entertainment" doesn't sound particularly rock 'n' roll to me.

 

[tommers]

Tommers likes this.

 

[kained&able]

Sorry how does having the odd game of fifa preclude me having a social life? Must have missed that memo, maybe it came while i was at a gig or in the pub or something.

Anyway GTA, fallout or one of the more involving games are ideal for the saturday/sunday i'm too hungover and can barely move type moments.

Unless you are out skydiving/rock climbing at every given opportunity i'm guessing you have down time. I'm guessing you occasionally watch the tele( or films/box sets) at home, or who knows, you may even read a book or post on an online forum or something. Explain to me how any of these activities are any better/worse then playing a computer game.

dave

 

[Spymaster]

I'm one of these people who takes an active part in the local community -- I'm well known in the village and help to run events ...

Does this require a keyboard and screen?

"You have successfully arranged the egg and spoon race, WIN 100 POINTS!"

 

[tommers]

Time team involves some heavy thought.

Girls love time team.

 

[kabbes]

Does this require a keyboard and screen?

"You have successfully arranged the egg and spoon race, WIN 100 POINTS!"

Have you ever organised an event for 500 or 1500 people? Yes, it does involve a keyboard and screen, since you'll be spending a lot of time writing emails, advertising and budgets. But it involves a lot of other things too.

 

[danny la rouge]

Sorry how does having the odd game of fifa preclude me having a social life?

It makes other people wary of you.

 

[Greebo]

<snip>Unless you are out skydiving/rock climbing at every given opportunity i'm guessing you have down time. I'm guessing you occasionally watch the tele( or films/box sets) at home, or who knows, you may even read a book or post on an online forum or something. Explain to me how any of these activities are any better/worse then playing a computer game.

dave

^^^This, a hundred times.

 

[danny la rouge]

Hmm. Not sure I can square those claims with this thread. Time Team as "perfect Sunday night entertainment" doesn't sound particularly rock 'n' roll to me.

I'm a happily marred man now.

Anyway, even Keith Richards has Sunday evenings.

 

[Greebo]

It makes other people wary of you.

Then you know the wrong people.

 

[danny la rouge]

Explain to me how any of these activities are any better/worse then playing a computer game.

They aren't the preserve of the socially inept is how.

 

[Greebo]

I'm a happily marred man now.<snip>

Freudian slip?

 

[kained&able]

They aren't the preserve of the socially inept is how.

You seem to have a view that all gamers do is play games rather then it merely then it being one of many facets of entertainment they derive pleasure from.

dave

 

[kabbes]

20 million individuals self-describe as gamers. That's a third of the country. If it's the preserve of the socially inept then there are increasingly few non-inept individuals left to socialise with each other. By 2020, there will be just Danny and Spymaster, each congratulating the other on being the only two non-social pariahs left in the country.

 

[Citizen66]

When I was young my mam would shout up the stairs 'what would you like for your tea?'

I'd ponder for a moment before sending pacman down with the reply.

 

[Greebo]

Kabbes, you forgot about Sas. Oh, right, social pariah for a completely different reason.

 

[kabbes]

You forgot about Sas. Oh, right, social pariah for a completely different reason.

2020 is pushing it a bit for sas, I reckon.

 

[Spymaster]

 

[Greebo]

2020 is pushing it a bit for sas, I reckon.

Reckon he'll last - I doubt the devil wants him for company.

 

[Spymaster]

He's the exception in that he has a wife.

Gotta feel sorry for his missus though.

For Kabbes, sex is probably the most fun he can have without a console!

 

[Citizen66]

I think he's guaranteed a place inside the pearly gates as long as he continues to agree with Israel's foreign policy or something.

 

[kabbes]

Console-ation prize

 

[Greebo]

I sort of lied.

I tried a 3D environment - Cybercolony - in '99 when I built my first PC and first got online at home and the Sims - but found the latter rather annoying. I had a peek at Second Life recently, but quickly left ..

I had a weird moment last night and thought I ought to go and see Star Wars in 3D, but then thought about the chattering hoardes in the local Showcase with their popcorn and mobile phones ..

Though I happen to know the manager there ...

Save your money - get the original Star Wars trilogy on dvd. The Sims brings out the very worst in me - sadistic impatient control freak.

 

[Spymaster]

No - going out with girls.

Don't talk to C66 about girls.

Apparently he's got a brand new Xbox that's the envy of his mates and he didn't even have to pay for it.

It was bought by a gorgeous blonde who was carrying it home when she saw Citizen in a park. She threw the Xbox to the ground, stripped naked and said "take what you want".

 

[Citizen66]

 

[danny la rouge]

You seem to have a view that all gamers do is play games rather then it merely then it being one of many facets of entertainment they derive pleasure from.

dave

No, I'm sure they sometimes order anoraks online, and iron their underpants.

 

[kabbes]

Well at least you've now totally abandoned your "it's just for children" argument.

Children and nerds, I can live with. We're all nerds for something in any case.

 

[tommers]

Innit. That changed quite quickly.

It's prejudice. That's what it is.

We're being oppressed, Kabbes.

 

[kabbes]

He'll be wanting to put armbands on us next