a 59-year-old member of Home and founder of the Grey Gamers, a group catering to Home's oldest crowd
I'm all for people gaming into later life but this + Home = creepy...
Well I am the so called "creepy" person you mentioned. I have a large club in Home with many dedicated gamers over the age of 30. My oldest member is almost 73. I think many of the kids out there tend to forget that video games have been around for a long time now. I have been playing them since they were invented, my first one being "pong". I love video games and though I go into Home a great deal I also play games, I have beaten many and continue to play daily, I am fifth legend in Red Dead Redemption for example.
Home is a wonderful community of people if you take the time to get to know a few. It can be a daunting experience at first, there is a lot to learn about the way it works, communication, and other things, but once you get past that and meet a few good people, it can be a great place to socialize. I have a life outside of Home, a nice one with real friends and family, so the idea that everyone in Home is a socially inept twerp or something is a misconception. I have met many well educated, professional people in Home and I have friends here from all over the world, something I would never have in real life. That being said, I also have quite a few friends in Home who are ill, either physically, like MS, or mentally, such as bi-polar, or autistic or agoraphobic. For many of these people Home is a life line. It may be their only way to have a social life. I don't think that anything that provides that type of help on any level to people should be just summarily dismissed as irrelevant The comments I have seen here have run the gauntlet from.positive to negative to indecisive. What I have gathered from it all is Home is not for everyone, that's a given, but there are many people who would disagree with you for many different reasons. So enjoy your gaming or enjoy Home or both as I do, in essence just enjoy life in its many myriad forms, but let others do as they will with no condemnation, just because you don't agree with something or understand it, doesn't make it wrong or "creepy."
I'm all for people gaming into later life but this + Home = creepy...
Well I am the so called "creepy" person you mentioned. I have a large club in Home with many dedicated gamers over the age of 30. My oldest member is almost 73. I think many of the kids out there tend to forget that video games have been around for a long time now. I have been playing them since they were invented, my first one being "pong". I love video games and though I go into Home a great deal I also play games, I have beaten many and continue to play daily, I am fifth legend in Red Dead Redemption for example.
Home is a wonderful community of people if you take the time to get to know a few. It can be a daunting experience at first, there is a lot to learn about the way it works, communication, and other things, but once you get past that and meet a few good people, it can be a great place to socialize. I have a life outside of Home, a nice one with real friends and family, so the idea that everyone in Home is a socially inept twerp or something is a misconception. I have met many well educated, professional people in Home and I have friends here from all over the world, something I would never have in real life. That being said, I also have quite a few friends in Home who are ill, either physically, like MS, or mentally, such as bi-polar, or autistic or agoraphobic. For many of these people Home is a life line. It may be their only way to have a social life. I don't think that anything that provides that type of help on any level to people should be just summarily dismissed as irrelevant The comments I have seen here have run the gauntlet from.positive to negative to indecisive. What I have gathered from it all is Home is not for everyone, that's a given, but there are many people who would disagree with you for many different reasons. So enjoy your gaming or enjoy Home or both as I do, in essence just enjoy life in its many myriad forms, but let others do as they will with no condemnation, just because you don't agree with something or understand it, doesn't make it wrong or "creepy."