r/facepalm • u/Visqo • Aug 21 '24
🇲🇮🇸🇨 Nothing wrong with gaming while in your 30s
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u/cgerrells Aug 21 '24
I’m almost 60 and my game rig is amazing
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u/jasondigitized Aug 21 '24
Only young people think old people are old. I'm in my 50s and still, inside, feel like I am about 26. I will play video games until I die. I will eat Lucky Charms until I die.
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u/ManicPixieOldMaid Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
I'd write a lengthier response on agreement but my mid-50s ass has to finish DA:I before Veilguard comes out...
ETA: my reddit friend who has been helping me with game questions is delighted by all the anticipation for the new game so keep playing everybody! Every time you level up, an angel gets their wings.
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u/I_Frothingslosh Aug 21 '24
Aaargh you and me both. I've gotten halfway through and burned out three freaking times now.
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u/ManicPixieOldMaid Aug 21 '24
It's the frickin' mapping for me, it feels like a chore trying to find the one path to jump to the top of something.
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u/Cold-Ad-3713 Aug 21 '24
I have months of my 50’s that are dedicated to Diablo 4.
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u/uglyspacepig Aug 21 '24
I'm 45 and I want to be like you guys when I grow up
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u/Bulangiu_ro Aug 21 '24
people like ya'll are why i use reddit
needless to say, I'm 21 and i wanna be like you when i geow up
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u/FikerGaming Aug 21 '24
I am 18 and I wanna be like you when I grow up 😍
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u/Weekly-Act-3132 Aug 21 '24
But untill then, stay in school, take care of your health and your teeth, will save you a fortune in the long run and affort you more gaming.
- Drink water, use sunscreen and easyer to stay in shape than to get in shape.
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u/rrhhoorreedd Aug 22 '24
Im 66. It's a secret but we never grow up. We do develop better social graces, wisdom and a whole bunch of other fine qualities, but my 94 year old granny told me she still felt like she was 18. So don't worry, when your in the parking lot and you want to ride the shopping cart, don't let your age stop you.
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u/gilded_lady Aug 21 '24
I'm 42. I own a PS5, PS4, PS2, a Switch and a 3DS and have north of 100 games in my collection. Be like them now ;)
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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Aug 21 '24
Never stop having fun. Never ever. Anyone who tells you that you have to is lying to you because they are unable/unwilling to have fun.
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u/MarkBriz Aug 21 '24
I’m mid 50s and played Diablo 3 regularly with a French Canadian guy who was 80 and played up until the day before he passed from cancer. Legendary.
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u/Ok-Rabbit1878 Aug 21 '24
Does one ever really “finish” DA:I?
(Or am I the only one who thinks BioWare designed it specifically to torture completionists? 😂)
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u/sidewalk_serfergirl Aug 21 '24
Nearly 36 here and I cannot believe the wait is almost finally over!! I’ve been legit waiting for the 4th DA game since I finished DA:I for the first time, ten years ago, when I was still in my 20s 😂
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u/ManicPixieOldMaid Aug 21 '24
I'm enjoying being new to the series so I didn't have as long to wait! But I feel your pain. I want my XCOM3. 🥺
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u/Nebathemonk Aug 21 '24
Snake Wiafus didn't do it for you in chimera squad? I actually liked that one, but I am hopeful to see XCOM 3 someday.
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u/monsterfurby Aug 21 '24
It's always worth remembering that the average age you've known yourself at is half your age.
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u/Artvandelay3911 Aug 21 '24
I turned 60 this past March and still play. I think it's Charlie who's weird to think it's weird.
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u/cynical_and_patient Aug 21 '24
Charlie has ALWAYS been weird. The anti-gamer part is the least of it!
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u/Calm-Homework3161 Aug 21 '24
Oh dear, all these youngsters thinking they're old! 74, here and currently replaying AC Valhallah.
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u/errie_tholluxe Aug 21 '24
Preach it! Closing in on 60 and looking to build a new one for the next 5 years! Also use my Oculus 2 quite a bit. Although I will admit I like gaming on computers much more than I did on my steam deck so I gave that to my son. It's probably because I'm more of a keyboard mouse person than a controller person
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u/Significant_Ad9793 Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
Damn... I'm into older gentlemen and I WISH I could find me a gamer lol. I'm dating a 55 year old but he refuses to play video games with me 😭.
Edit: Wow, I got more replies than I thought I was lol. I've always wanted to date a gamer but none of my partners have ever been into gaming. I went to school to be a video game designer so I was around gamers but they were either too shy to ask me out or to want to go out with me.
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u/I_Frothingslosh Aug 21 '24
We're out there, but without doing home invasions we can be pretty hard to find.
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u/errie_tholluxe Aug 21 '24
You totally speak the truth. Outside is where I go to hike and walk around and stay active but not some place where I actively go to find people.
Now give me a discord channel and I'll be there every time I'm home
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u/funnystuff79 Aug 21 '24
It's great to hear that all ages still have a love of gaming, sorry you haven't yet found that man yet to share your interest.
45 here and no outlook of giving up my pc
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u/Anarchyantz Aug 21 '24
Oh there are loads of us out there. 51 here and been gaming since my late dad got me the Atari 2600 in the 70s for Christmas and got me into gaming. He brought most of my machines up until I brought my own as an adult (though he did treat me to a 360 when it came out as a Christmas pressie bless him). He was also not into gaming as such but did like watching me play and kept up with tech until his passing a couple of years back.
My best friend met her now husband on World of Warcraft must be 15 years ago now or more. Been married to him for 10 and even left here in UK to be with him in Belgium. Has a kid with him and an older son from a previous relationship, we all game with them regularly as well as role play via discord. They also play games with one another as well as couples.
For a lot of us though is finding another half of the gaming partnership is hard but not as hard as it used to be. I am a proud gamer, manga reader, anime fan and enjoy cosplaying!
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u/Pengo2001 Aug 21 '24
I am 51 and my wife allowed that I get a 57“ widescreen monitor for gaming!
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u/Killarogue Aug 21 '24
I got my dad into WoW back in 2005. He only recently stopped playing, he's 62.
Now he's addicted to Civ lol.
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u/DammitMatt Aug 21 '24
I can't wait to retire and use my time wiping the floor with kids in competitive esports
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u/Freeonlinehugs Aug 21 '24
Honestly, I'm glad to hear that. I'm 21 and got called weird for still liking games
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u/catskilkid Aug 21 '24
His target audience is single younger males..... Yes this the disrespect they have for their voters.
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u/Fluggernuffin Aug 21 '24
This. Seriously, I read this and I was like “Real. He gets it.” Republicans are doing everything they can to get people to hate Kamala and Tim and just giving them more depth and relatable context, while all we have to do is post 20 seconds of Trump talking to give anyone supporting him an aneurysm.
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u/Scaevus Aug 21 '24
I didn’t even know Walz was a gamer.
Veteran. Teacher. Coach. Union man. Hunter. And now gamer.
Did they make this guy in a lab to be the most likable, down to earth average American dad imaginable?
What are the Republicans gonna tell me next to try and get me to hate him? That he likes beer and football? Or that he does home improvement projects in his spare time?
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u/dontlookback76 Aug 21 '24
I believe after his DUI 30 years ago, I believe he said he quit drinking completely. Don't know if he had a problem or was on his way to a problem, but as someone who has been sober 12 years, I commend him.
As far as Vance? We'll he's against IVF. My twin sons were conceived by IVF, like Walz's daughter. Vance hates people who decide not to have kids. Effectively, he wants people who will resent having children, which will come through to the kid, or can't feed house, and clothe them. No birth control, see previous, or abortion, once again see previous. Walz is all for safe, legal abortion, birth control, the right not to start a family. He's all about women's bodily autonomy. So I see Vance, who wants to take my daughters rights, and Walz, who wants to preserve and strengthen them. And once again, Vance, who apparently looks down on my wife and I for having fertility problems, as opposed to Walz, who has been there. Well Vance, you have isolated all 5 voting age adults in the house, who now wouldn't vote for you if you were the second coming, plus my mother and many of her senior friends who voted trump last time. All I know is that they desperately need every vote, and all they keep doing is pissing people off
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u/Scaevus Aug 21 '24
Vance is the worst politician I’ve ever seen.
His billionaire sugar daddy must have spent so much money trying to hide his natural instinct to just be offensive to everyone.
Does Vance not realize that there’s nothing to be gained by spouting hatred against childless people? They have friends and family who love them. There are people of conscience who oppose that kind of hatred on principle. There are completely amoral people who nonetheless still think taking such a stupid stance is disqualifying in a Vice Presidential candidate who is one extremely old, fat, and unhealthy heartbeat away from the most powerful and demanding job on Earth.
Who does he think he will sway with this brilliant speech?
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u/Darkmagosan Aug 22 '24
The rednecks in the trailer park, mainly. Trump, and by extension Vance (and vice versa) get their popularity by hating the same groups that poor White voters, especially poor White men, hate. The hatred of childless/childfree people is just the extra turd on the shit sundae they're offering.
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u/Scaevus Aug 22 '24
Okay but those people are already voting for him. The way American elections work is to appeal to the very small amount of undecided moderates, and to energize your base so they actually show up.
Trump’s base is already as energized as it gets. There’s no good reason to start isolating otherwise persuadable moderates.
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u/Wafflelisk Aug 22 '24
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
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u/Darkmagosan Aug 22 '24
And a lot of hackers of various stripes started out as gamers. 'Oh, there's a mod for $game? Sweet, let's see what it does. Oh damn, it doesn't work. *studies arcane assembler languages* Now it does! Oh look, these skills are translatable into things beyond games, like breaking into servers? Sign me up!'
The honest ones become White Hats. The others--'black and gray morality' comes to mind here. They're not the types you want to piss off.
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u/LukesRightHandMan Aug 22 '24
Yeah but how many of y’all will actually get out to vote?
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u/Fluggernuffin Aug 21 '24
When he screws two pieces of wood together, he slaps it and says “that ain’t goin’ anywhere”.
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u/Scaevus Aug 21 '24
I mean, that’s weird from the perspective of the Republican nominee.
“What? Work up a sweat? Do manual labor? What do I not pay people for?”
The only time Trump gets sweaty is when he thinks about his own daughter.
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u/Fluggernuffin Aug 21 '24
That, and standing up, sitting down, breathing, shitting his pants, etc
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u/Alfonse00 Aug 22 '24
Seriously, in general, if a person is in the age that a lot of people use diapers they shouldn't be in politics, we have a cutoff age for most jobs in the world, why not for politicians? Why not for judges? That is weird.
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u/KvasirMeadman Aug 22 '24
Politics is like a public bus, if you frequently shit yourself, you shouldn't get into it because your only gonna make alot of people mad.
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u/krat0s5 Aug 21 '24
Or walking up a non sweat-inducing amount of stairs, or meat sweats from to many hambuders
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u/serenitybyjen Aug 21 '24
I’d bet he has a crate of randomly shaped wood pieces that he just knows he’ll have a need for someday.
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u/FireFoxQuattro Aug 22 '24
Then the one day he finds a use for one peice, he proceeds to brag to his wife for the next 12 hours saying “see, told you it wasn’t junk”
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u/Jive_Turkey1979 Aug 21 '24
He walks by mulch at Menards and slaps the top of it?
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u/Kamel-Red Aug 21 '24
I saw a funny post where a political commentator made a joke about waking up to a noise in the middle of the night only to find walz grouting a loose tile. .
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u/purpleduckduckgoose Aug 21 '24
Probably something like he takes other people's kids to baseball practice when they can't get there and enjoys cuddling his dogs.
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u/Scaevus Aug 21 '24
cuddling his dogs
Republicans: “weird. You’re supposed to wait until your daughter is at school before taking her puppy out to a gravel pit and executing him for the crime of chasing chickens. You know. Family values.”
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u/RuxxinsVinegarStroke Aug 21 '24
But he isn't the 'right' type of coach. Republicans want a coach who berates and screams and derides and screeches and demeans and shrieks and hits and chokes their players and refuses to allow water at practices and games because "If you need water you're a fuckin' gutless LOSER!!", like Bob Knight and Woody Hayes
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u/EEpromChip Aug 22 '24
Obama's speech mentioning him was so fucking endearing. He seems like such a good dude. "His flannel shirts aren't from a political committee decision. They're from his closet! They've seen some stuff!"
Such a fucking wholesome man, there's no way to combat that. Except pass along some bullshit like he was into video games...
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u/TinyTerrarian Aug 21 '24
I come from a right leaning family, I grew up hearing only bad things about the left. Now I'm actually getting into politics and the only thing I'm seeing of the right is Trump rambling and getting convicted. While from the left I see someone pretty competent in Kamala, and I see myself in Walz. I love video games, I've dressed up in drag once or twice. They feel like people and I appreciate they seem to know that you can say "I love you" to anyone important in your life, or anyone who needs it.
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u/MonteBurns Aug 21 '24
Hey! Welcome to the club! We meet on Thursdays. It’s much better over here, but you may have to awkwardly recognize how angry some of your family lives their life as.
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u/TinyTerrarian Aug 21 '24
Most of them are generally fine, for which I'm very grateful. They're not MAGA extremists, but when some of them in particular get talking about politics, I will absolutely leave. They will not take an alternative point of view seriously. Honestly it just makes me sad
Edit: missed a word
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u/exoduswati333 Aug 21 '24
it wasn’t always like this mate, politics have changed a lot idrk why ig im too young to understand. But yea i am a devout conservative voting blue for the first time simply because the amount of blasphemy/anger is just too much on the other side, plus their economic policies only work for a while then drop hard and cause the type of capitalism that leads to communism, which they’re supposedly fighting, im just so bent up now its wild. They’re quite literally exactly what they think they’re fighting against, oh how the tables turn no one cares about “what is a woman” when i and my partner cannot afford to live
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u/sdgengineer Aug 21 '24
I am also a liberal conservative (or a conservative liberal?) and am old.... I can't stand trump, and will vote for Harris. I don't like her antigun diatribe, and wish she would stop harping on it. She is hurting the democrats, she should instead talk about health care, school lunches, support for Ukraine, and the many other things trump failed at. (there are a lot of them)
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u/Marega33 Aug 21 '24
It's actually ignorance thinking above 30 you shouldn't play. Average gamer age is 35 and it's shifting upwards every year.
People think only kids play games but according to the stats only 24% of gamers are actually below 18 years of age
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u/Bluecif Aug 22 '24
A good chunk grew up gaming . It's nostalgic and good memories... How fucking out of touch are they.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 Aug 21 '24
A big part of conservative rhetoric is appealing to their own self loathing and encouraging them to externalize it. Redpill content is 50% and misogyny and 50% just berating their audience as lump dicked beta losers who better hand over their money to become a Chad or else
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u/AbsurdityIsReality Aug 21 '24
Have you seen the videos of people gullible enough to pay to go to "alpha" camp? I'm like if you want to be yelled at while exercising you know the military will pay you for that.
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u/aufrenchy Aug 21 '24
Single, young(ish) male here; I can’t bear the thought of voting for this clown.
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u/YeetOrBeYeeted420 Aug 21 '24
The thought of voting for any republican triggers about the same mental reaction in my brain as the thought of jumping into a meat grinder
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u/Bartlaus Aug 21 '24
What a joyless attitude.
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u/Oxygenius_ Aug 21 '24
They get mad at Biden for enjoying ice cream. Get mad at Walz for playing video games and get mad at Kamala for laughing.
If “stick up your ass” was a person
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u/TotalLackOfConcern Aug 21 '24
And Harris for eating Doritos
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u/CondescendingShitbag Aug 21 '24
Harris was seen engaging in consumerism like a mere commoner? The horror!
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u/SingularityCentral Aug 21 '24
It is more the product they disapprove of than the consumption. Showing off $50k watches would be more acceptable. Of course, she would still be demonized by then for it. It would just ring more hollow as they personally would be approving of the public display of wealth.
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u/CondescendingShitbag Aug 21 '24
Do they have a problem with Doritos as a product? I got the impression their 'issue' is primarily just Harris, and Doritos is simply collateral damage. Or, maybe Doritos endorsed Harris and I missed it?
I understand & appreciate their frustrations, though. Doritos are a cornerstone in the Meal Team 6 food pyramid. Seeing a favored food item being consumed by the 'opposition' must be a traumatizing life experience.
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u/Colonel_Anonymustard Aug 21 '24
No, don't worry it's the stupidest reason - Elizabeth Hasselback complained it's beneath the position of a world leader to be stressed and eat doritos
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u/CondescendingShitbag Aug 21 '24
That is indeed a stupid reason. I wonder if she'd have received less flak for it if she was hawking Doritos like someone else pimped Goya beans from the Oval Office?
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u/lvratto Aug 21 '24
If "stick up your ass" was an entire political ideology. These people must be a blast at parties.
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u/Cosmic_Quasar Aug 21 '24
As long as it's not a dick, because that's gay, even for women, and gay is bad!
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u/lordnacho666 Aug 21 '24
Hypocritical too. I'd be very surprised if a guy of his generation hasn't spent a heck of a lot of time playing some sort of video game.
And if he hasn't, he's the odd one out.
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u/JohnstonMR Aug 21 '24
He probably deeply longs to game again, but the stick up his ass has convinced him he's "too old" for "childish" hobbies.
Fuck him. More games for the rest of us.
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u/Chicken_Chicken_Duck Aug 21 '24
These are the same dudes that will sit on a frozen lake at 5:00am or mow their yard 40 hours a week to avoid contact with their families.
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u/ChrisRevocateur Aug 21 '24
So, Charlie, what you're saying is we'll finally have a gamer in the white house.
I don't think this is the "gotcha" you think it is.
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u/Invisible-Pancreas Aug 21 '24
Guys.
Guys.
Guys.
GUYS.
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Does this mean if Walz becomes Vice President of the United States we could finally see a Skies of Arcadia remaster?
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u/ShakespearianShadows Aug 21 '24
Dare I say it… Portal 3?
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u/FootballPublic7974 Aug 21 '24
Fuck that shit...Half Life 3, or I die on that hill!!
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u/BAMspek Aug 21 '24
I never really got into Half Life and even I think it’s about damn time
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u/sumtinsumtin_ Aug 21 '24
POWERSTONE!!!
For real though, what do you think his game was? My guess it was a 2k series or Sports but would love if it was PowerStone or Virtua Tennis. Both stole so many hours and gave me the best memories. Skies of Arcadia too even though I'm more of a Grandia 2 fan.
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u/ModernHueMan Aug 21 '24
What you talking about. They already had a Skies of Arcadia remaster, it came out on gamecube. 🥲
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u/SnooCookies2614 Aug 21 '24
Who knew the millennial representation would come from the 60 year old vp candidate rather than the actual millennial one.
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u/Mindful_Teacup Aug 21 '24
I'm not even a gamer BUT would love this. Someone who can strategise, communicate needs, calm under pressure...
Can more gamers please go into politics? "Billionaires" need not apply...
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u/Icey210496 Aug 21 '24
And his specialty is foreign and military affairs. He'd be such an effective diplomatic advisor.
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u/leahcar83 Aug 21 '24
Sure his wife had to hide his sega, but it's not like he was so addicted to porn he asked his own son to monitor his consumption.
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u/RavenFromFire Aug 21 '24
Wait - who did THAT? Asking your son to monitor porn consumption is weird.
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u/gonfr Aug 21 '24
I fart in your general direction!
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u/Constanttaste3 Aug 21 '24
Your father was an hamster and your father smells of elderberries
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u/KudosOfTheFroond Aug 21 '24
This gif forever wins
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u/Bendyb3n Aug 21 '24
I think the left should just start responding to every braindead MAGA cult comment with simply this gif and nothing else and watch them get so pissed off while trying to "own the libs." I'll gladly be so petty back to them at this point
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u/Jonahmaxt Aug 21 '24
lol, he is making it sound like he needed an intervention for his video game addiction. No, he told a playful story (maybe even exaggerated) to one of the students he coached, and the entire news article comes from one of those students recounting that memory fondly, boasting about how Tim Walz made an effort to relate to the players on the team.
Charlie Kirk is such a loser.
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u/strawberrypants205 Aug 21 '24
So, basically Kirk distorted the facts to the point they became lies.
Typical weird conservative.
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u/pusmottob Aug 21 '24
Those weird maga folks will do anything to shift the word, but in the end, they just come off weirder.
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u/CheddarGlob Aug 21 '24
Right? They keep using it to describe stuff that isn't really weird and it makes it even more obvious how bothered they are by it
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u/cweaver Aug 21 '24
"Isn't it weird how Democrats have normal human emotions and empathy and want to live in a world where the government's job is to make things better for everyone? So weird, amirite?"
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u/bubbygups Aug 21 '24
They’re trying SO hard to get rid of the weird sticking to them. Sorry, guys - it’s what you ARE.
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u/leffe186 Aug 21 '24
I mean, this is Charlie effing Kirk calling someone else weird. Barely even needs a response.
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u/Same_Adagio_1386 Aug 21 '24
Their efforts are having the opposite effect of what they want, because they keep describing basic, everyday, normal stuff as "weird", which as you said, makes them seem even more out of touch and weirder than we originally thought.
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u/Tomorrows_Shadow Aug 21 '24
Your telling me that the VP pick is/was also a gamer? I mean you really didn't need to try and sell me more on how fun and relatable he is, I was already there. Wonder what games he was into... might need to grab a beer with this guy.
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u/Certain_Strawberry77 Aug 21 '24
He’s the kinda guy you grab a beer with and talk shit about the Vikings and show him your remodel ideas for dad-input
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u/ThreeCrapTea Aug 21 '24
As he politely and oh so fatherly tells you how horrible of a caulking job you did on the new tub, then he comes back on Saturday and regrouts it all for you.
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u/lobsterman2112 Aug 21 '24
Quick. Someone ask Walz what his favorite MCU movie is.
lol. As if playing video games isn't a plus for anyone becoming VP.
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u/CrundleQuest5 Aug 21 '24
I love how desperate they are to turn the term weird against their enemies. It always makes them look even weirder.
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u/Mushroom_Tip Aug 21 '24
"Hey this guy played the Sega Dreamcast Isn't he WEIRD? Now have a JD Vance commemorative semen cup!"
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u/Lost-Age-8790 Aug 21 '24
Well GOP has become the party of kiddie-diddlers and closeted homosexuals.
It's best to focus attention AWAY from the party directly.
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u/hahayeahimfinehaha Aug 21 '24
It's hilarious how they have zero defense in the 'weird' department because the reality is truly undeniable -- most of their party is weird af. Most of the main Democrats have a pretty normal family life. Meanwhile, it's Republicans who are out here burying their dead wives in unmarked graves in golf courses, marrying registered sex offenders, cheating on their wives, getting into weird sex scandals, etc.
As always, their attack strategy is "no u," but this time there is just no good way to spin that angle because the candidate they chose to represent them is undeniably very weird.
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u/MaxineTacoQueen Aug 21 '24
This guy in particular is super bothered by it cause there was a video on the front page a couple days ago of someone calling him weird to his face.
After he said something super fucking weird.
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u/IceeP Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 22 '24
I like Walz more and more by the minute!
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u/DigitalGT Aug 21 '24
Ikr now ur telling me he’s a gamer?!?? Now imma vote even harder
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u/ladyeclectic79 Aug 21 '24
I know right? Like, the more they try to piss on him, the better they make him freaking look!!! 🤣😂
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u/IsThereCheese Aug 21 '24
Yes. Playing games at 35. So weird.
44 year old me subtly pushes controller under couch
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u/90124 Aug 21 '24
You pull that controller out now mister!
You fire up your favourite game and you play it proudly and with the beverage of your choice!39
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u/Silver-ishWolfe Aug 21 '24
Fuck that. I'm 39, and getting high and playing video games after work is the hobby for me and all the other IT guys I know. From interns to two dudes in their 60s.
Play on, bro. Play on...
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u/Bearcat-2800 Aug 21 '24
54 year old me pulls controller out from under couch and forces it back into your hands
Play the game, mister!
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Aug 21 '24
I'm 37, just got home from a 10 hour day. Today is my Friday. I'm playing Xbox for the rest of the evening.
Farm chores are done. Partner and I are likely just gonna eat on our own when we're hungry. It's relax time baby.
Maybe Charlie can go back his hobby of.... Of.... Um.... Eating paint chips?
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u/KittyKayl Aug 21 '24
My dad was playing Duke Nuke'em every night on Gamecube every night in his late 50's/early 60's until he passed 🤷♀️
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u/Syke_qc Aug 21 '24
Walz is a gamer? What a nice guy, such a nice pick for vp
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u/BobBeats Aug 21 '24
They keep trying to find things not to like about the guy to smear him and it has the opposite effect.
Walz respects women!
Walz has a loving family!
Walz wants children to not go hungry at school!
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u/Pussypopculture Aug 21 '24
Small faced incel is grasping at the dumbest shit ever.
Are they going to attack Walz for having joy and laughter from the video of him at the amusement park with his daughter?!
He’s not weird for having a regular hobby Kirk, YOURE the weirdo for voting for a convicted rapist pedophile.
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u/RichPumpkin725 Aug 21 '24
It's amazing to me that not one of these idiots has stepped back yet and revaluated their strategy.
Copium and cult of personality are some seriously hard drugs.
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u/ruiner8850 Aug 21 '24
Are they going to attack Walz for having joy and laughter from the video of him at the amusement park with his daughter?!
Most of the campaign ads I've seen from the Republicans attacking Harris show her having fun at a party and trying to make it seem like having fun at parties is a bad thing, so yeah, they'll probably do that. Trump's followers don't understand the concept of finding joy from things like that because the only thing that brings them joy is attacking the people who they hate.
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u/gpost86 Aug 21 '24
They've already attacked Kamala for laughing and buying doritos, so I'm sure this is coming at some point. "Only a truly weak man laughs and has fun"
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u/unfilterthought Aug 21 '24
Fuck you Charlie Kirk.
Video games were a 350 BILLION dollar entertainment industry in 2022.
The same year movies only made 26 Billion. The music industry made 15 Billion.
Video Games ARE the mainstream you fucker.
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u/gbroon Aug 21 '24
Dammit I've been gaming almost 20 years too long it seems.
I suppose I should hang up the gamepad and start shouting at youngsters that they are wasting their time on silly games like I'm supposed to at my age.
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u/Bearcat-2800 Aug 21 '24
I queued at midnight on release day to get mine. Many hours spent on Crazy Taxi and Soul Caliber.
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u/Schrutes_Yeet_Farm Aug 21 '24
Homie got lost blowing his paychecks from driving a forklift at the pier on capsule toys in shenmue
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u/First_Assistant2876 Aug 21 '24
I'm 55 and I game with my 21 year old son and his friends all the time. It's a great way for us to stay connected, especially while he's away at college.
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u/TheChronicNomad Aug 21 '24
100% this. As a result of my son and I playing Destiny for 7 something years we are incredibly close and can talk about anything with each other even into his early adult life. 10/10 would recommend.
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u/lscarval Aug 21 '24
I'm 45 years old, just upgraded to a 4090 gaming PC, and I'll keep going for as long as I'm alive.
These people are trying to revert the "weird" thing so hard. It's hilarious.
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u/SilentDis Aug 21 '24
Again: another reason to like Walz.
Here's the thing, just Minnesotan's knew what we had with him. Down to earth, hard working, willing and eager to make our State better.
It makes me actually sad to see him go. While I have trust that Flanagan will do awesome, I had a known-quantity in Walz. He worked to make my life and the lives of my neighbors better.
I have zero questions that he'll do the same for our Country. He will just "do" - with a wry smile, self-deprecating jokes, stupid passive-aggressive one-liners, and he'll be genuine while he does so.
It also made me feel better about Harris - picking someone I actually respect tells me she'll surround herself with competent, intelligent people.
They'll keep attacking Walz, and the attacks will look more and more desperate, silly, and out-of-touch. We'll all sit here going "well, that's different" as they squeeze themselves into irrelevancy.
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u/authalic Aug 21 '24
In 2020, the global gaming industry was twice as big as music and movies combined. Anyone who thinks it's only kids spending that money is clueless or an idiot.
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u/Environmental-Arm365 Aug 21 '24
Better than being addicted to being a propaganda spewing bag of wheezing MAGA shit like Charlie Kirk.
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u/aloneibreak Aug 21 '24
WHAT WAS THE GAME HE WAS PLAYING IS ALL THAT MATTERS!
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u/Lewtwin Aug 21 '24
Probably Phantasy Star. On Dreamcast it was pretty epic for it's day.
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u/robilar Aug 21 '24
Us: it's weird for a father to talk fondly about having sex with his daughter.
Them: it's weird to enjoy video games.
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u/Jefeboy Aug 21 '24
They’re so desperate to flip the ‘weird’ label and it’s just not working.
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u/BriefCheetah4136 Aug 21 '24
72 yr old COD fan, need to change my gamer tag to "sumkidzgreatgranddad"
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u/Speeddemon2016 Aug 21 '24
Damn, no matter how they try to cut him down, I like him so much more. It’s been a looooong time since I found a politician relatable. He’s the reason I want to vote.
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u/Realistic_Volume_927 Aug 21 '24
Coming from the guy asking people "what is a woman?"
Maybe sit this one out moon face.
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u/D3adp00L34 Aug 21 '24
Definitely weird. He should be doing normal stuff, like telling women what to do with their bodies, and discussing the gender of an Olympic boxer. The nerve of this man having a hobby he enjoys!
Effing whackadoo
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u/Gallieg444 Aug 21 '24
Some people say addicted.
I say...I'm having more fun than you so fuck off.
Addiction is something that interferes with you functioning normally.
If you choose to spend your days playing games it's fine.
People think it's weird to spend 8 hours playing a game. Then they go on to watch 8hours of Harry Potter for the 10th time knowing full well the entire story.
Not saying that's bad...just saying games for whatever reason are stigmatized and it's better than sitting mindlessly watching the same thing you have in the past...
My two cents. Cheerio
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u/everythingbeeps Aug 21 '24
"What demographic can we drive away next?"
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u/NerdFromColorado Remember to look both ways before crossing Aug 21 '24
Pretty much. They definitely just lost voters from a lot of gamers.
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u/Magnahelix Aug 21 '24
It's a helluva lot less weird than your guy groping and trying to slip his own daughter the tongue.
Keep bailing.
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u/rekage99 Aug 21 '24
They are so bothered by “weird” that they keep trying to turn it around on dems.
It ain’t workin’ captain big head. Give it up and go back to looking up AOC feet pics.
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u/--StinkyPinky-- Aug 21 '24
Adults playing video games is normal.
Adult males wearing eye liner who aren't in a band? That's weird.
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