In article <1128528069.583013.119120@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Patrick" <patrick55carroll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>jmfbahciv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> Or gaming is no longer as much fun. I don't have the same
>> patience with these games that I used to have. . . .
>
>That's certainly part of it. And time moves faster as you grow older.
>(Someone said life is like a roll of toilet paper: the closer you get
>to the end, the faster it goes.)
It just seems that way when you try to remember. :-) It is called
experience. As you get older, you get better at ignoring
the bullshit and not wasting any time on it.
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>At my age (50), the early years of home-computer games seems like only
>yesterday.
I'm 55 so I may understand a bit.
> .. And the fun of playing them seems brand-new. Yet, when I
>take a sober look at it, it turns out a couple decades have passed. My
>wife and I aren't the same people we were back then. It's not only the
>games that have changed; we've changed too.
I would certainly hope both of you have changed. I would not
like to have to live my teenage and twenties over again.
>
>So, maybe it's just a futile effort to try to recapture some piece of
>the "good old days"--because it's not so much that those days were
>good; it's more that we were younger then and saw things differently.
You have forgotten the bad that went with those good ol' days.
Compare self-confidence levels.
Compare your life prioities.
For instance, you no longer care as much about how you look
to strangers as you did waybackwhen.
You are no longer in that twilight zone of dating to find a
mate. That was always fraught angst and uncertainty.
I can list more. You're going through an evaluation phase
of your life; your wife is probably doing the same thing.
It part of growing up; maturing never ends :-).
But it would be nice to have a new game come out that isn't
all bells and whistles :-). My 386 and 486 disks stopped
spinning, so I started looking for a game to run on the Pentium
I have. There does seem to be a dearth of the kind I like.
From reading this newsgroup, people are more interested in
[what I think of as]bells and whistles.
Oh, I should also mention that I'm also a female.
/BAH
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