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Aodhan McDunnough
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Join date: 29 Mar 2006
Posts: 1,518
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07-02-2006 02:03
From: Cliffy Palmerstone I'm 46. If the means and medians and what have you put the average age in the 30's, does that mean I am above average?  Cliffy, in my book if you write nice posts you're already above average  |
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Cliffy Palmerstone
Manc in Geordieland
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 255
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07-02-2006 02:21
From: Aodhan McDunnough Cliffy, in my book if you write nice posts you're already above average I don't post that often but there were a couple of 'rant' posts that, in retrospect, I should have refrained from posting. My grandmother taught me that as you age, you acquire the right to speak your mind more forcefully and more frequently (and get away with it!) Nevertheless, I'll try to post nicely just to remain above average!
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Sashi Calamari
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Join date: 14 Mar 2006
Posts: 25
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07-02-2006 06:17
From: Crissaegrim Clutterbuck I was shocked - shocked! - to find out how easy it was to mistake people in their thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties for teenagers online.  You can't really tell for sure how old anyone might be. I found out quickly enough that just as there are plenty of older people who act young (like me!), there are just as many young people who have the maturity to act older than they are. Of course, I've also encountered way too many young people who act even younger then they were. Them I give more distance. |
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Aodhan McDunnough
Gearhead
Join date: 29 Mar 2006
Posts: 1,518
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07-02-2006 06:31
From: Cliffy Palmerstone
My grandmother taught me that as you age, you acquire the right to speak your mind more forcefully and more frequently (and get away with it!)
But such is not the true power of age and experience. True power is in the quality of the content, the wording and the tone, it's in the clarity of the idea, the charisma of the presentor, and the sobriety of the presentation. Some of the most powerful posts I'd ever written in another community had no more than one or two words in all caps or italics, and all sentences ended in periods or question marks. The most powerful questions are those that address the issue with no hints of accusation. The most powerful statements are those that stand without knowing who wrote them. The most powerful finger-pointing does not even hint at who is involved. The most powerful of skills involved in speaking ... are listening and paying attention. |
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Kyevan Thurston
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Join date: 8 Jun 2006
Posts: 41
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07-02-2006 07:21
Do you want my real age (which would be easier for me to just point you to an approximation in pi) or the age I use when stuck among you puny mortals? <I'm jokeing, of course>
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Surreal Farber
Cat Herder
Join date: 5 Feb 2004
Posts: 2,059
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07-02-2006 08:03
From: Zoe Llewelyn The same is true of male to female ratios in games. When I started gaming in the late 70s, I was a rare "Gamer Girl"...but the most recent studies are showing about a 60-40 split now of males to females in gaming, and that number is closer to 50-50 in online games. Personally I expect that if we had a way to measure for certain, that SL may actually have more real women playing than men, placing it above the average in that way as well. My experience exactly - I started playing around when you did and I was the only 'gamer girl' I knew. When I started my son gaming back in the 80s, I started him on a quasi-board game called HeroQuest. If anyone remembers it, it was a perfect transition game to D&D style gaming. One day when we were playing my son said, "Mom, why is there only 1 girl character (a delicate wizard girl as I recall) and why is she so lame?" So I helped him write the gaming company a letter asking just that. I tended to play ass-kicking barbarians, so he had a firm grasp that not all women wanted to stand back and keep their robes clean. Now he's dating a gamer girl. 
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ArchTx Edo
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Join date: 13 Feb 2005
Posts: 1,993
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07-02-2006 08:23
From: Zoe Llewelyn I thankfully get to stay in the 30-39 category for 9 more months before I am forced to graduate to one of the senior brackets. =P Over 39 equals "SENIOR" !!  Why you young whipersnapper...!!! Does your mother know where you are??
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Cocoanut Cookie
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Join date: 26 Jan 2006
Posts: 1,741
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07-02-2006 08:42
I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
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