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Can't wait to see all these over 30 Switch owners wearing cardboard helmets in front of their wives and kids while they play the newest legend of something.

by nukeop 9y ago

AndrewDucker 9y ago
If you've reached the age of 30 and are still afraid of looking a little silly while playing games, then you've not done a great job of growing up.
- nukeop 9y ago
  Maybe, but at the same time if you're over 30 and wearing a cardboard helmet in your living room getting excited about games aimed at children aged 4-12, then there's something wrong with you too.
  - Double_a_92 9y ago
    Why? You are getting excited about something that makes you happy and hurts no-one... Why is that bad? Just because it doesn't fit your serious adult worldview?
  - croon 9y ago
    > “Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -- C.S. Lewis
    - nukeop 9y ago
      I knew this quote was going to be eventually posted and misused in defense of this. The thing with quotes is that you can pull up a quote from someone to defend any position you can think of and it's not an argument. You're still an idiot with a cardboard helmet on his head at the end of the day.
      - croon 9y ago
        You can disagree with it, but it's not misused.
      - Double_a_92 9y ago
        That just seems idiotic to you, because it's supposedly childish. I.e. that quote seems to apply... Why should you NOT put a cardboard helmet on your head if that's fun to you and doesn't bother anyone?
  - LocalH 9y ago
    Maybe there's something wrong with you for judging the actions of others when they don't affect you.

Can't wait to see all these over 30 Switch owners wearing cardboard helmets in front of their wives and kids while they play the newest legend of something.

by nukeop 9y ago

Can't wait to see all these over 30 Switch owners wearing cardboard helmets in front of their wives and kids while they play the newest legend of something.

AndrewDucker 9y ago

If you've reached the age of 30 and are still afraid of looking a little silly while playing games, then you've not done a great job of growing up.

nukeop 9y ago
Maybe, but at the same time if you're over 30 and wearing a cardboard helmet in your living room getting excited about games aimed at children aged 4-12, then there's something wrong with you too.
- Double_a_92 9y ago
  Why? You are getting excited about something that makes you happy and hurts no-one... Why is that bad? Just because it doesn't fit your serious adult worldview?
- croon 9y ago
  > “Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -- C.S. Lewis
  - nukeop 9y ago
    I knew this quote was going to be eventually posted and misused in defense of this. The thing with quotes is that you can pull up a quote from someone to defend any position you can think of and it's not an argument. You're still an idiot with a cardboard helmet on his head at the end of the day.
    - croon 9y ago
      You can disagree with it, but it's not misused.
    - Double_a_92 9y ago
      That just seems idiotic to you, because it's supposedly childish. I.e. that quote seems to apply... Why should you NOT put a cardboard helmet on your head if that's fun to you and doesn't bother anyone?
- LocalH 9y ago
  Maybe there's something wrong with you for judging the actions of others when they don't affect you.