How old are you?

Grand Marshal Aditya · December 20th, 2007, 4:11 am

Nice to be back.

17 as of the eighth...

Pookie Pitviper · Post by **Pookie Pitviper** » December 20th, 2007, 3:17 pm

turin wrote:I was 14 at the time, IIRC. I'm almost 17 now. Then I'll have unsung's problem of being tried as an adult... if I want to murder anyone, I'd better do it now.

Uh-oh! How long before I can come out of hiding?

All these teenagers. I feel so old.

(36, and should be Doing Responsible Things [grant proposals]. Then again, don't any of you kids have *school*?)

Pookie

Post by **turin** » December 20th, 2007, 3:50 pm

Pookie Pitviper wrote:(36, and should be Doing Responsible Things [grant proposals]. Then again, don't any of you kids have *school*?)

Silence! Of course I don't have an exam in two hours I haven't studied for!

Post by **Iris** » December 20th, 2007, 3:53 pm

I posted here about being 17 years old before becoming a developer. Does it mean that now I'm ageless or what?

Post by **CIB** » December 20th, 2007, 3:59 pm

Pookie Pitviper wrote:Then again, don't any of you kids have *school*?

Yes, school:=loads of free time =)

Uprising · Post by **Uprising** » December 21st, 2007, 12:54 am

turin wrote:
Pookie Pitviper wrote:(36, and should be Doing Responsible Things [grant proposals]. Then again, don't any of you kids have *school*?)
Silence! Of course I don't have an exam in two hours I haven't studied for!

Oh No, blasphamy in front of all! This can't be happening!

btw, I am 15 days away from 15

CmotDibbler · Post by **CmotDibbler** » December 21st, 2007, 2:32 am

I'm 13! and so are two of my friends who play.

December 22nd, 2007, 12:26 am

I don't think age is that important. I mean, it does reflect how much of life we've endured and the experience we've gotten from each year, but circumstances are different for every person.
Some of us are really specialized. Some have been drawing and painting since they could hold pencils. Some are raised to be shrewd tacticians and resourceful warriors. And still yet there are some out there (particularly Asians) that have been stuffing equations into their heads. Then there are people that bounce from field to field, having as much experience as a specialized person, just having no specific field to be specialized in. Forgive me for ranting, but, my point is, age is an inaccurate form of determining an individual's skills.
But then again, no teenager can have 20 years of field experience...

Derekkk · Post by **Derekkk** » December 22nd, 2007, 2:34 pm

I was playing multiplayer online the other day and there was one player there who insisted that everyone tells him their age. That kind of made me think about how useful it is to know someone's age in a game like wesnoth.

Well, firstly, the amount of experience one's got on wesnoth cannot be reflected by someone's age at all.

Secondly, the speed with which someone picks up wesnoth skills does not seem to depend on age either.

Although I do believe that there is a strong correlation between someone's maturity and their age, we could not and definitely should not try to judge people based on age only because the correlation is not absolute and we can do a lot better by just observing how they behave in the games. We really should do it on a case by case basis. And asking for someone's age cannot be for assessing someone's maturity.

Tell me if I am wrong, since I am not the kind of person who would ask people for their ages in online games. But I think one of the reasons why people ask for other's age is that they don't understand the three points above, and thought that being younger and more capable in wesnoth is something that they can show off about.

Oh, who knows if anyone's telling the truth about their ages anyway?

Derekkk

Goats · Post by **Goats** » December 24th, 2007, 1:20 am

Derekkk wrote:

Although I do believe that there is a strong correlation between someone's maturity and their age, we could not and definitely should not try to judge people based on age only because the correlation is not absolute and we can do a lot better by just observing how they behave in the games. We really should do it on a case by case basis. And asking for someone's age cannot be for assessing someone's maturity.

Derekkk

Exactly right. I'm sick of playing any sort online game, and being treated a lot differently because I'm younger than most people.

I'm 12, have been playing since 9, and I geuss I'm about average at Wesnoth..

DDR · Post by **DDR** » December 24th, 2007, 1:25 am

Well, welcome to wesnoth!

PA-Citizen059 · Post by **PA-Citizen059** » December 24th, 2007, 1:52 am

I'll be 30 years old in January. My wife tells me I'm due for a mid-life crisis, but I haven't gotten out of the "young guy playing video games all the time" stage yet. I have a friend in Canada who's well into his 70's and he hasn't either as he's a hardcore sim-racer. I'm hoping I can at least match his longevity.

I'm hoping I can pull my son into it with me at some point. He'll be 3 in February, so he's got some time before he can really get into it for real...but in the meantime I gave him my old gameboy color with a copy of tetris. He likes to mash the buttons and say "daddy I play my game!".

*sniff*

I'm so proud...

December 25th, 2007, 7:34 am

By now we can compare age to race. We shouldn't treat people differently because of what they are. but unfortunately it's all too common. I mean, if I said I were 42 yrs. old, and have been playing every computer strategy games since Stonkers, I'm sure people will be cowering in fear of my dreaded ranks, almost sure their puny little militias will be crushed by my imperialist war machine. But, if I were to say I just turned three, and daddy just told me how to play, I'm sure people would be picking on me and calling me a noob, just hoping that I'd break down and go crying to mommy.
And besides, even if I were 42, who says I would be good at Wesnoth, or any other game for that matter? I mean, someone who really is 42 could have spent his entire life on mathematics (poor fellow), and nobody who actually DID devote their life to math could stand against even a moderately experienced teenaged gamer.

Post by **turin** » December 26th, 2007, 1:50 am

Federalist marshal wrote:By now we can compare age to race. We shouldn't treat people differently because of what they are. but unfortunately it's all too common.

Nonsense. There's clear scientific and common-sensical evidence that a three-year-old - and three-year-old - is not going to possess the rational capabilities of a healthy adult - any healthy adult. Saying we should treat children no differently from adults is like saying we should treat mentally [censored] people like healthy people. We shouldn't discriminate against the mentally disabled, but we shouldn't pretend they have the same capabilities the healthy do either.

December 26th, 2007, 4:33 am

[/quote]Saying we should treat children no differently from adults is like saying we should treat mentally [censored] people like healthy people. We shouldn't discriminate against the mentally disabled, but we shouldn't pretend they have the same capabilities the healthy do either. [quote]

Well, apparently what I meant to imply didn't get through. What you just posted was more or less what I meant.
In summary, I guess we can say that we shouldn't underdo or overdo our treatment towards others depending on our age. Overdoing will overwhelm, but underdoing would insult.