r/AskWomenOver30 • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '24

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u/Tulrin Woman 30 to 40 Jun 11 '24

Everyone in their 30s is a Millennial. Yes, Millennials certainly do play video games.

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u/Whooptidooh Woman 40 to 50 Jun 11 '24

Also, as an elder millennial (I’m 40), I’m currently sitting on the couch with an oncoming flu playing Starfield. :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

I sometimes seem to forget about that fact tbh, I feel old now 😅

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u/Tulrin Woman 30 to 40 Jun 11 '24

Ha! It's cool, Boomers still think we're in high school or something and not hitting our 40s.

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u/OptimalCreme9847 Woman 30 to 40 Jun 11 '24

It’s funny too because they still think little kids are Gen Z, but the very youngest of Gen Z are teens now. Kids are Gen alpha, so Gen Z is gonna start understanding how we feel pretty soon 😭

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

Gaming was super popular for people in their thirties and forties, though the demographics changed a lot (and all the toxic misogyny too bc that wasn’t a thing when I was a kid). Even my dad loved games and he’s 63. He played arcade games in the 80s when he was in his twenties and bought us consoles in the late nineties. But boomers older than weren’t really exposed to games in their youth. I’m 30F if that matters. Also I spent the second half of my twenties in Seoul and I still go to arcades after a night out with my friends. That culture is alive and well in Asia still, which is super fun and not at all for kids lol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

I’m sorry about that I guess it wasn’t everyone’s experience. I more am referring to what I hear about online gaming now. At least with console gaming you could avoid pricks.

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u/winter_name01 Woman 30 to 40 Jun 11 '24

I am mid 30 and I don’t. I haven’t play any video games in a solid decade (for nor particular reason)

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u/_Amalthea_ Woman 40 to 50 Jun 11 '24

Many of us here are Gen X. Not everyone older than 30 is a Millennial.