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86-Year-Old Gamer

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  • #2
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    glynf wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21116544

    One cool old lady...Hope I'm playing GTA XVII or whatever if I get to 86..

    65 inch feckin screen......:eek: .....ould hag! :mad:
    Her pad is lush, looks like a top of the line Samsung, brand new PS3....she's minted and i'm jealous! :mad:


  • #3
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    65 inch feckin screen......:eek: .....ould hag! :mad:
    Her pad is lush, looks like a top of the line Samsung, brand new PS3....she's minted and i'm jealous! :mad:

    Cant be too minted if the hasnt got a good spec PC :)
    She doesnt know what shes missing.


  • #4
    maximoose
    Registered Users Posts: 9,196 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Article wrote:
    It is predicted that by the end of this year, female gamers will outnumber men for the first time

    Really?! I find that hard to believe


  • #5
    Burning Eclipse
    Registered Users Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭Burning Eclipse


    Dcully wrote: »
    Cant be too minted if the hasnt got a good spec PC :)
    She doesnt know what shes missing.

    Never miss an opportunity, do you? :p


  • #6
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Burning Eclipse wrote: »
    Never miss an opportunity, do you? :p

    Never :)


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  • #7
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Dcully wrote: »
    Cant be too minted if the hasnt got a good spec PC :)
    She doesnt know what shes missing.

    One would imagine that grown men wouldn't be so insecure over whatever platform they've chosen to play something as trivial as video games on.

    And yet, here we are.....


  • #8
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    hooradiation wrote: »
    One would imagine that grown men wouldn't be so insecure over whatever platform they've chosen to play something as trivial as video games on.

    And yet, here we are.....


    You should go shopping for a sense of humour :rolleyes:


  • #9
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,499 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    maximoose wrote: »
    Really?! I find that hard to believe

    Facebook :(


  • #10
    gimli2112
    Registered Users Posts: 13,407 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    That's how OAPs drive round my way IRL.


  • #11
    BizzyC
    Registered Users Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    Fair play to her, that's how I plan on spending a large chunk of my retirement....


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  • #12
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Dcully wrote: »
    You should go shopping for a sense of humour :rolleyes:

    Oh - that was a joke.....

    Weird, aren't jokes meant to be funny? I mean at least on some level?
    It would seem I've been very much misinformed on the nature of jokes.

    How troubling.


  • #13
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    hooradiation wrote: »
    Oh - that was a joke.....

    Weird, aren't jokes meant to be funny? I mean at least on some level?
    It would seem I've been very much misinformed on the nature of jokes.

    How troubling.

    Seriously man wtf is up with you?
    I was just having a laugh, why you having such a hump over it?
    Maybe keep on topic and quit your crap? your spoiling a good story.


  • #14
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,798 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    If i live to that age, i will be the exact same!


  • #15
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    If i live to that age, i will be the exact same!


    here! here!


  • #16
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Old folks homes in the future will just be LAN areas. Park up the old geezer in front of a console / PC and let them shout "You fùckin fàggot n00b!!" to their heart's content :pac:


  • #17
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    If that's a glimpse of my future, I welcome it!
    Nice one!


  • #18
    Wossack
    Registered Users Posts: 6,997 ✭✭✭Wossack


    only way Im going to get to play halflife 3 by the looks of things


  • #19
    glynf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf


    ..


  • #20
    glynf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Old folks homes in the future will just be LAN areas. Park up the old geezer in front of a console / PC and let them shout "You fùckin fàggot n00b!!" to their heart's content :pac:


    lol. I can see it now; lobbed out hooked up to an oculus rift, colostomy bag and life support machine moaning about hackers and lag.

    could be worse...


  • #21
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Jesus, I was expecting this pensioner to be playing a PSOne on a 20 inch CRT TV! What a setup she has!

    Ok so its not a top of the line PC, sniff, but its not bad for an 86 year old woman! :D


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  • #22
    Grumpypants
    Registered Users Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭Grumpypants


    I was recently playing MOH and got chatting to a guy and he was 84 playing on his laptop. Loved his FPS and sharp as a button, I know how condescending it is to be amazed that older people are able to do things !


  • #23
    Big Knox
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Big Knox


    My old man is retired and plays on a daily basis. He has a 360 which he plays CoD on and he now gets all my old PC parts and has a half decent system which he plays CS:GO on! I've tried to get him to branch out but he just loves military FPS's!

    He used to be a nightmare to buy presents for at Christmas. The usual old lad nonsense of "just get me a book and some socks" is a thing of the past as I got him Black Ops 2 and a new controller this year! Ironically he used to give me sh1t for playing games so much when I used to live at home and now he probably plays more than I do!! :pac:


  • #24
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Big Knox wrote: »
    My old man is retired and plays on a daily basis. He has a 360 which he plays CoD on and he now gets all my old PC parts and has a half decent system which he plays CS:GO on! I've tried to get him to branch out but he just loves military FPS's!

    He used to be a nightmare to buy presents for at Christmas. The usual old lad nonsense of "just get me a book and some socks" is a thing of the past as I got him Black Ops 2 and a new controller this year! Ironically he used to give me sh1t for playing games so much when I used to live at home and now he probably plays more than I do!! :pac:


    Great story :)


  • #25
    penev10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭penev10


    NOOB!!!


  • #26
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    did i see disgea 4 ther?!?! :confused::confused::confused:


  • #27
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Dcully wrote: »
    Seriously man wtf is up with you?
    I was just having a laugh, why you having such a hump over it?
    Maybe keep on topic and quit your crap? your spoiling a good story.

    Maybe you should try going a few weeks without making yet another post that amounts to nothing more than "PC GAMINGZ IZ DA BES!"
    You know, before you get all uppity with other people?


  • #28
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    hooradiation wrote: »
    Maybe you should try going a few weeks without making yet another post that amounts to nothing more than "PC GAMINGZ IZ DA BES!"
    You know, before you get all uppity with other people?

    GAMINGZ IZ DA BES!


  • #29
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,080 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    did i see disgea 4 ther?!?! :confused::confused::confused:

    She has good taste.


  • #30
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    hooradiation wrote: »
    Maybe you should try going a few weeks without making yet another post that amounts to nothing more than "PC GAMINGZ IZ DA BES!"
    You know, before you get all uppity with other people?


    Take a chill pill , dont take a gaming forum so seriously, if you have a problem theres a report button one click away for you.

    Ive already said i was having a laugh [did you not see the smiley or maybe you dont get what it means?] but since you seem to lack a sense of humour and prefer to get stressed about it then so be it, its your call but your derailing this thread something terrible.

    Ill gladly discuss whatever it is thats your beef with me via pm [to save this thread from whatever it is you got an issue with], which incidentally is also a simple click away.

    PS : Can i have your quote of "PC GAMINGZ IZ DA BES!" for a sig maybe? its fecking class :)


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  • #31
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    oh, just ignore him
    he occasionally posts something useful but most of the time he just comes on here to be a crotchety bastard


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