eris
King
I don't use Facebook. Nothing there appeals to me. I have three adult children. All three are on Facebook. One plays Farmville. This is my clue that the future will occur whether it includes me or not.
We have this unspoken arrangement. I don't mock them for using Facebook. They don't mock me for playing this unnecessarily complicated, tediously long, and boringly historical game call Civ. They admit that I seem to be having fun with my game. I admit that people who aren't Civ fanatics still have a right to consume oxygen. Neither side feels the need to declare superiority of themselves or to deprecate the other.
Given the tone of conversation I see in this thread, I have to ask, are we the only family/people with this kind of approach to those who play different games for different reasons? Should I be insulting their intelligence every chance I get? Should they be pointing out that I indulge in a game style nobody really cares about anymore as a sign of my increasing obsolescence and irrelevance in their lives?
Just wondering if I can be a Civfanatic and love my children at the same time or if I am irrelevant to Civfanatics even more than to my kids. This thread seems to suggest the latter.
We have this unspoken arrangement. I don't mock them for using Facebook. They don't mock me for playing this unnecessarily complicated, tediously long, and boringly historical game call Civ. They admit that I seem to be having fun with my game. I admit that people who aren't Civ fanatics still have a right to consume oxygen. Neither side feels the need to declare superiority of themselves or to deprecate the other.
Given the tone of conversation I see in this thread, I have to ask, are we the only family/people with this kind of approach to those who play different games for different reasons? Should I be insulting their intelligence every chance I get? Should they be pointing out that I indulge in a game style nobody really cares about anymore as a sign of my increasing obsolescence and irrelevance in their lives?
Just wondering if I can be a Civfanatic and love my children at the same time or if I am irrelevant to Civfanatics even more than to my kids. This thread seems to suggest the latter.