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Civilization (insert number) and Football Manager are two addictions which I'm slowly getting over. Had a FM save game from the '06 game that I recently lost, that's almost five years worth of solid gaming. Taking a break until the next one comes out, until then its family and console gaming for me.

I'm older than you, Fable - I'm 72. And I'm fat (UK dress size 14), female, not depressed, and with reasonable social skills! Mind you, I was fat long before I started playing games.

And I wasn't sure if the survey was saying that playing computer games CAUSED fatness and depression and poor social skills, or if it was fat, depressed, unsocialised people who BECAME computer gamers...

Fljotsdale wrote:I'm older than you, Fable - I'm 72. And I'm fat (UK dress size 14), female, not depressed, and with reasonable social skills! Mind you, I was fat long before I started playing games.

I never suggested anybody was depressed--only that most people are briefly depressed each week. This is different from the clinical depression that they appear to have meant. Their use of terms was imprecise, and not appropriate to a study meant to be taken at all seriously, in my opinion.

As for being older than me, that's impossible. Ask anybody here. I'm older than dirt. I only answer to 57 because nobody would believe me if I told them I was really tens of thousands of years old. Sad, but true.

As for being female, according to most people in the Games Industry you don't exist, because they know no women or girls play games. So you obviously are a bot. Q.E.D.

And I wasn't sure if the survey was saying that playing computer games CAUSED fatness and depression and poor social skills, or if it was fat, depressed, unsocialised people who BECAME computer gamers...

I suspect they believe the two are mutually reinforcing, though it does not appear that which part played the chicken and which the egg was in the parameters of their research.

Personally I think there's much to be said for the opinion that people who spend their entire days creating and compiling such reports are both fat and chronically depressed.

:laugh: Yeah right, I'm a 72yr old bot... though frankly, I don't think bots had been thought of when I was born... er... activated...
I wonder what the male/female ratio of gamers actually is? Not that I'm planning to run a survey - unless the male/female gamers in here would like to have a poll on it. Tell you what, maybe I'll start one...

Fljotsdale wrote::laugh: Yeah right, I'm a 72yr old bot... though frankly, I don't think bots had been thought of when I was born... er... activated...
I wonder what the male/female ratio of gamers actually is? Not that I'm planning to run a survey - unless the male/female gamers in here would like to have a poll on it. Tell you what, maybe I'll start one...

I'm sure a lot more women play games than these jokers believe. Why, after all, should girls/women not play violent action titles, or FPS games, or strategy games? Switch the entertainment field out, and ask yourself this question: do women make up a much smaller percentage of the audience for action films, or espionage thrillers, or horror flicks? No, they certainly don't. And nobody has ever proven that women provide a smaller audience for games than men. But...if you're going to make games that only offer male heroes, you can certainly expect many women to find better things to do with their time.

Soapbox for rent.

fable wrote: But...if you're going to make games that only offer male heroes, you can certainly expect many women to find better things to do with their time.

Soapbox for rent.

Abso-bloomin-lutely! Though, I have to admit to playing games with only male protagonists. But that was a long time ago, and only because I couldn't find anything with a female hero. And I mean hero, btw, not heroine, because the origin of Hero was actually a woman called Hero, who was...er... heroic? I think it's an insult to call a woman a heroine; she is more entitled to the title Hero than a man is...

And that's me on a soapbox, too! :laugh:

Fljotsdale wrote:And I mean hero, btw, not heroine, because the origin of Hero was actually a woman called Hero, who was...er... heroic?

Reminds me of Fable (the game). Though it was so simplistic, than I'd venture to suggest a target audience of pre-teens. Think about it, chicken kicking?

But then you see the brothels, and start snickering to yourself; Molyneux has lost it.