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I’m a similar age and also a gamer. For me it feels generational more than age. Gen X always seemed to see video games as a kids activity, even when they were in their 20s. While millennials see it as just another pastime, like tv and movies.
Exactly this. Games barely entered mainstream in the 80s, and marketed to kids. Most people who grew up at that time saw mostly kids playing video games, and got used to thinking it's a "kid thing" that people should really stop at age 20 and get a real hobby like fishing or day drinking.
Turns out: Kids who grew up in the 90's, saw 20 year olds play games and becase more flexible. 00's kids even more.
I'm 44. I had a rather annoying time in the dating pool with women self-selecting out due to hanging on to these old assumptions, and at some point decided to "fuck it - I'm going to work on being happy alone". Changed after a while when I met my current wife. We game together.
A 40-year-old in 2023 is a millennial.