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In the culture war, in that age group, it was a Battle of Midway moment

Exactly. Most people here on Free Republic have no idea that it happened, what it was, and why it was so important. Even though I'm a gen-x guy, I've always been involved in gaming from the very beginning. I was in a talented and gifted program in Middle School where we had access to the very early Apple computers. Typically for me I didn't take the opportunity to learn code. I gamed.

[Psalm 144]

I’m a geezer but I have gamed almost my whole life - I just watched the technology change. It’s funny, most of my friends now are young enough to be my children or even grandchildren. What we have in common for the most part is gaming. My wife thinks it is stupid, always has, and thinks it is more appropriate to sit around with other geezers and moan to each other about our physical decline. Not me. I’m with these kids figuring out how to min/max our characters or rosters.

Anyway, I am FAR more optimistic about the young people than the Boomers, who are ineducable, passionless, weak minded and weak spirited for the most part. Boomers - and I am one, alas - are the ones who very nearly fumbled the ball.