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Title: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Fizzygoo on <12-03-10/1704:20>
I like stats. Just interested in seeing the range, average, etc. of the age of Shadowrun players.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Fizzygoo on <12-03-10/1709:19>
Of course the headline may be misleading...looking for player's ages, not the ages of the characters you play :)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Casazil on <12-03-10/1733:41>
http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=118.0 (http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=118.0)

This has been done already
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Fizzygoo on <12-03-10/1751:27>
There's old age setting in for you. I went through the General Discussion looking to see if it had been done and (obviously) didn't see it.

Alright then, move along, never mind, nothing to see here (can I delete a thread/poll that I've started he now asks to no one in particular...hehe)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: FastJack on <12-03-10/2054:00>
Ha! I was wondering why it wasn't showing me the results when I opened this...
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Doc Chaos on <12-04-10/1403:53>
Still not 30 :( Dammit...
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Mystic on <12-07-10/0131:17>
Doc, 30 aint any better than 29. Don't be in such a hurry.

 8)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Doc Chaos on <12-07-10/0229:16>
But I get to use a cool saying we got in germany. "Don't trust anybody under 30!" Me want ;)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Usda Beph on <12-07-10/0859:52>
I get to change my age group in March but for now I'm not in the 45-dirt group! :-* ;D ;)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Chaotic Insane on <12-07-10/1007:35>
that second 17-24 was probably Doom. XD
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Usda Beph on <12-07-10/1144:52>
that second 17-24 was probably Doom. XD
Where's Codak for the 16 and under group!  :-X :( :-\ :) :D ;D
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Kot on <12-07-10/1147:46>
(laughs) I'm 28, and soon to be 29. And i feel young, when i see your wrinkled avatars. :P
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Usda Beph on <12-07-10/1153:46>
Hey... My avatar is bearly 3 months old!



I bought that mini for our First Run!(what 2 months ago now?)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: The_Gun_Nut on <12-09-10/1048:58>
My avatar is a hot chick with a gun.

Hot chicks with guns never get old.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Doc Chaos on <12-09-10/1130:10>
I second that.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: FastJack on <12-09-10/1152:30>
My avatar is a hot chick with a gun.

Hot chicks with guns never get old.
Yes, they do (http://radio-weblogs.com/0127719/radioStationPictures/images/2004/02/03/granny%20gun.jpg). They just aren't as hot.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: The_Gun_Nut on <12-09-10/1306:56>
Double-entendre check:  Failed.

You ARE getting old, 'Jack.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: etherial on <12-09-10/1353:18>
My avatar is a hot chick with a gun.

Hot chicks with guns never get old.
Yes, they do (http://radio-weblogs.com/0127719/radioStationPictures/images/2004/02/03/granny%20gun.jpg). They just aren't as hot.

You, sir, are mistaken (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2624554496/tt1245526).
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: FastJack on <12-09-10/1353:58>
My avatar is a hot chick with a gun.

Hot chicks with guns never get old.
Yes, they do (http://radio-weblogs.com/0127719/radioStationPictures/images/2004/02/03/granny%20gun.jpg). They just aren't as hot.

You, sir, are mistaken (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2624554496/tt1245526).
Dammit man, Helen Mirren is the exception to EVERY rule.

The woman's played Morgana/Morgan le Fey (Excalibur - 1981), DCI Jane Tennison (Prime Suspect), one of the Calendar Girls, the voice of Deep Thought (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), the bloody QUEEN OF ENGLAND (seriously, how many brits would be up to playing HER in a biopic while she's still alive) and is now playing Prospera in The Tempest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdpQcFdfXdY).
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: imperialus on <12-14-10/1242:04>
I'm 29, but my group has people in it ranging in age from their early 40's down to 14 so...
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: The_Gun_Nut on <12-14-10/1447:55>
My avatar is a hot chick with a gun.

Hot chicks with guns never get old.
Yes, they do (http://radio-weblogs.com/0127719/radioStationPictures/images/2004/02/03/granny%20gun.jpg). They just aren't as hot.

You, sir, are mistaken (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2624554496/tt1245526).
Dammit man, Helen Mirren is the exception to EVERY rule.

The woman's played Morgana/Morgan le Fey (Excalibur - 1981), DCI Jane Tennison (Prime Suspect), one of the Calendar Girls, the voice of Deep Thought (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), the bloody QUEEN OF ENGLAND (seriously, how many brits would be up to playing HER in a biopic while she's still alive) and is now playing Prospera in The Tempest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdpQcFdfXdY).
So, my original point still stands, then.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Dead Monky on <12-14-10/1502:28>
Hot chicks with guns?  Yeah, that's good.  I prefer hot chicks with swords though.

(http://www.hdtvsolutions.com/images/articles/SinCity_Miho.jpg)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Kot on <12-14-10/1536:49>
That's a katana. Technically not a sword. And girls with swords are hot. Dangerously. As a former member of a 'knight brotherhood'* i can confirm that.


*Not exactly like your ren faires. More historically accurate, professional and strictly organized. And a lot more awesome.  Just check out the battle of Grunwald reenactment this year.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Dead Monky on <12-14-10/1540:38>
A katana is a sword.  Everything I've ever seen or read about katanas and swords says katanas are swords.  Why wouldn't they be?
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: The_Gun_Nut on <12-15-10/0244:53>
Because they are EXOTIC!! ooooooo!

For some reason, that's enough to get some folks to call it different.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Kot on <12-15-10/0643:08>
Katanas are katanas. 'Sword' is contractual here, as it has very different method of use. No parrying, different kind of combat use (not cutting through armor - cutting it's bindings to remove protection). I used both, and decided not to play with the katana, even if it was just a normal metal replica. Its fast, tough to handle, and works only with quick, short movements, unlike the sword (which depends more on your own strength and it's application, and can easily hurt someone through armor).
I know that's just me grumbling, but they're as different as it can be. Just look at swords and sabers. Even they're totally different kinds or weapons, they have more in common than with a katana. Hell, a katana could cut through a chainmail if you used a long, flat, pulling move. But it would be useless after one or two strikes - too much strain on the material, totally dulled.
That's also why in all those samurai movies everything ends in one attack. Or two-three at the least. One strike at an unarmored opponent kills or cripples him.

P.S. I have some meelee training, and knowledge. But by no means am i an expert. I just use logic, and can off course be wrong, when it comes to 'official' scientific terms. :P
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Head Hunter on <12-15-10/0809:11>
A Katana is still a type of sword. <_<
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: The_Gun_Nut on <12-15-10/0812:51>
Very much so.

It's like saying an epee isn't a sword because you can't slash with it.  Or a claymore isn't a sword because it's too long.

For the curious, look here http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sword (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sword).

The katana, epee, and claymore all qualify.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Darkeus on <12-15-10/0832:03>
I am 32 myself....

Meh.  :)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Head Hunter on <12-15-10/0843:18>
32 is the new 23. I am 18. I hope I am not too young.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Fizzygoo on <12-15-10/1329:44>
I had feared that, Head Hunter, as that would mean 35 is the new 53, le sigh :)

18 too young? Never. Some of my best friends were 18...most were actually, no wait, all of them, yup, so you're in good company.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Mystic on <12-15-10/1351:20>
32 is the new 23. I am 18. I hope I am not too young.

It's not the age, it's the milage....if that's the case, I should be about 80.

 ;D
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Head Hunter on <12-15-10/2009:07>
That's true @ Mystic.

And, 35 can be the new 25. It has potential. Well, I am glad 18 is accepted. I usually get along with the older crowd better than my own. :)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Mystic on <12-15-10/2141:29>
Back when I was running SR2 (yikes, I suddenly feel old), one of my friends brought his 15 year old nephew into the group. We gave him a good welcome, he took his lumps, and became one of the best players of the group. I tend not to look so much at age, but maturity. Ive seen people who are supposedly "kids" act better than those three times their age. *shrugs*
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Patrick Goodman on <12-19-10/1642:13>
Got about three months left of being in the 44 group, then I graduate to "Midlife Crisis".
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Mystic on <12-21-10/0820:27>
Got about three months left of being in the 44 group, then I graduate to "Midlife Crisis".

Got a hot car and flashy girlfriend ready? Or is it a flashy car and hot girlfriend....I dont know. Im not allowed to have a midlife crisis..

 :P
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: FastJack on <12-21-10/0839:07>
Meh, gamer's mid-life crises usually involve picking up a copy of a World of Darkness game and LARPing at a local con.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: The_Gun_Nut on <12-21-10/1056:38>
You know what's hilarious?  LARPing an Amberite with a bunch of vampires.

Oh, god, that's funny.  Especially when you tell the vamps that you decided to change how their powers work, and then leave them in a reality that enslaves vampires to grow mushrooms.
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Mystic on <12-23-10/0056:57>
Meh, gamer's mid-life crises usually involve picking up a copy of a World of Darkness game and LARPing at a local con.

Whoa, I know those people! I used to game with them! Was "asked not to return" (Read: got kicked out of) though. Evidently they don't like it when two mere "mongrels" manage to take out several high ranking vampires with explosive trashcans containing a holy-water and soaked wood-shrapnel core. Guess it didn't help to proclaim "Its open season on all suck-heads!" when we did it...No one has a sense of humor anymore

A nuwisha and a ragabash with a high demolitions skill, resources, and time. Two months of work for 30 seconds of bliss. Worth it.

 ;D

Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Kot on <12-23-10/0635:27>
A Ratkin with Itchy Form. :D
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Caine Hazen on <12-23-10/0945:21>
You know what's hilarious?  LARPing an Amberite with a bunch of vampires.
That is hilarious.  Glad to see there are other Amberites around still though!
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: BookWyrm on <12-29-10/0003:52>
Hell & Brimstone, thanks you lot for making' ME feel old. >:(
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Critias on <12-29-10/0004:29>
Hell & Brimstone, thanks you lot for making' ME feel old. >:(
Did someone just admit to being our sole 64+ voter? 
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: Outrider45 on <01-02-11/1717:17>
Hell & Brimstone, thanks you lot for making' ME feel old. >:(
Did someone just admit to being our sole 64+ voter? 

Nah, I think that honor belongs to FastJack.  ;)
Title: Re: Shadowrunner Age Poll
Post by: FastJack on <01-02-11/1743:37>
Hell & Brimstone, thanks you lot for making' ME feel old. >:(
Did someone just admit to being our sole 64+ voter? 

Nah, I think that honor belongs to FastJack.  ;)
Har-har-har.