The Video Game Generation Grows Up

MarchingAnts writes "The Gaming Generation: Once A Gamer, Always A Gamer has interviews with Gabe from Penny Arcade, best-selling science-fiction author John Scalzi, veteran games journalist and founder of gamerdad.com Andrew Bub, futurologist Dr. Michael Zey, and sociologist Dr. Steve Jones commenting on the phenomena of how video gamers are coping with balancing their hobby with marriages, careers, and how video games might affect families in the future. 'Mike Krahulik, better known to his legions of fans as Gabe, one-half of the team behind the gaming webcomic Penny Arcade, says that time is the biggest challenge in blending gaming and parenthood. "You just don't have as much time for gaming," he says, "when you're getting up every 30 minutes to change diapers and get thrown up"'"

get thrown up?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thatsa a stronga baby!

My kids learnt fast

[LiquidCoooled]

They have to frag me to get their tea.
If I win the tournament they go hungry.

(Only joking, though tonight I was teaching my youngest how to type his name :D )

Re:Walt Disney...

[dr_dank]

When I was a kid, there was a Walt Disney movie about a car nut who baby cries sounded like a car horn, crashes the classroom car simulator, and finds love in the back seat of the car.

Times like this I wish Slashdot had a +1 - Batshit insane Disney reference moderation.

This is all very simple

[travdaddy]

"You just don't have as much time for gaming," he says, "when you're getting up every 30 minutes to change diapers and get thrown up"'"

There are very simple solutions to this:
Don't change the diapers. They'll get potty trained faster that way.
Also, don't let your kids throw you up, it hurts. Teach them some manners.

Re:There is the other side of the coin, though.

[Tackhead]

> While you don't have as much time for gaming, it is still more convenient than the more...traditional ways of entertaining one self.

If you'd spent more time... entertaining yourself more traditionally, you wouldn't have kids, and you'd still have time for gaming.

> Or even better, I can simply play solo. All around, its a form of entertainment that has tens of thousands of hours worth of amusement, and is within reach of the kids:

Dude, I was about to say you were getting it, but that last bit is just so terribly, terribly, wrong :)

Re:There is the other side of the coin, though.

[mollymoo]

While you don't have as much time for gaming, it is still more convenient than the more...traditional ways of entertaining one self.

I find I can balance family life with gaming and masturbation perfectly well. It's a really question of planning and sticking to that plan. Or the plan sticking to you.

Remember, it's only one week till the 10 days of wanking for peace [masturbateforpeace.com]. Touch your sack, not Iraq!

Re:If /. is a game...

[LiquidCoooled]

I don't think anyone can win, but there are a few level 60 mages around.

Watch out in the dark places, there may be a grue.
And don't get caught by the goatse troll, your eyes will never forgive you.

Re:My kids learnt fast

[bitt3n]

They have to frag me to get their tea.

I hope your kid isn't named Oedipus, because you may be giving him ideas...

Re:only on slashdot.

[cultrhetor]

I agree. I knew a /.-esque nerd whose wife would do anything to get his attention away from whatever Medal of Honor or GTA game he had just purchased. She would walk by him naked, telling him it was bedtime, and he'd ignore her completely. Made me wonder - she was stacked.

Re:So what? My kid's a gamer too.

[crvtec]

Her younger brother will also learn how to use a computer. Right now he's working on "crawling".

He works for a search engine company?

Re:My kids learnt fast

[vimh42]

Yeah. Gaming is tougher as I get older. It used to be I just rocked her to sleep while playing Quake3 or UT or something. Now it goes something like this.

Me: "Heals, I need a heal!"
Daughter: "Daddy! I'm scared!"
Me: "You're not even getting hit. Just heal me!"

I'm losing my independence.

Re:it's called...

[Anonymous Coward]

Sadly, when the kids are in bed is the best time to do the dishes, the laundry, pay the bills, clean the house, or most of the other daily chores that need to be done.

Uh...that is what I have a wife for.

Re:So what? My kid's a gamer too.

[Beardo the Bearded]

Yeah, he works for Droolgle.

All he's interested in searching for is boobies.

Re:So what? My kid's a gamer too.

[tomjen]

Not much different than the average man on the internet then.