Average age of KAG player?

25

 

That smile is very suspicious.
You're up to something, aren't you?

 

23 going on 24. :) (<-- see, Neat?)

Heh. I'm probably older than most people I play with and yet *I* can be a real dick some of the time. Prolonged exposure to stupidity ("Stop messing up my tower damnit! Go build your own!") + lag + lack of sleep and/or feeling cranky and stressed for RL reasons can tend towards me being a less than amiable blue baron at times. My apologies to any/all if you've had cause to be around me like that.

And just for the record (speaking as someone trained in developmental psychology):
Young people are not stupid/morons/idiots/etc. Granted the majority of them would do well to pay closer attention to peeps further down the road of life - but to call them out as retards is, well, infantile. Young people swim in a world that glorifies 'youth' but actually doesn't cater to the needs of those who are 'youthful' by virtue of their, you know, actually being younger. Young people also have a hell of a lot of change going on (physical, emotional, relational, situational, etc. --> all of it stressful and most of it happening all at once), they have higher levels of hormones (often over 14x what 20-40 year-olds are running around with --> keeping in mind that any increase in hormone levels tends to greatly amplify any stress or cognitive dissonance already present) and, to cap it off, this is the first time they've ever dealt with this shit before! (and experience goes a loooooooooong way to mitigating the whole 'change times stress to the power of hormone' problem --> which is why listening to older peeps is a good thing --> vicarious experience FTW! :D).

Of course, this is not to imply that young people are unstable or anything like that; rather, those of the younger persuasion tend to find themselves in the unenviable position of having to do new things (always scary) with untried skills (scarier still), a body that's not helping matters endocronologically (eep!) and [often] a general lack of support from the world around them (aww crap :(). It therefore behoves us older types to cut them some slack and (if possible) offer help/advice where/when needed.

tl;dr
Young people have a lot on their plate and often as not some bastard has stolen the fork - give 'em a break!

 

I have to say, you do raise a fair point; it's hard to count people who aren't involved with the community as a part of the community. But then, on the other hand, just because you don't know (or even see!) most of the people in your neighborhood doesn't mean they're not a part of it. So things kinda cut both ways.

Personally, I feel that those who aren't on the forums are 'nominal' members of the KAG community - they have the badge, they occasionally wear the shirt, but they're missing out on a large part of what KAG has to offer. We have a really warm and engaging community here, and I've noted a number of outsiders commenting how much they like what they see here. In that light, I think that the no. 1 duty of players who are plugged into the community (apart from enjoying the game+discourse and ensuring that things remain enjoyable) is to encourage those players who aren't plugged in to come on over, say "hi", receive a free KAG tip, and just generally participate in the wider life of the community.

(okay, enough off topic - just something to keep in mind next time you run across a noobie, eh?)

 

Where?

Also, I'm 17. ^_^