It'll hopefully be a keyboard and mouse for me

Wait, you guys get to retire?

My retirement plan is 10 grams of lead
- Real (real)
- My retirement plan is society collapsing on itself
- Ahh the old "Smith & Wesson Retirement Plan"
- 4 bars and some fenty. Nu fuss, no muss.
I'm gonna turn my on / off switch to "off".
I plan to build up my retirement fund to buy my medication for a month and then we'll take it from there
I've got 27 years until I am old enough to get my pension.
- 26 to the month for me. assuming they don't change it again
I choose the Kurt Cobain retirement.

You think people our age will be able to afford to retire? Ha.

That's something the boomers and upper classes took with them.

You think people our age will reach retirement age? Ha.
Boomers and gen X are the ones not able to retire. Most of the younger generations have that ability.
- Please explain.

I’m not afraid of retirement, I’m afraid of needing to work on the day of my funeral.

You and me both.
My mother is already kinda facing that and I feel like it's almost treason for politicians to keep extending the retirement age on all of us.

Retiring doesn't seem like an option from my perspective.. Better start gaming now

Instructions unclear, got fired for gaming at work. I guess its early retirement for me.

Arthritis has entered the game

Please no.
- Probably have games that watch your eye movements and track biological changes your body feels when you want to pick something. Maybe
When my reaction time goes I switch to civ.
by the time i retire i'm hoping we perfect brain interfaces (which looking at what we currently have isn't too far-fetched)
- Or that medecine advances enough to solve these diseases and make our late days a bit more comfortable.
And it sucks. Already got RSI and sadly isn't anything that helps beyond resting...

Never understood that attitude. As folks mention the math for most of us does not seem to include any type of voluntary retirement and when we do its going to be because we are so messed up we can't work which likely means we won't be able to game. Seriously though, even before our electronic age, there are so many worthwhile things to do outside of clocking into a job.

You're dealing with a generation retiring where a significant minority dedicated themselves to their jobs 100% to fulfill their family duty of being a provider. So they became boring ass people chasing overtime and money to the detriment of developing themselves as people.
Once these people retire, they don't know what to do with themselves.
- I mean this is me to some degree. My job pays for everything. Is super important and I have to constantly be about the job in my life (unfortunately). I even like what I do to some degree, but all the same there is much more than it in this world.
I'm going to take up birdwatching and hope I die in the wetlands to the sound of a thousand red-winged blackbirds singing their mating calls.
- Damn dude I hope you die that way too.

It's not the first day that's a challenge. It's the 100th day and beyond .

- You underestimate my ability to find new hobbies.
- A hobby is fun because you do it on your spare time
  Grim. Why not get hobbies you actually like
Is it? During Covid lockdowns I gamed like there was no tomorrow. Sure, a little burnout at some point, but taking a break for a couple days usually fixed it and then I could start again to game as hard; I think that being able to go outside at will would help much more with the feeling of burnout, so I don't see gaming during retirement being not fun at any point haha
- I remember seeing news articles about how people were allegedly getting "stressed out from lack of social contact" and I'm over here with my family enjoying being left the hell alone, able to relax for a change and not deal with other peoples expectations and boring ass social events that we're usually forced to go to. Being able to just play 100 days of video games and only work when I absolutely had to was great.
  What it showed us was that all the bullshit about having to be "productive members of society" and the focus on productivity was exactly that. Western society could function just fine and be a lot happier if the 1% didn't get handed yet another ivory back scratcher.

I knew gentleman that was 100 (he literally turned 100 the year I met him). He was one of the most sharp people at the retirement home; I think a lot of it was the fact he loved the internet and gaming.

Edit: If any of you are history nerds with a good concept of time, you may have thought of something:

HE SAW CIVIL WAR VETERANS; HE WAS THAT OLD. I say "saw" because he only ever saw them in parades, never spoke to them. I asked him if they let the confederates on the floats and he just laughed and said "no" (I wish people had that common sense nowadays) . He also thought I was asking if he FOUGHT in the civil war, so that got a good laugh out of him aswell. Cool dude all around. He used to give me a lot of shit, but now he's just another grandpa to me.

It makes you wonder how much things have actually really changed under the surface when you realize that it's only their great grandkids that are still in charge of things today.
- Minorities in many parts of the south don't have to wonder

The idea of fearing retirement because you don't know what you'll do with yourself is incredibly depressing and really reflects how much of our lives revolve around making others rich

This is sad and really true.

I hope people aren't counting on playing games that require fast reaction speeds. If your jam is turn-based games you're in luck, you should be good to 100. But, if you're a competitive online gamer, you're in for a rude shock if you think you're going to retire and compete against the 20-somethings.

Nah, I'll just move to toplane and become a garen otp
- Spin-to-win, innit.
Every competitive game has a ranking system. I do not see any issue playing and trying to improve, just reduce your expectations.
A lot of 20 year olds are trash in a lot of competitive games
It's not just reaction time that interferes wirh us old folks gaming, it's developers insistence on making game mechanics as uncomfortable as possible. I just don't have the stamina or flexibility to spend 15 minutes fighting some insanely difficult boss fight over multiple stages while constantly mashing buttons.
I think there should be an "Experienced gamer" difficulty level where the rest of the game is normal difficulty level, but the boss fights are less of an endurance challenge.
Or just set up a private server and play against the other people in the retirement home.
Most games aren't competitive though or even require twitch reflexes.

I'm not even 40 and my elbows are totally ruined from using a mouse and keyboard, game controller and phone too much... My gaming days are nearly over and it SUCKS

Hey I see you. I had some serious tennis elbow a few years ago that basically prevented me from using my dominant hand for a few weeks. I couldn't even lift a cup of water with it. I went to PT and they gave me some exercises and stretches to do. The stretches maybe helped but the exercises were trivially easy and did nothing for me. It feels like it got better just by leaving it alone more than anything. It's acted up every once in a while since then, mostly when I get cocky and do something stupid. Recently I decided to find out how to actually fix it, and I found out that the exercises they gave me were actually ineffective, according to the medical literature. In order to improve tendon health and heal chronic tendon injuries, you need to do resistance training. The best method to improve tendon strength and health is to do like 2 or 3 low rep sets, with as much weight as you can handle, every week. It takes high tension to grow tendons, with low tension doing basically nothing. You also want to do the exercises with slow deliberate motion to avoid sudden high loading of the tendons. I've been doing that for my tennis elbow for the past couple months and it has helped a lot. It was scary at first to load my elbow with a lot of weight, but I slowly worked up to it and was careful every time and haven't had a flareup since, despite doing more lifting than I have in my life. My suggestion is to find an exercise that works the problem tendons, and slowly increase the resistance over some weeks, to as much weight as you can lift. Always be slow and deliberate. It shouldn't cause you pain at any point, and if it does back off to where it doesn't.
Tldr; research says to improve tendon strength do high weight low rep exercises with slow deliberate motion. Growing tendons takes longer than muscles so take your time. Should help your pain. Is working forme.y
- Can you link to these tendon exercises?
- This is amazing advice. I'll look in to this, thank you.
Have you considered going to a PT?
- Have done, best they could do was tell me to stop doing the things that trigger it... Great!
This is why accessibility features excite me. In addition to helping people with disabilities now, I foresee a future where I will be needing them in the nursing home.
- And for that, everyone should check out this site - caniplaythat.com - I'm also blind and this site comes in very handy to know which titles have options wise for accessibility needs.

I thought I would never tire of vidya. And then one day I realised I was basically done gaming. Maybe when my body starts failing me I will come back to it, but I don't know...

It's a weird thing. I never really stopped playing video games. There were games I played pretty kuch daily, if only for half an hour or so. Then if i stop for some reason (vacation, girlfriend, no time, whatever) and i didn't play any video games for a week or two, i don't have any urge to go back really. And then i fire up a old ir brand new game and i remember how much i like it.
- @BruceTwarzen @Kushia @Flyberius, i'm 70 Jears old and i still like good Videogames in a spare time. Keeps the mind fresh.
This was me for many years when I joined the military. But then it fucked me up and gave me PTSD and now it's about the most productive thing I'm capable of aside from posting terrible memes so I can totally see how our generation will retire back into video game connoisseurs now.
- As long as my old consoles still work. Imma be playing them.
- Sometimes its just that there is no game that scratches that itch in your head that you had when you were younger - bg3 scratches that itch for me too

I would probably party all day.

Well not all day. I also need a pause to regenerate and stuff. Also it's not fun doing it all the time

What do you mean by "party"?

If the gaming industry survive till then.

I got a backlog of like 200 games.. the gaming industry could die tomorrow and I still wouldn't run out of games for the next 5-10 years.
- Same here, haha, between my early days of game collecting and then Steam sales fever, I have so many more games than I'm realistically going to be able to beat. Plus I'm a bit of a datahoarder, so I have everything either on physical media, and the respective console to play it, or backed up on drives, and I plan to further improve my storage in the near future, so even if Steam or the entire internet goes down, as long as there's electricity, I'm good
- Assuming Steam survives, or your console manufacturer keeps releasing updates, or whatever.
  In the cartridge days all you needed was the console and the cartridge. As the years go by, you rely more and more on online services, software updates, and so-on. Even for supposedly offline single-player games, many of them stop working eventually.
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