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  • Poll [700 votes]: What's your age? The age of the average Bungie forum visiter.
Subject: What's your age? The age of the average Bungie forum visiter.
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Poll: What's your age? The age of the average Bungie forum visiter.  [closed]
younger than 8, 8, 9:  0%
(1 Votes)
10, 11:  1%
(5 Votes)
12, 13:  12%
(82 Votes)
14, 15:  34%
(237 Votes)
16, 17:  26%
(180 Votes)
18, 19:  11%
(77 Votes)
20 - 25:  10%
(70 Votes)
25 - Should I really be this involved with a game?:  7%
(48 Votes)
Total Votes: 700

I've read a number of profoundly stupid threads. The topics are idiotic, the grammar and spelling is freakishly terrible, and most of the time I can't even figure out what people are trying to communicate. I might as well try to translate "wort wort wort." So, with that said, there are two possible contributers to this total lack of clear and intelligible thought.

1. There are a bunch of illiterate kids in the forums. Let's say....aged 10-17
2. There are a bunch of illiterate "adults" in the forums. Aged 18-maybe spending too much time with his/her Xbox for an adult.

So how old are you. Really.

  • 07.09.2004 1:01 PM PDT
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I am 15 and I really don't consider myself illiterate.

  • 07.09.2004 1:03 PM PDT
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I thought that it was proved that the average age of this forum is 16-17? And people are just to lazy to write properly, thats why.

  • 07.09.2004 1:17 PM PDT
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Me 14 but me talk good.

My grammar is decent most of the time. If you don't say stupid things and you use correct grammar, spelling, capitalization, puntuation, etc., you sound a lot older than you really are. People will like you better and respect your ideas more. Just my word of advice.

  • 07.09.2004 1:30 PM PDT
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Being 25+ doesn't mean that you don't belong

I mean, tell me the average age of the people making the game; really now...

  • 07.09.2004 1:44 PM PDT
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I'm 14, and I (try) to use perfect grammar in every post.

  • 07.09.2004 1:47 PM PDT
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  • 07.09.2004 2:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: Atsumi
I am 15 and I really don't consider myself illiterate.



Thats right! Im a 15 year old and I know that I could probably out spell and out edit any one here, especially the person who created this thread! I already have a 300 page Halo novel that I alone have edited and goes up in the fan fiction area at HBO! Now you just may think we are a bunch of kids but we know out stuff! I know almost anything about Bungie and Halo! Even Halo 2!

  • 07.09.2004 3:41 PM PDT

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I'm certifiable.

I'm 35, will be 36 very soon. For a game rated "M", you set the cut-off age far too low. (And the starting age as well...)

Slack-jawed troglodism isn't age specific... I've seen some brilliant 13 year olds show greater maturity than the 31 year olds that supposedly were responsible for them but should have been brought in with a leash. (And a flea-bath.)

However, there is a marked lack of maturity on here and that's making the moderators' work harder than it should be. Trying to narrow down why is far from a bad idea.

-- Steve just thinks that this isn't the way... but hasn't come up with a better idea yet, alas.

  • 07.09.2004 3:51 PM PDT
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I'm 14. 15 on the 27th of this month.

  • 07.09.2004 4:07 PM PDT
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I'm 15.

  • 07.09.2004 4:13 PM PDT
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I'm 13 and I know that the average age is 14 and 15 but who cares. A halo fan is a halo fan! What does age have to do with anything! Well anyway I'm not braging but I am mature and not stupid and I'm 13 but the point is it really doesn't matter!

  • 07.09.2004 4:13 PM PDT
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Some of the crap on Bungie's forum does seem to be a bit to much. Im 15, and I get sick of the spamming on New Mombasa pretty damn quick. People need to wise up just a teeny bit more, and then I wouldn't complain. But some of the crap that is pulled definitely irritates the hell outta me.

  • 07.09.2004 5:12 PM PDT

I'm 13 and I know that the average age is 14 and 15 but who cares. A halo fan is a halo fan! What does age have to do with anything!
The rating, maybe?

  • 07.09.2004 5:14 PM PDT
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I don't think age is the contributing factor to lack of maturity... I'm 16 and a half... I'm one of the big contributors to the "Mulling over marathon" thread along with eMCee, Ekim Zep and Recon Number 54... now I don't know how old the other 2 are but RN54 is 40, and we still hold an intelligent discussion.
One of the guys I've talked to was 56, and he started playing marathon 10 eyars ago like RN54... teh age cut off is a bit too low.
And goweb also has a nice point there, as does makaveli4life, some people on here shouldn't legally be playing the game, and some of the designers are probably way out of the age bracket!
besides... we haven't heard your age yet The_Ender ;-)

  • 07.09.2004 5:39 PM PDT
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Being 25+ doesn't mean that you don't belong

I mean, tell me the average age of the people making the game; really now...


I didn't mean that 25+ people don't belong. I merely meant that posting in forums and such is not exactly the best use of one's time. You, being a moderator and employee, are somewhat excused I suppose. I sure wouldn't want some of the kids in these forums typing the code for Halo 2. I'll be playing Halo 3 (if they make it) when I'm older than 25 I should think. Didn't mean to offend.

[Edited on 7/9/2004 8:02:11 PM]

  • 07.09.2004 7:50 PM PDT
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I'm 21 and a Libra. How's that? So far the only people that have posted here have been quite eloquent and well spoken. I've been rather impressed for the most part reading the posts in this thread. A few have mentioned that the 25 year cut off is too low. Perhpas I was wrong in that assessment. I'll probably be playing video games when I'm a few years older as well. (Provided quality games such as Halo are still being produced). I apologize if I offended anyone with that error. So, clearly as with any gathering of numerous people, there are idiots and immature people, as well as the intellectual and courteous. Thanks for all the great comments.

  • 07.09.2004 8:00 PM PDT
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I'm 16 and pretty sure i'm not illiterate. Usually if I make a mistake or don't type something right it's either because I did it on purpose or I'm just lazy. And believe me I am very lazy.

  • 07.09.2004 9:16 PM PDT
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Ah...laziness. The luxury of the American kid.

  • 07.09.2004 9:24 PM PDT

I was born on the second coming of [color=aqua]Reagan[/color]:)

  • 07.09.2004 9:24 PM PDT
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Opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one.

Knowledge is knowing Tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

There is no such thing as a bad decision, only good decisions based on flawed information.

I'm 20 years old and consider that i'm at an average age for a gamer (in the UK anyway). I can't stand all this e-mail/text message slang e.g. LOL, CU L8R etc. so i avoid using it like the plague. Little wonder so many teenagers sound like they couldn't string a coherent sentence together, they've probably forgotten how to. Actually, when i first got Live and started playing Project Gotham Racing 2 i was surprised to find that many people where as old or even older that me, and that i could hold an intelligent conversation with them. Yes, even about cars!

  • 07.10.2004 3:53 AM PDT

[color=white]35 here, and I'll still be playing Halo 2 when I turn 36 next April (seeing how I was 33 when I picked up Halo and my Xbox--in that order--and I'm still playing with both every week, if not every day).

What you decide to do with your time depends not on what age you are, but on the choices you make with the time you are given.
(Jesus, I sounded like Gandalf there, don't I?)

For example: Christopher Paolini, author of a popular "young adult" novel called Eragon, began writing it after completing high school at the tender age of 15. He's 18 now, and hard at work on the sequel, which will likely be another bestseller.
Tony Hawk, way over 25, still skateboards and (if the endorsements don't lie to us) plays with his video game systems (I don't know him personally, so perhaps I'm generalizing to make a point).
Wilmer Valderrama, "Fez" on That 70's Show, reportedly has an Xbox in his car. Is there really that much gridlock in L.A.?
Ray Bradbury, now 84 years old, still writes every single day, as he's done for the last 72 years. Granted, he, Wilmer, Tony, and Christopher are making money doing what they're doing, and we're not doing anything but being entertained by playing Halo and spending a lot of our free time lurking here on Bungie.net when we're not playing the game (or games) they've created. Not that all those guys play Halo, but they all choose different ways to use their time. I guess what I'm saying is, we're all wasting time, if we choose to look at it that way. I try not to.

Thanks for clarifying that you didn't mean to offend with the parameters of your poll, the_Ender. The way it was worded was questionable, and that's fine, but it obviously ruffled some feathers (which, I'll be the first to admit, is getting harder not to do around here).

Let's be careful out there--err, in here? Wherever.[/color]

  • 07.10.2004 4:33 AM PDT
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I'm 15. Yeah, everyone gasp and fly into a riot. But as a few people have said, and as Recon Number 54 put best, "More a function of intelligence and character that their age." So, not all of us youngins are complete idiots. Believe me. =P

  • 07.10.2004 7:23 AM PDT