hellegenes wrote:Look, there are some things at which you get better as you age and some things that you get worse at. That goes the other way around too. There's nothing wrong with accepting the weaknesses and strengths of your current age. Ageism is when you're using someone's age to justify their exclusion from something or to criticize them or belittle their abilities (that applies to all ages). Note that I never said that one can't create once -or before- they reach a certain age, I just argued that the average person's most productive and creative years are between the ages of 20 and 40. Most people are able to be creative also while they are outside those loosely defined boundaries, but their peak, on average, will be during those years. May I remind you how much better Spielberg, Lucas and Cameron were in their early years?
I already talked about scientists, so take musicians for example. Bands, singers, songwriters. The vast majority of non-scholar musicians have created their best works during their 20's and 30's. The same goes for writers. If you look up most classic pieces of literature, you will unsurprisingly find that most of them were written when their authors were young. Harper Lee died a few months ago. You may know her as the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird", which she wrote when she was 30-something. She died at age 89. Jane Austen wrote "Pride and Prejudice", her most famous novel, when she was 21. Herman Melville wrote "Moby-Dick" at 32. Alcott wrote "Little Women" when she was 36. Mary Shelley was 21 when she wrote "Frankenstein" (she died aged 53). Shakespeare died at 52 years of age, but he produced most of his best and best known works before his mid-40's. Dickens wrote most of his works between the ages of 25 and 48. Golding wrote "Lord of the Files" when he was 43. I could go on for hours. The point is that most people are more creative when they are younger. It's not only a matter of opinion, it's scientifically established too and the reasons behind it are very well understood and they are both sociological and biological in nature.
Maybe JVC is one of the rare exceptions. But his track record after the end of the 90's doesn't support this notion; at least not for the time being. I would be glad to be proven wrong by JVC but this requires a game.
though I can sincerely appreciate the time you took to build up a good rhetoric and deductions here, I just disagree,
it's just not convincing, you can say "it's not only a matter of opinion, it's scientifically established too and the reasons behind it are very well understood", but citation needed there actually, that's not even true according to the sources I've read (rather the datalogical trends tend to vary on a discipline by discipline basis, and there have been no studies dedicated to professionals in video games to my knowledge lol),
apart from the sociological aspect which is definitely true and probably the main barrier derailing other potential "exceptions", I don't think your correlations can imply causation here, by definition there's no such thing as the average genius or visionary, and in any case, not to cause offense, but I personally think it's rather disrespectful to hint at applying any ageist, racist or sexist prejudice or stereotype to somebody before the fact anyway even if you have very reliable data on trends in races, ages or sexes, we are just better off not even going there generally, it's disrespectful and if we do that it often just contributes to a self-fulfilling prophecy lol
Baronus wrote:My opinion was cutted. Some of us read this...
Sorry censorship for cultural and meritoric critics is unacteptable. I must say good bye.
I must leave forum because I dont have way to tell what I think. Thanks for all and all :-)
if it were me, and really no disrespect but just talking plainly here, I sort of wonder if it's a bit counterproductive for mods to be eager to create a fuss over petty things like "mildly offensive statements" at this point, when the forum is basically on its last legs now and probably soon to close, just my two cents but real talk, maybe a bit of strategic common sense is called for,
at a thriving or even semi-active forum it would obviously be completely right to punish rule breaches whether big and small normally, but I mean we all know this place is sadly on the way out already to be honest, in this case that kind of truculence just seems to chase off the couple of people like Baronus who still care enough to post and do create discussions even if flawed, but look I mean whatever helps the moderator sleep at night, it's a sad situation but ultimately no skin off my nose I guess
