Hi Dark, Well, I think everyone is going to have a rude awakening when that happens. I don't know if you have read it, but Elanor wrote a great article on 7-128's website about the baby boomers reaching 60, and the fact if mainstream video game companies don't act now they could be losing millions of dollars as that generation will no longer be able to buy and play their games. I think the RNIB is going to eventually have a similar experience in what books and magazines they offer.
After all, the baby boomer generation, my parents generation, grew up with the Adventures of Superman, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, the Invaders, and so on. Most were in their late 20's and early 30's when Star Wars was first introduced at the theaters and many of them have gone on to be lifelong fans of it. My point is weather the RNIB etc like it sci-fi is definitely something the baby boomers will be interested in, most of them are in their early 60's now, and will be having vision issues within the next 10 years or so. Eventually the shear number of requests will probably pressure them into making some kind of change. Cheers! On 6/14/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Unofrtunately Tom, with the rnib being so overbearing in this country, and > also having far more control, that atitude gets multiplied a hundred fold. > > As I've also said with regards to games, I wonder what is going to happen > when the generation who grew up in the 60's and 70's, the people currently > in their 40's and early 50's start losing their vision, sinse they won't! be > > happy with knitting magazines, bingo and access only to crime or romance > novels. > > Plus of course, sterriotyping older people is always a bad thing anyway. My > > next door neighbor is in her 80's, but uses a computer regularly to edit and > > destribute home made greetings cards, either printed out or through mail, > and I certainly know a couple of players of core exiles who are over 60 > (probably being a none pvp game, it attracts that style of player). > > But I'm scheptical of the rnib changing their opinions, sinse they don't > actually listen to anyone who's not telling them what they want to here in > the first place, ---- heck I even offered to work on their book selection > committee at one point, selecting books to be made available on the basis > that I probably knew more about sf and fantasy, and about what series they'd > > already recorded than they do, ---- but I was told that they didn't want > members making such decisions and that was why they had reader requests > (quite a joke because I'd been submitting reader requests from the age of > 7). > > these days my philosophy is to avoid the Rnib as much as humanly possible, > and do my own thing as regards books, services or anything else. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
