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Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Warhammer 40,000 - set in a science fantasy universe - has just turned 25. Why are grown men still launching tabletop war?

Congrats on the 40k series.

<sigh> another stupid news reporter who missed out on gaming life.... "grown men" still re-enact WW2, naval battles, civil war, and a dozen other things in tabletop miniatures. So do "grown women" <cough>

This quote in the first handful of comments nails it:

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence." -- C.S. Lewis