>Kidults are people who preserve their teenage likings (from video games, anime and fantasy, to a responsibility-free lifestyle) until they are 30-35 and older

This is always something that has bothered by society's concept of adulthood. Are people just supposed to not like things past 35? Is the only acceptable use of your free time as an adult reading non-fiction about finding the meaning of life?

Agreed. I am married and have meaning of my life pretty much figured out, but I do play games and watch anime on the side.

The biggest problem with average contemporary "true adults" is that they only act as if they have their shit figured out. In reality they mostly tend to be incredibly close minded, have super limited knowledge of the world due to their TV addiction and are generally more authoritarian due to our socioeconomic system being super authoritarian.

The (more intelligent and cultured) outliers are actually closer to these supposed "kidults". More open minded, more tolerant, way less zealous.

Idk. I think that view of adulthood is pretty biased.

I think it is more that the “games” that we play become less overt, and overt games tend to be replaced by covert ones, such as social stature, and personal growth, IRL social “games”, like relationships and solo or shared challenges, “levelling up” in accomplishments such as books written or papers published, business or notable accomplishments, etc.

Overt games give way to applying learned behaviours that use game theory to create personal value, wealth, or legacy… but it’s still very much “playing a game” just with greater risks and rewards.

IRL games make practice games seems quite boring by comparison, their challenges mundane and their prizes irrelevant.

What am I supposed to do with wealth if I shouldn't use it to purchase it the childish things that I enjoy?

Idk, use it to make the world a more just and survivable place? Help to develop practical fusion power so we can avoid extinction? Preserve some biodiversity? Anything vaguely useful to the next generation?

Nations prosper when old men plant trees under whose shade they will never sit.

Lol you're not even being a jerk about it and this still gets downvoted.

HN doesn't make it very clear whether the downvote button is also a "disagree" button.

IIRC, Dang's explicitly stated that the downvote button is ok to use as a disagree button.

How come you get a downvote button? I’ve never seen one here.

This place has an in group, I see… serves me right for typing comments on a VC blog

Downvotes and more are unofficially documented here.

Mostly I agree with your take, my assumption is that the karma requirement for downvoting is to help prevent downvote spam, but that's just me making crap up.