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Give it a go, see how it goes! 
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If you are talking about user level testing: The less you know about the inner workings (such as C++), the better tester you will be. One of my previous employers always hired students part time as testers: After half a year as a tester, they had learned how to operate the program the way it was intended to be operated - not all the crazy, senseless ways that real users do, causing the crash. So, after half a year, students rarely found more bugs. A new group of students did, though...
This is a variant of the "five year old test": Put your 5yo at the keyboard, telling him "Do whatever you want to make this program stop. If you can show daddy how to make it stop, you'll have an ice cream cone!" That technique can revel a lot of issues that cannot be detected in any other way!
This obviously primarily applies to robustness testing, and to some degree usability testing. (Much too easily, users/testers learn to forget about those things not available or not working as they should.) More formal testing, module testing, setting up automated or semi-automated test procedures etc. is a different matter, and it really doesn't make much difference whether the sofware is a game or an accounting system.
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This is a variant of the "five year old test":
My first boss used his 2 Year old to test a thing I finished, found two bugs and covered by keyboard & mouse in (I hope) chocolate...
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While most game players are younger, I know a few who are in their 40s-50s. I have no reason to assume that "old fartdom" would disqualify you.
Try it. The worst that you'll get is a rejection letter. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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When smartphones started arriving, around 20 years ago, two of my 70+ yo friends were rather enervating: Every time I met them, they were eagerly showing me some new app that they had found to play around with, insisting that I'd be impressed with all the things they could do with it. I think those old graddaddies even where chasing Pokemons...
So, if you are the right kind (e.g. you make sure to find all the pokemons around the office building before entering it for the job interview), then go ahead!
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A famous man on the internet once said:
"Just do it!"
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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I am sure there are still plenty of people out there who do discriminate on age, so it's hard to say on that part.
Having said that, if you talk the talk then even those with reservations can be persuaded to put them aside. Regardless of age though, you are going to need to fit the spec. Do you play modern games? I am not sure what types of games they test, but are they the types you play? etc.
Also, given it's a testing role, age may even work in your favour if they are smart enough to want to have a broad range of testers.
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I play the "space shoot 'em up" games from the classic age like Galaga & R-Type (although the latter is a bit more recent than "classic"), and rhythm games like Rock Band.
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Go for it! They need users at all levels.
(soon, you will be like me. I only need one movie)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: I only need one movie
If you live long enough, you won't need even that. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I see you must've missed all the horror stories that have been floating around forever about work schedules in the game industry...?
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Finally updated to Win 1903. One of first things I tried to do was adjust the microphone input level, and could not do it the previous way. They stupidified the interface so you have to dig into the control panel in order to change things rather then being able to access it from the task tray.
In addition to my other peeves, like having lost work due to windows updates, and file manager is dog slow compared to the old version, I keep considering trying out Linux. But I absolutely need Microsoft Office (including Access). Does anyone have any experience with CrossOver Linux, or something similar that allows you to run Office? What is the best alternative?
Thanks
(maybe just dreaming for now, as I still like Visual Studio)
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David O'Neil wrote: But I absolutely need Microsoft Office (including Access). Does anyone have any experience with CrossOver Linux, or something similar that allows you to run Office? What is the best alternative?
A VM for Office, with OpenOffice on your 'nix box.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Thanks. What VM manager do you use? Or is there a standard one included in your distro?
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QEMU, mostly; it's free, but not the most friendly. Options are listed on Comparison of platform virtualization software - Wikipedia[^].
Office doens't play well with WINE on my machine, but it may work for you. Added benefit of a VM is that you can easily replace it; if an update or error borks your machine, you replace the original copy of the VM.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You may use Office 365 online...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Thanks, but I'm not interested in continually paying them for what I already paid them for. It is their greater company's treatment that further pushes me away from giving them more money. I might rethink that if they brought regular menus back to office, but since they don't listen to me, the chance of that is minimal.
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In that case you should check for other office options than Microsoft Office - there will be no other version that the Office 365, which works only if you have an account, which means monthly fees... (and it does not matter that you installed a local instance of the software, it is still bounded to the account)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: you should check for other office options than Microsoft Office
Or just keep what I have. Knowing VBA, and being ale to massage Word docs through Access or Excel, I can't imagine it ever being unable to do what I need. It is a hell of a suite, regardless of what some think of it.
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David O'Neil wrote: not interested in continually paying them for what I already paid them for
This was my reason for getting rid of 365, however after a year of online crap and other suites I was lured back to MS when I found a pay once version (no ongoing updates) for office 2019, includes Access.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Yeah, I've seen it at Frys and online. My 2015 version will suffice for me, although I sometimes think of reinstalling 2013 for the menus.
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ebay right?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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 David O'Neil wrote: I'm not interested in continually paying them for what I already paid them for.
This.
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