I got that a while back talking about old video games. "Eww you played DOS games? What a boomer"
No, no that makes me mad. I was learning to navigate the DOS shell to set up Duke Nukem (skills I still use at my job today) while my boomer parents yelled at me to stop wasting my life on the computer and come in the living room to watch another six hours of Bonanza reruns.
That's the difference. Bah, burns me up
52Seeing my favorite N64 and PS1 games in the retro section of the online store sends me
17I mean, to be fair, both systems are getting close to 30 years old at this point.
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I like to think back to when I was a young lad, making fun of old people. The ones who got angry reinforced my naïve perspectives, and the ones who took it in stride with humility taught me to not be so judgemental.
It's hard, but we millennials have to exemplify humility for the younger generations, even though we didn't have many role models ourselves.
7For real. Remember installing TCP/IP manually in win98 to get multiplayer StarCraft working when IPX would shit the bed? Now it's just 'whats the WiFi password?"
5Now that technology "just works", younger people will miss a lot of opportunities to learn troubleshooting and problem solving
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You are what you do and say.
There are some cool ass, communist old people who will smoke a joint with you and express their shame for being conflated with their lead consuming contemporaries, and then there's 20 year olds that listen to Ben Shapiro and want to make america great again, lamenting over never experiencing the "good ol days" when minorities had to defer to people who lacked significant melanin and women had to latch onto a man to have any social standing and silently accept whatever that man did to her.
As a rule, people are a product of their cultural upbringing and accept it blindly as the path of least resistance, which is why stereotypes exist. But that's just a majority within a population, not a universal of a population.
36I'm an elder millennial, raised by boomer hippies. My parents stayed pretty leftist their whole lives, a few of their friends still lean pretty hard left.
But many of their old "hippie" friends have gone pretty right in the last decade or so. These people had been liberal my whole life, until they hit about 60ish, and several have gone pretty conservative
I think it has a lot more to with getting old and not understanding new social trends, so you just go the other way because it's comfortable
11Also age-related cognitive decline + intense propaganda amoung peers.
11Same here. My dad was hard left hippie, but the step-mom was far right racist from Oregon. I ended up with half my family in Gen X, with me and my little brother as millennial.
But, most of us dropped further anarchist than just liberal. I think it all comes down to money. All of my family are still as poor or poorer than we were growing up.
Only when people become wealthy as they grow up really become more conservative I think.
3My Mum has been a hippie most of her life, but just recently she's started to say some right-wing talking points. She's old and now has limited mobility. It makes me so sad.
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Absolutely true, my uncle Bruce is more hip than I am and he's in his 70s
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This ole boy called me a boomer the other day and I told him to “have fun dying in his late 20’s in the climate wars”
He asked what I’d be doing in the climate wars and I answered: “dying in my early 40’s in the climate wars”.
28"I'm too young for this shit"
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As an actual Boomer (born in 1964, the last year of Boomers), I feel this.
23The first time I remember being called generation something was "generation X", then "the screwed-up generation", "the MTV generation", then suddenly I was on the "millennials" and now I ended up a boomer.
I was raised though by those being born during the 50s on stories about how easy I was having it while they had to go uphill both ways to school through the snow.
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Just happened to me too while I was playing some game online. They think we millennials should be gardening instead of gaming. Bitch we are the pioneers of modern tech. We grew up drinking internet.
23They can't comprehend the fear that someone will pick up the phone in the middle of a battle.net match over dialup.
15The trick is to have your own separate run to the phone box and just switch off all of the other phones in the house until you're done. It's only two wires.
If you forget to switch it back on though, you will get caught and nobody will understand how important it was to engineer things this way.
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In my L4D2 group, I'm the only one who's 30+. The rest are all high school students. I can still keep up with them. 💪
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I don't think anyone knows what boomer means anymore. Now it's just what you call someone older then you.
19That's what kids do lol
6Ok boomer. /s
4Yeah that's what the word means in that context. It doesn't really make sense as an insult if you mean the main definition of the word.
2Yeah that's what the word means in that context. It doesn't really make sense as an insult if you mean the main definition of the word.
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Me a millennial calling gen z a “boomer” in general when they don’t know something
16Flip it on them. Flip mode’s the greatest.
4boinger
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The way I see it: if someone dismisses valid concerns, I'm going to give their opinion less weight; if they do it with hasty generalizations, I'm going to give it zero weight and maybe mock them for being incompetent.
10i am torn whether you are talking about boomers or zoomers?
both, probably. 🤷
6Humans
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I'm barely a millennial - the day I get unironically "OK Boomer"-ed is the day I'm officially too old for this shit
6<weeps in GenX>
5Gen -x don't have emotions return to apathy at your nearest convenience!
2Gen X exists to be overlooked and passed by. Always has been, always will be
2Did you hear something...
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Reply: OK, zoomer.
4OK pooper
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This is sad on so many levels.
3It's the only thing that hurts my cold empty heart.
3me to the teen: you don't have any friends, no one likes you!
3Millennials, you are everything you hate about your parents.
If anything you do it worse.
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