nah. we had a PC so I got to play doom, quake, unreal tournament, deer avenger, lemmings paintball, etc. played a bunch of classic sega games as a kid like rush'n attack, outrun, space harrier, afterburner, dinosaurs for hire, etc etc
shit I'm only 27 and I remember being disappointed with UT3 after getting a lan party going for launch
That's specifically the golden age of arcade games and that is generally considered to have started in 1980 with Pac-Man, Centipede, Missile Command, etc. Sure there were Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Galaxian released before that, but I guess the momentum wasn't quite there yet.
why the frick does it goes from 81 to 91, and not 81 to 90, this will only get more confusing as time goes because it will always increase 1 on the last digit
Stop affiliating me with fricking millenials I don't want to have nothing to do with them, it's the most onions generation, when I'm looking at twitter and other bullshit I'm really fricking proud to be a zoomer
How the frick are people born in 1981 classified as millenials? You're 100% a boomer if you're older than 40 years old, you basically grew up without the internet, there was a tremendous difference between growing up in the 90s and 2000's.
If you don't remember 9/11 you're a zoomer, simple as that.
Also easy way to tell, if you grew up without internet or when it was barely a thing, you're a boomer. If you grew up with the early internet (MySpace, phpBB, Napster, early YT) you're a millenial. If you grew up with the modern internet (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Tumblr) you're a zoomer.
>If you grew up with the early internet (MySpace, phpBB, Napster, early YT) you're a millenial. If you grew up with the modern internet (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Tumblr) you're a zoomer.People born in the mid-late 90s grew up with Myspace and early YT, that's the point. They're zillennials.
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>People born in the mid-late 90s grew up with Myspace and early YT, that's the point.
I know that there are certain points on the timeline where you can't establish a definite border, but there's no point to make completely new generation names for small groups of people.
If you were born in late 90s you'll have more in common with zoomers than millenials.
I was born in 2001 and I remember early youtube, but these are some really foggy memories (and I used youtube a lot), none of my friends who are even a couple of years older than me used MySpace.
>If you grew up with the early internet (MySpace, phpBB, Napster, early YT) you're a millenial. If you grew up with the modern internet (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Tumblr) you're a zoomer.
i grew up with early youtube, newgrounds, and stuff from the modern internet (mainly twitter and r*ddit)
what does that make me?
10 months ago
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early zoomer
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i was born in 2004
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yeah, so? newgrounds and early youtube is still zoomer shit
there's a reason why so many 16 year old zoomers jerk off to friday night funkin because of flash games nostalgia
>How the frick are people born in 1981 classified as millenials?
For the longest time they weren't. Census data used to classify 1982 - 2000 as millennials since it was a period of increased child births that mirrored the baby boom of 1946 - 1964 (both 18 years in length). Then they started arbitrarily moving around the cutoff dates for Zoomers, Millennials, and even Gen X for what I suspect were for political and marketing purposes (MUH YOOF) and it's been a confusing clusterfrick ever since.
>zillennials
A made up term to cope with the fact that Millennial are all shit. They're just as bad if not worse than the Boomers.
Total Millenial death.
98 here never get the constant bashing of zoomers on this board, that is of ALL zoomers since there is a clear gap between zoomers like you and me and between those who only know dries out franchises and fortnite along with shitty e-sport games.
It means zoomers are so fricking ignorant that they don't realize "boomer" is a specific fricking generation, most of whom are in their 60's, 70's and 80's by now. Since them, there has been Gen X, Millenials, and Zoomers.
Zoomers call everyone old than them "boomers".
cool but i haven't mentioned boomers in my post fricking schizo
10 months ago
Anonymous
>doesn't understand empathy or extrapolation
Typical zoomer.
10 months ago
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people who seethe the most about zoomers are usually zoomers themselves trying to fit in.. you have something to tell us anon?
10 months ago
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>fit in >on an anonymous image board
Literally everthing you do is for internet clout, huh? What a goddamned waste.
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Zoomers literally have no geeks in their generation.
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How? Explain this to me.
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He's exaggerating but cellphones erased the need for learning how to use computers or a lot of non computer technology. A lot of zoomers, even fricking scientists and shit, do not understand how to use a standard computer beyond Microsoft office.
10 months ago
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With the cellphone era, programmers became too good at making things just work seamlessly, if not work in the browser.
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How? Might actually be impossible to explain to a zoomer what a nerd/geek actually was in the past now that geek has been absorbed into the mainstream.
I mean, you Black folk might have outcasts but definitely no geeks now that the cool kids own those spaces. Geek used to be something that other people branded you with, almost a mark of shame, now is paraded by dudebros and prostitutes.
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Sure, but surely they have their own version of the geek? Not having a doofus to rag on means they consider everyone equal.
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>but surely they have their own version of the geek?
Like I said, it might be impossible to explain to a zoomer. Part of being a geek meant that there was a level of sacrifice on your part, whether it being social, financial, time etc to commit to your passion unlike now where everything is available on tap and the only thing that determines whether your opinion is valuable is how much clout you have independent of whatever you're talking about.
>Not having a doofus to rag on means they consider everyone equal.
I wouldn't know what happened/happens to the outcasts of your generation. (i have a suspicion of what they might be though.)
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Not a zoomer. Just a confused GenX/Millenial that wants these damned kids off my lawn.
its gen X but ~~*they*~~ changed it. gen Y are millenials IE born around 2000 like the fricking name implies and gen Z are the current kids/barely adults.
frick historical revisionists, frick you.
The point is that they missed out on good shit when it was popular, not that they can't play it anymore. It's not like there's anything literally obstructing them from playing the games but obviously they'll lean towards modern shit.
implying these Black folk appreciate the games they play. they never had to wait months between releases reading scraps from magazines for hype, the classroom gossip, marking shit on their calendar so they could maximize birthdays and Christmas gifts. all they do is watch some homosexual's opinion on YouTube or they emulate using restore points which means they never got good enough to adjust to the mechanics, which they then go online to talk shit about older games.
so yes I do pitty zoomers. they never had a chance. they missed the golden era of gaming
I didn't grow up with an NES or C64 and have still played plenty of games from that era. The means are there for anyone with curiosity, that hasn't gone anywhere. It's easier than ever.
That's why the zillennial term exists, to describe people in their 20s who the media tries to lump in with kids and it confuses everyone. But people whine whenever you say zillennial. There's even a guy dedicated to searching zillennial in the archives so he can spam his images.
I have more in common with zoomer cultural touchstones than I do Millennials. I can barely remember 9/11, and I'm not desperate to be cool nor do I complain every 10 seconds like millennials. Plus I've had sex (with multiple people!1!11) and that is only true for zoomers who post here. Ganker Millennials are permavirgins. Get over your aging, anon.
10 months ago
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No 25 year old would say they have more in common with someone born in 2012 than with someone born in 1991. I don't believe for a second you're 25.
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no, zoomers don't deserve to play good games and wallowing in their slop is adequate punishment
mentally ill
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I mean, I am but sure anon. And I'm talking like 2002-2009 for people I relate to. My brothers for example. Now alphas, I can't relate to them.
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The "9/11" of the boomer generation was the JFK assassination and there were boomers born a full year after that happened. Basing your generation on "remembering" a particular event is pretty bullshit when you think about it.
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Gen X was probably Challenger.
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Imagine sitting in the classroom and watching that live.
You moron. People who’re 14-18 have used Wii’s, 360’s, DS’s, Beyblades, PS2’s and so on. You’re not special, you old shit, younger people have used the same devices as yourself. Get your head out of your ass and grow up.
No, i don't feel pity for ignorant and spoiled brats. They can still experience this age of vidya, be it normally or through emulation, but they refuse because they'd have to drop the habits and expectations that modern vidya fed them, "learning" a game while not having their hand held throughout the entire experience, not getting instantly rewarded for just starting a game, having to use their brain sometimes, among other things.
Idk man, I was born in '98 and started with a ps1
And I played a shitload of videogames from the 1st gen to today thanks also to emulator.
Videogames started declining after the release of Ridge Racer 7 so around 2007/2008 and completely went to shit around 2013/2015,for me at least
2004 zoomie here
i never played anything on the wii or PS4 because i only ever played on PC. the only consoles i've ever owned were the PS2 and xbox360, and even then i got them super late because i'm a third worlder who cant afford shit
The only thing that's really being missed out on are multiplayer communities and internet communities. Now most multiplayer games are fricked and the internet communities are full of casuals most of the time, even Ganker.
Just like I don't care about how I'm "missing out" on mumble rap at its peak, I don't care about other things I "missed out" on due to not being a specific age at a specific time.
I thoroughly enjoyed playing Pokemon Red at launch will all my friends in 4th grade. I think that was a great experience. Maybe zoomers have fun getting run over by cars at mumble rap events, I don't know. I doubt they care about gen 1 pokemon in 1998 with all gaming info delivered by magazines and word of mouth. I did not use the internet until about 2001. Is that cooler to me? Yes, but I also don't give a single frick about zoomer hobbies so they probably don't feel like they "missed out" on anything.
In 30 years you'll see posts >Do you feel bad for xoomers for missing out on the golden age of mumble rap?
Absolutely not a single xoomer will feel like they missed out. A lot of zoomers do not care that they didn't play pokemon gen 1 at launch with no internet.
I don't give a shit about most NES games and stuff released before I was 5 years old. SNES and later is more my territory. I like the stuff I grew up with. There are so many good games released every year you have to have a specific desire to play technologically inferior games with dated design.
No but there's this weird phenomenon on youtube where zoomers post comments about feeling nostalgic over retro vidya songs they've only just discovered and never grew up with
The only thing that matters is if your missed out on the transition to 3D. If you grew up playing exclusively 2D games because that's all there was and suddenly you had N64 and PSX, that shit was mindblowing. Kids who grew up on a mix of 2D and 3D games will never understand. It was like being there for the invention of the motion picture. This kind of progress only happens once every hundred years.
No. I don't envy them because it's depressing if you grew up in the wonderful 80s and 90s when technology and games were rapidly improving. It's like video games no longer have the ability to give me joy at all unless I go back and replay the original Doom or Doom II. That and some old Mario games are better than anything coming out lately.
>I don't envy them because it's depressing if you grew up in the wonderful 80s and 90s when technology and games were rapidly improving. It's like video games no longer have the ability to give me joy at all
I wonder when, or if, there will ever be a big movement in our lifetime that justifies the use of medications or drugs to manage mental health later this century. Anyone who has done some research and understands the human brain and development and social dynamic and how fricked up a person is growing up in extreme social situations, is not surprised by the rampant mental health problems in 2023. Our generation grew up in a blender compared to thousands of years of human experience.
I'm specifically talking about pleasure. We are the first generation to grow up going through puberty right when the internet and gaming and rewards were being easier to access than ever before. The entire reward center of our brain got so fricked up compared to any other generation. Those after us grew up with a little more "limited screen time" and lessons learned from our generation 10 years before them.
It's not just cooming, but like you said, games in general. We were getting fed like kings and when the river turned in to a drip or the river stopped changing flavors, we are now bored and depressed. However, this can be managed with therapy and doing work on figuring out why we are so fricked up. I just think it's wild how common it is for people to take meds to manage depression and motivation. Our world is completely different than it was 100 years ago. I think everyone alive right now is thrown in to a blender compared to 100 years ago, but those of us who grew up without the internet, but did get it when we were around age 10, got EXTRA fricked reward and pleasure centers of our brain. We grew up developing and laying neural pathways without youtube, and then got it right when our brains were developing the most as teens.
NTA, but honestly you make a good point. how will society cope and evolve to a sexless, isolated (yet interconnected) generation of mentally stunted adults? autism is on the rise, our food is filled with microplastics, the earth is getting warmer, and people have no fricking idea what's going on. you suggested medication, but that would only make things worse. our bodies were never made to handle all these substances. with how things are going, i can only assume we're headed towards some kind of dystopia. that is, unless WW3 shakes things up. we have an entire generation of able bodied young adults (myself included) without a purpose, or end goal in life. we need some kind of conflict to harden us again.
This is pretty moronic, games have nothing to do with mental health. I played fighting games and sports games with friends. The key is played with friends, not what. I played ff7 the same year I read lord of the rings and that was written a century ago. I read less known authors like Marion zimmery Bradley and played less known games like langrisser and y's and looked up Japanese-only games with envy. If something all that cool stuff is why I'm not depressed. What's depressing is the state of the world now because anything exciting is a marketing scam, not genuine. Companies learned to co-op youthful excitement into digital slavery, not genuinely good or innovative products. It's why zoomers read Harry Potter. It's actually good even though it was marketed. But they have no way to see that 99% of good stuff is not marketed anymore, if it's even made. It's poorly remastered, bundled, resold out of context and addictive trash is what's marketed instead.
Generation Alpha are the up and comers now. Zoomers are already a failed generation. Half of you are almost 30 already, with no assets, no career, no relationships, and no hope for the future. You're literally transforming into hideous parodies of humanity. You're unironically eating each others' buttholes, like that wasn't just a fricking sick joke once upon a time. And somehow you're convinced that fighting racism by looting and showing your dicks off in a pity parade once a year is going to solve these problems for you.
>Half of you are almost [40] already, with no assets, no career, no relationships, and no hope for the future.
Millenials. >You're unironically eating each others' buttholes, like that wasn't just a fricking sick joke once upon a time
Millenials. >And somehow you're convinced that fighting racism by looting and showing your dicks off in a pity parade once a year is going to solve these problems for you.
Millenials.
>Millenials
Actually every generation of Americans have been gayer than the last. Zoomers are gayer than millennials, Alpha shaping up to be fruitier than zoomers.
This is also a uniquely American phenomenon. The British zoomers aren't as gay as American ones. It's mostly Americans eating da poopoo.
As an old af millennial myself (1983) I've come to the realization that every generation from the so-called "greatest" onward are pretty irredeemably awful.
Because they're the current demographic that games are aimed at? Elden Ring and Baulder's Gate 3 will be anomalies because zoomers lack impulse control.
Absolutely not. They've proven that they're sheep willing to take massive spike rods up their ass because their favourite zoomer streamer told them to.
Games have become packed to the brim with microtransactions in full priced games. And they keep making them and zoomers keep buying them.
I mean, how many new titles has Rockstar put out since GTA 5? RDR2?
Because they're the current demographic that games are aimed at? Elden Ring and Baulder's Gate 3 will be anomalies because zoomers lack impulse control.
>regurgitates posts because zoomers are incapable of original thoughts
Man, your generation, YOUR generation worships transsexual streamers. That's an undeniable fact.
Bold of you to assume my generation based purely on the posts where I tell you to have a nice day
But maybe it's just kslop finally getting to your brain (or what's left of it) and you devolving into mindless ramblings
I know you think you're really smart, but this is a thread where people are talking about generational differences.
You just came in here to say you don't like the terminology used, threw out a slur, and told everyone to kill themselves. You're actually contributing nothing of value and wasting bandwidth and your own time posting that. I was maybe 26 when I really started to reflect inward and I am not completely sober, but I did cut back on alcohol around that age as well. I find mid-20's is the most common age for "I was so dumb at 21 lol, but now I'm a REAL adult and know everything for sure now!" Most people don't admit they are dumb until about 30.
>threw out a slur
lmao what a massive homosexual. You are a dumb Black person. You are the blackest moron gorilla Black person I have ever seen. have a nice day millennial. You're worse than the boomers ever were.
Dude idgaf about your life
Stop categorizing everything lile a fricking spreadsheet
Especially people by year they were born.
A dude born in 95 in US is not the same as a dude born in 95 in EU and so on
I can get a $250k house and a $25k car easily. That's basically nothing.
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>25k for a car
Bruh I paid my shitbox 600€
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Brand new? I can get a used shitbox for that here.
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Nah, it was used of course,but I'd never buy a new car. I find that stupid
I'd rather get some pretuned civic type R, which are going for <10k around here
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yeah and it's a .9L diesel shitbox and you probably paid a quarter of the car's value alone between registration/inspection fees
>Most people don't admit they are dumb until about 30
That may have been the norm once upon a time but I have peers pushing and even past 40 that still haven't figured that out. Being a m*llennial is an increasingly embarrassing existence.
I'd argue that the golden age was more about 1995 - 2005, maybe 1992 - 2007, but... >corps such as Sony entered gaming it was the beginning of the end
I also have to agree with this.
>This game is pretty good but, should you really be playing this 2D game on your console? >Should you really buy this arcade perfect port that otherwise costs the operator 800-1200 dollars? >No I don't think so
The attitude from reviewers during Fifth generation was absolute cancer.
Every generation those years had benefits.
N64/PSX/Saturn - 3d graphics
PS2/XBOX/Dreamcast - Pretty good 3d graphics with good performance and capabilities
360/PS3 - Really good 3d, enough power to do basically any vidya conceptually
PS4/Xbone - Better graphics but nothing particularly amazing/new except the capacity for 3d/VR
PS5 and Xbox Series S/X isn't anything new except shinier graphics, we've plateued feature wise until we get stuff like AI generated NPCs/dialogue which could be 5 or even 10 years off
They literally just don't know any better anon.
It's like watching a downie walk around a revolving door getting smacked in the face constant.
It's hilarious, but, not really their fault.
Yes, and nobody expected serious intellectual output or high tech industry from Latin America.
Just keeping the power on with minimal brownouts is the curve we have to grade on at this point.
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>the source of massive amounts of America's coffee >apparently has no economy or electricity anywhere
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Historically, Latin America has had more power outages than the US. This is largely a product of them being somewhat dimmer than Europeans or Asians, which kicks you in the ass when dealing with very large, complex systems like power grids. You're not going to have the equivalent of Silicon Valley or Shenzhen in South America.
It's no surprise that, as the US, has grown more Latin American basic competency at things like keeping the power in has decreased, and will probably converge with Latin American rates over time.
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>This is largely a product of them being somewhat dimmer than Europeans or Asians
Or maybe, just maybe it's a byproduct of the US intentionally stomping them into the ground to keep them as corporate vassal states
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That's what happens to Japan and Korea, and they nonetheless leapt past Latin America. Latin America smaller smart fraction just reduces the ceiling, and increase the level of ambient dysfunction. Latin America is better than, for example, Africa; but they do have a lower ceiling on development because they have lesser biological capital. As we see when Latin Americans move en masse to the US, they bring with them Latin American levels of things being dirtier, more inefficient, less functional and so on. Not to the extent of Africans, who can't even keep the water clean in Jackson or Flint. In swathes of the South, Latin Americans are an outright improvement to the biological capital.
Ultimately, we have to be kind to Zoomers. The white zoomers are the products of at least 50 years of dysgenic selection; and their swarthier cohort companions are also less intelligent on average. Expecting them to have the technological mastery of the Apollo program engineers, or just conceptualizing a file system is overly ambitious relative to their aggregate capabilities.
Born in 87, missed nothing. Im depressed these days because most AAA has become total garbage and the only half decent thing is indies and the rare AAA from some unknown studio.
frick you all, i'm making a blog post. i'm tired of living behind several layers of irony. so, for once, i'll be sincere.
i look up to you oldgays. as much as you all love to bash others to hide your insecurities and whatnot, you're still my elders, and have a plethora of wisdom that i do not have. you've experienced things that i'll never (ever) feel, learned things that i haven't yet had the chance to learn, shit on me for being a clueless, moronic zoomer. all that, and yet i still admire you all because i think you're much wiser than me.
i'm afraid of the future. i dont know what it holds for me. i dont know if i'll die in the ditches of a country thousands of kilometres away, who speak a language virtually alien to my own... or if i'll die at age 80, surrounded by people who love me, after living a long, fruitful life. but what i can do right now, is learn from you, the mistakes you've made so i can't make them myself. i look now at the failures of millenials, how they can't figure out how life works, despite being virtually twice my age. how they revel in a kind of degeneracy that makes me want to puke, despite being guilty myself of indulging in some of it. how they bent culture itself to fufill some kind of deranged vision of a perfect world, that still tries to pull itself apart, in spite of their attempts to bring them together against their will. i watch their failures in horror, and am forced to participate in a society that spits on me for not wanting to return to something more sensible. and soon i, and others like me, will be at the helms of this society, and i dont know how to fix this mess they made.
i look to many of you, to try and make sense of all this madness, to find some comfort like "here's what you have to do to make it all okay", and yet i am empty handed. i want guidance from you, but you mock me for my ignorance. so please, for the love of god, help me, before its too late, and find ourselves neutered like dogs by people who hate us.
You're living in the most comfortable state of human existence. We have good medicine, you can summon media or entertainment at any time, and every culture in the globe is available to you in small or not so small doses.
You don't need to be a master at everything, but just keep learning the little things, internalize those neat tricks and nuggets of knowledge, appreciate older things, realize that a lot of people doing fricked up stuff to themselves are doing so out of fear of the unknown and the future rather than being sick degenerates (though some are).
You might even be part of the first "immortal" generation considering all the advances we've made in the last 30 years. Frick.
You haven't missed too much in life, just don't let yourself stagnate or settle into a life you don't enjoy...unless you're getting paid a frickton by stupid investors in some startup, kek
Oh yeah it's not perfect, but I lost a grandma to kidney cancer 30 years ago and my mom is alive and thriving after the same cancer 1 year ago. No longer have to wait weeks/months for a movie/show to rerun, packages get delivered in days instead of weeks/months, and a bunch of other shit.
Property values and inflation will get better eventually, hopefully sooner than later because those are massive problems brewing.
A few things.
1.) Nobody has anything figured out. Everybody just wings it. Always, all the time. The 80 year old man who can barely walk still feels like a clueless 25 year old in his head.
2.) The only way to fix things at this point is violent revolution, but it'll never happen. Everyone is too obsessed with their phones and generations have been beaten over the head with "violence is bad".
3.) You'll probably live a boring and uneventful life while you wait around for the fireworks to start. Nothing ever happens.
4.) The single best thing you can do is disconnect and be as free from social media as possible. It amplifies your worries, fills your head with info you don't need to know, and promotes degeneracy. Unplug. Or end up like me.
Damn, actually got me for once.
You're right, and games don't matter. What matters is that no generation knows how to go forward from here, as so much is unprecedented. So it will go wherever we carry it. And sometimes things that are "tolerant" or "choices" need to be fought against. Like banning gacha games or troony propaganda to kids. You might say "they're not so bad", but that's the point. They might not be the core problem, but at some point someone has to fight against grey areas, or everything turns grey, and then turns black, with no way back into the light. By fighting against grey areas we reveal where the bad and the good is. That's my personal advice. "Tolerance" and "equality" have robbed us of centuries and millenia of reason earned by our ancestors to goad us into allowing shit to creep into society that they knew by experience and instinct was deadly and would destroy us. That's why I cheer whenever i see a zoomer rejecting manipulation. But you have to be brave and not let anyone tell you that you're mean or bad. Or let women have power over you like so many millennials allowed. It's then obvious what to do, fight simps, refuse bawds, reject PC and stay honest all the fricking time with the shit you see and think. The moment you do like us millennials and try to "look good", you will be fricked and lose yourself, becoming second class to slaves, cucks, liars and scammers.
I'm 19 and my first games were DMC4, Prototype, Assassin's Creed 2, Lost Planet 2, etc. on the PS3,
Smash Bros Brawl, Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii, etc.,
and PSP games like the port for Tekken 5.
>soul
It is genuinely impossible for your generation not to regurgitate or run things into the ground. I'm surprised a zoomer homosexual like you didn't put a v into soul.
>PSP, PS3 era had soul
Didn't deny that but you literally listed subpar sequels....and wii party games.
Wrong. They're missing out on seeing the industry evolve and growing up alongside it, which fosters an appreciation for where we've been, where we're going, and where we are. Zoomers are bred to constantly seek instant gratification and can't play appreciate anything older than them.
I grew up in the 80's but still love 50's, 60's, 70's music, movies, books. Zoomers are firmly rooted in the here and now, with no respect or appreciation for what came before.
>Zoomers are firmly rooted in the here and now
Have you heard of Hauntology?
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>Hauntology
From what I just read, it seems to be trying to emulate what I actually experienced from a modern lens?
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Anonymous
I guess you could put it in that sense. I was thinking more of the fact that zoomer Black folk have no sense of a future.
Not a zoomer. Just a confused GenX/Millenial that wants these damned kids off my lawn.
Well, they don't have geeks or nerds in their generation. I mean, IIRC a graded Gen 1 charizard card is hanging round the neck of one of the Paul brothers. Something that would've been impossible for millennials.
Everyone born after you can play almost anything you have played. All they're missing out on is the commercialized culture of whatever the current thing is, that's all they're really "missing out on".
Wrong. They're missing out on seeing the industry evolve and growing up alongside it, which fosters an appreciation for where we've been, where we're going, and where we are. Zoomers are bred to constantly seek instant gratification and can't play appreciate anything older than them.
I grew up in the 80's but still love 50's, 60's, 70's music, movies, books. Zoomers are firmly rooted in the here and now, with no respect or appreciation for what came before.
Mario 1+2+3+World
Zelda 1+2+3 (maybe skip 2)
Kirby's Adventure, Kirby Superstar
Sonic the Hedgehog 1+2+3+CD (I believe Sonic Origins is the best way to play them, native wide-screen support and knuckles in sonic 1)
Mario 64, Zelda 64 and Majoras Mask, Starfox 64
The 2d stuff is all somewhat shorter, but basically defined the genres.
Until you morons actually set what a zoomer is, I'm just going to assume zoomer means anyone under the age of 2 since you fat homosexuals keep pushing it farther and farther. >"Hurr durr, zoomers missed out on the golden age of Xbox series x 2! They didn't play games until the PS7 Nero Z!"
I'm a '96 zoomer and I didn't miss out on anything
>sega
>n64
>PS2
>og xbox
>xbox 360
>ps3
vidya died after 7th gen
>'96 zoomer
man you're almost 30 you're old af
Born after 95=zoomer
You missed out. That was well past the golden age.
nah. we had a PC so I got to play doom, quake, unreal tournament, deer avenger, lemmings paintball, etc. played a bunch of classic sega games as a kid like rush'n attack, outrun, space harrier, afterburner, dinosaurs for hire, etc etc
shit I'm only 27 and I remember being disappointed with UT3 after getting a lan party going for launch
>ps2 era past golden age
no one cares about any of that crap you're talking about lol
You missed what I was saying. The golden age is the late 70s/early 80s.
That's specifically the golden age of arcade games and that is generally considered to have started in 1980 with Pac-Man, Centipede, Missile Command, etc. Sure there were Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Galaxian released before that, but I guess the momentum wasn't quite there yet.
Mid-late 90s are zillennials.
no such thing
Stop trying to fight it. The toothpaste is out of the tube.
>generation
>10 years
>girls should be giving birth at 10
I like it.
its actually 11 years on the image, lmao
>le random jpg proves it exists!
yes and a wikipedia article is the proof that holocaust happened
>zillennial deniers are also holocaust deniers
Kek
why the frick does it goes from 81 to 91, and not 81 to 90, this will only get more confusing as time goes because it will always increase 1 on the last digit
Stop affiliating me with fricking millenials I don't want to have nothing to do with them, it's the most onions generation, when I'm looking at twitter and other bullshit I'm really fricking proud to be a zoomer
How the frick are people born in 1981 classified as millenials? You're 100% a boomer if you're older than 40 years old, you basically grew up without the internet, there was a tremendous difference between growing up in the 90s and 2000's.
If you don't remember 9/11 you're a zoomer, simple as that.
Also easy way to tell, if you grew up without internet or when it was barely a thing, you're a boomer. If you grew up with the early internet (MySpace, phpBB, Napster, early YT) you're a millenial. If you grew up with the modern internet (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Tumblr) you're a zoomer.
>If you grew up with the early internet (MySpace, phpBB, Napster, early YT) you're a millenial. If you grew up with the modern internet (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Tumblr) you're a zoomer.People born in the mid-late 90s grew up with Myspace and early YT, that's the point. They're zillennials.
>People born in the mid-late 90s grew up with Myspace and early YT, that's the point.
I know that there are certain points on the timeline where you can't establish a definite border, but there's no point to make completely new generation names for small groups of people.
If you were born in late 90s you'll have more in common with zoomers than millenials.
I was born in 2001 and I remember early youtube, but these are some really foggy memories (and I used youtube a lot), none of my friends who are even a couple of years older than me used MySpace.
>early internet
>internet was 30 years old
>If you grew up with the early internet (MySpace, phpBB, Napster, early YT) you're a millenial. If you grew up with the modern internet (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Tumblr) you're a zoomer.
i grew up with early youtube, newgrounds, and stuff from the modern internet (mainly twitter and r*ddit)
what does that make me?
early zoomer
i was born in 2004
yeah, so? newgrounds and early youtube is still zoomer shit
there's a reason why so many 16 year old zoomers jerk off to friday night funkin because of flash games nostalgia
>if you don't remember 9/11 you're a zoomer
What about non americans that just don't give a frick about that
if you don't remember stickdeath.com you're a zoomer
If you don't remember where you were when Reagan got shot, you're a zoomer.
Also there are people who just have bad memories. I've encountered people here born in 1993 who say they don't remember 9/11.
>he doesn't know that there is a whole generation between boomer and millennial
Boomers are anyone over the age of 6, gramps.
nobody gives a shit about you pops
you should be working and having kids right now instead of posting on this website and arguing with kids
>How the frick are people born in 1981 classified as millenials?
For the longest time they weren't. Census data used to classify 1982 - 2000 as millennials since it was a period of increased child births that mirrored the baby boom of 1946 - 1964 (both 18 years in length). Then they started arbitrarily moving around the cutoff dates for Zoomers, Millennials, and even Gen X for what I suspect were for political and marketing purposes (MUH YOOF) and it's been a confusing clusterfrick ever since.
no
>zillennials
A made up term to cope with the fact that Millennial are all shit. They're just as bad if not worse than the Boomers.
Total Millenial death.
ywnbaz
lol you guys keep honing in more and more soon there won't be generations there will just be "people"
98 here never get the constant bashing of zoomers on this board, that is of ALL zoomers since there is a clear gap between zoomers like you and me and between those who only know dries out franchises and fortnite along with shitty e-sport games.
If you're a tolerable zoomer, nobody will know.
11 is too old for sex.
>everyone older than me is a boomer
>NOOOO don't label us all as zoomers!
I hate zoomers so fricking much
what the frick does this mean you moron?
It means zoomers are so fricking ignorant that they don't realize "boomer" is a specific fricking generation, most of whom are in their 60's, 70's and 80's by now. Since them, there has been Gen X, Millenials, and Zoomers.
Zoomers call everyone old than them "boomers".
cool but i haven't mentioned boomers in my post fricking schizo
>doesn't understand empathy or extrapolation
Typical zoomer.
people who seethe the most about zoomers are usually zoomers themselves trying to fit in.. you have something to tell us anon?
>fit in
>on an anonymous image board
Literally everthing you do is for internet clout, huh? What a goddamned waste.
Zoomers literally have no geeks in their generation.
How? Explain this to me.
He's exaggerating but cellphones erased the need for learning how to use computers or a lot of non computer technology. A lot of zoomers, even fricking scientists and shit, do not understand how to use a standard computer beyond Microsoft office.
With the cellphone era, programmers became too good at making things just work seamlessly, if not work in the browser.
How? Might actually be impossible to explain to a zoomer what a nerd/geek actually was in the past now that geek has been absorbed into the mainstream.
I mean, you Black folk might have outcasts but definitely no geeks now that the cool kids own those spaces. Geek used to be something that other people branded you with, almost a mark of shame, now is paraded by dudebros and prostitutes.
Sure, but surely they have their own version of the geek? Not having a doofus to rag on means they consider everyone equal.
>but surely they have their own version of the geek?
Like I said, it might be impossible to explain to a zoomer. Part of being a geek meant that there was a level of sacrifice on your part, whether it being social, financial, time etc to commit to your passion unlike now where everything is available on tap and the only thing that determines whether your opinion is valuable is how much clout you have independent of whatever you're talking about.
>Not having a doofus to rag on means they consider everyone equal.
I wouldn't know what happened/happens to the outcasts of your generation. (i have a suspicion of what they might be though.)
Not a zoomer. Just a confused GenX/Millenial that wants these damned kids off my lawn.
Because "geek" became "chiq" most unfortunately.
>schizo old man rambling
ok boomer
Oldest boomers are or turning 77, people in their 80s are Silent Gen.
are the zoomers in the room with you right now?
This. I had an og game boy and a Sega game gear growing up
Og Nintendo is a glorified proof of concept
anyone old enough to remember 9/11 is a millennial, grandpa
its gen X but ~~*they*~~ changed it. gen Y are millenials IE born around 2000 like the fricking name implies and gen Z are the current kids/barely adults.
frick historical revisionists, frick you.
Do you feel bad for not knowing about emulation?
The point is that they missed out on good shit when it was popular, not that they can't play it anymore. It's not like there's anything literally obstructing them from playing the games but obviously they'll lean towards modern shit.
>The point is that they missed out on good shit when it was popular
Who gives a frick? What a thing to care about
You're preaching to the choir, the point stands that zoomers actually think this way and don't play old shit because of it.
implying these Black folk appreciate the games they play. they never had to wait months between releases reading scraps from magazines for hype, the classroom gossip, marking shit on their calendar so they could maximize birthdays and Christmas gifts. all they do is watch some homosexual's opinion on YouTube or they emulate using restore points which means they never got good enough to adjust to the mechanics, which they then go online to talk shit about older games.
so yes I do pitty zoomers. they never had a chance. they missed the golden era of gaming
I didn't grow up with an NES or C64 and have still played plenty of games from that era. The means are there for anyone with curiosity, that hasn't gone anywhere. It's easier than ever.
I played willow when it was brand new on my nes in the 80s
It's still pretty good.
This is completely false.
I have a kid brother who is now 23 and he had a ps2, a wii, and an Xbox 360
people never mean the older zoomers when they say this stuff
they mean the current 14-18 year olds
That's why the zillennial term exists, to describe people in their 20s who the media tries to lump in with kids and it confuses everyone. But people whine whenever you say zillennial. There's even a guy dedicated to searching zillennial in the archives so he can spam his images.
I'm 25 but I am a zoomer (1997-2012) that's just a fact. What's with this weird cope Op?
You aren't 25. If you were you'd be proud to be a zillennial. You're a larping zoomie.
I have more in common with zoomer cultural touchstones than I do Millennials. I can barely remember 9/11, and I'm not desperate to be cool nor do I complain every 10 seconds like millennials. Plus I've had sex (with multiple people!1!11) and that is only true for zoomers who post here. Ganker Millennials are permavirgins. Get over your aging, anon.
No 25 year old would say they have more in common with someone born in 2012 than with someone born in 1991. I don't believe for a second you're 25.
mentally ill
I mean, I am but sure anon. And I'm talking like 2002-2009 for people I relate to. My brothers for example. Now alphas, I can't relate to them.
The "9/11" of the boomer generation was the JFK assassination and there were boomers born a full year after that happened. Basing your generation on "remembering" a particular event is pretty bullshit when you think about it.
Gen X was probably Challenger.
Imagine sitting in the classroom and watching that live.
You moron. People who’re 14-18 have used Wii’s, 360’s, DS’s, Beyblades, PS2’s and so on. You’re not special, you old shit, younger people have used the same devices as yourself. Get your head out of your ass and grow up.
>Wasn’t even born when the PS2 came out
Your kid brother is a b***h
You are really bad at math
Are you fricking moronic
Are you?
no more than I feel bad for spiders missing out on vidya. zoomers don't really count as people.
No, i don't feel pity for ignorant and spoiled brats. They can still experience this age of vidya, be it normally or through emulation, but they refuse because they'd have to drop the habits and expectations that modern vidya fed them, "learning" a game while not having their hand held throughout the entire experience, not getting instantly rewarded for just starting a game, having to use their brain sometimes, among other things.
Poorgay 97 zoomer here. I had plenty of old ass consoles. I was still playing GameBoy when the NDS came out
yeah i still played on the PS2 when PS3 was already near it end of life cycle.
Idk man, I was born in '98 and started with a ps1
And I played a shitload of videogames from the 1st gen to today thanks also to emulator.
Videogames started declining after the release of Ridge Racer 7 so around 2007/2008 and completely went to shit around 2013/2015,for me at least
I for one like these based zoomers
2004 zoomie here
i never played anything on the wii or PS4 because i only ever played on PC. the only consoles i've ever owned were the PS2 and xbox360, and even then i got them super late because i'm a third worlder who cant afford shit
No I fricking hate you kids
The only thing that's really being missed out on are multiplayer communities and internet communities. Now most multiplayer games are fricked and the internet communities are full of casuals most of the time, even Ganker.
celeste and bg3 are available and played right now?
Just like I don't care about how I'm "missing out" on mumble rap at its peak, I don't care about other things I "missed out" on due to not being a specific age at a specific time.
I thoroughly enjoyed playing Pokemon Red at launch will all my friends in 4th grade. I think that was a great experience. Maybe zoomers have fun getting run over by cars at mumble rap events, I don't know. I doubt they care about gen 1 pokemon in 1998 with all gaming info delivered by magazines and word of mouth. I did not use the internet until about 2001. Is that cooler to me? Yes, but I also don't give a single frick about zoomer hobbies so they probably don't feel like they "missed out" on anything.
In 30 years you'll see posts
>Do you feel bad for xoomers for missing out on the golden age of mumble rap?
Absolutely not a single xoomer will feel like they missed out. A lot of zoomers do not care that they didn't play pokemon gen 1 at launch with no internet.
I don't give a shit about most NES games and stuff released before I was 5 years old. SNES and later is more my territory. I like the stuff I grew up with. There are so many good games released every year you have to have a specific desire to play technologically inferior games with dated design.
What game is that?
Dwarf Fortress.
No but there's this weird phenomenon on youtube where zoomers post comments about feeling nostalgic over retro vidya songs they've only just discovered and never grew up with
question
who actually cares about these things?
millenials/zillenials who want to feel superior over the younger generation. it's a tale as old as time itself
The only thing that matters is if your missed out on the transition to 3D. If you grew up playing exclusively 2D games because that's all there was and suddenly you had N64 and PSX, that shit was mindblowing. Kids who grew up on a mix of 2D and 3D games will never understand. It was like being there for the invention of the motion picture. This kind of progress only happens once every hundred years.
SNES 2D on CRT > 3D.
No. I don't envy them because it's depressing if you grew up in the wonderful 80s and 90s when technology and games were rapidly improving. It's like video games no longer have the ability to give me joy at all unless I go back and replay the original Doom or Doom II. That and some old Mario games are better than anything coming out lately.
>I don't envy them because it's depressing if you grew up in the wonderful 80s and 90s when technology and games were rapidly improving. It's like video games no longer have the ability to give me joy at all
I wonder when, or if, there will ever be a big movement in our lifetime that justifies the use of medications or drugs to manage mental health later this century. Anyone who has done some research and understands the human brain and development and social dynamic and how fricked up a person is growing up in extreme social situations, is not surprised by the rampant mental health problems in 2023. Our generation grew up in a blender compared to thousands of years of human experience.
I'm specifically talking about pleasure. We are the first generation to grow up going through puberty right when the internet and gaming and rewards were being easier to access than ever before. The entire reward center of our brain got so fricked up compared to any other generation. Those after us grew up with a little more "limited screen time" and lessons learned from our generation 10 years before them.
It's not just cooming, but like you said, games in general. We were getting fed like kings and when the river turned in to a drip or the river stopped changing flavors, we are now bored and depressed. However, this can be managed with therapy and doing work on figuring out why we are so fricked up. I just think it's wild how common it is for people to take meds to manage depression and motivation. Our world is completely different than it was 100 years ago. I think everyone alive right now is thrown in to a blender compared to 100 years ago, but those of us who grew up without the internet, but did get it when we were around age 10, got EXTRA fricked reward and pleasure centers of our brain. We grew up developing and laying neural pathways without youtube, and then got it right when our brains were developing the most as teens.
NTA, but honestly you make a good point. how will society cope and evolve to a sexless, isolated (yet interconnected) generation of mentally stunted adults? autism is on the rise, our food is filled with microplastics, the earth is getting warmer, and people have no fricking idea what's going on. you suggested medication, but that would only make things worse. our bodies were never made to handle all these substances. with how things are going, i can only assume we're headed towards some kind of dystopia. that is, unless WW3 shakes things up. we have an entire generation of able bodied young adults (myself included) without a purpose, or end goal in life. we need some kind of conflict to harden us again.
things can only end in some kind of disaster
This is pretty moronic, games have nothing to do with mental health. I played fighting games and sports games with friends. The key is played with friends, not what. I played ff7 the same year I read lord of the rings and that was written a century ago. I read less known authors like Marion zimmery Bradley and played less known games like langrisser and y's and looked up Japanese-only games with envy. If something all that cool stuff is why I'm not depressed. What's depressing is the state of the world now because anything exciting is a marketing scam, not genuine. Companies learned to co-op youthful excitement into digital slavery, not genuinely good or innovative products. It's why zoomers read Harry Potter. It's actually good even though it was marketed. But they have no way to see that 99% of good stuff is not marketed anymore, if it's even made. It's poorly remastered, bundled, resold out of context and addictive trash is what's marketed instead.
you dont have to miss out? I'm in my mid 20s and I still played Snes, N64, PS1 games and enjoyed them a lot
never thought about this but thanks for giving me another reason to feel old
why are people so obsessed with zoomers
zoomie status quo needs to be inspected
new thing bad
>help them mature
well the first requirement is for the teacher to also be mature
because they are the up-and-coomers and it's obvious they're fricking moronic.
Generation Alpha are the up and comers now. Zoomers are already a failed generation. Half of you are almost 30 already, with no assets, no career, no relationships, and no hope for the future. You're literally transforming into hideous parodies of humanity. You're unironically eating each others' buttholes, like that wasn't just a fricking sick joke once upon a time. And somehow you're convinced that fighting racism by looting and showing your dicks off in a pity parade once a year is going to solve these problems for you.
>Half of you are almost [40] already, with no assets, no career, no relationships, and no hope for the future.
Millenials.
>You're unironically eating each others' buttholes, like that wasn't just a fricking sick joke once upon a time
Millenials.
>And somehow you're convinced that fighting racism by looting and showing your dicks off in a pity parade once a year is going to solve these problems for you.
Millenials.
>Millenials
Actually every generation of Americans have been gayer than the last. Zoomers are gayer than millennials, Alpha shaping up to be fruitier than zoomers.
This is also a uniquely American phenomenon. The British zoomers aren't as gay as American ones. It's mostly Americans eating da poopoo.
>initially read that as "up and coomers"
I've been here too long.
millenials need new a scapegoat for their shitty life.
As an old af millennial myself (1983) I've come to the realization that every generation from the so-called "greatest" onward are pretty irredeemably awful.
its the cycle of things
Because they're the current demographic that games are aimed at? Elden Ring and Baulder's Gate 3 will be anomalies because zoomers lack impulse control.
2004 here. No, because PC games work just fine if you go to PCGW and take their advice, and we can emulate anything up to PS3 with a decent PC.
Lot of moronic zoomers out there, and the instinct as grown men to help them mature.
>the golden age of vidya?
You mean the 5th and 6th gen?
Yeah, I 'member it, that was nice
Absolutely not. They've proven that they're sheep willing to take massive spike rods up their ass because their favourite zoomer streamer told them to.
Games have become packed to the brim with microtransactions in full priced games. And they keep making them and zoomers keep buying them.
I mean, how many new titles has Rockstar put out since GTA 5? RDR2?
>kslop
have a nice day, troony
>getting angry at pretty women
>fails to engage with the post itself
Are you gay?
There are women in those videos? I see about 3 pixels moving.
>NOOO YOU CAN'T HATE ON MY LE HECKIN PLASTIC asiaticERINOS YOU SHOULD SIMP FOR THEM JUST LIKE I DO
Again, have a nice day
>regurgitates posts because zoomers are incapable of original thoughts
Man, your generation, YOUR generation worships transsexual streamers. That's an undeniable fact.
Bold of you to assume my generation based purely on the posts where I tell you to have a nice day
But maybe it's just kslop finally getting to your brain (or what's left of it) and you devolving into mindless ramblings
>oomer this
>oomer that
have a nice day if you care about amy of this shit pathetic homosexuals
t. 25 years old
I know you think you're really smart, but this is a thread where people are talking about generational differences.
You just came in here to say you don't like the terminology used, threw out a slur, and told everyone to kill themselves. You're actually contributing nothing of value and wasting bandwidth and your own time posting that. I was maybe 26 when I really started to reflect inward and I am not completely sober, but I did cut back on alcohol around that age as well. I find mid-20's is the most common age for "I was so dumb at 21 lol, but now I'm a REAL adult and know everything for sure now!" Most people don't admit they are dumb until about 30.
>threw out a slur
lmao what a massive homosexual. You are a dumb Black person. You are the blackest moron gorilla Black person I have ever seen. have a nice day millennial. You're worse than the boomers ever were.
Dude idgaf about your life
Stop categorizing everything lile a fricking spreadsheet
Especially people by year they were born.
A dude born in 95 in US is not the same as a dude born in 95 in EU and so on
Yeah, the US guy isn't as poor as the EU guy.
You deserved 9/11 and I hope you get a real war instead of 2 building getting destroyed
Nobody could invade the USA. We're the only country with a naval expeditionary force large enough to support an invasion of that scale.
America constantly on eurotrash's minds, 24/7 and rent-free
if anything i noticed only mutts seethe constantly about other continents
The american was the one bringing up "wealth differences" when we all know we're all getting screwed equally anyway so...
At least EU can afford an house and a car for cheap
>At least EU can afford an house and a car for cheap
roflmaoing on the floor rn
I can get a $250k house and a $25k car easily. That's basically nothing.
>25k for a car
Bruh I paid my shitbox 600€
Brand new? I can get a used shitbox for that here.
Nah, it was used of course,but I'd never buy a new car. I find that stupid
I'd rather get some pretuned civic type R, which are going for <10k around here
yeah and it's a .9L diesel shitbox and you probably paid a quarter of the car's value alone between registration/inspection fees
lol... you definitely don't sound like someone who lives here or just germcuck welfare.
>Most people don't admit they are dumb until about 30
That may have been the norm once upon a time but I have peers pushing and even past 40 that still haven't figured that out. Being a m*llennial is an increasingly embarrassing existence.
Not really. Being young is better than anything.
Did you do your fricking homework? You know how dad gets when he drinks, you won't be able to do it if you can't lift your arm
I feel bad for zoomers because climate change is going to destroy any chance they'd have for a normal life when they'll be in their 40s
no, zoomers don't deserve to play good games and wallowing in their slop is adequate punishment
Golden age of gaming was 1990-1995 once 3D slop and corps such as Sony entered gaming it was the beginning of the end.
>mindbroken by sony this long
Sony is/was nothing more than a glorified middleman, about as equally soulless as Microsoft.
I'd argue that the golden age was more about 1995 - 2005, maybe 1992 - 2007, but...
>corps such as Sony entered gaming it was the beginning of the end
I also have to agree with this.
Once gaming slipped out of the hands from the old guard companies. The stage was set for what we have today.
>This game is pretty good but, should you really be playing this 2D game on your console?
>Should you really buy this arcade perfect port that otherwise costs the operator 800-1200 dollars?
>No I don't think so
The attitude from reviewers during Fifth generation was absolute cancer.
>wii came out when zoomers were 10
>wii is mostly full of shovelware and games for kids
>DURR ZOOMIES NEVER PLAYED THE WII
moron thread.
We literally started with the wii
t. '05 'oomer
Yeah. 95-2015 was a good run. It's been creatively bankrupt since, yes, even indy games.
Every generation those years had benefits.
N64/PSX/Saturn - 3d graphics
PS2/XBOX/Dreamcast - Pretty good 3d graphics with good performance and capabilities
360/PS3 - Really good 3d, enough power to do basically any vidya conceptually
PS4/Xbone - Better graphics but nothing particularly amazing/new except the capacity for 3d/VR
PS5 and Xbox Series S/X isn't anything new except shinier graphics, we've plateued feature wise until we get stuff like AI generated NPCs/dialogue which could be 5 or even 10 years off
I'm 30 and my belief is that if you don't keep yourself up to date on Vidya then you're the one who's dead.
I just feel bad for zoomers in general, to be honest.
I would feel bad for them if they weren't clapping and laughing while constantly getting kicked in the head.
They literally just don't know any better anon.
It's like watching a downie walk around a revolving door getting smacked in the face constant.
It's hilarious, but, not really their fault.
They're brown. You really can't have the same expectations of white generations like Xers and Millennials for one that's basically Latin American.
>Latin america didn't exist before 1996
Yes, and nobody expected serious intellectual output or high tech industry from Latin America.
Just keeping the power on with minimal brownouts is the curve we have to grade on at this point.
>the source of massive amounts of America's coffee
>apparently has no economy or electricity anywhere
Historically, Latin America has had more power outages than the US. This is largely a product of them being somewhat dimmer than Europeans or Asians, which kicks you in the ass when dealing with very large, complex systems like power grids. You're not going to have the equivalent of Silicon Valley or Shenzhen in South America.
It's no surprise that, as the US, has grown more Latin American basic competency at things like keeping the power in has decreased, and will probably converge with Latin American rates over time.
>This is largely a product of them being somewhat dimmer than Europeans or Asians
Or maybe, just maybe it's a byproduct of the US intentionally stomping them into the ground to keep them as corporate vassal states
That's what happens to Japan and Korea, and they nonetheless leapt past Latin America. Latin America smaller smart fraction just reduces the ceiling, and increase the level of ambient dysfunction. Latin America is better than, for example, Africa; but they do have a lower ceiling on development because they have lesser biological capital. As we see when Latin Americans move en masse to the US, they bring with them Latin American levels of things being dirtier, more inefficient, less functional and so on. Not to the extent of Africans, who can't even keep the water clean in Jackson or Flint. In swathes of the South, Latin Americans are an outright improvement to the biological capital.
Ultimately, we have to be kind to Zoomers. The white zoomers are the products of at least 50 years of dysgenic selection; and their swarthier cohort companions are also less intelligent on average. Expecting them to have the technological mastery of the Apollo program engineers, or just conceptualizing a file system is overly ambitious relative to their aggregate capabilities.
Born in 87, missed nothing. Im depressed these days because most AAA has become total garbage and the only half decent thing is indies and the rare AAA from some unknown studio.
frick you all, i'm making a blog post. i'm tired of living behind several layers of irony. so, for once, i'll be sincere.
i look up to you oldgays. as much as you all love to bash others to hide your insecurities and whatnot, you're still my elders, and have a plethora of wisdom that i do not have. you've experienced things that i'll never (ever) feel, learned things that i haven't yet had the chance to learn, shit on me for being a clueless, moronic zoomer. all that, and yet i still admire you all because i think you're much wiser than me.
i'm afraid of the future. i dont know what it holds for me. i dont know if i'll die in the ditches of a country thousands of kilometres away, who speak a language virtually alien to my own... or if i'll die at age 80, surrounded by people who love me, after living a long, fruitful life. but what i can do right now, is learn from you, the mistakes you've made so i can't make them myself. i look now at the failures of millenials, how they can't figure out how life works, despite being virtually twice my age. how they revel in a kind of degeneracy that makes me want to puke, despite being guilty myself of indulging in some of it. how they bent culture itself to fufill some kind of deranged vision of a perfect world, that still tries to pull itself apart, in spite of their attempts to bring them together against their will. i watch their failures in horror, and am forced to participate in a society that spits on me for not wanting to return to something more sensible. and soon i, and others like me, will be at the helms of this society, and i dont know how to fix this mess they made.
i look to many of you, to try and make sense of all this madness, to find some comfort like "here's what you have to do to make it all okay", and yet i am empty handed. i want guidance from you, but you mock me for my ignorance. so please, for the love of god, help me, before its too late, and find ourselves neutered like dogs by people who hate us.
You're living in the most comfortable state of human existence. We have good medicine, you can summon media or entertainment at any time, and every culture in the globe is available to you in small or not so small doses.
You don't need to be a master at everything, but just keep learning the little things, internalize those neat tricks and nuggets of knowledge, appreciate older things, realize that a lot of people doing fricked up stuff to themselves are doing so out of fear of the unknown and the future rather than being sick degenerates (though some are).
You might even be part of the first "immortal" generation considering all the advances we've made in the last 30 years. Frick.
You haven't missed too much in life, just don't let yourself stagnate or settle into a life you don't enjoy...unless you're getting paid a frickton by stupid investors in some startup, kek
>You're living in the most comfortable state of human existence.
The thoughts of a middle/upper middle class degenerate living in a gated community.
Oh yeah it's not perfect, but I lost a grandma to kidney cancer 30 years ago and my mom is alive and thriving after the same cancer 1 year ago. No longer have to wait weeks/months for a movie/show to rerun, packages get delivered in days instead of weeks/months, and a bunch of other shit.
Property values and inflation will get better eventually, hopefully sooner than later because those are massive problems brewing.
A few things.
1.) Nobody has anything figured out. Everybody just wings it. Always, all the time. The 80 year old man who can barely walk still feels like a clueless 25 year old in his head.
2.) The only way to fix things at this point is violent revolution, but it'll never happen. Everyone is too obsessed with their phones and generations have been beaten over the head with "violence is bad".
3.) You'll probably live a boring and uneventful life while you wait around for the fireworks to start. Nothing ever happens.
4.) The single best thing you can do is disconnect and be as free from social media as possible. It amplifies your worries, fills your head with info you don't need to know, and promotes degeneracy. Unplug. Or end up like me.
Damn, actually got me for once.
You're right, and games don't matter. What matters is that no generation knows how to go forward from here, as so much is unprecedented. So it will go wherever we carry it. And sometimes things that are "tolerant" or "choices" need to be fought against. Like banning gacha games or troony propaganda to kids. You might say "they're not so bad", but that's the point. They might not be the core problem, but at some point someone has to fight against grey areas, or everything turns grey, and then turns black, with no way back into the light. By fighting against grey areas we reveal where the bad and the good is. That's my personal advice. "Tolerance" and "equality" have robbed us of centuries and millenia of reason earned by our ancestors to goad us into allowing shit to creep into society that they knew by experience and instinct was deadly and would destroy us. That's why I cheer whenever i see a zoomer rejecting manipulation. But you have to be brave and not let anyone tell you that you're mean or bad. Or let women have power over you like so many millennials allowed. It's then obvious what to do, fight simps, refuse bawds, reject PC and stay honest all the fricking time with the shit you see and think. The moment you do like us millennials and try to "look good", you will be fricked and lose yourself, becoming second class to slaves, cucks, liars and scammers.
I'm 19 and my first games were DMC4, Prototype, Assassin's Creed 2, Lost Planet 2, etc. on the PS3,
Smash Bros Brawl, Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii, etc.,
and PSP games like the port for Tekken 5.
Are you guys actually fricking moronic?
...is this a bait post?
No, just an anecdotal retort to moronic claims written by fat 30+ year old hands.
>moron lists subpar sequels as golden age
PSP, PS3 era had soul
>soul
It is genuinely impossible for your generation not to regurgitate or run things into the ground. I'm surprised a zoomer homosexual like you didn't put a v into soul.
>PSP, PS3 era had soul
Didn't deny that but you literally listed subpar sequels....and wii party games.
>Zoomers are firmly rooted in the here and now
Have you heard of Hauntology?
>Hauntology
From what I just read, it seems to be trying to emulate what I actually experienced from a modern lens?
I guess you could put it in that sense. I was thinking more of the fact that zoomer Black folk have no sense of a future.
Well, they don't have geeks or nerds in their generation. I mean, IIRC a graded Gen 1 charizard card is hanging round the neck of one of the Paul brothers. Something that would've been impossible for millennials.
Everyone born after you can play almost anything you have played. All they're missing out on is the commercialized culture of whatever the current thing is, that's all they're really "missing out on".
Wrong. They're missing out on seeing the industry evolve and growing up alongside it, which fosters an appreciation for where we've been, where we're going, and where we are. Zoomers are bred to constantly seek instant gratification and can't play appreciate anything older than them.
I grew up in the 80's but still love 50's, 60's, 70's music, movies, books. Zoomers are firmly rooted in the here and now, with no respect or appreciation for what came before.
Zoomer here. The only thing we missed out on is renting video games because your family was too poor to actually own them.
zoomer here, I have a ps4, 360, new 3ds, phone, and a shitty laptop.
what older consoles/games should I emulate?
Mario 1+2+3+World
Zelda 1+2+3 (maybe skip 2)
Kirby's Adventure, Kirby Superstar
Sonic the Hedgehog 1+2+3+CD (I believe Sonic Origins is the best way to play them, native wide-screen support and knuckles in sonic 1)
Mario 64, Zelda 64 and Majoras Mask, Starfox 64
The 2d stuff is all somewhat shorter, but basically defined the genres.
Until you morons actually set what a zoomer is, I'm just going to assume zoomer means anyone under the age of 2 since you fat homosexuals keep pushing it farther and farther.
>"Hurr durr, zoomers missed out on the golden age of Xbox series x 2! They didn't play games until the PS7 Nero Z!"
No one's pushed anything zoomer. Zoomers are '96 onwards. Proto-zoomers are post-'92.
no
they can emulate just fine but won't because they want to b***h about everything being crusty in the past (no shit sherlock)
and now someone will tell me thats not what it says on wikipedia.
thats not what it says on wikipedia