Damn boomers always sitting around on public transport with their remarkably youthful complexions glued to tiny screens.
Like talking to your phone held in front of your face on speaker.
what fucking boomer was playing handhelds in public?
boomers didn’t even know what a gameboy was. gen x were the parents that got that shit for their kids
Boomer behavior would be much more like being on a bus or train and taking a phone call on speakerphone.
Or just watching a video of playing music full blast without a headset or ear buds.
Which is actually something that is common amongst zoomers, very common the closer they are to an alpha.
As well as just being a shit disturber live streamer, and also streaming and driving a car at the same time.
… So yeah, I don’t think the brainrotted zombies understand ‘societal norms’ very well.
Whereas taking pictures of strangers to post on 4chan is top chad
Yeah, well… I’m Epstein about it…
Cus fuck them kids.
I mean the other day on the bus someone was having a full-volume face time conversation on speakerphone about the groceries they were about to buy, I wish people were just playing Nintendo DS in public these days.
How is this worse than the smartphone addiction epidemic? Even people walking can’t put their phones away to get to their destination safely.
I had no idea that was supposed to be the embarrassing part. It’s exactly the same! I can only assume the meme is being ironic.
Fake: anon is actually envious
Gay: anon wishes he was the girl in the photoAnon is an egg
Anon wants to get fertilized and then sat on by a chicken
which is a lot gayer than regular gay
The DS Lite was such a good little handheld. Especially with a flashcart in both ports. The GBA one I had couldn’t hold a ROM, you had to flash it from the DS one every time, but GBA games weren’t big, I didn’t have many, and I had a huge SD card in my flashcart.
Even in pink. (I’d just put stickers all over it, then put a clear clamshell case on it because those stickers would get icky.) (Not that I don’t like the pink DSL. It’s a fine look. I just prefer my electronics to be black.)
There was one kind of DS that could detect other DS’s nearby, and you’d get little rewards for things like how far you walked and how many other people you walked past that also had a DS in their bag. One time I got home and I’d apparently walked past a Nintendo employee at some point and got a special achievement thing for it!
That would be the 2|3ds. Streetpass my beloved
This person SuperCards
Did you also have a SuperKey for DS games? God converting those was an absolute bitch and compatibility was never guaranteed especially for a new release. Remember the ARM7 patch you had to do with them??
Okay I’ll stop reminiscing about vintage piracy now
When kids say “boomer” they mean an adult. Doesn’t matter what age you are. If you’re an adult you’re a boomer. End of story.
When you try to explain to them what a boomer actually is they just laugh at you and call you a boomer again because honestly that shit is a pretty a boomer thing to do.
Source: I have two middle schoolers and a highschooler and these are the things I’m told.
boomer applies to anyone who has the typical mentality of a boomer (the age). anyone can be a boomer, sadly.
As a millennial, that irritates me. Every day I find a new reason to be happy(ish…) that I didn’t end up with kids.
They’ve Syndrome monologued us 😦
Source: I have two middle schoolers and a highschooler and these are the things I’m told.
Lemmy is just Reddit for adults.
There’s a subreddit with that name (and a discord server with a similar one) that I bet would disagree with you.
Indeed. That’s why I hang out on /r/teenagers, with all the other adults.
Andrew, Formerly Known as Prince, is that you?
“Daddy when can I have beer?”
“When you’re a boomer.”Thanks, boomer (from a fellow boomer)
Clearly not a boomer, but whatever.
Anon so closeted they don’t even understand what normal human behaviour looks like.
I absolute despise when people dismiss some videogames as a boomer thing. Boomers did not play videogames (in general), as a matter of fact, most of them hated them.
Many did, but stopped after the atari/namco era.
my mother (boomer) did and still does, but refuses to admit it. she absolutely loved grim fandango, the monkey island series, quest for glory, kings quest and space quest, pretty much anything sierra or lucasarts. i keep trying to get her to dip her toe into some walking simulators or something with some decent story (i bet she’d love horizon zero dawn, one of my brothers was all in on dinosaurs) but she’s just playing bejeweled now.
I’m sad I could never convince my mom to keep gaming beyond the arcade games of her youth and bejeweled and the like. I sincerely think she would have loved roguelites. My father never was a gamer but did try golf games, and I tried to convince him to try strategy games but never did, I still think he’d love 4xes
the one game i’ve found most everyone enjoys is stardew valley, but i have not tried with my mother yet.
I’m a late millennial and I grew up with N64 and GameCube. I thought my cousin’s SNES was cool and retro.
I saw a Sega Genesis at my uncle’s house once and felt like I was rediscovering the secrets of the ancestors
Very, very few did, as you’ve pointed out, but I was lucky enough that my Dad was one of them. He wasn’t an avid gamer or anything, because he tended to work long hours, but he’d regularly sit down and play multiplayer games with me and my siblings when I was younger and used to live with him. I didn’t really realise how lucky I was at the time.
My parents were so against video games I legitimately got a jump scare when my FIL asked my about Skyrim last thanksgiving.
Video games are all either gay or the devil, and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise
And here I thought I could respect you for your good prose.
That’s what happens when you watch too many video games, you start disrespecting your elders. Now, back in my day, etc…
(I hope the joke is more apparent now)
I’m not certain, but I suspect that I’m older than you.
You could be, but the joke was to lash out in the sort of passive aggressive, out of touch obstinance that you can find in many older Christians in the US. I, as the (relatively) anonymous face, accept the responsibility and derision of playing the jester. You, as the audience, accept the responsibility of recognizing the group being emulated, and laughing at the fool.
It’s a form of punching down, sure, but I don’t respect socially bubbled bigots enough to care about their feelings, regardless of their age
I don’t even understand anon’s point. Use Nintendo DS in public?
Also boomers had DSs??
Millennials are boomers now, apparently…
The ds grazed genz too
Definitely. I gave one to my mom for her birthday back then. She’s been a Tetris fanatic since I had my first game boy way back then.
To clarify, I’m sure there are plenty of boomers who have a Nintendo DS. What I mean to say is, who looks at a DS and thinks “Ah yes, the boomer console”?
Some did, like my grandad. He had a DSi XL with a fancy stylus.
That’s what it seems to me. How horrifying to use a device that isn’t a phone I guess?
I’m so confused. Can someone explain this one to me? It just looks like someone is playing a phone game or DS or something. Don’t people play phone games still or is that the joke?
Its consider cringe by “the youths” to be out in public playing a handheld game console.
Ironically, the real cringe is giving a fuck what anyone dictating what is cringe thinks. Especially kids to today that didn’t have shit like lawn darts and unsupervised outdoor activity to filter out some of the dumbest ones and teach life lessons.
lol what. instead of what, looking at a dipshit taking pictures of strangers the entire commute?
Interesting, so being into ad-infested, freemium mobile games is okay, but being into real games that you can play straight through without interruptions is cringe?
I’m suddenly glad to be an adult.
At least according to the three children im around on a regular basis, phone games are also in the category of “cringe things that are boomer-coded”
Are they just opposed to the concept of games itself? Wow, what a way to have a childhood.
They seem to be against playing it in public, not the game it self
That’s super interesting. I would have assumed most kids nowadays were completely addicted shitty mobile games and playing on the go would be the norm.
I did too, but apparently its “for babies”
Kids these days have it bad for games.
i am the youth, nobody thinks this and in fact playing with a game console versus a phone is in fact even a fashion or cultural statement that people think is cool
Well i know two teenagers that disagree with you
i can assure you that my impression of the youth is more encompassing than yours
See but i cant take that at face value, you are an unconfirmed youth, the youths i see are confirmed youths.
You could be some dude in his 40s larping, so ill take their anecdotes over yours
Note: i do not want proof do not send me pictures
also keep in mind that what teenagers (including me) tell adults is often not what we actually think, for various reasons
Then how can we trust that you’re telling us what you actually think now? Maybe you do think it’s cringe and want to encourage old people to do it just because that is funny. I’m on to you sonny boy.
Its consider cringe by “the youths” to be out in public
FTFY
For a lot of young people, the cultural norm is that any kind of sincerity is cringe.
I was talking about this with a friend recently, but is there any culture for 13 year olds anymore? What music do they listen to? Because when I was a teenager, a mere decade ago, there was still a distinct youth subculture that I just don’t think exists anymore.
None of this is to shake my fist at a cloud and say things were better back in my day. But I do think that Covid, the proliferation of algorithmic social media, and the death of third places, have all contributed to a generation of kids who think going outside and having a nice time is insufferably cringe, when they should be going to an all ages punk show, wearing stupid clothes, and having experiences
Yes they think sincerity is cringe in most circumstances, but i wouldnt agree with any of your other points
I have taken my kids to some pretty small concerts, that they asked for rides to, that garage band scene is still around it’s just not our scene anymore, right? The main difference I found is that my kids wanted to share the music with me, wanted me to go see it with them and my God I would never have done that with my mom.
So thankful they grew up and do wear stupid clothes (and sometimes awesome costumes for conventions). In our family there’s a gender split - the boys & men including the trans one are less about going out, the girls & women are all more into going out to shows & events.
Sweet. Thanks for the perspective.
Why?
Partly because extreme self consciousness has become normal in the era where abnormalities can get you recorded and posted on the internet for mockery.
Like I get it, I have an anxiety disorder and cptsd and was bullied as a kid all of which combine to a form of extreme self consciousness. But my fear of playing my steam deck in a laundromat or on the bus is what’s left of what was at a much less healthy stage of life a fear of going to the grocery store or browsing in a shop for more than exactly what I went in for (ok I still struggle with that one).
It’s mental illness that certain corners of the internet, 4chan especially, have not only normalized, but gone so far as to encourage in each other and likely induce. Also given that it’s 4chan it probably originates with self consciousness from failure to understand social rules and expectations and the policing of themselves extending to policing of others
Getting a solid answer on that from teenagers is basically not possible. They live life based on “vibes”, and the vibes are cringe
Huh. There aren’t many teenagers in my life but the two who matter to me (my nephews) have always been pro-video-game.
The ones i know love gaming, but doing it in public is cringe to them
I guess I don’t go out in public, so I wouldn’t know.
Its better that way. Outside kinda sucks these days
The fact that they think like that is cringe in and of itself.
Strong agree, cringe culture is cringe
Enjoy life?
