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.
“Daddy when can I have beer?”
“When you’re a boomer.”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.
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?
They’ve Syndrome monologued us 😦
Thanks, boomer (from a fellow boomer)
boomer applies to anyone who has the typical mentality of a boomer (the age). anyone can be a boomer, sadly.
Damn boomers always sitting around on public transport with their remarkably youthful complexions glued to tiny screens.
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.
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
StreetPass, and I think all DSes could do it. Yes, it tracked steps, and it detected other DSes. If you both had the same game (or related games, such as Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl, I think was the twin game — I only had Diamond) and you both had your consoles sleeping (i.e. in low power mode), certain things could happen. If you didn’t have the same game, it still registered the connection.
DS users could also anonymously chat with one another. Having a DS at an airport, hotel, or convention was a lot of fun because you’d have tons of people in the area, and if you were playing something popular like Pokémon or Animal Crossing, you were also getting a lot of contacts.
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
Mine was an R4, but I’ve heard of the Supercard. I don’t remember the ARM7 patch but I’ve heard of it.
I do remember trimming games. The DS “Nitro” card held 32MB of storage, and every ROM was 32MB, even if the game didn’t take up that much space. A trimmer would remove the junk data. Some games, for anti-piracy purposes, would detect the junk data, so you couldn’t trim them. (If a game was less than 16MB, or 8MB, it would go on a 16MB or 8MB card, respectively; I don’t think there were 64MB cards, but there might have been.)
Eyy I had an R4 too
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
My dad - not a boomer but “silent generation” - frequently used to play on his Atari Lynx or code on his Atari Portfolio while doing longer train rides… if a guy born in 1940 did that i am pretty sure you have the occasional boomer using an Gameboy.
Ok boomer
p.s. boomer is anyone one nanosecond older than you.
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.
Whereas taking pictures of strangers to post on 4chan is top chad
Like talking to your phone held in front of your face on speaker.
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.
Yeah, well… I’m Epstein about it…
Cus fuck them kids.
I only identify myself as a gooner
I don’t even understand anon’s point. Use Nintendo DS in public?
That’s what it seems to me. How horrifying to use a device that isn’t a phone I guess?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
