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Penny Arcade - Comic - Youth Adjacent
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Youth Adjacent
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Edit: Maybe it's just the prescription ones.
How'd you get that from THAT?
It's pretty clear the message is "We're old."
I don't get invited to rooftop parties anymore.
I'm very curious. 206 is a Seattle area code.
Tycho is the one who has tasted the rainbow of recreational pharmaceuticals.
Because I interpreted "But you will purchase a Nintendo Switch, because you want to remain young and valid" as "There is literally no reason to buy the Nintendo Switch unless you are a slave to fashion". The implication being that the Nintendo Switch is as useful for gaming as tits on a bull.
What? Nah. I'm 39, which I believe is the approximate age of the Penny Arcade dudes, and I was constantly marketed to as Generation X. If Millennials are a twenty year birth span, the beginning age group has to start in the 90s - the time period I was in high school and college.
I personally go with the definitions from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies:
Baby Boom: 1945-1964
Gen X: 1965-1984
Millennials: 1985-2004
I like this because they each take up a simple 20 year span and I feel like it tends to fit pretty well with the attitudes of people I know in each of those groups as well.
Yes, but it's also more defined on a personal level, as to where your attitudes line up, and what your life experience has been. The years are just there as a generality. It's obviously an attempt to categorize a cultural phenomenon, which you can't expect every single person to fit into exactly. Additionally, some experts go as low as 1980, with the average starting date being 82. I was born in very late 81. I promise you, it's accurate for me, and most of my peers, where I grew up. More conservative areas may have seen people in my age range having a more gen x-like experience.
...You realize a twenty year span can be any twenty year span, not a span of the last twenty years, right? O_o The beginning of Millennials is in the 80's, and ENDS in the early aughts. People are constantly acting like it starts in the 90's and ends in the aughts; like it is a ten year span, when it is, in fact, twenty, and there are a lot more factors to it than just what age group you were born in. It's more fuzzy. I have some experiences that reflect with generation x, but 90% of mine reflect from millennials. I am a millennial from the earliest part of the group. But there are people who are closer to me in age that are definitely from generation X. But many of them have a great deal of attitudes which align the way millennials do; things which define the generation. There are grey areas, and I'm pretty tired of the word being slung around as a low grade insult, and people continuing to perpetuate the term incorrectly.
Millennials are LESS likely to be snooping doops than any generation before them. Fact. Millennials have quite a lot of good qualities that go constantly overlooked, and the spewing of hatred toward them can be easily interpreted by someone knowledgeable as unresolved envy. There is, in fact, a TED talk about it. Okay, after a quick google, at least a half dozen TED talks about the ridiculous levels of hate that gets slung at millennials.
late 70's to late 80's/early 90's is "Gen Y". also known as the "slackers"
I'm pretty sure J&M are over 40, that puts them in late Gen X/early Y.
Millennials are those born after, duh, the new millennium, or darn near it, mid/late-90's on.
Interpreters gonna interpret, I guess. But the newspost makes it pretty clear that both of them are really interested in the console. Especially the real-life Gabe. It's possible that sometimes they say outlandish things in comics for comedic effect.
I'm not sure I agree overall with that entire timetable either, but I do agree that they wouldn't be "millennials" if they aren't at least born near the millennium. "1985" is no where near enough to the millennium to count, imo. And does ignore the whole "gen Y" thing that was around until the early 2000s.
But also, yeah the comic isn't making fun of Millennials, it's making fun of Gabe and Tycho. People who make fun of any generation as a gestalt are dumb.
As am I haha though I don't know if I count as much since my parents weren't divorced like the average were.