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Penny Arcade - Comic - Vox Morkina
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Vox Morkina
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Seeing as how "Millennials" was applied to everything that old people didn't understand until maybe two years back, turnabout is fair play
Mostly fair. I think the only downside is that it really wasn't Gen X calling Gen Z "Millenials". It was mostly Boomers and Silents and the cranky online articles they wrote. Like, my wife is just one year away from Millenials. I know what that they're not much younger than me.
It's okay, though. Boomer is more of a state of mind, and Gen X is getting there.
Okay, but I’m a Millennial so that just means I spent years being blamed for things that have nothing to do with me and now I get called a boomer.
Yeah, that's annoying
I solve that by never engaging with The Youth of Today
With their Ticky Tocks and their YouTube personalities
Yeah, I had a Gen Alpha kid call me a Boomer once. Now listen here you little shit! You see a lawn for me to yell at you to get off? That's because I spent all the money I don't have on avocado toast, apparently, instead of buying an overpriced old house half an hours drive away from anything worth doing and with a massive front yard I can't use for anything but have to constantly mow.
But at least we killed Applebees. Except we didn't. But we almost did. And that would have been worth it. Fuck Applebees.
Well I own a home, but I used a VA home loan because I went and fought in one of the two simultaneous wars the boomers started. So thanks for that, I guess, boomers.
Applebees should have just offered avocado toast. Ez money.
Stephen Applebee says, "Does my name look like Avocadobees to you? Get the fuck out of my overpriced restaurant!"
"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!" -- Abraham Simpson
As true today as when the Simpsons first said it. That's a show us boomers grew up with.
Fun fact: The Simpsons first aired closer to the building of the pyramids than to the present day.
Have you tried yelling at them to get off your landlord's lawn?
You need to try something much scarier, like talking about how the gross profits made by fossil fuel companies will lead to the end of TikTok, BMC, KSI, and Tidepods.
All that they hold dear shall be stricken from their blackened hearts and cast down into oblivion, like so many Barbie movie reboots.
Honestly, weird sure, but scary, I've never really gotten why my compatriots seem to find the strange young fads so scary and discombobulating. Like, come on, were any of our own fads any less silly and odd when looked at from the outside? I'd need to actually sit down and understand the context to get a lot of what the kids are about, that's true - but that's the nature of things, if you don't know the context everything is weird and a microwave is magic.
On the other hand, some things eternally return, in cycles. Remember ALF? He's back! In pog form.
That's like every generation. Old People become Uncool Fuddy Duddies, and The Hip Youth Know Everything. And then the generational cycle repeats.
Old man yells at Cloud
It's a little bit extra with generation tiktok, because they all want to be performing for a world-wide audience. It's the same basic thing, but cranked up to 11.
-- some old guy
And even "child of the '80s" and "child of the '90s" was already sped up.
Of course, "they" define generations is wonky. Lost were 18 years. Greatest were 27. Silents were 18. Boomers were 19. The last three completed ones since have all been 16. Part of it is having fewer world-defining events. But another part is probably faster moving pop culture.
So roughly every 25 years or so, depending on birth rates?
Sort of? But it hasn't been 25 years for a long time. And if you think about it, people had kids younger as you go back in the past, so generations should be getting longer. Of course, people often had kids for like, 15 or more years back then as well, so then it gets even fuzzier as to generations. It's never been a concept that mapped cleanly on reality.
Within a family maybe. But when working on the societal level that's no division to draw that kind of line, and an arbitrary birth rate interval isn't what the whole system is trying to do, it's trying to group people by broadly shared formative experience, hence the bottom end of the Greatest being mostly the children of the top row.
As long as you don't get too specific the system does hold up superficially... Except for Millennials, who have a very distinct digital migrant/digital native split. The upper half share more with X than they do with the lower half, many of us were still the feral unattended spawn of boomers running the street with the weak becoming episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, with rotary phones on the wall and duck and cover drills at school and along with Gen X we adapted to the September That Never Ended when it came, but we became adults in an era where the internet and mobile devices were still luxuries. But the bottom half were the children of those feral boomer spawn, whole new concepts of overparenting emerged in the wake of that mess, they grew up with the internet and became adults in the era of ubiquitous connection.
Yeah it has definitely shifted older across the world.
Media labeling of different generations is just one of those things that annoy me; where they'll just use whatever term they want that fits the story.
I'm sure it's totally unrelated to me being part of the "Forgotten Generation."
So you have the high tech generation performing a low tech ritual, and being thwarted by a low tech generation using their technology.
The equivalent would be sending a WhatsApp message saying "I'm outside" then running away
Or spoofing a food delivery alert
Why ding, dong, ditch when you can pound, shout, blast?
but elder millenials are getting boomer'd by the kids!