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 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?
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.”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.
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.
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
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.
Damn boomers always sitting around on public transport with their remarkably youthful complexions glued to tiny screens.
People openly use fentanyl in public, I don’t wanna hear it anon!
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.)
Used to do what? Play games and be happy in public?
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
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.
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”
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.
Are they just opposed to the concept of games itself? Wow, what a way to have a childhood.
Why?
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.
plot twist: she’s 54
I have no idea how old that woman is
Youngest boomers are 61, though :D
Big mac, whooper
