Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated
calliope@retrolemmy.com 2 days ago
A bright spot of 2025 was the continued rise of “friendslop,” a cringey internet-spawned label for a broad genre of cooperative games designed for groups of friends.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard “friendslop” and I knew exactly what it was talking about.
At least the same guy doesn’t also use “boomer shooter”
Maestro@fedia.io 2 days ago
Boomer shooter doesn't sound too derogatory to me. Friendslop does.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
Which is funny, because “boomer shooter” is literally named after a derogatory term for “older people”
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
I mean, it refers to the games that are like those older shooters that old people used to play, I think it works well as a term to distinguish those games from more standard shooters.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 19 hours ago
Calling anyone older than you “old people” totally proves my point, thanks!