Clearly not a boomer, but whatever.
Anon so closeted they don’t even understand what normal human behaviour looks like.
Anon disrespects their elders
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echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
hushable@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Many did, but stopped after the atari/namco era.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Video games are all either gay or the devil, and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise
allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
“Daddy when can I have beer?”
“When you’re a boomer.”IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Source: I have two middle schoolers and a highschooler and these are the things I’m told.
Lemmy is just Reddit for adults.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s a subreddit with that name (and a discord server with a similar one) that I bet would disagree with you.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
They’ve Syndrome monologued us 😦
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
w24@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Thanks, boomer (from a fellow boomer)
texture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
boomer applies to anyone who has the typical mentality of a boomer (the age). anyone can be a boomer, sadly.
assembly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
Redacted@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Its consider cringe by “the youths” to be out in public playing a handheld game console.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The fact that they think like that is cringe in and of itself.
modcolocko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
i am the youth, nobody thinks this and in fact playing with a game console versus a phone is in fact even a fashion or cultural statement that people think is cool
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lol what. instead of what, looking at a dipshit taking pictures of strangers the entire commute?
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Its consider cringe by “the youths” to be out in public
FTFY
For a lot of young people, the cultural norm is that any kind of sincerity is cringe.
I was talking about this with a friend recently, but is there any culture for 13 year olds anymore? What music do they listen to? Because when I was a teenager, a mere decade ago, there was still a distinct youth subculture that I just don’t think exists anymore.
None of this is to shake my fist at a cloud and say things were better back in my day. But I do think that Covid, the proliferation of algorithmic social media, and the death of third places, have all contributed to a generation of kids who think going outside and having a nice time is insufferably cringe, when they should be going to an all ages punk show, wearing stupid clothes, and having experiences
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ironically, the real cringe is giving a fuck what anyone dictating what is cringe thinks. Especially kids to today that didn’t have shit like lawn darts and unsupervised outdoor activity to filter out some of the dumbest ones and teach life lessons.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This must be devastating for the Switch which also happens to be nearly tied for best selling console of all time.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Fake: anon is actually envious
Gay: anon wishes he was the girl in the photoEstiar@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Anon is an egg
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anon wants to get fertilized and then sat on by a chicken
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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.)
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
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!
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That would be the 2|3ds. Streetpas my beloved
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This person SuperCards
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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.)
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
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.
Feyd@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Enjoy life?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
People openly use fentanyl in public, I don’t wanna hear it anon!
01011@monero.town 2 weeks ago
How is this worse than the smartphone addiction epidemic? Even people walking can’t put their phones away to get to their destinatiet safely.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
Willoughby@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
plot twist: she’s 54
I have no idea how old that woman is
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Youngest boomers are 61, though :D
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Might be 54 might be 14. Might be an antediluvian alien life form 🤷
frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That would be gen X.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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
RalfWausE@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
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.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ok boomer
p.s. boomer is anyone one nanosecond older than you.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Im pretty sure the oldest handhelds that people actually played in public (yes there were earlier but I’m talking something you would actually see) would be the GB/GBA which was mostly played by millennials. Meanwhile the DS was played by a mix of millennials and older Gen z.
someoneelse@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
[deleted]kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Sure but they didn’t gain mass popularity, if you combined all the game and watch games their sales would be less than half of the GB
moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Probably more like Nintendo Game&Watches and their clones.
Laser@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The Gameboy with Tetris was a huge phenomenon, and it released in 1989, it was very popular with young adults back then which were Gen X and boomers
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Don’t they mean “boomer” as in “30 year old boomer” meme? Or even just as an insult?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I do this in public lmao
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Whereas taking pictures of strangers to post on 4chan is top chad
emirbutdumb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
if this is disrespect, then i love disrespecting elder people
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Like talking to your phone held in front of your face on speaker.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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 very common amongst zoomers.
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.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yeah, well… I’m Epstein about it…
Cus fuck them kids.
baatliwala@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I only identify myself as a gooner
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Big mac, whooper
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I don’t even understand anon’s point. Use Nintendo DS in public?
boobs_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s what it seems to me. How horrifying to use a device that isn’t a phone I guess?
dalekcaan@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Also boomers had DSs??
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Millennials are boomers now, apparently…
thelsim@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Some did, like my grandad. He had a DSi XL with a fancy stylus.