Millennials when they are old enough to make their own video games: Makes wholesome games about being a naughty goose. Also makes an RPG where you don't have to kill any of the enemy monsters but make friends with them because you feel bad for them
Violent AAA games don't count shut up, corporations aren't people.
The stark contrast between the stuff my generation makes in the indie scene compared to the corporate scene is pretty interesting though.
Also Boomers: "Everyone younger than me is too soft and emotional"
(Disclaimer, not all boomers, respect to our boomer comrades. I know we have a few that browse here. Commie boomers are cool)
Boomer is first and foremost a state of mind. A lot of people past an age threshold have boomer characteristics, but certainly not all of them. I often call the gen-x techbro assholes around me "junior boomers" because they match the stereotype closer than, say, my older cool forever-hippie neighbor that raises ducks and practices folk medicine. :duck-dance:
did you see that unhinged boomer that got posted here about a week ago that made some post trying to sound like a badass about how a 6 year old kid rang his doorbell looking for her lost kitten or some shit and he almost shot her to death? mf really posted this shit with some air of "the beast almost got unleashed.... the world was lucky today..." about how he heroically refrained from shooting a 6 year old
Was that the one with the weird guy who kept saying that he was gonna pull a little girl's hair for asking for help finding her lost cat?
Scary shit.
yep that's the one. he thought that made him sound endearing. it's disgusting
Yeah, that was the story I was referencing, although there was also another post earlier about someone shooting a food delivery person at the door. American suburbian brainworms really seem to be a whole different species.
the beast almost got unleashed
"buh? you think liberals are satanic nonhumans? Actually private property is how we can tell we have souls"
8 bit interactive pixely battles :grill-broke:
Dirty Harry and Death Wish movies :grillman:
”Tough on crime” became a popular talking point because of movies like the Death Wish series, 10 To Midnight and Stallone's Cobra, change my mind
Computer games don't influence kids.
If kids in the 80s had been influenced by Pacman, we would've seen young people in the 1990s going to darkened rooms with neon lights to listen to repetitive electronic music and munch magic pills.
Computer games don’t influence kids.
1:1 predictable behavior modification doesn't happen, but pretending that there is no influence on kids is presumptive, even arrogant. No one is immune to propaganda, even if the effect isn't consistent or reliably predictable.
Call of Duty, for example, was a recruiting tool for the US military by the own statements of thousands of people that say that the game inspired and motivated them to enlist.
Video games DO cause violence, but we like that kind of violence, so that's aite. :ypg-brace:
something bout those little pills little pills little pills
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oh wait these are cyproterone acetate, nvm
I remember my boomer parents screaming at me to get off the Sega Genesis because I was rotting my brain (yes I was a Sega loyalist kid and even had a Saturn)
My mother has been addicted to candy crush and angry birds for 15 years now, any spare moment she's got her phone up. I've had to take her phone away while driving. My dad however has become like a woodland spirit and often spends weeks living in a tiny shack in the woods away from everyone.
My dad however has become like a woodland spirit and often spends weeks living in a tiny shack in the woods away from everyone.
:a-guy:
My mom just lays on the couch and watches old movies day after day. Occasionally, she'll go to the Home Shopping Channel an blow a bunch of money on some stupid crap that she either doesn't use or she breaks almost immediately.
Deeply depressing
Yeah, I've watched my parents become very paranoid and antisocial as time goes on. My mother has become a full on vocal racist calling for extermination of anyone who speaks Spanish. My father has actually chilled out on his racism and homophobia (he used to be a cop, yuck), but otherwise they're just these two aging people locked inside all the time with their eyes glued to the TV or some very mindless phone game. It's not the worst existence, and I'm not much better with all the time I spend inside alone, but it is depressing. I don't know what happened. My mother does the same as yours, buys stuff online or off TV she doesn't need. Buys a gold necklace just to put it in a box and never wear it.
I've tried giving them other stuff to do, like traveling the world with all the money they saved up, or more mentally engaging things like board games or reading, but I'm failing.
video games literally do rot your brain but it's okay because so does pretty much everything else made after 1903
i'm now opening a box of my great-grandma's laundanum dated 1902
From the top of my head
Sim City 2000
Civilization 1-2
Flight simulator 95-98.
Railroad tycoon.
Rollercoaster tycoon.
Harvest Moon
All extremely popular 90's games. Any boomer saying that at that time you could tell was full of shit right away.
Good point lol
Man, I loved the shit out of Sim City. Even if I was too young to know how the heck to play well.
Same. I also had Streets of Sim City that I could get running at a solid 15-20fps at the time. You could import anything you built in Sim City 2000 and drive around Twisted Metal style in it!
Ironically enough, SimCity and Flight Simulator are boomer favorites.
Sim City on the SNES was my jam* for YEARS. I managed to figure out how to reliably build a megalopolis on my own, in the nascent Internet era where reverse-engineering or data mining were just pipe dreams. I was (and still am) very proud of that.
- Autism. I am autistic. I wish ASD was even acknowledged by the DSM when I was born, but here we are.
They basically completely shut up about this. Why? Because they started making shitloads of money. It went from newer fringe entertainment industry to the primary source of digital entertainment.
And they notably don’t care that the most edgy and violent games are military shooters because it’s okay when the US Army does it
I'm old enough to remember people questioning whether the sport of football would make you too violent.
This debate was happening in the middle of the First Iraq War, mind you.
You know what, that's pretty funny because association football does have a LOT of examples of fans going on rampages. Not the case for video games.
Loved Goose Game. Wish I was a carefree mischievous animal. Seems cool. Always envied dogs and cats
I want more untitled goose game.
Actually, they should make a cat version where you annoy humans by knocking things over and interrupting Zoom meetings
What was that cat game on PS5? Seemed a bit like that but broader. I think I should get into video games a bit instead of doing whatever it is I'm doing lately. Sold my Switch to the pawnbroker which I'm regretting somewhat
Stray, yeah I hear it's good but I am waaay too poor for a good enough PC/PS5 to try it lol
Maybe ome day when I'm rich. Seems cute as hell.
I wish I'd taken out some credit cards before quitting my job. Could've burned each bank for a few k each. Friend of a friend from UK did that and bailed to EU lmao
No one's immune to propaganda, but fortunately survivors of the propaganda sometimes create counter propaganda that does non :freeze-gamer: stuff like suggest an interactive entertainment experience doesn't necessarily involve killing or avenging fridged wives or doing warcrimes for Burgerland. :only-good-gamer:
I freaking love that specific wholesome sub genre of indie games Millenials (and now Zoomers too!) are making
Deltarune
Hey we're only 2/7 of the way there! I'm a bit concerned about what Toby Fox has in store for us since he can do horror just as well as wholesome and funny.
Hey we’re only 2/7 of the way there! I’m a bit concerned about what Toby Fox has in store for us since he can do horror just as well as wholesome and funny.
He's been telegraphing Kris being :hypersus: with no way to really avert that outcome at each chapter ending so hard that I wonder if there'll ultimately be some :trans-uno: moment and we can change the outcome or at least Kris surprises the player by ultimately not being :hypersus: in the final episode... or maybe at least gets taken down by less :hypersus: characters.
I've enjoyed the entire Undertale/Deltarune run so far so if there's some pretentiously grimdark misery porn Gambo-like ending to it all, I'll reach greater levels of :jokerfication: than I could possibly fathom. :joker-gaming:
I'm containing myself from going on an a full unhinged Deltarune hiatus brain theory rant, :pepe-silvia: but I'll say this:
- Kris seems to be analogous to Chara, and as far as I remember, while they were a fucked up kid they were not evil (at least before they died). They probably have good reasons for being sus (I'm partial to the "trying to break a time loop/prevent the Roaring by going off-script" theory, which could also explain whatever the fuck is going on with the weird route).
- that Alphys anime review from chapter one struck me as meta commentary on this game's relation to Undertale, specially since one of the main differences is that Kris is an actual character, in contrast to Frisk:
This reviewer had Mew Mew 2 as her first exposure to the series... And let her tell you, it makes Mew Mew 1 look like a dumpster with sparkly cat ears! With a darker storyline and more mature themes... The second one treats the viewer like a real adult... Instead of like an animal that will die if it goes ten seconds without seeing a beach ball. Not to mention Mew Mew's character in the first one... Is more stale than the ramen I eat at home by myself with the lights off. Teens and older should check out this dark masterpiece!
- I wouldn't be concerned about a grimdark nihilistic twist. I think maybe the Roaring might be inevitable but being nice is still important:
There's something more important than reaching the end.
usually i get it, but in this case im actually not sure what :hypersus: means. i need an emoji translator :blob-on-fire:
gotcha, that makes sense. i probably would have understood if id ever played deltarune. i enjoyed undertale so i tried deltarune when it came out, and after the "character creation" i realized i was legit just playing more undertale, which is exactly what most people wanted im sure but is not something i was actually interested in.
Chapter 2 of Deltarune is funny as fuck. If you just want to glance at it, look up "Deltarune Funniest Queen Moments" or something like that. :sicko-fem:
sounds like fun. i should probably give the game another shot entirely tbh. it's been long enough since i played undertale now that i probably wouldn't be so viscerally disgusted by the thought "oh god it's undertale 2"
As an enjoyer of Undertale and Deltarune, I can say that Deltarune's presentation looks similar but its themes are significantly different, as are the ways the game plays out combat and conflict resolution.
I mean the first violent video game I played was Wolfenstein 3D, which is premised on ending Nazis. If only more people took that message to heart.
What boomers think causes violence: Doing fatalities in Mortal Kombat
What actually causes violence: Picking Oddjob in Goldeneye again
This reminds me of the best joke in the Austin Powers movies. Dr Evil introduces his Oddjob lookalike henchman and is like "here's my new bodyguard. Random Task."
Fuck I still laugh at it.
Back in the old days it was about making us lazy. They really need to make up their minds.
Yesterday I played Bejeweled on my browser for free, for over 30 minutes.
also makes games about runnin through hotel rooms and making your hallucinations explode in puffs of gore
Boomers say this and then end up 1 millisecond away from ventilating an 11 year old girl who rang their doorbell to ask if they saw her lost cat(real story.)
