• ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    Perfect example of this mentality: the Adam Sandler movie Pixels, it's a fucking Gen X pride film about how boomers suck because they grew up before video game and we millenials suck too because our video games are bullshit but Gen X are the baddest dudes who ever lived because they played Pac-Man and Donkey Kong

    I'm not even exaggerating, that's the whole movie

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      The garbage fire known as "Ready Player One" is a hand-crafted power fantasy to make cishet white freeze-gamer of a very exact Gen-X age feel superior because they are perfectly aligned to win the billionaire's fortune and rule the dystopian world with their 80s trivia and Bideo Bame skills.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Oh yeah, and the invading aliens are so bazinga at the end of the movie that they basically 3d-print out waifu bots for Adam Sandler and his Bideo Bame team and they are actually called trophies. kombucha-disgust

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Pac man? Damn imagine bragging about how devoid your games were. Let me guess, “we were happier with simpler things”?

      As a zoomer I feel like millennials objectively had the best childhood for video games. Yall experienced such massive changes and improvements, like I’m kinda jealous of the level of nostalgia a lot of millennials seem to have for super mario 64

    • Optimus_Subprime [he/him, they/them]
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      10 months ago

      I actually don't like that film. I like Hackers better.

      Oh, and to get really stupid on this whole generations idea, I find I'm what's called a Xennial (1977 - 1983). Stuck between Gen X and Millennials, feeling like we belong nowhere. But marketed to as The Nintendo Generation.

      Like I said, stupid.