reizak on 24/4/2021 at 13:04
People born in the 90s are "boomers" by now according to teens. As long as you're at least a couple years older than the speaker you're a boomer if they happen to disagree with whatever you're saying.
Anarchic Fox on 24/4/2021 at 13:11
Quote Posted by reizak
People born in the 90s are "boomers" by now according to teens. As long as you're at least a couple years older than the speaker you're a boomer if they happen to disagree with whatever you're saying.
Fuckin'
teens, am I right? :mad:
Anarchic Fox on 24/4/2021 at 14:24
I am an angry fox right now, so let me state my position before I single anyone else out.
The very act of using generational categories to characterize people and their creations is fatuous and borderline anti-intellectual. The few who use these cohorts rigorously, in sociology and adjacent fields, can compensate for the flaws inherent in arbitrary generational categories. Everyone else who uses them gains a spurious short-term clarity at the cost of deepening the generational divide between them and their fellow human beings.
When you take the concept of Boomer, GenX, Millennial, or GenZ seriously, when you use it as more than just a convenient shorthand, you age yourself a tiny amount. And engaging in arguments using those categories is the intellectual equivalent of exercising without stretching.
I will bite people. :mad:
demagogue on 24/4/2021 at 14:40
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
It's kind of been said already in this thread, but "Boomer" originally refers to people from the Baby Boomer generation - people who were born between 1946 and 1964.
Really just 1945 to '54. People born from 1954~'64 are already in the Jones Generation, a kind of inter-generational middle grounds like the Oregon Trail mini-generation, 1979~1984.
I don't think the idea of a "generation" means too much as far as personality; only the kind of environment that dominated their core experience in some critical years. It makes a difference for some things but not everything.
Pyrian on 24/4/2021 at 16:45
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
But it's kind of been co-opted to just mean "older person" at this point, especially as time marches on and 1964 becomes increasingly in the past.
Amusingly, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch McConnell are all
older than the baby boomers, having been born in the early 40's. (Chuck Schumer is a boomer, though.)
henke on 24/4/2021 at 19:21
Quote Posted by demagogue
Really just 1945 to '54. People born from 1954~'64 are already in the Jones Generation, a kind of inter-generational middle grounds like the Oregon Trail mini-generation, 1979~1984.
Come on, dema. We have enough generations to keep track of without you inventing new ones. >:|
Harvester on 24/4/2021 at 21:00
Shut up henke, proud member of the Oregon Trail mini generation, which I only found out about today [emoji41] I feel special [emoji14]
henke on 25/4/2021 at 04:58
Yeah I guess I'd be in it too, except I never played Oregon Trail. Pretty sure that was an American thing. "Jones generation" sounds very American too. The more commonly known generations (Greatest, Silent, Boomer, Gen X, Millenial, Gen Z) have more international appeal.
demagogue on 25/4/2021 at 07:27
It's not Oregon Trail per se; they could have picked any game or program from that era. It's growing up with 8-bit computers, not really knowing a world before PCs were around, and internet arriving while you were still in high school, so you're straddling GenX and Millennial experience. Jones the term is American ("keeping up with the Joneses" and Jonesing for the simple life & the American Dream), but it's people that never knew a world before TVs and came of age with Disco, which really uniquely tags them because nothing was really like '70s culture & the people into it before or after. Each big category always has a group that straddles two of them whatever you call it.
I guess we've already gone terminally OT, but boomer shooters a la the original Doom and the half decade of shooters that came after it, before the big 3D revolution in like 1998, is pretty formative to that little mini-generation between X & Millennials and GenX people close to it. Actually you (henke) are pretty representative of one of the most unique trends in that little straddle in my mind, which is that little scene when Flash was the big online thing for the kids, Newgrounds, etc... Internet had just gotten good enough you could stream games & videos online, but still before YouTube and FB and proper online gaming, Internet 2.0, & all of that.
Jason Moyer on 25/4/2021 at 10:36
Quote Posted by demagogue
Oregon Trail mini-generation, 1979~1984.
I was born in 77 and people significantly older than I am grew up with Oregon Trail too.