Nah, screw that, as I get older, there’s people who weren’t even around for 9/11.
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I’m already friends with people who don’t remember a world without smartphones.
Being fair, all they're missing in comparison of the era between "post 9/11 and pre smartphone" (from my experience) was a lot of snotty teachers saying YOU WON'T ALWAYS HAVE A CALCULATOR WITH YOOOOUUUU
Eat shit Mrs. Miller, I do and have for the last decade and a half. It doesn't make me much happier but at least I don't need to remember how to do long division on paper anymore, and that does make me happy.
A coworker asked if I could help her cousin and their partner with something as they were moving in just a few blocks from my house. Afterwards we went out for dinner. I was showing them my new fancy foldy phone and the cousin was like "yeah, I really like Android phones over iPhones, I've always had iPhones because that's what my dad always had " and then I realised the three of them had all grown up in the age of smartphones. I had to break it to them that I was fully an adult when the first iPhone came out, and that while it was cool I never saw the need to have a phone that was also an MP3/video player. I had a minidisc player and books.
Plenty of pre iPhone phones that could play MP3s or listen to radio though.
Probably why they're so depressed.
But yeah, that age gap is way too big, I couldn't do it.
Most of Gen Z.
Literally people 25 and younger. Time's arrow marches forward.
As a gen-xer, I just don’t get a lot of millennial humor.
Can you give an example?
As a millennial, i don't get Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but i do get sponge bob.
That’s an excellent example
I do get ATHF, but I do not get SpongeBob
This is just autistic munchausen’s. Everyone wants to be special without the effort and we’ve romanticized mental illness.
There are also other conditions whose symptoms score really high on autism screeners. Certain types of PTSD, for example.
Kind of like how some people who give up wheat and feel better think they're gluten intolerant, but it was actually the FODMAPs.
I dont think i have ever seen such profound insight put so succinctly.
Lmao
Weird— I can’t see your comment
Maybe that's the joke.
They must be from the silent generation
How do you know anyone's ages in this post?
Also, isn't the joke here that the young person (millennials aren't young people), finds the older person idiotic?
Didn’t you see me say that I’m a gen-xer? I’m only thinking of myself. Or, rather, criticizing the world I see, cynically, on the context of “the self” as is my mode. I’m so abstracted that I really don’t care about anyone else.
BUT I do now realize that this post was actually a Gen Z joke about Millennials, but, you know, whatever.
I’m too busy being pretentious and self-involved
No matter how well you understand the passage of time in the abstract it's a shock the first time you meet a full grown adult, with their own keys and everything, but you can remember what you were doing in the year they were born.
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
We all feel like we understand the passage of time until we hit middle age.
Yeah, this would probably be something Ema Skye reblogged on her Tumblr (dedicated to Gavinners hate posts).
(Please, there has to be SOME Ace Attorney fans on Lemmy, right? 🥲)
*puts hand up*
But only the OT.
But enough of a fan that I spent 11 years studying Japanese to translate the Dreamaga fanbook. And nowadays, you could just put it through google translate 😭😭😭
Yoooo deadass, you would love the Great Ace Attorney duology. You're the exact kind of Western AA nerd Capcom was targeting with that one lol. Highly recommend that if you ever want to get back into the series.
Oh I think I have that on 3DS, I was going to play it after Layton vs Phoenix Wright, which I started a few months ago but then forgot about.
Screw the sequel trilogy though. I put it in the same box as the Mickey trilogy.
(A group of us made a fangame once, but we abandoned the project because I'm difficult to work with lol. If you're interested, case 1 is complete and quite short: https://gyakutensisters.wordpress.com/our-cases/)
I love a good AA fangame, thanks for the link! I watched the opening and got to the court, I'm ready to defend Starling with my life. I'll sit down and play through it when I have a bit of time. You guys did pretty good emulating the vibes tbh.
Aww, thanks! I appreciate it! 🩷
Part one of chapter 2 was done and then it kinda fizzled out so we never finished it.
nobody ever says it like that.
we say talk about it in relation to culture and trends, which is more meaningful.
when i was born, in 1981, the civil rights movement wasn't old enough to drink alcohol. yet when i grew up i had no awareness of this when i interacted with anyone who wasn't white.
just like someone born in 2001 doesn't understand life without smartphones.