I'm old enough to remember when that boomer band Daft Punk broke up. Feels like it was just yesterday.
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How do you feel about the term “Boomer Shooter”?
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You didn't get the memo? Requiem for a Dream is now what is referred to as a Boomer Gloomer.
ITT: Era shows nonstop boomer energy
It's slang. Boomer isn't referring to literal baby boomers, if that was the intended reference people say baby boomer outright. Zoomer doesn't necessarily mean a literal Zoomer.
Boomer: old
Zoomer: young
It's that simple. You can be twenty and be called a Boomer by eight year olds. You can be thirty and be called a Zoomer by a fifty year old that gets the slang. Don't be your parents and get hardstuck on 'Back in my day that word meant...'.
It's slang. Boomer isn't referring to literal baby boomers, if that was the intended reference people say baby boomer outright. Zoomer doesn't necessarily mean a literal Zoomer.
Boomer: old
Zoomer: young
It's that simple. You can be twenty and be called a Boomer by eight year olds. You can be thirty and be called a Zoomer by a fifty year old that gets the slang. Don't be your parents and get hardstuck on 'Back in my day that word meant...'.
Console JRPGs wouldn't be Boomer RPGs because most gaiming Boomers were PC gamers while console kiddies grew up to be whiny Millennials. Boomer RPGs would be Ultima VII, D&D Gold Box games, etc.
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Why not just call 'em Gen X shooters, because that's what they would be? But it doesn't rhyme, is that what this is because it rhymes lol?
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Imagine this post but replace Boomer with N-word - "It's slang, doesn't mean anything bad"... I mean really.
I think this is what gets me more than anything else. "It's just jokes, bra!". Hmm, that sounds familiar.
It's dumb.
All of this.
Referring to people who aren't from the baby boomer generation as "boomers" or things that weren't made by or for boomers as "boomer" just make you sound ignorant.
Don't celebrate ignorance, people.
All of this.
Referring to people who aren't from the baby boomer generation as "boomers" or things that weren't made by or for boomers as "boomer" just make you sound ignorant.
Don't celebrate ignorance, people.
I find it disrespectful to the elderly, who should be treasured especially in these troubled times in which we live.
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Right? I don't know why people don't seem to have any respect for anyone anymore.
"Oh but not my gramma she's one of the good ones". Yeah, there's that suspiciously familiar language again.
Discrimination is discrimination. Ironically, GAF/Era taught me that.
100% - it's age discrimination and people seem happy to indulge in it.
Boomer Shooter (noun) - a shooting game, whether in first person or third person, that refuses to embrace gyro aiming, flick stick, or other examples of motion controls due to fear of new technology
I love boomer shooters like Asteroids and Galaga!
Language evolves and changes over time, so if people absolutely wants to call 90s FPS' "boomer shooters" then who am I to stop them?
I feel like one could think up better ways to describe the era, though. "Boomer" doesn't actually describe anything that has to do with the gameplay and you could just as easily attribute the same description to platformer, adventure and fighting games from the same era.
Language evolves and changes over time, so if people absolutely wants to call 90s FPS' "boomer shooters" then who am I to stop them?
I feel like one could think up better ways to describe the era, though. "Boomer" doesn't actually describe anything that has to do with the gameplay and you could just as easily attribute the same description to platformer, adventure and fighting games from the same era.
It's a stupid misnomer, just like using "boomer" as a catch-all pejorative 'shorthand' for "anyone who is older than me who I think has antiquated perspectives/abilities/etc" is also stupid.
Yeah, I'll be called a "boomer" for feeling this way even though I'm 60 years removed from that actual cultural demographic.
The internet's effects on language aren't particularly good IMO.
Yeah, I'll be called a "boomer" for feeling this way even though I'm 60 years removed from that actual cultural demographic.
The internet's effects on language aren't particularly good IMO.
It doesn't really offend me but I find it dumb. It's dumb for multiple reasons, one being that it's based on the stupid modern use of the word boomer which just seems to be "person over 30". If it just referred to the big boom guns then it would make sense but why make sense.
Oh yes older people are tech illiterate - another example of stereotyping that's perfectly acceptable.
Like with just about every other reference to boomers, it's misused and reminds me my generation is full of dumbasses.
Eh, there's a pretty big difference between annoying someone and offending someone.
On-topic: the term is fine, but rather than thinking of a shooter that's ancient, I'm now seeing some weird combo of explosions and rifles and am expecting a specific kind of game rather than a signifier of an OG era of games.
well, if you google "offended," this is literally the first definition Google throws on the table:
resentful or annoyed, typically as a result of a perceived insult.
"she sounded slightly offended"
among all the things this thread displays, it's how avoidant people are of framing their feelings as "being offended"
When you become a parent, you get pretty used to being called old by kids. I'd say it's a pretty natural part of culture that has been going on for a really long time, and for the most part, it's pretty harmless. I would personally reserve being insulted by ageism in spaces where it can actually do harm, like in hiring. I'm not going to tell others how to feel but that's where I'm coming from as a similarly aged person.
I mean, you can say that about literally any generation lol
I work in tech, I'm starting to see first-hand age discrimination against my peers - if I move on from my current job, I'm almost certain to be discriminated against due to my age and I've only really started thinking about this in the last couple of years.
Kids calling me old is fine, I'm used to that. "Boomer" has an insulting quality to it that "Old" doesn't and when I'm described (incorrectly) as a boomer it makes me feel lesser - which is precisely what an insult is designed to do.
