Millennial Roll Call

[T_Yamamoto]

where are the young kids at, we talking bout 90s babies.

or are y'all on reddit/fb/twitter/etc instead of dying forums?

 

[IronWing]

You're too young to be a millennial. Need a new generation designation for folks coming of age in the 2010s.

Those dang Teenyboppers!

Edit: Can you list some character traits you have so we can generalize them and mention them in every post concerning Teenyboppers. Thanks.

 

[Crono]

You're too young to be a millennial. Need a new generation designation for folks coming of age in the 2010s.

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Those are Gen Z

 

[IronWing]

Those are Gen Z

I like Teenybopper better. Trying to explain to their children and grandchildren why grandpa is a Teenybopper would be amusing.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I'm technically a Millennial. At 35, I'm well into "get off my lawn" territory, though.

 

[Zeze]

I'm technically a Millennial. At 35, I'm well into "get off my lawn" territory, though.

You are not a millennial. You are tail end of gen x. Or Oregon trail gen

 

[dave_the_nerd]

You are not a millennial. You are tail end of gen x. Or Oregon trail gen

I was born in 1982. Most definitions of Millennial start in 1980 or '81.

 

[Zeze]

I was born in 1982. Most definitions of Millennial start in 1980 or '81.

We have more in common with gen x than kids in 20s today. I'm 36 too.

We grew up without internet. We saw internet transform the world before us.

We just started to get cell phones in high school. We had beepers before.

We used dial-up and played Warcraft 2 and duke nukem.

The defining feature of a millennial is they grew up in an already internet saturated world.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Technically a millennial but from the older generation. Born in 86. Though I tend to consider myself a "90's kid" in the sense that the 90's is really when I grew up.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

We have more in common with gen x than kids in 20s today. I'm 36 too.

We grew up without internet. We saw internet transform the world before us.

We just started to get cell phones in high school. We had beepers before.

We used dial-up and played Warcraft 2 and duke nukem.

The defining feature of a millennial is they grew up in an already internet saturated world.

You're thinking of Gen Z. Those are the kids who had XBox instead of Atari and have never known a world without Facebook or a war in Iraq.

 

[renz20003]

I am 35 years old, thrice divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.

 

[Zeze]

You're thinking of Gen Z. Those are the kids who had XBox instead of Atari and have never known a world without Facebook or a war in Iraq.

Huh wtf is SNES and genesis generation then?

 

[Oyeve]

I'm 51. My gen made you miserable millennials.

 

[Crono]

I'm 51. My gen made you miserable millennials.

Your gen's parents felt the same way about you.

 

[ultimatebob]

I think that the other big thing about Millennials is that many of them can't remember a time before 9-11. They never knew a time where things like security check points, bomb sniffing dogs, malware scanners, and anti-truck barriers were not commonplace.

I think it's why so many of them are so cowardly... the world is just a scarier place now.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was a teen when 9/11 happened, but yeah it's interesting to consider that someone born in that year would be 17 now. That makes me feel old. At the time I remember following the whole war and stuff and wanted them to find Bin Laden. Little did I know it would take 10 years, and that the war would never really end, because it was not about revenging 9/11 it was about politics and agendas.

 

[Crono]

I think that the other big thing about Millennials is that many of them can't remember a time before 9-11. They never knew a time where things like security check points, bomb sniffing dogs, malware scanners, and anti-truck barriers were not commonplace.

I think it's why so many of them are so cowardly... the world is just a scarier place now.

Again, that's generation Z. The youngest millennials were kids when 9/11 happened, and the oldest millennials were older teens.

 

[DietDrThunder]

I think that the other big thing about Millennials is that many of them can't remember a time before 9-11. They never knew a time where things like security check points, bomb sniffing dogs, malware scanners, and anti-truck barriers were not commonplace.

I think it's why so many of them are so cowardly... the world is just a scarier place now.

I tend to disagree with the last part of your last sentence. The world has always been a scary place.

When I was in grade school we'd have nuclear missile attack drills, and they never told us whether they were real or just drills. They'd set off the alarms, tell us there is a nuclear attack, we'd all file out into the hallways, some kids would be crying, especially if they had never experienced one before. They'd have us sit near the lockers, place our heads between our knees and pretend to kiss our asses goodbye.

A few of our neighbors had fall-out shelters. I asked my dad why we didn't have one and his response was "If we survive the blast there was no point since we have guns."

 

[Fir]

Probably none of you were around when we were told to duck and cover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89od_W8lMtA

 

[Red Squirrel]

Probably none of you were around when we were told to duck and cover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89od_W8lMtA

lmao wow did not realize the US was into fear mongering for this long.

 

[snoopy7548]

Probably none of you were around when we were told to duck and cover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89od_W8lMtA

I sure was!

 

[brianmanahan]

i think @Cappuccino is the only one here

 

[darkswordsman17]

I think that the other big thing about Millennials is that many of them can't remember a time before 9-11. They never knew a time where things like security check points, bomb sniffing dogs, malware scanners, and anti-truck barriers were not commonplace.

I think it's why so many of them are so cowardly... the world is just a scarier place now.

You really need to actually know what a millennial is.

Oh fuck off. Maybe if some of you fucking piece of shit older people weren't the ones pushing that type of shit you wouldn't have to be so scared of it? Talk about cowards, you're the ones calling for it and doing nothing about stopping it while standing around going "why aren't these kids doing anything about it?". Like WTF, and then you want to go "these younger generations have no strong leadership!" when you're the leadership. You think millennials are running the governments of the world? The sad thing is, the fuckups of the older generation are actually fueling younger ones to be like that too, by using ill gotten money to spread bullshit and intentionally incite unrest. You also severely are overestimating your own cognitive dissonance at similar ages. Imagine if you'd have gotten off your ass and done something about it decades back, you wouldn't even need to chastise millennials about it.

Its not any scarier than its been for decades. You know a lot of that stuff is starting to effectively put an end to stuff like serial killers, right? I'm not saying that justifies it, but kids being abducted used to just be shrugged off like it was no big deal. And women were expected to just accept creepy guys following them, beating them, assaulting them. That's just a few of the things that used to be normal to older generations. You forget that, it enables us to watch the watchmen too. There's pros and cons, as there has always been.

That's not to say there aren't things to be alarmed over, there are plenty. But there's always been plenty.

Again, that's generation Z. The youngest millennials were kids when 9/11 happened, and the oldest millennials were older teens.

You'll notice this a lot. People have a hard time accepting that they can have something in common with a group that they've been repeatedly told to hate, so they project all negativity onto that group, not even realizing that things have already moved on.

I tend to disagree with the last part of your last sentence. The world has always been a scary place.

When I was in grade school we'd have nuclear missile attack drills, and they never told us whether they were real or just drills. They'd set off the alarms, tell us there is a nuclear attack, we'd all file out into the hallways, some kids would be crying, especially if they had never experienced one before. They'd have us sit near the lockers, place our heads between our knees and pretend to kiss our asses goodbye.

A few of our neighbors had fall-out shelters. I asked my dad why we didn't have one and his response was "If we survive the blast there was no point since we have guns."

That is true to an extent. I think what he's mistaking is the bubble of delusion we had in the 90s. Everything was so great we were constantly told. I mean, for fuck's sake the President being a creep and getting a blowjob from a female assistant was a crisis worthy of nearly undoing the entire US if you recall the fervor (and it was about him specifically, not guys being creepy assholes in general like now we're starting to go "yeah that's not ok"). We went from Reagan nearly triggering the Cold War, and then almost melting down the US economy over idiotic policy, and declaring a war on drugs due to the Cocaine cowboys and crack, and AIDS freaking people out, and riots, to people chilling out a fair amount, or really, deciding to just live in bubbles of delusion and focus on odd stuff. Then of course 9/11 and we've had hysteria back ever since.

Looking back, we see that it was delusion. The problems were still there, we just turned a blind eye to them more. We can also see the early stages of the hysteria that has made the current world seem like its so much more chaotic. Its hard to realize it, but we've actually made ridiculous progress in some areas, often even in spite of outright attempts to sabotage it by major world power and governments. Unfortunately in far too many areas they've been successful in undermining things, setting some developments back decades.

Things seem different now, because you don't have any break from that. People are hyperaware of the events happening in the world. That is for the better, but it is fatiguing and we're not well equipped to handle it, especially at such a fast pace of transition.

We are always teetering on the edge of insanity. We're humans and we're kinda fucked in the head and don't know how to deal with it.

 

[Cappuccino]

i think @Cappuccino is the only one here

Me born in 1993. I like puppies.

 

[IEC]

I learned to type on a typewriter.

I don't think many millennials have even seen a typewriter.