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Gen X on their boomer arc
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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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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
The garbage fire known as "Ready Player One" is a hand-crafted power fantasy to make cishet white
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.
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.
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