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[–] 140 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I don't even understand anon's point. Use Nintendo DS in public?

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    Definitely. I gave one to my mom for her birthday back then. She’s been a Tetris fanatic since I had my first game boy way back then.

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  • [–] 118 points 7 months ago (14 children)

    Clearly not a boomer, but whatever.

    Anon so closeted they don't even understand what normal human behaviour looks like.

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  • [–] 76 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    I absolute despise when people dismiss some videogames as a boomer thing. Boomers did not play videogames (in general), as a matter of fact, most of them hated them.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Very, very few did, as you’ve pointed out, but I was lucky enough that my Dad was one of them. He wasn’t an avid gamer or anything, because he tended to work long hours, but he’d regularly sit down and play multiplayer games with me and my siblings when I was younger and used to live with him. I didn’t really realise how lucky I was at the time.

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  • [–] 76 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    When kids say "boomer" they mean an adult. Doesn't matter what age you are. If you're an adult you're a boomer. End of story.

    When you try to explain to them what a boomer actually is they just laugh at you and call you a boomer again because honestly that shit is a pretty a boomer thing to do.

    Source: I have two middle schoolers and a highschooler and these are the things I'm told.

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    [–] 65 points 7 months ago (37 children)

    I’m so confused. Can someone explain this one to me? It just looks like someone is playing a phone game or DS or something. Don’t people play phone games still or is that the joke?

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (36 children)

    Its consider cringe by "the youths" to be out in public playing a handheld game console.

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Interesting, so being into ad-infested, freemium mobile games is okay, but being into real games that you can play straight through without interruptions is cringe?

    I'm suddenly glad to be an adult.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    At least according to the three children im around on a regular basis, phone games are also in the category of "cringe things that are boomer-coded"

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    Getting a solid answer on that from teenagers is basically not possible. They live life based on "vibes", and the vibes are cringe

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Partly because extreme self consciousness has become normal in the era where abnormalities can get you recorded and posted on the internet for mockery.

    Like I get it, I have an anxiety disorder and cptsd and was bullied as a kid all of which combine to a form of extreme self consciousness. But my fear of playing my steam deck in a laundromat or on the bus is what's left of what was at a much less healthy stage of life a fear of going to the grocery store or browsing in a shop for more than exactly what I went in for (ok I still struggle with that one).

    It's mental illness that certain corners of the internet, 4chan especially, have not only normalized, but gone so far as to encourage in each other and likely induce. Also given that it's 4chan it probably originates with self consciousness from failure to understand social rules and expectations and the policing of themselves extending to policing of others

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    The DS Lite was such a good little handheld. Especially with a flashcart in both ports. The GBA one I had couldn't hold a ROM, you had to flash it from the DS one every time, but GBA games weren't big, I didn't have many, and I had a huge SD card in my flashcart.

    Even in pink. (I'd just put stickers all over it, then put a clear clamshell case on it because those stickers would get icky.) (Not that I don't like the pink DSL. It's a fine look. I just prefer my electronics to be black.)

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    There was one kind of DS that could detect other DS's nearby, and you'd get little rewards for things like how far you walked and how many other people you walked past that also had a DS in their bag. One time I got home and I'd apparently walked past a Nintendo employee at some point and got a special achievement thing for it!

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Fake: anon is actually envious
    Gay: anon wishes he was the girl in the photo

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    [–] 35 points 7 months ago

    Enjoy life?

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago

    I mean the other day on the bus someone was having a full-volume face time conversation on speakerphone about the groceries they were about to buy, I wish people were just playing Nintendo DS in public these days.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago

    People openly use fentanyl in public, I don't wanna hear it anon!

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago

    Damn boomers always sitting around on public transport with their remarkably youthful complexions glued to tiny screens.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    How is this worse than the smartphone addiction epidemic? Even people walking can't put their phones away to get to their destination safely.

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    [–] 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    plot twist: she's 54

    I have no idea how old that woman is

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    [–] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    what fucking boomer was playing handhelds in public?

    boomers didn't even know what a gameboy was. gen x were the parents that got that shit for their kids

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    [–] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Im pretty sure the oldest handhelds that people actually played in public (yes there were earlier but I'm talking something you would actually see) would be the GB/GBA which was mostly played by millennials. Meanwhile the DS was played by a mix of millennials and older Gen z.

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    [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    I do this in public lmao

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Whereas taking pictures of strangers to post on 4chan is top chad

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    if this is disrespect, then i love disrespecting elder people

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