I used to be with "it". Then they changed what "it" was.
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nice Simpsons reference good sir
Duane Cunningham
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I used to think I was pretty liberal, then I saw that people younger than me protest their university cafeteria for serving General Tso's Chicken, calling it cultural appropriation.
Troubled Bat
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You right. Lol
Sectorseven
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I think I'm with it.
Are the cool kids still running Ubuntu?
Are the cool kids still running Ubuntu?
How do you understand Twitter but not something as simple and straightforward as Instagram? Every time I've tried to look at Twitter it just confuses the fuck out of me. Can't wrap my head around it at all.
One has old people.
Dude Abides
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Elders react to unimpressive technology.
FreeMufasa
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Use snapchat to get other dudes gf to send nudes.
If ya girls using snapchat....welp
If ya girls using snapchat....welp
Jon Carter
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Same. Is Facebook the next MySpace or something? Those other platforms suck as replacements.
legos are really confusing guys
Scientist Supreme!
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The early days of YouTube were totally different but great.
ShadowSwordmaster
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The times are changing indeed.
Northeastmonk
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I don't get why people are so fascinated with what's out there. I don't need five different social sites. I feel as though we aren't classifying what young kids like versus what they're picking up and enjoying.
I'd hate to see a game studio act like a toy factory or a POP! Magazine journalist. I think you can break down a concept until no one enjoys it all because all that is far too noticeable.
I don't get YouTube plays video games because I'm use to simply playing. I don't share what I have in common with a teenager simply because we don't see eye to eye or we don't have to see eye to eye.
When people tell me gaming is for kids, I think back on YouTube playthroughs, Twitch, and then whatever F2P or FPS that kids might like. I don't think about the ESRB and E and T ratings.
I think it's all surrounding technology and people who do all the work for them. It's not even that's it's there. It's because someone else can fit their personality into something.
A kid isn't gonna like setting up an Atari 2600 or a Sega Dreamcast unless he or she is really into it. They might just watch a video about it on YouTube and go play MineCraft.
The younger generation confuses the generation above most of us if you ask me. I've met guys who have sorta grown up too much. They see things that kids don't really enjoy as being "for kids". It's a stupid mindset to me. I've met guys older than me who thought kids loved things I did or that they were only for certain people. Yet it's downright predatory to feel the way they think because you'd basically have to follow or be with that person to know that. Multiplayer chat isn't necessarily the definitive number if you ask me.
I personally think we discredit ourselves because kids and teens love whatever they like and it isn't conventional or new. They like simpler things. I also feel that there's this certain intelligence that lacks the understanding of awareness or how people of other ages feel.
Teens and kids aren't going to define a medium unless that medium generates all their funding from them. This is why we see so many streams and large scale tournaments with people 20 years old and younger. That's sorta catered to them. LoL and HotS are sorta catered to them because that's all they do. You could order the hottest game that comes out and not fall into their demographic.
Technology has made gaming much more accessable, but that doesn't mean everyone likes what's out there. I ignore quite a bit. Years ago I'd look at everything and do everything. As of today I check it out, like I was on Justin.tv before it became huge, and now it's its own brand for an audience. It's kinda weird, but they make tons of money doing it.
Gaming has been thrown under the bus in some areas because all we want to do is compare what Parent A's kid likes. We have more knowledge per say than a simple F2P or YouTube video does. It's almost asinine.
Look at how IGN has changed. They aren't like they were in the early 2000's if you ask me and some journalist are my age. It's like they have to make that case that this or that is worth your time because we can see it in their words or actions. I see some of IGN's stuff and it feels very catered. It use to be a bit more about women with IGN Girls, but still...
I'd hate to see a game studio act like a toy factory or a POP! Magazine journalist. I think you can break down a concept until no one enjoys it all because all that is far too noticeable.
I don't get YouTube plays video games because I'm use to simply playing. I don't share what I have in common with a teenager simply because we don't see eye to eye or we don't have to see eye to eye.
When people tell me gaming is for kids, I think back on YouTube playthroughs, Twitch, and then whatever F2P or FPS that kids might like. I don't think about the ESRB and E and T ratings.
I think it's all surrounding technology and people who do all the work for them. It's not even that's it's there. It's because someone else can fit their personality into something.
A kid isn't gonna like setting up an Atari 2600 or a Sega Dreamcast unless he or she is really into it. They might just watch a video about it on YouTube and go play MineCraft.
The younger generation confuses the generation above most of us if you ask me. I've met guys who have sorta grown up too much. They see things that kids don't really enjoy as being "for kids". It's a stupid mindset to me. I've met guys older than me who thought kids loved things I did or that they were only for certain people. Yet it's downright predatory to feel the way they think because you'd basically have to follow or be with that person to know that. Multiplayer chat isn't necessarily the definitive number if you ask me.
I personally think we discredit ourselves because kids and teens love whatever they like and it isn't conventional or new. They like simpler things. I also feel that there's this certain intelligence that lacks the understanding of awareness or how people of other ages feel.
Teens and kids aren't going to define a medium unless that medium generates all their funding from them. This is why we see so many streams and large scale tournaments with people 20 years old and younger. That's sorta catered to them. LoL and HotS are sorta catered to them because that's all they do. You could order the hottest game that comes out and not fall into their demographic.
Technology has made gaming much more accessable, but that doesn't mean everyone likes what's out there. I ignore quite a bit. Years ago I'd look at everything and do everything. As of today I check it out, like I was on Justin.tv before it became huge, and now it's its own brand for an audience. It's kinda weird, but they make tons of money doing it.
Gaming has been thrown under the bus in some areas because all we want to do is compare what Parent A's kid likes. We have more knowledge per say than a simple F2P or YouTube video does. It's almost asinine.
Look at how IGN has changed. They aren't like they were in the early 2000's if you ask me and some journalist are my age. It's like they have to make that case that this or that is worth your time because we can see it in their words or actions. I see some of IGN's stuff and it feels very catered. It use to be a bit more about women with IGN Girls, but still...
vicissitudes
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Is that what Minecraft is? I thought there were characters.
I would assume it's because too many people share too many shitty opinions are vague status updates for one thing. Then you get people who dump 200 photos at a time on their page. Then you get the invites and other crap notifying you all the time.
On Instagram you can only share one photo at a time, so you aren't bombarded with 300 photos of your ugly friends ugly kid. And if someone does spam their feed then you just unfollow them. If you unfollow your friends or family on Facebook you'll probably hear about it from them, no one ever asked me why I unfollowed on Instagram.
I think overall it's better to have an app with less "functionality" but a better, more specific user experience. For example, I'd rather use Instagram to share photos, and I'd rather use wechat and whatsapp to chat with friends. Facebook doesn't do either of those things as well as those particular apps do.
SomeOneInaHat
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It started with the player character that happened to be named Steve. More player skins were added and then given names.
Minecraft got popular, now there is a Story Mode created by Tell Tale which takes a storyless template and runs with it.
AbortedWalrusFetus
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Here's the reality.
There has never been another generation on the planet for which it was easier for an older generation to know what "it" is. This generation has put everything in plain text on the internet for the easy consumption of anyone who remotely cares enough to look for it. In five minutes of googling you can find all of the latest slang, most popular music/tv/movies/games, and you barely even need to google to find the latest meme. You can easily adapt to all of the patterns of what young people are doing because in reality they are all instantly at your fingertips the second you choose to look.
If you don't understand social media it's because you've chosen not to. That's certainly true if you don't know how they work. It's likely also true if you know how they don't work and don't care for them; your history has given you some reason to feel they aren't as neat or good or cool as they are to youth, which is oftentimes as much to do with your own entrenched views as they are to the fact that they are indeed passing fads. Consider yourself blessed to live in an era where relating to youth is singularly a matter of your own effort rather than it being in the realm of obscurity it used to be. Look at it as an opportunity for youth and other generations to reconnect in a way that hasn't been possible in a long time.
There has never been another generation on the planet for which it was easier for an older generation to know what "it" is. This generation has put everything in plain text on the internet for the easy consumption of anyone who remotely cares enough to look for it. In five minutes of googling you can find all of the latest slang, most popular music/tv/movies/games, and you barely even need to google to find the latest meme. You can easily adapt to all of the patterns of what young people are doing because in reality they are all instantly at your fingertips the second you choose to look.
If you don't understand social media it's because you've chosen not to. That's certainly true if you don't know how they work. It's likely also true if you know how they don't work and don't care for them; your history has given you some reason to feel they aren't as neat or good or cool as they are to youth, which is oftentimes as much to do with your own entrenched views as they are to the fact that they are indeed passing fads. Consider yourself blessed to live in an era where relating to youth is singularly a matter of your own effort rather than it being in the realm of obscurity it used to be. Look at it as an opportunity for youth and other generations to reconnect in a way that hasn't been possible in a long time.
tearsintherain
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I'm 45 and get everything but also think everything is really stupid. Also fuck everyone looking at their phones all day all the time, selfies, patreon, modern hip hop, and ticketmaster fees.
amazon prime, instagram geolocation apps, and VR-porn are pretty nice though.
amazon prime, instagram geolocation apps, and VR-porn are pretty nice though.
Nothing1016
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I'm 22 and understand everything pretty well. Snapchat and Twitter are my most two used social media apps. They are amazing.
DeSo
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Why are they called emojiis? Aren't they just smilies or emoticons from message boards?
Emoji are a specific brand of smilies/emoticons/whatever used across multiple platforms
Jack Scofield
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But aren't they completely different depending on the platform?
Could you explain why you feel this way? I am genuinely curious, I enjoyed reading the comments in this thread.
Nothing should be alien for too long this day, because you can always do a quick search online and get a full or at least a better understandning of something. I Google a lot on my phone. This week alone I learned about the conflict in Syria, this somehow led me into cleaning rituals of Islam, it was super interesting. I also learned three new coding tools to use for monitoring websites, I went with CasperJS, and while I was doing this I checked out why survival games had become so popular.
A person is old when he stops being curious about the world. Some people die when they're 25 and don't get buried until they are 80 I guess
People like that need to be beaten, thrown in a compost pile and forgotten. I'm 23 and if I have to live with people like that in a nursing home when I'm old I would rather kill myself.
Milly Osworth
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Twitch. I know only dorky kids like that, but it boggles my mind people idolize and donate money to slobs playing video games with a video camera pointed at their pasty face.
Austriacus
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Only Dorks? Bro you are on bloody neogaf.
Twitch has grown far too big to be of the domain of the dorks unless you consider everybody who uses the internet a dork seeing as it has a alexa ranking of 141 globally
I'll never understand it. Next people won't watch movies-we'll just watch faces of other people watching movies.
Well they're part of the Unicode standard.
Which defines the emoji as a binary value.
They're different in the way that fonts look different but an A is an A in any font.
Emoji just means pictograph in Japanese. Since Japanese mobile phones had the concept before it was taken into Unicode.
Yea. I deleted my Facebook account because it seemed pointless and frustrating - I never got it anyway. I've never had any of those image-based social media accounts. I can't even summon the name of one right now and I'm really trying. I do use Twitter, sparsely, but I honestly don't even have my head around that completely.
The biggest sea change for me has been what is accepted as cool when it comes to music and fashion. When I was in high school, 99% of the rap out there now would just be considered pop music. Tight-ass pants would be laughed at. Beards were definitely out, and had been for decades by that point. The one fashion trend that always seems acceptable is the "preppy" look - that never falls out of fashion.
A few things I love about the current gen: traditionally nerdy interests at all ages are looked favorably upon. People are super into cutting-edge tech, so I can have the kinds of conversations I used to have to really go out of my way to find with almost anyone now.
The biggest sea change for me has been what is accepted as cool when it comes to music and fashion. When I was in high school, 99% of the rap out there now would just be considered pop music. Tight-ass pants would be laughed at. Beards were definitely out, and had been for decades by that point. The one fashion trend that always seems acceptable is the "preppy" look - that never falls out of fashion.
A few things I love about the current gen: traditionally nerdy interests at all ages are looked favorably upon. People are super into cutting-edge tech, so I can have the kinds of conversations I used to have to really go out of my way to find with almost anyone now.
Raitosaito
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This sums up how I feel pretty well.
There is no reason to feel separated from the undercurrent of changes we are seeing in communication. Due to the fact that we feel above current trends we just choose to ignore it or condemn it because we don't understand it.
Langdon Alger
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If Life is Strange is any indication, then kids are still saying "hella".
TwiztidElf
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Just because you need to have a practical use for new technology before you use it doesn't make you old or 'not with it'.
Most new technology is technology for the sake of technology. VR definitely. So many conceptual issues with it.
Most new technology is technology for the sake of technology. VR definitely. So many conceptual issues with it.
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