I am a gen x er and I notice that so many people who I used to have a ball with back in the day seem to have the life sucked out of them. They are stuck in 99 and don't want to experience anything new. They seem to hate everything and turn their nose up at any new movies, music, games or anything. So many of them just seem mad that it will never be the 90s again. Sure I loved the 90s as well but I am not going to spend my years angry that I can't go back.
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Is it me or have Gen Xers fully reached the get out of my lawn stage?
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Georges Chiellins
Member
Yes.
dr_octagon
Banned
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
It's not just you. They still have an onion on their belt which was the style at the time.
Melon Husk
Member
Anyone still wanting it to be the 1900s is "get off my lawn" age.
feynoob
Banned
It's not 90s stuff.
The older you get, the less experience you get.
Time goes fast, and all you want is to have a peace of your mind, with no noise bothering you.
1-17 years= active.
18-35= busy with life and work. Very social/antisocial
35-60= anger and boredom. Wants to avoid people.
60 to death= doesn't care anymore.
Stage of human being.
The older you get, the less experience you get.
Time goes fast, and all you want is to have a peace of your mind, with no noise bothering you.
1-17 years= active.
18-35= busy with life and work. Very social/antisocial
35-60= anger and boredom. Wants to avoid people.
60 to death= doesn't care anymore.
Stage of human being.
lachesis
Member
Probably because I'm tired. I'm a gen X and I'm tired - taking care of elderly parents, working my butt off to support my child with a good life, and keeping on top of all new things thrown at you - everyone has a stopping point. I think I earned a bit of right to rest and enjoy things from my youth. (more of 80's kid, not 90s though).
If I only like classic games but have no interest in this GAAS/Gatcha games - there's nothing wrong. I don't even look at GAAS games, even though I know it's the future.
It's like one thinking this whole multi-billion dollar corporation is going to bankrupt if I've stopped working. It doesn't. Life goes on, moves on, and sun rises another day - with me or without me. So it's up to one's own choice of where you find your own happiness - and if that's 90's stuff from your youth - so be it - as most of younger ones will also eventually come to that point in their lives.
If I only like classic games but have no interest in this GAAS/Gatcha games - there's nothing wrong. I don't even look at GAAS games, even though I know it's the future.
It's like one thinking this whole multi-billion dollar corporation is going to bankrupt if I've stopped working. It doesn't. Life goes on, moves on, and sun rises another day - with me or without me. So it's up to one's own choice of where you find your own happiness - and if that's 90's stuff from your youth - so be it - as most of younger ones will also eventually come to that point in their lives.
anthony2690
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kurisu_1974
Member
I'm sorry if they are stuck in 1999 they are sad millenials.
I'm stuck in 1991 and I still go hard af.
I'm stuck in 1991 and I still go hard af.
Mossybrew
Banned
I mean I have my "get off my lawn" moments but I have no particular nostalgia for the 90s, I'm still on the hunt for new experiences - games, movies, music, whatever. Retro stuff is meh, been there done that.
Nah, popular music has mostly always sucked, you have to actively seek out the good stuff, was true then and the same now.
Nah, popular music has mostly always sucked, you have to actively seek out the good stuff, was true then and the same now.
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West Texas CEO
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
No one spoke like this in 1991.
Wildebeest
Member
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the x-files, grumpy paranoid flannel shirted, dragging themselves through the tiktok streets at dawn looking for an angry Elon or Kanye.
LordOfChaos
Member
I think at the top end of millennials and bottom end of gen x, there's probably not all that much difference, it's just aging that gets us all in the end if we live to see it. But I do find the middle to older cohort have drifted towards the boomers, constantly shitting on the younger generations before we've really been given the power to fuck things up.
The oldest millennials are like 38 right now...We're not the kids protesting on college campuses. That's just youth, again it's mostly just the progress of age. We're the people who have been in the boomer workforce for a decade and a half teaching them how to computer (cough cough bill maher)
The oldest millennials are like 38 right now...We're not the kids protesting on college campuses. That's just youth, again it's mostly just the progress of age. We're the people who have been in the boomer workforce for a decade and a half teaching them how to computer (cough cough bill maher)
LegendOfKage
Member
Synless
Member
Maybe I just want people the fuck off my lawn. Who really wants people on their property uninvited? Annoying.
softwarepagan
Neo Member
100000%
The late 90s and 2000s (even up into the late 2000s) were unironically the peak of our society - a beautiful endorphin dump of a dying brain. The trip of a lifetime.
It took me til about 2015-ish to realize how shit the 2010s were (at least the mid-to-late 2010s) but it's my story and I'm sticking to it. Lol
Pilgrimzero
Member
Nah. I’m still in the “I don’t care” stage. Play on my lawn. I don’t give a shit. Just leave me alone.
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
I don't have time to be mad at anything because I'll be dead soon (In 20-30 years).
I've had my time in the sun and that's ok
I've had my time in the sun and that's ok
As Gen X I question myself when I get the urge and occasionally discourage it in conversation. Especially with film/music. Constant complaints about the same thing sounds like fixation, trying to make things like imagined and that people can be compelled to larp the past by complaining about how people to live their lives now. In truth there's hardly anything in media that doesn't irritate a person on some level in every piece. I hated most 80s tv and movies at the time, only tolerating it because it was there, and am not going into details about the awfulness, just going to say I started writing a critique at 15 about it called "The Proverbial Bullshit" which turned into a screed. Dealing with the nihilistic attitude was common and later showed up in Gen X films in the 90s like SFW and Doom Generation, Fight Club that helped process it before movies faded into the phantom menace of millenialism. Gen X music sort of peaked around then too before going Avril Lavigne/Linkin Park and Gen X aged into classic/oldies.
It's fun watching the generations change, seeing the influences and enjoying them for what they are. Even how internet has influenced so much by opening up and fragmenting, but also homogenizing in other ways.
It's fun watching the generations change, seeing the influences and enjoying them for what they are. Even how internet has influenced so much by opening up and fragmenting, but also homogenizing in other ways.
Grildon Tundy
Member
Do you think he had the haircut ironically? Or are kids these days on so many layers of irony that they end up doing something like that with sincerity?
farmerboy
Member
Got no idea. I just don't connect AT ALL with the sub 25 age group
ClanOfNone
Member
softwarepagan
Neo Member
I spent some time in social work in 2020 and all those little shits have the dahmer glasses, mullets, mustaches, acid-washed jeans, brightly-colored high-top shoes etc etc. All that awful 80s shit we thought we were past is back, but even worse
nush
Member
Our future dream was a TV we could hang on the wall, got that. VR wasn't even in the picture, I love living in the future.
42 years old, life’s great overall. Ups and downs, but always trending upwards when looked at a macro level. It’s easy to get sucked into the social media and news entertainment bubble and think the sky is falling.
Biggest mistake anyone can make is living in the past and allowing the world to pass them by.
Biggest mistake anyone can make is living in the past and allowing the world to pass them by.
nush
Member
nocsi
Member
I’m a millennial that’s retired, my peers are boomers. The “get off my lawn” shit they do is city wide mandates to disallow developments that would benefit any generation other than their own. Where I live there is no gen x, it’s pretty much a sprinkling of millennials that live with their boomer parents and boomers themselves.
If boomers get too hoppity, I remind them that I’m their social security provider and their retirement is sponsored by me
If boomers get too hoppity, I remind them that I’m their social security provider and their retirement is sponsored by me
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
I feel the same. Well, but I'm sorta in between and I literally have had to kick unwanted neighbors off my property more than once last year. I can empathize the leave me alone and let me keep my analog life people too.I don't have time to be mad at anything because I'll be dead soon (In 20-30 years).
I've had my time in the sun and that's ok
-Minsc-
Member
I was never a partier so I don't have that to get sucked out of me. What I've had to cut back on and better manage is my time on entertainment. As much as there's the part of me that wants to sit around on the computer all day, stuff around me would fall apart and decay if I did not give a certain amount to maintenance. Being 41, I seriously reconsider how much of my social life I want to be online.
No question, time moves forward and our interests can change. Getting caught up in internet memes no longer has the same appeal. I wonder, when we are younger is it reasonable to say we live on anticipation? As we grow older, we live on contentment. This is not to say I don't anticipate new things, it's just that I don't live in that state. Having read about "addiction" to experiences, it's not the end reward that gets a person hooked but rather the lead up to it.
On a final disjointed thought, as we get older we do have a certain responsibility to step back and help the younger generations. There's no way I can compete with their innocence and energy.
No question, time moves forward and our interests can change. Getting caught up in internet memes no longer has the same appeal. I wonder, when we are younger is it reasonable to say we live on anticipation? As we grow older, we live on contentment. This is not to say I don't anticipate new things, it's just that I don't live in that state. Having read about "addiction" to experiences, it's not the end reward that gets a person hooked but rather the lead up to it.
On a final disjointed thought, as we get older we do have a certain responsibility to step back and help the younger generations. There's no way I can compete with their innocence and energy.
j0hnnix
Member
This is accurate..
I am here:
35-60= anger and boredom. Wants to avoid people.
Trying to fast forward to:
60 to death= doesn't care anymore.
LordofAllThatIsEvil
Member
I don’t feel I am at the get off my lawn stage or am a stick in the mud. I like new things. With 2 kids in college and being gainfully employed with a spouse in the same situation this is a great time. If you would have told teen me this would be my life I would have been a much happier kid.
50 years old and I have gamed for most of the past week. This is awesome.
50 years old and I have gamed for most of the past week. This is awesome.
Artoris
Gold Member
The Pleasure
Member
I will never play games as good as Doom, Duke3d, Quake. Those games were essentially Thriller in video game form back to back to back. I'll never relive that glory.
TheMan
Member
Now that Carmack has left Facebook maybe he’ll grace us with one more game
squeakywheel
Member
Gen X here and my perspective has changed after my near death experience 3 years ago, early 40s. I used to keep work knowledge to myself since I (l)earned it unassisted but I've been more sharing since. I also have been mentoring the folks just coming into the workforce a lot more. I'm the first guy that gets asked for references which I don't mind giving. I'd like to say I've done a 180 and have changed all my bad habits but nope. Other than getting much healthier I'm still on forums and reddit and wasting time gaming and online lol. I will continue to be positive and strive not to be that "get off my lawn" guy as I continue to age. I love tech and all this AI stuff is mindblowing to me. I feel bad for the GenX and Millenials as some of our work will continue to be automated.
"VR wasn't even in the picture" not true
TransTrender
Gold Member
I think I'm too young for Gen X but yes.
Looking at my older sibling, yes.
It's either we're old or are tired of all this shit.
Looking at my older sibling, yes.
It's either we're old or are tired of all this shit.
nush
Member
I've been through that. When you're young in the workforce it's very much dog eat dog to get ahead and we've all had that middle manger that took credit for work you've done while you get no recognition. At that level your knowledge is what gives you the edge over your peers, don't give that shit away. When you move up it's no problem to share what you learned but not what you are learning now. You're ahead of the curve and having minions that are trained well means you can offload some tasks to be handled competently freeing you up to work at the edge.
Obviously being a bro to the kids that have not worked out how things really work is a good thing. I was fortunate enough to have people above me that could teach me stuff and now I'm that guy. Pay it forward.
