• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    Technically, they’re all millennial shooters, because the entire genre was only invented in the 90s and mostly played by teenagers.

    In fact, boomers started a whole episode of “satanic panic” about them after it turned out that the Columbine shooters loved to play DOOM.

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        11 months ago

        The first millenials were born in 1981, so yes, they were definitely teenagers by that point.

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          11 months ago

          Isn’t it 82? Whole reason they’re called millennials is because they graduated high school in the “new millennium”. 81 would have graduated in 99.

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            11 months ago

            There’s rarely a strict cutoff for this sort of thing. If you’re on the edges, it’s sort of “whichever feels right”. I am only a year older than my wife, and we were both born in the late 70s, but I had a brother 7 years older than me and she was her parents’ first. Based on the TikToks she sends me, she identifies as a millennial. I am much more in tune with the Gen X zeitgeist.

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        11 months ago

        Nah dude. I’m a millennial, born in 80s. I was a teen in the 90s.

        Gen x was in their 20s. They were the ones making these games, for the most part.

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          11 months ago

          John Carmack, one of the programmers of Doom, was 23 when Doom was released. (Born 1970)

          Just pitching in some additional info about who was making theses games.