I only missed belonging in this topic by 1 year anyway. I’m the oldest of Millennials.
Born in '82.
I started playing in 2004 and I have always been Horde.
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You are an honorary Gen X.
Grab a chair
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I’m a bit too old for this thread, really, inasmuch as I was born in 1957.
And I bloody feel it.
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Can I ask you a serious question? My generation title flip-flops year to year. Once I was Gen Y. Then I was a millennial. Now I’m categorized as Gen X.
I was born 1980. What am I?
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The last year of Gen X. So you are Gen X
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Old fart checking in
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You’re at the tail-end of Gen X.
Gen Y = Millenials.
Gen Z = Zoomers.
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Is 1980 really the cutoff for Gen X? Not doubting that it is, but I thought it was a few years later than that.
Anyway, I’ll be quiet now since I was born in 1989. I feel like I identify more with the latter half of Gen X though, because my childhood had less tech and more time outdoors and quietly daydreaming in my room. Feels a bit weird when people my age want to talk nostalgically about 80s/90s game consoles because everything I know about them I read off of Wikipedia.
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Gen Jones, so close. Started playing in 2009, I think? Or 2010. Midway thru NR. First toon was this one. So, Alliance.
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I’m cracking up right now. I was once given an all-paid trip to New Orleans to give a presentation on the first generation of millenials…in 2002. It changed a few years after lmao
It was a great week though.
You had an unusual upbringing for an American kid your age. I was born in '82 and I got my first NES with Rob the Robot, Duck Hunt, and Gyromite when I was 3. I haven’t stopped gaming since.
By the time you were born, I was 4 years in to gaming 8 hours+ per day. XD
I still had a ton of daydreaming time in my room though, because there was no internet access for me until 1993ish, so when I’d finish playing my games, I’d just chill in my room and daydream. I hardly ever went outdoors though. I always hated the sun. I’d go outside if it was raining or during a thunderstorm. That’s about it.
I remember you you could feed your whole family EASILY working a simple job. Like in Deli of a grocery store.
My how times have changed
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It changed. Almost two decades ago the cutoff was 1980 or 1981. As I said above, in college I gave a presentation at a writer’s conference about being a millennial with a bunch of other millennials. We were all considered Gen Y, which at that time was different than Gen X. We were the in-between, the lost generation.
Um…now everyone that did that presentation has been cast Gen X or millennial. I don’t even know if Gen Y is even a thing anymore or if they just changed dates on it.
Yeah no doubt. It was mostly a side effect of growing up in a poor, semi-rural part of the country.
Similar. My parents got a computer to replace a typewriter for writing papers on and got it hooked up to the internet in 1996, but I wasn’t given much time to use it so I didn’t get too far into computers until that '96 machine became a hand-me-down in the 2000s.
I kinda miss that slow pace sometimes, but I also know that I would probably go mad after too much of that.
I remember my NES was almost $200 back then, and it was a small fortune. Now that’s barely three tanks of gas.
Inflation is crazy.
And wages have NOT kept up.
As a nurse, my mom had a job making around $18 an hour and she could afford everything I wanted or needed and have money left over. My last job paid me $20 an hour, and I’d run out of cash just trying to survive from paycheck to paycheck.
Started in August of 2006. Never took a break. My sub lapsed once in 2008 for a week while I was on vacation.
Right now, though… I cancelled a 6 month sub a while ago with about 5 months left on it, had a bunch of RAF friends, so had all that time left, and some Christmas presents. So I’ve been riding all of that out.
Not sure what’ll happen after that’s all gone.
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They’ll come out with an awesome mount to incentivize you to get another 6 months. 
[reminisces about how things used to be, but is so old that dementia creeps in]
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Bicentennial Baby checking in.
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1976! If you were 3 years younger, you’d have your own Smashing Pumpkins song.
