I’m an early zoomer. 22 here. Parents got me into WoW. And it just stuck with because of how low maintenance the game is, I can’t afford a great gaming PC and wow can run on toasters as I’m a broke student.
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They have exactly the potential any other gen has, it just needs to be wakened from this dream they’re in, or should I say nightmare, and it certainly can be. Anyone middle aged how many times did you wake up in your lives. Hopefully multiple times. As a millennial Gen Z is very important to our world. You will be great, but you have a tough transition coming up. Maybe the hardest in a long time.
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This heavily depends how you were raised. I’m part of the millennial generation but was raised by baby boomers in a low income household.
Coming home to nobody was common because dad would either be working or helping everyone who asked him to that day while mom was out babysitting our nieces, nephews and cousins for a little extra cash to pay bills because she couldn’t work at diners anymore with her age catching up to her.
I loved watching cartoons on saturday and thankfully we had some stations that kept going bit past the 90s and would air reruns and then we went to church every sunday.
You had to go inside soon as the streetlights turned on or if you hear your parents whistle and my siblings were gen-x so I grew up listening to their music and my parents music. I was raised how they were raised.
Some friends I got into fist fights with over stupid arguments but we stayed friends after and used rotary telephones and payphones before our city removed like 90% of them.
The whole offended thing was hard for me because I spoke the way the generations before me did since they’re the ones who taught us but now I can’t talk that way anymore because it’s now labeled as offensive.
I have no clue what happened to the rest of the millennial generation because the people I grew up with were the same as the ones raising them.
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Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying everyone from the Boomer or the millennial generation are all terrible.
There are some really good one but there are very evil Boomers out there using millennials to shape and change this country and to hold on to power. They use social issues to radicalize and divide our country and create spending packets like “The inflation reduction bill” to hold onto power.
I used to be a Democrat. I grew up in a house hold of Union workers. I did a 180 degree turn when I joined the military. Saw the real world and other countries and it made me appreciate mine more.
One of things about becoming a NCO or an Officer in the service. Is that it is required of you to be up to date on current affairs and to know how Government works because those were Board questions for promotion.
Let’s say, from my time being in the military. I really started to self educate on how things worked in this country. I meet a lot of folks from all over the states. There are a lot of good people here but there some very bad ones who would sell us all out in a heart beat for some extra cash.
I feel like the millennials are very gullible with this whole socialist utopia garbage and they’re so willing to give up constitutional rights for quick feel good moment.
Like I said I hope the new generation does better.
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The mullet! Can’t forget about the mullets 
Believe me I have tried, but unfortunately my parents took pictures lol. Granted it was a polaroid camera though lol.
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Because they are leeches on society? I guess millennials might do the same once they become in power and throw all the elderly and young people under the bus to make more profits. Start raising those tuition costs, charge sky high for rents, healthcare? unaffordable
All metal, but mostly oldies like Metallica, Megadeath, Antrhrax then stuff from high school like Job for a Cowboy, Suicide Silence, A Skylit Drive, -post hardcore stuff.
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These are symptoms of choices made by boomer “experts” who were able to, for example, purchase land at a time when inflation was very young.
The reality is the boomer population like to think they are an authority of making good economic choices, yet in reality are bumbling buffoons causing problems for future generations, because
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We had this conversation in LFG last night. Apparently I was the old man at 41… everyone else was '95 or after. 
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It’s very much true. It’s a different society than it was 20-30 years ago especially for minorities. Boomers are very selfish
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I really don’t know how the housing market will ever repair itself from the damage boomers have done to it. Every homeless person on the street is their fault
Where did all these zoomers come from? I thought i was the only one/.
You aren’t
We can both reminisce about animal bands and kid cuisines
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a perfect illustration of how old this game is.
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I can’t keep up with what generation is which especially when they have conflicting dates half the time. But I’m sure there are many players of every generation playing so you’re not alone OP.
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We boomers were the product of a generation that survived the great depression and WWII. They wanted nothing but the best for us. They were also the generation the completed the demographic change from an agricultural to a manufacturing based economy. So much of what was in grade school and in popular culture reflected that agrarian mindset.
Boomers grew up believing we were the answer to everything. American culture shifted to a child based rather than parental based as our sheer numbers overwhelmed everything, schools, churches, doctors, playgrounds, just everything. We were the focus of society. Combine this with all the transitions in society such as Civil Right, Women’s Rights, the right to use military power to keep a country leaning toward supporting us and the total collision between an emerging world order and our parents desperately trying to hold on to “traditional” values. I remember intense political arguments in the mid-60’s at high school. No polite debates, you were with us or against us, whether student, teacher, parent or public figure.
The collision would end up fracturing the Boomers with each grouping of us absolutely convinced of our righteousness and leading to a sense that compromise and seeing things from the other person’s perspectives was a sign of weakness and completely wrong. Political strategist like Atwater and Rove figured out how to skillfully manipulate these “wedge” issues for political advantage in the 70s and 80s and the bleeding continues to this day.
I have so much hope for the Zoomers, being three generations out from us boomers, that they will find their own path, one very different from ours that embraces differences.
Hello fellow Gen Z, you are not alone. (Not many of us here though)
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So, divide and conquer? I think today it’s quite obvious what they’re doing.
Oregon Trail here! Every generation (and those in the in-between) has their awesomeness and struggles. It’s all arbitrary, and ever-present. Peace!
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