HurlingDurling comments on This Half-Life mod reimagines the game as a boomer shooter

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Jesus, it's like anyone older than a gen Z is a boomer now

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[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

The term boomer shooter has been around for a couple decades to designate shooters from the '90s like Doom, it's not a "now" thing. The genre has stayed popular and a shooter doesn't need to be from the '90s to be a boomer shooter, either.

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[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 1 point 11 months ago

As a Gen X who Doom'd after hours on the work LAN I ran, i am constantly offeded at being called a Boomer :)

I dont know a Boomer who plays more then Solitaire.

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