• Uruanna@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      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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        53 minutes 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.

    • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      I am showing my age here, but it seems that boomer in context of slang means old person if you are in your 20s or earlier.

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        3 days ago

        It’s been “anyone older than me that I don’t like” for a lot of the perpetually online, for a while now.