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re: Gen X kids rated most emotionally durable generation
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:07 pm to BamaAlum02
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:07 pm to BamaAlum02
The line originally went to 1981. The idea was millennials started at 1982 because you were graduating high school/turning 18 and becoming an adult in the year 2000. Then for whatever reason they backed it up to 80 so now Gen X is anyone born from 1965 through 1980.
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Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:09 pm to Joshjrn
Me and my son played Descent recently 
That game was brilliant
That game was brilliant
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:10 pm to riverparish
I consider 80-89 its own generation.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:39 pm to CAD703X
Hell Yeah. Proud to say that I'm a Gen X'er, and now growing into a 'Get off my Lawn' type of guy. 
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:43 pm to Oneforthemoney
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Pffff. Millennials. Weak as soy
We had the perfect balance of outside and inside challenge. We drank water from the garden hose while also playing unforgivingly challenging video games. I dare you to try to beat Lemmings without losing your hair, sanity, or sleep.
You Gen Xers also didn't have envelope-pushing cartoons like this.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:48 pm to Joshjrn
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Nah, Gen X is kinda lame. We just think it’s silly being lumped in with people born in the mid 90s who don’t remember a world without pervasive home internet and barely remember a world without the smartphone.
1996 born here. The home internet of our childhoods was way different than the home internet of today. We used it to play intellectually stimulating games and browse a vast array of websites. These were the days where social media megasites were the norm. It was the wild west. It developed our minds, not poisoned them.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:49 pm to Lonnie Utah
I still remember my 300 baud HESmodem. Had to disconnect the cable from the handset and plug it into the modem. My parents wondered why the pigtail cable kept getting damaged. When there was some software trickery that got that bitch up to 450 baud I thought I was the shite.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:52 pm to Dirk Dawgler
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Or we bought a boom box with a cassette player that had a record button. Waited for how long it took for a song like Don’t Bring Me Down by ELO to come on the radio and hit the button at the first recognizable note.
If the FBI ever found out about my two-deck boom box with high speed dubbing, I'd be in prison for 7000 years.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:52 pm to karmew32
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1996 born here. The home internet of our childhoods was way different than the home internet of today. We used it to play intellectually stimulating games and browse a vast array of websites. These were the days where social media megasites were the norm. It was the wild west. It developed our minds, not poisoned them.
Certainly not arguing that. In the same way that I'm noting 1997 (bleeding into and culminating with...) and 2001 as major cultural breakpoints, Facebook opening up to the public coinciding with the release of the original iPhone in or about 2007 is the next major breakpoint, really coming into its own with the release of the iPhone 3G in 2008, in my opinion.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 1:15 pm to Joshjrn
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We just didn’t turn into the cynical apathetic count that you Xers did
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 1:23 pm to RoyalWe
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300 baud HESmodem.
300 Baud??? Wow.
I think the lowest I ever had was 1200 baud (which is only 1 generation after the 300...)
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 1:25 pm to Joshjrn
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Your childhood isn’t markedly different than those of us growing up in the 80s. We just didn’t turn into the cynical apathetic cunts that you Xers did
This seems like something a pathetic cunt would post…
Posted on 3/2/26 at 1:29 pm to dallastigers
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This seems like something a pathetic count would post…
Posted on 3/2/26 at 1:32 pm to Joshjrn
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Facebook opening up to the public
how many people still have their .edu emails on their FB accounts?
Posted on 3/2/26 at 1:40 pm to billjamin
How many people still have Facebook
Posted on 3/2/26 at 1:41 pm to 3nOut
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my sister is late 40s (4 year older) and technologically dependent and on tons of meds, never married, lived at home till she was in her late 20s, wildly illiberal, and single. listens to kpop and watches Anime. Glued to her phone and computer.
She has Asperger’s syndrome
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:06 pm to Lonnie Utah
What's funny is that Tiger Droppings reminds me a lot of old school dial-up C-Net BBS sites because they were local. You'd have to wait until the phone line was open to log-in so one user online at a time. I used to run a local system called the Asylum. Good times.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:14 pm to RoyalWe
i was born in 66
turned 10 in 76 a year before star wars
turned 18 in 84 at the apex of MTV, pop culture and go to see the end of the star wars trilogy before i started college.
i feel like i got a hefty dose of stadium rock, feathered back hair and sears christmas catalogs and dedicated smoking areas at my school but then my teen years were spent trying to match simon lebon's hairdo (as a few who knew me back then i know on here IRL can attest) and rocking my walkman and frankie say RELAX tshirt and 80s canvas jacket.
turned 10 in 76 a year before star wars
turned 18 in 84 at the apex of MTV, pop culture and go to see the end of the star wars trilogy before i started college.
i feel like i got a hefty dose of stadium rock, feathered back hair and sears christmas catalogs and dedicated smoking areas at my school but then my teen years were spent trying to match simon lebon's hairdo (as a few who knew me back then i know on here IRL can attest
) and rocking my walkman and frankie say RELAX tshirt and 80s canvas jacket.This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:36 pm to CAD703X
quote:same
was born in 66
I vividly remember the bicentennial and then 10 years later I was bartending in college in mid-80s New Orleans. 1976 was the best year to be a kid in history and 1986 was the best year to be 20, ever
I’m pretty certain we got the best of the 70s and the 80s…which means we got the best there ever was
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