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Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam (www.gamespot.com)

submitted 10 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I am pretty sure boomers are not FPS gamers.

[–] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They used to be, then they took an arrow to the knee.

[–] Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

Thank you for this chuckle hehe

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I think some people don't think of boomers as 70 year olds.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The same people who still think of millennials as people in their early/mid 20s instead of late 30s early 40s.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

TBH thou, like "millennials" has replaced "young'ins" for boomers, the same can be for millennials, "boomers" replacing "old man".

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yup, my parents are right smack in the middle of the boomer gen ('50s) and we recently celebrated my dad's 70th birthday by going on a cruise. They're still somewhat active, but we still needed to take their age account (we did a couple small hikes as excursions).

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

My dad was a boomer and he absolutely loved Doom and Duke Nukem.

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 5 points 10 months ago

My boomer dad is definitely an FPS gamer, and he has been since Doom.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

The joke is that younger generations refer to anything older than them as boomer. Hence boomer shooter.

[–] xep@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe you shoot boomers?