How will you feel when kids born in the 2000s start posting?

[MODU]

The same way with kids from the 90s.

And the kids from the 80s, the 70s, ...

[Lambsbread]

This thread is the final straw. You will be banned later today.

Shut up and kiss me.

Uhhh.....

[bgwah]

Less than 48 hours before they can start legally posting here!

[Bacon King]

Less than 48 hours before they can start legally posting here!

oh lord oh lord

[memphis]

Smug, mostly. But I have no doubt that the younger generation will have something to teach us if we are willing to listen. I don't go in for the "kids today are so dumb/dangerous/naive" line of thinking that olds have been spouting forever. These kids have grown up with the web at their fingerprints. At the earliest, most critical years they already had opportunities for insight far beyond what was available for people my age. But they are still kids. And things haven't changed that much. I rather look forward to being on the other side of the generation gap. It will be supremely fascinating.

[badgate]

Kids these days with the music and the hair...have y'all been to a mall lately? The last thing I want to do is interact with the modern 13 year-old.



So says the 23 year-old.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Like a pedophile in an Internet forum.

[morgieb]

Weird. Old.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Old , and even more bullied than now by people who don't care about history.

[Holmes]

Less than 48 hours before they can start legally posting here!

Yes, that's what's been holding them back.

[minionofmidas]

Like a pedophile in an Internet forum.

You think there'll be girls among these people? Or are you a forum normal (ie a gay)?

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Old , and even more bullied than now by people who don't care about history.

Entirely accurate description there.

[minionofmidas]

I thought of you when I saw that on sinfest!

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

You mean kids whose first video game console was an Xbox360? 

Ugh!  How awful!

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Old , and even more bullied than now by people who know more than me about history.

Fixed your post for ya.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Old , and even more bullied than now by people who know more than me about history.

Fixed your post for ya.

Sorry, but you're wrong on this one.  

You mean kids whose first video game console was an Xbox360?  

Ugh!  How awful!

Exactly.  My first video game console was an N64, but back when they were on the way out.  I'm much more of a Nintendo guy.  My younger cousins just got an Xbox 360 for Christmas this past week, and I'm OK with that, but I wouldn't want to have one.  Especially after seeing the creepy pictures that some of the games take.

[Ban my account ffs!]

My first game system was the original NES.  I loved Mario a little too much.  Then I got an SNES and it was all over.  SimCity.. Super Mario... DK Country...

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Let me add something: even more alone in my hatred for Finding Nemo.

[Donerail]

You mean kids whose first video game console was an Xbox360? 

Ugh!  How awful!

Mine was a Wii.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Kids these days with the music and the hair...have y'all been to a mall lately? The last thing I want to do is interact with the modern 13 year-old.



So says the 23 year-old.

GenX feels the same way about us, and Boomers feel the same way about them.

[angus]

Old , and even more bullied than now by people who know more than me about history.

Fixed your post for ya.

"...know more than I." 

Nothing worse than a not-so-smart smartypants. 

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

You mean kids whose first video game console was an Xbox360? 

Ugh!  How awful!

Mine was a Wii.

At least that has the Virtual Console.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

My first game system was the original NES.  I loved Mario a little too much.  Then I got an SNES and it was all over.  SimCity.. Super Mario... DK Country...

We will get along well, you and I.

[memphis]

It's a sad thing that so many people gauge their generation based on what video games they played. There's a big world out there, guys.

[angus]

It's a sad thing that so many people gauge their generation based on what video games they played. There's a big world out there, guys.

It's not a bad gauge.  Mine was an Atari 2600.  Faux wood veneer finish.  We bought it when I was 14 and it lasted till I was 17.  It hooked up to the back of the television, but only after you took the cable TV off of it.  Eventually we got an A/B switch so we could stop having to roll it out.  We had two cassettes for it, Combat and Pong.  By the time they came out with a Pac-Man cartridge for it, I'd already spent about a million dollars in quarters at the local video arcade, The Quarter Deck, playing the real Pac-Man game, and had pretty much outgrown that sort of thing anyway.