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Cake day: August 17th, 2023
  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you think every generation thinks their time growing up was the best?
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    27 days ago

    This take is US centric, because that’s where I’m from.

    I’m a millennial. I feel like I got on the last boat boat out of 'Nam. I graduated college and got my first job just before that mini recession in 2014.

    I do feel like if you were mid 20s around 9/11 you got to ride the crest of the last surge of “greatness” in the US; old enough to get your bag while the world changed everything for the people coming after.

    In reality, there’s almost always been a 2-4 year period every 10-15 years where it’s actually pretty great to enter into adulthood compared to surrounding age demographics. I feel like I was in the last one, and the next one hasn’t hit yet.

    Seemingly great times to be a 24 year old college graduate (comparative to other years):

    2011-13 - you narrowly avoided 08 and 14 recessions

    1997-99 - you got job experience before the dot com bubble popped

    1988 - you’re starting your career with a straight decade of prosperity

    1967-73 - you went to college and avoided the draft; you got career experience before inflation and the gas crisis hit in the next few years

    1948-50 - too young to go to war, early enough to participate in the largest economic boom in human history

  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.world•I'm doing my part!
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    2 months ago

    I did get to play death stranding and both turnip boy games, which were both good. Also I played ghost wire Tokyo and Calypso protocol and found out they weren’t for me. Whoever did the environmental design for Calypso protocol deserves an award though- it’s all gorgeous. The actual game and story are dull as fuck.