/lit/ - Literature

The Corrections

>>15688513
Fight Club

'95 here wtf is that thing in the top right?

>>15688513
'95, by definition, is a millennial.

>>15688538
looks like a mangled beyblade

'93 here
You are all stupid children

>>15688567
'92 here
93 was a spoiled year, the rest of you are fine though.

>>15688539
There is no definition. Lots of sources claim that Gen Z starts at '95 whereas others claim that it does not start until 2000. 1995 - 2000 is basically a transitional period between two extremely different generations, so it is rather dumb to group it with one or the other.

>>15688513
>I got fed up with being bullied on /tv/ and /v/ for being a retard so I thought I’d seek out a more receptive board

'73 here
Get out of the 4-chan you punks

>>15688513
>tfw 25 in 8 days
2005 was lit, tho

>>15688513
Why is 10 years old their identity? 15-25 is what they engaged w

>>15688513
That linkin park came out when I was in 7th grade what 3rd grade rocked out to linkin park

>>15688604
Imagine being this old and still browsing Chinese websites

COD4 was the shit tho, no denying

>>15688643
100% cod games are poop

>>15688607
Hand me downs and cultural stalling due to the recession.

>>15688643
Yeah I played it after school w my friends that must've come out 2007 or 8. The ideal portion of someone's life as an engager isn't when they're 12

>>15688657
No that's lame all these imagine 5-13 is what defines a generation. Millenials became insufferable douchebags but you get no grasp on them at age 5

>>15688513
Nobody in 95 owned a razor that was big in hs for us and we didn't all have phones then

>>15688513
No 10 yo had a phone

born 94

best years for vidya were 2004 and 2007, best year for music was 2011-2012

>>15688626
What about old chin*se "people" browsing Baidu?

>>15688702
>best years for vidya were 2004 and 2007
Maybe on the console, PC reached its peak late 90s to early 00s.

>>15688702
Borderlands 2, Skyrim, and Dark Souls came out on 2011-2012 what are people still playing from 2004 and 2007?

>>15688728
PC is still at it's peak. It dominates in almost every category you can think of.

>>15688731
WoW

I still play super smash brothers melee and i compete in tournaments. Its the greatest game ever made by far

>>15688731
Boy am I glad you're on /lit/ instead of /v/.

>>15688567
>>15688575
Hello infants
t. 91

>>15688691
LMAO no wonder you ended up virgin forever

>>15688762
Me too <3

>>15688731
Damn. Just thinking about how much better Unreal Tournament was than all those games really puts into perspectives why its been a dead hobby for retards since 2010

>>15688731
>all that shit taste

>>15688522
Definitely. Wish Franzen got talked about here more.

>>15688513
all of these memes are of cansoomer technoslaves, I'm so glad I grew up in a less industrialized country and actually went outside

>>15688733
There's literally no modern equivalent to Alpha Centuria, Thief, Total Annihilation, Pharoah, RTC, Gothic, Riven, just to hit most categories. Nothing as creative or risk-taking as Populous the beggining, Dungeon Keeper, Outcast, Arcanum.

>>15688779
> arena shooters are good
you shouldn't be accusing anyone of being a retard

>>15688770
Had sex and razor, eat!

>>15688579
No, there is a definition, it's just self-hating Millennials like to self-segregate from the later part of the generation.

95 is still Gen Y. So is 96, 97, 98, 99. In fact, it was generally a consensus on 4chan that 2001 was considered the dividing year due to the cultural shift following 9/11. Strauss, who COINED THE FUCKING TERM MILLENNIAL, has it extending to 2004 -- and he's a better authority on the matter of generational dating than people on 4chan.

Personally, I put the dividing year as 99 since it's the final year prior to the turn of the Millennium -- Millennium, Millennial; makes sense to me -- thus, demarcating Gen Y being the last generation born prior to the new Millennium. '95 doesn't even make sense, in that regard. Which, again, brings me back to older Millennials wanting to separate from younger Millennials by cutting the generation shorter than is typical. I've yet to see this not being the case.

But, people will continue to erroneously use '95 as a cut-off year and it will never not be stupid to do so.

>>15688764
Right on broseph. I think toys r us is ours but on that meme most is us. I remember first smash bros but melee I played a lot of

>>15688821
>calling Quake bad
Retard alert
They're fun when you're not shit.
You won't be shit if you aren't retarded.

'91 and I want to fucking die.

>>15688813
Also Morrowind was peak Elder Scrolls. And the final entries in the epic CRPG franchises Wizardry and Ultima were released. Truly end of an era.

>>15688826
>not having generations in 20 year segments
Ngmi

>>15688538
Kys zoomer

>>15688813
Also, the best JRPG at that time, or all time let's be honest, FF7, was ported to the PC, so you didn't even need to waste money on console to experience it.

>>15688833
Gonna be honest I never played quake. But I didn't like unreal at all when I was playing it on the school severs during keyboarding class :/

>tfw 1990

good thread on literature here, really great discussion

>>15688860
There are so many better JRPGs gameplay wise than FF series though.

>>15688921
such as?

Your nostalgia is cope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD0x7ho_IYc

>>15689014
Everything is cope, what's your point?

>>15688875
already had your birthday?

>>15688513
'19 here
Goo goo gaga

>>15689002
女神転生

>>15688875
what was the soviet union like, gramps?

>>15689057
I had this exact thought a while ago, humans literally can't do anything other than cope

>>15688826
YOU FUCKING IDIOT STRAUSS DEMARCATES 2004 AS THE YEAR OF THE SHIFT WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU PUT IT AT 99 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

t. idiot

>>15688826
and to follow up with a more serious post, you're an idiot if you think 9/11 demarcates shit in the mind of a 2-5 year old as you suggest it would for the 96-99ers. Multiple definitions for zoomer begin at 95 BECAUSE they can't remember 9/11

>>15688513
'91 here, i'm unemployed and life is hell.
as per your request... not sure re: literature, plenty of movies that encapsulate the cold, futuristic atmosphere of the early 00s though.

>>15689550
Pls be in Berlin

>>15689481
East Germany was way ahead on trans rights with regard to athletic competitions.

>>15689481
East Germany was way ahead on trans rights with regard to athletic competitions.

>>15688513
yu-gi-oh manga series

>>15689542
Life before 9/11 was a dream in Midwestern US. It was Calvin and Hobbes in real time. A sort of Pax Americana

>>15688513
>razr
>ipod nano
>san andreas
pure kino. Should change the Linkin Park album to the Linkin Park/Jay-Z album

>tfw '97
>caught between two generations
>just graduated college: no plans for future
>just turned 23 yesterday

>>15689685
We have the same birthday. Being a cancer is awesome.

>>15689696
Hbd bro.
Yeah y'know I make fun of astrology a lot cuz the gf is into it but I'll be damned if the cancer description doesn't absolutely nail me.

>>15688604

Some guy was compiling ages of /lit/ posters. Everyone is 21 to 23. It's all children. Leave; Live.

>>15689685
welcome 2 hell motherfucker

>>15688813
Based. It's games like Gothic that should be brought up in 'is vidya art' discussions

>>15688691
Yah, but my mom did. And I played the fuck out of brick breaker

>>15689732
Real world sucks just wanna go back to school

>>15689696
>>15689724
Cancer here too, but I'm much more of my Moon in Virgo. :^)

>tfw '95 still stuck in college

>>15688513
'94 here
We were raised in a weird time between the transition to the online madness of today, it is a unique thing anyone else will never experience again thankfully because that shit fucked us up.

>>15689796
real world is about money, and sex, just make money and have sex anon, if you don't have a drinking problem maybe now's the time to start

my diary desu

>>15688826
>>15689519
95'r here. I consider myself to be a late millennial/early zoomer who has characteristics of both. I think whether or not people born mid and late 90s identifiy more with millennial or zoomer culture depends on their personal persuasion. I grew up with an older brother (born 92) so I gravitated towards "older" entertainment like N64/Gamecube, 2000-2003 cartoons, ect. My friend was born 97 and has a younger sister, and is pretty much full on zoomer by comparison of myself who am more of an oldfag.

2004 zoomer here. am i to young for this board?

>>15689909
>it is a unique thing anyone else will never experience again thankfully because that shit fucked us up.
Wanna elaborate? I don'T want to see the past through rose tinted glasses, but I sure am glad I grew up in the 00s instead of now. The internet hadn't yet penetrated every nook and cranny of modern life. In the 00/10s decennium, we have seen considerable social dislocation originating in all things technology; from the now all too familiar always-on attention sink that is facebook/iPhone/insta, to thereby expedited depravities like onlyfans/e thotting. For a young person growing up, the world has become ocnsiderably more confusing. Wouldn't you agree?

>>15690082
whoops forgot to turnoff sage, my bad

>>15690075
leave or I will make you leave

There's a kind of weird accuracy to this image, being born in 95 myself. Obsessed with Pokemon, yugioh, smash bros, spongebob, etc. growing up. I'd identify as caught between Millenial and Gen Z.

A work that best captures this? Honest to fucking god in terms of cultural influence of what everyone was reading growing up it has to be Harry Potter. That is the cultural touchstone book for people my age, regardless of its quality.

in terms of aesthetic?
The Corrections
White Teeth
Bleeding Edge
Pattern Recognition

>>15690276
also to further elaborate, people born during this time are caught in this weird divide where technology wasn't as prominent but was growing to prominence in our lives. The internet was still somewhat in its frontier days, and there were still kids who were raised heavily without the latest tech and had to build their characters in other ways.

>>15688538
A Beyblade, you idiotic bafoon!
El Drago, if I'm not mistaken, haven't heard that name in ages...

>>15690276
Kill yourself my man

>>15690276
>Harry potter
>cultural influence

>>15689752
*transforms into a dinosaur and kills fucking everything*

>>15690353
>he says while posting anime reaction images
Pop culture is still culture

>>15690353
you have to be fucking ignorant not to see how objectively popular it was and still is. Mind you it isn't good, but you can't deny its existence.

>>15690086
sage goes in the option, not the name.

>>15690366
How is that a bad thing?

>>15690375
Popularity =/= influence

>>15690409
>is taught in college courses and often has its own dedicated classes
>Made YA commercially viable
>people use harry potter analogies in everyday life for various purposes

>>15689727
>Statistics 101
>Lecture 1: Sampling Methods

Can you conceive of any reason why making a thread on an anonymous imageboard asking people to post their age ISN'T a good method for discerning the true population age range?

>>15688538
Alpha Centauri is the greatest game every created by far. I discovered it three years ago, so almost a decade after I quit playing vidya. It's MIND BLOWING. I've made /lit/ threads about this game, I've learned so much from playing this game lol. The other games you mentionned aren't even 1% as good as smac. In fact, the only video game that is worth playing is smac. It was conceptualized by a philosopher iirc.

>>15690409
Harry Potter is literally the gold standard for good fiction for like half of all Americans

>>15690439
Yeah and asking people who they will vote for isn’t the best way to do samples to predict election outcomes.
People still spend millions doing it though, because it’s the only answer you can get

>>15690395
It's not bad, it's actually epic. How many games let you do that kind of thing? It's awesome

>>15688691
I had a nokia brick when I was 12 and it had a pilotwings knockoff on it I played a lot.

>>15690075
Consider you are 16... and you have to be 18 to post here... yes.

>>15688731
I play morrowind and new vegas once every 2 years. I also play through RE4 once a year but I can beat it in about 7 hours now.

>>15688813
VR Konojo, AI Girl. The age of the waifu.

>>15690075
Why doesn't your retarded generation understand capitalizing sentences? Is it that black twitter lowered your iqs?

>>15690542
NEW TREND: ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME. SWOLE LETTERS. NO MORE NO CAPS. IT'S ALL CAPS FROM HERE ON OUT - KNEE CAPS MOTHERFUCKER!

>>15690578
We already made that meme in like 2007. We called it Billy Mays mode.

87 here. I want to go back to those summer days in the early 90s playing the SNES and Genesis.

>>15690791
The 90s are gone forever

>>15690082
What I mean is we had a glimpse of a saner world and at the same time decend into this contemporary madness and thus couldn't experience the same social and thecnological stability as our predecesors

>>15688513
Who the fuck thinks 2005 was lit? I remember 2000-2003 and 2006-2009 so much better. And if I had to pick I'd still pick 2004 over 2005. 2005 was the least memorable year in the 2000s. I was born in 1994.

>>15691185
2005-2007 fucking sucked
Kanye saying George Bush hates black people was funny tho

Not a book, but The Sopranos television show. Everything about it is 00s, from the way people dress, to the topical politics, to the technology, to the mindsets of the people.

>>15691229
I think it supposed to be a repeated theme that Tony and his working class-minded friends and family were all about 10-15 years behind the times.
That’s why so many of them drive Cadillacs and Tony can never forgive himself for needing therapy.

>>15691263
they had cellphones and the like. Plus, a lot of people were "behind" the times at the time. In a sense, the struggle of boomers adopting to changing tech not lost on the zeitgeist of the 00s.

>>15688567
It's funny how much of a huge difference 93-95 is. I found Gen 3 Pokemon, Beyblade, and Yu-Gi-Oh to be bizarre, immature shit. I was already over Call of Duty before Modern Warfare even came out. I do love Spongebob and Tool though they fucking rule.

>>15688539
>>15688579
>>15688826
I'm married to a late 96er and I have an experience about once a week where I realize she is at least 50% zoomer
>likes guys wearing backwards hats
>ZERO first hand knowledge of the Clinton/Bush presidency transition
>zero recollection of media handling of Bush presidency
>wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are the same to her
>late 00's teen heartthrobs
>first phone was an iPhone
>wasn't an adult for the early '10s
>loves tik tock
the list goes on and on.

my wife showed me a funny meme the other day with the caption "when there's a four year age gap"
>husband thought: I wonder what the stock market's gonna do tomorrow
>wife thought: don't be suspicious, don't uh be suspicious, don't be suspic....

>>15691366
Nice humble brag faggot, save it for your diary next time

>>15688513
>no skateboarding
pathetic meem

94 here. Actually, it's about razer scooters, going home when the street lights went on, dumb and dumber, the Simpsons, Malcolm in the middle, and scholastic book fairs, having your first kiss with your cute neighbor girl

>>15688841
'90 here same bro

>>15691922
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrRcJHAtbk8
Don't forget this shit dude. How could we lost such cool things?

>>15691586
>humble brag

having this in your vocabulary is another symptom of zoomerism

>>15688513
93 master race
its like experiencing boomer, genX, millenial, and Zoomer all in one big mess
>actually playing outside as a kid
>music is still a "cultural" thing even though terrestial radio was forever ruined in 96, still have college/pirate and public radio
>politically correct people will always be fags no matter what
>the coolest people whod remember your birthday give you local lawyers cards and the local alcu number and show up to someones juvenile court date listened to the music denigrated today as "white trash" or lame and "uncool"
>weeb and gamergirls were angry mean sluts who slung insults as they blew you and didnt take shit from anybody, not even shindlers cashier who caught them stealing, and not cosplaying vapid attention whores
>anime was edgy
>anime wasnt 99% moe shit
>ultra cheap NES and sega and SNES
>experiencing N64 and PS1 as it comes out
>then the greatest console gaming generation ever
>finding a stack of playboys in a box next to the train tracks
>copies of copies of payper view porn on vhs
>the black title screen era of DVD porn
>allie sin rachel rotten
>the greatest pornwebsites insex and kink.com
>southpark wasnt meta about itself
>knowing pre 2000s simpsons and early family guy
>usenet, IRC, aim and early 2.0 like myspace

>he's above the age of 20 and still unironically browsing 4chan, hasn't even graduated to X2 chan yet
Couldn't imagine being this cringe.

>>15691979
And heelys

>>15688813
>Riven
Incredibly based

>>15690046
Yeah agreed. I feel more millenial because i have older siblings who influenced by entertainment options. Also, Obama was president the entire time I was in high school - so those formative years were spent in a political climate where everything felt "OK". Climate change was a big topic of discussion, but there was no Greta and no school strikes. I think being a teenager in the age of Trump is pretty important context for the Zoomer/Millenial distinction. Millenials are defined by the GFC, Zoomers by Trump. If you are a mid-90s baby you're kinda in the middle. Anyway, everything in the OP image is super relatable though.

>>15692531
Fuck off zoom zoom

>>15692531
>fumbling this hard for any possible cope to frame being a newfag as somehow virtuous

>>15688513
>People defining their childhood by mass-produced commodities
Any books on this?

>>15688513
I was born on 9/11, rate my progression

>>15688875
>tfw 1989

>>15690791
It hurts to remember.

year of the pig baby
check em

>>15692765
>hasnt been listening to com truise since it was called chillwave

You are all consoomer manchildren.

>>15692868
I only became truly sentient 8 years ago, I was catching up.

>>15688779
Unreal Tournament sucks ass, friend.

>>15692765
I think you're a bit of a faggot, not gonna lie, but you're 18 so I'm gonna let it slide.

>>15692944
Ain't everyone a faggot on this site?

>>15690791
How about you stop being a fat autistic loser?

What the fuck is this thread? Why are you /v/tards coming here patting each other on the back? Get the fuck out.

>>15692670
ha, was thinking about babby last night

>>15688513
You need to go back.

>>15688803
based

>>15692765
this is just the progression of every young middle American man for the past 40 years, just the cultural references are different

>>15693215
Wow, this meme really sucks. Don't make anymore dude, you're fuckin garbage.

>>15693241
I thought it was pretty good, but I do take serious offense to the idea that a youth can be complete without cartoon shaped icecream

>>15690082
I'm from 93 and had a gateway when I was a kid that I played Rainbow Six Rogue Spear on. Facebook didn't become normal until I was 15 and I didn't have a facebook. The idea of youthful embarassment being permanant and social media being normal sounds like a horror show. I also had a pellet gun and went out catching snakes and turtles and got leeches between my toes. I think there is a reason zoomers are a bunch of dweeby mouthbreathers and it's because you didn't have the freedom to make any mistakes. You don't move at concerts. You're terrified because at any moment your shortcomings will be publicized by your peers. I feel sorry for you.