>Gen-X'ers grew up in the 80's and 90's with the freest, wildest, most open versions of the internet>Gen-X'ers gained political power and turned the internet into a censored set of corporate walled-gardens and clamped down on online freedomsWhy is this? What is Gen-X's goal here?
>>537242463>Gen-X'ers gained political powerWhy are the boomers still running the country, anon?
>>537242463Why is friend computer unhappy in this picture? :(
>>537242768That's another issue - Gen-X'ers are refusing to take power even as the Boomers become elderly.
>>537242776he cant be the BBC she cravesbut 2020s techbros are fixing this now
>>537242463they are called xirs because they are the only generation to take troons seriously. their goal is to fucc and their gods are howard stern and jon "stewart" liebowitz
>>537242868So you're blaming Gen X for what Boomers are doing?
>>537242463The internet didn't become a mainstream thing until the turn of the millennium.
>>537243298In part, yes. The Boomers themselves had already taken power by the time they were Gen-X's current age. They shoved their elders aside without remorse. Gen-X seems to lack that killer spirit.
>>537242463Yeah I remember when it was easy to be the man of the hour online. Now you google search something and get 1000 links of asmongold moistcritical talking about it. It's just these guys and all of their sheep NPC paying them money and if you try to get an upper hand these guys and their cronies will silence and oust you from the online space permanently.
>>537242463Instead of a new enlightened age the internet brought a deluge of disinfo, stupidity and sectarianism.
All anon had to do was leave the lulzcows alone, now who's laughing?
>>537242463>Gen-X'ers gained political powerlol, in what parallel reality?
>>537242463GenX is sandwiched between two huge generationsby the time the boomers die off, the millenials will be the biggest generational voting bloc
>>537242868GenX has never had power and never will. 2/3 of our generation died on abortion mills and we are numerically the smallest generation. It was literally the worst generation to be born. When we were young, all the politicians cared about was was "muh social security" for boomers, now that we are old its all about housing and jobs for zoomers. We will never have the numbers to be politically relevant.Listen to our music, watch our movies. They are all about how bad we got fucked.
>>537242868Every single c-suiter introduced in my company in the last 5 years has been from 1 country. Can you guess which?
>>537243333>They shoved their elders aside without remorse.That's not what happened.
>>537242463>gen x censored the internetYou mean jews, Anon. It's jews.
>>537244112Look at the way that 46-year-old Bill Clinton manhandled his 68-year-old opponent George HW Bush during the 1992 presidential race. Now compare that to the weak and fearful way that Gen-X'ers like Ron Desantis or Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz tried to run against Donald Trump. That's the difference.
>>537244049>my companyclassic
>>537242463Gen-X are at their core a group of children, raised by children.They're doubly immature, and stunted in their development from drugs and shitty upbringing.
>>537244045well said. early 80's kids got fucked over on everything. however, it's not getting better for alphas and zoomers. they just had a brief window where they were relevant to marketers, and that window is passing. at least we have some good memories to float on in our dreams.
>>537244303What upbringing? Our single mothers were working and we let ourselves in after school, if we bothered getting ourselves there in the first place.
>>537246657We watched our boomer parents pull the ladder up just as we got to each one. Free college/uni, high income and cheap housing, high trust low immigrant societies. Now it'll be aged pensions/social security that they'll raid and leave their Gen X kids with nothing, then selling the family home before the croak in a paid for aged care facility and leave everything to the local animal shelter or some Green/Left movement. Fuck boomers.
Shalom!
>the 80's and 90's with the freest, wildest, most open versions of the internetUhhmm wtf..>80's to 94~The internet population consisted of 20 people across the world.>95~2000'sThe internet was a few open forums and private websites here and there which shared wallpapers and winamp skins.If you actually wanted free video games, you had to pay2pirate via usenet.Or, you had to install spyware from the intelligence communities so you could share your files in your computer with the CIA and the other filesharers like yourself.The internet wasn't liberated until mirc and torrents.Golden era of internet was 1998~2012 ish
>>537242463Mmm kissy kissy 1980s frilly dress sexo plap plap plap.
>>537242463>Gen-X'ers gained political power
>>537242463OK zoomer
>>537242868this
>>537242463Boomers did that retard,
>>537242463Boomers and impressionable little boys weren't skeptical enough to handle the internet. Conspiracy theories ran rampant. Toxic ideologies rose from fear and hate. Too many people lost grasp on objective reality. The internet poisoned society. Gen X will be the last generation to own anything. They are the stewards of our society.
>>537247836>95-2000sThat was the golden age. You could download whatever you wanted on napster and related programs. Even AOL in the 90s was like the wild West with its chat rooms.
>>537242768Gen X wants to work hard and party hard leading is too disappinting for the latch key generation.
>>537242868>refusingthat's funny
They're not in management the boomers are still clinging onto it. Overall Gen X is a very apathetic generation. They love substance abuse and sports, as love as they get that they DGAF about anything else. Though the didn't get the best of times like boomers they still got pretty good times and most own homes with paid off mortgages; so the horrible economy has minimal impact on them.
>>537242463Nigger nobody except massive nerds used the internet in the 90s. Maybe to pirate music at best if you were a muso. The internet didn't become a real thing until early to mid 2000s. Everyone was still doing real life things before then.
>>537242463As a gen X'er, I never endorsed this and don't know of anyone who did. I got online in 95, got my own account in 96, and I remember telling a fiend before that this shit would go to pot once some fucker found a way to make money off of it. I was right.I can't imagine any real gen x'er wanting the internet to be what it is now. I miss the closeness, the roughness, the free speech areas, the lawlessness. I think you should blame foreigners, jews, and corporations instead.
>>537252681i was playing quake team fortress in 1st grade during the 90s. fragging all of them too. even taught my dad how to rocket jump.
>>537251697>napster and related programsAll of these programs were made to scan your computer and communicate back to NSA&friends.
>>537252887I got into quake in late 96, used to direct modem connect to my buddy across town and co-op through the campaign. Then in early 97 got Diablo and was addicted to that for most of that year. Had a legit level 43 warrior and a 250 member clan. Fun times.
>>537242463>Gen-X'ers gained political power and turned the internet into a censored set of corporate walled-gardens and clamped down on online freedomskys zoomy if you're too fuckin stupid to understand that all of these problems originate with the globohomo central banking jews
>>537253093Gen X once again refusing to accept responsibility for fucking up everything so badly that boomers had to come back and ruin things in a more ordered manner. Gen X is the spoiled brat's kids generation to the spoiled brat boomers. They pretend to be apathetic and above it all to hide their inner selves of being a hyper version of boomers. Hopefully now that boomers took away all of zoomers power and gave it to their personal groomed generation in millenials, we can try and restart with millenials to zoomers to alphas
>>537253071should've went on gamespy. create your 1337 gamer tag with letters, numbers, and runes, and then spam spy gas into the spawn. man spy was so much fun. there were some insanely good snipers back then and stabbing in the back as a spy was too good of a time. setting traps as demo man was great too. shit the engineer was fun. everything was. the rock was one of my fav maps. was so scary when you had to get to the chamber or die.
>>537242463they don't want to raise their own children and monitor their online activities. that takes effort and time out of their day that they could be using to work overtime instead of giving a job to a millennial.
>>537242868Gen X is a small demographic you dumb cunt, there's far more millennials than there is gen x
>>537242463>be me, 12 yo kid in 2000>first google search: "game <title> download">second google search: "hentai lesbian"it was that simple
>>537253471Gen X is the yuppie generation and legitimatly has no hobbies beyond work.
>>537242463They have no goal. They are just braindead hedonists.
>>537253578>2002 search "tub girl">scarred for life
>>537242768The generation before boomers are still in charge.>>537242463Ghouls like Nancy Pelosi and George Soros on so on were born in the thirties and will only give up power when it is pried from their cold dead hands.
>>537253387I did use Gamespy briefly, but it was to play Baldur's Gate 1. In used to co-op with randoms in that a lot. We all had hacked character and did shit like summon squirell armies.I did get heavy into competitive FPS until Xfire around 2000 or so. Me and my buddy started playing Half-Life and all its mods, and when HL2 came out we would team up on random servers and grief them together until we'd get banned.
>>537253791>Xfireman that thing was slick. i think i mostly used it for BF 1942 and vietname IIRC. i remember my friend power tripping and banning me from the team speak serving ganging up on me with his gay internet friend
>>537253897Yeah it was good until Thresh sold it to some foreign shit rags around '05. Then a lot of games were coming out and we'd all get pissed because support for new games was getting really slow and you'd have to go to the forums and learn how to hack in support. People don't realize the shit that steam does now, Xfire was doing in 2001. You had in game chat, overlay, screenshots, video recording in-game, talking to people from other servers, one-click join (granted, Gamespy pioneered that, and maybe MS Gaming zone too) but it was way ahead of its time.Xfire died a slow, agonizing death and eventually all the guys I hung out with online switched to Steam in 2009. Which took years to catch up to what Xfire was doing nearly a decade prior.
>>537254230it's pretty nutty how early everything peaked. the enshitification of everything from every angle is truly dystopian. and fuck steam and fuck pc. i've gone back to snes and ps1 on crt. wish i could just cut the internet too but the system makes you use it.
>>537253302poor confused chilluns
>>537243298Genx wanna be boomers so bad its unreal.
>>537252887I used to play og DOOMat my friend's, he had a couple computers, and had a special boot disk to have them network together so we could play multiplayerI was getting laid off of internet efforts by 96comfy times
