So regarding offensive names...

[TheMightyMollusk]

I mean with the boomer vs millennial thing, my years in handling customer service and dealing with complaints with 1000's of people across the country I can safely say. Millennials and boomers aren't anything special. You're all a mix of terrible and not-so-terrible people.

Having worked in retail for 18 years, including through holiday seasons; people are terrible when they think they can get away with it. Also I have Black Friday PTSD.

[SummonerSenah]

Having worked in retail for 18 years, including through holiday seasons; people are terrible when they think they can get away with it. Also I have Black Friday PTSD.

Same. But I will say that older folks are more likely to overuse the "I don't understand technology" when they need help with anything relating to electronics. If I got paid extra for every time I've heard "My phone is smart but I'm not" I might be rich.

[MrKusakabe]

This turns a bit off topic now, but yeah, what is the topic here after all?

Having worked in retail for 18 years, including through holiday seasons; people are terrible when they think they can get away with it. Also I have Black Friday PTSD.

12 years here, and 6 years as department manager. My personal observations and experiences (See, I already start to put in disclaimers, because someone might get offended already). The Millienials are far worse. They have no basic understanding of life and without their smartphones, they are helpless infants. "Siri, show me..." this, "Alexa, do ..." that. If they don'get Instagram likes they are "depressed", if they have to take criticism they are "tilted", if nobody Likes the image of their meal they just made and uploaded to the WWW they are "offended" and if they don't get a high sallary in their first years they are "discriminated". Sorry that I can't read your handwriting because you are used to type and swipe. Or a post that is longer than 160 characters - "Needs a TL;DR". Degeneration at its highest forms!

I don't know anyone over 40 that asks me what the difference of a regular detergent or the colour detergent is - with a Smartphone in their pockets to look for information. At the end of the day, they can't sleep because of permanent media consumption, Netflix, What'sApp, Snapchat that they are "burnt out" at the age of 35 because instead of slowing down their lives, they rather keep sleeping bad and compensate that with Starbucks coffee or intoxicate themselves with RedBull. If you ask them to put down the phone, they bring up the worst sentence every addict comes up with: "I could stop anytime". Heard that from smokers...

I have much, much more respect for the Pre-1990 generation than for the current "adults" for the reasons above. Dependent on smartphones and megacompanies.


Sincerely,

Born 1990.

[Jojoya]

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It's easy to blame TV, social media, etc. for the poor behavior of some people.

Where were their parents when this poor behavior was developing? Certainly the bad influence of social media has a role but parents being involved in their children's lives can counteract that influence. Too many parents passed on that responsibility.

There are good people in every generation. There are rotten people in every generation.

The one thing the older generation has to its advantage is the experience accumulated over time that brings understanding about the harmful effects hostile behavior and attitudes create while the younger generation brushes those things off as nbd. Even then, some members of the older generation never learn.

Judge a person by how they behave, not by their generation.

In a day and age where you can get a ban for using the /slap emote a couple times on someone because you were "harassing them", I am not surprised by anything. People get so hurt by literally anything in this game, you might think they have never experienced contact with other human being in their life or never learned how to control their precious, fragile emotions.

Sometimes it seriously sickens me how god damn whiny the average player here is.

Or you can just learn to stop being a jerk to others. Then there's no problem.

[FirstnameLastname]

Or you can just learn to stop being a jerk to others. Then there's no problem.

Ah, yes. Was waiting for this exact response. Glad you were so fast on this overused and void argument.

Literally anything will be taken as an offense nowadays. Calling someone a "he" in chat because that's likely the general assumption of many people? Straight to the gulag with you. Commenting on a glam in a way that is not "OMGOSH I LOVE THAT SO MUCHHHHHHHH"? Straight to the gulag as well. Even the slightest bit of constructive criticism is met with the classic "you dont pay my sub" attitude and a report. So, straight to gulag I might repeat. And I stress this again, someone got a ban for using an emote because someone else felt hurt in their bubble by it. Now you try not to laugh while you tell me this isn't a massive overreaction by whiny people that can not for the love of anything holy accept a differing opinion to their own. Go ahead.

[Saefinn]

Ah, yes. Was waiting for this exact response. Glad you were so fast on this overused and void argument.

Literally anything will be taken as an offense nowadays. Calling someone a "he" in chat because that's likely the general assumption of many people? Straight to the gulag with you. Commenting on a glam in a way that is not "OMGOSH I LOVE THAT SO MUCHHHHHHHH"? Straight to the gulag as well. Even the slightest bit of constructive criticism is met with the classic "you dont pay my sub" attitude and a report. So, straight to gulag I might repeat. And I stress this again, someone got a ban for using an emote because someone else felt hurt in their bubble by it. Now you try not to laugh while you tell me this isn't a massive overreaction by whiny people that can not for the love of anything holy accept a differing opinion to their own. Go ahead.

“Oh he was just...”
“It’s she...”
“Sorry, she was just...”

This is exactly how it normally goes. It happened to an FC mate when we did a E1S run, the guy kept referring to her as ‘he’ after she corrected him because this guy was very ‘dudebro’ and seemed to not be used to raiding with women? Absolutely nothing happened out of it. Nobody was offended and we just ran the content. People in my FC, myself included are very liberal, so I'd expect to see more of the stereotype?

Like an absolute minority would kick off about this. Literally the only time I’ve seen that happen was when I was handling a complaint from a customer and they were literally doing it to fish for compensation, because as they said themselves “but Amazon gave me compensation”. My experience of customer service is that customers will try any old crap to get compensation. Suffice to say I had more balls than Amazon customer support and still refused and...nothing happened, the guy got the message, no gulags. I have an offensive sense of humour, have yet to be thrown in a gulag and if it offends somebody, I apologise, adjust and move on.

I’ve also been on the receiving end of “you don’t pay for my sub” when I told a tank how to do mechanics. I’m not in a gulag. Added bonus we kicked him out of the party. Still no gulag.

I’ve complemented glamours. I’m not in a gulag. There was a thread where somebody was asking about how to compliment people’s glamours, the overwhelming consensus was “just don’t make it a flirt or be creepy”, which is not unreasonable. It is not the compliment that is the issue it’s the delivery and context.

I get that there are people who do overreact and kick off over very little, but they represent a much smaller number of people than you're implying with your very hyperbolic outlook.

It's also like the "did you just assume my gender" trope, I've never seen anybody trans or non-binary ever do anything like that. They'll just normally correct you or say nothing at all. Before I had facial hair, old people would mistake me for a lady because of my long hair and baby face (as my late teens and very earlier 20's), so I'd correct them or let it slide because, people are human and make mistakes, people misgender and in fairness most people tend to realise that and it's not actually a big deal. Normally people will then have a problem if your response is to double down. And either they choose to confront you about it, leave or ignore it. But as my life philosophy goes, mistakes happen, it's a question of what you do about it, not the fact you've made a mistake.

[DumdogsWorld]

I have much, much more respect for the Pre-1990 generation than for the current "adults" for the reasons above. Dependent on smartphones and megacompanies.

I was born in 1993 and I don't act like this at all.

But then again, I was the only kid I knew in high school who didn't own a cell phone, and didn't know what a meme was at the time.

I guess I always was, and always will be, a strange one. I hate cell phones, love desktop computers, despise most typical social media, like discussing on forums, and use my current cell phone without service as a MP3 player for my car.

[Omymy]

Amazing tale about my life that no one asked for.

Thanks for sharing another cool post about your life. We cant live without knowing such important information.

[DumdogsWorld]

Thanks for sharing another cool post about your life. We cant live without knowing such important information.

We could all technically live without visiting these forums, let alone knowing any of the information here.

A little bit of flavor text never hurt anyone, even if it is perceived by some as edgy. (And if a little rant on a forum does ruin somebody's day, then they may be taking the words of online strangers a bit too seriously!)