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Did anyone else play through the N64 levels?

it just rhymes thats all

I never understood the whole "Boomer Shooter" phrase. It's not even intended as an insult, and covers everything from Wolfenstein 3D to Quake 2 and even beyond, depending on who you ask.

It makes no sense.

I was kind of making fun of the absurdity of the labels.  Like the whole "Boomer" thing.  Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964.  Most people using the "Boomer" label as an age insult are aiming it at Gen X'ers.  They say "Boomer Shooter" for games like Doom and Quake.  Sorry kids, the only Boomer Shooters were Korea and Vietnam.

well to clarify age wise i was thinking more of junior millennials than zoomers, people who started in working in earnest around 2008-2010 

You're both right to a degree.  It's not as simple as "All Zoomers are Twats" or "All Boomers Are Dull", as the malcontents of society would want people to think.  Nobody has to take a "side" on this.  There's plenty of toxicity in the gaming world without us turning on each other.  That's what the trolls would want us to do to "prove they're right".

I don't think we are referring to the same people. You think I'm talking about people genuinely concerned with real bigotry and I'm not . I'm referring to smug, malignant narcissists who make frivolous character attacks and false accusations of bigotry because they are drunk on an unearned sense of righteousness. I don't appreciate the stereotyping of gamers that way, i think it's mostly untrue and unfair i don't think the outrage from faux progressive game developers to be at all genuine, i think they are just lashing out at a consumer base that are rightfully disappointed by an increasingly disappointing product. You don't need to take it personally i didn't know you were on the cool kids when we started this.

You can lack charitability towards a corporate entity without resorting to dragging a group of people you disagree with -- a group of people which really has not impacted you, personally, in a negative way, unless you're a bigot and you dislike that it's not possible to be a bigot without being called out (which is good, btw) -- through the mud. That's just unnecessary.

well like i said, without a proper explanation which would have at least shown some respect for long time fans, I'm left to speculate and not inclined to be charitable in my speculation. A little transparency goes a long way.

There is plenty of reason to drag Epic Games, and any number of major corporations, though the mud. This ain't it.

Correlation is not causation.