Hasbro Offers "Monopoly for Millennials," Which... Goofs on Millennials?

Apparently this is real.

But I don't think it's for Millennials.

I think it's for everyone else -- people who don't like Millennials.

Millennials are, get this, whining in outrage about someone having fun at their expense.

Here's a story about the game, and here's one of those unboxing videos. Just to prove this is real.

One change to classic monopoly is that you don't buy real estate -- because Millennials don't -- so you instead collect "experiences," like going to a "three day music festival" or sitting in the house all day binging Netflix.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 09:32 PM

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1 Ha!

Posted by: dIb at November 14, 2018 09:34 PM (VJOLZ)

2 hey

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:34 PM (dczB+)

3 BOOM!

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:35 PM (cfSRQ)

4 Millennials will someday rule the world.

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:35 PM (dczB+)

5 1st

Posted by: Hard hitting Media at November 14, 2018 09:35 PM (Xo3T0)

6 Maybe I need to excercise. Be right back.

Posted by: dIb at November 14, 2018 09:35 PM (VJOLZ)

7 Weevils are good at Monopoly.

Posted by: Ike Avenatti at November 14, 2018 09:36 PM (Tyii7)

8 Meep meep motherfuckers

Posted by: Nurse ratched at November 14, 2018 09:36 PM (PkVlr)

9 I'm racking up the top tens tonight!

Not getting shit done, but I can always reflect with pride that my widely-ignored comments came ahead of other, more witty ones.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:36 PM (cfSRQ)

10 Damn, not even a Zinc metal

Posted by: Hard hitting Media at November 14, 2018 09:36 PM (Xo3T0)

11 "Millennials are, get this, whining in outrage"

pretty much a complete topic on it's own.

Although I do know some damn good kids as well.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 14, 2018 09:36 PM (UsCnO)

12 Millennials will someday rule the world.

I'm glad I'll be dead.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 14, 2018 09:36 PM (dUJdY)

13 You can't be first, but you could be next!

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:36 PM (cfSRQ)

14 As someone who has to work with millennials, I will say this: out of ten, one or two are gems, the rest are fucking incompetent lazy twats.

Posted by: IC at November 14, 2018 09:37 PM (4lu7W)

15 Do not pass go...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 14, 2018 09:37 PM (iiixZ)

16 Who plays bored games anymore?

Posted by: Nuland Goodleaf, Herbologist at November 14, 2018 09:37 PM (hrcfq)

17 If you feel you are being trashed by a board game, maybe it isn't the board game's fault.

Posted by: dIb at November 14, 2018 09:37 PM (VJOLZ)

18 Bored game

Posted by: freaked at November 14, 2018 09:37 PM (UdKB7)

19 4
Millennials will someday rule the world.

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:35 PM (dczB+)

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Doubtful. Most will kill themselves before they can breed. Gen Z will send the survivors off to the camps.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:37 PM (cfSRQ)

20 Millennials will someday rule the world.
Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:35 PM (dczB+)

Millennials will someday adorn Lord Humungus' bumper.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 14, 2018 09:38 PM (t+qrx)

21 Boomers Rule

Millennials Drool

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:38 PM (dczB+)

22 As a millennial, I just wanna say -- stop hatin.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 14, 2018 09:38 PM (GBteo)

23 How long until they withdraw it with a groveling apology?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 09:39 PM (aKsyK)

24 16
Who plays bored games anymore?

Posted by: Nuland Goodleaf, Herbologist at November 14, 2018 09:37 PM (hrcfq)

Does cribbage count?
then yes.

15-2, 15-4, and there ain't no more. I never said I was good at it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 14, 2018 09:39 PM (UsCnO)

25 Is there a community chest?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (aKsyK)

26 Spin the bong?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (iiixZ)

27 Chutes and Ladders with the Grands FTW!

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (dczB+)

28 Millenials are why I have my ccw permit.

Posted by: morton at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (Dx7lV)

29 Pandemic is a great board game.

Fury of Dracula looks great too, but I can't find anyone dorky enough to play with me.

Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (PbpT7)

30 Although I do know some damn good kids as well.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 14, 2018 09:36 PM (UsCnO)

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Yeah, there are. It seems like you don't get mediocre with millenials. It goes from very good straight to RUFKM?

Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (ffYR/)

31 About 98 percent of the current US military are millennials.

Just in case that hadn't occurred to someone...

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (bZ7mE)

32

Heh. "Forget real estate, you can't afford it anyway."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (HaL55)

33 25 Is there a community chest?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (aKsyK)

Raises hand

Posted by: Stormy at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (dczB+)

34 Instead of "Chance" and "Community Chest" it has "Pre-determined outcome" and "FSA Payment"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2018 09:41 PM (hYcqw)

35 As a millennial, I just wanna say -- stop hatin.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 14, 2018 09:38 PM (GBteo)

As someone clinging to the skids of the last helicopter out of Gen X - join in the hatin', it's fun, and it makes you feel better about yourself to talk shit about other people.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 14, 2018 09:41 PM (t+qrx)

36 You willowed me! You Bastards!!!

I'll post it again in the ONT.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 14, 2018 09:41 PM (FEKn+)

37 Pandemic is a cooperative game (all players united against the game's "AI," so to speak), and Fury of Dracula is semi-cooperative (all but one player united against the one player playing Dracula).

Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 09:41 PM (PbpT7)

38 Ah , Harry

When you're the exception, just nod your head and join in the goofing. Millennials really are snowflakes.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at November 14, 2018 09:41 PM (PkVlr)

39 Mz. Cortex lands on Boardwalk....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 14, 2018 09:42 PM (iiixZ)

40

As a millennial, I just wanna say -- stop hatin.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 14, 2018 09:38 PM (GBteo)

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As a millennial, I just wanna say -- No.

Posted by: Avenatti at November 14, 2018 09:42 PM (5aX2M)

41 Off, Raging Bullshit sock

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2018 09:43 PM (5aX2M)

42 Obligatory: If "Real People" Commercials were Real Life - CHEVY Millennials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15iLHlJPp_0

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 14, 2018 09:43 PM (gHCnG)

43 19----Doubtful. Most will kill themselves before they can breed. Gen Z will send the survivors off to the camps.
Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:37 PM (cfSRQ)
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Gen Z?
If anything, they're worse.

I don't know why some people think otherwise.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 14, 2018 09:43 PM (Rxduq)

44 I love that it's all "experiences" instead of properties.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2018 09:43 PM (hYcqw)

45 31 About 98 percent of the current US military are millennials.

Just in case that hadn't occurred to someone...
Posted by: Grey Fox at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (bZ7mE)

Doesnt change the negative aspects of millennials.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 09:43 PM (2DOZq)

46 35
As a millennial, I just wanna say -- stop hatin.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 14, 2018 09:38 PM (GBteo)
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Hatred has made us powerful.

I hate to say it, but our only hope is that Gen Xers will go into full universal asshole mode and shock these limp-wristed twits into some sort of manhood.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:43 PM (cfSRQ)

47 My DIL is a Millennial. She's very Liberal in her politics.

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:44 PM (dczB+)

48 is there a snowflake game?

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at November 14, 2018 09:44 PM (XZ3Gp)

49 Go directly to Mixed public bathroom

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 14, 2018 09:44 PM (PUmDY)

50 CM that was something I had noticed too. Except there seem to be more of the RUFKM types. I do not know how these chuckleheads will survive without mommy and daddy.

Hope things are getting better for you!

Posted by: Cheribebe at November 14, 2018 09:44 PM (fnWQo)

51
Ever play Twixt?
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/949/twixt

I played it once. Beat my father. Never dared to play it again. Never saw the game again. It mysteriously disappeared.

Posted by: Nuland Goodleaf, Herbologist at November 14, 2018 09:45 PM (hrcfq)

52 Gen Z?
If anything, they're worse.

I don't know why some people think otherwise.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 14, 2018 09:43 PM (Rxduq)
+++++++++++
Gen Z is scary. They are *ultra* polarized. In my experience, the millenials are mostly on a spectrum of soft lib to hard lib, with a smattering of conservatives. Gen Z is more evenly split, between hard left and something that seems like it might be hard right, but I am not sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2018 09:45 PM (hYcqw)

53 Gen Z?

If anything, they're worse.

I don't know why some people think otherwise.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 14, 2018 09:43 PM (Rxduq)

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The ones around here are vicious. Their teachers fear them.

They grew up in the shadow of gender-fluid bullshit and are deeply cynical about ALL of it. Everything is a better joke. They're highly-caffinated Gen-Xers without the compassion.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:45 PM (cfSRQ)

54 Wait.
What is the current age range for "millennials?"
For Gen Z?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 14, 2018 09:46 PM (Rxduq)

55 oh, this would have been good for an Acosta thread

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8pz5zxh

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at November 14, 2018 09:47 PM (XZ3Gp)

56 Fury of Dracula looks great too, but I can't find anyone dorky enough to play with me.
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (PbpT7)

I read about Unlock! last year and it sounded cool, but none of the stores around here had it and I was on a "I'm buying local, not mail-ordering" kick, then I forgot about it.

If I'm being honest with myself, I probably couldn't anyone who would play it with me either.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 14, 2018 09:47 PM (t+qrx)

57 Maybe they just need a few more years to mature.

It could happen.

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:47 PM (dczB+)

58 As someone who has to work with millennials, I will
say this: out of ten, one or two are gems, the rest are fucking
incompetent lazy twats.

Posted by: IC
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Are we workmates?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2018 09:47 PM (9rIkM)

59 31
About 98 percent of the current US military are millennials.

Just in case that hadn't occurred to someone...

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (bZ7mE)

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Bullshit.
It's starting to trend, but not even close.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:48 PM (cfSRQ)

60 Dave Ramsey likes to say that the sharp millennials are great. I don't want the game to be bought by people making fun of "millennials" and then kids start playing it and actually pick up the notion that collecting "experiences" is the full measure of life success. Its true that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes everyone around him hate Jack after a short while.

Posted by: paleRider at November 14, 2018 09:48 PM (eASYU)

61 CM that was something I had noticed too. Except there seem to be more of the RUFKM types. I do not know how these chuckleheads will survive without mommy and daddy.

Hope things are getting better for you!
Posted by: Cheribebe at November 14, 2018 09:44 PM (fnWQo)

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Agreed on that. I don't know howsome of them can get themselves dressed.

Things are not, but thank you. Fresh day, fresh hope though.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 14, 2018 09:48 PM (ffYR/)

62 Millennials will someday rule the world.

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:35 PM (dczB+)

As long as they can do it from their parents' basements. And it's not too difficult. And they don't like have to think and stuff

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 14, 2018 09:48 PM (SiINZ)

63 'Your State Passes Medical Marijuana: Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200"

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 14, 2018 09:48 PM (oVJmc)

64 "whyyy is everyyything sooo HARRRDD ???"

Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 09:49 PM (LL1Be)

65 I guess that explains why no one in our office is under 48.

Posted by: Infidel at November 14, 2018 09:49 PM (SzQWn)

66 I'm a baby boomer barely. Wish I was a Gen X . Cooler name. Maybe I'll just add a couple of years to my birthdate.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 09:49 PM (2DOZq)

67 "maaaking funnn of meee is ILL EEE GULLLLL!!!"

Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 09:50 PM (LL1Be)

68 Rising ocean levels caused by global warming floods your co-op, go back 3 spaces

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 14, 2018 09:50 PM (2xR5z)

69 They're highly-caffinated Gen-Xers without the compassion.
Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:45 PM (cfSRQ)

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Good. Someone had better punish my generation, and my parent's generation, and it needs to be pitiless.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2018 09:50 PM (5aX2M)

70 Millenials are liberals, but worse than that, they are uninformed liberals. That is, they can't articulate just why the Democrats are so great and the Republicans are the worst. They also have almost no conception of history. Even the smart ones among them can't tell you who the US gained their Independence from, which decade of what century the Civil War was fought and who the Allies were in WW2. Hell, they can't even name ONE of The Beatles.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2018 09:50 PM (o1fzk)

71 Heh Grey Fox: If you are going with Rush's definition today of "born after 1982" that is probably getting close, but I'd still over 2% or over 36 years old.

Posted by: paleRider at November 14, 2018 09:51 PM (eASYU)

72 16 Who plays bored games anymore?

Posted by: Nuland Goodleaf, Herbologist at November 14, 2018 09:37 PM (hrcfq)

Board games are a thing now, especially with millennials. My 20-something nephew & his GF have a big collection & all their friends get together with them once a week and play. A good board game costs about as much as a video game.

Posted by: josephistan at November 14, 2018 09:51 PM (Izzlo)

73 Insensitive comments cause you to lose focus, skip a turn

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 14, 2018 09:51 PM (2xR5z)

74 re 71: Damnit. I would still SAY over 2% of military are 36 years or older.

Posted by: paleRider at November 14, 2018 09:52 PM (eASYU)

75 they can't even name ONE of The Beatles.
Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2018 09:50 PM (o1fzk)

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul and Ringo?

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:52 PM (dczB+)

76 "talk abbbbout sommmething elssse. I'MMM SOOO BORRRED!!"

Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 09:52 PM (LL1Be)

77 53 Gen Z?

If anything, they're worse.

I don't know why some people think otherwise.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 14, 2018 09:43 PM (Rxduq)

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The ones around here are vicious. Their teachers fear them.

They grew up in the shadow of gender-fluid bullshit and are deeply cynical about ALL of it. Everything is a better joke. They're highly-caffinated Gen-Xers without the compassion.
Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:45 PM (cfSRQ)

So, Red Guards?

Posted by: rickl at November 14, 2018 09:52 PM (sdi6R)

78

Millenials are liberals, but worse than that, they are uninformed
liberals. That is, they can't articulate just why the Democrats are so
great and the Republicans are the worst. They also have almost no
conception of history. Even the smart ones among them can't tell you who
the US gained their Independence from, which decade of what century the
Civil War was fought and who the Allies were in WW2. Hell, they can't
even name ONE of The Beatles.

So, the plan worked?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 14, 2018 09:52 PM (HaL55)

79
Your properties are seized by eminent domain for peanuts so Beto's FIL can build on them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2018 09:52 PM (LsBY9)

80 Bullshit.
It's starting to trend, but not even close.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:48 PM (cfSRQ)

What?

Millennial is an age range, dude. Anyone born between 1980 and maybe 1995 or so. That means most of the people currently active apart from senior officers and maybe some very recent recruits are technically millennials.

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 14, 2018 09:52 PM (bZ7mE)

81 Wymen's Weekly publishes your thesis on intersectionality and cats, collect $10,000!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 14, 2018 09:52 PM (2xR5z)

82 66--I feel your pain. I was born in '62, so technically a Boomer on fumes, but I've always been more Gen X.
Whether that's good or bad, I haven't figured out yet.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2018 09:53 PM (o1fzk)

83 "Hasbro"

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Isn't that a little sexist?

Posted by: gastorgrab at November 14, 2018 09:53 PM (u6OFe)

84 64 "whyyy is everyyything sooo HARRRDD ???"

Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 09:49 PM (LL1Be)

My best friend had to sell his rental property because he had enough of the millennials he rented to calling him all the time asking him how to work a washing machine or change a light bulb

Posted by: josephistan at November 14, 2018 09:53 PM (Izzlo)

85 This is interesting, Mia Love may get enough love from her voters after all.

BREAKING: #UT04 Rep. Mia Love (R) narrowly wins latest batch of votes from Salt Lake Co., narrowing Ben McAdams (D)'s lead form 1,227 to 873. This makes her the favorite to prevail, once more Utah Co. votes are counted.

4:08 PM - Nov 14, 2018

She's no Trump supporter, but at least not a guaranteed Demo Globalist vote.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 14, 2018 09:53 PM (UsCnO)

86 Go to your safe space, do not pass Go or stop to protest, go directly to your safe space.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 14, 2018 09:53 PM (gNCcC)

87 "Hasbro"

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Isn't that a little sexist?

"Hassiere" ?

Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 09:54 PM (LL1Be)

88 87 "Hasbro"

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Isn't that a little sexist?

"Hassiere" ?
Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 09:54 PM (LL1Be)

Has-xer

Posted by: josephistan at November 14, 2018 09:54 PM (Izzlo)

89 Heh Grey Fox: If you are going with Rush's definition today of "born after 1982" that is probably getting close, but I'd still over 2% or over 36 years old.

I was going with 1980, which makes me a really old millennial.

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 14, 2018 09:54 PM (bZ7mE)

90

I was also gonna add that, IIRC, it was Nikita Kreuschev who said, "Your granchildren will be socialists" back in the '50's or 60's.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 14, 2018 09:54 PM (HaL55)

91
Is Dungeons & Dragons a board game?
Didn't you once have to go out into the real world of university steam tunnels and find stuff? Or was that a different game?

Posted by: Nuland Goodleaf, Herbologist at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (hrcfq)

92 Good. Someone had better punish my generation, and my parent's generation, and it needs to be pitiless.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2018 09:50 PM (5aX2M)

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Millennials are old enough to remember when gays were a pick-on and downtrodded minority who only wanted to have the same marriage and love as anyone else.

The Gen Z crowd have only known "BAKE ME A CAKE, SLAVE!" and they don't much care for it. They see simple statements like "It's okay to be white" being denounced and calls for genocide on white men and they wonder WTF?

My kids straddle the line and it's interesting seeing the Z crowd and watching them. They literally do not give a shit what you think. The Milennials are all about winning approval and were very well behaved.

Z? Not so much. I'm assuming they get a lot of their moxie from their angry Gen X parents who have had it up to here with all this bullshit.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (cfSRQ)

93 Has anyone ever tried to get on the Price is Right? It is going to be at the Fox here and I just want to attend and wear a funny tee shirt.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (PUmDY)

94 As an old fart I have to ask what is a millennial? My youngest grandchild is 7. If he is a millennial do I need to sacrifice him on the alter of Abraham? Or should I reload more ammo? I am old and easily confused. Help, help!

Posted by: colfax mingo at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (tCvhJ)

95 Most of the guys who fought in 'Nam were Boomers. It's just a circumstance of birth, But we associate Boomers with the Hippies and Woodstock and all that.

Trump is a Boomer. Probably the last who were ever be elected President.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (o1fzk)

96 I've already met some real Gen Z'ers. They are different.

Posted by: ... at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (uEbPt)

97 Even the smart ones among them can't tell you who the US gained their Independence from, which decade of what what century the
Civil War was fought and who the Allies were in WW2. Hell, they can't
even name ONE of The Beatles.

What do they know? They must know something - be able to do something.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (pb2K/)

98 Posted by: Ike Avenatti

300 quatloos for the first moron who thought this up. Who was it?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (ykYG2)

99 Conservative moves in next door, and you need a fence! Borrow $5,000 or sell one empty Craft Brewery growler.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (2xR5z)

100 > About 98 percent of the current US military are millennials.

Nah. If you join the military, get a real job, become a responsible parent, or do any of a number of other things that count as "adulting", you cease to be a millennial.

I love all the people on Twatter who are calling Hasbro "has-beens", saying that "no one wanted this", and so on.

The game is sold out, yo. It's pretty clear that a bunch of people DID want this.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (vOkuK)

101 This looks great:

ttps://tinyurl.com/Alita-Battle-Angel-Trailer-3

Posted by: Sharkman at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (BfOXk)

102 The Price is WRONG, bitch!

Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (LL1Be)

103 I am so getting this for my daughter for Christmas.

I have nothing to lose since she hates me anyway.

At least I can get a chuckle out of her response.

Posted by: SMH at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (xrkn1)

104 Hasbro before Hashos.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (2DOZq)

105 CM I will keep you in my prayers.

Things seem to have really gone into the shitter these last couple of months for a lot of folks, me included. Mercury musta been *retrograde* or some shit!
Prayers for winds of positive change to come thru soon!!

Posted by: Cheribebe at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (fnWQo)

106 I have a Ghettopoly game. Does this make me a racist?

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (bML9A)

107 If you take it out of the box, it's no longer a collectable!

Posted by: A Millennial at November 14, 2018 09:57 PM (oVJmc)

108 Trump is a Boomer. Probably the last who were ever be elected President.
Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (o1fzk)

He's probably the last Republican to be elected President. The Democrats have this cheating thing down to a science.

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:57 PM (dczB+)

109 Things seem to have really gone into the shitter these last couple of months for a lot of folks, me included.

Tell me about it!

Good luck to you and yours, Cheribabe.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 14, 2018 09:57 PM (ykYG2)

110 I'm waiting for Operation for Millenials. You get to remove the dick and then it's a chick.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 14, 2018 09:57 PM (HJhxx)

111 My father has been teaching school for 38 years now and he says that the current crop of highschool students are far more postmodern than in previous years.

I'm not pinning my hopes on them just yet.

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 14, 2018 09:58 PM (bZ7mE)

112 > Didn't you once have to go out into the real world of university steam tunnels and find stuff?

That was the news media version of the game.

In other words, bullshit.

Yeah, there are people who enjoy exploring steam tunnels, ruined buildings, and stuff like that, but there's no direct connection between that hobby and D&D.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 14, 2018 09:58 PM (vOkuK)

113 Brief interruption: This is good don't let the title fool you.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yb5nysmy
It goes back to the Song Dynasty, the Roman Empire, the social compact and how
Mao's Cultural revolution tore it up.

He works China's economics into it but it applies to what's going on here too.

Force vs Power

Posted by: Braenyard at November 14, 2018 09:58 PM (pb2K/)

114 'Luxury tax?' What's a 'tax?'

Posted by: A Millennial at November 14, 2018 09:58 PM (oVJmc)

115 I have a Ghettopoly game. Does this make me a racist?

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (bML9A)

If you're white, the answer is always yes

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 14, 2018 09:58 PM (SiINZ)

116 And yell wrong numbers

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 14, 2018 09:58 PM (PUmDY)

117 My grandchildren (3 and 5) are Gen Z.

Their mom is a millennial. Who thinks I'm evil.

*smiles*

At least they still love me.

Posted by: SMH at November 14, 2018 09:58 PM (xrkn1)

118 Z? Not so much. I'm assuming they get a lot of their moxie from their angry Gen X parents who have had it up to here with all this bullshit.
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I was going to say this. From observation I would say the youngest millenials are probably 20 or so. I have met the stereotypes and it is scary.

It is obviously a total generalization, but there is a stark contrast to Gen Z that almost gives me hope for this forsaken world.

Posted by: ... at November 14, 2018 09:58 PM (uEbPt)

119 CM I will keep you in my prayers.

Things seem to have really gone into the shitter these last couple of months for a lot of folks, me included. Mercury musta been *retrograde* or some shit!
Prayers for winds of positive change to come thru soon!!
Posted by: Cheribebe at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (fnWQo)

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Thank you Cherie. I appreciate it.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 14, 2018 09:59 PM (ffYR/)

120

What do they know? They must know something - be able to do something.

Call Mommy.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 14, 2018 09:59 PM (HaL55)

121 No one has fixed dates for this.
But if "millennials" are born circa 1982-1995, they'd range from about 23 to 36.
Generation Z is supposedly born c. 1995-2010.

So our current students (HS and college) are Gen Z.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 14, 2018 09:59 PM (Rxduq)

122 CM I will keep you in my prayers.

Things seem to have really gone into the shitter these last couple
of months for a lot of folks, me included. Mercury musta been
*retrograde* or some shit!

Prayers for winds of positive change to come thru soon!!

Posted by: Cheribebe

..............
Prayers for all y'all..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 14, 2018 09:59 PM (438dO)

123 110 I'm waiting for Operation for Millenials. You get to remove the dick and then it's a chick.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 14, 2018 09:57 PM (HJhxx)

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No, actually you complain on Twitter and get the government to remove the dick.

Posted by: ... at November 14, 2018 10:00 PM (uEbPt)

124 I'm a millennial and the news of this game has been cracking me up all day. Are people getting triggered just BECAUSE? Can NPCs not go just one day without NPC-ing?

Posted by: Velveteen Mongoose at November 14, 2018 10:00 PM (4YHTV)

125

What do they know? They must know something - be able to do something.

Check email.

Take selfies.

Eat vegan.

Cry.

Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 10:00 PM (LL1Be)

126 I'm a Millennial but this is funny and accurate. But I'd like to see a Boomer Monopoly.

Along with property you would collect pieces of the culture their generation destroyed like Divorces and Loser Kids Moving Back Home After College. There would be a new feature that added trillions to the national debt, as you collect your money then at the end of the game when you're dead, your debts come crashing down on the future generations.

There can also be a card for the JFK assassination that sends all Boomers into an emotional tailspin*

*just a note, I'm not goofing on his death, it was horrible, I get it, but the way Boomers, even conservative ones like my inlaws, idolize the guy is odd. He was not a good president. Sorry not sorry.

Posted by: JessiP at November 14, 2018 10:00 PM (PsdJu)

127 Millennials will someday rule the world.

Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:35 PM (dczB+)

Only if there is an app for it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 14, 2018 10:00 PM (SiINZ)

128 109 thanks!
How are you doing BTH? On the mend, eating and drinking and poopin?!

Posted by: Cheribebe at November 14, 2018 10:00 PM (fnWQo)

129 Ha! Just heard this on "SEAL Team" - 'My memory's wiped cleaner than Clinton's hard drive'

Posted by: josephistan at November 14, 2018 10:00 PM (Izzlo)

130 Someone brought up the Price is Right. But did you know that that's where Vanna White was discovered? She was a contestant and she was wearing a tight tee-shirt.
Of course Horn dog Bob Barker was leering at her and making comments.
It's all on You Tube

Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2018 10:01 PM (o1fzk)

131 > No, actually you complain on Twitter and get the government to remove the dick.

You mean it's not already covered by Obamacare? What if I wear my footy pajamas to the appointment?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 14, 2018 10:01 PM (vOkuK)

132 He's probably the last Republican to be elected President. The Democrats have this cheating thing down to a science.
Posted by: ALH at November 14, 2018 09:57 PM (dczB+)

Hell, they've turned it into an industry.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at November 14, 2018 10:01 PM (T71PA)

133 ...you don't buy real estate... you instead collect "experiences...."

Arrhh. That's all I needed to read.

I will not participate in this patently obvious click-bait shenanigan attempting to sap my kundalini.

I'm saving myself for the overnightie.

💋

Posted by: mindful webworker's unclear on the concept at November 14, 2018 10:01 PM (Wql2z)

134 92
The Gen Z crowd have only known "BAKE ME A CAKE, SLAVE!" and they don't much care for it. They see simple statements like "It's okay to be white" being denounced and calls for genocide on white men and they wonder WTF?
Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (cfSRQ)

1. That's good to hear.

B. The backlash is going to be ugly as hell, but very, very necessary.

Posted by: rickl at November 14, 2018 10:01 PM (sdi6R)

135 They should replace all the pieces (shoe, iron, etc.) with NPC figures.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 14, 2018 10:01 PM (4ErVI)

136
What?

Millennial is an age range, dude. Anyone born between 1980 and maybe
1995 or so. That means most of the people currently active apart from
senior officers and maybe some very recent recruits are technically
millennials.

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 14, 2018 09:52 PM (bZ7mE)

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Heh. "Dude."

There's a number of ways to break them down, but the original understanding (from the book that gave them the name "Gen X" was that they were the children of the Baby Boomers. So that pushes the date backwards.

I've also seen the 1965-80 figure used, but that makes a generation of only 15 years, when most are given as 20.

Either way, there's kind of a gray area and one of the defining elements is computers and the internet. Also social media.

I tend to think of Millennials as late 80s reaching adulthood at "the millennium." (Hence the name).

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 14, 2018 10:01 PM (cfSRQ)

137 Or should I reload more ammo? I am old and easily confused. Help, help!

Posted by: colfax mingo at November 14, 2018 09:55 PM (tCvhJ)

You are not confused at all, you know exactly what you should do.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 14, 2018 10:01 PM (UsCnO)

138 Where do you even go to see millenials? Bowling alleys?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 14, 2018 10:01 PM (HJhxx)

139 Our ONT overfloweth with content

Posted by: me at November 14, 2018 10:02 PM (KnCGv)

140 I don't know what generation or generations text while driving but whichever it is should be banned from society.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 10:02 PM (2DOZq)

141 Where do you even go to see millenials? Bowling alleys?

They do not leave home.

Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 10:02 PM (LL1Be)

142 Is Dungeons Dragons a board game?

Didn't you once have to go out into the real world of university steam tunnels and find stuff? Or was that a different game?

Posted by: Nuland Goodleaf, Herbologist
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A bunch of us old farts still play DD... rules version 1

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 14, 2018 10:03 PM (438dO)

143 Only if there is an app for it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 14, 2018 10:00 PM (SiINZ)

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I once gave a (quite stereotypical) millennial a very straightforward assignment with very specific instructions. Should have taken about four hours. He came back to me the next day with it barely started and told me he had a question about it.

His question was he wanted to know if there was an easier way.

No bs.

Posted by: ... at November 14, 2018 10:03 PM (uEbPt)

144 Nah. If you join the military, get a real job, become a responsible parent, or do any of a number of other things that count as "adulting", you cease to be a millennial.

So "millennial" is just an insult without meaning now.

Kind of like the way "beta male" went from being a quasi-sociological designation for about 80 percent of the male population - i.e., virtually everyone not a politician, rock star, or serial killer - to an insult meaning "unmanly."

I'll bear that in mind.

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 14, 2018 10:03 PM (bZ7mE)

145 Is there a community chest?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2018 09:40 PM (aKsyK)

Michele Obama says, "no".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2018 10:03 PM (fDU8w)

146 >>>112 > Didn't you once have to go out into the real world of university steam tunnels and find stuff?

That was the news media version of the game.

In other words, bullshit.

Yeah, there are people who enjoy exploring steam tunnels, ruined buildings, and stuff like that, but there's no direct connection between that hobby and D&D.

...

nah, part of that story was true. College students were going down into the tunnels to play D and D.

The bullshit part was about a student who "got so lost in D and D he went down into the tunnels to kill himself" or to "never be seen again."

Dude was like gone for 12 or 14 hours. There was some mundane explanation. But it got blown up into a media panic and then was the inspiration for a book called Mazes and Monsters which would be made into a TV movie starring Tom Hanks and Chris Makepeace.

Posted by: ace at November 14, 2018 10:03 PM (PbpT7)

147 As a Gen X'er, We have little influence, since most of us have been aborted.

But those of us that made it through the gauntlet, I have to admit, I'm going to enjoy my life regardless what the boomers or millennials do.

And I'm going to do my utmost to ensure that Gen Z does not travel the primrose path.

I'm just sorry I was unable to do the same with my millennial kids.

Posted by: SMH at November 14, 2018 10:03 PM (xrkn1)

148 Mz. Cortex lands on Boardwalk....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 14, 2018 09:42 PM (iiixZ)

Broadwalk. It's like Slutwalk, but with better boobies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 14, 2018 10:05 PM (fDU8w)

149 Conservative Boomers don't idolized JFK.
There are jokes about him in conservative circles that cannot be writ on these pages.

The POS would have been booted out of service if not for his dad.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 14, 2018 10:05 PM (pb2K/)

150 105
Things seem to have really gone into the shitter these last couple of months for a lot of folks, me included. Mercury musta been *retrograde* or some shit!
Prayers for winds of positive change to come thru soon!!
Posted by: Cheribebe at November 14, 2018 09:56 PM (fnWQo)

Hi, Cheribebe. I'm sorry to hear things haven't been going well.

Posted by: rickl at November 14, 2018 10:05 PM (sdi6R)

151 121
No one has fixed dates for this.

But if "millennials" are born circa 1982-1995, they'd range from about 23 to 36.

Generation Z is supposedly born c. 1995-2010.

So our current students (HS and college) are Gen Z.

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So, just like Florida election laws. No fixed dates.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 14, 2018 10:05 PM (UsCnO)

152 What would 68 be?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 14, 2018 10:05 PM (PUmDY)

153 Funny movie about interaction between Gen X and millennials is The Internship. Underrated movie IMHO.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 10:06 PM (2DOZq)

154 I'm way older than a millennial, and I know what a soft life I had.

Compared to kids growing up in the Depression? WWII? I got off way easy.

BUT AT LEAST I KNOW THAT, and can recognize that.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 14, 2018 10:06 PM (oVJmc)

155 Agreed on that. I don't know how some of them can get themselves dressed.

I work all over STL and find that most can't do better than pajamas.

Posted by: Ex-ex at November 14, 2018 10:06 PM (2TSL3)

156 Put out an ad for a new dispatcher for the towing company that I run in Seattle.

First resume was from a person of indeterminate gender (by name) who, right after their name on the resume put this:

"Pronouns: Ze/Hir and They/Them"

I held my breath at that and looked at the bottom of the resume to see where Ze/Hir was "educated", already knowing what I would read:

"Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA".

Being sane, I quietly round-filed the resume.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 14, 2018 10:06 PM (BfOXk)

157 And I'm going to do my utmost to ensure that Gen Z does not travel the primrose path.

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Posted by: SMH at November 14, 2018 10:03 PM (xrkn1)

Thank you

Posted by: Braenyard at November 14, 2018 10:07 PM (pb2K/)

158 149
Conservative Boomers don't idolized JFK.

There are jokes about him in conservative circles that cannot be writ on these pages.

The POS would have been booted out of service if not for his dad.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 14, 2018 10:05 PM (pb2K/)

I was 8 when JFK went to Dallas. My Catholic mother cried for days.
It was a different time. Now JFK would be considered a Reagan Republican.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 14, 2018 10:07 PM (UsCnO)

159 what is this Stan Against Evil and why have I never heard of it before? Seems funny.

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at November 14, 2018 10:07 PM (XZ3Gp)

160 Hi rickl!!!

How you doing, treatments getting positive results?

Posted by: Cheribebe at November 14, 2018 10:08 PM (fnWQo)

161 Newd.

Ho In Tee

Posted by: mikeyG at November 14, 2018 10:08 PM (LL1Be)

162 rickl, the Girl from North Country play is excellent.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 14, 2018 10:09 PM (PUmDY)

163 Like I always say on these threads, every generation has its share of heroes and zeroes. 'Twas ever thus.

Posted by: rickl at November 14, 2018 10:09 PM (sdi6R)

164 Last year my sister's 14 year old got in a little fight on the bus (ok, he was bored and antagonizing the other kid) and while they were wrestling arms with each other, ended up accidentally hitting the side of the kid's face. Although he was in the wrong, it WAS accidental - and all on bus videotape.

The kid's mom called and complained to the school that he had been "assaulted".

Sister's kid said "He was 'assaulted'? What is wrong with our society?"

So maybe it's just him but I'm betting a lot of them can see through the bullshit.

Posted by: ... at November 14, 2018 10:09 PM (uEbPt)

165 Posted by: Sharkman at November 14, 2018 10:06 PM (BfOXk)

Gebuz.

Posted by: Infidel at November 14, 2018 10:09 PM (SzQWn)

166 Now a days JFK would be considered a Clinton.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 14, 2018 10:09 PM (pb2K/)

167 149--conservative Boomers don't idolize JFK, but we do like to point out to liberals how conservative JFK was compared to Democrats today.
It makes their heads explode.

(just like JFK himself)

Posted by: JoeF. at November 14, 2018 10:10 PM (o1fzk)

168 Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 14, 2018 10:11 PM (PUmDY)

169 160 Hi rickl!!!

How you doing, treatments getting positive results?
Posted by: Cheribebe at November 14, 2018 10:08 PM (fnWQo)

It seemed to be going well for awhile, but the last CAT scan wasn't so good. The original tumor has grown, and there is a new one in the same lung that wasn't there before. I'm supposed to get another CAT scan next week, and the doctor may change my treatment depending on the results.

On the bright side, I had an MRI of my brain that was OK.

Posted by: rickl at November 14, 2018 10:12 PM (sdi6R)

170 152 What would 68 be?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 14, 2018 10:05 PM (PUmDY)

Baby Boomer. 1946 to 1964

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 10:13 PM (2DOZq)

171 166 Now a days JFK would be considered a Clinton.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 14, 2018 10:09 PM (pb2K/)

With a drug problem.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at November 14, 2018 10:14 PM (2DOZq)

172 111 My father has been teaching school for 38 years now and he says that the current crop of highschool students are far more postmodern than in previous years.

I'm not pinning my hopes on them just yet.
Posted by: Grey Fox at November 14, 2018 09:58 PM (bZ7mE)
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I have been teaching at the college level damned near that long --- (which is odd, given that I am only 29) --- and I somewhat agree with your father.
I say "somewhat" only because I would drop the "far."

One difference I do see between those born c.1985-1995 and GenZers is that the former can actually remember a world in which social media and smart phones didn't exist.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 14, 2018 10:16 PM (Rxduq)

173 172
One difference I do see between those born c.1985-1995 and GenZers is that the former can actually remember a world in which social media and smart phones didn't exist.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 14, 2018 10:16 PM (Rxduq)

Now that's a scary sentence.

Posted by: rickl at November 14, 2018 10:20 PM (sdi6R)

174 If boomers are up to 1964, what is 1968?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 14, 2018 10:21 PM (PUmDY)

175 My Generation is the best.

Posted by: Who at November 14, 2018 10:21 PM (5jVnA)

176 My daughter is at the tail end of the Millennial generation. She says most of them simply can't handle anything and they breakdown at the slightest criticism. She had to tell one girl who was cracking up because of job stress, "I'll tell you what my parents told me, life isn't fair and suck it up." Shockingly the girl found that helpful. They've simply been raised to where everything was supposed to be fair and easy.

Posted by: WOPR at November 14, 2018 10:27 PM (J70i0)

177 If boomers are up to 1964, what is 1968?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at November 14, 2018 10:21 PM (PUmDY)

Welcome to the GenX club. Stuck between Boomer destruction and their incompetent offspring, the Millennials. We have to hold on for GenZ. They are at least splitting between Republicans and Democrats.

Posted by: WOPR at November 14, 2018 10:30 PM (J70i0)

178 They are still counting votes in California without any oversight. FU cheating, lying, Dem Scum!

Posted by: redridinghood at November 14, 2018 10:32 PM (hECVl)

179 I heard about this on Rush today, and immediately rushed out to buy it...kinda hard to find. Only one store in my area had some.

Posted by: Vermont Avenue at November 14, 2018 10:37 PM (Fxvnj)

180 Glad to see some love here for board games.

I love games but have trouble finding others to play against/with.

Saddest of all, I have two games I got through Kickstarter (Skyway Robbery and Black Orchestra). Two years later, neither has yet to hit a table for real.

Some day. ...

Posted by: Weak Geek is scared of Axis & Allies at November 14, 2018 10:46 PM (woEOf)

181 @127 --

Threadwinner!!

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 14, 2018 10:53 PM (woEOf)

182 159
what is this Stan Against Evil and why have I never heard of it before? Seems funny.

It's a lame ripoff of Ash vs. The Evil Dead. Which actually is funny, unlike Stan Against Evil (and I happen to like John C. McGinley).

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at November 14, 2018 11:02 PM (3W5SM)

183 you've already had like $14 trillion at our expense, can we stop yet

Posted by: dw at November 15, 2018 12:38 AM (stPAM)

184 45
Sometimes I want to run
mind is chaos
body's numb
I have to close my mouth
in case the truth comes out

Don't speak,
don't feel
don't breathe
and don't be deciding

Just swallow the knifes
infect life with lies that you hide
That's how you survive...
it's not in our collective nature.. like the silent generation, we become overwhelmed by the environments around us and it throws us off track. All the 'successes' I used to know (waxy pancakes) bailed out early as they achieved what they had intended and unlike the boomers or millennials never wanted a public award for it, the sheer recognition of. They achieved their goals and retired.

as for the rest of us...

Hey Mom, Hey Dad

The story went
round the burning wheels of faith
it pays the rent

Hey sister, Hey brother

I had to choose
choose between the win and lose

but what's the use?

Will success fail me?

Will it make me free?

What they tell me I should want?

Is it what I need?

Come March come April

Come May and June

Let the pounding seconds go

There's nothing I can do
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we've got the curse of pluralityidealistically cynicalcheerfully depressednostalgic for the future
we'd rather be a fishmalk of the old gen than the alleged political intrigue of the new.

the most people can expect out of us in the coming decades is memoirs and essays when boomers die and millennials blast thru their life insurance payouts because they're still in debt, having created a worldwide avocado and toast shortage on payday loans, inevitably crashing the market and forcing society to reinvest in the arts and aesthetic senses again... we'll arise in the death rattle of the postmodernism movement, raising a glass to the new world order gen z created and the path they've allowed us in the public parks after dark.. only lit by the glowing ambers of our clove cigarettes and the soft faint moaning of rough trade and other art house lyrics.

Posted by: Iguana Bondage at November 15, 2018 05:25 AM (nhFG3)

185 Interesting, but I think this covers more than millennials. Most millennials would be in their 30s and grew up without the internet for their formative years. The younger millennials born in the 90s might fit the mold a little better.

Or maybe it all has to do with parenting and not the year in which you were born.

Either way, a board game is a board game. Some of it is a bit on the nose - real estate is getting more expensive and less affordable (starter homes? Lol). Even rentals are getting higher. A lot of the places I've seen are the same amount as a mortgage.

Posted by: soulpile at November 15, 2018 08:44 AM (wJAJb)

186 The game seems to be implying that all millenials are snowflakes. The reactions to it seem to confirm that view.

Posted by: jdgalt at November 15, 2018 03:25 PM (3SFo/)

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