You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
it sounds like it came from a science fiction novel and i usually see it in marketing contexts
I'm never sure if the 20-year swaths that "generations" are placed into make any sense...
Well, the timing itself makes sense (at lest if you assume that people start getting good jobs and starting families around 20, which may not be all that true anymore), but it does tend to leave people born toward the end of one period and the beginning of another in a lurch because most of the people that "claimed" the generation are a good 10 years older or younger.
The first Boomers started being born in 1946. You can safely assume that by 1966-1968, they would be having children of their own (and indeed, that's when most of my cousins were born). But what about people born in, say, 1955-1963, people my mom's age? I imagine they didn't quite fit the boomer mold, either. My mom was in middle school when Vietnam imploded, and graduated high school two years before the war ended. Movies like The Big Chill (and even Boomer-bait like Forrest Gump, for that matter) covered people my aunts' and older uncles' ages, people in college in the late 1960s.
Most statements about "millennials" (a term that seems to mean whatever a given conservative talkhead wants it to mean) are generalizations intended to blame them for something, in my experience.
Tachyon: Indeed, I don't think any of the proclamations the sociological pundits have put forth about generations have ever applied to me. I didn't have Gen X's supposed disillusionment or an obsession with Seattle (I was listening to hair metal, adult contemporary and dance music in 1991-1992, dammit, and didn't even realize grunge was serious business until I heard about Kurt Cobain's death), and...well, I can't remember any of the things people have said about millennials, but I'm sure I'm not them, either.
If there was a place I was obsessed with in 9th grade, it was probably Cupertino, CA. :P Richmond, VA would have been a close second, since it seemed like it was so much more grown-up than Charlottesville, without being stifling like DC. Oh yeah, and the Staunton-Waynesboro, VA area, because reasons bluh.
Yup, Apple. We had a school full of Macs and Apple IIs, and I loved every minute of it. Also, I'd first used a Mac in late 1990 at UVa and had been obsessed with them ever since.
Charlottesville didn't have a lot of the stores that Richmond or even Staunton did, specifically Walmart. It seemed like it was kind of behind the times. (It's not now, though.) I always felt kind of envious of the big productions and promos the Richmond malls would run on Richmond TV, and I'd be like "All we get is boring old Fashion Square".
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
what was the best Richmond station?
speaking of Richmond TV, the Media General-Young merger was approved on Thursday by both the MG shareholders and the FCC and they want to close it on Tuesday
My favorite was always WXEX/WRIC, if only because it was the station we could receive the best with our broken antenna (we didn't have a mast for it). I also really liked WRLH. WWBT was decent, I never really cared much for WTVR unless we were watching CBS, and WVRN was an oddity that never really came in well enough for us to care about even when it was live.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Miko's Batsugun-related frustrations: no miss up to stage 5, then a plethora of really really stupid mistakes, then an okay second loop up to stage 4 (once again). Miko has yet to pass 2-4.
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you can make general statements about statistical trends, but they have to vary on a regional level
when i hear 'generation x like this, generation y like that' it makes me quite sceptical
with that, I will now go to bed. Goodnight, heap.
moo
Demo is a 500-tall alien monster with 400 arms and 6 eyes, she fights Godzilla on a daily basis and doesn't afraid of anything.