I saw a Joke somewhere about how autists dress like kids when they’re adults and like adults when they’re kids, kind of like Sheldon/Young Sheldon. The whole “millennial” ethos is gay and autistic.

“Edgy” stuff from millennial teen or tween years, such as FF7, Xenogears, and atheism itself, is no longer Cool btw.

N64: won the gen retroactively (not because of edgy duke nukem or wrestling)

Edgy adult PS1: Lost the gen retroactively

Marvel (except X-men, too badass). GameCube. Legos. You name it

Maybe the root cause is that anything that seemed Adult in the 90s was Gen X and therefore a disaster.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880521&forum_id=2Elisa#49985725)

Scumbags will be the last holdouts bc they don’t believe in Rides. They believe in driving. Enough miles to go around the world. Every single year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880521&forum_id=2Elisa#49985738)

For a prole childhood where Rides were extremely scarce, N64 was almost Engineered for the condition. You were only getting a few games anyway. The cheaper and much larger PS1 library sounds great in theory, but if you liked some of the more obscure offerings or JRPGs you probably needed toget to the mall, get to FuncoLand, rent often, trade, experiment, and build a library by motion. That is already a UMC logistics stack. That requires Rides. N64 on the other hand had the top 1% nuclear weapons, all available at wal mart. Mario 64. Ocarina in the Autumn and under the tree for Christmas. GoldenEye. Mario Kart. Star Fox.

PS1, btw, was Huge with the UMC in the 90s iirc. System Link Parties in bonus rooms. Kids who looked down on split-screens. Kids cultivating interest in Engineering (Gran Turismo) and liberal arts (MGS) while N64 kids gunned down dinosaurs with reckless abandon and played Hollywood Holocaust like they were rehearsing for something.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880521&forum_id=2Elisa#49985744)

This is false and my experience as a Millennial in the 90s tells me otherwise. In UMC households, it was commonplace to upgrade TVs every few years as the tech advanced. The old TVs would typically amass in childrens' bedrooms (or Bonus Rooms) where they played host to System Link multiplayer. System Link was huge with the UMC in the 90s. You knew you were in a PS1 household when the family ate dinner together and the mother would serve you lemonade on a hot summer day. (In N64 households IME, it was like anything goes. One minute you're playing Perfect Dark and the next you're doing the Stone Cold Stunner IRL, basically no discipline to speak of, parents often absent but when they came home it was like "oh s*** my friend is going to get yelled at or get his ass kicked for no reason haha," lots of tension but that wasn't an everyday thing. You can see how the opiate habits developed and it starts at home imho. Maybe I've gotten so partial to PS1 in recent years because N64 just brings back so many memories, that painful sort of nostalgia where you realize that a lot of those friends aren't around anymore, like a dozen of my own River Phoenixes snatched from this world before our time due to circumstances beyond their control. First the Republican caucus of Congress authorized military action against Afghanistan, then they looked the other way as the CIA resurrected the poppy fields in full view of the state department in order to fund the opposition in Venezuela as well as voter suppression at home, then they became obstructionists when it came to funding programs to fight the opiate epidemic that they caused. This led to a one-two punch that brought the (lower) middle class to its knees. With the benefit of hindsight, one has to wonder whether having the Taliban was preferable to rule by Republicans, at least in that region. Maybe then I would feel differently about the N64. Sorry for the rant but you have no idea how many friends I've lost. But I digress.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880521&forum_id=2Elisa#49985760)

Also, I hate to bring this up, but ime the N64 was popular with a certain low-brow cohort of gamers. When I looked at stuff like WWF Warzone or Turok, I would just smirk, say, "thanks but no thanks," and go back to what I thought was the exclusive province of top-tier games for the gen, i.e. the PS1. Now, there was a point where I fell in with a crowd who were big on FPSs like Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, and I'm friends with some of these types to this day, but I have to say it was jarring to play with four people on one screen. I thought at the time that it just meant that they couldn't afford multiple TVs (and perhaps I was right). I always preferred to System Link, which I would often do with friends in my neighborhood (decidedly upper-middle class). Anecdotally, many of my N64 friends have died from opiate overdoses or are working low-wage jobs, even if they have college degrees because they lack the necessary job interview skills. My PS1 friends are all UMC professionals with high incomes/GPAs but this speaks to the type of stratification we have in society that stacks the deck against the lower classes. This is not a value judgment per se, but just a fact of life and has informed my life-long commitment to the Democratic Party. To be clear, I never thought I was above playing with four people on one screen, I just mean that it wasn't for me, although I could tolerate it if I was among friends.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880521&forum_id=2Elisa#49985770)

In my neighborhood growing up which was decidedly UMC but not ostentatious (was filled with Preps) the default assumption was that serious multiplayer required separate Screens. We would System Link whenever possible, not because we were “too good” for splitscreen, but because we had been raised to understand that each player deserved a full field of vision and a private tactical horizon. This may sound minor, but these things matter developmentally.

Also just for more reference, I also lost a lot of friends to the Opiate crisis, but never fully made the connections to which cultural undercurrents were driving it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880521&forum_id=2Elisa#49985778)

I associate N64 with undercapitalized Kulaks. PS1 owned the UMC as well as a key demographic cohort among the lumpenproletariat (sull56ivan). Sony aligned its offerings with the K-shaped economy and was rewarded. Nintendo anachronistically tried to market itself to a 1980s pre-NAFTA middle class and got pwn3d. Yuppies in McMansions do not allow multiple children to crowd around one TV. Full stop. The end of the middle class was the End of Nintendo’s dominance imo (until nostalgic Losers staged a Renaissance during Coronavirus (peak Loser years)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880521&forum_id=2Elisa#49986018)