It's fascinating, curious, and quite awakening. Members of Generation Y's eldest citizenry are approaching age thirty. It is humourous for me, a member of Gen X, to listen to them slump into their rocking chairs, shout at their wee children, and reminisce. Do I give the first fuck about what it was like when they used to love Eminem or dream of girls who looked like they walked straight out of the latest anime? No, not in the least. What does fascinate me is when these young lads look to the "good old days" and reminisce about how MMORPGs (e.g., WoW) used to be the absolute shee-it. The year was 2004 (or 2005 or 2006) and they had no cares or responsibilities other than homework and being prepared for raids. Then real life bit them on their 'was-there-really-life-before-the-internet?' asses. They got jobs, wives, mortgages, kids, in-laws, etc. I'm confident that taking a shit seemed better in the old, carefree days than it does now. Could this be a large part of why so many Gen Y twenty-somethings pine for yesteryear, when WoW was just better? I am going to say 'yes.'
As an "old" man, I simply sit back, laugh at these young dickheads, and I realise that maybe 1985 (much like 2005) wasn't truly the shit after all. At least now we can all legally drink together... and dream.
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