>young americans spending much less on gaming this year
And this is with the Switch 2's big launch. Why is the video game industry dying?

they have no money

“Goyim? The sales data is… a little troubling. Where did our loyal, precious goyim go?”

It’s fucking creepy and illegal to track people like this

>>714386368 (OP)
None of the broccoli zoomers want to end up looking like those faggots in that image. Laudable, really.

>>714386368 (OP)
we spend all our money on groceries and have like $10 left over to spend on old shit on sale on steam

>>714386368 (OP)
man they really love painting men who enjoy hobbies as absolute losers

>>714386631
anything a man does that isn't providing for tyrone's babies and paying taxes that go towards israel is cringe and childish.

Obviously the solution to this is to resurrect once beloved dead IPs for the nostalgia draw and then turn them into microtransaction-filled GAAS slop.

Low quality control in multiple major releases has decreased consumer confidence. Publishers actually picked a pretty stupid time to try and increase prices.

>>714386368 (OP)
But that a good thing; videogames are just the new television: a mindless, braindead consumerist timewaster.

>>714386368 (OP)
>younger americans
>posts a picture of balding men in their 30's
Huh?

>>714386556
ironic since they are the loneliest and most sex deprived generation (so far)

>>714389072
>videogames are just the new television: a mindless, braindead consumerist timewaster.
unc was in a coma for 40 years.

>>714389072
No that's being on social media. You know that thing you're doing right now

>>714386368 (OP)
Maybe if young Americans were paid a proper wage they could afford to buy things instead of living paycheck to paycheck with massive debt

>>714390205
No, I'm talking about videogames. They're this century's consumerist slaver.

>>714386368 (OP)
they’re too busy watching niggers on tiktok

>>714390481
we get it you hate men doing anything enjoyable and want them to die in ww3.

>>714386368 (OP)
imagine the smell

The industry knows its only boomers buying the AAA single player games and thats why they upped the price to 80 bucks. As they now have a smaller market but are charging that smaller market more money to make up for it. Like this pic here. Its boomers who will be buying all these AAA games

>That's according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, which used data from market research company Circana to analyze the spending habits of young Americans.

>While spending was down 13% across the board from January to April 2025 for 18- to 24-year-olds — particularly on accessories, technology, and furniture, which fell by 18%, 14%, and 12%, respectively — video game spending saw the largest fall. This is not a trend observed in older age groups.

>Spending also dropped in the categories of prestige beauty, clothing and apparel, and sports equipment.


>The WSJ posits that "a combination of economic challenges is driving the decline," with graduates struggling to find employment and credit card delinquency rates highest for 18- to 29-year-olds.

>"Young grads are having a much tougher time finding jobs," the report reads. "Student-loan payments are restarting for millions of borrowers. Over roughly the past year, credit-card delinquency rates have risen to their highest points since before the pandemic, and are highest for those 18-29, according to the New York Federal Reserve."

>It's worth noting that the time period featured in the study does not include the June launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, which will boost the figures. And next year's launch of Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to set records for consumer spending not just on video games, but all of entertainment.

>Meanwhile, the cost of gaming has gone up, with some publishers moving to $80 for video games, consoles rising in price, and in-game monetization becoming more aggressive. Circana's Mat Piscatella took to social media to say people are still turning up to play video games, "but engaging more with free-to-play on devices they already have access to."

>The report comes at a time of great instability across the games industry despite record profits. Around 2,800 game devs have lost their jobs in the first half of 2025 alone, on top of 14,600 cuts in 2024, and 10,500 in 2023.

>>714390956
>That 2025 figure does not include yesterday's shocking news that Microsoft plans to lay off around 9,100 people, with some of the cuts hitting Microsoft's gaming business. It laid off 1,900 staff in January 2024, then made further cuts just a few months later when it closed Redfall developer Arkane Austin and Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks. In September 2024, Microsoft cut a further 650 staff from its gaming business. And in May this year, Microsoft cut an eye-watering 6,000 staff, or 3% of its entire workforce.

>In the same message that informed staff about the cuts, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said that he "recognize[d] that these changes come at a time when [Xbox] have more players, games, and gaming hours than ever before."

>>714390956
>people are still turning up to play video games, "but engaging more with free-to-play on devices they already have access to."
lol zoomies are all brown and poor.

>>714390923
Only game here worth buying is Metroid prime 4

>>714391249
ok but the point is that zoomers are not buying any of those games at all. it's only people in their 30s and 40s buying AAA games. Zoomers just play free to play games or online games.

Imagine being a zoomer and your only experience with games is with free to play slop and that's all you've ever known and you think that's just what games are

>>714386368 (OP)
majority of games being pumped out aren't worth buying simple as

>>714386368 (OP)
If you get Mario Kart or Splatoon or just play fortnite and shit you don't need a billion games, that's why. People can have fun more or less for free as soon as they got the equipment/games

>>714390956
>"but engaging more with free-to-play on devices they already have access to."

>>714389356
But they have superior rizz

>>714391636
>buying just one game and playing that one game
Those kind of people are boring as fuck and I do not wish to associate with them
You can game like a fucking king for no money at all if you delve into emulation

boomers told zoomers to spend less on things they didn't need and now they're freaking out that multiple industries are dying?

>>714391437
80 dollars is a huge asking price for shitty games. I don't know what to tell you I'm 34 and I'm not buying any of that either

>>714392165
playing gachaslop and ritualposting isn't a personality zoomie.

>>714386368 (OP)
For me personally I just have no time.
I'm more worried about my economy and health than vidya at the moment. I still play games pretty much everyday for around 1 hour, cannot play like when I was a teenager and I could do 14 hour sessions.

Life is just fucked.

Basically the industry was getting really close to total control over young people and then let trannies and fags into the industry who completely ruined it

>>714392276
You're incredibly delusional if you think it's zoomers ritual posting on this website

>>714392498
says right there zoomers overwhelmingly play f2pslop like gacha. gacha has zero appeal to millennials.

>>714392913
What does that have to do with ritual posting on 4chan?

>>714393081
zoomies playing gachaslop do the most of it.

>>714386368 (OP)
i'm not younger but at 36 i spend less money on vidya now than i ever have, and still play a lot
i just pirate mostly everything single player and only buy multiplayer stuff on sales
console gaming seems very expansive is the long run

Whats going to happen to AAA single player games when boomers lose interest in games and zoomers are in their 30s? Is everything just going to free to play shit?

Trump...

>>714393671
>Is everything just going to free to play shit?
Kind already is.

>>714393212
It's 100% of 1000% not zoomers doing the autistic ritual posting on 4chan it's mentally ill people that have been posting on this website since early 2010s, bots, and paid shills. barely any zoomers even come here

>>714386368 (OP)
Guy in the dragon shirt is staring at the camera like he knows people are mocking him but won't do anything to stop it, curious

>>714393837
What did this look like on steam in the past though
TF2 is a free to play game and I imagine that probably made up a chunk for example
Is csg f2p? No I think it cost 15 bucks right? I honestly don't remember

>>714386556
>>714386631
No one is doing this to men who like to workout or do woodworking even if they aren't conventionally attractive

>>714386368 (OP)
>big launch

Like how do you even track this gay ass statistics.

I saw this on Xitter. People were blaming $80 games, but is buying a new game at full price something you do with any regularity? Maybe 3 for me in a packed year. How much does that contribute to your "yearly gamer spending", which is something I don't track but I know varies wildly. Some years I hit up the game convention circuit and drop $1000 on rarities. Some years I spend nothing at all and just do the backlog. Some years I drop $500 in Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune (when another doomed to fail arcade opens).

New games going up a heckin ten dollarinos is the most inconsequential shit.

>>714394162
Working out and woodworking are manly hobbies. They are seen as the hobbies of desirable men even if you can go to your local gym and see mostly unattractive men.

>>714393897
>barely any zoomers even come here
flatout delusional thinking. you can always spot a zoomie because they have the most dogshit opinions on everything and they took over the site a long while ago. wasn't millennials who spammed soijaks and it's overwhelmingly zoomies who spam the reddit frog. that's all they think memes are, well those, giga chad, and porn.

>>714391636
this
live service games are sucking up all the players

>>714386368 (OP)
I think it's the maturation of a digital vidya environment. Niggas aren't keeping only their favorite games and trading in other games for new shit so they have libraries of great games they've played a lot of, the libraries just build and build and build and eventually you realize that you only need to purchase games on your schedule. If you want to buy it new while it's a hot topic, fine but if you want to wait three years for it to cost you 20 bucks that's fine too and a lot of people are doing that.

>>714390923
Geee it's almost as wanting people to be poor and childless means less people buying your products. By now millennials should have had 3 kids consooming but nope
Entertainment will be dead as soon as last zoomer is too old and millennials dead

>>714386368 (OP)
Because even normalfags are getting sick of shit games and have figured out that they can just play fun games indefinitely.

>>714394162
people make fun of short or ugly men who lift all the time.

>>714394162
>No one is doing this to men who like to workout
OMG did that man look in my general direction for 0.001 second while I'm in my work out thong doing my sexercises?!? FERAL FERAL FERAL FERAL!! Bro where have you been in the last 15 years?

>>714392276
Why should kids pay for online and 80 dollars? PC games are way cheaper and free online, and even the last phone can emulate PS3 games now

>>714386368 (OP)
The only people buying and playing single player AAA experiences are people between 30 and 55. The younger demographic does not and has never played as many video games as that age bracket. They prefer streaming, and if they play games it is a very small group of live service games.

>>714394630
zoomies are almost 30 sir.

>>714390481
Social media has and will continue to do far more time wasting and overall harm than anything vidya has ever done.

>>714394676
Yes, and like most 30 year old men, they lost all interest in vidya 15 years ago.

>>714394696
We aren't talking about social media; we're talking about videogames.
Trying to deflect simply proves my point.

>>714394676
Even worse anon, no point in wasting money in expensive shit

>>714393671
>when boomers lose interest in games
i don't think so, we're going to enter an age of gaming boomers before you know it
once millennials hit that age you better believe retirement homes are going to be 24/7 LAN parties and golf courses will be empty
it's gonna be weird

>>714394863
>golf courses will be empty
Turned into tenement housing you mean.

>>714394339
>Blame literally everything on zoomers
I'm 34 you retard stop blaming everything on the stupid kids you sound like a literal boomer. the vast majority of this websites traffic is melienial/gen X zoomers don't come here on mass

>>714394842
>make a shit argument about how vidya is the ultimate time waster
>point out that there is no way youre right because a far bigger timewasters are present
>I WASNT TALKING ABOUT THAT! YOU REFUTING ME MEANS IM RIGHT!!!
Sorry me and the other anon dismantled your "point" instantly and embarrassed you, I guess. Next time try to argue that its a big time waster instead of the end all time waster of the century

>>714394676
30 year old zoomer here. I make $6000 a month and 98% of it goes to taxes, retirement, mortgage, food, gas, insurance, and bills.
My gaming PC was last upgraded in 2017. I don't have the money to upgrade it to play new games, and I don't even have the money for the games.
It's a sad life, but whatever.

>>714394339
We get it you feel old and you hate younger men

>>714395153
>zoomers don't come here on mass
like i said you're genuinely insane if you think more than half the posts here come from people older than 25. this site would be significantly more laid back if zoomers were locked out.

>>714395221
Unless you are living in a mansion or california, you are shit with money. I make half of that and live comfortably.

>>714395282
why would i hate the generation that is overwhelmingly gay? less competition.

>>714395221
bro you are millennial if your 30 already zoom zoomes born at the beginning of 2000 they would at most be like 25 by now

>>714395181
>Still trying to deflect while placing words in my mouth I never said
Do you realize you sound like a drug addict defending the addiction he destroyed his body and mind with?
Videogames are digital cocaine; there is no way to deny it
You're glued to a screen hours and hours consuming someone else's product, a product that doesn't do anything positive to your body and mind.

>>714386368 (OP)
ya, games cost 25% more this year.

>>714389238
Read the words on the picture. The Switch 2 was for old fags

>>714395285
Do you have a single shred of evidence to back up that claim?

>>714395221
>>714395323
Agreed I make less than that too and can basically buy whatever the fuck I want. Have a mortgage but no student loans

>>714386368 (OP)
Because of video game industry

>>714393897
>barely any zoomers even come here
lmao. haven't seen the 20 SKG threads

>>714386368 (OP)
Complete saturation. Most people are playing multiplayer games released years ago.

>>714395484
the fucking state of this site and the internet in general. all the most dogshit trends and memes are driven by zoomer engagement.

Games die when they are killed.
Stop killing games.

>>714395323
Taxes take away about 25% of my income, retirement is another 20%, mortgage is another 20%, auto,health, and home insurance is another 20%, bills are another 10%, and food is the last 3%. No debt other than the mortgage. I put away about $120 in the bank a month.

Roblox is the future of video games. It's free AND you can make money from it.

>>714386368 (OP)
how do they even get this percentage

>>714389238
have you seen the average american 20 something? all of those guys check out except the dude in the back with a greying beard

Do not ask them about how much games like Fortnite are making and how this is biased against AAA slop that costs $80

>>714395397
Zoomers were born starting 1995 and last born in 2011.

>>714386368 (OP)
ZoOmErS aRe DeStRoYiNg ViDeO gAmEs

>>714395717
Math

>>714395221
I make what you make, and I'm on the same boat. I also have a backlog, so I don't see the point in buying new games or buying for hype alone.

>>714395817
enjoy your f2p mtx filled hellscape.

>>714395804
95 is culturally more millennial than zoomer even if they technically fall exactly on the age range. They have way more in common with someone born in 1990 than 2000

>>714395773
Cause the people spending on Fortnite only spend a little bit each month or they're whales.

>>714395804
Zoomers are 1997-2012, although I've often heard 1996. Never 1995 though, that's firmly a millennial year.

>>714395773
100% f2p except for cosmetics

is fortnite the last game to have this business model?

>>714395375
You are old and hate kids anon, you wouldn't be a good father

>>714386368 (OP)
>>714386556
would the men in OPPICREL be happier married to used good hamplanets with kids addicted to their ipad, who they have to do overtime shifts to support
Im not sure honestly. I know gaming is an empty "hobby" but so is TikTok and social media addiction, its not like zoomers are going to be better off in their 30s.

>>714395608
4chan has been full of extremely low quality posting since it's inception where's your data?

>>714396081
Nah this shit has been giga ass in the last several years

>>714396049
all men hate kids they aren't related to unless they're pedos.

>>714396081
zoomer who missed out confirmed.

>>714391998
Don't act like you got friends, nerd. You're the type of person who constantly recommends Steam Deck to people and act like it's a console.

>>714396025
No games like apex and rivals has done this. Fortnite and Rivals make a ton because they know how to price cosmetics to be a reasonable price so players are more willing to spend a bit here and there which ends up being more than a paid game in time

>>714395921
Maybe I wasn't clear. This is a good thing. I've been checked out of the scene for years and it's good the next generation is getting wise early. I was memeing on articles of the same variety that were targeting my generation at that age. They weren't concerned about why we did anything and anything we did was destroying something.

>>714396060
Probably happier if the went to the gym and made an effort to have at least some sort of pussy on their arm.

>>714395431
Why are u even here anon?

>>714395773
this. the zoomers i know that are jobless and still in school are spending what little money they have on league of legends and valorant; the zoomers i know with jobs are spending money on those even more so. the title is misleading because zoomers refuse to buy AAA slop, yet microtransactions on a moba is like crack to them. sometimes they'll dump the price of a single AAA game on one microtransaction. these executives just don't understand what types of games zoomers want; they are brainrotted and neee games that keep them angry and engaged, not relaxed and pacified.

>>714396274
>the next generation is getting wise early.
by getting addicted to f2pslop?..

>>714396229
You should be wanting for good things to happen to young people since your own kids would want people their age to be healthy too retard. You are just a bitter grandpa now

>>714396365
By spending less on videogames

>>714395817
They blamed millennials for everything too, in 10ish years is going to be gen alpha destroying everything and blamed for the worlds woes. Even though it's actually the boom booms that fucked everything

>>714396446
Most zoomers blame boomers

>>714386556
All the broccoli cut zoomers have gfs while I, a player of the Nintendo Switch, am a virgin. Sad but true.

>>714396398
>You should be wanting for good things to happen to young people
why? zoomers dunk on millennials all the time and blame them for everything. they're the exact same as boomers except they missed out on the freaky hippie sex and good economy.

>>714396318
The idea that any pussy us better than no pussy is retarded. No pussy is better than 70% pussy out there.

>>714396446
Eh, I seriously doubt that any of the gens after X could have done half as well as the boomers if placed in the same situation.

>>714386368 (OP)
Most don't feel like they have the money to spend on entertainment, so they focus on F2P games, cheap indies, or games that can last for hundreds of hours.
The people comfortable with spending money still don't feel like they have the time to spare, so they focus on various live services where they can do their 15-30 minutes of dailies and turn it off.
These groups will only buy single player AAA when it's successfully pushed as the next cultural sensation.

>>714396229
been here since 2008 try again

>>714396446
>>714396504
I'm a millennial but the beef between millennials and zoomers is millennials jealousy towards zoomers timing. Millennials had the golden childhood but we also were fed lies by boomers so most people my age wasted their prime and didn't realize everything was rigged till their late 20s, while the smarter zoomer realized it in their teens and so spent more time having fun and trying to make money over a fake dream

>>714386368 (OP)
I've been just emulating older games these past couple of years. Literally nothing new that has come out interests me at all.
Pic unrelated.

>>714395431
You said that vidya was this century's main consoomer. Thats objectively wrong, its total market share is 300 billion and is beaten out by the likes of fucking make up, which is consoomed almost excluaively by women. Social media is the consoomer paradise because it encompasses all hobbies and there are engire industries built around harvesting data.

You are objectively wrong and dont like it, so you cry abojt deflecting. It isnt deflecting, its presenting a counter argument. One that you cant refute. Try looking at the data before making retarded claims.

>>714386368 (OP)
They spend their money on Twitch subs and cheers

>>714396504
there's arguably more millennial hate than boomer hate nowadays because boomers and zoomers are both grouchy puritans. it's largely performative though since zoomies goon all day.

>>714396504
And most boomer blame everything on zoomers

>>714391998
I see nothing wrong with that, it just means that you're not a gamer, you're just a [title of game] player.

>>714396701
>having fun
*gooning alone or with other men on the internet

>>714396701
>but the beef between millennials and zoomers
Non-existent outside of terminally online faggots. The only "beef" is everyone vs boomers. Some millenials/gen X are annoyed at zooms for being tech illiterate, but thats basically it.

>>714386368 (OP)
>spending less money on games
>spending less time on new games
almost like the game industry needs correcting

>>714396446
It’s unironically millennials fault not boomers

>everyone has less money
>they make the games *more* expensive
>plus the games are shit
Woooooooowwwww. What's going onnnnn?
Fucking retards.

>>714386368 (OP)
I don't think it's because they're unwilling to. It's because they're unable to. We've crossed the Rubicon where the mentally retarded and terminally jobless no longer have disposable income to waste on toys.

>>714396874
Dunno, they seem to watch more anime and take life less seriously

>>714396801
nah literal boomers still hate millennials. i don't even think zoomers or gen x register to them.

>>714396928
It absolutely isnt since boomers still have 80% of total wealth and have all the power in politics.

>>714396639
You mean live in the most prosperous, decadent era? They had the great depression I'll give you that but let's stop pretending like they had it so bad

>>714396943
>watch more anime
you mean watch shounenslop and isekaislop.

>>714386368 (OP)
>>714386368 (OP)
Broccoli faggots only play minecraft and fortenite.

>>714396701
Zoomers are definitely by in large in much worse shape compared to millennials (which is saying a lot), I don't what you are on. Maybe you see more successful zoomers on your social media feeds or something, but thats not representative of the bigger picture. Alpha is gonna be the first truly fucked generation though. There will be no jobs once they reach the age to join the work force.

>>714396928
Ok boomer.

>>714396930
>I would buy shittier games if they were cheaper
That's dumb.

>>714397051
That’s literally proof it’s millennials fault retard. Millennials were actively duped, they were not afforded the same gilded life boomers have, yet they are even bigger simps for the status quo than boomers are. At least boomers will bitch about zoomers or whatever. Millennials are just cucks

>>714396934
i actually do. The games just aren't good enough. Plus no game is really worth $80.
I amuse myself buying watering cans and exotic brands of coffee instead now.

>>714395221
Every few months I get the urge to stop being a useless neet and get a job so I can have money and do things and experience life
And then I read something like this. Why the fuck would anyone want to just hand over a third of their life to a corpo and not even be able to enjoy the rest? Holy fuck when will civilization just fuckin buckle already

>>714396943
Thats hilarious. Anon, they "watch" anime like how they are a "fan" of vidya they watched a streamer play. Also the "taking life less seriously" thing is something every generation does. Millenials were doing this 20 years ago. Zoomers are already slowly becoming pissy and jaded. Alphas will be the new "we totally dont care xD" generation making fun of zoomers for their receding hairlines in about 5-8 years.

>>714397015
>or gen x register to them
Because they know they can leave us alone and we'll be alright.
>>714397096
They had the civil rights movement, the cold war, vietnam, aids and various other crises and also everything the generations younger them had to go through too. All of the people that think boomers fucked up so hard well I've seen your characters and I remain unconvinced you would have done any better.

>>714386368 (OP)
I’m not young. But I’m still spending less. Too much slop. Too many overpriced games (looking at you Mario Kart.) Very little quality control. I just wait for steam sales now. I used to buy most games on day one, now it’s incredibly rare that I do.

>>714397215
Sometimes you have to just pick up a game and give it a try. Not for Those prices though. When they're on sale for a quarter of the price.
Like, I just got the Last Alone in the Dark, and it was actually kind of cool. Full price, it would have been a rip off, sure.

>>714396943
Is there a single demographic thats on more SSRIs and complains more about ADHD and depression than anime watchers? Im asking this as one of them.

>>714386368 (OP)
IGN picked like... the four worst looking dudes for that picture, they knew exactly what they were doing.

And yeah, nobody can afford shit right now, and it's only going to get worse. Video games don't rate against food and shelter.

>>714397386
boomers didn't fuck up they got theirs then pulled up the ladder and intentionally make life harder for younger people, including their own family. boomers are the result of unchecked greed.

>>714396342
Because I'm an addict too.

>>714397386
Literally all that shit was a series of fake and gay psyops

>>714397409
This will be the first Steam sale since I made my account 17 years ago that I buy nothing

>>714397096
you guys are conflating boomers with their parents, most of whom (>99%) are now dead. actual boomers were born AFTER the war, so they never experienced the depression, which was BEFORE the war.

>>714397386
Oh yeah you're right we haven't been living through constant wars and social upheaval in the last 20 years lol

>>714397232
>no see boomers have all the wealth and all political power but this is millenials fault for not being able to change the laws that boomers literally have full control over and can openly sway politicians with brcause they have all the money
How do you propose we do anything to change status quo outside of murdering boomer politicians and turbo wealthy constituents? How come gen X and zooms get a pass despite being in the same situation? Hm? Dont speak about shit you know nothing about you fucking retard.

>industry kveching to bring down indie games
>results in AAA games and shitty indies dying while people keep buying indies made with heart

>>714397232
You don't even know why you're mad at Millennials.
You're mad at them because Boomers have been blaming them for everything they did, for about the past 20 years.
You're reading headlines that say "zoomers say Millennials are gay!", and not realizing it's literally Boomers trying to get one last dig at their own kids, because they're demented.

Also, your hair looks stupid, and stop saying "glaze".

>>714397361
things get a lot cheaper if you live with your parents
don't bother buying a house or starting a family in this economy

>>714397732
Millennials love this hysteric form of rhetoric. Nobody every actually poses multiple rhetorical questions in a row in actual speech unless they are having a manic episode. Just read your post out loud.

>>714397232
Alright dipshit, how do millenials change the law when boomers control it? Go on, tell us your ebin plan.

>>714397740
none of you guys even buy indie games you just pirate them.

People are broke because wages are the one thing not adjusting for inflation, and game companies want to charge $80 a pop now.

>>714397536
Guy on the far left is a haircut and shower away from banging 7s

>>714397536
Yep. I work in the tabletop industry and its mind boggling watching people around me say "we need to raise prices, our products are worth more and costs have increased for us!" while offering nothing in return. Some people have even raised their prices and reduced their offerings. Then they're all complaining the industry is in decline. Meanwhile my company has seen continuous growth from simply not touching our prices for the last 5 years while continuing to offer more and higher quality content. Crazy that shit.

>>714397823
>cant refute
>deflects to cry about how the argument is presented
Concession accepted.

>>714397823
>dude, I am le cool and collected, and propose no solutions for anything. I have won

>>714397823
>no argument
Lol. Why do zoomers have such fragile egos? Just take the L retard.

>>714396723
>You said that vidya was this century's main consoomer
I never said that.
I said
>a mindless, braindead, consumerist timewaster
not
>THE mindless, braindead, consumerist timewaster

And still you've been unable to present an argument proving that videogame isn't a mindless, braindead, consumerist timewaster.

>>714397732
I dunno man it doesn’t have to be some epic civil war assassination attempt all you had to do was….not be a simp for subversive shit like lgbt and blm. Millennials were literally on the ground floor of OWS and turned around and licked boots because the bankers rolled out some rainbow flags. You only have yourself to blame. Millennials will use the student loan excuse for not owning a home then turn around and endlessly glaze the institution that put them into debt slavery

>>714397336
And you do what with them? Chug soimilk while your wife gets fucked by other me?

>>714396891
Pretty much, boomers basically ruined 3 generation of men to the point I'm even convinced civilization is basically over and people are just passing time

>>714397501
That's why F2P games are so successful. People get to try them for free and choose when or if to spend money. But what does it matter if a game launches for $80 or $100? The people who won't buy it at those prices will wait, just like they would with a $60 or $40 or even $20 game, because they know it will go lower later. The only people buying in at those high prices early are rich or stupid people and that's the perfect target audience for $100 games.

>>714398109
Everyone who tried to argue with those things got crushed by people with actual money.

>>714397971
Hysteric whining isn’t an argument. You are overly emotional and need to compose yourself.

>>714397823
inb4 "I was just pretending to be retarded, im a master baiter"

>>714386368 (OP)
>got that picture for the article?
>yep, made sure to capture the fugliest patrons imaginable, sir!

>>714398109
gen z is literally the gayest generation so far with the most lgbt acceptance. weird self hating argument.

>>714398157
I collect disability money and post on 4chan. Why do you think I have a wife?

>>714398257
Being the gayest and being the biggest simp are not the same things. I can excuse zoomers being fags not but millennials who grew up calling everyone fags but then because me banker told them it’s wrong it’s now wrong

>>714394278
Your average person in NA/AUS/EUR is barely keeping their head above water and would use that $1000 for partial rent payment.

>>714398098
lol >>714390481
>And still you've been unable to present an argument proving that videogame isn't a mindless, braindead, consumerist timewaster.
I dont need to because that describes literally every hobby ever. You will now say "NUH UH ACTUALLY THIS THING ISNT BECAUSE I LIKE IT". Its a dumbass argument and you are now pretending you didnt say outlandishly retarded things

>>714398194
They should make games cheaper, faster. They should try launching games at $30. I'm not joking.
These retards are not courting an audience, and the bubble is going to burst, if it hasn't already.

>>714386368 (OP)
Zoomers hate everything and spend all their money on guns and tactical gear until they gain the courage to commit suicide by cop.

>>714398364
we still call people fags and retarded. just not zoomies who will cancel you for it.

Probably because

>low interest in getting the latest game due to live service model mixed with yearly releases of popular game series
>uncertain economy and rising prices has people tightening up their belt
>massive catalog of games and a long generation has people willing to play older games more than newer ones

>>714398197
>its not an argument because I say so
You lost, lol

>>714398024
Do you not see how ridiculous someone looks if they type like this? How you can practically feel the tears rolling down their cheek when they type like this? Are you implying this isn’t the gayest, most homosexual way to frame an “argument”? Are you saying that this is how people talk face to face? Are you even going to put 2 and 2 together and realize this entire post is a parody?

>>714397884
I buy Asian indie games.
I pirate western indie games.
And all remains right in the world.

>>714386368 (OP)
How do you get that fat and be ok with it?

>>714398512
Arguments and debate are something that happens between two parties where one responds to what someone said in the entirety. By responding to someone’s statement with an endless slew on rhetorical questions, you are not intending to have an actual discussion, it’s tantamount to just shouting on your soapbox like an overly dramatic faggot. Something millennials are definitely wont to do.

>>714398434
I could show you $30 game you'd say it was only worth $5. That's how the "discount" audience works. On the other hand, the rich don't mind throwing $100 at a game and then never finishing it. They're the same people who throw $100 at a F2P game one day then forget about it.

Budget conscious gamers aren't the target demographic for AAA games. For them, they have F2P and indie games. AAA is now for the rich and stupid.

>>714389072
They're still playing games, only now it's GaaS designed to turn you into an addict.

>>714398582
It's how people talk on the internet, when you type a paragraph out all at once, retard.
No it's not "how people talk". You'll notice you aren't talking.

>>714386528
Nah they just play live service and FTP slop
That generation is conditioned to buy skins and spend all their money on Robux and battlepasses
Don't believe their (((lies)))

>>714398109
>duuuuuuuuude social media is real life duuuuuuuude
A fraction of millenials did retarded things. This is like saying every zoom is a broccoli haired faggot on tiktok. Active twitter is 2% of the population you retard.

And again, you refuse to address that without majority power, which boomers have, laws cant be changed. By your logic, zoomers are equally culpable and should be shaking up the status quo since theyve been able to vote for awhile now. And yet nothing has changed. Why?

>>714398410
>I dont need to because that describes literally every hobby ever.
Literally false
Exercising
Bodybuilding
Fishing
Auto repair / modification / refurbishing
Practicing any sport
Playing an instrument
Painting miniatures

All of those are hobbies and not only are good for your health, both physical and mental, but they actually teach you useful real life skills.
Videogames do nothing of the sort, instead being just something people consume, damaging their minds and bodies.

Is there any difference between your boomer father watching TV 24/7 and you playing videogames 24/7? I only see the same zombie in front of a screen.

>>714386368 (OP)
>No good games released
>Everything being released is either a dieified remake or a diefest new game, even by indie devs
>The only few good games being released recently don't cost 80/90 euros, so they spend less per game
>AAA gaming has been steadily crashing and burning over the past year and some
It's easy, they're buying cheaper games, simple as that.

>>714398725
Are you just mad you have to read a short paragraph, before you get to reply again?

>>714398434
Why not just make $80 games and then wait a few years before it gets down to $30 and then that cheap budget conscious audience will buy it because it's finally on discount and they can afford it now?

>>714398795
>it’s how people
It’s how terminally online redditors on SSRI’s “talk”. Not actual people capable of holding conversation

>>714386368 (OP)
>Younger Americans have spent 25% less on video games this year than last
How much of this is just younger americans not having money?

>>714398725
I asked several related questions after a bad faith accusation, that neither of you can answer any of them and are deflecting to semantical bullshit shows that you dont have an argument in the first place. Ergo, you lost.

>>714398904
What about someone writing a letter?

>>714398840
the le heckin' zased trad zoomie who is brown and terminally online and spends all day gooning and posting about porn.

>>714398835
>but the heckin lawerinos
Millennial zeitgeist is full blown status quo worshipping

>>714398739
>only now it's GaaS designed to turn you into an addict.
Wrong. Video games were always designed to turn you into an addict. GAAS games just learned how to more efficiently monetize that addiction.

>>714398953
>are deflecting to semantical bullshit
>I was merely asking questions, gentile, I wasn’t pulling the oldest pilpul strategy in the book
You’re just assmad your ridiculously over the top rhetoric was dismissed for not being genuine. There’s a reason I asked you to read your post out loud. It’s a teachable moment.

>>714398953
Those “related questions” were thinly veiled strawman accusations. Anon is right, you’re cooked.

>>714399031
>Video games were always designed to turn you into an addict.
Pretty much.
From the very start of the medium arcades were designed to make people waste their coins.

>>714399307
you will never be black.

>>714386528
FPBP

>>714398904
Im sorry, is this coming from the generation that says a paragraph is "an essay" because they are so brain rotted from twitter that they cant concentrate for more than 2 sentences? Is this the generation that replies to any form of debate with ebin one liner dismissals from their ebin marvel movies? Is that generation of retards trying to lecture me on how to debate on the internet?

Lmao shut the fuck up kid, you have no idea how debate works because your entire life has been replying to twitter arguments with shit like "L + ratio + didnt ask". The bottom line is that I asked a couple of questions, then both you and the other retard pussed the fuck out because you realized how utterly retarded your logic is. But your ego is too fragile to admit fault, so now you are deflecting and doing mental gymnastics to avoid admitting the very simple concept that the group that has the majority of wealth and power in a government are the ones that make the fucking laws. Your next move will be to pretend you didnt read this to avoid addressing this.

>>714399538
And the hysteric meltdown continues, take a deep breath and read your post out loud

>>714395221
Can you tell us what you buy?

>>714395631
>insurance
Lol, surprised college fees wasn't on your list of fuckups.

>>714399162
>>714399307
I literally asked two questions, illustrating the flaw in his argument, then you chimped out. How the fuck is it a strawman to ask how you change the fucking law when you dont have majority power? And again, how come its only millenials that get flak for this when by your logic YOU should be changing laws, since apparently majority wealth and power doesnt matter?

You wont answer the questions because you cant. Because youre wrong. And now youre embarrassed about it.

I'm 40 years old and never got married or had children so I spend a lot of money in videogames.
Being basically a glorified teenager is why I can do this; if I had a family I wouldn't be able to play videogames anymore.

>>714399612
>2 questions is hysterics
Why are zoomers so illiterate?

>>714399612
>Your next move will be to pretend you didnt read this to avoid addressing this.
Like clockwork.

>>714386368 (OP)
Sorry Boomer oldfags but someone has to put away to put their toys away and actually save the West

>>714399538
You really need to read this post
>>714397823
No, debate does not consist of behaving like a BPD female. Debate does not consist of shouting bizarre accusations in the form of questions. It’s like you found a text from another woman on your boyfriends phone
>Hmmmm who is this? Why didn’t you tell me about this Susan? AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU? How long have you been cheating on me? You think I won’t cheat back?
That’s not “debate” that’s a meltdown and a vast overreaction to someone’s aunt saying happy birthday to their nephew. It’s an inappropriate response there and it is in debate.

>>714399953
>but someone has to put away to put their toys away and actually save the West
it's certainly not going to be the generation obsessed with black dicks and black culture in general.

>>714399843
>oh VEY THIS IS A SHOAH IM ASKING QUESTIONS REEEEE
Not how debate works, take a chill pill and form a response to what was actually present rather than stand on your soapbox posing questions nobody asked.

>>714399912
based manchild

>>714400165
But enough about your generation, back to the retirement home gramps

>>714400057
>Debate does not consist of shouting bizarre accusations in the form of questions.
It was two questions. Two. I asked two questions to illustrate a point, which you cant refute. You are now crying about it. Because you still cant refute it.

Lets try again. How can millenials change laws when they dont have majority power or wealth? And if this isnt a prerequisite, why havent zoomers done it yet? This time please answer instead of running like a pussy.

>>714398689
Fatties will say it's old age and genes.

>>714399925
Let me translate this post into hysteric millennial
>why are zoomers so illiterate? Can’t they see I was just asking a question? Why can’t they just answer my questions? Is it because their entire generation is illiterate?
No one talks like this cuh

>>714400282
millennial teenage years were the last dying gasps of white american culture and you call it cringe nowadays.

>>714400178
>you cant ask questions in a debate
lmao, just answer the question faggot.

>>714400321
>NO I CANT BE WRONG WAAAAAAAH
Why are zoomers so fragile and bad at bantz?

>>714400284
>let’s
Implies there are two parties consenting to a topic of conversation, but how can that be when you are the posing accusatory strawman questions no one brought up?

>>714400321
Thats cool, so how do millenials change laws witjout having majority wealth and power?

>>714400394
Why do millennials love raping their grandparents?

>>714400321
Uh oh, zoomer melty

>>714400382
i miss rock being popular, i only got the tail end of it as a zoomie. then it started being endless rap nog dicksucking

>>714386368 (OP)
its because theyre all playing f2p slop and spending money on digital currencies not calculated in that study

>>714400202
The best part is when my parents bitch about it. I tell them "being married is eating another person's shit. Why would you eat shit when you can choose not to?"
Their marriage was miserable and so was the marriages of pretty much every member of their generation.

>>714397823
kek nothing triggers (a term invented by millennials) millennials more then when you point out they are triggered

>>714400515
>its all millenials fault, they control the laws
>how do we do this when we dont have majority power?
>SH-SHUT UP!
bro just accept that you lost and move on, were anonymous here, nobody is going to care

>>714400518
Why did you make a typo?

>>714400769
>im actually a master baiter
Bro you lost

>>714400769
Nothing triggers a zoom more than being asked to defend his argument

>>714400798
Bro is hitting me with the
>me, an intellectual being intelligent
>SHUT UP I AM SILLY
Nice stutter post though

>>714386368 (OP)
Most Americans are more concerned about getting deported

>>714400870
LMAO, are you seriously resorting to "minor spelling error, I win?"

>>714386368 (OP)
Name their band, /v/.

>>714400996
Why didn’t you answer the question?

>>714400970
I mean you keep crying and running away from the argument like a vagina so I figured dumbing myself down to your intellect might get through to you.
By the way, how do millenials change laws without having majority wealth and power?

>>714400895
Argument? What argument?

Buying a new game means a $200 commitment tl get all the DLC or you wait for the "GOTYAY" edition during a seasonal discount 3 years after release

Ok we get it, you both aren't mad and totally owned each other.

>>714401057
Because I typed fast? The "i" and "j" key are next to each other. Your turn now, how do millenials change laws without having majority wealth and power?

>>714401116
What are you talking about?

>>714400987
Anglo and the Saxons

>>714398813
Even if they buy every battle pass and a couple extra skins a year that's still less than buying two full price AAA releases. In the past even the normiest of normies would be buying at least two new releases a year but I bet that's changed

>>714401153
The one you keep running away from

>>714401256
>suddenly you cant read reply chains
Lol

>>714401226
Why did you type fast? Why didn’t you take my advice when I said to take a deep breath and read your post out loud? Perhaps you could’ve seen your mistake? Or maybe recognize the obvious parody I’m putting forth in front of you?

gamepass is all I need desu

>>714401330
Do you even know what an argument is?

>>714386593
You should try not being poor.

>>714401021
Twenty Ton Pilots

>>714386556
they are zoomers you faggots
old zoomers are hitting 30 and look older than millennials

stop pretending you are the young ones those times are over gen alpha is coming up

>>714386528
>they have no money
Young people have never had money. It comes with the territory.

>blaming millennials
Fuck off holy shit, as soon as we hit 18 every fucking crisis hit us, and of course every fucking adult betrayed us and started forcing this muh feminism, muh please think on those gorrillions nignogs, muh climate change (who only was affected with us, not with boomers) etc etc.
We lost our youth and we don't give a shit anymore. I hope old farts enjoy the black tattooed nurse and elites hiding in their bunkers for when this Planet becomes the India planet, fuck them
Now I guess why nips like Isekai so much, I hope I reincarnate in a kikeless and boomerless world

>>714401381
Dunno man, maybe you should answer my question instead of attempting to deflect for a "gotcha". Cyte how youre trying to frame your inane questions in comparison to the actual topic questions in some assinine way to draw comparisons, by the way.

>>714401620
>Young people have never had money
boomers did and still got the most buying power

>>714401210
Why are you acting like zoom zoom isn’t obviously the one that’s mad as fuck? Is zoom zoom really samefagging to try and reduce me to his level? Is this the ultimate form of running away from the argument?

>>714401753
Why did you make another typo?

>>714401759
Boomers loved in easy mode and their parents actually helped them while boomers would even ask for rent to their own children
It helped the average house was 50k too, not 250k

>>714401867
Why do you keep running away from my question? How do millenials change the laws without majority power? This time without crying and deflecting. Thanks.

>>714401867
Why do you keep arguing semantics while citing semantics?

>>714401961
Why do you keep running away from my question? Why did you make another typo?

>>714401937
>It helped the average house was 50k too, not 250k
lol 250k? rookie numbers. thats what my parents payed 25 years ago now they house is supposedly worth over 1 million (its fucking not but thats what the market claims)

>>714386368 (OP)
Because young americans only play live service slop, but I can't blame when games have become shit.

>>714387186
>norwood 5 and a beard!
>norwood 5 and a beard!

>>714402063
Why do you keep running away from my question by invoking "no u"? I asked first, answer me and Ill answer you.

>>714402181
>I asked first
I asked right here
>>714402063
Why did you make a typo?

That's what happens when somebody thinks they are buying a zombie game or Spiderman game for $80 but get political propaganda pushing genital mutilation or whining about picking cotton centuries ago. They find another hobby.

He made a typo because he’s an overly emotional millennial who is typing too quickly because he’s upset

>>714402269
I asked here >>714397732
Im first, answer me.

>>714401759
>boomers did
Not when they were young.

>>714402486
I think you need to read the post you’re replying to then read your own post, do a little self reflection it will erase your confusion

>>714402586
>it wasnt me
It was. Answer me.

>>714386368 (OP)
It's our time, boomers.

>>714402658
You’ve lost the plot, this reply makes no sense. There was no accusation or implication of the post mentioned not being yours.

Just read your post out loud

>>714386368 (OP)
Chuddha bros, are we winning?

>>714402820
You lost the argument and are now trying to pretend to be domine else. Too bad youre too stupid to samefag effectively, next time tey not repeating "read it out loud".

This is the third time youve changed tactics to try and worm your way out of being wrong, by the way. Stay on the topic and answer my question instead of playing some faggot semantic game that you lost woefully at.

>>714386368 (OP)
Younger with THOSE hairlines? The dudes in this picture are all 30+ easy.

its over

>>714402924
>stop doing thing
>thing crashes and burn

it works

>>714386368 (OP)
>That manboob giving Yoshi's nose a round texture.
Pure Sovl

>>714386368 (OP)
>it's got nothing to do with the cost of living and a property bubble feeding it for financial asset revaluation
Bubbles tend to burst and this bubble is living off fumes atm.

>>714403470
do you just not leave the house? i see 17-19 year olds who are almost totally bald. you can start balding immediately when puberty kicks in or not at all. it's just your genetics.

>>714386368 (OP)
It's because Millenials cannot create decent entertainment

>>714403835
Zoomers conflate joss wedon (a boomer) with millenials because they are retarded, more news at 11.
>b-but
All current AAA games had zoomers on the writing team. Zoomer writing sure is cringe.

>>714403835
i will eat my shoe if this is a real article and not ragebait you typed up.

>>714390923
>it is nothing to do with gacha saturation and low quality gacha tactics putting people off from buying or playing games in general

This is why the games industry is REALLY dying.
Yeah let's just turn games into mere gambling! That'll make a healthy industry!

No macro sense at all. Almost as stupid as the finance industry and mortgage/insurance industry at this point.

>>714403470
>>714403751
can someone post that almost bald 2xyo dude blowing his bithday cake, I can't find it

>>714392165
>yes goys, it's you not obeying our debt trap system that's causing this
>it's not our bubbles and bad asset management and parasitic industrialism that's ruining things, YOU are the problem
Remember to gas all Jews.

>>714386368 (OP)
>Economy in a worst recession since the Great Depression
>WHY ARENT PEOPLE BUYING MORE VIDYA

gee i wonder

>>714404053
joss is gen x. like kevin smith. most of the cringiest shit zoomers make fun of is gen x core.

>>714403835
>more clickbait bullshit

>>714404378
Pretty sure hes right on the cusp of baby boomer, but maybe im wrong

>>714404505
i'd say he's an honorary gen x considering how faggy his writing has always been.

>>714404329
Not only that, but the elite are forcing people into debt bondage and refusing to give them financial leverage to actually spend on the things they want with freedom. Debt economy mentality is literally causing this shit. Pay them a fucking wage, then maybe they will buy more things.

>noooooo I shook a lot of hands to get this 200k job that allows me to manipulate people with my financial leverage nooooo
Death to the elites.

>>714404660
voted for it award.

>>714403835
Honestly, I don't blame them, millennial writing seems to be shit across the board.
Too self-referential, too meta, too up-its-own-ass, too obsessed with social politics, the only way to escape it nowadays is to turn towards Asian media, which has its own issues, or to just watch older stuff.

>>714404378
Most of the shit all of our generations make fun of are in all generations, you just believe memes.

>>714404832
>Too self-referential, too meta, too up-its-own-ass, too obsessed with social politics
gen x was and still is the exact same way.

>>714404771
Exactly, use your fucking guns, America.

>>714386368 (OP)
No time
No money
Predatory shit / GaaS / MTX greediness

Make a game and sell it for a set price you assholes

Also, gachafags must die. They created this business vacuum

>>714397774
There's no winning, the economy is fucked. Even living with my parents and with a great job, it'd take me 20 years to afford an apartment.

>>714404923
memes are the dna of the soul.

It's also got nothing to do with parasitism from elites in China and India on the middle class in the west that bought this shit.
They just take the money and buy shit in India and China instead of the west.

>>714405156
>They just take the money and buy shit in India and China instead of the west.
Yep.
Boomers basically destroyed every western economy by bringing in mercenaries who will just send all the money they make overseas instead of spending any money in the west or on western products.
That said, in the media space, I also don't pay for any western shit nowadays, since it mostly sucks ass.

>>714398813
Nah zoomers are spending on live service games. You can't say they don't then also call them the battle pass/paid skin generation. Most people in general aren't buying a lot of new games regardless. Partially because everyone is poorer and partially because barely anyone makes good games worth playing.

Food for thought, battlebit was the last multiplayer fps release that wasn't pure garbage. Then you look at it and wonder wtf AAA devs are doing when they get blown the fuck out by a roblox fps. Then you look at what AAA devs are making and it's fucking concord and marathon and graphically still look shittier than the first crysis.

So not only has the west cucked their genepool, but also their economy.
Truly the faggiest epic failure the world has ever seen.

>>714405302
It doesn't help that it's illegal to make good things in the west at the same time.
Industrial espionage I think.

I just emulate and play F2P games

>another episodes of amerigoblins complaining about how 'poor' they are
Shut the fuck up, even the poorest ameripig is still much more wealthy than anyone in the western world and that's without even bringing in shitholes like africa, south america or the middle east. You sold your soul over to Satan for entertainment and food so the least you can do is not complain about how 'bad' you have it. You fuckers seriously need another Great Depression to set your priorities right

>>714386528
/thread

>>714405809
Dont blame us because you cant get your shit together in whatever 3rd world shithole youre from

>>714405809
billionaires should not exist.

Worst part is seeing the slop that jews, chinese and indians tolerate when they buy shit in their own country and seeing that culture spread to the west.
I've been seeing ads for Chinese fucking medicine lately.
You know.. shit on par with pagan black magic and exorcisms.

You want to know why medicine globally is in rapid free fall despite covid forcing financial government stimulation to that industry? It's this culture of purchasing mediocre garbage in these countries and the gatekeeping culture in the workplace these people have with their finances.

>>714405121
And the death of the soul.

>>714405809
Hey anon, did you know that wealth is relative to living circumstance?

>>714406010
Corporate entities shouldn't exist. Billionaires rely on corporations to leverage them and lower their liability.

>>714406014
zoomers have ugly souls. it's why all their memes are gay, lame, and ugly.

>>714404832
gen x writing*

>>714405830
Right because the other side of government doesn't also have a conflict of interest.
Both parties have been selling out like this since nixon and jewish blackmail. You can even time it with Yom Kippur and the oil crisis. Around when the government tried to drug the public into obedience while the Jewish Mob and Israel assassinated disobedient administrators.

>>714397724
So have the boomers.

>>714405809
>Shut the fuck up, even the poorest ameripig is still much more wealthy than anyone in the western world
You clearly don't interact with them and just believe the biased gerrymandered stats these banks shove down everyone's throats to hide their slaughter. It's their job on the line that forces them to do this. They must keep the scam up for as long as possible.

>>714406360
Thos poor boomers, profitting exclusively from it ;_;

>>714406304
>cuts your medicaid

>>714406119
souls are literally part of what caused this situation too though.
Red tape and legislation limiting content because of moralfagging.

>>714406587
So why do you think you deserve to leech off of the hard working tax payers?

>>714406664
>because of moralfagging.
zoomers are performative puritans because of their lack of sex.

>>714406587
You mean the parasite that also makes it impossible for said dungeon dweller to make a living on their own nowadays?
>it's you! not me

He has literal mob connections. He has never had a REAL job.

>>714406745
Soooooo true
Get those chud millennialoids out of their basement and back into the workforce

>>714406745
why does israel?

Actual 24 year old zoomer here. I got into some shitty retail job around summer of 2023 (before that I had a seasonal job and then a agonizing fast food job). The money quickly dried after the holiday season so I getting paid $60 per day on a 2-day work week (it eventually become 1 day per week and then none/1 day per 2 weeks lol). Fell into a bit of a depression when the job market dried up in 2022-2024 so my active buying of games at full price halted completely aside from a few games I'd buy here and there (also steered my attention to college a lot more as well). I played a lot of emulated games to make up for that time though. I recently got a cool substitute teaching job last month where I get paid $175 per shift and I was able get a Switch 2 + MKWorld last week. I'm doing a lot better now and I forward to buying games again like DK Bananza, Shadow Labyrinth, etc but a lot of ppl my age are less fortunate with no/shitty jobs that pay like crap and school loans raping them up the ass.

>>714406760
And baby boomers have late stage encephalitis from their stis nowadays driving their dementia nowadays like with my father and uncle and mother.
Gets worse because they're a biohazard to younger generations too.

>>714406880
The only ones with loose capital in the west to start their own shit without an exorbitant debt trap system involved are either Jewish or foreign or leveraged in slow assets like the property market or hard to convert assets like crypto and pharma.
Up until now, white people with free capital still existed and it's clear it drove the economy positively the most.
But then jews and foreign states made it impossible for those people to maintain any position of administration, EVEN if they supplied most of the capital.

>>714407000
I mean, the same can be said about zoomer women, who are literally in an STI crisis

don’t open
dead inside

>>714407408
>majority of zoomer men are sexless
>zoomer women all have stds
wew lad

I can't believe Japs and Koreans and the small portion of Asians and indians (I have seen a few, but fuck me they are rare as fuck and I did not expect it to be THIS bad) with a brain will have to carry this global economy now. It's not going to be enough though and eventually they will have ESG bullshit too.

That is unless gene modification becomes a thing, which it will... though that will open a whole new can of worms.

>>714386368 (OP)
We are getting poorer.

>>714386528
>>714398813
This could both be true, real chicken or the egg thing here desu

>>714407596
Stop noticing, everything is fine!

>>714407695
nip economy has been ded for 30+ years.

>Why do young people not like
>Why does Gen Z not buy
>Gen Z is killing this industry
>Young people aren’t doing

>>714386368 (OP)
American gamers have no voice. EU gamers can make a European citizen Initiative to protect their rights. USA gamers have no rights. They only get insulted and blamed for everything.

>>714407854
Well good news, if the jap’s zombie economy can keep limping along than so can we, so no need to change anything ever

>>714407596
I've heard women are frigid as fuck nowadays too.
In my days (talking late 00s early 10s) they were much much looser. Hell I remember nude jacuzzi parties and we were the nerdy fucking gang.

I thought we were a frigid generation too. Turns out, probably the last sex active gen. I think laws restricting sex (like sex assault laws) cause this shit the most nowadays. My gen just gave up with that shit and accepted the inevitability. The gens before us are blissfully unaware of the situation now. Kids are paranoid about it. It's kinda sad.

>>714408074
i'm 33 and a virgin. i don't know sounds like you just lucked out and had a good social life.

>>714408008
>some faggot Republican was just on FOXnews saying that gamers are to blame for the medicaid cuts
You can not fabricate this!

>>714407928
Welcome to 15 years ago when they were all saying the same shit about millenials. See you in 5 years when the young gen alpha also decides to shit on you for you inevitable receeding hairline and claims youre "cringe" based off what the worse of your gen does

>>714407854
Korean is next too.
Asian tigers and even China, despite CCCP exploits, is having trouble. I knew that one belt was a mistake the moment I heard about it and most westerners just saw it that way immediately, having had experience with similar shit in the west and even with colonialism (which was the same shit btw). That's why we stopped colonialism. It was not making yield and was running on fumes even by the late 1800s with the MIC.

>>714386368 (OP)
videogames are now an incel unc hobby, chad zoomers are doing drugs and having sex instead

>>714408181
It’s not actually cope but sex without intimacy is worse than masturbation, this is for the zoomers out here. You ARE missing out but also not really I haven’t had intimate sex in maybe 15 years.

>>714401605
>look older than millenials
Let me guess
>im 35+ but look like Im in my 20's
Sure you do pal.

>>714386368 (OP)
>Why is the video game industry dying?
$70
$80
No exclusive games except Nintendo's.

ITT:
>anons decided IGN is suddenly a valid source of news
>/pol/ waddles in high on giftgas and grabs the opportunity to recruit for the culture war off the back of the "lying press" fake news outlets they used to have the intellect to distrust

>>714408339
All you have is drugs is if it's illegal to even have sex or earn money.
>and the mobs involved with drug cartels LOVE this

>>714408074
>Hell I remember nude jacuzzi parties and we were the nerdy fucking gang.
You werent nerdy, you were chads. I was nerdy and never had anything like this, and I was one of the more sociable turbo nerds because I didnt directly advertise that I liked shit like anime.

Good for you though, just a little jealous that it didnt happen for me. I had nothing until I was 24

>>714408397
I looked 40+ in my early 20s kek.
People stopped asking me for an ID at 19 until it became mandatory.

>>714408486
Broken clock.

>>714386368 (OP)
>Make controllers too big for kids
>Make games too long for functioning adults with jobs to play
>Increase the price of games
>Wonder why fewer people are buying games

Back when I was a teenager, most games were no more than 20 hours, and most were not open world. GTA and a few others (like Skyrim) were the only open world games, so you could beat a few games in a short amount of time, and then go back and play them for completionist sake.

>>714408486
Easy to "recruit" when it's this obvious and universal.
It's almost becoming impossible to not have conversation about these things on any board because the issue is that universal.

>game is shit
>likely an economic reason for it

>anime is shit
>likely an economic reason for it

>content is restricted
>likely an economic reason for it (desperate monopolies)

>>714386368 (OP)
>but 75% more on tiktok
They got tired of Fortnite and are now at the age where they start losing their "friends" to play with so they dont have anything else to fill up the void.

>>714408397
NTA but my wife (36) gets routinely guessed as being in her early 20s by patients and new staff at her hospital. Im also pretty baby faced without my beard and was always assumed as being early 20s until my hair receeded a bit. People are still putting me at 30ish though.

>>714396081
Faggots claim this all the time, but every era prior to 2016 wasn't a deluge of variants of the same 3 memes, nor the obsession with trannies, sales numbers, and politics. You can't fool those who were there.

>>714408625
I didn't even read the OP's pic and focused on keywords involving the economy because it's just always on the mind. It has been for me since the GFC and earlier and I used to be autistically obsessed about these issues as a kid.

I blame sim city. Damn you, Will Wright!

>>714408518
I was nerdy as fuck, as in chud incel tier, and I still had sex with Mika from deathnote cosplayers at anime conventions, I feel bad for zoomers

>>714408473
/thread

>>714408794
Game length has nothing to do with anything, and this comes from someone who is ADHD. Its that all the recent big games are overwhelmingly shit and a good game you bought 20 years ago is still a good game, so there is increasingly less incentive to buy anything big when you can either replay old games or go play some $10 indie

>>714386368 (OP)
I still never buy a game unless its on sale and is like maybe $30 max

Zoomer here, I grew out of being a chud and suddenly girls want to talk to me
Turns out being a combative terminally online retard is a turn off

>>714409049
Im 34 dude. Maybe I was just dense or maybe you just have more game than you give yourself credit for. I will say that I did fuck up my prom date because I didnt know she was actually into me and assumed we were all going as friends (and nobody told me until a decade later), but I dont think I was that dense all the time...

>>714409383
>zoomer here
>armenian cory
you can't fool me. zoomers would think cory is a cringe gay unc.

>be me
>be sent to room for being naughty
>be bored
>decide to draw fantasy maps of cities
>this made me thing about the economies too, made me start to think about my world's economy IRL
>dot com bubble
>then 9/11 also happened
>then the gfc and occupy

I was merely 7 when this shit became universal to me.
But this also got me into city builder sims too, strangely. They weren't realistic enough for me. Neither was literal IRL finance industry - it's complete horseshit how we do it.

>>714405809
>You need another great depression.
Its worse than the GD.

>>714409383
>no its just that everyone is a chud
So the majority of zooms are chuds? Since zoom men have the highest virginity rate in history. Cmon now.

>>714409582
Nobody said that, unc
This is what I mean by combative lmao

>>714409431
You probably hanged out with too “normal” of women. Any woman who consumed nerdy media was easy, you basically just needed a friend and pretend to be gay.

The yaoi paddle, an elegant weapon from a more civilized age

>>714409563
GFC is far worse than people thought because it was illegal to be drifter in our time and that shit was actually enforced nowadays. In the 30s you could get away with shanty towns. Nowadays, even tent cities get cleared. Even slum dwellings get cleared. These people just end up in jail and then indirectly systematically purged.

It's worse than Nazi Germany or the Soviets and has killed more people than Nazi Germany or the Soviets, especially after covid.
Don't need a unit 731 if the entire world is unit 731.

>>714409805
Nah i was with nerdy girls. Problem was that most of them were turbo lesbian. The yaoi paddle, oh man, i remember slapping the shit out of some girl with it at a con because she kept going full force on all the guys. Cant believe that used to be a thing, it feels like another lifetime ago

>>714390380
>this tired old meme

If you as an American live paycheck to paycheck with massive debt you are either unbelievably lazy or a literal fucking retard who makes awful decisions.

I work a 9 to 5 Monday through Friday and eBeg on Weekends, and I have thousands of dollars left over every month. My savings account currently has almost $200k in it, saved over the course of five years without any extra effort.

>>714410037
what the fuck is ebegging. you larp as a woman?

>>714410037
when are you moving out your mom's house?

>>714398840
>but they actually teach you useful real life skills.

>exercising
Yes, but some people get "addicted" to it and are upset when they don't have the gains someone doing steroids does.
>bodybuilding
This is bad and involves starving yourself to look muscular.
>fishing
Useless skill for most people. Society lives far away from places that have sustainable fish populations that aren't swimming in women's oestrogen pill runoff, microplastics and sewage.
>petrolheading
Useless. Cars live forever and are cheaper to just buy a new one than a random part that cost as much as half a car back when they used to make them. Most engine blocks aren't designed to be modified, let alone repaired.
>sport
Only good if your friends play it. However provides zero life skills.
>instrument
>>>good for your physical health
>>>real life skills
lol
>miniatures
Do I have to even explain this one?

>>714386368 (OP)
Video games are luxury, poor people can't afford it.

>>714397232
Yeah, it's millenials' fault that your "GO FORTH AND KILL POLITICIANS AND MINORITIES NOOOOOOOOOOOW" propaganda got bested effortlessly by the Q counter-propaganda telling everyone to do nothing but vote. Or maybe the number of millenials, let alone people in general, who are mentally ill and desperate enough to fall for your entrapment schemes is very low. Why don't you do what you tell others to do? Very concerning.

>>714410336
now you know why this board is flooded with gachaslop.

>>714410370
What a weird ass post

>>714410195
Never with only $200k unless he takes out more equity for a mortgage he'll never ever pay off because it's about a million dollars at least nowadays because of a property bubble.
Nor can you score a cheap lease and start a business because of the property bubble.

The property bubble is the number 1 driver of the failing of the US economy. People like Donald Trump, real estate and mortgage brokers.

Requiring such large amounts of capital startup compared to the amount of yield they will likely get from their venture is a MASSIVE impediment to economic growth. We shouldn't need government investment to get over that barrier. The issue is clearly the property bubble, rent prices, etc. Just look at how dead NYC is and how reliant places like Australia are on things like minerals and resource industries now because of this shit restricting manufacturing development. That and having to compete with China, which used to have a relatively cheap capital startup ratio. Nowadays it's starting to need more and more and more help from the government and they seem to be seeking more and more parasitic debt trap practices to leverage that shit nowadays.

India is already in the poo from sheer overpopulation. They've barely started and it's already fucked and they rely so much on western investment which is leveraged now through ESG in the workplace in the west.

>>714395221
Unless you have a fuck ton of debt, you shouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck. I make about the same amount and I'm able to put away 20% of my take home income and not have to panic about every little thing I buy (this is with high insurance and living in a moderately expensive part of the country). You might want to look at your finances man.

Also 30 is still millennial.

>>714410580
>proceeds to kill the games industry by narrowing the pool of demand and the competition to drive new game innovation by relying on lazy easy pools of money catering to gambling addicts (like the casino gaming industry - I thought video games was how they were trying to AVOID this shit considering the roots of the industry was casino gambling).

interesting how the average 4chan poster is wealthy or upper middle class while everyone complains that young people can't become successful or wealthy nowadays without luck or support.

>>714411167
>dood gacha is like LE CASINO
This is unironically boomer tier pokemon is satanic

to be honest...there is so much stuff out there that a normal person who is dedicated probably is also thrifty about the games too...even if i was like a billionare i wouldnt spend 60/80 dollars on a triple a game i just wait a year when its in the bargin bin in gamestop for 20 bucks or less especially if the game flopped or something. the only games you have to pay a premium for is nintendo games..but even still if you wait you can atleast get it for a discount or check ebay for it to be like 35-40 bucks.

>>714411084
>Unless you have a fuck ton of debt, you shouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck.
Who the fuck isn't?
You have to be balls deep in debt to earn a decent living nowadays and even then, it just pays off interest.
It's a debt trap.

Made by the people, btw, that have literal indicators and ratios designed to AVOID this situation. You have this issue where only liars and negligent people actually get into the positions of influence in that industry and in most industries. You have a gauntlet that demoralises people from even trying for those positions other than those with Kruger effect or those that know they're a fraud.

>>714386368 (OP)
>>714390956
>It's worth noting that the time period featured in the study does not include the June launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, which will boost the figures.
Why was the OP lying?

>>714411284
Corps like Konami and Nintendo were literally making slot machines before people like Miyamoto made video games and tried desperately to steer those corporations away from macro risky ventures like the gambling industry.
This is literally how the industry began.

>>714399031
>videogames are le addiction!!!!
>t. /pol/troon
Nobody is going to join your culture war.

>>714410790
Don't try to pretend that's not what you faggots are pushing for.

>>714411546
It’s black magic real sick shit

>>714411586
This is an outrage engagement bot swinging and missing, hence it making no sense

The biggest game addiction is economics though.

Because when nominal doesn't match real, it's just a game at that stage. A simulation of reality. A poor one.

>>714411615
>It’s black magic
I wish it was. I really do.
But it's dumber and more useless that that.

>>714411708
Probably, but I just use these threads to vent nowadays so I can go back to talking about games again.
It's like a brain shit.

>>714408281
>That's why we stopped colonialism
lol, only a propaganda-addled pig could post this comment. the west ended overt colonialism because it is a huge undertaking, having to take over and run somebody else's country. they adopted neo-colonialism because they realized it was easier to simply control the leaders of other countries, realizing the same benefits while only having to pay for one person's election campaign. which is how we got to the current system of CIA interventions, police actions, color revolutions, and "aid" conditioned on political subjugation... or else get regime changed. it is really only very recently, with the rise of BRICS and other non-western, non-puppet powers, that many of these colonialist links have been exposed in the mainstream, such as with west africa and france. most notably are the SEA countries which are now starting to break away from US puppetmasters toward self-determination over issues of trade with china, and those that don't are nonetheless exposing the deep influence that the US still has over them, like the marcos family fortune (stolen from the phillippine public) being held in the US while the marcos presidency canceled BRI programs that would have been fundamental for expanding the phillippine economy (whose people are poorer than sri lanka) and instead invited the US military to expand its presence there.

or for example in europe there was a "managed election" in romania where the actual winner was disqualified and then barred from running in the do-over because he was sympathetic to russia, which was not even true, he is a romanian nationalist, which meant that he was anti-colonialist and thus anti-western at least in their dealings with his country, and that was the real problem for the glowies.

>>714406847
Send them to what jobs

>>714386368 (OP)
It's sad, they are watching streamers.

Everyone is either replaying old games from 20+ years ago or playing games from 10 years ago (Fortnite, GTA, etc)

>>714386368 (OP)
Shit is expensive and cost of living is up. Dunno what's unusual about this. When times are bad you spend less on luxury. When times are good or there's unusual circumstances that either increase wealth or reduce mobility, people spend more on luxuries.
I end up using more time on games that are free but not overtly predatory, like free steam games or emulators.

>>714389238
unlike in 4chan millennials are still considered "young men"

>>714413389
>When times are good or there's unusual circumstances that either increase wealth or reduce mobility, people spend more on luxuries.
so the 80's.

>>714413678
I was referring to covid for the mobility reduction but yes any time where people have more financial leeway sees them use it on luxury.

>people dont have enough money in general
>AAA slop i.e what most normies will care about costs too much even if they did have the money
>the elephant in the room: live service games suck up large swathes of prospective buyers so they dont have the time and/or money to even consider other games

>>714411708
Oh of course. The /pol/trannies spamming politics threads and recruiting aren't the bots, the people calling them out are. How quaint.

>>714412456
The profits in colonialism used to be so massive they funded near suicidal companies to the dutch east indies that regularly killed their own men.
Those profits relied on direct control, but also on a monopoly on the market and substantial home demand and a flow of liquidity to feed this.
At some point, the development of these colonised states reached a point where it was no longer as cheap to exploit this colonial market. Things like overpopulation made it substantially more difficult to make a good yield off of these markets.

I very much doubt indirect influence of states is yielding as much as you say. This, from memory, was part of the reason why even financiers were annoyed with the US's meddling in foreign states. That must have cost a fortune and it likely ruined their economy and any potential market to export to.
China is going to find out, the hard way, why they are making a mistake. To see the west just mimic them in the last decade or so is absolutely baffling - have we not learned anything?

But then you think in terms of national strategy (military) and it all makes sense then. Add the MIC and it gets worse. The pharma industrial complex is a new emerging one too. Same with the tech industrial complex. All these things are now using the national strategy reasons to encourage this practice. Overall, it is a negative impact to the economy in a diversity sense. It might start to resemble a banana republic economy GLOBALLY, which is a terrifying thought. It was already bad enough with our gold and spice obsessions in the past.
It's also leverage by a ever growing pull of debt securities that are never ever going to be paid without a debt clearance regime. This further worsens the divide between nominal and real values of things and makes your buck worth less and less. That in turn also worsens the ability to diversify the economy and to let people do what they want to do.

System Shock is a genuine possibility (talking economy, not AI).

>>714398582
>How you can practically feel the tears rolling down their cheek when they type like this?
That's more the vibe I get from your post than the one you're replying to.

>>714413678
The 80s were the fucking crack epidemic. One of the worst periods of division between the wealthy and the poor. If you were rich it was dandy, until it stopped being dandy and crippled the entire economy to the point where your profits were becoming more and more pyrrhic and your choice of options and new innovations started to dwindle.

That's why by the 00s the amount of new cool tech dramatically declines. That's arguably why PC development stagnated since then. It's why monopolies quickly established themselves during that period and since.

>>714414684
kek

>>714414872
>One of the worst periods of division between the wealthy and the poor
as opposed to now where nobody below 50 can afford a house and will never retire.

>>714386368 (OP)
>Why is the video game industry dying?
They Jewed way too close to the sun.

>>714414562
honestly, your post sounds like AI. not a real AI like system shock, but shitty AI, more like system slop

>>714386368 (OP)
>Why is the video game industry dying?

Because the economy as a whole is dying.

>>714415029
I'm not saying it's better. This started in the mid 70s and just gets worse and worse and it's pissed off my baby boomer relatives seeing how their gen just let it happen. Not my parents though, they just do not care like most of their generation.

>>714415196
I'd give Shodan some System Slop.

>>714415284
>This started in the mid 70s
okay, and. that's irrelevant to the current younger generations who are right now eating shit and will continue to eat shit the rest of their lives while boomers tell them they're not owed anything and they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps right up until they're lowered into their graves.

>>714389238
Young americans don't buy, only fat old mutts do

>>714401736
Cry about it. You got to live when things were not shit. You got to grow up in the 80s and 90s, then be adults in a time where at least things were possible. We have known nothing but shit. We know nothing else and have seen nothing else except for in meme pictures about the past.
You got to live in a normal world, and the vast majority of your generation imposes hell like conditions on us they never had to experience. Remember how it was so cushy you got to be "hipsters?" Just fucking around in your twenties as baristas and shit while you lived in luxury lofts which would cost $3500 a month today? Now that you are in charge the fag flags fly high and the streets are pathed with black lives matter on them. MAYBE as a zoomer with a graduate degree and then years of work experience MAYBE we will have the ability to rent that loft but probably even then not.

>>714415737
>You got to live when things were not shit
that's gen x. millennials were literal babbies or teens at best when things were good. not even young adults.

>>714406745
what I find it funny is how libertarians proved something essential recently
>listen we don't need the government for any social service or aid people would just donate
>hey bro donate for this desperate situation
>lol me? I'm not a fool. I would never give up any part of my hoard

>>714415819
If you got to fully rise to adulthood and get a job/house/career pre-covid, then unironically check your privilege. Wahhhh wahhhhh there was a slight financial downturn in 2008 wahhhh. I wish that is all I had to experience.

>>714408607
I look like I'm 17 in my 30s, your genes are strange.

>>714416167
zoomers unironically think things were fine and dandy pre covid lol. literal goldfish brains.

>>714395181
anon you're not coherent, you think you've engaged his central point in any way by using whataboutism?

Gaming is degenerate

>>714415232
Give us the status report on the economy unc

>>714416341
Compared to now? Yes. Do not even LARP that is anywhere near the same. We had our futures stolen and now we have to fight in worsening conditions that nobody else ever came close to experiencing.
Typical millennial behavior though. You got to live the good life but LARP like it was so bad.

>>714412584
All the industry jobs they Trump is bringing ba-
oh wait.....

....he's not

>>714406852
Notice how this has zero replies as an anti-israel response would send them to jail in Central America or an island surrounded by alligators.

>>714416642
>We had our futures stolen
you're an entire generation of gay histrionic retards.

>>714416820
If you woke up tomorrow as a zoomer male you would rope so fast.

>>714416704
It really is uncanny just how consistently right-wing policy is at odds with other right-wing policy

>>714416929
i don't know. the average zoomer on this site seems to be a lot more successful socially than i ever was. the stats say they all don't have sex or socialize but most of the zoomers on here have sex and friends, and there's plenty of wizards like me. i can't navigate the current forms of socializing online like discord because i'm a "lame goofy ahh unc" now.

>>714391998
If they did cognitive tests for emulator players I bet it would be near the bottom.

>>714402537
Median home 1970: $23,000
Median home today: $420,000

1oz gold 1970: $40
1oz gold today: $3410

Minimum wage in 1970 was $1.60

You'd have to make $29.2/h today to match the MINIMUM WAGE of 1970 in home purchasing power.

You'd have to make $136.4/h today to match the MINIMUM WAGE of 1970 in gold purchasing power.

>>714402537
When boomers were young, working full time at minimum wage could afford them an apartment (sans roommates), enough food to get fat, and a car.

>>714416167
>Wahhhh wahhhhh there was a slight financial downturn in 2008
Ah yes, the Great Recession. I do seem to recall this slight economic downturn that has its own name, now that you mention it.

>>714386368 (OP)
lack of available spending money and all these games are h1b slop

>>714386368 (OP)
everyone's spending less on everything that isn't essential
because no one has disposable income

>>714417573
By golly they were willing to work those minimum wage jobs and pull themselves up by their bootstraps unlike the lazy generation today.
And that is why as a boomer I always vote to make things as difficult as possible for those who come after me because they need to learn the value of hard work.

>>714416929
If I woke up as a gay histrionic retard I would probably rope, yeah.

>>714417620
Once the boomers are gone, you are going to draw so much ire. Just saying. You had your chance to be graceful and reasonable but chose to piss it away.

>>714386368 (OP)
At least better than spend more money on streamer or of whore

>>714416214
No you dont you look 30. Please stop pretending to be young like a postwall roastie.

>>714417815
Ok boomer 2.0

>>714417921
Millennials have been the whipping boy of everyone else as long as I can remember, so nothing will change.

>>714418338
If you think the 2008 "recession" was anything like covid and now the times we live in after covid then you are delusional. It is that simple.

zoomers gonna learn not to trust gen x

>graduated fall 2020
>havent gotten a job with my degree yet
well at least i can blame covid and AI for my failure

>>714418482
Of course 2008 wasn't like that, it was an actual recession as opposed to a minor hiccup. You weren't alive and wouldn't know, whereas I was alive for both.

>>714418208
I'm asked for my ID all the time. I personally don't care about how I look nor I took care of myself, it's just genetics.

In North Korea everyone gets free food and healthcare unconditionally

Their currency is worth basically $0 internationally

Meanwhile the "richest country in the world" is cutting SNAP benefits (food assistance) and sends billions to countries with free healthcare while telling their own citizens they can't afford it

Also homeless everywhere and people are paying over 40% the median wage for some of the cheapest housing

And being homeless or building your own shelter is illegal

>>714418805
LMAO even
I was alive btw

>>714417532
From the beginning until 1910, an ounce of gold was $18. Then Jewish fiat currency happened.

The USA could give everyone free housing, food, water, electricity, healthcare, and internet easily

They choose not to

Well, they actually do give some people free housing, food, and healthcare, they call it "prison".

In fact, they built Alligator Alcatraz in 8 days, proof that they could easily solve homelessness and housing struggles easily if they wanted to, but they don't

>>714416167
>literal boomer remover pandemic
>waaah we zoomers had it the worst
Everyone had to live through covid you dipshit.

>>714418482
>>714419018
Zoomers have done the impossible and out-solipsisted boomers. If it didn't happen when you were conscious then it just wasn't real, kek.

So since the Covid downturn was the worst thing ever apparently, was it worse than the Great Depression that started in 1929, would you say? This should be a laugh

>>714419569
>was it worse than the Great Depression that started in 1929,

Right now in 2025 it is absolutely 100% worse than the "great depression".

The cost of housing + food is WAY higher relative to a worker's wage in 2025

And back then you could also just build your own house, pic related

Now it's illegal to be homeless and they'll even bother you over a tent

It's even illegal to feed the homeless in this fascist tyrannical capitalist shithole dystopia

>>714419569
>was it worse than the Great Depression that started in 1929, would you say?
Unironically yes. And its effects continue to get worse. But I guess we should just pull ourselves up by our bootstraps since you had it oh so much worse, right boomer 2.0?

>>714386368 (OP)
There's no need to spend money on games anymore, the average Steam user has at least 50 untouched games on their backlog and a library with 200 games minimum (source: I made it up). You could spend a lifetime working on these without spending a dime on new shit, and I'm not even taking emulators into account.

>>714419435
It is a lot easier to "live through" covid when you are 35 and have a career probably even a home, now isn't it?

>>714419569
In the Great Depression, the ratio of average home cost to average wages was approximately 4:1. Using the data from 1939, where the median wage for white men was $1,419 and assuming a similar home price as in 1933 (around $4,000), this ratio is confirmed.

In contrast, the ratio in 2023 is much higher. With an mean wage of $53,490 and a median home cost of $436,800, the ratio is approximately 8:1. This indicates that, despite higher wages, homes have become relatively more expensive for the average person today compared to the Great Depression era.

>>714398109
Millenial here (43). It is incredible how being debt free when I finished post secondary has catapulted me past most of my peers. Many of my friends / neighbors are just now paying off loans and still live at home, in apartments with multiple room-mates, etc. Most don't own a car or anything significant. Whereas I have a house, a wife and son, a good vehicle, etc (and have had these things for 15+ years at this point). Crippling school debt has halted all of them.

>>714419904
>>714420026
lmfao, I honestly didn't expect a full bite on that one. What the FUCK are they teaching you little retards in school nowadays? like a quarter of households had NO wage earner and children would have to work sometimes despite child labor laws. But yeah the current 4.1% unemployment is worse somehow. kek

>>714421449
It's a literal fact that workers are paid less in 2025 in terms of housing and food purchasing power

That's all that matters

That is the ONLY statistic that matters

How much does a house and food cost relative to worker's wage?

NOTHING else matters. Certainly not the fucking bullshit "unemployment" statistic.

>>714421272
>Using the data from 1939, where the median wage for white men was $1,419 and assuming a similar home price as in 1933 (around $4,000), this ratio is confirmed.
>If you take wages from a post-depression year and compare it against depression-era house prices...
lmao.

Jesus fucking Christ are those humans in OP's image or some type of unevolved sewer mutant?

>>714421690
>Just buy food without a job, bro
lol lmao

You realize 75% of Americans are overweight, right? Or are schools not even teaching that anymore?

>>714386368 (OP)
Now girls are even more whores and give it up to everyone so there's fewer losers who play videogames

>>714422202
something like 60% of young men are terminally single and sexless and close to 50% have never approached a girl.

>>714421904
Show face, Casanova.

>>714420440
Unless your work shut down and the mortgage payments didn't.

>>714422473
Didnt those studies use dating sites as a source? You know the thing you turn to when dating has failed.

>>714422630
Dating apps are how people date, grandpa

>>714422490
Very well.

>>714422804
Show YOUR face, you spineless nigger.

>>714386368 (OP)
>increase prices (also decrease quality infinitely and continuously have nil performance and insist you don't own what you purchase)
>wow our sales dropped
who could have predicted this
i am buying cheap games for the rest of my life, i am not paying your prices

>>714386368 (OP)
It's because they are spending more money on gacha games which isn't accounted for.

>>714422697
You mean "people".

>>714423008
I just did, are you blind?

>>714421690
Your boss doesn't control fiscal policy, faggot. He shouldn't be responsible for making up for inflation or the housing market. If you want that shit to change then vote better.

>>714422154
Is that not because the cheapest available meals are shitty fast food? Sure, you could make do with a big bag of rice and some similar bulk food with seasoning, but a lot of people don't even go home between shifts, so they turn to fast food because it's there.

>>714423604
>If you want that shit to change then vote better.
the federal reserve is independent

>>714423354
Look, I know you haven't had the courage to look in a mirror for over 7 years, but you don't have to pretend that's you. Live with your own ugliness, it's not going away.

>>714396891
>Non-existent outside of terminally online faggots. The only "beef" is everyone vs boomers.
True, I only shit on millennials on 4chan to rile threads up but outside is a different matter, a sorry state of things altogether

>>714411273
did you just find out that trolls exists and most people here are jaded angry retards baiting for cheap (you)s?

>>714406159
It's millennial writing, lil bro