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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 69 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Oh sweet summer child... There isn't going to be many elderly millennials. Most of us will die off from our fifth "once in a generation" financial crisis, WW3, or the collapse of the environment. Hopefully the younger generations use our bones to build a better society.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

On top of the fact that you need to have saved money to pay to live in a retirement home.

Are... Are there people that sort of really hope to just go from their patents' basement to a retirement home?

[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well if they bothered to submit those patents instead of leaving them in the basement then they might be able to live in a retirement home

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How many of us are still in our parents' basements? I'm nearly 40, struggling through our 20s was one thing but by now...

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I dunno. Depends on the acceptability of calling it a "multi - generational household" because Boomers locked up to much wealth and now have to live with the consequences.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I should change my name to "The Consequences" since I live with my boomer parents

[–] HistoryPug@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

Right?! I don't know any millennial whose retirement plan isn't just hitting a certain age and killing ourselves.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hopefully the younger generations use our bones to build a better society.

Knowing people, they'll use them to bash each other in the face, more likely...

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[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.ee 59 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's extremely unlikely that social security will still exist by the time we're old enough to retire, so retirement will be yet another thing reserved for the rich.

Unless you live in a civilized country (not the US) in which case enjoy your retirement you lucky bastard.

[–] Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

I just hope that the current crisis in the US is a hallmark of the downfall of American capitalism and that the status quo can change long term. Remains to be seen if that’d be good or bad, though.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 52 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Jim sucks and is an office bully.

We're watching Futurama, fellow olds.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had the full run of the The Office on video. I had video editing software. I had it all planned out, how I was going to edit out 90% the Jim scenes from The Office, so I could play the whole thing on loop without intro or outro or the worst parts of the last two seasons.

Then I stared in the mirror for a long time and I was like: wtf am I doing with my life? And I haven't watched The Office since.

[–] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

fuckin screencapped

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Dwight is literally a fascist and usually only falls for Jim's pranks because of his fascism

[–] RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

Two things can be true at the same time!

Extra reason to Futurama.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Futurama has good science and absurdists jokes, but there is a LOT on Futurama that has not aged well at all, especially from a gender and sexuality standpoint.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

This conversation here is what the retired millennials are going to be doing, incapable of choice

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

To be fair basically every futurama character (except maybe Fry) is a bully

But I love watching it for some reason.

Kif is a bully?

[–] Lazhward@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hell yeah, based gramps.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 33 points 2 weeks ago

Retirement?

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 32 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Well, hopefully those wealthy millennials will enjoy their distractions, homes, and retirement while the rest of us are dropped into the industrial grinders they use to reclaim the nutrients from our bodies.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Come on now, you're making soylent green sound so industrial and devoid of feeling.

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

We have a collection of millennials and Gen z at our retirement home as staff. (Ofc)

We joke about this but it is put in place by us saying we'd also have to be picking up shifts to even live there. It would have to be a sort of inmates running the asylum situation because we're all working til we're in the ground.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And again everyone forgot about GenX, just the way we like it 😆

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

"Meh."

My Gen Z cousin had zero respect for me til they PvP'd me on an old-school Street Fighter arcade machine.

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[–] tamiya_tt02@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe The Elder Scrolls 7 or Grand Theft Auto 7 will be out by the time I retire. Probably not. Weird that both those games have their 6th installments coming out next.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 10 points 2 weeks ago
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Finally I can max out my Runescape character!
*Logs in to Jagex, sees a blank screen*
No... it's not fair..... there was time now...!

[–] skooma_king@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

MTX so crazy in RS now (RS3) that you’ll likely have to pay to move every click by then

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Zoomers dabbing in their retirement homes whilst their cloned grandkids look on in cringed puzzlement

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

Millennials last 'fuck you' by the universe - longevity.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, screw the office. Make it scrubs instead.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I thought about this, but arthritis is a thing sadly. It's probably fine for non action games, but forget about playing smash

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

The older I get (40's now), the more I think about how I probably won't be able to fully enjoy video games like I thought i would. My vision which was always perfect is starting to show issues already, whenever I pick up a game I almost always nod off or fall asleep within an hour or 2 and almost nothing prevents it. My hands will sometimes lose sensation and I have to drop my hand down and stretch it to regain feeling... I feel like I'll be like that guy in the twilight zone who outlived everyone and was finally able to read all the books he ever wanted but then immediately stepped on his glasses.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah smash destroys the hands of 30 years olds in the scene.

What I'm looking forward to in retirement is finally cracking into games like Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, and Caves of Qud

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[–] gex@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

And for young people Super Smash Bros Melee will be as cool as bingo or canasta

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And die from an aneurysm because you have been sitting all week.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And not from the pent-up rage about the world in flames, somehow.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Office

The original or the USA copy though?

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently there are 13 different adaptations. I kinda like the Australian one.

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Retirement home raves, here we come

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you mean retirement LANs. I'm going to party like it's 1999.

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I'll bring the glow sticks!

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah i am stoked to be dropping tabs and listening to MGMT when i am 70

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nindendo games? Ew. I was thinking dungeons and dragons

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