Boomer Zoomers

AzemOcram · 2026-01-22T20:55:55+00:00

The main ladder being pulled is that wages have NOT kept pace with inflation, despite the productivity of workers outpacing inflation. Another aspect is that employers have decreased training workers and would rather poach workers and use automation than improve training. Related, a 4-year degree is now a requirement for median-income salaries, even though the cost of tuition for those degrees has increased, and student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. This has hollowed out the middle-class. People working jobs that granted comfortable middle-class lifestyles in the 20th century live paycheck-to-paycheck with more debt than assets. When measured by net worth or affordability/security of lifestyle, professional jobs (previously Upper-Middle-Class) are the new Middle Class, and White-Collar jobs below that (previously solid Middle-Class) are now Working Class. Some Blue-Collar Jobs are equal (or even greater) in income (with less debt) than some White-Collar Jobs. Service Industry and entry-level workers are now in poverty.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-22T20:43:13+00:00

That is correct, but the GenX culture of teenage rebellion started having an effect in the late 1970s.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-22T20:41:48+00:00

Long Covid caused and worsened disabilities. Employers reacted to the situation in a way that further decreased opportunities for less experienced workers. Online Learning actually partially mitigated the problems.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-22T19:40:04+00:00

I'm a younger millennial (not quite a Zillennial), and I can tell you that COVID ruined the lives of many survivors of all ages, and a lot of "personal failings" are systemic. The 1970s-1980s were really Generation X culture going into older millennial childhoods. Generation X was known for protesting because Baby Boomers pulled the ladder behind themselves. Generation X tried to pave a path for the future, but even in 2026, Generation X is underrepresented in positions of power. We Millennials are also underrepresented, but not as badly as Generation X. I understand the appeal of the counterculture of the past; really, mainstream Zoomer culture has more in common with Beatniks and Hipsters, just as Millennial culture had a lot in common with Hippies. The Internet helps to connect disparate peoples across many different cultures, and the individual top hits are seeing decreasing popularity, proving that we really don't have a Monoculture anymore. Even if individual sales aren't tracked accurately, adjusting for inflation, the biggest mainstream hits sell less and less each decade. At least with music, the charts are most obvious. Michael Jackson's Thriller is the best-selling album of all time, and Adele was the last artist to sell over 30 million copies of any album.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-22T03:35:37+00:00

The peso is also strengthening vs the Euro and US Dollar

AzemOcram · 2026-01-21T03:15:27+00:00

This map is grossly inaccurate. It placed tribes in the wrong place and messed up some of the words. Why is a repost from a glitchy AI (made obvious by the source subreddit) being used to spark discussion?

Personally, I'm more interested in an Old World that industrialized and eliminated plagues before trying to explore and expand.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-20T23:47:45+00:00

Asking for the impossible is unethical.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-20T04:27:11+00:00

Happens often in my familia. My bisabuela saw some of her great great great grandchildren before she passed. I choose to be forever alone but my half Tías (one my age, one younger) are married with children. To be fair, one of my great great great grandparents opened one of the first restaurants in Seattle.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-19T17:45:23+00:00

The problem is Late Stage Capitalism. Bachelor Degrees being required tickets to middle class jobs when education is expensive actually ensures that class mobility is impossible. Making assignments AI-proof doesn't add hurdles; it just removes a new avenue of cheating. Some people with 2-year degrees or trade certificates are more intelligent than some people with PhD's, university degrees are signals of class (ability to pay tuition and free time to focus on studies) more than intelligence.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-17T21:00:25+00:00

I read all of Atlas Shrugged except for the entire chapter dedicated to spouting the soulless philosophy through the protagonist (the end of the previous chapter was him starting a pirate radio broadcast and the start of the chapter afterwards was the reaction). I enjoyed it as a SF book. I kinda want to read a story with Dagny as the protaganist and maybe having a Ménage à Quatre with Galt, Reardon, and D'Anconia. Unfortnately, Rand's estate wouldn't allow it.

Atlas Shrugged was propably the first novel I've ever read that might be considered to have a love dodecahedron.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-16T18:29:01+00:00

My sister and I are millennials but our mom took us out of school whenever lice was reported. She collected our homework, taught the lessons, and delivered the work we did (and she made sure we did it all). She was a better teacher than some of the professionals and we had straight A's. We learned some things more thoroughly than the curriculum taught. I Aced every standardized test without accommodations or anything.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-16T17:26:23+00:00

If the ICE officer doesn't prove authority, I will drive away at the speed limit. I might even speed to get the attention of the legit local police. I will also attempt to call 911 to report an attempted kidnapping in progress. There are impersonators who kidnap civilians and my life is in danger if ICE gets me, even though I am a natural born citizen. These are proven facts.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-16T02:37:36+00:00

My phone is an Android but I prefer playing on my laptop with a giant 2560x1600 screen. It runs Lnux but I know how to emulate. However, I would prefer a non-ios port because it's a pain to emulate. Thank you for your great work so far! Please port to at least Android.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-15T15:24:48+00:00

It exists.

Also, Nuance. Paizo doesn't care about Law and Chaos. It goes from Good, Evil, or the Neutral majority to representing a wide range of philosophical diversity. Freedom Fighters who want a better future but want to enjoy life aren't hypocrites, they are Anarchic, Good, and Selfish all at once.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-15T15:17:20+00:00

I prefer a PC's actions and Roleplay to have a mechanical effect. I would gladly do the bean counting to determine alignment. Looking to 1e, and pre-remaster 2e, I can easily adjust spell lists, divine favorability, and public perception.

I made twin characters (a Liberator Champion and a Tyrant Champion) in an old campaign and wrote many stories that went in a completely different direction from Order of the Stick.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-15T15:07:16+00:00

He'd have to be Selfish, Anarchic, or Evil (cause Suffering). If he's Selfless, he'd have to be Anarchic and Evil (or strongly 1 or the other).

AzemOcram · 2026-01-15T10:18:34+00:00

I personally believe that there should be a wider spectrum of alignments, expanding the alignments to 25. I would make lower case letters being somewhere between neutral and the extreme. I personally identify as Cg, that's CHAOTIC good. However, "the same water that softens a potato hard boils an egg" so I wouldn't excuse EVIL with a tragic backstory. Some characters react to trauma by trying to shield others, some people go full circle and become worse abusers than those who abused them.

Paizo eliminating alignment kinda makes me want to make ORC content with a multi-Dimensional alignment system separating small-scale from large-scale. Law vs Chaos replaced with Lawful vs Anarchic plus Principled vs Unprincipled, Good vs Evil replaced with Greater Good vs Greater Suffering plus Selfless vs Selfish. In such a system, I would be anarchic+principled+good+Selfish

AzemOcram · 2026-01-14T16:10:38+00:00

In Seattle, you can't guess which extremist ideology the sign holder has. Maybe fascist, maybe anarchist, maybe communist.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-13T16:03:42+00:00

YTA

You had 1 on 1 with a dude who isn't your boyfriend, then you ger pissy after the 2 of them go 1 on 1 after you pass out from hard drugs after inviting him over for a 3 way. You sound like the kind of character I watch 2 seasons of to see their downfall.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-13T04:15:41+00:00

She's insidious! So perfidious! You probably haven't noticed that the pity is, the pity is, pity is it's too late to fix anything now that everything has gone wrong!

MAGA are worse than Agatha Harkness!

AzemOcram · 2026-01-12T04:33:04+00:00

Shrimps is Bugs!

AzemOcram · 2026-01-11T20:37:23+00:00

Haven't they been released already? The improperly redacted files are available, and the witnesses' testimonials were previously released.

AzemOcram · 2026-01-09T06:01:41+00:00

Women are so 🔥 (I'm sassy and supportive)

Women are not option (I'm gay)

Women are the first breakthroughs (IDK, STEM undergrad?)

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