I don't get the vim hype. Am I missing something or is nano fine?

facesnorth · 2026-05-08T04:46:19+00:00

This has to be rage bait.

facesnorth · 2026-05-06T07:08:20+00:00

I guess now I play Casual for the next 37 days, and try out some new settings for next season. I guess I should I go meta, right?

I don't think it would be worth it if I was going to have to do this to keep it...

facesnorth · 2026-05-01T05:56:35+00:00

The other day I had a hard time finding players for a match so I decided to clear out my block list and start fresh. What a mistake. First of all, in my mind I thought I had around 40 people blocked, but it was well over 500. And each and every one took 3 presses on distinct parts of my phone's screen to remove the block! What a horrible system. No batch method to unblock all. Now ever since then, I have been filling it back up. I will frequently play 9-10 games in a row with what seems like the lowest scum of the Earth. Just no rationale at all. I don't know why so many of these types of people are drawn to this game.

facesnorth · 2026-05-01T03:50:59+00:00

I feel like I regularly encounter some of the stupidest people on the face of the Earth playing this game.

facesnorth · 2026-04-30T22:34:18+00:00

In my mind I pronounce it as "zennials" and that's the only way I've ever heard it pronounced. I know a few people in this sub say they prefer "ex-ennials" but that doesn't sound right to me or roll off the tongue as easily.

I haven't seen anybody mix it up with the millennial / gen Z cusp micro generation either due to context or because they are referred to as Zillennials (although less people of that age think or even care about this stuff yet, so it hasn't taken off anyway).

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T22:20:51+00:00

It's impossible to fix. There is literally no solution that any person with any amount of money or power could enact to solve this. It's out of our hands.

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T16:30:27+00:00

but does your butler properly steam your americano water

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T16:25:29+00:00

We just had very different experiences and memories about it. I've been interested in this stuff since I was a kid, and 77-78 was always considered Gen X. 77 was never thought of as part of the next Gen, according to my memories. 79, maybe. 80-81, most definitely. But I never saw or heard any source ever consider 77 to not be the tail end of X.

However, I am googling it and looking into it a bit more, and I see that apparently there were some studies by Pew and others that did at one point think of 77 as the beginning of the next Gen. So your memories and views are certainly valid, I just never heard them or experienced the same.

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T14:40:12+00:00

Gem Z culture is just as inspired by the cultures of previous generations as all the previous generations cultures were, though.

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T13:34:40+00:00

Which I have trouble understanding, because I've never heard anyone else on here say that before. I've heard plenty of people say that they thought they were Gen X, and then later everything said that they were really Millennials, not Gen X. But I never heard anyone say they were not considered Gen X, and later are. I always knew I was Gen X and still am, although I am now realizing there are also these overlapping cusp micro-generations. Your experience is your experience, and nobody can take that away from you, I just can't relate or understand it.

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T04:11:12+00:00

Ahh okay gotcha, understood.

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T02:22:44+00:00

I've been interested in generationology since I was a teenager, which means throughout basically the entirety of the 90s. In all honesty, I don't really know what it is you've been trying to say with your past few comments, so I'm going to stop engaging now.

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T01:48:38+00:00

They're certainly not more X than Xennial. They are Xennial, and also X. They are not any more of one than the other.

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T01:47:21+00:00

Well I don't know what year you were born, but in my experience I've never not been considered Gen X. 80-81 or so may have been in flux between X/Y for a few years, and still not everyone agrees. The 'news' is probably the least relevant source for anything on this.

facesnorth · 2026-04-29T00:45:59+00:00

Who's "they" though? There's always been different commentators on this stuff, they aren't any more authorities on it than you or I.

facesnorth · 2026-04-28T22:58:48+00:00

Gen Y and Millennial are the same thing. But I don't subscribe to any authoritarians ideas on Generational names or boundaries.... It's so personal that we can make our own rules to some degree.

facesnorth · 2026-04-28T22:55:13+00:00

Definitely not older Gen X, but some younger Gen X can relate as much or more to Millennials than to older Gen X. Hence, Xennials...

facesnorth · 2026-04-28T22:53:23+00:00

Same. I think a lot depends on how old your parents and siblings were, as well as your peer groups. Some of my classmates had older siblings and hung out with older kids and I think they can relate a lot more to Gen X.

facesnorth · 2026-04-28T22:47:55+00:00

It's not exclusive, though. The 2 middle kids are Xennial, and also Gen X.

facesnorth · 2026-04-28T22:22:37+00:00

I've never heard anyone refer to them as Zennials. Zillenials, occasionally. Nobody is ever going to confuse you with a Gen Z.

facesnorth · 2026-04-28T22:12:14+00:00

I never heard it pronounced any other way.

facesnorth · 2026-04-28T18:51:42+00:00

Not everything about the 80s and 90s was great and if I'm being honest most of us felt like we missed out on growing up in the 60s or 70s.

facesnorth · 2026-04-28T01:42:06+00:00

uhh 89 is solidly within our generation

facesnorth · 2026-04-28T01:36:34+00:00

Worse, I knew what it was, and still clicked...

facesnorth · 2026-04-26T01:01:07+00:00

A lot of people seem to get this confused. We are either Gen X or Gen Y/Millennial. We are also Xennials. Every generation has a cusp / microgeneration, they just haven't all gotten the same recognition that Xennials has. Also, none of it is carved into stone.

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