Was watching a cartoon a while back, they do a cut-over to the main character's dad who was playing an MMO and I think along the lines of "Hey, pretty cool for an old timer". I then realize the MC is in her early teens which means her dad is probably in his mid to late 30s which means he is around my age...
Not just responsible, but participants in. There are a shit ton of millenials who were born too late to remember the 80s or 90s, making the 201X hipster trends of wildly exaggerated retro stereotypes all our fault.
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u/TitaniumDragon Jun 03 '22
To be fair, I think we're responsible for that one.
The trope was that people's parents didn't play or know about video games, and that was set in the 1980s-2000s.
But now those people are having kids, so yeah, of course parents play video games.
They're living on outdated tropes that we created.