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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8714768" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, I don't know if anyone but you sees it that way. I'm not sure it's unreasonable or "terrible" to point out cultural differences among generations so long as you're not writing those generations off. I don't think it's at all wrong to suggest Gen-Xers are, on average, a lot fiercer about gatekeeping IPs of "their" era than Millennials are of theirs (Gen Z remains to be seen). What's next, it's deadly insulting to admit many (most?) Millennials like me really hate and avoid voicemail, particularly receiving it? Neither is some fatal character flaw of the whole generation - it's just that a specific stereotype that on average applies a bit (or a lot) better to one generation than another - there are tons of similar. I'm not sure why this particular one is so enraging. We going to say the heavily tattooed, bearded guy on a skateboard even though he's pretty old and definitely not cool outside his own mind isn't probably Millennial lol? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />(The biggest average flaw of Millennial culture for my my money is a characteristic overfondness for "twee" stuff - Gen-X was perhaps too far the other way, with ludicrous cynicism, and tons of so-edgy-you-could-cut-yourself stuff, but neither is great.)I mean, you're basically doing what you're telling me not to right here - observing generational differences and trends - the way Gen-X designers created almost "apologies" (your words, I'd say "reactions") to Boomer stuff.Interestingly with settings the most influential ones for me - the ones I grew up with - are actually Greatest Generation and Boomer rather than Gen-X as you might expect. Zeb Cook, who did Taladas and Planescape is 88, so Greatest Generation, and Ed Greenwood is 63 so a very young Boomer. Troy Denning (Dark Sun) is the same age as Ed.Outside of D&D though it's more true - for example, Mark Rein*Hagen is 57, so an older Gen-Xer, for example (and certainly Gen-X culturally).</blockquote>

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