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[overgeeked]

Which is interesting because each generation’s culture is heavily influenced by media created by artists from the generation before it.

Right. But art is generally created by the rebellious of the generation. Those with something to say. Usually about the world. And usually negative. Had this same conversation with my kid after watching Pump Up The Volume.

 

[Yaarel]

To continue a bit in the spirit of the OP:

• The spell Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion gets renamed to Mordenkainen's Medium-Sized Condomium, because few Millenial Wizards can afford more than that

Mordenkainens Magnificent Parents Extra Room.

 

[Charlaquin]

Mordenkainens Magnificent Parents Extra Room.

Mordenkainen’s Mom’s Magnificent Mooring.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

some consider us politically ineffectual.

I think every generation, full of piss and vinegar, thinks that about the older generations, whose backs hurt and are focused on trying to keep their crappy mid-level jobs.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Which is interesting because each generation’s culture is heavily influenced by media created by artists from the generation before it.

If you don't think your elders made a mess of things and it's up to you to kick the world into shape and make it your own, what are you even doing with your youth?

 

[Charlaquin]

I think every generation, full of piss and vinegar, thinks that about the older generations, whose backs hurt and are focused on trying to keep their crappy mid-level jobs.

Also every generation tells themselves when they’re young and hated by the older generations that they’re going to be kinder to the next generation. And then always end up being just as critical to the next generation when the time actually comes.

 

[Yaarel]

The Ethereal Plane of the Privileged Economic Elite

 

[Clint_L]

Also every generation tells themselves when they’re young and hated by the older generations that they’re going to be kinder to the next generation. And then always end up being just as critical to the next generation when the time actually comes.

Yup. Their time will come to complain about kids these days, with their stupid hair, wrong values, and lousy work ethic. For millennials, that time is coming fast.

Notice that WotC is trying to preempt that by getting out of the editions business. Instead, they want to just sneakily update the game every few years so it always reflects the current status quo. This may rob old millennials of one of the favourite grognard pastimes: endlessly explaining why our version of the game was so much better.

 

[Scribe]

I think every generation, full of piss and vinegar, thinks that about the older generations, whose backs hurt and are focused on trying to keep their crappy mid-level jobs.

Being told by my son that his generation would solve drug abuse and homelessness was quite the internal laugh let me tell you.

 

[LordBP]

I'm not so young as to know everything anymore.