I can assure you, a millennial or older wrote this list to rile up his fellows :D
Sorry but “slop” has been reserved for AI-relater insults only and I will not accept any dilution of that.
The friendslop genre would like a word.
My favorite definition was when it was used to describe cheap, mass produced clothes like your work clothes from around the 16th to 19th century, sailors would dress in their slop, etc.
I mean, it’s a little funny. I saw people calling things quality-slop or artistic-slop
First, someone half-clever comes up with a neologism or repurposes an uncommon word to describe a new phenomenon.
*Monkey’s paw of linguistic integration curls another of its infinite fingers*
Someone not so clever hears the word and fails to understand the word. They take it to mean good or bad because they are too simple to comprehend more than a judgemental binary. Now they use their shiny new word that makes them feel clever for everything. More not so clever individuals do the same. Now it’s used by every idiot with an internet connection.
The clever person sounds like an idiot by simply being the human surrounded by parrots saying the same thing, and the concept they were trying to bring into public consciousness is treated as the noise of the rabble. It is a battle even to get people to take it seriously.
But, hey, at least the memelords get to feel clever and you can snort quietly for a half a second when you scroll past the memes.
Sounds like a pretty woke take to me.
/sMemes in a nutshell
Me while Alexandria is burning:
You: in despair, pitiful, will never create language faster than I can bastardize it :3
Wtf?
Nice rage bait lol
Truly. My 7yo plays enough Earthbound to put the lie to this meme, the classics are evergreen.
What “slop”? Stop using “slop” for everything now. Fucking kid.
Calm down grandpa
No…they have a point. The word is so overused I don’t even want to type it out.
This kid missed the “be seen, not heard lesson”
lmao this takes me back to the olden days of bait when you could just call something shit and people would argue.
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Old days, huh?
Time is a flat circle, my friend.
It’s fine. 40 is the new 30, 30 is the new 20, and this kind of youthful confusion about time and aging is exactly what I’d expect from a 10 year old, so it tracks.
It’s only slop if it’s bad. Otherwise it’s core. In this case, Grampcore.
This contextless superficial review of classics denies the groundbreaking gameplay, art styles, storytelling, and direction that these games contributed to the artistic medium that is video games.
Like saying that The Godfather sucks becuase it is derivative and stuck in the time that it was created.
Alright I’m done yelling at clouds.
Alright I’m done yelling at clouds.
Plural? I only see one.
I’ve yelled at Cloud far too much in my life. 😆
“All we had to do was follow the damn train Cloud!”
2004 was 10 years ago right? Please?
The 90s was about 10 years ago. 2005 was about 10 years ago. The 2010s was about 10 years ago.
I don’t know why and I know it doesn’t make sense, but apparently everything feels like it was about 10 years ago to my millennial brain.
Except 2020, that was like last year.
Except for 2020…the year that never was.never ended…feels like everything changed after 2020.
It kind of did. Shit started going to hell a lot earlier, but Covid (and the associated conspiracy theories etc. going mainstream) turbocharged it.
feels like everything changed after 2020
I have a method for estimating how many years ago something was - I think of a number and then double it. Used to work pretty well, but nowadays I’m noticing I need to add 4 to the estimate of anything that happened before COVID.
Both last year and lasted 50 years
Bad news, it’s 2026. So 12 years ago.
I wasnt even born in 2004 and I will technically be able to legally adopt children in a few months
I love my gramp games :(
This is so fucking stupid. If you substitute movies or books for the images it would just seem stupid.
It’s weird video games get this strange space of “old”.
As soon as people started calling staples of the FPS genre “boomer shooters,” I knew it was over.
That never made sense to me, since Boomers by and large weren’t the ones playing games then.
Boomer is shorthand for “old”. Accuracy is not a requirement for a snappy genre title.
I guess it irks me because us Gen Xers were the first ones who really started playing video games, damn it! XD
You are the boomer now. Passes the mantle
Is it called a “boomer shooter” because it has exploding barrels (or other things) you can shoot?
No, it’s because they are styled like old fps like doom or hertic
like doom
So, a doomer shooter?
Boomer doomer shooter
Oh I thought it was because stuff goes boom 😔
Are they just mad that the best year in gaming was 1998. Games back then can still be played today they don’t need a always online servers that will get shutdown. Every multiplayer game came with a free dedicated server and you could vote kick the cheaters or just people being assholes. Mods were everywhere and encouraged by the devs not lawsuits. Most games didn’t come with with a rootkit pretending to be DRM.
I would argue MOST games don’t have DRM rootkits today, just not the ones that spend more $$$ on marketing than development and writing.
Ow, my back and my feelings
If these games were cars you could register them as classics in California. If you played any of them on release, you should probably stand up and stretch after you read this comment
I remember playing the shareware OG doom after my not-uncle installed it on the family computer back in '94.
Yes, I’m basically dead now.
