Ahh, boomers…

  • Fantomas@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Watching his boomer ass go backwards around that track whilst aspousing the evils of video games tells you everything you needed to know back then, now and forever.

    • 1bluepixel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think he was throwing shade on the parents by showing how much fun he was having. Though why he went in reverse is a boomer mystery.

      • wjrii@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        The story is so weird, like somebody (the reporters? Nintendo?) wanted to do a puff piece that was just letting people know the SNES was coming out and it looked cool, but somebody else wanted a serious but uncreative “outrage” angle so they tacked it on and then promptly ignored it. Dude’s literally playing FZero on the weather department’s green-screen.

        • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Maybe it was outrage marketing. That’s more common today, but even back day there were ads trying to sell games like Sonic by saying that your mom wouldn’t like it.