goomer

Derogatory slang for "old gamer", more precisely an older generation gamer that hold irrationally onto aspects of gaming of the past while shunning newer aspects of modern video games even when it does not make sense.

Etymology:
From English 'boomer' + 'gamer'

English 'boomer' is furthermore an ellipsis of English 'baby boomer', a person born in the postwar years/generation between 1946 and the early 1960s, though here the term is being used in the joking, derogatory sense of simply "an elderly person", an "older person" or more precisely "an old, ignorant/conservative person."

Often one who will play a modern video game and complain about all the ways things in said games are different from when they were younger, such as too much hand-holding, difficulty being too low, too many realistic-looking non-pixel art games and what have you. Not all complaints will be shared or true for every goomer.

Some, though not all, but possibly most, of goomers will likely also be politically on the right side of the spectrum, as historically speaking the people that complain the most about new things while idolising things of the past are statistically likely to be conservative.

The old gamer: “I can’t believe these new Mario games, they give you this ability if you die a number of times that make it way too easy or as an extra life, like the game is telling you ‘You suck a little bit but it’s ok, here is another change!’ Games in my days didn’t do any such thing, they were HARD! You had to learn to master them!”
Young gamer: “You old fuck, you’re such a goomer… of course, I do agree, but you know it can be toggled off, right?”

by LukasExemplar December 25, 2024

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