As an elder millenial I’d like to proudly declare I have never gone to and escape room or axe throwing because those would require some sort of social interaction.
I drink a lot of IPAs though, you don’t need to speak to people to do that.
Skip the alcohol and go to a modern laser tag arena with friends. Insanely fun. They somehow got the Halo 2/3 announcer over a massive intercom system, and they have similar games. Feels like a match from when we were kids!
Depends on the arena. The one in my area, absolutely zero chance of them ever being that cool.
Also, I wouldn’t skip the alcohol. How else would I have had a couple full bottles of sake on my 21st if I had skipped it?
We have inexpensive arcades as well, which are a ton of fun. $5 gets you about an hour of entertainment, and I wouldn’t go over 10 because you’ll probably get bored of the games before you use up your credits if you put too much on it.
Some other options:
- go karts - a little expensive for the fancy ones, so shop around
- shooting range
- trading card game nights at the game shop
These all cost money, but probably not much more than drinking, and they’re generally more enjoyable without alcohol. You can show up alone and have a great time, and there’s just enough social interaction that you won’t feel so alone.
But maybe this is my millenial side showing.
Skip the alcohol
No.
Beware of accounts promoting division between millennials & Gen Z. They’re trying to prevent a powerful political alliance.
Thank you for calling that out. I’ve saw them do that on Reddit right after the election.
Other millennials go out??
Dang, am I a Gen Z now?
Old millennial here. Want to drink at home by yourself while I drink at home by myself?
Late xennial here, you’re a little late, but sure.
We drinking again? I still haven’t stopped from last night.
(stares at naked wrist) it’s blur o’clock, I can’t remember when the fuck I started, and I pretty sure I’m on an entirely different goddamn continent than the one I started on. So far it’s going pretty drink.
We can drink at home by ourselfs while hanging out in the same discord chat
This is the way
Edit: (to add some actual discussion) it’s honestly really nice since Ubers are getting expensive and no one will drink and drive. Sure it’s not the same as hanging out in person but it’s the next best thing.
Actually for real it is, my buddies and I just hang out and drink and smoke and have a gay old time. Maybe we’re all playing dufferent games, sometimes maybe somebody or nobody is playing nothing just chilling.
FR, this is what my wife and I do. We’ll get on a group call and chill with friends separately. Sometimes the same game, sometimes not. Less stress, saves money, still fun.
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I already started
But I fucked up, I’m with friends now and beyond drunk.
The Gen Z bit is accurate, at least for current college students. I’m amazed at how little they do, how few relationships they have, etc. I actually feel quite bad for them.
The kids aren’t alright
It’s hard when everyone is doing the same thing, there’s a very strong force pulling you in that direction
Older Gen Z here. Getting involved in community organising helps.
I feel bad that I don’t see kids outside playing anymore, but I definitely see less young people out drinking and driving and getting into fights and shit as a plus in my book.
GenZ has fallen victim to car culture and commodification of literally everything. There are no places to go and many younger people never even knew different. Life’s only affordable or respectable in the 'burbs where there’s nothing to do and nowhere to go without a car. Meanwhile inner cities with intact structures are bulldozed for more car infrastructure or unusable because of traffic.
Everywhere people can go costs money. Even the internet is no commons any more, peer pressure pushes people into walled gardens where algorithms push brainrot.
You can’t blame the people being affected by our literally unlivable world. It’s been getting worse for some time now and in some aspects millennials had it worse than gen X who had it worse than the boomers. No single generation is to blame for losing the class war, however I hold every single person not fighting against the capitalist class accountable.
I also feel quite bad for us.
I just generally feel bad.
hug
Even the hugs feel bad now
Gen X here. When I get bored I go out to eat by myself. Without the drinking though. I’m lonely, not gonna lie.
When I am bored I go to the explosion museum of naval firepower. Its next to a brewery.
Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower
Wtf its an actual place! The name sounds so ridiculous i’s not sure if you were havin a laugh or not. :)
It’s a real place and a couple years ago I had a years ticket to go in as often as I like and take the ferry around the harbour to see other things too like the historic dockyard (Victory, Warrior, Mary Rose) and the submarine museum. All included in that one ticket. It wasn’t even that expensive really. Lasted for a year.
Wow! The Mary Rose… you just sent me down memory lane. I hadn’t thought about that ship in decades. So i saw that ship when it was still going through that water treatment business. Blew my mind then, i’s really young at the time.
And now i realise i’ve been to Portsmouth, we were staying over in Eastbourne at the time.
The trip was full of museums and castle visits all over the south of England at least between Battle and Tintagel. So we could easily have been to the Explosion museum as well. I’ll have to dig out the old scrap books and see if somethings written in them about it.
The years ticket to all of those sounds like a great way to spend some weekends, get to enjoy the harbour as well.
Looks like its £51 normally for unlimited access to everything for a year. Not sure how often they do it, I got it much cheaper because they were doing it for a pretty good discount for anyone with a PO postcode. Not sure if it was literally every PO postcode or just some of them.
38yo recovering alcoholic, I feel you. Losing pretty much the only way people socialize sucks.
I have a partner I love, still enjoy being alone when I can.
I would too. I get overloaded on social interaction pretty quickly.
I’ve just spent my evening nit leaving the house drinking wine and playing hell let lose with nt wife sitting behind ne playing the sims.
That’s peak millennial in my opinion
Yoooo - played Elden Ring whilst SO played TOTK on the same couch drinking wine and then we went to bed and totally didn’t do it because we’re both super tired 🙌 Peak Saturday Night Millennial Club
I played on my Steam Deck while my SO watched some drama last night, and we ended the evening w/ my SO bawling into my shoulder about something emotional that happened, which I had no context for but still gave some emotional support for.
Seems pretty Millenial to me as well. 😀
As a millennial I share these qualities with zoomers. I wish I had friends to go axe throwing with.
I wish I had friends
I’m kind of on the border between Gen Z and a millennial (1994) so I enjoy brainrot content but going out to go axe throwing or going to an escape room and having some drinks sounds amazing too. I wish I had friends to do that with :(
We exist, come find us. 😁
TIL I’m a zoomer. Sheesh skibbidi rizz Ohio
That’s more alpha than zoomer.
What’s a zoomer? Old gen Z?
On God, no cap All facts no printer
Caps lock, no fax urinal
no fax
That’s something I can get behind, even if it’s at a urinal.
Does your urinal require a cover letter?
What’s the range of birth years for being one ?
Wait. What if I’m a millennial that doesn’t want to leave my house and spends all day consuming garbage content? I won’t go so far as to say brainrot, but it’s not really benefiting me in any way.
Though I will say I do like a good IPA but am not limited to IPA.
Cool.
I don’t drink at all and consume my fair share of garbage content, and I consumed way more when I was younger. I also don’t like going out, probably because I’m pretty introverted and going out w/ friends takes energy, so I save that for more special occasions like birthdays. My typical evening is playing video games, working on side projects, or reading a book.
That’s exactly my stance too, tbh. I used to be extremely extroverted 10+ years back. I’d hit bars and just meet some really cool people. I’m a friendly drinker- sometimes a bit to oversharing, but better than angry. I’d talk to anyone with no fear and made a lot of great friends and acquaintances that way.
Now I probably drink once every couple months because I live by my sister and she has a big back lot with a fire pit. She has to literally pull my teeth to get me out, though. They probably party every other week and even that is just too much for me.
I’d much rather have a quiet day booting up modded Minecraft and playing with my gf on local lan, writing my book, or cuddling up with dinner and watching a movie.
TIL I’m a 35 year old zoomer.
I don’t drink because I don’t wanna, and I don’t leave the house often because everything is too expensive. Home is nice and I have everything I need here. I’m basically a mid-40s zoomer I guess.
Same but also I don’t have any friends to go out with anyway, to fill out the full requirement I guess.
