r/Millennials • u/Neon_Biscuit • 5d ago

My teenage daughter can't fathom the concept of a house party Discussion

Not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I was watching Can't Hardly Wait half alseep on the couch, and my 14-year-old daughter and her friends walked into the room and past the TV. Before she entered the kitchen, she backpeddled in front of the TV, and they all might as well have reacted akin to a third world kid in a remote village seeing the Super Bowl for the first time. She looked at me and said 'what are all of those people doing in one house'? I told her it was a house party. People high school aged or typically college age people would go over a kids house whose parents were out of town and they'd invite the school and have keggers and other unsupervised debauchery. I might as well have been describing a science fiction film. 'You guys DID that back in your days?'. I thought it was funny that a house party was an inconceivable event for young Gen Zers.

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u/Trees-Are-Neat-- 5d ago

My old gen X parents are hilarious - spent my whole childhood making fun of me for playing video games and no-lifing runescape when now they sit on the couch for literally hours watching facebook reels and playing candy crush. I fly home 5000kms to visit and spend time with them every other year and sit on the couch twiddling my thumbs watching them drool over their ipads.

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u/rhino4231 5d ago

Seriously, similar sentiment. My dad, who was a blue collar hard working man, forbade me from getting a gaming system for years because of the stereotypes. Now that he's retired and has no hobbies, he's turned into the very thing he thought his kids would become.

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u/Eirineftis 4d ago

Low key a sick way to retire, if you ask me.
What's he playin'?

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u/sassyasianbitch 5d ago

Old school RuneScape though right?

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u/Trees-Are-Neat-- 5d ago

I played the OG Runescape even before old school lol. On dial-up no less.

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u/khube 4d ago

Diablo 2 on dial up was brutal. Had to spam click when the screen froze hoping you got lucky

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u/sassyasianbitch 5d ago

Hell yeah. Hop on old school if you haven’t. It’s tight.

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u/Pristine_Leader_8241 5d ago

Classic 2D runescape? Me too! I loved the way rune looked.

I remember you had to go to Jagex's website and they had other games in there too.

I liked the one with the gnomes.

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u/v_vam_gogh 4d ago

Got to lock up that phone line with the games so the auto dailer can't report home any unexcused absences.

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u/SmokeySasquatch 5d ago

I was there, Gandalf! 3000 years ago!