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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

People still fall for the "generational" bait?

The American generational names only exist because the person who gets to name the new name get a ton of cash to spread the definition, even though those definitions are completely arbitrary.

source: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/generation-myth-leadership-bobby-duffy.html

[–] MrNobody@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But that isn't a picture of a demon. Thats fucking lucifer.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That looks like an edited picture of a human to me.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the character Lucifer from the show Supernatural

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Nah it's Jacob from Lost doing his acting side-gig when he isn't on the island.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago
[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Boomer forgot how millennials are old enough to have had to have film developed.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pissed the hell out of my boomer photography enthusiast dad. Somehow, I ruined every photo he took off me.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Somehow, I ruined every photo he took off me.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to open the camera door?! You can't see the picture yet!"

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Somehow, I ruined every photo he took off me.

Our level of rebellion knows no bounds!

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Red eyes also happen on digital photos.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

Well you gotta stop taking photos of me just after I've smoked a fat joint, man!

[–] Rinna@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

I'm gen z and I still remember that time.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

When the fuck do we get to retire from the "young and stupid" category?

Also, I had red eyes in most photos from my child- and teenhood. I spent a lot of money on film in my teens before I got my first phone with a proper camera in 2007.

Next you're gonna condescendingly explain what a floppy disc or a cassette tape is too? Even Gen z is old enough to know about those.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don't think you properly understand how generations work.

  • A Boomer is anyone older then me who I disagree with.
  • A millennial is anyone younger then me who I disagree with.
  • Someone from Gen Z is anyone younger than me who uses a technology (usually a social media site) I don't like.
[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

For some reason I feel like these rules were written by a gen x but iDK why

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You totally stole this explanation from Tik Tok, zoomer. I bet you don't even know how to launch Netscape from command line. /S

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (17 children)

Millennials are old enough to remember analog cameras and photos of people with red eyes. Man, people need to update their definition of which generation is “young.”

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Red eye happens because of the flash. So still happens on digital cameras. It’s just nowadays they automatically detect and correct for it after the shot has taken. Or some cameras can do a pre flash before the flash for the shot fires or a light turns on when you half press the shutter button. That way the pupil will shrink and less light will enter the pupil and not light up the back of the eye.

[–] Twiglet@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

I hate cameras that do the pre-flash with a burning passion, there's a period in time where every (flash) photo of me either has me with my eyes closed or visibly straining to keep them open.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The oldest millennials are in their early 40s now but to boomers they will always be teens.

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Using the most common definition of those born 1981-1996: Oldest millennials turn 44 this year, youngest turn 29. Next year we'll officially transition to "30s to mid 40s."

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow thanks I'm going to go cry now

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't leave me high. Don't leave me dry-igh-igh...

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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm a millennial and my first camera used film cassettes similar to these ones.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

110 film! The first time I figured out that capacitors hurt was when I dropped a 110 film camera. The front plate popped off and when I tried to pick up the camera, I touched the wrong part of the circuit board and the flash cap discharged into my hand. I dropped the camera, and it recharged the capacitors. I picked it up again and got zapped again. Was not the brightest kid. Picked it up more carefully and popped the front plate back on. Camera was fine. Entire cartridge of film developed perfectly.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You beat me to it. It was so satisfying to brute force the... Advancement square(?) between each shot. Made me feel like a spy, even though the camera was being blue and my sister had covered it with stickers of holographic dolphins.

[–] phudgins@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

110 cameras were the absolute best!

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Millennial? No we don't we were there the whole time...

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Right? Who made this? What millennial doesn't remember red eye, it was in every damn photo when I was a kid and Im not a particularly old millennial.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Mate I'm a millennial and I had my photos developed at the chemists. You're thinking of gen z.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You're thinking of young gen z. I am gen z and as a kid I also had some of my photos developed.

Either way, I think we can agree that millennials know what film is. Many of us have even developed it ourselves. You know back when people were thought things other than app development and learned helplessness.

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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

One thing I found interesting is!how red-eye reduction works - it pre-flashes you eye briefly, before the main flash. So your pupils constrict and light doesn't reflect off the bottom of your eyes. Yes, you are part of the mechanism!

Some strange kind of bio-mechanical symbiotic mechanism is that!

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My dad had an expensive as hell Olympus point and shoot with this. It was so fucking annoying. Took like a half minute for a snap shot and I'd be blind from all the strobing.

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[–] JPSound@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Mhhh... yes, we millenials who are approaching or are already in our 40s... what's all that red eye stuff about?

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