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On 25/08/2024 20:34, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> Maybe it's not related.  They have shooters that go boom?
> Probably a bit of column A, a bit of column B.
> 
> Still, even if the nomenclature is not entirely accurate, I've no
> problem calling those sorts of FPS games "Boomer shooters". It
> differentiates it from run-of-the-mill first-person shooters and is a
> better name than "Doom-clone".
> 
> Not to mention many (but definitely not all; Carmack, for instance,
> wouldn't qualify) of the people who developed games from that era were
> of the so-called "Baby Boom" generation.
> 
> And, as pointed out, there is a lot of 'boom' in these games. After
> all, one facet of 'boomer shooters' is that high-explosive weaponry
> can be used recklessly and in close proximity to the user. When you
> have games where your hand-held rocket-launcher can fire multiple
> missiles per shot, or where rocket-jumping is an ordinary method of
> traversal, calling it a 'boomer shooter' isn't completely without
> merit. 😉

Well that's the English language for you. Terms get latched onto, and 
spread, even if they don't always make sense. I had to learn words I've 
never heard of before for World of Tanks. So tomato for a bad player and 
'stronk plane' to be sarcastic about playing badly.

For boomer itself, that over the years seems to have moved from just 
describing a generation to often a pejorative for anything, or one, that 
may be considered old. Personally I'm very much in the camp of English 
is there to communicate so as long as I understand what someone means 
then that's good enough for me.