I mean, alcohol is bad at its taste

A false dichotomy created by pop culture to divide teenagers into cliques.

Yeah, I mean I did plenty of both.
- And have felt super cool and like a total loser doing both.
Imagine not cracking a beer while playing Vidya Games.
If you think cliques and bullying are a new thing created by "popular culture", I have news for you. This shit has been going on for literally thousands of years.

Is this divisive jock/preppy/nerd/skater/gangsta shit still going on 23 years after I left high school? I thought y'all zoomers were better than that.

hello, I'm a 2020 hs graduate, I'm probably in the zoomer category. from my experience, this does not exist outside of movies.
- Man what was 2020 graduation like?
Actually not. You can be a massive nerd these days and still go get fucked up and party.
There will always be popular extroverts and unpopular introverts.
- Can we stop this "Introvert" BS? An "introvert" is someone who will tend to keep their thoughts to themselves. Nothing more. This "the extroverts are the sports guys and the introverts are the intellectuals" is completely made up and people will not like you more or less depending on wether you wear your heart on your tongue or not.

There are 2 types of people in the world:

People who can extrapolate information from an incomplete list.

The dutch.
your mom
- Lol. I can't decide which is funnier: The dutch or your mom.
  
  Are there Dutch yo momma jokes?
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This would have been maybe edgy or interesting 20 years ago

Having been a teenager approximately 20 years ago, no this wouldn't. We partied and went out, and played video games and surfed the net back then too.
- Eh. I grew up in a football town. There was definitely a dichotomy between the popular kids and the "nerds" back when the term was only used as an insult. I think people have to remember their local experiences are only indicative of their locale, not the world at large. The same likely applies here. Won't be true for everyone, so the post is at least wrong in that regard, but the person who made it probably just didn't consider their experience is the same as everyone else's either.
- I was being generous lol
Based on just browsing social media, this would be more accurate if it were stated as a spectrum and the two extremes hate each other. That would explain the posts in the recent past of people complaining about "normies" (unironically) joining Lemmy.
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- When I've seen complaints about "normies" using Lemmy, it has more to do with people who are enlightened centrists / freeze peach warriors bringing their diseased takes here from reddit
  
  I don't think it has anything to do with which specific hobbies people enjoy, especially since we can't even see that through the screen. I don't know anyone who really cares if you enjoy clubs, gaming, or both.

I was actually both . I was in the robotics club and programming/ gaming on my free time. Then on the weekends I was out drinking and hanging with a completely different set of friends.

The double loser? Gaming and having friends must have been painful to live through.

Gamers truly are the most oppressed ✊😪

Gamers rise up!

In the 90s it wasn't a problem to do both, so I became a double loser.

I was the Internet/Gamer kid raised by television who got drunk at 17 and fell off a roof. Why was I drunk on a roof? Fuckin' 2001.

Not sure which category I fall under.

Yeah lol. I was an internet troll through and through, and somehow found my way into a pretty diverse group in uni.

I don't even want to start on the drunk shenanigans we got up to.
I lived in terraced housing and I used to walk across the steep rooftop of my house down to the neighbors. At the time I thought I was being cool, like my hero, Daredevil. Looking back on it now, it was ridiculously dangerous.

I lament the loss of quite a few of my parallel selves.