doomer

noun

1. One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.

   “Those who suggest the likely return of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (famine, pestilence, war, and death) are more vocal than ever before despite being labeled Malthusian or just "doomer."”

   “[…] while a Minnesotan in her early thirties summed up the general influence of apocalyptic popular culture: “I think it has made me more of a doomer. […]”

2. (capitalized, neologism, sometimes)Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world.

   “Doomers, meanwhile, are the nihilistic cousins of “Bloomers” and “Gloomers,” all three gradients of the same 20-something. Whereas Bloomers are well adjusted and Gloomers are depressed because they are not, Doomers have simply stopped trying. They are no longer pursuing friendships or relationships, and get no joy from anything because they know that the world is coming to an end.”

   “Tim Joung, a 20-year-old student in New York, agrees with almost everything that so-called doomers believe: individual action makes little difference, and unscrupulous corporations are at fault for climate change.”

3. (capitalized, neologism, sometimes)Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world.

   “To this day, some doomers work on the inside, nudging the big A.I. labs toward caution, and some work on the outside, arguing that the big A.I. labs should not exist.”

   “Today [Eliezer] Yudkowsky is regarded as a leader of the “doomers”, a faction whose members believe that superintelligent AI will be unambiguously bad for humanity and perhaps even cause our extinction.”

   “It was a rare issue in which the interests of Doomers, Boomers, and profit-motivated corporates aligned: Keeping frontier models front and center in government regulatory discussions was ideologically imperative to Doomers and convenient to Boomers and corporates for shifting attention away from regulating existing AI models and their problems.”

4. (rare)One who, or that which, dooms or pronounces sentence; judge.

   “Are not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?”

   “That fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prisoner's life and death, as the judge concluded.”

5. (informal)A player of the video game Doom.

   “Doomers, ranging from children to senior citizens, are up all night hunting specters, imps, and other hellspawn, battling each other in so-called Deathmatch tournaments, and checking out the latest Doom lore by conversing with the game’s developers over computer chat lines. […] What’s ahead for Doomers? Id has authorized a company called Austin Virtual Gaming to license an eight-screen Doom arcade setup around the country.”

   “I am not a female Doomer, but I did "catch" my fiance playing Doom the other day. It led us to a discussion of why ID didn't put the option in to choose a female character.”

   “The sense of reality is so seamless that on the Internet, where many Doomers gather, there is a FAQ (frequently asked questions) document that talks about Doom-induced motion sickness. […] At one point, Carnegie Mellon University’s 25,000-user network had so many student Doomers playing that the system nearly ground to a halt.”

   “#doom This channel is a cousin of #vidgames […] And some players use it to find others who have the Internet Head-to-Head Daemon (IHHD) software, which lets folks play Doom over the Net. (Note: Some “Doomers” may want to try finding the #modemdoom channel if #doom is not active for some reason.)”

   “On the downside, they’ve created such indelible demons and Death match tournaments that Doomers of all ages have reported actual perception changes.”

6. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of doomer.
7. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Doomer (“player of DOOM”).

   “Along with many, many other places where DOOMers frequent. […] NOTE DMCL Distribution Please feel free to distribute the list to anywhere the DOOMers may be.”

   ““Using a combination of our own warped imaginations, thousands of hours of software development, and insightful suggestions from thousands of dedicated DOOMers worldwide, we’ve crafted a sequel that is more exciting, more deadly, and even more realistic than the original DOOM,” says id Software CEO Jay Wilbur.”

   “Although diehard DOOM'''ers will no doubt revel in killing the thrice re-animated creatures, this is essentially a dead game in more ways than one.”

   “Also included is DEWANGO, a server that you can sign onto to find opponents to play and teams of DOOMers to join. […] The Fiasco WAD is made with both rookies and serious DOOMers in mind.”