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Slurs aside,

  • blazed (meaning stoned, as in “420 blaze it”)
  • pwn
  • lamer
  • lamesauce
  • g2g
  • rofl (I find it really interesting that lol and lmao stood the test of time but rofl fell into obscurity…too over-the-top, maybe?)
  • brah (as in bro)
  • rekt
  • noice (as in nice)
  • gangsta (as in “that’s so gangsta”)
  • ghetto (specifically when meaning scuffed or jury-rigged)
  • ratchet
  • (a specific term equivalent to cross-faded that I cannot for the life of me remember)
  • Macarena
  • (A)IM ((AOL) instant message)
  • Gchat
  • Pogs (not as in PogChamp but as in these guys)
  • Toonami
  • Psych!/sike!
  • Jinx (personal jinx ten! Nice try)

and probably a bunch more dated slang which I’ve memory-holed

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psych/sike!

And it’s cousin, not!

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13 points

Oh shit, that reminded me of another one: talk to the hand!

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13 points

Me and my partner still use “noice” all the time, we’re keeping the flame alive. Whether anyone wants us to or not

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17 points

slurs aside

Ugh. It can’t be overstated just how pervasive the f-word slur was when I grew up.

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10 points

I feel like brah has increased if anything. Or maybe Im combining it with bruh.

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Yeah, I’m specifically excluding brah. I still hear (and use) both bro and bruh, but the frat-bro-coded brah seems to have fallen to the wayside. Maybe actual frat bros still use it…not really my scene.

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25% of my verbal communication is various forms of brah/bruh/bruv

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lol and lmao are quicker to type for more people than rofl on qwerty keyboard. That’s always been my guess. rofl is a little awkward to type

It used to be a composite too, it was often typed out fully as roflmao. That’s what I think actually became lmao over time

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Toonami

Remains my guiding light for all of my creative endeavors. My primary ambition is to make something that would make it on Toonami. Something my younger self would dig. I just want TOM to do some ice cold voice-over promo on my work. That’s what I want my c/gamedev projects to be. Toonami worthy.

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6 points

jury-rigged

Jerry-rigged actually, and apparently this phrase predates the term “Jerry” used for Germans by a century so no relation

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Depends, is ghetto meaning poorly built or shoddy (jerry rigged)? Or is it meaning effectively, even stylishly, Improvised from on hand materials (jury rigged)

Ive seen both definitions used.

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lmao i didn’t realize both were phrases but in retrospect it’s obvious. english is weird

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