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    • J
      jujube
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      If you’re playing a 16-20 year old in a modern day MU*, can you at least try to be a believable member of Gen Z? I’m seeing too many ‘teen’ characters that act like 30+ year old Millennials and Gen Xs. It really breaks my immersion.

      At least look up how Gen Z acts and learn some of their slang. It’s low-key cringe if you don’t. (See what I did there?)

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      • PavelP
        Pavel @jujube
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        @jujube said in MU Peeves Thread:

        If you’re playing a 16-20 year old in a modern day MU*, can you at least try to be a believable member of Gen Z? I’m seeing too many ‘teen’ characters that act like 30+ year old Millennials and Gen Xs. It really breaks my immersion.

        At least look up how Gen Z acts and learn some of their slang. It’s low-key cringe if you don’t. (See what I did there?)

        No. If you fuckers can’t be bothered learning basic history for your characters, I’m not learning pop culture.

        He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
        BE AN ADULT

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        • CoinC
          Coin @jujube
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          @jujube said in MU Peeves Thread:

          If you’re playing a 16-20 year old in a modern day MU*, can you at least try to be a believable member of Gen Z? I’m seeing too many ‘teen’ characters that act like 30+ year old Millennials and Gen Xs. It really breaks my immersion.

          At least look up how Gen Z acts and learn some of their slang. It’s low-key cringe if you don’t. (See what I did there?)

          I’m gonna guess you stay far away from Lords and Ladies games because their speech patterns aren’t accurately portrayed.

          In Occam I trust.

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          • saoS
            sao
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            I refuse to rp any character who knows what dabbing is.

            let it be a challenge to you

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            • juniperskyJ
              junipersky Administrators @sao
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              @sao Dab

              Also, has no teenager or child told you recently that dabbing is now cringe?

              Because I have.

              Multiple times.

              (Which means I dab more gdi)

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              • saoS
                sao @junipersky
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                @junipersky no, I don’t meet youths much in my line of work, and when I do, dabbing doesn’t actually come up. I found out about dabbing from listening to TAZ, and one of the few youths I know had to explain it to me. It took several tries.

                Yeet was much easier to learn.

                let it be a challenge to you

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                • SnacknessS
                  Snackness @sao
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                  @sao I hate to tell you this but ‘yeet’ is right out.

                  But I love it and I’m gonna keep using it.

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                  • juniperskyJ
                    junipersky Administrators @Snackness
                    last edited by

                    @Snackness

                    I used ‘yeet’ in a pandemic lesson and my students acted like I had murdered their families.

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                    • saoS
                      sao @Snackness
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                      @Snackness lol. Yeah I figured it was no longer in when I saw people misusing it on the news in an attempt to be “with it”.

                      let it be a challenge to you

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                      • DreampipeD
                        Dreampipe @sao
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                        @sao ay no cap fam that shit bussin’. Respectfully, on god. Drip check – sheeeeeeeesh. Vibe is in retrograde but the fit is GOATed.

                        Ask me about professional wrestling.

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                        • PavelP
                          Pavel @Dreampipe
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                          @Dreampipe trying to speak

                          He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                          BE AN ADULT

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                          • SammichS
                            Sammich @jujube
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                            @jujube I can’t even manage to be a believable member of the generation I actually am!

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                            • AshkuriA
                              Ashkuri
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                              Playing a young/teen character is less about nailing the slang du jour and more about being vulnerable, inexperienced, confident about things you have no real clue about, unconfident about things that really are okay, feeling Big Emotions and maybe not knowing what to do with them, and discovering Nietzsche and then explaining it to people 25 years older than you.

                              I think it’s tricky for players because believable teens get so much “wrong” as they flail into adulthood (and players don’t like to be wrong), not so much because it’s hard to know when not to say yeet.

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                              • farfallaF
                                farfalla
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                                Slang is born in the Black and Queer cultures, and then because it’s cool, the youth start using it. Around this time, the Black and Queer cultures sigh and move on to some new slang. Then people notice that the youth are using it, so the wider culture starts using it. At this point, the youth stop using it and move on to the new slang the Black and Queer communities created. The wider culture will not stop using this slang, until the new slang (which is actually now old slang) created by the Black and Queer cultures percolates down to them again.

                                Thus is the cycle of slanglife.

                                as previously stated, good day.

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                                • WizzW
                                  Wizz
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                                  All I have to contribute to this subject is that there is never anything that makes you sound like a cranky old fart as much as complaining about keeping up with slang, lol.

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                                  • crawfishC
                                    crawfish @Dreampipe
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                                    @Dreampipe said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                    @sao ay no cap fam that shit bussin’. Respectfully, on god. Drip check – sheeeeeeeesh. Vibe is in retrograde but the fit is GOATed.

                                    I can’t even look at you right now.

                                    I draw things! http://www.mahaldoodles.com

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                                    • tsarT
                                      tsar
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                                      Being recommended for stuff. Please don’t recommend me. lol PLEASE

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                                      • saoS
                                        sao
                                        last edited by

                                        But I AM a cranky old fart.

                                        let it be a challenge to you

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                                        • WizzW
                                          Wizz @sao
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                                          @sao KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE

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                                          • JumpscareJ
                                            Jumpscare @Wizz
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                                            @Wizz said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                            @sao KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE

                                            …

                                            Don’t say it…

                                            …

                                            …

                                            G. I. JOOOOOE

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