MU Peeves Thread

Coin

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.

sao

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

junipersky

@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)

sao

@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.

Snackness

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

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

junipersky

@Snackness

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

sao

@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”.

Dreampipe

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

Pavel

@Dreampipe trying to speak

Sammich

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

Ashkuri

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.

farfalla

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.

Wizz

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.