Is “no cap” next? I’m like way old.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m old enough to experience slang which isn’t native to my generation. But let me just say, this current generations slang is the shittest in a long time.

      Previous gen slang (fam, lit, yeet) was a 6/10

      Current gen slang (frfr, no cap, rizz) is 2/10

      Next gen has such a low bar to beat, it’ll be hard for them to fuck this up.

  • @[email protected]
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    Hemlo, inventor of PWN here.

    It was a misspelling of “Owned” in a Warcraft 2 map that I made. People thought it was funny that it upset me when I noticed the typo and perpetuated the map version with the misspelling.

    “Player 1 was pwned.”

    For more Internet history facts, stay tuned.

      • @[email protected]
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        I fucking did. The Internet will never let me live it down.

        However, it belongs to you all now!

        Be free

        And get rekt :p

    • Maven (famous)
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      Thank you for this incredibly interesting yet highly unexpected history lesson. I really enjoy knowing this now.

    • gimpchrist
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      … I can’t tell if you’re serious or joking but since it’s Lemmy I want to think you’re serious and that’s pretty fucking cool if it is, bud

    • @Psythik
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      16 months ago

      Did Pure Pwnage ever pay you rolalties?

      • @[email protected]
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        Are you kidding me? No way. You can’t trademark a word or a typo. That’s dumb.

        Jeremy deserves every ounce of his fame from Pure Pwnage

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    • @bitwaba
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      Yeah, pwn was way before epic

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    As a millenial, yeet is still the greatest new word ever added, and why I personally will never be against the new generations choice of words. Fuckin Rizz is starting to appeal to me too

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        Especially with how you pronounce yeet, I cannot think of another English word that is as fun to say

    • @KammicRelief
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      My problem is, right about when a word starts to appeal to me and I’m like “oookayy I’ll start saying it,” it’s way too late.

      I guess I could balance it by always appending a Dude-like “…in the parlance of our times…”

      • Decoy321M
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        That’s the thing. Once it starts appealing to you, it loses value to the original group.

        It’s one of my favorite ways to fuck with my nephews and nieces.

          • Decoy321M
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            Precisely. Another fun subtle thing to do is add “the” to the term. Gives it an extra sense of dismissiveness. It ain’t “TikTok”, it’s “the TikTok.”

            Or better yet, “the tikkity tok.”

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        Thats why I just start saying words Ironically immediately and then get infected into using them unironically

        • @[email protected]
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          This was me in high school. I even listened to boy bands ironically and then noticed I was singing them unironically.

    • gimpchrist
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      Yeah once I learned Rizz is just charisma I wasn’t so mad

    • @loomi
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      That hep cat’s rizz is putting the jelly in this pawg’s roll.

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        I mean its just a shortened form of Charisma. Cha sounds weird, and Risma sounds like the set up for a “MUH BAWLZ” Joke

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          We say CHA in my D&D group when talking about the stat, but I’m gonna start saying rizz at the table and see how people react.

          • @bitwaba
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            “Go ahead and give me a roll on a DC15 rizz check…”

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          Could just say charisma. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

            • @bitwaba
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              Sure, but what the hell happens to charismatic in this situation? Does that get shortened too, so now we’ve got people saying “Yo Zendaya is totally rizzmatic!”. Or does everyone just need to re-arrange all sentences that would use charismatic so that only the noun form gets used and we avoid ever having to use it as an adjective?

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                I mean, Rizzmatic sounds awesome, I’m down to hear that variation. Language is constantly in flux. It has never stayed static. Multiple variations of 1 word just means you get to pick which one you like best

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            I mean, I cant confirm directly where it originated from. But it’s used in the exact same way charisma is, and means basically the same thing

    • @Gabu
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      Aaah, that’s hot

    • @fidodo
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      Remember pog? It’s back!

    • J'Pol
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      You knew things had gotten serious when the metal slammers came into play.

    • @waz
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      I’m a little sad I had to scroll so long to even find a reference to the old “pogs”. Damn what a weird fad.

  • @Maggoty
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    Oh I still have POGs around somewhere. Middle aged Americans can kill this quickly…

    • TomAwsm
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      I like your funny words, magic man

  • @papalonian
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    Right now, “huge” is popping up a lot.

    • @gmtom
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      Big if true

  • @JimVanDeventer
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    One way in the back should say “bees knees”.

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      And somewhere between it and “rad,” “swell” and “far out.”

      • @bitwaba
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        “sweet” should be on there somewhere after the 80s slang.

    • @15liam20
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      Next to “bee’s bollocks”

  • @Mr_Dr_Oink
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    Whats the timeline on these? I feel like pwn win and epic all happened at the same time. Also i dont see leet or '1337"

    • @samus12345
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      “Rad” and “gnarly,” too.

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          They are, 80s and 90s. I mean that they happened around the same time.