Gonna be very careful with this question since I don't want folks thinking I think that "black culture" is just acting "street" and listening to rap music. I don't. However black-created slang and music and such is very popular with American young, and basically always has been (think of how rock and roll started for basically the same thing back in the 50s). So, I guess my real question is not why we see whites culturally appropriate black cultural items, but why there is the white-youth-culture vacuum that causes the "need" to appropriate in the first place.

Edit: got my answer! Thanks. Also the bit about future kids was just a joke and way of exaggerating my frustration and dislike for the word lol. Everything is fine.

Pretty much the title. I've been seeing people in titanfolk always use "BASED" as some kind of slang and i dont get it. But also - why? When i eventually have kids how am i supposed to teach them how to talk without all these cringe slang words? Theyre gonna be like "mom, the kids at school are using all the words you taught me but i dont understand anything!" Like slang is being transformed so fast on a monthly basis now. Im so tired. Im only in my 20s im not meant to feel this old. T.T help

I know it’s not really slang and everyone uses it but I read an article about gen z slang and “basic” was one of the words on there. I don’t really know how to feel about that. What do you guys think?

I've been a member of this sub since we were at 400k subscribers

I'm known for never getting the fuck off this sub and collecting tax payer money as I do it. Seriously you'll see me here 24 fucking 7 even when I'm "working"

I'm going to give you the quick rundown on Wallstreetbets culture for you newcomers to get acclimated or if you're a CNBC boomer not knowing what the fuck is going on in this sub.

First of all lets go over lingo/slang:

FD (stands for "f" word (no not fuck the other F word) delight)

-To buy an FD is to buy a weekly option that is so fucking retarded it might just work

Retard

-It means your fucking stupid and don't know what the fuck you're doing

Autistic

-Use autistic to describe someone that actually does due diligence and knows what they are doing

First one is free

-A phenomena where you are so retarded and don't know what the fuck your doing you somehow make money on your first trade

Ban

-When you say or ask something so fucking retarded someone has requested a mod to ban you

Diamond Hands 💎✋

-It means you never sell. Your hands are literally made of diamonds

Toilet Paper Hands 🧻✋

-You sell at the slightest red tick because you're overleveraged and are a pussy.

In Scrambles

-when somebody has made a poor decision and is regretting it

Europoors

-When the European stock markets open up and they start selling because they lack economic stimulus.

Ameririch

-When US stock markets open and they buy up what Europoors sold

YOLO

-$400 into GME weeklies is not a YOLO you dumb fuck. A YOLO should be atleast 4 digits and represent 98-100% of your account

$ROPE

-what you buy when you make a poor decision

Smooth Brain

-apparently the grooves in your brain determines your intelligence. To have a smooth brain means to have no grooves which means you're fucking retarded.

FOMO (fear of missing out)

-when everybody getting paid and you feel left out.

Guh

-when you account goes from $4000 to $0 in 30 seconds

DD (Due Diligence)

-It means doing your homework on a specific stock or the overall market

BTFD (Buy the Fucking Dip)

-Something Warren Buffet said

Plunge Protection Team (PPT)

-When the money printer gets turned on and prevents a drill from drilling further

Tendies

-money

Mooning 🚀🚀🚀

-Either means a stock went up 0.05% or 600%

Drilling / Drill team 6

-*Eit

I'm not even that old (37) but I've often had to consult Google to figure out what guys in their early twenties are trying to say to me. I had a guy message me and said he was "down to trade" I said "down to trade what?" he responded "wym". He never did explain to me what he wanted to trade 🤷🏿‍♂️. I know I sound like an old fuddy-duddy but seriously just use plain English 😂.

Heres some slang that I grew up with in Miami in the 2000s. Some of these may be very 2000s-esque, others are Miami/South Florida specific.

"Raw" something is cool or badass

"Git" a short or really young person

"Eating shit" to waste time

"Live" something being awesome; similar to raw

"Biter" a copy cat. Also "biting" to copy someones style.

"Plastic" someone who is prissy and doesnt like going outside or doing anything thats not super clean

"Chonga" a Hispanic girl that partakes in "ghetto" subcultures and usually wears hoop earings, glues her hair and speaks in Spanglish

"Ref" a Hispanic immigrant who speaks no English and is into reggaeton. Males often would wear tight polos, spike their hair and wear silver earings

"Are you serial?" Basically "are you kidding me?"

How far into language learning should you be before knowing slang/idiom terms? Should you start learning slang words when have most of the basics down (basics being equivalent to being in a 1st/2nd language class), or should you wait until you can hold a basic conversation with someone on the streets? Or am I just overthinking this and it really does not matter?

This bull run a lot of new folks have bought in and joined the crypto community, welcome! You probably have heard most of the terms I'm about to reiterate, but I feel like most of the newbies here are missing the full context of a few of the most essential sayings and how they interact, so here we go!

DYOR – (Do Your Own Research)

There has been a big increase in people here on Reddit asking questions they really should have researched themselves. More importantly, questions they should have had an answer to BEFORE they bought in and/or signed up to an exchange. If you are asking me or an other random person on the internet how to withdraw your money from an exchange after depositing your money (you know who you are), or at what price point to buy this and that coin, you are doing it wrong. For all you know the money you just send to “that” exchange is gone because the whole thing is actually a scam. Asking for buying and selling points? Same difference; some might give you good advice, others will see you as a nice new bag holder to dump their shitcoins on. Point being, this world is filled with scams and rip offs in all shapes and sizes. Don't rely on others to do your thinking for you, don't go to a sub dedicated to a coin and think you now understand that market. If you haven't already, check out the posts /u/hazelvelvet recently made to get some ideas of how to spot scamy cryptos. That person is making a true effort battling the scammers.

I always encourage people new to the game to get a basic understanding of what blockchain is and how Proof of Work (PoW) works. It's the easiest one to grasp and a good starting point to compare other formats to. Good starting point is always [this video][1]. To go a step further I'd advice you to actually mine a coin yourself, just so you get an idea of how this whole thing works. Personally I'd recommend checking out Vertcoin, since it's the easiest to mine for any beginner (Disclaimer, I do own some VTC so I am biased). Download the one click miner, make an exception in your AV and/or firewall and you are good to go. Now, if you stopped reading and instantly installed the miner and bypassed your antivirus, congrats, you just trusted a random person on the internet and could have fucked your computer and your crypto holdings. DYOR!!! Don't just trust me because I wrote a lot of text that seemed to make sense. At the very least double check the stuff you are told with different sources.

The whole crypto wo

What the kiddos say: "This doesn't make sense!"

What the kiddos actually mean: "I don't want to think! Please spoon-feed me the information instead!"

That's it, that's the post.

Context:

Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn and his ex-bounty hunter retainer Harlon Nayl have disguised themselves and are following a lead that brings them into a mutant slum in the underhive of Eechan. The mutants have developed a thriving sub-culture that the rather straight-backed Inquisitor struggles to adapt to, to say the least.

"Twist" is the word mutants use to refer to themselves in this hive.

Posting the excerpt because its rare that we get an insight into the regular lives of Hivers, especially abhuman ones. It's also quite funny to see the normally hyper-competent Eisenhorn struggle with something so basic.

>We went inside, down a few dark steps into a nocturnal club room that was fogged with obscura smoke and pulsing with a brand of harsh, discordant music called ‘pound’. Panes of red glass had been put over the lights of the lanterns and the place was a hellish swamp, like the damnation paintings of that insane genius Omarmettia.
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>Malforms, deforms, halfbreeds and underscum huddled or gambled or drank or danced. On a raised stage, a naked, heavy-breasted, eyeless girl with a grinning mouth where her navel should have been gyrated to the pound beat.
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> We reached the bar, a soiled curve of hardwood under a series of hard white lights. The barkeep was a bloated thing with bloodshot eyes and a black snake tongue that flickered between his wet, slit mouth and rotting teeth.
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>‘Hey, twist. What will it be?’
‘Two of those,’ I said, pointing to clear grain-alcohol shots that a waitress was carrying past on a tray. She would have been beautiful except for the yellow quills stippling her skin.
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>Twists. We were all twists here. ‘Mutant’ is a dirty word if you’re a mutant. They delight in referring to themselves by the Imperium’s glibbest and most detrimental slang, as a badge of honour. It’s a pride thing, a common habit with any underclass. Non-telepaths do it when they call themselves ‘blunts’. The tall, slender people of low-grav Sylvan do it when they call themselves ‘sticks’. A slur’s not a slur if you use it on yourself.
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>Labour laws on Eechan permit twists to work as indentured labourers in the industrial mill-farms and the sap distilleries, provided they abide by the local regime and keep themselves to the licensed shanty towns huddled in the skirts of the bad end of Eechan mainhive.
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>The barkeep slapped two heavy shotglasses down on the counter and filled them t

I have set aside two areas: one from mystery gift bags (furniture, clothes, nmt, bells, etc) and the other for a large section of Common DIYS.

No matter which you want to come take a look at, please limit yourself to only TEN items total. Again, only TEN total. That means any combination of BOTH the bags and the DIYS that is equal or less than TEN. You also have to remind me that my favorite villagers are cranky when you make your comment or you will not be invited!

I'll be letting people in 3 at a time until I run out of stuff or time. It's around 3am for me so I don't expect to be up for long. Let me know which of the two sections you want to visit. You can comment either "I live for the mystery!" or "I'm a crafty one!" to an invite, but you can visit either section of the giveaway. Again. You can only take ten things.

Rules:

1. Read the ENTIRE POST before commenting. Please.
2. You can ONLY TAKE TEN THINGS. Any combination of stuff you want but TEN only.
3. No Wetsuits
4. No talking to villagers
5. Leave via the airport only
6. Don't open bags or learn DIYS until AFTER you've gotten back to your own island.
7. Make sure you've read all of my post! No second chances, no exceptions.

If you don't get a response you didn't read the whole post. I will not accept edited posts. You will have to try again some other time.

See you soon!

I'm making room in my inventory, and I have stacks of some basic resources taking up a lot of space. Specifically, I have:

• 15 stacks of 30x softwood
• 8 stacks of 30x clay
• 2 stacks of 30x iron

If you want any, please comment how many stacks of each resource you'd like, and I'll drop them off for you!

「ウケる」(ukeru)

It means: funny, hilarious

This is a slang of “おもしろい."

It sounds just like “受ける(to receive),” but it sometimes becomes a different word in a casual setting.

You usually use it as if it was an adjective, but it can also work as a verb:

(sth [jokes, failures, etc.])が (sb)に ウケる。

In this form, you can mean "(sb) laughs at (sth)."

Examples:

・それ、めっちゃウケる。(That’s so funny.)

・俺^(おれ)の冗談^(じょうだん)が、クラスのみんなにウケたんだ。(Everybody in my class liked my joke.)

In our YouTube video, we made a skit about this slang. Go check it if you are interested! You can find various contents there.

TL:DR Anybody know of good names for magical Disciplines that would fit into a cyberpunk slash supernatural infested world? Also, hello! Time for a first post.

Greetings!

So, I’ve been putting some things together for the system I am now polishing up after some years and always hit a snag like the one. Sometimes I am just looking for the right names so that the image of what something is and what it does is extremely clear and helps a player mark how they're going to use this ability/trait/attribute, etc.

As such, I need a little help trying to conjure up a few names for Disciplines of magic. Not many names, just six. I’ll include the current names with a base description so that there’s a good concept of what I am asking for.

As a last piece of context, this is for a game that is a mash up of Cyberpunk themes pulled from Cyberpunk 2020 and pretty loosely based on a White Wolf system I used to use. So, it’s 2074, vampires, werewolves, and hunters: OH MY! With a good dash of magic thrown in.

I just can’t be sure if I could come up with better names than what’s below that may match the themes of this game. Any thoughts?

DISCIPLINES

· Elemental: This is the lowest Discipline of magic encompassing the raw forces of nature. Earth, fire, water, air, gravity, and kinetic energy. [Low level]

· Matter: This is the Discipline of form and structure which can manipulate the raw energies of the physical plane. [Low Level]

· Soul: The spirit and the mind are the focus of this Discipline and the means to control either or both. [Mid Level]

· Astral: Like Matter, this is all about the form but for the metaphysical and dealing with the planes of the ethereal and travel through them. [Mid Level]

· AEther: This is a formless force that fuels the universe and acts as the groundwork for all magic and even life itself. The discipline isn’t so much how to control the AEther but how to not be destroyed when using it. [High Level]

· Proteus: This Discipline deals in the constants of the universe which propel things forward dealing with Time and Entropy. [High Level]

**I have denoted the low, mid, and high levels of magic to help identify the more complex and powerful Disciplines.

I was watching a show, and a French person said "Oh la la" - while she was pissed off, and having a fight with her partner. I always thought it was used in reference to something positive, but clearly it is not!

Is this a common thing to say? Or is it a more niche slang used by specific people?

I'm American, and I honestly thought "oh la la" was just an American cliche- i never realized that French people actually say it.

I was watching Bondi Rescue and a lifeguard said “I can still run small (dillies? Or something like that) despite my injury”