I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is

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Is "no cap" next? I'm like way old.

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Pwn should be a few steps back

Pwn, pwned was so specific to gaming it shouldn't even be on the list.

And pog is specific to twitch in the gaming sphere, so the same logic would apply.

Not to be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, but gnarly was at least a decade before rad. Also, epic is nearly 2 decades later.

bussin

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.

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."

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Sounds like you got pwned, noob.

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

Thank you for this incredibly interesting yet highly unexpected history lesson. I really enjoy knowing this now.

..... 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

Hello fellow pog, it is me, your ancestor :>

I mean I am like 37 so you're probably more like my brother haha

Did Pure Pwnage ever pay you rolalties?

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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I still use rad and gnarly. Because those words are rad and gnarly.

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

Yeet and yoink are perfection.

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

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.."

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.

"Of course I know about fork-knife and Scooby-Doo toilet"

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."

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

This was me in high school. I even listened to boy bands ironically and then noticed I was singing them unironically.

That hep catโ€™s rizz is putting the jelly in this pawgโ€™s roll.

Rizz? Can we just send that word back to hell already?

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

Could just say charisma. ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

Have you really never shortened a word in your life?

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?

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

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.

"Go ahead and give me a roll on a DC15 rizz check..."

tbf, DnD groups were where I got a lot of my exposure to the newer generations words xD

I didn't know it came from Charisma. Makes sense

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

pog was also popular in the 90s tho

You knew things had gotten serious when the metal slammers came into play.

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.

Still use gnarly. Get fucked, I'm never giving it up. Over my dead body

I sometimes use the weird words 90s kids used here in Germany. My favorites are definitely lazer and Porno. Porno literally meaning porn.

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"

"Rad" and "gnarly," too.

I mean people didnโ€™t entirely stop using them but those seem like 90's terms to me.

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

I accidentally used Pog in real live when a girl that I've grown really close to told me about her having a boyfriend.

I guess you're her little pogchamp, now.

"No Cap" is Black slang. It's not done until Black People replace it with something else.

Did I miss pog and pwn? Or are they so new I haven't heard them yet? My coworkers are all in the same age range as me, but they are cooler also. Anyway I'm old and a couple of them have "no cap" on jackets so I can't imagine that's a fresh one.

Pog has been around for years. But up until recent it has been pretty exclusive to streaming and esports. So I amagine it's easy to miss if you are not in that bubble. pwn is the only one on the list I've never heard before.

It was my understanding that pwn mean you are "owning" them in like a winning way. Like instead of Saying "I just owned you" when you win at something, you say "I just pwned you."

Am I way off? Does it have a new meaning? I'm so far out of the loop these days.

Itโ€™s an intentional misspelling of โ€œownโ€. The letter p is next to o on the keyboard. I think it was meant to mimic the frantic typing of a sweaty competitive trash talker.

That's my understanding too. And because people kind of like the sound of it, they might use it slightly more broadly than that - but not as broadly as 'rad' or 'sick' or even 'pog'. I was there for the rise and demise of 'pwn', and it definitely was never as widespread as pog is now.