Over the last week I could swear I’ve seen way more 
types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre
The word troglodyte has real “smart kid in fourth grade trying to own his bullies” energy.
Maybe it’s the latest way of writing us off
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You’re all bots!
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You may not be bots, but you’re all paid agents!
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You may not be paid agents, but you’re all blindly ideological tankies!
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You may not be blindly ideological, but you’re all terminally online basement dwellers!
You may not be blindly ideological, but you’re all terminally online basement dwellers!
They’re awfully fond of the already tiresome “touch grass” cliche, because if you’re not clinking glasses in a wine cave and you actually want to improve society somewhat, you must be a shut-in.
3 years into a global pandemic? You’re gall durn right I’m a shut in.
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When i was a kid i wanted to be like saint francis asis because he lived in a cave and could talk with woodland creatures. So in a way ive always wanted to be a troglodyte.
I used troglodyte as a kid because i poached it off a tv show and felt dead smug around my friends. Once I noticed it being used by bigots I immediately dropped the word as it felt dirty and this was as a teen.
I’m sorry but some words just sound dehumanising and it says a lot about a person to keep using them into adulthood.
The fact its used to mock perceived stupidity and anyone with neurodivergence should say it all. That and once all thr G*mers learnt it it became a word to describe black people and feminists.
No you aren’t articulate, you’re an asshat with a smartphone and a hot glue anime figurine. Get a grip.
Trogged up and PROUD.
I never understood why they have one eye
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Once again it’s all projection. The tertiary definition is “one who is purposefully ignorant or old-fashioned”. Fucking liberals.
Sidenote: this is a troglodyte in forgotten realms#
Cool af
While we’re at RPGs, trog as the short form of troglodyte is a racist slur used against orks and trolls in the Shadowrun setting. In-universe, it’s also n-word levels of offensive, particularly because orks and trolls are the main racialized other within the game world. So as somebody who’s not a first language English speaker and has never seen any use of the term troglodyte outside of TTRPGs at all, it comes off super fucking weird (to say the least) when half of the redditors on here are suddenly using what i know mostly as the cyber-tolkien slur as their favorite insult.
They are clearly taking a radical housing modernization position, attaching negative connotation to cave-dwelling due to its vulnerability to earthquakes. In a word, psyop.
I feel like it’s been a popular 10-dollar insult for a while - something that makes you feel clever because your interlocutor has to spend the 30 seconds a dictionary search takes these days to look it up. The higher prevalence is probably a sign that there’s more teenagers around and you should just respond by telling them that sesquipedalianism is a coital impediment.
Rpgs have poisoned my brain. I’ve always known troglodyte bc it’s a dnd monster from 40ish years ago.
I suppose it’s just another one of those words that makes ebic bacon redditeurs feel smart when using it
They’ll switch to something else next week lol
Some Reddity words persist for many years, like “vitriol.” They love that one.
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The smartness is assured by beginning with “uh,” or “umm.”
Lol true
Gaslighting disinformation whataboutism
Chinese bot.
Strawman.
Civil.
To be fair, our go-to insult for reactionaries is C.H.U.D.
Is this real? I’m learning so much about this term today.
Classic B movie horror slop. Grab a friend and a plate of nachos and make an evening of it some night, you’ll have a good time. Another classic from that era is Return of the Living Dead.
Very recently I’ve also seen “Unga Bunga” being said by totally-not-racist racist liberals, and they pretend to be innocent smol beans that totally only think of 90s video games with cavemen when they think “Unga Bunga.”
I’ve seen it going around, but only in reference to video game strategies that amount to “forget strategy, just go hit it until it dies”
“Tank and spank” is what I usually hear. Maybe I don’t group up with enough totally-not-racists when strategizing.
Its common in fighting games for characters who have a simple strategy or are seen as “mashy”
I thought it was supposed to be a sound a gorilla makes. Anyway, whether it should be changed or not, “unga” currently sits as the standard term in the fgc for characters with excessively safe moves (who thereby enable button mashing, mindless offense, hence gorillas).
I’m pretty sure lots of people in
communities use racist terminology that was derived from Heated G!mer Moments without knowing where it came from. And that’s understandable.It’s like the use of (CW: Ableistic slang)
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“REEEEEE” to describe someone being upset.
But some
get so protective of their edgy slang that they cite caveman themed video games from the 90s to justify contemporary use and argue for hours against everyone saying otherwise.The fgc is profoundly sexist, but it’s very multiracial, with a particularly large proportion of black members, including the NB person who is currently held as the best in the genre, sonicfox. It’s possible that I just don’t know the origin, but I wouldn’t guess that it was something anti-black because then there would probably be more pushback against it.
Why the fuck is “troglodyte” an offensive word anyways, seriously, underground dwellings are great for temperature, noise, security, energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, cost of construction, disaster preparedness, you name it, they’ve been used by countless peoples since the dawn of mankind because they’re a genuinely great form of housing, honestly we should fucking ALL be troglodytes instead of deforesting the world to build fucking suburbs killing the planet filling the sky with so much light pollution and actual pollution that I can’t even see the fucking stars half the time. The McMansion and its consequences have been a disas
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I live in a below street row house and it destroyed my mood. Humans are meant to see light.
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Cave dwellings throughout history have generally had pretty good natural lighting, incidentally, since ancient humans had an even greater need for natural light than modern humans do. Your below street row house having poor enough natural lighting to basically drive a man to depression I’m willing to guess is a lot more to do with cost-cutting on the housing market than anything, honestly.
With fiber optic cables directing sunlight miles underground, we could build a rad troggie community [edit: is troggie a slur? because it sounds bad but also I just made it up]
Our slur filter captures words I didn’t know before, if it didn’t catch troggie you’re safe.
troglodyte spotted
Well, the housing co-op where I live was actually built into the side of a hill, but not really in a cave dwelling type of way. So I guess I’m more of a half-troglodyte who spends a bizarre amount of time fantasizing about becoming a full troglodyte.
I’m pretty sure you’re describing a hobbit
Honestly, I kinda wish. Thatched roofs would be nice and aren’t too uncommon in this part of the world.
