Over the last week I could swear I’ve seen way more types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre

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Maybe it’s the latest way of writing us off

  • You’re all bots!

  • You may not be bots, but you’re all paid agents!

  • You may not be paid agents, but you’re all blindly ideological tankies!

  • You may not be blindly ideological, but you’re all terminally online basement dwellers!

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3 years into a global pandemic? You’re gall durn right I’m a shut in.

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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

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Gaslighting disinformation whataboutism

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I love that Liturgy song though.

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Empirical

Abhor

Vehemently

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Lol true

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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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troglodyte spotted

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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.

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I’m pretty sure you’re describing a hobbit

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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.

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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]

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idk man golum seems pretty happy

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It’s a conspiracy by big housing.

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Favorite part of federation was the one liberal who couldn’t contain their rabid racism anymore and started unironically doing the “Shling Shong Winnie the Pooh” bit

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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).

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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.

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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”

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Its common in fighting games for characters who have a simple strategy or are seen as “mashy”

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To be fair, our go-to insult for reactionaries is C.H.U.D.

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Is this real? I’m learning so much about this term today.

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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.

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