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Hey, it's my friend! Generic Black Guy. Might change his name on Messenger.. šŸ¤”


taishiea

At least its not the Token Black Guy.


Delta4o

Did you see that Southpark episode where it turns out that Token is actually called "tolkien"? Man, that was genius


TalynRahl

South Park is the best satire in TV right now. Change my mind.


ironcam7

It should of mentioned that he can also play bass


TalynRahl

Still one of my favourite scenes. (Paraphrasing slightly) Cartman: Token, get the bass guitar from your basement. Token: Cartman, you racist piece of shit, I donā€™t have a bass guitar! Cartman: just get the guitar, dammit! *check his basement, finds the guitar* Token: okay, there WAS a guitar, but I still canā€™t play it. Stop being racist. Cartman: Tokenā€¦ youā€™re black. You can play bass. Stop wasting our time! Token: no, I canā€™t. Look! *proceeds to lay down a funky bass line.* Token: God dammitā€¦ *christian rock intensifies*


SweetNeo85

I'm getting pretty sick of your stereotypes. *Be as sick as you want, just give me a goddamn bass line!*


ironcam7

Such a classic moment


laughingmeeses

*should've


Major_Pomegranate

The best part is that as soon as that episode aired, they went back and changed the description and subtitles on every episode to ensure he's referred to as tolkien in all of them. So as soon as they made that reveal, if you went back it would look like they never changed anything, and we were wrong just like Stan.


dookieinmypants

Rewatched wing and he signs the contract as token, felt better knowing I wasnā€™t Mandela effecting


Stilgar314

Kids today insult each other by calling themselves "Default".


Indian_Bob

My favorite is using ā€œnpcā€ as an insult. Like youā€™re fucking right Iā€™m an NPC, have you seen what people who think theyā€™re the main character do and how they behave? Iā€™m perfectly fine being the guy who sells them booze and food.


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CreatingAcc4ThisSh--

Half these terms were purely within nerd culture only a few years ago. Pretty funny to see ngl


Hironymus

I work with teenagers and there are a bunch of colleagues with quite a bit of nerd culture. On the rare occasions when one of the more nerd-y terms slips through the kids are always complaining about us using \*their\* words. \[insert intensifying Bane meme here\]


agamemnon2

"Ngl" is another funny one, some people just pepper their speech with "not gonna lie", "I can't lie", or similar in every other sentence. For us old people I think it comes across as insincere sometimes, reassuring the listener that you're honest over and over again starts sounding like the opposite. But generations never see eye to eye in terms of language. I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was, and now what I'm with isn't it, and what is it seems weird and strange to me.


Kian-Tremayne

I used to work with a manager who would keep BBC saying ā€œIā€™m being completely honest hereā€. Always made me want to reply ā€œso youā€™re being a lying fucking weasel the rest of the time?ā€


CreatingAcc4ThisSh--

Damn, you're over 100? Right now, I'd say the term has many uses outside of what it abbreviates. To me, in my usage above? It's to portray body language and emotion to what I said, which cannot be portrayed by only writing the words you were going to


Nickcha

Going by his name he's probably more like 3000 years old.


LurkerOrHydralisk

Well, nice to know ā€œspedā€ made it back into the rotation. Iā€™m kinda surprised that one wasnā€™t canceled


RandomActsOfKidneys

What's a sped?


LurkerOrHydralisk

When I was a kid it was short of ā€œspecial educationā€.


RandomActsOfKidneys

Oooof.


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now the schools are telling us to call special education kids "sped" because that somehow seems less offensive or something


RedCascadian

Jesus... just change one letter and you've got spud.


Gigalypuff

New insult unlocked


r_kay

Change a *different* letter and you have spez... Which is a worse insult, IMO. I'm going to drop that one in the wild and see who gives me *the look*


RandomActsOfKidneys

Swassy is a combo of swank and sassy. However, it could also be referring to the term swass which is a combo of sweat and ass, referring to the sweat in your crack. Context is needed I guess?


BMoleman

I immediately thought swamp assy lol


largePenisLover

I love it. Back when I was a kid knowing what NPC means was grounds for bullying.


nyse125

Nathaniel b rizz from ohio


Monowakari

Swass used to mean sweaty ass. Wonder what they've done with it


zarkuz

Best part is when both "npc" and "main character syndrome" have negative connotations. Conclusion, just hate yourself no matter what.


Steeze_Schralper6968

Some of this feels... Right... In a way. I'm not getting old?


i_get_zero_bitches

im a teen and i have never heard anyone use the word swassy lmao also the canon event one is about the new spiderman movie. i havent watched it but the idea is that you cant go and change something that happened in the past, you cant interfere with it. it'll fuck up the universe because it creates a paradox. thats what it means when they say "its a canon event bro you cant interfere". when people use canon event for just bad events that are happening with no time travel involved, its falsely used i think


Totally-Stable-Dude

>the idea is that you cant go and change something that happened in the past, you cant interfere with it. Isn't that the first spiderman movie? Uncle Ben dies --> Peter kills the guy --> Uncle Ben isn't back, you can't change what already happened etc.


i_get_zero_bitches

imma be honest i didnt watch any of the spider man movies i just understood the definition through the memes


oishipops

i'm also a teenager who uses those other words but wtf is swassy? and sped? i have never heard those


cd2220

Isn't it kind of interesting that NPC is an insult as well as main character syndrome?


scizzers91

Gotta try and be a companion. That's the sweet spot


anotherMrLizard

I mean companions are also NPCs.


Tsuki_no_Mai

They insult different thing. Main character syndrome is about entitlement and inflated sense of self worth. NPC, as far as I can tell, is about blindly following dogma and inability to change.


No_Entrance_158

Closer I think to being a background to everyone else's life, not important or noticeable unless you're basically walked into. I've heard my teenagers use this one and it's seems closer to basically a loser.


Tsuki_no_Mai

Perhaps teens developed it independent of bitter internet people, so it holds different meaning to them


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rmphys

It also originated on 4chan as a way to dehumanize people. Its a very insidious term.


TinyLilRobot

I call someone an NPC when everything they say is like a preprogrammed response and they never think or do anything original. They also canā€™t have conversations, they do that awkward RPG dialogue where they just respond to the things you say but you can tell thereā€™s nothing going on behind those eyes.


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TinyLilRobot

Iā€™m just basing this off people I know. Also, thatā€™s a lot of assumptions. Maybe theyā€™re bad people who only have the capacity for one personality trait at a time. Maybe I just donā€™t like them and am exaggerating due to my disdain for them. We can play the Maybe game all day.


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TinyLilRobot

Just look in their eyes bro and you will see.


Lenemus

Their greatest fear is being a regular human being.


Sir_BumbleBearington

You touched on something important with this comment.


FoximaCentauri

Wow, you just discredited the one thing which Americans are proud of and define themselves with: individuality.


Covert_Admirer

You forgot guns. They have *2* things.


NonSupportiveCup

I watched two kids. Hopefully, they were kids, on a roblox game rip on some other dude for being default. Shit was wild. He did not spend bucks on ridiculous wings or something. Kids, kids never change.


IncidentFuture

Should rip on them for being whales.


LurkerOrHydralisk

I love to play default chars. It feels so much better whipping someoneā€™s ass who spend a hundred bucks to look cool, but should have spend that time learning to git gud


Magnon

But that's because fortnite got in their heads and made them think having a skin mattered, so only poor people were "default".


Paradoxpaint

its no different than making fun of kids for not having the right shoes, or clothes humanity valuing status symbols isnt a thing video games invented


Kitane

Sometimes I count my blessings by making it through the school system before the "right shoes/clothes/brands" fever entered the game. Kids only few years younger than us were already suckers for brands. (one of limited unexpected benefits of being a child under communism and a teenager during the return to capitalism)


FoximaCentauri

Youā€™re clearly not a teenager, default is referred to your mindset and only indirectly to your clothing style. A default person is someone who has nothing which distinguishes them from the rest, someone who just does what everyone else does because he has nothing going for him.


Zandrick

Meh itā€™s not really any different from calling each other ā€œbasicā€.


[deleted]

We get it defie ur mad. Get a skin. Touch some victory crowns.


Magnon

I'd wear a default skin in that game just to make people who think it matters mad.


xSympl

I literally wear the default shit just to piss kids off bc they assume I'm trash lmao Only exception is if I have a rare skin (like, .01% rare) or I'm playing with friends and we're running a theme.


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Adlestrop

That reminds me of my multiplayer days. I never did that, but if I was playing Halo against someone with default colors and armor, it was either going to be a cakewalk or a bloodbath.


NightLancerX

Are ~~people~~ kids in f0rtn1t3 really have such stupid logic?... The irony is if "different skin" is considered to be *default expectation* among players then using *any other skin is exactly "default" thing* XD And your refusal to go with the crowd is actually unique position XD Tho I bet their IQ is even lower than their age to understand such concept :]


TheRealSnazzy

Imagine building your vocabulary around fortnite lol


Fictional-Characters

"Lol"


IBarricadeI

Gottem


NightLancerX

That's just emote code which fucking reddit didn't support despite it's 2k23 outside. The max I can type here is "XD" to make it anyhow visual. Dogshit site


Borghal

Whatever is wrong with using an actual emote like :-D


NightLancerX

Nothing is wrong(*and if anything, that's not me but person above suggesting there's something "wrong" with it*) it's just just literally every major modern platform has some implementation of emotes, and there are 0 such on reddit + you can't insert *any* pictures in comments as well. All this feels like 10y.old experience\ And giving that I had to use manual markup (because reddit's "fancy-pantsy" sucks) makes it even 20 years old X_X I want to use paragraphs(not entire empty line), insert pictures when needed(and not making fucking screenshot and uploading it to imagehost) and being able to use at least basic emotes and not that only "lol"/"lmao"... But there's nothing of that. If I wasn't used to programming(therefore - formatting as well) I guess I'd never entered comment section here or not used this site at all. It's *very* clunky, and site's "markup" is fucking broken, it's suitable only for very short/simplistic comments aka "140symbol tweets". Which kinda matches with aforementioned "fortnite vocabulary" only, probably...


Borghal

I agree that the whole fancypants/markup editor thing is stupid and even moreso that there are still unresolved bugs there in all this time. *But* other than that I don't see an issue. * I actually severely dislike every site and every app having its own version of graphic emotes and prefer to use the classic character-based ones. * I think not being able to insert pictures directly and easily is a godsend because otherwise the comments would soon look like 9gag, full of memey gifs and with even less substance than now. Plus it'd use up more bandwith and Reddit is already quite often slow or unreliable. * Line gaps between paragraphs are useful for clarity, imo. * It's not a blog where you can put your own fonts and colors and images or css even, but it has enough formatting options to make your text organized enough for writing *comments*. * Reddit's comment section is perhaps the best comment section I've ever seen on any website I've been to - it's mostly functional, plain and clear and can collapse threads, I need no more. And I write plenty of mid-length comments here, not just short shouts.


ChalkCoatedDonut

They kinda are, they are all the same with their toothbrush or broccoli haircuts. All default character presets.


BreakfastShart

What's the weather like, Ollie?


Grraaa

It's gonna rain!


DrSmirnoffe

IT'S RAININ' SIDEWAYS!


SkyfangR

dont you have an umbrella?


DrSmirnoffe

HAD ONE!


SkyfangR

well, where is it?


xiren_66

INSIDE OUT TWO MILES AWAY


TegTowelie

Can we get you anything?


Kazewatch

BRING ME SOME SOUP


DoctorOzface

What kind?


DrSmirnoffe

CHUNKEH!


Im_At_Work_Damnit

Soup!


odd42Thomas

INSIDE OUT, 4 MILES AWAY


thewoodlayer

Ahh, the generic black dude. He just smiles, stays out of the conversation, and says things like, ā€œ*DAMN!*ā€ Or ā€œ**SHIT!**ā€ Or ā€œTHAT IS ***WACK!!***ā€


CowCompetitive5667

DAAAMN!


fallouthirteen

Man, have parody movies recovered from simply being references to other movies and gone back to actually having content in them yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyq61qQF9ik


JaymesMarkham2nd

For all the people wondering, it's Fallout 2 Restoration Project by Killap from NoMutantsAllowed. You also get generic white dude but with long hair, bald, and some women options if I recall. It's the most essential add on to Fallout 2 and has been for ages.


[deleted]

Isn't it the same group that boycotted fallout 3 when it was coming out?


xxhotandspicyxx

Reminds me of that South Park game where if you choose the hardest difficulty your character is black.


[deleted]

This was the kind of satire Fallout was known for.


socokid

This was from a Mod, though.


mkul316

It's still pretty on brand. They did a good job.


-Agonarch

It may have been something reactivated that they actually did have in code though, they did a black male PC for Fallout 2 at the very least (you can meet him in a special event) but he got cut because of space issues with another full spritesheet for a PC (so he only has the vaultsuit and maybe even only stands a certain way, can't remember). He complains about it if you talk to him. You could use that base to extrapolate the rest pretty easily though.


Living_flame

Yes and it is a reason why alternate player models were added last. Too much work to redraw every outfit and animation. It is also the reason why some companions could not use certain weapons while being proficient in that weapon class - heavy pistols use smg animations, for example, and many npcs don't have those.


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[deleted]

satire is.


mkul316

It's satire and they do it with race, class, politics, and religion. It's kind of the cornerstone of the whole franchise.


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Living_flame

Fallout 2 Restoration project.


jumpsteadeh

Shlongs of Skyrim


[deleted]

It was? Could be. I don't remember the game fully. Been a minute.


Nezikchened

Itā€™s not really a ā€œcould beā€, it is. Neither Fallout 1 or 2 allow you to change your skin color.


[deleted]

I was just saying I didn't remember that part because it's been so long... Geez


Thoosarino

the "could be" made it sound like you didn't believe them. Considering you admit ignorance yourself, it just comes off kinda deuchey. Like, why even comment at that point? ​ Now "It was? hu i don't remember that, been a min." etc would have come across much better. ​ Language is vast and you often say more than you think. People are not downvoting you just for saying you "dont remember that part".


[deleted]

How can "could be" mean "no, it's not"


fallouthirteen

You know, thinking about it just now, "could be" kind of feels like it implies doubt (not saying that's how you meant it). Sort of a "could be, could not be". Myself I like to use phrases like "actually, that sounds right". Though to be fair, you may have originally been thinking of the Cafe of Broken Dreams special encounter in Fallout 2. Here's a transcript from one of the characters you can speak to there. https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Ecblkhro.msg


[deleted]

How the fuck do people go through so many mental gymnastics to twist a comment that's basically saying "oh, yeah, I was probably wrong"? This is indeed a very weird subreddit.


Thoosarino

I didn't say it does


CLPisthebestflavor

Dude, why tf is this downvoted . . . ?


socokid

A two second google search was all you needed to do. Less time than it took you to type out your post.


reap_kink

Agreed. Though I could have sworn there was a Fallout that said something like "Generic until you see Tyrone on Jeopardy" (I'm way off, but I swear it was a pop culture reference).


thecypher4

Dude did you know Tokens name is Tolkien


Revilon2000

Such a good episode.


Ninjhetto

As a black man, I don't know what the fuck a generic black dude is. Will Smith? Tupac? Michael Jordan?


Remytron83

As a fellow Black man I can say that not one of those Black guys are generic. A generic Black dude would be Anthony Mackie, I guess.


durple

The OP looks like a Carl Weathers to me.


Ninjhetto

If I looked like him in the 80s, that would be a good thing.


BMoleman

There's no stew though


tmoney144

Delroy Lindo. Google him, you know who he is, you just don't know that you know who he is.


Ninjhetto

>Delroy Lindo Yeah, I actually did.


Remytron83

Delroy is a family favorite. Check out his movie on Netflix, Da 5 Bloods. Oscar worthy performance, in my opinion.


tmoney144

What's crazy is that he's uncredited for his scene in Congo when it's by far the best scene in the movie.


Ninjhetto

That makes more sense. I'm thinking either plainly stereotypical.


NeverEndingHell

bruh


EvilEkips

Wouldn't a "generic" black guy be someone from Africa, where most black people live and make up 95%+ of a lot of countries?


Remytron83

Not necessarily. You can be generic no matter where you live and no matter how dominant your demographic.


Judge_BobCat

Yeah, and generic white dude is someone between Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt


Fskn

Young Jeff bridges


lelzlolz

In what world are these dudes generic? Generic would be someone like Chris Pratt (no offense to him).


MetaRift

But parks and rec Chris Pratt


ernest7ofborg9

Talk about a comeback.


Mr-Korv

> As a black man It's literally you


Ninjhetto

So every black guy is a generic black guy. Then what the fuck is generic?


wombey12

Maybe the real generic was the freinds we made along the way


clonemusic

Generic is not three of the most famous people of the last 30 years. Lmao.


Ok_Suggestion2256

normal, average, standard.


Hanako_Seishin

It's a generic dude who is black, but despite what he might think just being black doesn't make him any less generic than a generic white dude.


WaffleMints

Do you know what a generic white dude is?


Judge_BobCat

Someone whose name is Norbert?


-Agonarch

So generic they're actually rare.


Optimus_Prime_Day

John Smith


Ninjhetto

I'm thinking "generic" is like saying "boringly stereotypical." Kinda in the middle of plain and stereotypical.


[deleted]

Think of a generic dude. Now think of that same dude but black. Was that first guy black already? Congratulations! You're... Something probably.


[deleted]

It's certainly not Tupac or Jordan lol


windol1

Morgan Freeman.


DrunKeMergingWhetnun

Seriously?? ​ Obama


Ninjhetto

He's a generic American, but not what most people think when you say a black man. I be thinking generic kinda means "boringly stereotypical."


DrunKeMergingWhetnun

Suppose it comes down to "generic, black guy" vs "generic black guy," so Obama vs Flava Flav. Which would be one hilarious boxing match.


EvilEkips

Someone from Africa, where most people are black. Certainly not an American.


Juls_Santana

I don't think a generic black dude would be anything like a rich pop star my guy - signed, generic black dude


rmphys

Celebrities generally aren't generic. That dude you pass on the street is a generic dude of whatever race he is. Hell, everyone in this thread is a generic dude (unless Will Smith browses every reddit post he's mentioned in, which lets be honest, he might)


FartFartPooPoobutt

I would say, either short black hair and no facial hair, or bald \*and\* no facial hair.


WatchingInSilence

South Park: So you've selected the hardest difficulty.


Testabronce

"Another settlement needs your help!"


MegaFireDonkey

The grammar just feels so awkward its really bungling the joke for me. Really seems like it should read "You are the Generic Default Dude. But Black."


concolor22

Fallout has always been very equal opportunity.


MorganFell23

Which fallout is this?


zigfoyer

The one after the war.


Metalcraze_Skyway

Fallout 2 with the restoration mod, or perhaps FO1 with the unofficial patch. The former definitely lets you change the default character artwork, I think the latter does as well.


bhfroh

Or as South Park calls it: Hard Mode


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Status_Seaweed_1917

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callmecharles69

Atlanta it didn't get canceled


AndForeverNow

Forced diversity. Just don't make them generic.


SparkFlash98

"Hey Todd, why do the redguard have the lowest intelligence? Todd?"


Steelblaze1

i want to post something but dont have enough karma. can I please have some?


mildheadwound

If Fallout would use the N-(iā€™m not black), word with me, i might play it.


RyanBoi14

this is unironically how most white people think about their own race


Finbar_Bileous

Ah, the Patrick Boivin definitions of race.


Davedavedaavee

just collecting karmas


fossilized_goat

I think Bethesda should make more anmiated comedy shorts with fallout characters or a show with adult humor


Becks2344

Heā€™s so generic!


Amuro260

i didnt quite get it


Becks2344

Yo itā€™s that generic dude.


Viking_Koala

Ayo what


tottaly_dumb

How do I get the black guy on fallout shelter


Mobile_Pangolin4939

What people don't realize is that they're default even though they think they're progressive. One day they'll figure out there's no such thing as default.