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Out o' curiosity, any weird Philly-isms?

 Yurt! I am still not exactly sure what it means. It seems to be a cross between an exclamation and a greeting. 

There aren't any other unfamiliar words he says that I can recollect, he mostly has just oddly pronounced words. Every time he says water as woyter some local loses their mind.

Yurts are the Mongol mobile homes to my mind. I can't imagine it as a greeting. So that's interesting.

For me, probably the thing that gets me is Southerners using "coke" as the default term for soda. Whereas by me someone asking for a coke would be specifically asking for CocaCola.

 We do do that. We also pronounce Coca-Cola "Co-cola"

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Don’t know why, people calling me “dude,” just feels weird…

 We don’t have to. One of the greatest things about DnD beyond is I can hide my Irl pronouns, in Irl I have not yet asked people to call me they/them but I will. Just seems weird but on ddb it seems right.

 Yeah it’s just that I feel like people think of me differently when they know I’m a boy, so could people who already know just not talk about it or really tell people? It’s not a big deal to me.

 Yeah I def will. They/them?

 Yeah, thats alrighty. I’m still a he/him actually, but I’d rather people not know that.

 You have a gender?

 yea

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Out o' curiosity, any weird Philly-isms?

 Yurt! I am still not exactly sure what it means. It seems to be a cross between an exclamation and a greeting. 

There aren't any other unfamiliar words he says that I can recollect, he mostly has just oddly pronounced words. Every time he says water as woyter some local loses their mind.

Yurts are the Mongol mobile homes to my mind. I can't imagine it as a greeting. So that's interesting.

For me, probably the thing that gets me is Southerners using "coke" as the default term for soda. Whereas by me someone asking for a coke would be specifically asking for CocaCola.

 We do do that. We also pronounce Coca-Cola "Co-cola"

 I'm originally from Utah, and I pronounce "orange" as "ornge".

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Out o' curiosity, any weird Philly-isms?

 Yurt! I am still not exactly sure what it means. It seems to be a cross between an exclamation and a greeting. 

There aren't any other unfamiliar words he says that I can recollect, he mostly has just oddly pronounced words. Every time he says water as woyter some local loses their mind.

Yurts are the Mongol mobile homes to my mind. I can't imagine it as a greeting. So that's interesting.

For me, probably the thing that gets me is Southerners using "coke" as the default term for soda. Whereas by me someone asking for a coke would be specifically asking for CocaCola.

 We do do that. We also pronounce Coca-Cola "Co-cola"

 I'm originally from Utah, and I pronounce "orange" as "ornge".

 That’s how I have always pronounced it, but the more deeply Southern folks around these parts pronounce it as arnge. 

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 Oh no, hope stuff gets better.

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@Summoning, I guess I still think of the gendered dude vs dudette. (So, in my lexicon, dude is gendered for just bros.)

 That makes sense and technically it is more accurate. It would just sound weird for me to call a female friend dudette (man I'd get some weird looks) but if I called her dude she wouldn't notice. Maybe this is just a regional thing. That's what I find fun about languages, different dialects and speech variations are fun to discover and use. I have a roommate from Philly and every now and then he will say something that seems out of place to all us Virginians. 

To be fair, I've also never called a girl "dudette." It's just what I say in my heads whenever a surfer Californian comes to mind.'

But I've also never called a girl "dude" so no experience with that.

 I don’t call people dude really, but you know how Charlie Brown says “Oh brother” but he’s not actually calling people his brother? Well it’s kinda like that, more of an expression, like just saying “Dude” as a response

That probably doesn’t make a lot of sense

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@Summoning, I guess I still think of the gendered dude vs dudette. (So, in my lexicon, dude is gendered for just bros.)

 That makes sense and technically it is more accurate. It would just sound weird for me to call a female friend dudette (man I'd get some weird looks) but if I called her dude she wouldn't notice. Maybe this is just a regional thing. That's what I find fun about languages, different dialects and speech variations are fun to discover and use. I have a roommate from Philly and every now and then he will say something that seems out of place to all us Virginians. 

To be fair, I've also never called a girl "dudette." It's just what I say in my heads whenever a surfer Californian comes to mind.'

But I've also never called a girl "dude" so no experience with that.

 I don’t call people dude really, but you know how Charlie Brown says “Oh brother” but he’s not actually calling people his brother? Well it’s kinda like that, more of an expression, like just saying “Dude” as a response

 I misread that as, “I have a roommate from Philly and every now and then he will say something that seems out of place to all us Virgins” I should go to bed, I’m tired 

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That probably doesn’t make a lot of sense

 it does to me

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@Summoning, I guess I still think of the gendered dude vs dudette. (So, in my lexicon, dude is gendered for just bros.)

 That makes sense and technically it is more accurate. It would just sound weird for me to call a female friend dudette (man I'd get some weird looks) but if I called her dude she wouldn't notice. Maybe this is just a regional thing. That's what I find fun about languages, different dialects and speech variations are fun to discover and use. I have a roommate from Philly and every now and then he will say something that seems out of place to all us Virginians. 

To be fair, I've also never called a girl "dudette." It's just what I say in my heads whenever a surfer Californian comes to mind.'

But I've also never called a girl "dude" so no experience with that.

 I don’t call people dude really, but you know how Charlie Brown says “Oh brother” but he’s not actually calling people his brother? Well it’s kinda like that, more of an expression, like just saying “Dude” as a response

 Yeah, I use "Dude" like that as well. 

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@Summoning, I guess I still think of the gendered dude vs dudette. (So, in my lexicon, dude is gendered for just bros.)

 That makes sense and technically it is more accurate. It would just sound weird for me to call a female friend dudette (man I'd get some weird looks) but if I called her dude she wouldn't notice. Maybe this is just a regional thing. That's what I find fun about languages, different dialects and speech variations are fun to discover and use. I have a roommate from Philly and every now and then he will say something that seems out of place to all us Virginians. 

To be fair, I've also never called a girl "dudette." It's just what I say in my heads whenever a surfer Californian comes to mind.'

But I've also never called a girl "dude" so no experience with that.

 I don’t call people dude really, but you know how Charlie Brown says “Oh brother” but he’s not actually calling people his brother? Well it’s kinda like that, more of an expression, like just saying “Dude” as a response

I actually thought Charlie Brown just had a ton of brothers...

Just kidding. ;-)

Though I'm kind of gonna have to pay attention if I use any of those common outbursts with people that wouldn't nominally fit the stated gender. Since I don't think I do. (But yeah, I can hear the react-version of "dude" in my head. Though part of that's from watching Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure recently.

So I’ve been turning gods and creatures from mythology into eldritch monsters for a story idea I had (or well, story setting) that takes place on modern day earth except All of those old myths were inspired by real magical creatures.

real, very weird magical creatures.

first off, we have Hephaestus, the former human who replaced all of his parts with metal besides his blood, which he now needs to extract from humans in order to continue living. (Inspired the myths of both Actual Hephaestus, where he got his name, as well as Empousa, part donkey, part machine vampire creatures from Greek myth)

then there’s Poseidon, a trash collecting vaguely humanoid Axolotl who, with its smaller Axolotl siren minions, have created the great pacific garbage patch. He lives beneath the sea in a palace made of discarded ships and plastic. He inspired The myth of Poseidon and sirens.

then we have Cupid, an invisible creature vaguely resembling a giant vulture with feathers coated in a golden or silver oily liquid. The feathers can be shot when it flaps its wings. The oil is a poison, and the gold arrows cause hallucinations and extreme happy emotions, particularly of love. The silvery lead sort of feathers cause immediate paralysis and eventually death. Fun!

and my most recent addition: Abaddon! Abaddon is not a singular magical creature like the others, oh no. It’s much, much worse. Abaddon is a swarm of giant, Rat sized cicadas with an extreme resistance to fire and heat. They lair in the walls of volcanoes, especially super volcanoes, and wait for centuries on end for an eruption. Once it happens, they awaken and feast on the remains of people caught in the ash or buried in the cooled lava. There are hundreds of thousands of them present at Yellowstone, which is where the largest population of them is. There are some at Mount Vesuvius and a few hundred scattered around the Hawaiian islands.

i’m still making more.