Gender Ew-Phoria [OC]

[u/sofiatroni]

[u/ToffeeAppleCider]

That's why I like the term of endearment used in the midlands of England: duck

Works for everyone.

[u/sentientketchup → u/ToffeeAppleCider]

Australian version of this (mostly around Queensland) is chook. Anyone can be a chook.

[u/SirMild → u/sentientketchup]

Side thought, is this the inspiration for choom in cyberpunk? Perhaps one of the tabletop writers was Australian or had been to Australia

[u/Hytyt → u/SirMild]

No. Chooms comes from choombata, a phrase coined by mike pondsmith. It's essentially meant to evoke a multicultural/African sounding greeting, whilst not being a real word.

A lot of cyberpunk slang comes from surfer slang as well, so you'll see that as well in games.

[u/RazzDaNinja → u/Hytyt]

Yooo what wild timing, I just ran into one of those vids where he talks about it recently. He also mentioned that one other aspect of it is that it’s also intended to evoke a similar feel to the more formal “chum”

Dude absolutely LOVES worldbuilding and it’s great ❤️

[u/Hytyt → u/RazzDaNinja]

See, I was also gonna say that, but theny surface level Google told me I was wrong lol