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Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:58 pm
by Oblomov Boblomov
This thread is based on a depressingly-true story.

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:06 pm
by Victor Mildew
I used to be 'based', but then they changed what 'based' was. Now what I am isn't 'based' anymore and what's 'based' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:08 pm
by Mommy Christmas
Is based what the cool kids call someone who's "sound"?

Funny how each generation sees the need to strawberry float the English language up progressively more and more.

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:16 pm
by OrangeRKN
Mommy wrote:Funny how each generation sees the need to strawberry float the English language up progressively more and more.


Forsooth!

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:21 pm
by rinks
Johnny Ryall wrote:Browsing tik tok and seeing zoomers make fun of millennials is the first time in my life I’ve felt old.

Don't worry. It's literally all they have.

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:03 pm
by coldspice
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Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:03 pm
by Herdanos
Actually I now reckon it's Beans.

Based Beans!

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:04 pm
by Knoyleo
Rocsteady wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:
Rocsteady wrote:
Johnny Ryall wrote:Based maf

Your age is showing btw guys

Everyone on this forum is too old to use based.

Even The Based God himself is 32, so it's not exactly youth slang.

I often think if you're the same age as the pioneer of slang, unless you're actually cool as strawberry float, then you're too old though.

I have no evidence for this but I feel it's right.

Like, rappers and bands and that will often be early 20s and that gooseberry fool gets picked up by teens. Whereas if you're like 23 and copying another 23 year old, maybe that's pretty lame. I dunno.

Or e.g. if Tyler the Creator comes up with a new term that's cool, but if I start copying that then that's tragic as strawberry float.

Yeah, I get where you're coming from, it's more to do with the target audience age group than the originating artists. I'm not much into Lil B or know much about his fanbase to take much of a guess at age range, but I'd assume it skews below my age bracket. :lol:

Is Tyler specifically youth oriented? It never really came across to me that way.

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:32 pm
by Rocsteady
Knoyleo wrote:
Rocsteady wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:
Rocsteady wrote:
Johnny Ryall wrote:Based maf

Your age is showing btw guys

Everyone on this forum is too old to use based.

Even The Based God himself is 32, so it's not exactly youth slang.

I often think if you're the same age as the pioneer of slang, unless you're actually cool as strawberry float, then you're too old though.

I have no evidence for this but I feel it's right.

Like, rappers and bands and that will often be early 20s and that gooseberry fool gets picked up by teens. Whereas if you're like 23 and copying another 23 year old, maybe that's pretty lame. I dunno.

Or e.g. if Tyler the Creator comes up with a new term that's cool, but if I start copying that then that's tragic as strawberry float.

Yeah, I get where you're coming from, it's more to do with the target audience age group than the originating artists. I'm not much into Lil B or know much about his fanbase to take much of a guess at age range, but I'd assume it skews below my age bracket. :lol:

Is Tyler specifically youth oriented? It never really came across to me that way.

Nah I don't think he is at all, I just couldn't think of someone else who I know is my age!

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:52 pm
by Mafro
Absolutely based

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:12 pm
by Jenuall
I'm 100% office based.

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:19 pm
by Alvin Flummux
I'm carbon-based, myself.

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:27 pm
by Jenuall
I'm based on a true story

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:32 pm
by Vermilion
Jenuall wrote:I'm based on a true story


As true as the story about Olaf Peterson's smart shoes?

I'm still trying to figure out how they opened the car door.

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:55 pm
by Yubel
My rule (for the most part) tends to be that if I search a term and it leads me to Urban Dictionary, I dismiss it.

Most of all though, I'm curious to know how English teachers cope these days.

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 9:17 pm
by Jenuall
Vermilion wrote:
Jenuall wrote:I'm based on a true story


As true as the story about Olaf Peterson's smart shoes?

I'm still trying to figure out how they opened the car door.

It turns out that shoes have "souls"!

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 9:44 pm
by False
my favourite old man thing is people forgetting that any language is a constantly evolving construct that people add to and remove from to suit their cultural requirements

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 9:54 pm
by Cuttooth
Yubel wrote:My rule (for the most part) tends to be that if I search a term and it leads me to Urban Dictionary, I dismiss it.

Most of all though, I'm curious to know how English teachers cope these days.

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:31 pm
by Mafro
Cuttooth wrote:
Yubel wrote:My rule (for the most part) tends to be that if I search a term and it leads me to Urban Dictionary, I dismiss it.

Most of all though, I'm curious to know how English teachers cope these days.

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based

Re: Who is the most based member of GRcade?

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:51 pm
by coldspice
Posi vibes only ITT