Setting slang and language

Share some fun slang terms you've either thought up for your games, or like from other media.

I'll start with some of my own for near future science fiction settings:

>Mars colonists
Arnold: Used to refer to dead bodies that are the result of atmosphere exposure. Originally a Total Recall reference that caught on. "The explosion blew a hole right through the habitat. There were arnolds everywhere."

(derogatory, used to refer to Martians) Finches: Martians overall have a poorer bone density than their higher gravity counterparts. In addition, in the past there were various periods of time where farm equipment failure lead Martian nutrition to be severely lacking giving Martians shorter heights on average.

Because of the ever present danger of a leak in a colony sounding like a hiss, Martians have dropped any sound similar to a hiss out of their accent over the years.

>Venus colonists
(derogatory, used to refer to Venusians) Twigs: As with Mars, food is more expensive on Venus than it is on Earth and efficiency is a positive characteristic in both cultures, but unlike Martians Venusians have an ever present fear of too much weight as every Venus colony relies on buoyancy for survival. Because of this some Venusians take the elimination of unnecessary personal weight as a goal to strive for, at a rate much higher than on Earth and Mars.

Melt: A term originally used to refer to someone that sustains acid burns, but now a catch-all term used to replace words like "idiot", "moron", or "foolhardy". This is because every Venusian wears a thin skintight under-suit to protect them from any acid burns in the event of a hull break, it is extremely difficult for skin to come in contact acid with a suit available, so many people who suffer from acid burns are assumed to have forgot to put on their suit in the morning. "Look at this fucking melt, he's trying to light a fire outside."

You sound autistic.

I love that sort of worldbuilding. It's usually helps getting into character, too. The post-apocalypse game I'm currently in have a lot of setting-specific slang. It's all swedish tho so not much point to post it here.

You know what 'nerd' slang I hate, absolutely despise? 'Grok'. The only people who use this 'word' are tryhard turbo-autists.

>attention to detail in worldbuilding is something to be derided

Some people like taking a little extra time to pad out their stuff, user.

> 'Grok'.

As in the slang that it used in Judge Dredd comics, or the Robert Heinlein slang?

The latter.

That's funny, "melter" is slang for an annoying person near where I live.

You could also use twig to refer to Belters, who're taller cause of the lower gravity out in the belt

See, that seems less Autistic, and more...like, Scifi hippie.

Still annoying af, though

It was on some RPG podcast I kept hearing some annoying woman use it repeatedly in several episodes. The whole group became steadily more cancerous so I dropped it. Still retain the annoyance response to it.