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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago

G'day, you mob of surfacers! Crikey, you lot look like you've been chucked in the deep end down here in the Underdark. What're ya doin' in our neck of the woods? You lot lost or just got kangaroos loose in the top paddock?

Fair dinkum, you better not be here to cause any strife. Us Drow don't take kindly to strangers pokin' 'round our turf. Ya reckon you can handle yourselves in a blue, or are ya just a bunch of drongos lookin' for trouble?

Anyway, if you're keen on stickin' around, you better pull ya heads in and show some respect, or you'll cark it quicker than a stubby on a hot day. Welcome to the Underdark, mates. Watch yer step, and keep yer eyes peeled. We ain't got time for any flamin' galahs muckin' about!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Can someone make a drow Steve Irwin, please? Exploring the underdark in search of strange creatures and then wrestling them.

[–] Anticorp 17 points 5 months ago

Crikey! Look at the fungal growth on this Myoconide!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't drow Steve Irwin be legendary drow ranger Drizzt Do'urden (with his astral panther Guenhwyvar) before he went to the surface?

Esteemed ~~Australian~~ drow actress Margot Robbie, on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Steve Irwin doesn't have enough scimitars, and Drizzt speaks too softly.

Perhaps we could bring out the drow bard Hyuu Jakum'ann?

[–] FenrirIII 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Best I can do cheaply.

[–] Crowfiend 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's not Steve Irwin any more than Crocodile Dundee. It's more like Freddy Kruger cosplaying as a ranger, at best.

[–] FenrirIII 3 points 5 months ago

For some reason, the AI keeps making the drow look like a lightly tanned guy. I didn't put more than a couple minutes into it.

[–] edgemaster72 5 points 5 months ago

Watch out for that Cloaker, Steve Drowin!

[–] RizzRustbolt 3 points 5 months ago

Isn't that Drizzt?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have tried to have a session where Drows have Aussie accents. It was horrible. It was great. I'm sorry to all Aussies.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nah I live in Australia and we also do bad Australian accents recreationally no shame

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

FYVE HANDRED DOLLARYDEWS?!

[–] RizzRustbolt 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whut's tha good word, mates?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah nah… Things are crook in Tullarook and there’s no work in Burke.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Its fun to make fun of your own accent. How else do you mock the stupid people you see every day?

[–] Anticorp 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It requires moderation, like all things. My wife and I used to joke around, talking to each other in southern accents, but we lacked moderation, and now the southern drawl has become part of our regular speech. We're not anywhere near the south.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is very real. I'm in rural Appalachia and definitely adopted some turns of phrase after using them ironically. I find myself actually saying "howdy" with a straight face now.

I'm a punk from south Florida, "howdy" should not be in my vocabulary

[–] Anticorp 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I absolutely hated "y'all" when I joined the Army and was stationed where that was a common saying. I thought it sounded so ignorant and Okie. Welp, within a couple years it had found its way into my vocabulary, and it remains there to this day.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 3 points 5 months ago

That's exactly how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Y’all’dn’t’ve thought you could escape the corrupting aura of Texas that easily, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't let my people monopolize that accent! It's a beautiful accent, in my opinion. Shame about most of the folks it's attached to. Most people hear a southern drawl and their mind goes right to white supremacy rednecks, which is unfortunately not incorrect of them to think. I wish we had some popular well educated folks to bring that sound to the larger populace so that it isn't such a red flag.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Dolly Parton has done wonders for changing people's perception of the South. Matthew McConaughey has been vocal about progressive issues. And of course there are a number of activists from the South. But you're right, they're usually depicted in media as either ignorant racists, stupid, or evil rich people.

I think Southern ladies sound so sexy when they talk. I love their intonation.

My wife and I started doing it because we were backpacking once and ran into a couple of women from Louisiana who warned us not to go down a trail because they saw some bears down there. At the end of the conversation they reminded us not to go down there because of "them bears!". We thought the way they said it was hilarious, and it started an internal joke for us surrounding that dialect. Then it was reinforced by The Office and the "I do declare" scene, and just about every scene of the Tombstone movie. So we had a lot of quotable material that goes along with a Southern accent, and over the years it started sneaking its way into our normal speech.

That is a personal story I don't usually share online, but what the heck. Hopefully you enjoyed it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How could I forget about Dolly Parton! I should be ashamed. The world could use a few more of her.

I did appreciate the story, thanks. And that's about exactly how I expected it happened, lol. Minus the hikers, I wouldn't have guessed that, but I can imagine exactly how it sounded when they told you to watch out for them bars!

[–] Anticorp 3 points 5 months ago

them bars

Haha! Yes, that's exactly how it was pronounced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Or the people that are from slightly different parts of the country from you?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OI TARVO YA FAKKIN CUHKED KANT, DOHNT TACH THE FAKKEN BLINKEES, WE'VE 'AHD THEES CHAT. WORPYA STROIT TU SHE KNOWS WHER THEY WEEL.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

BUT MAYT, THEY AAHNT FAAKIN OFF.

TARV, DON'T BE A FAKKIN ETTIE DRONGO.

[–] littlebluespark 2 points 5 months ago

Ohgods, I'm dyin' heeya, 🤣🤘🏽

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I played a Duergar named Ivnier West who had an Australian accent and referred to the underdark as "down undah"

The anagram isn't as obvious as his prototype name: Eve Stirwin

[–] Anticorp 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Shouldn't the Drow be incredibly pale, not dark skinned, since they never have sun exposure?

[–] TexasDrunk 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If we start pulling at this thread people will start wondering why Wheel of Time had a bunch of pale redheads in the desert.

[–] FutileRecipe 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

To be fair, the Aiel didn't initially grow up there (and too short for evolution, in my non-scientific brain), but rather migrated there to use it as "a shaping stone to make them, a testing ground to prove their worth, and a punishment for their sin." And it would be too easy on those three reasons if they were perfectly (or mostly) acclimated and suited for the desert genetically.

[–] TexasDrunk 6 points 5 months ago

You're right, and it's only been a few thousand years. I'll still complain to anyone who will listen. If I don't complain how will you know I really enjoy the series?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

IIRC, it takes around 100 generations to see a significant shift in skin pigmentation due to evolution. For humans, that would work out to about 1700 years for people that were moved from the Nordic regions to sub-Saharan Africa to develop dark skins (assuming that there were no other factors in play).

Evolution can take what seems like a really long time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

They might be dark for camouflage. There's a fair bit of light in the underdark

[–] samus12345 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, because they didn't use to live underground. Given enough time they'd all presumably become pale.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I might be misremembering things but weren't they dark skinned already on surface, before they were expelled?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In my homebrew world, elves have a different skin pigment that reflects UV light (whereas melanin absorbs it). Lower amounts of pigmentation mean darker skin, and more means whiter skin

Because of this, deep elves aren't as dark skinned as some humans, with the darkest being an ashy charcoal gray, but desert elves develop extremely white skin with almost no translucence

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Fair dinkum!

[–] greedytacothief 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

It took me until now to realize the hair on Saxton Hale's chest is shaped like Australia.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Holy hell!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Now I want to make a drow that's just Rhys Darby and he's hated by the other drow for his slightly different accent (New Zealand).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Does Lemmy have a maps without New Zealand community?

[–] ThePyroPython 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So does that mean regular elves have Kiwi accents?

[–] Anticorp 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Regular elves have snooty English accents. Everyone knows this.

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[–] Stovetop 5 points 5 months ago

Seldarine/surface-dwelling Drow are the Kiwis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Regular elves have Wolverhampton accents. It is known.

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