• Badabinski@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    The only thing that comes to me is that someone who was really into tuning/spiffing up Japanese cars was involved in the community early on. I’ve always found it weird, and I’d honestly kinda prefer to just use “theme” or “spiff” or one of the many other words that the Godfucked curse of the Earth that is the English language provides for the purpose.

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      9 months ago

      dude with flames, topless anime character designs, no hood and a fart can skids into view

      VTEC YOOOOOO

      fart can intensifies

    • Ricing vehicles (mostly cars) used to be a big thing, enough so that when “rice” first started being used it was a common term to even people not into the hobby. I think it’s a… not skeumorphism, but whatever the tern is for anachronisms like “files” and “folders.” Metaphors carried over from the before-times.

      Unlike “disks” which is a term that used to refer to a specific thing that’s largely been replaced by rectangular solid state devices. I feel as if there are, or should be, terms for these language elements.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      9 months ago

      why not throw in just a teensy bit of racism in your vocabulary :9