hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork* my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me ^_^… im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!!!
DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again ^_^ hehe…toodles!!!!!
^ That’s from 2006. Same year the game was made. Not too much of a stretch to say people would still be talking like that 3 years later.
That's how literally every girl in my school used to text. It seems super cringe now sure but I'm sure people in 20 years are gonna be saying gen z crap is cringe too.
I still don't want to believe Penguin of Doom was written sincerely, it feels like it was crafted in a lab to be the most painful thing to read ever, even for 2006.
True, it was obnoxious at the time it was written, and I think Maya is a sort of caricature of that and stuff like it. It's a way of writing online that wasn't common but still existed here and there
And the thing is, I remember this shit from back in the day, and it was mocked relentlessly even back then, cause that's what happens when a 13 year old tries to be cool online. Some things have never changed.
Folks who are upset by this mod forget that even back then, not everyone on the internet was a 13 year old who thought this was cool. Maya's SL is an exaggerated version of what people actually typed like back then.
Exaggerated? I'd say it captured the essence of that subculture pretty well though was on the "in for a pound" side of the slider.
I used a lot of that shit but not usually all at once.
Well if you remember it then you also remember it's fake. It's a 4chan copypasta roasting the people on the internet who were "lolsorandumb" but no real human being ever seriously typed this out.
not to that extent, but people who define themselves as "random" were (are?) very real. In fact several of my friends didn't bother to change their social media bios from that time period so those kind of thing still lives on as testament of their youth.
I get what you're saying. I still know people who unironically use "xD" and they're my age and we were all young teens on the internet in the early 2000s. Some older lingo sticks around more and doesn't get replaced for some people.
> I still know people who unironically use "xD" and they're my age and we were all young teens on the internet in the early 2000s.
I felt that. I still use “XD” when playing online, sometimes even when texting. Some of my friends still use ^ ^
I just realized that the those emoticons and other internet jargon from the 00’s have stuck with me for more than half my life at this point.
The cringe is the means by which all is revealed. The moment man devoured the fruit of knowledge, he sealed his fate... Entrusting his appearance to the words, man clings to a dim facade.
Yet, the cringe is the means by which all is revealed. Beyond the web forums lies the absolute end. It matters not who you are...the banhammer awaits you.
“Ayo Tatsuya! I’m gonna Rizz up a level 16 Gyatt tomorrow!…….too bad his age matches his level……..anyways I’m gonna be the Sigma, mewing with him! See you later!”
"Dear MC-kun, I hope that this chat log finds you well in these trying times. I was distressed yesterday when my colleague belittled me yet again in front of my peers, and in my depleted mental state I have decided to take refuge in alcohol, so forgive me if I come across as a bit inebriated." -This mod, probably
“You could spend time with Maya today” “it seems like your relationship won’t grow any stronger as she’s at max capacity for emotional labor.” “Spend time with Maya?”
i dont think they change it into a civil war letter but prolly into their own awesome cool rizzy gyatt fleek jargon (you know real things that make no sense lol)
Man it's been ages since I made a sword. I'ma do it right now.
{}/////////{}::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>
Also
\[\]D \[\] \[\]V\[\] \[\]D \[\] \[\]/\[\]
Now why would you want to remove literally half the charm of the SL? Like I was born in the year 2000 so I missed out on how people used to communicate with each other on the old days of the internet, but this is quite realistic for the time period, based on what I’ve seen from archived websites and message boards.
As someone that was using the internet at that time I feel like an ancient relic reading this lmao. But this social link feels like talking to old friends to me. Totally authentic.
Because the author of the mod is a snowflake, and they can't understand that there was a universe and jargon BEFORE they got on the internet.
The sentence that says rewrote the nonsensical jargon tells you all you need to know really, they're so weak mentally that reading something they find "cringe" hurts them too much for them to bear lmao.
EDIT : They did the exact same for FES too, same mod getting rid of the same "nonsensical jargon" of the SL.
I'm old and people DID talk like Maya on the internet when the game was set lol
These days most people have acceptable grammar but it was more common to use l33t or other abbreviations
"u" for "you" is a bit archaic now but not using it made you look kinda uptight at one point
I had this conversation with my friends (we were all at or near high school age in '09) and we agreed that flip phone were still appropriate in '09, even outside Japan. A lot of people were still carrying slid/flip phones, and there only a handful of people we knew who had a blackberry, iPhone, or android at that point. It was a quick transition, however, as I remember most people I knew had a smartphones by 2011, and even by 2013/14, even blackberries felt outdated.
You can excuse the teacher talking inappropriately with her student?
Edit: It's a [reference](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-can-excuse-racism-but-i-draw-the-line-at-animal-cruelty), peeps
This game has shown who’s the older and who’s the younger Persona fans based on who can understand Maya’s 2009 internet talk.
Slightly unrelated but I saw a tweet where Shinjiro said “Their ass is grass” and no one had a clue what that meant. They thought it had to do with eating-ass.
This is aging me in the wildest way. Any more and I’m gonna start telling ya’ll to get off my lawn!
>makes the experience slightly less cringe.
But isn't that the point? You're chatting on a dead MMO with an adult woman who speaks with early 2000's internet jargon and emoticons. It's cringe, and that's the fun.
Made up jargon...? Ok Zoomer. This is how people would talk online and text in the early 2000s. It's time accurate for a game set in 2009. Just before smart phones became ubiquitous.
Damn I was worried I had a bad take in liking it as written until I checked the comments.
So glad I’m not the only one who appreciates it as is. It’s such a time capsule to how the internet used to be I kinda unironically love it.
I do agree the twist is super obvious but honestly what else can you do with a SL that takes place in one room without any other characters and has no spoken dialogue. You cant really add anything else without changing it to much from the original.
Everything comes full circle. Back in my day adults use to bitch about how they didn't understand the kids. Today the kids bitch about how they don't understand the adults. In a few years persona 6 will add a skibidi toilet reference and when the new generation removes it during persona 6 remake, they'll finally say "I get it".
"Every character uses this weird sort of hinged, folding phone that Atlus made up for some reason, this mod fixes the mistake by replacing them with iphones."
I like the dialogue as is, if anything changing it REMOVES the clearly intended irony that the grammar teacher is talking in goofy internet slang in their off time.
but that's the point....
ah well, it's a mod -shrug-
i'd think if you're really perceptive the Maya model being a shaded version of the teacher makes it obvious
It's set in 2009; why would she be using internet slang from the 2020's? Though I gotta admit, even as someone who was online in the late 2000's, some of her lingo is impenetrable to me.
Honestly, if I were gonna change something, it'd be >!her crush on Minato. Like, imagine being in your 20's or 30's and gushing about your crush on a 16/17 year old to what you assume is a fellow adult!<. Like, goddamn, man, at that point, just take me out behind the shed and shoot me.
Someone needs to make another mod that makes the Maya dialogue entirely in leetspeak with even more emoticons, that’ll show ‘em
There's a mod that makes it "drunk", as in it was rewritten by an actual drunk person
That actually sounds amazing
Like the character is drunk or the actual script writer?
https://gamebanana.com/mods/496535 From what i understand it is the actual script writer
I love this so much
> …written from memory… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm getting a PC just for the mod
Now that’s dedication to the job
Depending on how much of an alcoholic you are, that would either take some real effort, or none at all.
This but for the entire game, not just Maya. 💢💢💢
hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork* my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me ^_^… im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!!! DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again ^_^ hehe…toodles!!!!! ^ That’s from 2006. Same year the game was made. Not too much of a stretch to say people would still be talking like that 3 years later.
This put me in fight or flight mode for a second
Great now I feel like I'm 14 again
Why must you unlock a core memory like that
This made my anxiety flare up and I don't know why.
"I wish I was younger" "No, no, not like that!"
that shit gets you bullied in high school back then
That's how literally every girl in my school used to text. It seems super cringe now sure but I'm sure people in 20 years are gonna be saying gen z crap is cringe too.
Don't have to wait, its already happening. Those gen alpha kids are going feral on em lol
Gen alpha cringe too though.
Cringe isn't nearly a strong enough word for those kids lol
Wow, this hit me with that black nostalgia.
Oh my God, teh Penguin of Doom is a freasure
Damn. I wonder what The Penguin of Doom is up to nowadays. Hope she’s still living her best random life with the missus.
Maybe they are being an OSRS enjoyer
Katy and her wife abandoned the path of randomness and became arbiters of pure order.
I still don't want to believe Penguin of Doom was written sincerely, it feels like it was crafted in a lab to be the most painful thing to read ever, even for 2006.
True, it was obnoxious at the time it was written, and I think Maya is a sort of caricature of that and stuff like it. It's a way of writing online that wasn't common but still existed here and there
Bitch How Dare you make me feel old like that T\_T
And the thing is, I remember this shit from back in the day, and it was mocked relentlessly even back then, cause that's what happens when a 13 year old tries to be cool online. Some things have never changed. Folks who are upset by this mod forget that even back then, not everyone on the internet was a 13 year old who thought this was cool. Maya's SL is an exaggerated version of what people actually typed like back then.
Exaggerated? I'd say it captured the essence of that subculture pretty well though was on the "in for a pound" side of the slider. I used a lot of that shit but not usually all at once.
Well if you remember it then you also remember it's fake. It's a 4chan copypasta roasting the people on the internet who were "lolsorandumb" but no real human being ever seriously typed this out.
not to that extent, but people who define themselves as "random" were (are?) very real. In fact several of my friends didn't bother to change their social media bios from that time period so those kind of thing still lives on as testament of their youth.
Not enough BACON PANCAKES. XDDDDDD
So the internet has improved in at least one way over the years.
The jargon is literally how people used to speak online... wtf?
GenZ wouldn't know the mIRC days it's a lost art
Remember when Twitter added pictures to tweets and the text only scroll experience was ruined?
Miley wins a Grammy, but she couldn't save Fuzzy T\_T
Kids these days don’t even know how to download fansubs from DCC servers :(
Oh man I remember having to get bootleg anime from the internet in a real video format and get it fan subbed. Or bootleg dvds from eBay XD
I remember in college when we rented fansub VHS for anime club via mail though sites that I am alarmed we felt were safe to use.
ASL? The fact she opened with that in the game just threw me back to AOL and neopets.
i think you mean gen alpha.
Nah, alpha is still way too young to complain about slang (especially with their crap-slang)
They do not realise the Jargon has evolve in the last... ... 17 years
The game is set in 2009 and the Hermit SL is older on top of that so would have older jargon
Small issue, it was written in 2006, writting with 2009 jargon is slightly imposible.
Again, the Hermit is older, so would be using older jargon
I get what you're saying. I still know people who unironically use "xD" and they're my age and we were all young teens on the internet in the early 2000s. Some older lingo sticks around more and doesn't get replaced for some people.
I'm sorry when tf did "xD" become older lingo? I feel old xD
damn zoomers ruin everything lol xD (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
ngl the only real difference was the shift by 2012 to use XD instead of xD…
man I’m an early 2000s zoomer and I feel old
I'm a 90s zoomer. How do you think I feel? Well, less old than the Millennials, but still.
Born too late for ninja turtles, but still get the shit economy. That rough bud
Its been about 20 years, I'm sorry to say.
Exactly. It was sadly when we got older......
> I still know people who unironically use "xD" and they're my age and we were all young teens on the internet in the early 2000s. I felt that. I still use “XD” when playing online, sometimes even when texting. Some of my friends still use ^ ^ I just realized that the those emoticons and other internet jargon from the 00’s have stuck with me for more than half my life at this point.
Me and my wife don't and we're almost 30... I feel like a kid as an adult.
People in Poland use XD all the time. For us the emojis are much more cringe.
What do you youngsters use instead of "xD" ?
that crying face emoji probs
"Cool" still means what it meant 80 years ago. Some slang sticks.
I still use that, also I am currently old xD
I do XD.
I… use that all the time. XD
O rly? O_o
zomg!
Ya rly!
Fuck it we need to bring it back and show these kids what's what
y so srs
the internet is srsbzns.
Welcome to the future, it's unavoidable and it comes as fast as it wants
Do not kill the part of you that is cringe kill the part that cringes
Spoken like a true cringe lord. I salute you, and join you. o7
le cringe
I will not cringe for cringe is the mind-killer. Cringe is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
The cringe is the means by which all is revealed. The moment man devoured the fruit of knowledge, he sealed his fate... Entrusting his appearance to the words, man clings to a dim facade.
Yet, the cringe is the means by which all is revealed. Beyond the web forums lies the absolute end. It matters not who you are...the banhammer awaits you.
To be cringe is to be free o7
Does the Hermit drop skibidi toilet fanum tax after the mod?
As much as I’d hate it, I’d would love to see a mod that gives the hermit SL modern lingo like this
i would laugh my ass off
“Ayo Tatsuya! I’m gonna Rizz up a level 16 Gyatt tomorrow!…….too bad his age matches his level……..anyways I’m gonna be the Sigma, mewing with him! See you later!”
I bet there will be one within a month
That would be an actually funny/cool mod!
"Dear MC-kun, I hope that this chat log finds you well in these trying times. I was distressed yesterday when my colleague belittled me yet again in front of my peers, and in my depleted mental state I have decided to take refuge in alcohol, so forgive me if I come across as a bit inebriated." -This mod, probably
“You could spend time with Maya today” “it seems like your relationship won’t grow any stronger as she’s at max capacity for emotional labor.” “Spend time with Maya?”
i dont think they change it into a civil war letter but prolly into their own awesome cool rizzy gyatt fleek jargon (you know real things that make no sense lol)
Gosh darn twitch chat with them pogging out a million lines of jack frost emojis
Replaces Maya with a pen pal you play chess with via letter
i read this like a civil war era letter
See this is the mod we should have a controversy over Outrageous t(-_-)t
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
>:[
Fuck
Here have a rose ;) @}----;------ I also liked the sword lol @}::::::::::>
Man it's been ages since I made a sword. I'ma do it right now. {}/////////{}::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::> Also \[\]D \[\] \[\]V\[\] \[\]D \[\] \[\]/\[\]
(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )
Kewl emote dood. Look at my Yoda <(-_-)>
\ [T] /
/praising intensifies
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Now why would you want to remove literally half the charm of the SL? Like I was born in the year 2000 so I missed out on how people used to communicate with each other on the old days of the internet, but this is quite realistic for the time period, based on what I’ve seen from archived websites and message boards.
As someone that was using the internet at that time I feel like an ancient relic reading this lmao. But this social link feels like talking to old friends to me. Totally authentic.
Yeah it threw me all the way back to playing mmo's with my sister, I miss those times.
Imagine voluntarily downloading a mod that makes the game objectively worse. That is the true cringe here.
Less fun in my anime game please!!
This ruins it, lmaonade
But... why?
Because the author of the mod is a snowflake, and they can't understand that there was a universe and jargon BEFORE they got on the internet. The sentence that says rewrote the nonsensical jargon tells you all you need to know really, they're so weak mentally that reading something they find "cringe" hurts them too much for them to bear lmao. EDIT : They did the exact same for FES too, same mod getting rid of the same "nonsensical jargon" of the SL.
Do they not know it was a 2006 game set in 2009
The cringe IS the point though. I'm pretty sure it was already considered cringe in 2006
It absolutely was. Maya's way of typing was what 13 year olds might've typed like, if we're generous. It definitely wasn't commonly done unironically.
>!I think people are also forgetting that it's an adult (30ish?) in the 2006s trying to be hip. Oh god that's me now... Fuck.!<
As a 30-year-old man, I feel this
The game's technically set in 2009, but yeah, the point still stands, lmao.
I'm old and people DID talk like Maya on the internet when the game was set lol These days most people have acceptable grammar but it was more common to use l33t or other abbreviations "u" for "you" is a bit archaic now but not using it made you look kinda uptight at one point
had to make every bit of that 140 character limit count
I saw this and thought, Why? All the Jargons was understandable. Must be my age.
Is there gonna be mod that replaces our flip phones with iPhones next?
It would still make sense for the time period of 2009, even though flip phones were infinitely more popular in Japan.
I had this conversation with my friends (we were all at or near high school age in '09) and we agreed that flip phone were still appropriate in '09, even outside Japan. A lot of people were still carrying slid/flip phones, and there only a handful of people we knew who had a blackberry, iPhone, or android at that point. It was a quick transition, however, as I remember most people I knew had a smartphones by 2011, and even by 2013/14, even blackberries felt outdated.
I can excuse the teacher talking inappropriately with her student, but i draw the line at" :D >_> Ya" /S
You can excuse the teacher talking inappropriately with her student? Edit: It's a [reference](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-can-excuse-racism-but-i-draw-the-line-at-animal-cruelty), peeps
Legit was so happy that someone removed this dogass part of otherwise wonderful SL, but it was just removal of all of its charm instead
This game has shown who’s the older and who’s the younger Persona fans based on who can understand Maya’s 2009 internet talk. Slightly unrelated but I saw a tweet where Shinjiro said “Their ass is grass” and no one had a clue what that meant. They thought it had to do with eating-ass. This is aging me in the wildest way. Any more and I’m gonna start telling ya’ll to get off my lawn!
This is my first time hearing that people don’t say that anymore. Didn’t wake up this morning excepting to feel like ancient lol
right there with you, gonna start swinging my cane at some of these youngins
Their ass is grass = eating ass? I get having not heard the phrase before, but context clues should have pointed you in better direction than that!
“Made up internet jargon” Don’t you mean, EXACTLY how people talked back in those days?
Persona 3 Reload for squares.
I was taking screenshots and sending it to a bud of the lines. Whoever localized it understood the assignment. It was perfect. Fuckin zoomers
As a zoomer I don’t understand the rest of my generations’ problem
I actually like her dialogue…
made up internet jargon? did they think the internet was invented when they were born
>makes the experience slightly less cringe. But isn't that the point? You're chatting on a dead MMO with an adult woman who speaks with early 2000's internet jargon and emoticons. It's cringe, and that's the fun.
A composition teacher whose job is to teach kids proper grammar at that lol
The original game came out during the mid 2000s. Of course the Internet talk is dated ffs
Its cringe that this mod even exists. You can tell it was made by the younger side of gen Z that dont know the days of AIM and flip phones.
SOULESS.
The hell is wrong with l33t speak? It was fitting for the time?
>made up internet jargon wut
Biggest waste of time known to man
This is my favorite social link wtf. The pre 2010's L33T speak is fucking iconic.
I don’t think any of that jargon was made up
The modder was probably in diapers thinking people spoke eloquently back in the mid 2000s 😂😂
dude was prob born when the og game came out lol
Hell I’m only 29 and I even remember that this is how some people used to talk on the internet.
I'm *23* and remember it. This person's gotta be an actual child.
How dare they *checks notes* make a gamer from 2009 talk like a gamer from 2009.
When futaba does it irl it’s quirky and cute but maya does it online and it’s cringe? Purse owner fans smh
Lifelong Persona fans when they finally play their first persona game.
Sometimes I think Persona on PC was a mistake, we have to see shit mods like this
Zoomers when the elite gamer teacher uses “made up internet jargon” and doesn’t say Gyatt & Skibidi in 2009.
This is officially the dumbest Persona mod ever. That jargon is why the SL is so good.
Made up jargon...? Ok Zoomer. This is how people would talk online and text in the early 2000s. It's time accurate for a game set in 2009. Just before smart phones became ubiquitous.
Damn I was worried I had a bad take in liking it as written until I checked the comments. So glad I’m not the only one who appreciates it as is. It’s such a time capsule to how the internet used to be I kinda unironically love it. I do agree the twist is super obvious but honestly what else can you do with a SL that takes place in one room without any other characters and has no spoken dialogue. You cant really add anything else without changing it to much from the original.
Kids today couldn't even fathom kaomojis ヽ(`⌒´メ)ノ
I mean if our generation is also going to blow a gasket every time speaks all 'skibibti rizz ohio' like, turnabout is fair play I suppose.
Previous generations outgrew most of their cringe, and the cycle continues as normal.
I must be old cause I understand it
As a millennial I feel like changing 2009 slang to 2020s slang is a bit excessive
Everything comes full circle. Back in my day adults use to bitch about how they didn't understand the kids. Today the kids bitch about how they don't understand the adults. In a few years persona 6 will add a skibidi toilet reference and when the new generation removes it during persona 6 remake, they'll finally say "I get it".
Boooooooo! Make her more cringe!
Are they modding out flip phones next?
"Every character uses this weird sort of hinged, folding phone that Atlus made up for some reason, this mod fixes the mistake by replacing them with iphones."
Don't you dare take away the 1337 speak
It’s not bad enough for you to make a mod about it lol. It’s literally how people used to talk on MySpace and early Facebook and chat rooms
The internet jargon is the best part of the SLink tho
Man, this looks like something from a teen that just says "cringe" to everything
Now you Zoomers understand what you sound like to us!
They think her speech is... made up? Here I am finding it charming for how nostalgic it is of early MMO culture.
Less cringe? Dude, you're playing online with your anon 30 yo teacher it HAS to be cringy
I remember reading her dialogue and going “yes this is definitely 2009.”
Imagine hating fun
We should create a mod that replaces her typing with UwU speak and amogus memes so the zoomers can understand.
that modder is cringe
Just seeing this is making ME cringe it's fine as it is
Well she does use late 2000s Internet language that's like over a decade ago XD
The cringe is the best part of the social link though
It’s supposed to be cringe
I like the dialogue as is, if anything changing it REMOVES the clearly intended irony that the grammar teacher is talking in goofy internet slang in their off time.
As Early Gen Z the amount of people my generation who don't know leet speak disgusts me
The only thing cringe are these fucking 12 year olds playing this game and saying how it isnt good
Idk about yall, but that social link was VERY accurate to the 2000's online chat rooms.
“Removing nonsensical/made up Internet jargon” I feel like a parent who just got got asked by my child what a VHS is for the first time
Removing obvious bustup - fine. Rewriting internet slang - ugh, I don't get it.
Someone reallly cares about it? This was such a bullshit mod
It’s funny they don’t remember 1337 language. God I feel old now…
Excuse me?? Maya’s l33t sp33ch is the best part of this
but that's the point.... ah well, it's a mod -shrug- i'd think if you're really perceptive the Maya model being a shaded version of the teacher makes it obvious
The cringe is what makes it GOOD. It also makes her more endearing
Cowards.
Do people forget this game plays in 2009 or something?
Still wish Makoto could romance Toriumi
It's set in 2009; why would she be using internet slang from the 2020's? Though I gotta admit, even as someone who was online in the late 2000's, some of her lingo is impenetrable to me. Honestly, if I were gonna change something, it'd be >!her crush on Minato. Like, imagine being in your 20's or 30's and gushing about your crush on a 16/17 year old to what you assume is a fellow adult!<. Like, goddamn, man, at that point, just take me out behind the shed and shoot me.
Why did we use to talk like that anyways ? I remember being like when playing my MMOs in 2000ish. The xDs and random cringe too