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babys-first-campaign · 7 years ago

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The Big List of Racial Slurs

Anyone who isn't water breathing:

Landwalker

Drowner

Landdweller

Mouth-breather

Dwarves:

Beard-goblin

Flea-bearded alestain

Stunty

Pump Sucker

Stone shitter

half-sized alcoholic

Maggots (according to legend!)

rock eater

Stone Domes

Gutter Rats

Angry Footstool

Rockhead

Hairy Halfling

Tunnel Rat

Pubic Face

Cave Hippo

Oremonger

Bushies

Gut Draggers

Knoties

Lumberfoot

Half-Man

Gnomes

Spuds (Both are lumpy and come from the ground)

stunt

gold digger

dirt-licker

teapot

hammer midget

copper polisher

squash (look like squashed humans)

rock bitter

stone humper

hill/mountain/dirt fairy

keg belly

pyrite-muncher

giant snot

Hairy Brewery

Elves:

Leaf lickers

Butterboys

Dandelion Eater

Pointy ears

Knife-ears

Sharp ears

Chinfolk

Beardless

Pole-proportioned dendrophile

Fairy Folk

Drow (except to actual drow)

Pointy

Wood-Heads

Fancy Lad

Tree-thumpers

Dagger Head

Rabbit

Keeb

Leafblower

arrogant stuck up tree fondling hippies

tree hugger

pixie

bark sniffer

left handed casters

waste of immorality

fairy wannabes

tinkerbell

wedgie (they're uptight)

wingless fairy

light weights

mushroom dancers

faithless woodland sprite

dew drinker

fey mongrels

discount dryad

daisy sniffer

weed eater

bird boned

oozebait (especially elf children)

tree f*cker

Drow

murker

Underscum

Filth-Skin

Chimney Sweep

Cavemen

Ash-Face

tall dwarfs

dirt elves

moss licker

Spider Kisser

dwarven imposter

Anyone who isn't a drow:

Iblith (meaning excrement)

Half-Elves

By elves:

Mongrels

Bastards

Half Breed

Mudbloods

Half Bad

Mayfly Babies

By Humans:

Fling Kids

Traitor Babies

Half Good

Mutts

Mules

Not Enough

Halfways

Halflings

Hairy doorstop

Hill goblin

Hairless Dwarf

Leatherfoot

Children

Dwarfling

Gnome

Shaved Dwarf

Sneakies

Succling

Ankle Biter

Swine

Half men

Dire-Midget

Bilbo

Runt

Arm rest

sticky fingers

small fry

hobbit

shin licker

all-you-can-eat

fairy giant

Humans

Soft one (from lizardfolk)

Round ears

Pink Thing

Mayfly

Pinks

Dust

Spoon-Ears

Normie

Short-life

pink-skin

Joe Bloggs

generic protag #435 (if a PC)

Full-lings

Smoothskin

Succling

Swine

Quisling (a human who spends a lot of time around a dragonborn)

Dire Halfling

Lumberfoot

Pig Skin

Shortlived

Monkeys

Doubling (by Halflings)

World-blight (by elves)

Tree-killers (by elves)

Monkey

graceless elf

rabbit spawn (from the elf point of view because of how fast they seem to breed to them)

milkskins (orcs on humans)

whore-race (they're the reason for half breeds)

Cattle

Morties

roundteeth

Dragonborn

Lizard

Fly eater

Fake-drakes

Tall Kobold

Iguana Wannabe

Snakeskin

Wyrm Wannabe

Scalie

Boot

Scalebacks

Scales

Lizard Brain

Walking Purse

Skinks

Man-Eater

Lizardfolk

Forked-Tongues

dragon refuse

newt

Gecko

wyrm reject

overgrown iguana

For anyone who isn't a dragonborn:

maunthreki

Gnomes

Quarterling

KneeLicker

Mini-elf

Halfling

Mushroom sucker

Ankle Biter

Fat Fairy

Sniffers

Tinkertots

Lawn ornaments

Bug-Eyed Stumps

Shaved Hobgoblin

Glamer-slingers

Dwarflings

Trickster

discount dwarf

cone head

lawn darts

Half-orcs/orcs

Swampskin

Tusk-Face

Greenskins

Slimeskin

Dorc

Forc

Necro-Breath

Pig-Face

Tuskers

Grunt

Scumbreed

Halfbreed

Lumberfoot

The green beast (referring collectively)

Savages

green ape

broccoli head

ogre droppings

Tieflings

Devil spawn

Sideshow

Devil bastard

Hellspawn

Brighteyes

Gargoyles

Bullheads

Half-Hells

Pox

Demon Child

Handle Heads

Clip-Clops

Goat Face

Unloveables (from Demons)

Freak

Failbirth

Filth

Unbirth

Hell-touched

Tainted Ones

Tall Imps

Kenku

crow

raven

parrot (in tropical/port cities)

Flightless

Hollowbones

Noisemakers

Mockingbirds

Caw-Caws

Peckers

Copycats

Jabbers

Aasimar:

God's Pet

Goody Two Shoes

Wingless Earthbound bastard Half breed

Birdy

Chickenbrain

Chicken

Angel Face

Aarakocra

crow

raven

parrot (in tropical/port cities)

Hollowbones

Bird-Man

Pigeon

Caw-Caws

Kobolds

Scaly Gnomes

Little Lizardfolk

Yippers

Gnoll

hunger slave

mutt

cur

Dog

Carrion-eaters

Warforged

Rusties

clinking clanking clattering collection of caliginous junk

Dumbells

Hunk of Junk

Lemon

Golems

Walking talking tools

Dummies (as in training/target dummy)

Scarecrows

Dolls

Marionettes / Puppets

Made-to-Orders

Fakes / Facsimiles

Walking Casket

rust bucket

gear head

scrap heap

golem (they're living constructs)

robot

Genasi

Fire

Cold Heart

Matchstick

Hazard

Sunburn

Earth

Gravel bed

Sedimentary

Slabs

Air

Leaf Blower

Spark Plug

Unfavorable Fart (From Orcs. Orcs aren't great at throwing shade)

Windbags

Water

Algae Infested

Salty

Soakhead

Goblins

Greenskin

Gobber

Slimeskin

Trash Gnome

Orcslave

Toothpick-Nose

Tabaxi

Fleabag

Hairball

Cat

Worm farm

Triton

fish f*cker

Dolphin born

Wet blanket

Coral Eater

Firbolg

Giant Half-Breed

Overgrown Dwarf

Half-Baked Goliath

Goliath

Mini-Giant

Tribal Boy

Stoneskin

Centuars

Clippity-Clops

Horse Bastards

Half-Horses

Giants

Tumbletower ( tall like a tower, but more easy to knock down)

Nesthair (birds tend to nest in high places)

Indirect Racial Slurs:

*a dagger "a Gnome Greatsword"

*a bag of leftovers from a restaurant "an Orc-y Bag"

*the act of going barefoot "wearing Halfling Shoes" with signs in stores specifically forbidding halfling shoes

*happy endings at a massage parlor "Human Style"

*public drunkenness "going Dwarven"

*vegetables "Elf food"

*the bastard children of non-human races "Half-man"

*unshaven men "dwarf babies"

*whiskey "dwarf milk"

*barrels of whiskey "dwarven wetnurse"

*bad breath "dragonborn singing"

*pickpocketing "halfing handshake"

*picking a lock "banging a halfling's sister"

*stealing a horse "taking a half-orc bride"

*laying a dwarf or gnome "boulder rolling"

#dnd #narration #flavour #insults #npcs #conversation #ideas

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darbiblog-blog · 7 years ago

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China is going west: a ghost city inside the sand involves lifestyles

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China is going west: a ghost city inside the sand involves lifestyles

Turned into a scheme as formidable and eccentric as any to emerge from China’s 21st-century dash towards urbanization: to build and populate a wonderful city of a million inhabitants deep inside u. S .’s barren western hinterlands.

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Of their bid to make this Fitzcarraldo-rescue dream a truth there’s little Chinese language government have now not attempted. Masses of mountains and village after village have been bulldozed considering that production of Gansu province’s Lanzhou New Location started out in 2012.

A free change region has been created, a synthetic lake carved into the arid soil, and extra than four hundred miles of street and scores of excessive-upward thrust towers built. English-language billboards sing the praises of considered one of China’s most recent towns in a chorus of massive multi-colored adjectives: “Great! Bustling! New International!”

But the Communist party’s city planners have now not stopped there. Determined to lure outsiders to this a ways-flung, in moderation populated the place, officials have ordered the development of a duplicate of the Extremely good Sphinx of Egypt; the Parthenon; Beijing’s Summer Palace and Forbidden metropolis, or even of a stretch of the Amazing Wall of China.

Final however no longer least, they threw within the Dinosaur Nation, a sprawling Triassic theme park wherein Chinese travelers will soon be able to stare upon exceptional-sized fashions of flesh-ingesting theropods.

It is positioned about 40 miles north of Gansu’s gritty capital, Lanzhou – a smog-choked industrial hub carved in two via the meandering Yellow river. The old metropolis has about three.6 million residents; one hundred sixty,000 of whom are are individuals of the Hui Muslim minority. The area has long been known for its infected air, water, and soil, despite the fact that latest years have visible authorities attempting to smooth up, with a few success.

The so-called “Pass West” initiative – a bid to deliver a touch of China’s rich eastern coast to its underdeveloped interior – referred to as for less-advanced provinces together with Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu to take delivery of a dramatic facelift.

In addition to constructing tens of thousands of miles of avenue and railway, plans were also unveiled for a sequence of recent urban hubs scattered throughout u. S . A .’s south and northwest.

Wade Shepard, an American creator who has spent greater than a decade chronicling the fortunes of these new areas, said the campaign sparked a construction frenzy throughout inland China that peaked after the 2008 monetary disaster, as Beijing hurled enormous sums at infrastructure tasks in a bid to shore up boom.

“It was sort of a free for all. authorities officers had been essentially advised to go out and growth GDP to comply with this countrywide urbanization movement, and quite tons each degree of government had the authority to construct new cities. So that they went out and they constructed and they built and that they built,” he said.

In many cases, the hundreds did now not without delay flock to these new towns and so a notorious technology of Chinese language “ghost cities�� become born: hollow urban shells that have been seemingly domestic to more cranes than humans.

“When they have been simply being built it was otherworldly. You’re taking walks thru these large new cities – some of them the size of New york or maybe bigger – and you can’t sincerely consider what You are seeing,” stated Shepard, who charts the rise of such cities in his book Ghost towns of China.

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“It’s this kind of huge, big homes and the entirety that you could characteristic to a city: shops, banks and authorities workplaces. however, there are not any humans. It’s form of like You’re in a dream or this Twilight area episode where you abruptly awaken and all and sundry else is long past and you are the Last guy on earth.”

Lanzhou New Location changed into one of the Final such country-degree new areas to accept the green mild before Xi Jinping, the president, got here to strength in late 2012. reputedly alarmed by the soaring degrees of local debt, he started to rein in such mega-projects because the united states of America sought an extra sustainable urbanization model.

Whilst the metropolis was approved with the aid of Beijing simply months earlier than Xi’s presidency, authorities introduced a series of outstanding targets for their metropolis within the sands.

Through 2020, Lanzhou New Area changed into to have five hospitals, seventy-five faculties and creches, and a GDP of 100bn yuan (£eleven.8bn). by using 2030 it would be home to a million complete-time residents and its GDP might have almost tripled, to 270bn yuan.

The challenge, which worried leveling Loads of barren hills, become known as “the finest mountain-moving task on the earth” and a Hollywood-fashion trailer with a stirring soundtrack offered a dynamic, neon-lit glimpse of the town’s destiny. It changed into an area of economic prowess and enjoyment and hi-tech enterprise, where glad citizens strolled via verdant parks or raced throughout the town’s lake in speedboats.

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Truth took a while to seize up with the dream. Once I first visited in 2013, as villagers got here to terms with the destruction of their as soon as-faraway rural houses, an eerie hush gripped the town’s almost completely empty streets. The relentless din of car horns – a hallmark of city China – turned into completely absent. Dozens of tower blocks had been underneath construction, however, aside from developers, there was infrequently a soul to be seen. Each Chinese language and foreign reporters who flocked to the metropolis got here away satisfied it was a flop.

Returning 4 years later, but, I discovered this browsing western giant seems to be slowly awakening as housing initiatives begin to refill and pioneers start to flow in.

“Humans are buying belongings and transferring in,” insists Shepard, who has visited the metropolis two times. “As fantastic as it sounds, it’s kind of coming to life. The place is almost like a mirage out in the middle of the desert. You notice it glimmer at the horizon. You see it however you don’t surely agree with It’s far there – after which all of an unexpected You are within the center of it.”

Metropolis officers declined to be interviewed by using the Guardian about their progress in luring humans to the area’s lunar panorama. but all through a government propaganda excursion Remaining yr, Xu Dawn, Lanzhou New Area’s deputy Communist birthday celebration secretary, claimed it had already attracted one hundred fifty,000 everlasting citizens In addition to 40,000 construction employees who were quickly dwelling there.

“The assignment is ongoing,” Li Zhenjiang, an estate agent, explained sheepishly as he took a break inner and in any other case completely derelict, a dirt-included shopping mall that regarded to have been abandoned for months if now not years.

A record through nation broadcaster CCTV Last year claimed the actual wide variety of citizens was toward 40,000, lots of them nearby farmers who had been relocated to tower blocks in the town after their homes had been razed, or the employees of state-owned companies who had been ordered to relocate there. An extra modest discern of 80,000 permanents can now be observed on the city’s website.

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Regardless of the real figure, pockets of life are now arising throughout metropolis as human beings trickle into the town looking for a better future.

“I came right here Last August,” stated Zhang Yongshuai, a shopkeeper who moved here from the provincial capital, Lanzhou, along with his younger boys. Zhang said he have been attracted to this urbanization frontier through the decrease rents and the chance of a brand new life. He rented a ground-floor shop in a sprawling but nonetheless surely empty residential complicated of excessive-rises and luxury villas referred to as the Greenland Intelligent financial metropolis.

Zhang admitted the city had now not lived as much as all of his expectancies. “The largest trouble is there aren’t any people,” he said with a chuckle. “but I assume they’ll come. If there had been no human beings right here then it might all were a huge waste, wouldn’t it?”

Some blocks away, one of Zhang’s few neighbors, Zhou Fei, stated he also felt precise approximately the town’s future. “It’s getting busier,” said Zhou, who was born and raised in Dongshuitang, one of the rural groups that were destroyed to make way for the new town, and purchased a flat right here with the repayment surpassed to his family by way of the government.

Zhou’s spouse, Bao Shan, said she became nevertheless unimpressed with the gradual tempo of existence and of trade. Simplest approximately 20 families have been currently dwelling within the community of high-rises they now known as domestic. “I don’t like the quietness,” she stated. “Enterprise isn’t Exquisite.”

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But Zhou was convinced a less ghostly future lay ahead – and anyways there was now no turning again. “There’s not anything left [of our village]. It’s all demolished,” he explained.

Every other immigrant hoping the metropolis will take off is Xu Hawke, who moved to Lanzhou New Area Last Might also to help control the metropolis’s Only luxurious guesthouse, the Binhu Worldwide Garden hotel.

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Xu said the city’s portrayal as a ghost city was nevertheless half correct but insisted Commercial enterprise at his 76-room inn changed into progressively improving. The common occupancy price changed into now approximately 70%, Xu stated throughout an interview within the resort’s deathly quiet foyer, although at the day of the Guardian’s go to he said Only 30% of rooms were occupied.

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kalachand97-blog · 8 years ago

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China is going west: a ghost city inside the sand involves lifestyles

“It’s like a mini-Disneyland,” gushed Xu Haiku, a nearby hotelier who these days moved to the city and is among those banking on its fulfillment.

Lanzhou New Region was conceived as part of a broader government push to increase China’s west that kicked off near the turn of the century.

In addition to constructing tens of thousands of miles of avenue and railway, plans were also unveiled for a sequence of recent urban hubs scattered throughout u. S . A .’s south and northwest.

In many cases, the hundreds did now not without delay flock to these new towns and so a notorious technology of Chinese language “ghost cities” become born: hollow urban shells that have been seemingly domestic to more cranes than humans.

“It’s these kind of huge, big homes and the entirety that you could characteristic to a city: shops, banks and authorities workplaces. however there are not any humans. It’s form of like You’re in a dream or this Twilight area episode where you abruptly awaken and all and sundry else is long past and you are the Last guy on earth.”

Whilst the metropolis was approved with the aid of Beijing simply months earlier than Xi’s presidency, authorities introduced a series of outstanding targets for their metropolis within the sands.

through 2020, Lanzhou New Area changed into to have five hospitals, seventy-five faculties and creches, and a GDP of 100bn yuan (£eleven.8bn). by using 2030 it would be home to a million complete-time residents and its GDP might have almost tripled, to 270bn yuan.

The challenge, which worried levelling Loads of barren hills, become known as “the finest mountain-moving task on the earth” and a Hollywood-fashion trailer with a stirring soundtrack offered a dynamic, neon-lit glimpse of the town’s destiny. It changed into an area of economic prowess and enjoyment and hi-tech enterprise, where glad citizens strolled via verdant parks or raced throughout the town’s lake in speedboats.

An English-language website promised ability buyers that Lanzhou New Vicinity would witness “huge monetary build-up”.

truth took a while to seize up with the dream. Once I first visited in 2013, as villagers got here to terms with the destruction of their as soon as-faraway rural houses, an eerie hush gripped the town’s almost completely empty streets. The relentless din of car horns – a hallmark of city China – turned into completely absent. Dozens of tower blocks had been underneath construction however, aside from developers, there was infrequently a soul to be seen. Each Chinese language and foreign reporters who flocked to the metropolis got here away satisfied it was a flop.

Returning 4 years later, but, I discovered this browsing western giant seems to be slowly awakening as housing initiatives begin to refill and pioneers start to flow in.

“humans are buying belongings and transferring in,” insists Shepard, who has visited the metropolis two times. “As fantastic as it sounds, it’s kind of coming to life. The place is almost like a mirage out in the middle of the desert. You notice it glimmer at the horizon. You see it however you don’t surely agree with It’s far there – after which all of a unexpected You are within the center of it.”

metropolis officers declined to be interviewed by using the Guardian about their progress in luring humans to the area’s lunar panorama. but all through a government propaganda excursion Remaining yr, Xu Dawn, Lanzhou New Area’s deputy Communist birthday celebration secretary, claimed it had already attracted one hundred fifty,000 everlasting citizens In addition to 40,000 construction employees who were quickly dwelling there.

“The assignment is ongoing,” Li Zhenjiang, an estate agent, explained sheepishly as he took a break inner and in any other case completely derelict, dirt-included shopping mall that regarded to have been abandoned for months, if now not years.

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A record through nation broadcaster CCTV Last year claimed the actual wide variety of citizens was toward 40,000, lots of them nearby farmers who had been relocated to tower blocks in the town after their homes had been razed, or the employees of state-owned companies who had been ordered to relocate there. A extra modest discern of 80,000 permanents can now be observed on the city’s website.

Regardless of the real figure, pockets of life are now arising throughout metropolis as human beings trickle into the town looking for a better future.

“I came right here Last August,” stated Zhang Yongshuai, a shopkeeper who moved here from the provincial capital, Lanzhou, along with his younger boys. Zhang said he have been attracted to this urbanisation frontier through the decrease rents and the chance of a brand new life. He rented a ground-floor shop in a sprawling but nonetheless surely empty residential complicated of excessive-rises and luxury villas referred to as the Greenland Intelligent financial metropolis.

“The satisfactory issue is the infrastructure, the roads, the squares. The dwelling environment is better than Lanzhou,” said the 23-year-old.

Some blocks away, one of Zhang’s few neighbours, Zhou Fei, stated he also felt precise approximately the town’s future. “It’s getting busier,” said Zhou, who was born and raised in Dongshuitang, one of the rural groups that was destroyed to make way for the new town, and purchased a flat right here with the repayment surpassed to his family by way of the government.

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but Zhou was convinced a less ghostly future lay ahead – and anyways there was now no turning again. “There’s not anything left [of our village]. It’s all demolished,” he explained.

Every other immigrant hoping the metropolis will take off is Xu Haike, who moved to Lanzhou New Area Last Might also to help control the metropolis’s Only luxurious guesthouse, the Binhu Worldwide Garden hotel.

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