playersexuality

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Multiple posters from the collected content acknowledged that many of the explicitly queer opportunities in the games are actually cases of “playersexuality” (Cole, 2016).

2019, Sam Stockton, "Dating Ga(y)mes: Queer Performance in Farming Simulation Roleplay Games", thesis submitted to the University of Calgary, page 47

It can be argued that explicit representations of bisexuality, pansexuality, and other multiple-gender-attracted people are erased from games that use 'playersexuality' as a mechanic.

2020, Alayna Cole, Dakoda Barker, Games as Texts: A Practical Application of Textual Analysis to Games, unnumbered page:

In some ways, playersexuality simplifies romance for both players and developers; […]

2020, Alexandra M. Lucas, “Innovative Origins, Playersexuality, & Complex Inquisition: The Evolution of Relationship Mechanics in Dragon Age”, in Lindsay D. Grace, editor, Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer, page 183:

(video games) The state of an NPC being attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.


pay-to-win

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(video games) Alternative form of pay to win


The problem with consumers is that they are often quick to label any microtransaction as P2W, which muddies the discussion of ethical game design. Today's developers have learned from some of the most egregious examples of P2W design.

2022, Joshua Bycer, Game Design Deep Dive: Free-to-Play, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 5:


free to play

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(video games) Alternative form of free-to-play


fail fast

en-verb

fail fast (third-person singular simple present fails fast, present participle failing fast, simple past and past participle failed fast)

fails fast (present singular third-person)
failing fast (participle present)
failed fast (participle past)
failed fast (past)

To prevent these gaps from being a problem, write your code to fail fast. Use assertions to signal the limits of your design; if someone tries to use something that isn't implemented, the assertion will cause his tests to fail.

2008, James Shore, Shane Warden, The Art of Agile Development, page 324:

In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.

2015, Rachel Alt-Simmons, Agile by Design, page 182:

Adding abstract to the base class causes your code to fail fast with an error that's easier to fix.

2020, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First C#, page 339:

One of the most important best practices is to fail fast. Code the service in such a way that unrecoverable errors are discovered as early as possible and, if such an error is detected, have the service fail immediately.

2020, Gabriel N. Schenker, Learn Docker – Fundamentals of Docker 19.x, page 254:

(programming) To report immediately any condition likely to cause a failure, rather than attempting to continue.


SEH

(programming) Initialism of structured exception handling.


tear-off

This makes tearoffs especially risky for objects that may be accessed remotely. Given all of the potential pitfalls of tearoffs, a logical question might be, "when are tearoffs appropriate?" There is no absolute answer; […]

(programming) A COM (Component Object Model) interface that is instantiated only when explicitly requested.


time travel debugging

(programming) A form of software debugging allowing the user to step back and forward through the recorded prior execution of a program.


XML bomb

(computer security) A malicious XML file designed to consume a lot of memory as a result of the expansion of entities within the markup during parsing.


hitmarker

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You can use hitmarkers to locate enemies by shooting them through walls.

2013, Philip Marcus et al., BradyGames Signature Series Guide: Call of Duty: Ghosts, →ISBN, page 111:

If you see a hit marker from your grenade/tactical, you’ll know where they are (generally), even if you don’t get the kill outright.

2020 March 25, Mike Hume, “Warzone gulag tips: How to win when it’s all on the line”, in The Washington Post:

While you might expect something called Hardcore mode to toss away crutches like the HUD, hitmarkers, and anything else that's remotely useful, it doesn't.

2023 January 24, Shabana Arif, “Modern Warfare 2 Hardcore mode launching in Season 2 after Tier 1 playlist flops”, in The Daily Mirror:

(video games) An audiovisual cue indicating that an enemy has been hit.


stackful

A stackful coroutine is a normal function that can be suspended during execution.

2018, Raghavendra Rao K, Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE, page 64:

(programming) Using a stack (last-in-first-out data structure).


virtual class

Coordinate term: virtual method

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A nested inner class whose functions and member variables can be overridden and redefined by subclasses of an outer class.


case folding

(programming, information science) Text normalization where uppercase and lowercase characters are treated as equivalent.


fluent interface

en-noun

fluent interface (plural fluent interfaces)

Coined in 2005 by Eric Evans and Martin Fowler.

software engineering
software engineering

application programming interface
application programming interface

(software engineering) An object-oriented application programming interface whose design relies extensively on chaining methods together, with the aim of improving code legibility.


hyperbeam

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"I'm not saying that, Vil. I only say what you hear me say and you haven't heard me say that. But, Vil, to get out we're depending on you. I can't call for help because I can't aim a hyperbeam without knowing where we are: I can't find out where we are because I can't pinpoint any stars—"

1972, Robert Silverberg, New Dimensions II: Eleven Original Science Fiction Stories, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 122:

"Unless that fellow was lying, they do have some combat-worthy units. And hyperbeams must be flying from end to end of their fleet."

1990, Isaac Asimov, The Diplomacy Guild, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194:

Wasting no time, Crossfire aims her hyperbeam cannon and fires her spatial blast which engulfs Charlemagne and punches a hole in the ground.

2018, Xavier J. Fulwood, Knighthood: The Dangerous Adventures, Page Publishing, Incorporated, →ISBN:

(science fiction, video games, rare) An extraordinarily intense beam of any size (of energy or matter); a superbeam.


wallbang

en-verb

wallbang (third-person singular simple present wallbangs, present participle wallbanging, simple past and past participle wallbanged)

wallbangs (present singular third-person)
wallbanging (participle present)
wallbanged (participle past)
wallbanged (past)

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Whilst running to the checkpoint, I was wallbanged.

Your weapon’s penetration status will determine exactly what walls you can and cannot wallbang.

2020 June 13, Andy Williams, Complete Valorant wallbang guide for Bind: Spots, angles, glitches, more, archived from the original on 2020-10-26:

In some maps, shadows may clip through buildings/walls. Players will often exploit this by wallbanging to eliminate unlucky targets. This depends on the user's graphical settings.

(Can we date this quote?), Bullet Penetration, archived from the original on 2019-03-18:

Wallbanging your opponents can be one of the most hilarious ways to land a kill on your opponent when playing a competitive shooter.

2021 July 14, Sonu Banerjee, Valorant Player Discovers Insane Wallbang Spot on Split, archived from the original on 2021-10-24:

(video games) To shoot at a character through a wall without having vision on them.


wallbang

Barriers could not save them from a well-placed wallbang.

While being on the receiving end of a flurry of Agent abilities and can often catch players off-guard, there’s nothing better than one-upping your opposite number with a good old fashioned wallbang.

With waves of enemies pouring at each other in constant droves, it’s easy to blow past the more impressive shots that pros pull off—like wall bangs, which require some ingenuity and planning.

2018 January 6, Maddy Myers, Here's A Textbook Wall Bang, Which Is Totally Not A Sex Thing, archived from the original on 2021-10-24:

(video games) An instance of wallbanging; in particular a kill obtained by wallbanging.

Careful, that wall is a wallbang.

So, a newly respawned opponent can fall prey to the wallbang from Passageway if players are lucky enough.

2021 May 5, Ashim, COD Mobile: Top 5 wallbang spots on Firing Range for Ranked MP, archived from the original on 2021-10-24:

(video games) A position or constellation that allows wallbanging.


unwield

unwield (third-person singular simple present unwields, present participle unwielding, simple past and past participle unwielded)

unwields (present singular third-person)
unwielding (participle present)
unwielded (participle past)
unwielded (past)

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(transitive, video games) To cease to wield (a weapon).


hyperbomb

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The hyperbomb of that day will have lost meaning as a weapon and gained meaning as a complex substitute for Francoise Sagan's "sports" car, as this death device is so playfully called.

1957, Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play, World Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 33:

"He went back inside," Igor grunted. "After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch. Probably wants to make sure the computer records don't describe them as ultra-guns or hyperbombs or whatever the hell."

1974, John Brunner, Total Eclipse, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 33:

We entered an area where a hyperbomb had been detonated during the war.

2014, J. Michael Reeves, Terry Austin, Byron Preiss, I—Alien, J. Boylston, →ISBN:

(rare, military, science fiction, video games) An exceedingly powerful, destructive bomb; superbomb.


WET

(software engineering) Acronym of write everything twice. A humorous backronym coined to serve as the antonym of DRY, punning on the opposition of wet and dry.


WET

en-adj

WET (comparative WETter, superlative WETtest)

WETter (comparative)
WETtest (superlative)

(software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.


stack frame

(programming) An individual frame on the call stack, representing a call to a subroutine that has yet to return.


LEMP

The E stands for engine, since Nginx is pronounced "engine X".

(Internet software) Initialism of Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP/Python/Perl: a combination of software for use as a web server.


Racket

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A general-purpose, multiparadigm programming language descended from Scheme.


CQRS

(programming) Initialism of command–query responsibility segregation (a mechanism that applies the CQS principle by using separate Query and Command objects to retrieve and modify data.)


CQS

command–query separation
w:command–query separation

imperative computer programming
imperative programming#English

(programming) Initialism of command–query separation (a principle of imperative computer programming.)


box art

→ Spanish: box art, boxart

→ Portuguese: box art, boxart

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(video games, by extension) The artwork used to promote or represent a video game when it is distributed digitally, without physical packaging.


shitgame

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(vulgar, derogatory, slang) A video game of exceedingly poor quality.


ARTS

real-time strategy
real-time strategy#English

(video games) Acronym of action real-time strategy.


software forge

(programming) A website that hosts software projects, fostering their development.


batteries-included

Django is a batteries-included backend framework.

(figuratively, chiefly software, of a product) Including all possible components required for full usability.


pocket monster

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Borrowed from Japanese ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket + monster.

bor+

A fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.


permadie

en-verb

permadie (third-person singular simple present permadies, present participle permadying, simple past and past participle permadied)

permadies (present singular third-person)
permadying (participle present)
permadied (participle past)
permadied (past)

Back-formation from permadeath; by surface analysis, perma- + die.

(rare, chiefly video games, slang) To permanently die.


permastun

permastun (third-person singular simple present permastuns, present participle permastunning, simple past and past participle permastunned)

permastuns (present singular third-person)
permastunning (participle present)
permastunned (participle past)
permastunned (past)

(video games, rare) To permanently stun.


permadead

Back-formation from permadeath; by surface analysis, perma- + dead.

(rare, chiefly video games, slang) Permanently dead.


memoizer

(programming) An algorithm or software component that memoizes.


BDSP

w:Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.


boost pad

(video games) In a video game, especially a racing game, a patch of ground that causes the character to speed up temporarily when crossed.


NoA

Nintendo of America
w:Nintendo of America


greataxe

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From great + axe. Probably modeled on greatsword, greathelm, etc.

The Saint-Commander rested his famous greataxe against his chair. Gil recalled its name, Red Pilgrim.

1979, Brian Daley, The Starfollowers of Coramonde, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 48:

Dragon King Greataxe can be buffed by spells and consumables, while the Dragon Greatsword cannot.

2020 July 23, Corvo Attano, EdgeOfDreams, “Dragon king greataxe or Dragon greatsword?”, in reddit.com:

Last few days I played outpost rush or wars, the team with the most hammers + greataxes just wins.

2021 November 16, Leandermann, “PvP is only the highest number of greataxe + hammer wins”, in reddit.com:

(rare, video games, fantasy, weaponry) A giant axe; a broadaxe.


greatshield

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Probably modeled on greathelm, greatsword, etc.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:greatshield.

(especially fantasy and video games) A particularly large, durable shield.


greathammer

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From great + hammer. Probably modeled on greatsword, greathelm, etc.

A knife may inflict 5 points on a hit, but a Greathammer would inflict 25 points of Damage, shatter bone, and severely dent a suit of armour. This reflects the differences in size, weight and design of various weapons.

1993, David B. Pilurs, Sun and Storm: The Enchiridion, →ISBN, page 60:

[…]some gigantic man spinning a polearm or greathammer—struck her sister a solid blow in the chest, knocking the woman to the floor. The hammer danced, and the woman holding it rushed to capitalize on the heavy strike she had just landed.

2011, Christopher Rowe, Sandstorm: A Forgotten Realms Novel, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:

Just to the left of these is the final Rhogar Statue we can destroy with the Tor Greathammer for the final piece of the Armour Set (Chest - Last Traitor).

2015, GamerGuides.com, Lords of the Fallen - Strategy Guide, Gamer Guides, →ISBN:

White Hair Ancestor looked carefully, only to see that in Qin Feng's hand, a pitch black octagonal greathammer had already appeared. "Hello..." "Then ..." Qin Feng bellowed, and threw the Sky-splitting Hammer over to the other party.

2019, Deng XiaWuYu, Supreme Emperor: Volume 8, Funstory, →ISBN:

Ti'erra went to the middle of the tavern and placed the head of her greathammer on the floor, with the haft in the air. When it was set this way, at the top of the greathammer was a leather loop, […]

2021, Nicholas Stanosheck, Vhaidra & the DRAGON of Temple Mount, Notion Press, →ISBN:

(fantasy and video games) A gigantic (combat) hammer; a particularly large or powerful hammer.


relex

(programming, by extension) A programming language that differs from another only by the names of keywords, functions, etc.


buttery smooth

en-adj

buttery smooth (comparative more buttery smooth, superlative most buttery smooth)

more buttery smooth (comparative)
most buttery smooth (superlative)

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Today I hear gamers using the words “buttery smooth” to describe the effect of high refresh rates.

2008, Bernard Perron, Mark J.P. Wolf, The Video Game Theory Reader 2, page xii:

In today's parlance, Rosenthal's Space Wars was “buttery smooth” full frames presented at 30 frames a second, full frames containing glowing sticks of light that you felt you could touch.

2012, Mark J. P. Wolf, Before the Crash: Early Video Game History, page 141:

One technique for buttery smooth footage is to edit high frame rate (60 or 120 frames per second) footage to play back in slow motion by changing the frame rate to 24 or 30 frames per second.

2017, Jordan Hetrick, GoPro KARMA: How To Use The GoPro Karma Drone:

In addition, thanks to its highly-optimized game engine Doom ran buttery smooth even on the primitive PCs of the era.

2017, David Snyder, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Speedrunning: Interviews with the Quickest Gamers:

Every game has a target frame rate to hit so that the gaming experience is buttery smooth.

2021, Paul Jones, Game Artist: The Ultimate Career Guide:

(computing, video games) Having a high refresh rate so that the subjective experience does not include flickers or pauses as the video changes frames.


Soulslike

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From Souls + -like, referencing the Dark Souls video game series, after the pattern of roguelike (“any of a genre of computer role playing games influenced by Rogue”).

Amid the tsunami of Soulslikes, Deck13's The Surge stands out as the one game to take the genre in a new direction.

2018 April, “The Surge 2 gets tooled up”, in PlayStation Official Magazine, UK, page 11:

And that's what you ultimately want from a soulslike. Challenge, struggle, and ultimate triumph. And in that sense, "Hollow Knight" is a soulslike.

2020 April 28, James Hamilton, “Hollow Knight Video Game Review”, in TechNews, Illinois Institute of Technology, page 13:

Beyond its cuteness, what makes Tails of Iron stand out from other Soulslikes is how forgiving it can feel – relatively, anyway.

2021 October, Chris Wallace, “When We Made...Tails of Iron”, in MCV Develop, page 64:

(video games) A subgenre of action role-playing video games influenced by the Dark Souls trilogy, characterized by high difficulty, trial-and-error progression, esoteric enemy movesets, environmental storytelling, and complex lore.


costware

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There are two paths to travel in Eudora-land. The 1.* versions are freeware, the 2.* versions are costware. The big difference between the two is filtering, a darn useful feature. 2.1 is the latest and greatest costware version.

1994 September 27, Michael Sattler, San Francisco, “Why All The Different Eudora Versions?”, in comp.sys.mac.comm (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

Anybody know of any shareware (or costware) that will create 3D fonts for Autocad?????

1997 February 10, Vinal Applebee, “3D Fonts”, in comp.cad.autocad (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

The plugin has (AFAIK) always been costware for commercial use.

1997 July 6, Chris Cox, “plugin is costware now?”, in comp.lang.tcl (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

Now my questions:
1) wich components should I install on the publishing server?
2) where do I get it?
3) do I need to restart the server after setup?
4) is the software I install costware?

1999 March 23, Andrea Gasperi, “Please Help (Tomorrow on pubblishing)”, in microsoft.public.vinterdev (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

I recently bought T+, went for the costware version, without trying it out.

2000 May 2, pegleg, “CompuPic Pro vs ThumbsPlus”, in rec.photo.digital (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

(computing, slang, rare) Commercial software.


pornware

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How can I delete rb32.exe popup adware(pornware). Says access denied. File properties show as archive. How do these programs prohibit access to delete them.??

2003 February 12, Frank den Ouden, “Cant deltere Rapid blaster”, in alt.windows-xp (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

For real excitement, however, you simply cannot beat Windows XP! Mysterious crashes, data loss, strange cryptic messages, spyware, pornware, gatesware, all abound. And if you listen attentively, you can hear viruses, worms, and Trojan horses stampeding through the registry. Or simply use Outlook email client as instructed, and you'll be able to see the little buggers...right on your screen. And any update is an adrenalin-pumper. Egads, I miss it!

2004 March 9, bill, “Linux and future.”, in alt.os.linux.suse (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

Neo Security Flash allows an efficient detection of cyber threats and virus through advanced algorithms. It includes protection against Spyware, Adware, Pornware and Riskware allowing you to easily scan files in your portable device.

2009 April 28, submissio...@rambler.ru, “Neo Security Flash 1.3.1”, in comp.software.shareware.announce (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

>>I am trying to create an application for the Windows Mobile 5.0 (or
>>higher)
>>platform. One of the features of the application is that it has a panic
>>button that automatically closes down the application and deletes the
>>executable.
>
> Why does this sound like you're trying to build malware?
Or "pornware"?

2009 November 20, Scott M., “Creating a self deleting executable using .NET”, in microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

(computing) Pornographic software or malware.


Nintendo hard

Nintendo hard (comparative more Nintendo hard, superlative most Nintendo hard)

more Nintendo hard (comparative)
most Nintendo hard (superlative)

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Notably, the fairness of difficulty in Nintendo hard games has been called into question in recent years (Lessel 2013), highlighting that such designs can sometimes serve more to infuriate players through frequent unfair death rather than provide an appropriate challenge.

2020, Barbaros Bostan, Game User Experience And Player-Centered Design, page 267:

(video games, informal) Having an extremely high level of difficulty.


metaprogrammer

Template metaprogrammers in C++ have demonstrated that compile-time computation is an important technology, but they've had to jump through hoops of syntactic fire to practice it.

2010, Andrei Alexandrescu, The D Programming Language:

(programming) One who uses the technique of metaprogramming.


PvE

player versus environment
player versus environment#English

(video games, roleplaying games) Initialism of player versus environment.


pvp

(video games) Alternative letter-case form of PvP.


PvP

player versus player
player versus player#English

(video games, roleplaying games) Initialism of player versus player.


player versus environment

(video games, chiefly roleplaying games) The situation where a player battles computer-controlled opponents rather than other human players.


pve

(video games) Alternative letter-case form of PvE.


buyware

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There is Business Basic (BBX). But it's buyware. If you find GNU licence Basic - let me know.

1999 November 10, Chris Notz, “Is there a "BASIC programming language" compiler available for AIX?”, in comp.unix.aix (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Don't forget Thoroughbred (www.tbred.com) which is also buyware.
Otherwise, look on the bonus pack CD that comes w/ AIX 4.3+...
...There's a copy of Visual Age Java (not the enterprise edition, which is buyware). Not having played with it, I can't vouch for it.

1999 November 10, John R. Campbell, “Is there a "BASIC programming language" compiler available for AIX?”, in comp.unix.aix (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

ANY OS - buyware or freeware - has a learning curve.

2001 May 15, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards, “any free OS for embedded system?”, in comp.arch.embedded (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Not everything on this site is freeware. Some trailware and shareware, and buyware.

2003 March 5, Andrew C. Cooper, “New Freeware Site”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Is buyware evil ? Absolutely not. People put money, skills and effort in developing software. They have the right to get compensation for that. That's how the world works. The hippie-era is behind us.
And buyware also puts the freeware in a different perspective, if there was no buyware, freeware programmers would probably be slaughtered together with Bill G. for mistakes we call minor annoying bugs now.

2004 December 28, Rod, “Freeware and only freeware?”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:


multidictionary

(programming) Synonym of multimap (“data structure”)


shocked Pikachu

en-noun

shocked Pikachu (plural shocked Pikachus)

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From an Internet meme based on a screencap of Pikachu with a shocked expression from the 1997 episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" of the animated series Pokémon: Indigo League.

Olivia's shocked-Pikachu face shifts into a full-on scowl.

2020, Anna Meriano, “Just Tell Them You Play Soccer”, in Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between, page 180:

I swear to god I had both of my eyes bulging out with my mouth wide open looking like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Sunehar Aneja, Angela Mathew, editors, And The Dandelions Fell Apart, page 83:

She didn't have to look so friggin' surprised about it. Like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Yayoi Ogawa, translated by Rose Padgett, Knight of the Ice 7, page 56:

(Internet slang) A Pikachu with a specific open-mouthed, erect-ear expression signifying shock and astonishment, especially regarding something that one should have expected.


busy loop

(programming) A loop that actively consumes CPU cycles while waiting for an event.


DASH

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
w:Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

(web development, video) Acronym of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP.

web development; video; web development; video


Elo hell

(video games, uncountable) The supposed phenomenon where a rating range or skill group is atypically hard to escape from.

(video games, countable) A rating range where this phenomenon occurs.


frame-perfect

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Immediate decision-making, twitch reactions, tight timings, microtemporal awareness and frame-perfect [4] performance characterize competitive play behaviors in fighting games, first-person shooters, MOBAs and real time strategy games.

2018 December, Matt Knutson, “Backtrack, pause, rewind, reset: Queering chrononormativity in gaming”, in Game Studies, volume 18, number 3, →ISSN, pages 1–15:

It also requires frame-perfect precision in execution, with particular inputs having to coincide with in-game timers and triggers.

2019, James Newman, “Wrong Warping, Sequence Breaking, and Running through Code Systemic Contiguity and Narrative Architecture in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Any% Speedrun”, in Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, volume 4, number 1, Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 7–36:

Moment #37 is famous in Street Fighter 2, for instance, because its execution required virtually frame-perfect inputs, which very few players had the dexterity to perform. Another norm is that the sport be regimented and codified.

2021 May 20, Stephen Mumford, A Philosopher Looks at Sport (A Philosopher Looks At), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 60:

(speedrunning) Of an input, trick etc.: performed accurate to the duration of a single frame.


incremental game

incremental game (plural incremental games)


subscriptable

If the container is subscriptable and you remember the position where a particular piece of data was stored, you can use the subscript to efficiently retrieve the data.

2012, Robert Robson, Using the STL: The C++ Standard Template Library, page 249:

(programming) Capable of being subscripted.


self-deletion

self-deletion (countable and uncountable, plural self-deletions)

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(computing, programming) The act of self-deleting.


self-delete

en-verb

self-delete (third-person singular simple present self-deletes, present participle self-deleting, simple past and past participle self-deleted)

self-deletes (present singular third-person)
self-deleting (participle present)
self-deleted (participle past)
self-deleted (past)

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(computing, programming, intransitive) Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that represent an unwritten region.


lapware

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From lap + -ware, lap in reference to a child sitting upon a caregiver's lap.

(software) Software designed for young children.


variabilize

variabilize (third-person singular simple present variabilizes, present participle variabilizing, simple past and past participle variabilized)

variabilizes (present singular third-person)
variabilizing (participle present)
variabilized (participle past)
variabilized (past)

(programming, databases, transitive) Rewrite (a database query, etc.) as a variable.


unconcatenate

unconcatenate (third-person singular simple present unconcatenates, present participle unconcatenating, simple past and past participle unconcatenated)

unconcatenates (present singular third-person)
unconcatenating (participle present)
unconcatenated (participle past)
unconcatenated (past)

However, since we are going to save this combo box back to the file, this would require “unconcatenating” the names before writing them to file, something we would like to avoid.

2001, Patrick G. McKeown, Craig A. Piercy, Learning to Program with Visual Basic, page 181:

The collapse argument tells R to “unconcatenate” the individual lines and create a single string vector.

2014, Larry Pace, R Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 65:

(programming, transitive) To undo the process of concatenation.


ROW

(travel, video games, digital rights management) Initialism of rest of world.


format string

(programming) A string of text characters serving as a template for other strings, such as dd/MM/yyyy for a date.


existential type

en-noun

existential type (plural existential types)

Existential types are fundamentally no more complicated than universal types (in fact, we will see in §24.3 that existentials can straightforwardly be encoded in terms of universals).

2002, Benjamin C. Pierce, Types and Programming Languages, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 363:

Scala 2 supported existential types, a way of abstracting over types. They let you assert that some type exists without specifying exactly what it is, usually because you don't know what it is and you don't need to know it in the current context.

2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 16, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN:

This behavior is what gives existential types their name: we are asserting that there exists some concrete type that matches the signature, and we leave it up to the compiler to find what that type is.

2021, Jon Gjengset, Rust for Rustaceans, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 34:

(programming, type systems) A type that hides the underlying concrete type(s).


algebraic data type

algebraic data type (plural algebraic data types)

So named because they have algebraic properties with respect to their cardinality similar to normal integers.

Generally, algebraic data types represent sums of products, where the cases form the alternatives of a sum type, and each case represents a product type that can be constructed from zero to many constitutent types. An EDT is a special case of ADT where each product type is a singleton.

2021, Martin Odersky et al., chapter 19, in Programming in Scala, 5th edition, Artima, →ISBN:

(programming, type theory) A data type formed by combining other types.


hypermissile

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The sight of another hypermissile impacting the Shield mollified him only a little; the backup fire-control comp had taken over without a hiccup, but precious little good did that do him, isolated on the bridge with no way of knowing what was going on. The only comfort, and bare comfort at that, was that there was only one lance. And it was damaged, too.

1993, Sherwood Smith, Dave Trowbridge, The Phoenix in Flight, TOR, →ISBN, page 181:

Pavanaz tripped into hyperspace, burned the cruiser with his exhaust, threw all power to his screens and deflected the carrier's hypermissiles.

2006, Brian Lumley, Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space, Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 124:

He did not need what it represented: a ship-size heat signature, something out in space beyond the asteroid, just a few kelvins. In the tactical display, blue diamonds shot toward the spot, hypermissiles tracking the tiny difference in temeprature. The ship did not fight back.

2017, Craig DeLancey, Evolution Commandos, 496\Perfect Number Press:

(science fiction, rare, video games) An extremely advanced and powerful missile or projectile; a supermissile.


archcommander

/ɑɹt͡ʃ.kəˈmændɚ/

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And they said,"We beseech thee, Michael , our Archcommander, transfer (μεταθες) us from them, for we cannot abide with evil and foolish men, because there is no good in them but all wickedness and greediness. We beg then that we may depart from them."

1903, Christian Faith and Life, Volume 7, page 5:

Jagiello acted chivalrously; he had the body washed, covered with a purple shroud and sent to Malbork on a carriage drawn by four horses, together with the bodies of other dignitaries, such as the archcommander and the grand marshal.

1978, Paweł Jasienica, Jagiellonian Poland, American Institute of Polish Culture, page 103:

The archcommander caught his arm and tried to draw him away, counseling caution, but the enraged Patrician shook him off, saying, "He gave you this place that should have been your prison and turned it into a palace, let you work your damned unnatural magics wherever you pleased, let you recruit more of your own kind...”

1995, Martha Wells, City of Bones, TOR, →ISBN, page 316:

There's some major design flaws as well. Scaling for one is a pitta. Never liked it myself on any MMORPG, it's cheap, tacky, destroys tension and for me inserts a huge wad of loss of realism, oh, yes, those wasps I destroyed at level one in two seconds can now fight my uber level 200 with the 'Archcommanders Sword of Cheese Shoes' for ten minutes now! Go figure.

2019 April 23, Goromhir, yucklawyers, “Discussion / MOD 16 The End of Neverwinter. Lead Desinger failed.. ^([sic])”, in forums.mmorpg.com:

(rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) The supreme commander; a commander-in-chief.


greatbow

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He hooked the tip of his own greatbow under the door’s hasp, muttered som thing under his breath and pulled, hard. Nothing happened. Again, and again nothing.

1981, Peter Morwood, The Warlord's Domain, DAW, →ISBN, page 84:

You can turtle with a crossbow but you're wide open after every shot. Greatbows have knockdown but you're superslow.

2021 April 12, the_3rdist, “What is your all time favourite themed runs?”, in reddit.com:

Maybe samurai would give you a head start for a greatbow build.

2022 February 14, ytinifniozob, Zamoku, “Greatbows”, in reddit.com:

(rare, science fiction, video games, weaponry, fantasy) A giant bow; a longbow.


omnielemental

Like for a turn or three he deals piercing damage or Omnielemental damage with attacks and unlock something like Apotheosis and all it's^([sic]) source skills for one turn. Something.

2018 August 17, divinedpk, terrovek3, “Is summoning getting any changes in the definitive edition?”, in reddit.com:

I don’t like the omnielemental builds for the Cra, that is why I didn’t go omnielemental/critics^([sic]), but this is my opinion, and I want to know yours. What do you think?

2019 October 8, “Do you believe a water/air lvl. 199 Cra is viable?”, in reddit.com:

I am skeptical of becoming of Harbinger, simply because the Traveler will be omnielemental at that point, removing the need for a delusion.

2022 February 13, azadeth24, Patient_Insect_4463, “pure speculation here - a lil theory about the upcoming plot that I came up with recently. feel free to add your thoughts or debunk this entire thing in the comments 🛐 btw i have no idea why wouldn’t celestia just stop the tsaritsa^([sic])”, in reddit.com:

(rare, fantasy, science fiction, video games) Encompassing all elemental attributes possible.


CRTP

curiously recurring template pattern#English

(programming) Initialism of curiously recurring template pattern.


sliding window

(programming) A descriptor for a data analysis technique where overlapping windows of data of fixed size are analyzed.


pokeyman

(humorous) Alternative letter-case form of Pokeyman.


Pokeyman

Okay, let me explain something to you.
This is a Pokémon newsgroup. This is where people who like Pokémon come to talk, not where bashing of Pokémon is encouraged. If you dislike Pokémon to such a degree, and think so lowly of those who like it, then you are lowering your own mental activity by visiting this newsgroup and posting TWICE.
Also, you never did explain what's wrong with Pokémon, besides that it's popular among seventh-grade students.
You didn't understand that? Okay, let me put it in your language:
U fuckin' fag, dis is a damn Pokeyman newsgrup! Why da hell are u fuckin' dissin' Pokeyman in a fuckin' Pokeyman newsgrup?!
There. Did you understand that? Good.

1999 December 4, Andrusi, “I HATE POKÈMON!”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

Is DBz bigger or going to be bigger than Pokeyman?

2000 June 1, Denis de Laplante, “OT: 1 Question”, in alt.fan.dragonball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

My kids like pokeyman. I've treated them to pokeyman toys, books, videos, "snap" nintendo 64 game, and even a live show at the coleseum.
But pokeyman is still not the world's greatest hobby. Not by any stretch.

2001 February 9, Brian, “Who Is What?”, in rec.radio.amateur.policy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

Must be tough to rub one out to a Pokeyman movie then...

2001 April 25, Thomas Wharry, “My Wings Changes”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.det-redwings (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

And wasn't there an anime about some racer who was speedy? Maybe not quite as much of a phenomenon as Pokeymans or Saylermans (with no sub release like the others mentioned here), but still did well on its own?

2007 August 9, Megane, “Re: ADV and the A, B, C-titles”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:


FPSE

A flaw in the SmartHTML Interpreter contained in Microsoft Corp.'s FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) could enable an attacker to run malicious code or to instigate a denial-of-service attack, Microsoft said in a security advisory late yesterday.

2002 September 26, David Legard, “Microsoft finds 'critical' FrontPage security flaw”, in Computerworld, archived from the original on 2022-04-16:

FrontPage Server Extensions
w:FrontPage Server Extensions

(software) Initialism of FrontPage Server Extensions.


hacklike

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(video games) A subgenre of roguelikes, characterized by persistent dungeons, little equipment upgrade path, large inventory size, single screen dungeon size, and towns without supplies.


MCPE

(video games) Initialism of Minecraft Pocket Edition.


GayStation

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But what I really want is an Ultra 64. I’m waiting to buy one when it’s released. Never mind the ‘Seega Shaturn’, or Sony’s ‘GayStation’, Nintendo will come through.

1996 June, Sasha Nixon, “[Mailbag] Creepy Crawlies”, in Nintendo Magazine System, number 39, Melbourne, Vic.: Catalyst Publishing, →OCLC, page 58:

(humorous, derogatory, offensive) PlayStation.


property bag

(programming, in various Microsoft technologies) A collection of properties and their values, similar to an associative array or hash table.


Sonic 2sday

How about Sonic 2? Came out yesterday (Sonic 2sday). I think it's really well done, although quite a bit easier than Sonic 1 (except for the bonus boards which I find quite a bit harder).

1992 November 25, James 'J' Allard, “Sonic Cheats!”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-26:

Sonic III wasn't supposed to be out until the Spring, and we've had posts that say it'll be out on Sonic Mania Day (just a year after Sonic 2sday -- where's their clever name this year?).

1993 November 22, D.J. Miller, “Where is the VR headset?”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-26:

If anyone could give me the address of a Sonic page run by anyone around my age (17), then I'd like to hear from them, to find out why tyhey've^([sic]) maintained their interest in Sonic even since the heyday of Sonic 2sday, in November 94, I think.

1997 October 13, "John.McGonagle", “Sonic fans?”, in alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-26:

Hey, not only is today Nov. 24th (Sonic 2's 6th aniversery!)^([sic]) but it's also a tuesday!!! Sonic 2sday once again!! Isn't that just the cooolest?? ^_^ I had a huge message I just lost about my Sonic 2sday so many years ago, so I won't be posting it, but if anyone wants to share, it'd be a cool way to celebrate.. ^_^
(Actually I lied, if this gets any good responce^([sic]) you can see my whale-of-a-tail Sonic 2 post, but I suspect most of you got into Sonic after Sonic 2sday, ne?)

1998 November 25, icky...@hotmail.com, “It's Sonic 2sday!!”, in alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-26:

(fandom slang) The North American and European release date of the video game Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Tuesday, November 24th, 1992.


reactive programming

declarative programming
declarative programming

(programming) A declarative programming paradigm where changes to values are automatically propagated, without the need for explicit reassignment.


iteratee

Coordinate term: iterator

functional programming
functional programming

(programming) In functional programming, a composable abstraction for incrementally processing sequentially-presented chunks of data in a purely functional fashion.


datamine

en-verb

datamine (third-person singular simple present datamines, present participle datamining, simple past and past participle datamined)

datamines (present singular third-person)
datamining (participle present)
datamined (participle past)
datamined (past)

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To research or analyze software data, especially looking for hidden content in video games.


build artifact

The most recent build artifacts are also displayed on the build job home page. You can also use permanent URLs to access the most recent build artifacts.

2011, John Ferguson Smart, Jenkins: The Definitive Guide: Continuous Integration for the Masses, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 112:

(software engineering) Any of the files that result from a compilation process and are deployed for use.


button masher

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(video games) A video game that is played by button mashing.


FOUC

(web development) Initialism of flash of unstyled content: a brief glimpse of page content without the proper formatting, before the correct styles have loaded.


dig for victory

dig for victory (third-person singular simple present digs for victory, present participle digging for victory, simple past and past participle dug for victory)

digs for victory (present singular third-person)
digging for victory (participle present)
dug for victory (participle past)
dug for victory (past)

From a wartime slogan promoting victory gardens.

(video games, roguelikes) To descend through the dungeon as quickly as possible, without spending unnecessary time on the upper levels.


VBer

VBers may find the syntax of C# a bit unpalatable.

2008, Andrew Troelsen, Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide, page XVIII:

(programming, informal) A programmer who uses the Visual Basic language.


OCaml

Short from its former name, Objective Caml.

Minsky, a computer science PhD, convinced his employer 10 years ago to rewrite the company’s entire trading system in OCaml.

2015 April 2, James Somers, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review:

(computer languages) A general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Caml dialect of ML.


assoziation

From German Assoziation. Equivalent to assoziate + -ion.

a) Rohrschach-test
The file "rohrschach" includes gif-files, which could be edited by you. Afterwards the viewer should (could) understand, what you assoziate by viewing the images.
b) Symbols and their significance
The file "signs" includes gif-files. Please describe (textual) your assoziation by inspecting the signs and primary sketches.

1994 February 2, Lux Logis e.V., “HANDSHAKE - looking for artists”, in soc.culture.yugoslavia (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

The sequence in which expressions are evaluated depends on priority-rules and the grouping of the expression. The math-rules of assoziations and Kommutativit„t (don't know the english term) are only true for those operators which are really assoziativ and Kommutativ. If not defined elsewhere, the sequence of evaluation of an expression is undefined.

1995 June 29, Stefan Nobis, “C Set++ Bug?”, in comp.os.os2.programmer.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Win95 internet program have the nice feature to "link to each other". But in my case I use a different mailer. Where now do I change the assoziation?

1997 January 29, Ralf Koester, “Where change association for eMailer”, in soc.culture.yugoslavia (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

After the placement of an assoziation I'm not able to move the names at the ends of the line to an appropriate position.

2000 December 2, rolf, “UML associations”, in microsoft.public.visio.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

How can I cast using an id ? The SerializableFactory::create() creates Barts or Hoomers on the given id using an allways registered creator. The assoziation between ids and loaders is done by a map. The solution could be a template but, how could it look ?

2001 April 19, O.Petzold, “casting by an id”, in comp.lang.c++ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

I working with TGEC 6.3 and have a problem create an assoziation between 2 interfaces:
1. If I create an assoziation between two interfaces, together establish a attribute in the interface!?!? How is this possible? Of course it is final, but this is realy not what I want to do.
2. I remove the wrong attribute and add a get method to access the assoziated object. But now the assoziation link is gone...
3. I know from TCC 6.2 to add an assoziation between Interfaces (it works in TCC) and like to do the same in TEC:
/*# Interface2 lnkInterface2; */
But this doesn't work...
How I'am be able to do this?

2004 October 6, Dirk Hoffmann, “Assoziation between Interfaces not possible?”, in borland.public.together.edition.eclipse (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of association.


P2E games

(online gaming) Initialism of play-to-earn.


quickload

quickload (third-person singular simple present quickloads, present participle quickloading, simple past and past participle quickloaded)

quickloads (present singular third-person)
quickloading (participle present)
quickloaded (participle past)
quickloaded (past)

From quick + load. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form "Quick Load").

(video games) To load a previous save with a rapid keystroke, especially if this can be done while already actively playing.


quickload

(video games) An instance of quickloading.


colatard

(Internet slang, derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of COLAtard.


stringly-typed

From the string data type, punning on strongly-typed.

This is a “stringly typed” example that is easy to break if the key names are mistyped, or change between versions of your app.

2019, Shaun Lewis, Mike Dunn, Native Mobile Development: A Cross-Reference for iOS and Android, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 178:

Enums can be a powerful aide in your quest to produce reliable, robust software. Consider them for your code when you discover yourself introducing “stringly-typed” data, such as message codes.

2021, Tim McNamara, Rust in Action, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 98:

(programming, humorous) Characterized by an excessive use of strings to represent non-textual data.


Woolseyism

This is now a well-known meme, along with other 'Woolseyisms.' But one serious gamer took it upon himself to re-translate the entire text of Final Fantasy VII from scratch.

2019, Rachael Hutchinson, Japanese Culture Through Videogames:

(video games) In video game texts, a translation or substituted phrase characteristic of Ted Woolsey, American game translator and producer.

(video games, by extension) A translation or substituted phrase deemed better than the original.


Famicom

Borrowed from Japanese ファミコン (famikon), a syllabic abbreviation of ファミリーコンピューター (famirīkonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from family + computer.

ja-r

ファミリーコンピューター

ファミリーコンピューター (famirīkonpyūtā)

pseudo-loan

School students as well as middle-aged salaried workers queued up to buy one of these Famicoms.

1988, Shoji Shiba, Yuusuke Moryiama, Shigeki Yamasaki, Masanobu Abe, S. Nakae, M. Hasimoto, K. Tuno, Y. Fukuda, M. Taki, ““Which has the Most Powerful Influence on Children: Computer Literacy, School or Home?””, in Blagovest Sendov, Ivan Stanchev, editors, Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities, Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 57:

After a trip to Tokyo at the end of 1983, a business partner of the Stampers had sent them a Nintendo Famicom […]

A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).


corpse run

en-verb

corpse run (third-person singular simple present corpse runs, present participle corpse running, simple past corpse ran, past participle corpse run)

corpse runs (present singular third-person)
corpse running (participle present)
corpse ran (past)
corpse run (participle past)

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(online gaming, intransitive) To navigate one's player character back to the site of one's prior death in order to resurrect oneself and reclaim lost items.


corpse run

(online gaming) The act or instance of corpse running.


morphling

/ˈmɔː(ɹ)fˌlɪŋ/

(video games) a character with the ability to shapeshift


ego shooter

How can I make heretic2 to an ego shooter ? I already installed the update pack,but I still don't know where I can change it

1999 October 30, TruckDrivingMan, “ego shooter”, in alt.games.heretic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:

In Germany some politicians have suggested a total ban of ego-shooters no matter what they are about.
An actual discussion takes place at the moment in the guest book

2002 July 9, Unknown, “German discussion about banning ego-shooters!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:

Babya Shot It, a Quake style ego shooter has been released.
Babya Shot It is a completly 3D ego-shooter with excellent graphics and sounds!

2006 May 2, aafuss, “Babya Shot It-Quake style ego shooter released”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(non-native speakers' English) A first-person shooter.


JEP

This JEP is the index of all JDK Enhancement Proposals, known as JEPs.

2011 August 24, Reinhold, Mark, “JEP 0: JEP Index”, in OpenJDK (index), Sun Microsystems, archived from the original on 2022-06-15, (Top):

JDK Enhancement Proposal
w:JDK Enhancement Proposal

(programming) Initialism of JDK Enhancement Proposal.


DAI

Dragon Age: Inquisition
w:Dragon Age: Inquisition

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age: Inquisition.


RIP in peace

(Internet slang, video games, humorous) Alternative form of RIP


R.I.P. in peace

(Internet slang, video games, humorous) Alternative form of RIP in peace


ILP

(programming) Initialism of instruction-level parallelism.


RMT

en-noun

RMT (countable and uncountable, plural RMTs)

(online gaming, uncountable) Initialism of real money trading (the practice of trading in-game goods for real money)


Shakarian

There's not enough Shakarian on my dashboard right now. This is my Shepard and her Garrus. Don't judge me.

2012 August 23, Jamie Summers (@darksakura), Twitter:

UGH my whole Tumblr dash now is just Royai and Shakarian and [modified .gif of No Face from the animated film Spirited Away being knocked over by a wave labelled "feels"]

2015 July 31, Sam Maggs (@SamMaggs), Twitter:

Found some new Shakarian fic, you won’t hear from me tonight 😂

2021 April 29, Kat Vakarian-Rutherford (@ShepardsKat), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian from the video game series Mass Effect.


ICBM address

(Internet slang, web development) One's precise address, including both longitude and latitude.


commentize

en-verb

commentize (third-person singular simple present commentizes, present participle commentizing, simple past and past participle commentized)

commentizes (present singular third-person)
commentizing (participle present)
commentized (participle past)
commentized (past)

We ended up commentizing the explanatory blurbs to serve a target audience that probably wouldn't need them. They are retained within the source so that they can be easily toggled back to life as needed in future for wider audiences.

I was manually adding “//” for each line I wanted to remove, which was annoying. It turns out that you can use Edit > Commentize to add “//” to the start of all selected lines. The keyboard shortcut in IP7 is Cmd-/. You can reverse the process with Edit > Decommentize or Cmd-\.

2016 October 25, quantixed, “Tips from the blog X: multi-line commenting in Igor”, in quantixed, retrieved 2022-06-16:

(programming, content management) Synonym of comment out


PuG

(online gaming) Acronym of pickup group (group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal, such as completing a dungeon or a raid)


PuG

PuG (third-person singular simple present PuGs, present participle PuGing, simple past and past participle PuGed)

PuGs (present singular third-person)
PuGing (participle present)
PuGed (participle past)
PuGed (past)

(transitive, online gaming) To participate in structured content of an online game as part of a pickup group.


coyote time

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Named after the animation style of Wile E. Coyote who would frequently float in air for a few seconds after running off of a cliff.

(animation, video games) A brief delay between an action and the consequences of that action that has no physical cause and exists only for comedic or gameplay purposes.

(video games, specifically) A brief period after walking off a ledge or platform during which a character is still able to jump.


Poképhile

3)Which Pokemon would you have sexual intercourse with if you were a Pokephile.

1999 April 5, C. Hanson, “Giving in to the Survey virus.”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

Even if Silly Putty *is* a girl Ditto, what he did is *still* disgusting. I'm not some sort of Poképhile!

2000 February 10, RobfromVoid, “[PW!] A Silly Birthday Party”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

Besides doing it with pokemon is much more fun than doing it with that pokephile. . . wait, I'm doing the same thing. . .

2000 June 20, ChocoZell, “Jenny vs. Team Rocket MSTd”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

he's a pokephile

2000 July 1, pst0kely, “Professor Oak molests pokemon”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19:

(fandom slang) A person who is sexually attracted to Pokémon.


death loop

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However, upon being resurrected I found myself in the morning of a groundhog day fighting the scorpion I had just killed, exiting the room, feeling woozy, eating chocolate, falling to the ground. I was stuck in a death loop.

2012, Olli Tapio Leino, “Death loop as a feature”, in Game Studies, volume 12, number 2, Game Studies, →ISSN:

(video games) A situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation.


comboability

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Akuma has a LOT of comboability. He can combo into supers from both the
air and the ground with not that much effort. Plus, his dash is good.

1998 January 18, Onaje Everett, “Is Tekken 3 the most balanced fighting game?”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet):

(video games) The quality of being comboable.


comboable

en-adj

comboable (comparative more comboable, superlative most comboable)

more comboable (comparative)
most comboable (superlative)

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As for the lack of variety in fighting styles, shrug, if you say so, I
think they're quite varied. I mean, the wrestlers are both wrestlers,
so yeah, they grab a lot. But one uses spinning roundhouses and
reversals, and flashy kicks and pounces. The other is more comboable
but plainer looking in moves and flash, but terribly efficient...

1996 January 31, CreeD, “Tekken Strategies NO less than VF2”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet):

OTOH, Jam is pretty damn incredible too. You can do some really insane combos with
her, especially after using the d,d + attack powerups. And her Destroy move is
easily comboable because it has so little startup.

2000 December 18, Jonathan Winkler, “way OT: Guilty Gear X”, in alt.games.sf2 (Usenet):

(video games) Able to perform a combo with or on.


maidenless

maidenless (comparative more maidenless, superlative most maidenless)

more maidenless (comparative)
most maidenless (superlative)

Elden Ring
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Know Your Meme
Kotaku

From maiden + -less. Popularized by its use in a quotation in the video game Elden Ring, released on February 25, 2022, referring to the "Maiden" guide who allows the player to progress.

big divorce energy ()

psychological state characteristic of a recently-divorced person

You might be maidenless, but this Banished Knight's Greatsword replica from Elden Ring will give you the confidence you need to absolutely slay in all arenas of your life.

2023 February 6, Adam Rothbarth, “The Best Unique Video Game Merch 2023”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-03-04:

(Internet slang) Single; lacking a girlfriend.


rushdown

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(video games) In fighting games, a strategy that aims to overwhelm the opponent through speed and aggression.


music game

(video games) A game where the player performs actions timed to music, a rhythm game.


full combo

Did you get a full combo on that song?

(video games) The achievement of correctly hitting all the notes of a level in a rhythm game.


boomer shooter

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Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D are boomer shooters.

(Internet slang) A first-person shooter of the kind popular in the 1990s, focusing on action rather than realism.


AoS

Coordinate term: SoA

(programming) Initialism of array of structures.


software assurance

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) The level of confidence that software is free from vulnerabilities, either intentionally designed or accidentally inserted at any time.


b-hop

en-verb

b-hop (third-person singular simple present b-hops, present participle b-hopping, simple past and past participle b-hopped)

b-hops (present singular third-person)
b-hopping (participle present)
b-hopped (participle past)
b-hopped (past)


street BASIC

en-noun

street BASIC (countable and uncountable, plural street BASICs)

The term was introduced by computer scientists Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny.

Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.

1988, Cynthia Solomon, Computer Environments for Children, page 94:

In 1984, BASIC's original developers responded to what they saw as the problems of “street Basic” by introducing True BASIC, a modern, well-structured version of the language, and the 1988 ANSI BASIC standard incorporated similar features.

2009, Harry Henderson, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, page 40:

programming language
programming language

(programming, derogatory) Any variety of the BASIC programming language that lacks good structure and encourages poor programming practices.


tacit programming

(programming) A programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead, the definitions merely compose other functions, among which are combinators that manipulate the arguments.


point-free

Point-free coding is a byproduct of adopting declarative programming. You can use point-free coding without FP. But because point-free is all about improving the readability of code at a glance and making it simpler to parse, having the guarantees imposed by FP furthers this cause.

2021, Luis Atencio, The Joy of JavaScript, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 104:

(programming) Employing or relating to tacit programming.


Femquisitor

You know what's nice? The Qunari Femquisitor is taller than everyone else. Yes. Good.

2014 June 11, Bryce (@robothyenas), Twitter:

Been looking at too many cool Femquisitors and now I want to restart again :(

2015 January 8, Garrus Dating Sim (@aitchsee), Twitter:

i fucking love blackwall, his romance is SO underrated. when i'm playing a femquisitor, he's the one i default to. 💖

2020 December 15, ϯ♄𝚎 ƃစဌ 𝜛ῑϯ⸦♄ (@dalishkadan), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


Quizzy

From an affectionate shortening of inquisitor + -y.

I'm just glad that I can't lose approval with Cullen. He hearts my Quizzy no matter what. TRUE LOVE GUYS TAKE NOTE.

2014 December 24, Ash (@LadyFaceshred), Twitter:

Most of my DA art is of Fenris and Hawke (male) or my elf Quizzies and Iron Bull.

2018 November 29, Diana Davidsson (@Omegasama_art), Twitter:

FINALLY played The Decent DLC with a dwarf Quizzy and I flippin love it more than ever.

2022 June 1, Jen (@jentrevellan), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) The Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


FemQuis

As a future FemQuisitor I appreciate all awesome artwork and posters that feature our awesome Femquis.

2014 November 6, Rogue_Slayer (@Rogue_Slayer), Twitter:

Luckily, I found a Youtube^([sic]) of the scene that exactly mirrors mine (Dalish Femquis, same mix of companions, etc)

2015 April 1, AutographedCat (@autographedcat), Twitter:

No kidding. I kept trying to romance Cass as a Femquis on PS4 but forgot about that. Flirting with Harding eased the pain.

2015 September 5, Bubblegumnex (@bubblegumnex), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) Synonym of Femquisitor.


FemHawke

Daaawwww. 2nd playthrough of DA2 and my FemHawke Mage just had the 1st romance scene with Anders. So cute.

2011 March 15, Rexluna (@RexlunaCosplay), Twitter:

I also have one male Hawke and all the rest are FemHawkes.

2013 March 2, MsinVader47 (@Vader47), Twitter:

Pretty sure that Ciri is voiced by the same VA as FemHawke in DA2.... giving me all the Dragon Age feels.

2015 June 17, Kelly (@mindofgeekness), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Hawke player character from the video game Dragon Age II.


hackusation

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2021 November 28, “Dr Disrespect Is Worried About 'Hackusations' Invading Halo Infinite”, in GameRant:

2022 March 26, “ZLaner slams “delusional” Warzone fans still making hackusations against streamers”, in Dexerto:

(video games) An accusation against another player of hacking (cheating).


surprised Pikachu

surprised Pikachu (plural surprised Pikachus)

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Some of Broncos Country is left fuming over a start so poor that it is the only team in franchise history that has been this inept, but the rest of us are wearing the surprised Pikachu face.

2019 October 2, James Burky, “Fangio not at fault for foul start to season”, in The Metropolitan, MSU Denver, page 8:

Then without saying so much as a goodbye to Laurie or Steve, who has just arrived at the scene with a surprised-Pikachu look on his face, Will marches toward the exit.

2020, Isla Chiu, Ringing in the Lunar New Year, unnumbered page:

"I don't choose my monsters based on how cute they are, you know."
"You don't?! Really?"
Duh. Why the surprised Pikachu face?

2022, Yuu Tanaka, translated by Yuko C. Shimomoto, A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life: Volume 3, unnumbered page:

(Internet slang) Synonym of shocked Pikachu.


anonymous function

anonymous function (plural anonymous functions)

(programming) Synonym of lambda function


cyclomatic complexity

cyclomatic complexity (countable and uncountable, plural cyclomatic complexities)

Cyclomatic complexity to us seems to be more of a problem when maintaining and testing code, rather than when originally writing it. As the cyclomatic complexity increases, the difficulty of fixing the code increases.

2006, Linda M. Laird, M. Carol Brennan, Software Measurement and Estimation: A Practical Approach, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 61:

(software engineering) A quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths (branches) through a program's source code which indicates the complexity of a program or a function.


RP walk

en-verb

RP walk (third-person singular simple present RP walks, present participle RP walking, simple past and past participle RP walked)

RP walks (present singular third-person)
RP walking (participle present)
RP walked (participle past)
RP walked (past)

(video games) To make the character one's playing walk, as opposed to running, which is the default form of character movement in most video games.


BotW

(video games, slang) Initialism of Breath of the Wild, short for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.


Metroidlike

So glad I took the time to check out Hollow Knight. $15 is a steal for this gorgeous gem of a Metroidlike (Metroidvania IF YOU MUST).

2017 March 11, MANvsGAME, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-02:

Got this today. The package looks amazing. Lets check this amazing metroidlike
#NintendoSwitch #axiomverge #metroidlike

2018 April 18, TheRealPit0, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-02:

It's too bad nobody remembers the beautiful, redheaded homage to Samus Aran that was Jenosa Arma from Scurge: Hive (GBA / NDS)
Isometric metroidlike action RPG bounty hunter heroine. She's quite wonderful.

2018 November 2, OhNoItsGlitch, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-05-24:

i love games that are roguelikes and soulslikes, but also metroidbornes and soulsbornes and metroidlikes as well as permabornes, bornevanias and roguevanialikes

2018 November 26, warm_blankets, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-02:

Gato Roboto is a sharp and clever Metroidlike, you're playing a cat named Kiki, they is suiting a mech, to save Gary ! #NintendoSwitch

2019 December 29, grosguerrier, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-02:

metroidvania is a stupid word, castlevania didn't do shit, everything in that genre pulls way more from metroid. anything new sotn brought is barely ever used (also it sux...!!!)
this is my stupid hot take hill i will die on.
also why i passive-aggressively call them metroidlikes

2021 August 6, NotDolphy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-08-06:

Only castelvania games can be metroidvanias. The rest are simply Metroidlikes. Give credit where it's due.
If you use "Roguelike" (named after the game Rogue), you can suck it all the way up and give Samus her credit!

2021 October 29, parkerrsimmons, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-10-29:

They're all called Metroidlikes going forward because we're not going to dignify Konami any longer.

2022 February 3, ziggybull, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-02-03:


Simblr

Simblrs may contain a range of content from downloadable mods, sims, houses, and custom content to stories, gameplay shots, animated GIFs, and personal blog posts.

2015, Ruth A. Deller, "Simblr famous and SimSecret infamous: Performance, community norms, and shaming among fans of The Sims", Transformative Works and Cultures, Number 18 (link)

I'm sure you will be impressed by the content of this Simblr: downloads, pictures, a legacy challenge...

2015 March, “Simblrs”, in Sims Vita, number 2, page 71:

I only have a few close friends who know my Simblr, and they haven't spoken to me about it yet […]

2018, Reshaaa, quoted in "Say It Loud", Vibez Sim Magazine, Issue Four (2018), page 22

(fandom slang) A Tumblr blog focused on The Sims.


MACH

(programming) Acronym of microservices, API-first, cloud-native, headless.


undub

undub (third-person singular simple present undubs, present participle undubbing, simple past and past participle undubbed)

undubs (present singular third-person)
undubbing (participle present)
undubbed (participle past)
undubbed (past)

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(transitive, video games) To unofficially modify (a video game) so as to restore the original spoken audio that had been localized for export, while retaining the translated text of the target language.


undub

(video games) A version of a video game that has been modified in this way.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age II.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age 1.


MEA

Mass Effect: Andromeda
w:Mass Effect: Andromeda

(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect: Andromeda.


Dragon Age 4
w:Dragon Age: The Veilguard

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age 4.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 4.


Surprisingly, ME3 proves to be a fantastic entry point into the series for new recruits.

2012 April, Adam Mathew, “Mass Effect 3”, in PlayStation Magazine, Australia, page 60:

In ME3, they have a deep friendship with hints of possibly more.

2013 June, Francesca Reyes, “Goodnight Shepard”, in Xbox 360 Magazine, page 48:

We know that a lot of you PlayStation fans won't have played the first Mass Effect game because of the fact that it didn't originally release on PS3, meaning that there are a whole contingent of Mass Effect players who only ever played ME2 and ME3.

2016, “Mass Effect”, in Play Magazine, number 266, UK, page 82:

(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 3.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age 3.


Shenko

Finished my Shenko doodle but tumblr is barfing all over me. *kicks tumblr*

2011 July 8, Kia Purity (@kiapurity), Twitter:

I don't get some Shenko fans. It's like, yeah Kaidan is my space husbando but I ain't gonna flip shit if you don't like him lmao

2012 December 9, hannah (@floraofmoon), Twitter:

I have just read a 500k word Shenko fic that was far better than the game.

2020 February 5, Siân (@alphra_), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Kaidan Alenko from the video game series Mass Effect.


Shiara

i'm having so many shiara feelings lately and i don't know why oh my god i love liara so much what a cutie

liara and f!shepard are the best. I love them. I love my Shep and Liara, i love seeing other people's f'sheps and Liara. Shiara is too pure

2016 November 17, Yeehaw Todd (@AfroPrincex), Twitter:

Daily reminder that I stan Shiara and that I live and die for them

2021 February 25, Atrast nal Tunsha, salroka (@Illusive_s0ul), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Liara T'Soni from the video game series Mass Effect.


[…] and it bores so rarely that ME2 lifts the benchmark for game writing set by the original.

2010 April, Jon Blyth, “Mass Effect 2”, in PC Zone, page 76:

Therein lies ME2's greatest hook: real emotional investment.

2011 March, Adam Mathew, “Mass Effect 2”, in PlayStation Magazine, Australia, page 70:

The true femmes fatales of the series are the Ardat-Yakshi, and one side quest in ME2 even requires the player to hunt down a serial killer Ardat-Yakshi named Morinth who tries to seduce Shepard and will kill him/her if he/she is unable to resist her.

2023, Sarah Stang, “Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Trilogy”, in Julia A. Empey, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, editors, Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 2.


MERN

Introduction to the MERN Stack In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: The MVC architectural pattern Installing and configuring MongoDB Installing Node.js Installing NPM packages Technical requirements You will be required[…]

2018 May 31, Eddy Wilson, MERN Quick Start Guide: Build web applications with MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:

“Creating MERN Stack Applications (2020).” DEV Community , https://dev.to/andrewbaisden/creating-mern-stack-applications-20204a44. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021. CSS Tutorial . https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021.

2021 January 28, Adam Goldfine, Introduction to MERN Web Apps and JavaScript Algorithms, Startup Systems:

(web development) Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js; a common web application solution stack.


PoE

(video games) Initialism of Path of Exile.


SCRUM

(software engineering) Alternative letter-case form of Scrum


product owner

(software engineering) In the Scrum framework, the manager of the product backlog, responsible for maximizing the value of the product.


Scrum master

Where it cannot do this, the Scrum Master takes over the corresponding task. • The Scrum master is responsible for ensuring that Scrum is understood and used. To do so, he informs both the Scrum team and the organization and builds on[…]

2020 December 29, Markus Marfurt, Pocket guide to the Professional Scrum Master Certification (PSM 1), BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 34:

Because organizations tend to try to implement Scrum without seeing the value of a Scrum Master, often Scrum is blamed for not working. Notice that the Scrum Master is described as a servant first and a leader second, not a manager,[…]

2018 February 13, PMI-ACP Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner Exam Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 29:

(software engineering) In the Scrum framework, a facilitator of a developer team, who is accountable for removing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the product goals and deliverables.


no johns

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Coined by Super Smash Bros 64 player Jesse "Zulu" Fuentes in the late 1990s, in reference to his friend John who would often make unconvincing excuses after losing a game.

“No Johns” is such a ubiquitous phrase in the Smash scene that it’s even inspired regional variations around the world. No Stacos. No Tiesos. No Joshis. Igna Yunas, in Swedish. It even made it into Smash itself: One of the “random” names that players can assign themselves in the Wii U and Switch versions of the fighting game is NOJOHNS.

2019 September 16, Cecilia D'Anastasio, “How A High School Smash Bros. Joke Became A World-Famous Saying”, in Kotaku:

(slang, video games, Super Smash Bros) No excuses (after losing a game).


Deutsch limit

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Named after computer programmer L. Peter Deutsch (1946–).

named-after

visual programming language
visual programming language

(programming) The generally accepted limit, in working with visual programming languages, of 50 or less visual primitives on screen at any given time, used to optimize for information density.


hash rocket

From its use in creating hashes, and its resemblance to a space rocket.

(programming) The operator =>, used in the Ruby programming language to create hashes.


hardlock

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(video games) A situation where a game becomes unplayable, making further progress or action impossible, typically due to a design flaw or glitch.


hardlock

en-verb

hardlock (third-person singular simple present hardlocks, present participle hardlocking, simple past and past participle hardlocked)

hardlocks (present singular third-person)
hardlocking (participle present)
hardlocked (participle past)
hardlocked (past)

(video games, transitive or intransitive) To be in or cause a hardlock; to transition to becoming unplayable.


VMT

virtual method table
w:virtual method table

(programming) Initialism of virtual method table.


cupsona

Just wanted to share again that my cupsona is a beerstein Hahaha I could go for a drink right now #cuphead

2017 October 16, Louie Ramos (@battz_lu), Twitter:

i dont play cuphead but at this point im p convinced my cupsona would jjust be an ikea glass

2017 October 18, ßilly ßadass🌸 (@peerifool_), Twitter:

Had to do it, had to make a cupsona... Well, more like just an oc but still!!

2019 April 19, Amberlea (@Amberlea_draws), Twitter:

(fandom slang) A Cuphead alter ego or self-insert character created by a fan, typically having some form of beverage container for a head.


BLL

(software) Initialism of business logic layer, a software architecture layer


DBAL

(software) Initialism of database abstraction layer, a software architecture layer


BYOC

Across the partition is the pitch-black BYOC area. That's BYOC as in “bring your own computer.” A major gaming event like CPL Winter always consists of two separate attractions.

2008, Michael Kane, Game Boys […] , Penguin, →ISBN:

That said, it's important to discuss the ways in which attendees—particularly those simply playing together on the demo stations and bring-your-own-console (BYOC) floor compared to the tournament matches—played socially.

2013, Todd Harper, The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice, Routledge, →ISBN, page 81:

(video games) Initialism of bring your own computer (or console).


progressive web application

en-noun

progressive web application (plural progressive web applications)

Coined by designer Frances Berriman and Google Chrome engineer Alex Russell in 2015, from the notion that web applications can progressively turn into native-like apps, following the idea of progressive enhancement.

Coordinate term: single-page application

The two things that are needed for a web application to become a progressive web application are a mainfest and a service worker.

2017, Gaurav Saini, Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 200:

(software, web development) A type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.


Minecraftian

en-adj

Minecraftian (comparative more Minecraftian, superlative most Minecraftian)

more Minecraftian (comparative)
most Minecraftian (superlative)

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It’s time to go deeper into Minecraft, to not just learn how to be great at playing Minecraft, but to dive into every crevice of Minecraftian knowledge that there is in the world.

2015, Trevor Talley, “Introduction”, in Master Builder 3.0 Advanced: Minecraft®™ Secrets and Strategies from the Game’s Greatest Players, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 5:

A Note to Parents (…and grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, and all other Minecraftian grown-ups)

2015, James H. Clark, Cori Dusmann, John Moltz, The Visual Guide to Minecraft, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page xii:

Cracked and CollegeHumor have taken its pop cultural musings and made them into a Minecraftian mini-world from which there’s no escape.

2015 October 2, David Berry, “The glory days of National Lampoon revisited”, in Calgary Herald, page C2:

Much, perhaps most, Minecraft fiction follows the robinsonade template, emphasizing the day-to-day life of a character, including nonhuman characters, striving to survive and thrive in a recognizably Minecraftian world by utilizing its resources.

2020, Michael T. Wilson, “Minecraft Fiction”, in Anne H. Stevens, Molly C. O’Donnell, editors, The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:

(video games) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Minecraft.


Minecraftian

(video games, rare) A person who plays the game Minecraft; a Minecrafter.


ggs

(online gaming slang) Initialism of good games.


main menu

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My computer's so slow, it takes two minutes just to load the main menu.

(computing, video games) A list of principal options, usually presented to the user immediately upon the launch of a computer program or video game.


Fortniter

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When a clubhouse attendant brought a PlayStation4 to the Suns clubhouse, the dynamic shifted and helped turn some 70% of the team into Fortniters.

2018 May 22, Gabe Lacques, “Popular battle royale video game extends reach to dugout”, in Statesman Journal, volume 167, number 39, page 5C:

An inveterate Fortniter, Price immediately came under media suspicion of going too deep and too late into his video game starts (anybody know the seven-inning equivalent of a twitch count?).

2018 October 7, Kevin Paul Dupont, “Canucks’ games are all on the ice”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 294, number 99, page C5:

Make sure your island is 100 percent completed and fully functional before publishing it. If you need to make changes to your island after it’s been published, it will receive a new code. Any Fortniter can then access the Creative Hub,[…].

2019, Jason R. Rich, Creative Expert for Fortniters: An Unofficial Guide to Battle Royale, Hollan Publishing, →ISBN:

A player of the online video game Fortnite.


WoWer

Well, I have to say I was a reluctant WoWer, but I have been into gaming since I was young, before college.

2007 January 28, John Faherty, quoting Luoluo Hong, “Dean of students accomplishes objectives, forms friendships … and then there’s her job”, in The Arizona Republic, 117th year, number 255, page B2:

Yup, World of Warcraft has been an amazing success: a massively multiplayer game that is easy to learn, addictive, and requires months of overuse to master to reach the highest levels to then join guilds to cruise around in packs with other like-minded WoWers.

2011, Andy Kessler, Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs, Portfolio / Penguin, →ISBN, page 206:

These guilds and friendships form across age, class, and gender divides, and yet, in the context of the game, all share a collective identity as WoWers.

2020, Marcella Szablewicz, “Carving Out a Spiritual Homeland”, in Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes (East Asian Popular Culture), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 121:

A player of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.


codebug

en-verb

codebug (third-person singular simple present codebugs, present participle codebugging, simple past and past participle codebugged)

codebugs (present singular third-person)
codebugging (participle present)
codebugged (participle past)
codebugged (past)

Developers can invite others into their workspace to coedit, cobuild, or codebug and can communicate with one another in the workspace itself.

2014, K. Chandrasekaran, Essentials of Cloud Computing, page 152:


VACation

en-noun

VACation (countable and uncountable, plural VACations)

From VAC, initials of the Valve Anti-Cheat software, and vacation.

(video games, slang) A user's enforced absence from the Steam video-gaming service and its community, as a result of being banned for cheating.


Nuzlocke

John Locke (Lost)
List of generation III Pokémon#Nuzleaf
Lost (2004 TV series)

Blend of Nuzleaf + Locke. From the title of Nuzlocke Comics, which features a Pokémon, Nuzleaf, drawn to resemble John Locke from Lost as a recurring character.

Here are the rules for a Nuzlocke:
• If a Pokemon faints, it’s dead. You need to release it, store it in a box for the rest of the run, or transfer it to another game. You can’t use it until you’ve successfully become the Pokemon League Champion and completed the Nuzlocke.
• You can only catch the first Pokemon you encounter in each location. This includes caves, towns, routes, and so on - if the area has an official title, it counts as an independent location where you can capture one single Pokemon, provided it’s the first one you come across. If you make it faint or it flees, you can’t catch a new one - no second chances. This doesn’t apply to static encounters, although using Legendary Pokemon is frowned upon. You can catch Shiny Pokemon regardless of the rules, although the consensus on whether or not they’re allowed to be used is widely disputed.

2021 January 8, Cian Maher, “The Nuzlocke Challenge Is The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Classic Pokemon”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 2022-09-19:

(Pokémon) A self-imposed challenge where the player can only catch the first wild Pokémon encountered in each area, and any caught Pokémon that faints cannot be used again.

Ok now that Ive done two impromptu nuzlockes of games outside Pokemon (Mario Odyssey and Kirby Super Star). Im starting to think where else I can push it lol
Splatoon 2 Nuzlocke? Start from fresh save file and try to make it to X rank. If you lose a match you lose that weapon 🤔

2020 January 26, Failboat103, Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-01-27:

(by extension) A similarly challenging playthrough of any game other than Pokémon.


skeleton programming

(programming) A top-down approach in computer programming based on simple high-level structures, resembling pseudocode, that are gradually fleshed out with details.


semantic versioning

Coordinate term: calendar versioning

(software) A versioning scheme where each release is given a three-part version number of the form major.minor.patch. The major number is incremented to indicate a breaking change, minor for new non-breaking features, and patch for other non-breaking changes.


SemVer

Coordinate term: CalVer

The Semantic Versioning (hereafter SemVer) specification, created by Tom Preston-Werner, is an attempt to specify rigorously and technically what version numbers (or, more precisely, what changes in version numbers) actually mean.

2022, Mark Vareschi, Heather Wacha, editors, Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 154:

semantic versioning
semantic versioning#English

(software) Abbreviation of semantic versioning.


code wheel

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A flat circular object consisting of concentric portions printed with codes or patterns that appear at certain positions as the wheel is rotated, used as a form of copy protection distributed with older video games.


TRPG

roleplaying game
roleplaying game#English

(games) Initialism of tabletop roleplaying game.

tactical role-playing game
tactical role-playing game#English

(video games) Initialism of tactical role-playing game.


early return

With RAII, the closing action cannot be skipped or bypassed, even if the function exits the scope prematurely with an early return or by throwing an exception.

2019, Fedor G. Pikus, Hands-On Design Patterns with C++, page 469:

(programming) The act of returning from a function before reaching the end of that function.


SRPG

(video games) Initialism of strategy roleplaying game.


DevSecOps

Blend of dev(elopment) + sec(urity) + op(eration)s; modeled after DevOps.

blend

(software engineering) An augmentation of the DevOps approach that allows for the integration of security practices.


McCabe's complexity

The metric was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976.

cyclomatic complexity
cyclomatic complexity#English

(software engineering) Synonym of cyclomatic complexity


damage boost

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(video games) The situation where the player character deliberately takes damage in order to use the resulting brief period of invulnerability to pass an upcoming hazard.


MEVN

The IOM-Manager was implemented with the MEVN (MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js and Node.js) technology stack [4]. Our protocol entry catalog has two goals: to facilitate data input during surgery and to increase the usefulness of the[…]

2020 July 24, J. Mantas, A. Hasman, M.S. Househ, The Importance of Health Informatics in Public Health during a Pandemic, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 319:

... Express.js, Angular JS and Node.js MERN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js MEVN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, VUE.js, and Node.js Meteor.js: a full-stack framework based on Node.js and supports Angular.js and React.js[…]

2022 April 21, MANU SHARMA, Full Stack Development with MongoDB: Covers Backend, Frontend, APIs, and Mobile App Development using PHP, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Python and React Native, BPB Publications, →ISBN, page 23:

(web development) Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, Node.js; a common web application solution stack.


MVW

(programming) Initialism of model-view-whatever.


InnerSource

From inner + source; coined by Irish-American author and publisher Tim O'Reilly in 2000.

coined

(programming) The use of open source software development best practices and the establishment of an open source-like culture within organizations, for the development of software that is proprietary or not open source.


COSS

(software, uncommon) Initialism of commercial open-source software.


source-available

MongoDB is licensed as a source-available, distributed, document database and a community edition can be freely downloaded for multiple operating systems. It is well-suited to large-scale, database-driven application development.

2022, Catherine M. Ricardo, Susan Urban, Karen Davis, chapter 14, in Databases Illuminated, 4th edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 546:

The BSL is a ‘Source Available’ license that freely allows using the code for development and other non-production work such as testing. Production use of the software requires a commercial license from Lightbend.

2022 September 8, Paul Kunert, quoting Jonas Bonér, “Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights”, in The Register:

(software) Whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not open-source.


sourceware

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Coordinate term: freedomware

And last of the “open software”, a rarer implementation is sourceware. A variation of freedomware, sourceware offers “open source” code with “closed (proprietary) standards”.

2005, Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX System Administrators, page 48:

Because McVoy was trying to avoid recourse to the “customer solution” of NT, that left the programmers' solution: free software, or “sourceware,” as he termed it.

2009, Glyn Moody, Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

And we said, “We're all going to agree on one name, and we're all going to start using it.” We voted on “sourceware” versus “open source,” and “open source” won. We had the press conference at five, and the rest is history.

[2009, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, quoting Tim O'Reilly, Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 4:

(software, dated) A precursor of open source software.


yellow light of death

en-noun

yellow light of death (plural yellow lights of death)

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(video games) A general hardware failure in the PlayStation 3 video game console and related to an issue on the motherboard, the power supply, commonly caused by a degraded capacitor.


RRoD

Alternative form: RROD

If you no longer have a warranty on your Xbox, and you've gotten the dreaded Red Ring of Death ... there's still hope. The RRoD is displayed by the 360's "Ring of Light" when there's a general hardware failure.

2008, Jake "Biggs" Turner, “Fix the Red Ring of Death! (without towels!)”, in The Best of Instructables, volume 1, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 247:

After a great deal of pressure, Microsoft tacitly recognized the RRoD epidemic, and announced extended warranty support that would cost the company more than one-billion dollars.

2011 October 25, Gerry Block, “Xbox 360 RRoD Failures Finally Explained”, in IGN:

The Xbox One fiasco is not the first time that Microsoft has tried to ride out a wave of unpopularity by simply pretending the problem doesn’t exist. But with the Red Ring of Death (RROD) it succeeded.

2013 June 21, Roger Hargreaves, “The 10 greatest disasters in video games history – from Xbone to E.T.”, in Metro:

red ring of death
red ring of death#English

(video games) Initialism of red ring of death.


HDFS

(programming) Initialism of Hadoop Distributed File System.


Candy Crusher

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These “candy crushers” are among the millions who have become hooked on the online game Candy Crush Saga, which many play through Facebook.

2013 April 25, Joe Sylvester, “Gamers have a ‘crush’ on ‘candy’”, in The Times Leader, page 1C:

Sure, in the moment you may want to scream at a senior citizen, kick a puppy or burn your home to the ground, but there’s no greater feeling than bonding with another Candy Crusher over how insane the game makes you.

2013 June 21, John Boone, “6 Reasons Candy Crush Saga Is the Most Infuriating Game...Ever”, in E! News; quoted in Bob Johnson, “This Crush harmless; or at least that’s hope”, in Daily Journal, 2013 June 25, page B8:

For Facebook users, your progress up the levels can automatically be sent in updates to your Facebook friends (as well as fellow Candy Crushers who you probably don’t even know, so you can see how you measure up).

2013 July 30, Steve Dorfman, “Are you obsessed with Candy Crush? Popular online video game is not so sweet for relationships.”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 105, number 128, page D5:

Now I must admit that unlike many of you fellow Candy Crushers I am only on a meager level 50.

2013 October 24, Kimberlei N. Davis, “‘Sweet,’ ‘tasty,’ ‘delicious’ … ‘Sugar Crush’”, in The Times and Democrat, volume 132, number 297, page A2:

Still, it’s not just the decline of civilisation that worries me, nor the (related) effect on Tube manners (Candy Crushers are rarely very chivalrous). Moreover, you could argue that if it wasn’t for smartphones, it would be Sudoku or crosswords or scrimshaw.

2014 March 26, Richard Goodwin, “Candy Crush is the crystal meth of the commute”, in Evening Standard, page 17:

It is open to everyone-from hardcore gamers to Candy Crushers and role-playing adventurers.

2014 September 21, “Philanthropies”, in News Sentinel, page 2E:

Each phone is taken from one of two cardboard boxes at the front of the bus, silently passed along between the Candy Crushers and, with an occasional over-the-shoulder gesture, moved through an elaborate process to another cardboard box in the back.

2018, Douglas Lain, The Bash Bash Revolution, Night Shade Books, →ISBN:

These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens.

2018, Jack Lewis, The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN:

She loved music, old movies, and keeping up with family and friends via Facebook and email. She was an accomplished card player, Candy Crusher, and loved all social gatherings.

2019 June 25, “Rose A. Truscio: May 5, 1923 - June 21, 2019”, in The News & Observer, volume 155, number 176, page 7A:

‘I’m quite partial to Candy Crush, I play it on my wife’s sometimes.’ […] Your bad marriage does not mean that my marriage will be bad you Candy Crusher, he thought to himself.

One who plays the tile-matching video game Candy Crush.


hackuser

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(video games) A person who claims someone else in an online game is hacking.


Tetris-like

en-adj

Tetris-like (comparative more Tetris-like, superlative most Tetris-like)

more Tetris-like (comparative)
most Tetris-like (superlative)

Resembling Tetris or the pieces in the game of Tetris.


memory-unsafe

(programming, of a program or programming language) Not memory-safe.


memory safety

(programming) Protection from software bugs and security vulnerabilities resulting from improper memory management, such as buffer overflows and dangling pointers.


memory-safe

(programming, of a program or programming language) Able to ensure memory safety.


speedbridge

en-verb

speedbridge (third-person singular simple present speedbridges, present participle speedbridging, simple past and past participle speedbridged)

speedbridges (present singular third-person)
speedbridging (participle present)
speedbridged (participle past)
speedbridged (past)

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He's good at speed bridging and he's also organized a 1v1 tournament on the game mode before.

2021 July 19, Bhagyasri Chaudhury, “Who is Purpled? James Charles slammed for posting pic of Minecraft YouTuber, 17”, in MEAWW:

Ten teams of four competitors participate in eight different minigames that test a variety of skills within Minecraft. These skills can range from anything between player-versus-player combat, speedbridging, parkour, building, and more.

2021 October 31, Hannah (Tyler) Dahlberg, “Minecraft Championship (MCC) All-Stars: First half of the competing teams revealed”, in Sportskeeda:

This technique is useful in shooting games, PvP games, Minecraft, and clicking games. It provides fast clicking, with the virtue that you can kill more enemies, do speed bridging, and more.

2022 June 6, RJ Frometa, “Drag Click Test: Improve Your Clicks Per Second Rate With Drag Clicking Technique”, in Vents Magazine:

Knowing how to speed bridge without falling to your death can come in handy in some of these servers.

2022 September 23, Petra Dolovski, “How to Speed Bridge in Minecraft”, in Diamond Lobby:

(video games, Minecraft) To build a bridge under oneself using one of several techniques which minimize the amount of crouching, resulting in a significantly faster pace of construction.