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Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs
Y’all might be interested in the book series by Charles Stross starting with The Atrocity Archives.
Reroot tree: Tree digs itself out of the ground, walks to another location and takes root, as if it's always been there.
Heap sort: More advanced technique for which Reroot tree is a prerequisite for some reason. Arranges assortments of things into neat piles with only one kind of object per pile. Very useful when looking for things in treasure chambers.
"I cast heap sort on the owlbear."
"..."
"The owlbear is sorted into neat piles, the first containing hair/nails/claws/beaks, the second feathers, the third bone, the fourth meat, the fifth blood.."
- Cache miss
- Bubble Sort
- Vectorization
Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.
- Multithread
- Checksum Mismatch
- Raise Exception
- Zombie Process
- Parallelization
- Segmentation Fault
- Force Commit
- Signal Abort
- Signal Kill
- Balance Nodes
- Stack Overflow
- Core Dump
- Reverse Tunnel
- Dynamic Forwarding
I don't know what kind of spells these would be but I fear the wizard who knows them.
spawn daemon
Force Merge
Power word: Infinite Recursion
This one’s not quite CS but oh well. Spell check - After a series of unfortunate accidents at the magical university, all novel spells must be submitted to the administration in writing to ensure their safety before first casting.
Root access - Access to the Underdark druid communication network, which is transmitted through a continent-wide system of interconnected tree roots.
Command: Line - A creative use of the command spell that forces an affected creature to spend their turn forming or waiting in an orderly line.
Neural net - The system of control used by an elder brain to control and coordinate illithids under its influence.
- Master / Slave
- Gatekeeper
- Anti virus
- Force push
- Bug
- Forever loop
- Break condition
- Real time operating system
- Blockchain
- Agility measurement index (not really an ability, but sounds like it could be art of an RPG mechanic)
Bluetooth sounds like a negative effect. Similar to using Bluetooth in real life.
Spoofing
Cryptojacking
Authentication tokens - Some heirloom jewelry or letter of permission from the local royal family used to prove you are on their mission.
Gap analysis - when your party finds a crevasse or pit and determines if they can jump across.
Buffer - party member who casts buffs, usually a bard.
Microservices - when you barter with gnomes to repair your gear.
Ruby gems
Memory leaks
Layers of abstraction
Master branch
Void function
Hyperconvergence or hypervisor.
- Semaphore
- Spanning tree
- Spinlock
- Recursive function
- Knapsack problem
- Pushdown automata
- Zero-knowledge proof
- Late binding
- Borrow checker
- Channel coding
- Tail recursion
- Camel case
- Double float
- Red-black trees
- Quaternions
Lossy compression feels like cheating:
- Block prediction
- Motion compensation
- Chroma subsampling
- Frequency space
- Time domain
Mail storm
Perhaps not that deep "cs" but still :D
- scroll snapping
- unit tests
- vulnerability
- fastboot
- root access
- abstraction level
- unity framework
Silicium Bug = A insect creature made of quartz.
Gate Array = An ancient holy temple with partially defunct portals of unknown origin.
- Higher order function
- Rijndael cypher
- Serpent cypher
Lossless Compression isn't actually powerful, its just an improved Lossy Compression which is admittedly terrifying to use in many cases.
So you're saying if I use it... they'll be squished and lose random pieces of themselves?
Binary search
Check bit
Control character
Sentinal value
Escape sequence
EDIT:
Git bisect (not sure if this one counts as computer sciency enough though)