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Computer science terms that sound like fantasy RPG abilities
I’ll start:
- Firewall
- Virtual Memory
- Single source of truth
- Lossless Compression (this one sounds really powerful for some reason)
Your turn
Hard mode: Try not to include closer to domain-specific things like javascript library names
malloc
Tell me that isn’t the name of a demon.
Ethernet
spawn daemon
Force Merge
- 28k modem connection sounds *
I always found “The Perceptron” to have such a badass name…. 😅 (Math part was annoying though…)
Disaster Recovery sounds like a great party name.
Boot
Superuser
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Pseudocode
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Daemon Thread
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Ruby on Rails
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Onion Router
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Python Commands
All leap to mind.
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wine controllaunches Wine’s sparse control panel (most options are underwinecfg). You can use it at fancy parties for fun tricks or to make someone puke.Feels like I should DM some Shadowrun or Cryptomancer sessions again. Just to use those.
I’ll just throw out there the old school
halt and catch fire(also the name of a really good show I need to rewatch and actually finish sometime) but also who can’t lovelp0 on fire?Some fun ones here you guys can help me think of their purpose
Print spool MAC address System Time IPV4 and IPV6 Air gap Random Access Memory OS Kernal Memory Contoller South bridge North Bridge Corruption Device Manager Encryption SALT API Key System Services Device Drivers
Scroll lock. To protect your scrolls.
Or prevent an opposing caster from using one or more scrolls
Think that’s that wizards get when they’re having trouble studying.
There’s an infamous tech support tale dating back to the Windows 95 days of a very religious lady who wanted all of the wizards removed from her computer. Similar for an individual who absolutely did not want any mice around their computer
Happy cake day!
Huh, no shit! It’s been a year already.
I think that means I’m getting old.
