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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

    • buh [she/her]
      ·
      2 months ago

      ethernet sounds like some mystical realm

        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
          ·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, it's named after the luminiferous aether, the invisible medium light waves were theorised to move in. Turns out photons just do that instead.

  • CarbonScored [any]
    ·
    2 months ago
    • 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.

  • Courant d'air 🍃@jlai.lu
    ·
    2 months ago
    • Big endian (a very powerful NPC)
    • Hardware abstraction (a spell that makes all the stuff disappears)
    • Obfuscation (invisibility spell)
    • Multiplexing (ability to cast several spells as one)
    • Dangling reference (when wrong information is given by somebody)
    • Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (basically crop circles)
    • Pure virtual method (anything somebody learned but will never use)
    • Diamond inheritance (when someone in the party dies and all of their money is spread accross the others)

    Can you tell what's my job?

    • Redfox8@mander.xyz
      ·
      2 months ago

      Beat me too it! Blue Screen of Death - a wall that freezes and blinds all players and can only be countered by force-reboot. Found only in the most popular rpg game that's also played by non-rpg-ers and is derised by hardcore rpg-ers!

      Additonal power - Also causes infinite ping in mmorpgs

  • SoyViking [he/him]
    ·
    2 months ago

    Ruby gems

    Memory leaks

    Layers of abstraction

    Master branch

    Void function

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
    ·
    2 months ago

    Artificers use assembly language to cast their spells.

    1st level wild shape ability byte.
    4th level wild shape ability megabyte.
    8th level wild shape ability gigabyte.
    9th level wild shape ability terabyte

    Bonus 0th level ability: nibble

  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Kernel Space - banishes the target to a plane of existence filled with corn

    B Tree - an AOE summon of a permanent swarm of bees in the targeted area until the bees all die or leave naturally

    Monad - device that transmutes one set of spell components into another. These can be strung together to form very complex things.

    Extended Backus-Naur Form - Allows one to transform into a memetic form to be carried in the mind of another; also extends to your clothing and any carried items.

  • Forbo@lemmy.ml
    ·
    2 months ago
    • Ring zero
    • Bootkit/Rootkit
    • Attacker in the middle
    • Intercepting proxy
    • Daemon
  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
    ·
    2 months ago

    Deep magic, black art, heavy wizardry, almost feels like cheating.

    I don't even know computer stuff, just picked these up via osmosis.

    EDIT: blue screen of death is a very powerful abjuration spell