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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
Default Gateway
Split Horizon
Routing Overhead
Broadcast Storm
edit:fkn markdown
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.
Makes me think of a net you use to capture things that are on the ethereal plane.
- 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.
- 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?
- rowhammer
- rainbow table
- global interpreter lock
- race condition (atrocity?)
- core dump
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
Ruby gems
Memory leaks
Layers of abstraction
Master branch
Void function
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 terabyteBonus 0th level ability: nibble
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.
- Ring zero
- Bootkit/Rootkit
- Attacker in the middle
- Intercepting proxy
- Daemon
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
