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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

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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    49 minutes 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

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 hours ago

    Ruby gems

    Memory leaks

    Layers of abstraction

    Master branch

    Void function

  • Courant d'air 🍃@jlai.lu
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    3 hours 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
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      37 minutes 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

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    8 hours 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