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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
kill all children
- kernelspace
- make all
- upstream and downstream
Power word: Infinite Recursion
Boot Loop - ties someone’s shoelaces together
Mail storm
Perhaps not that deep “cs” but still :D
- 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)
Silicium Bug = A insect creature made of quartz.
Gate Array = An ancient holy temple with partially defunct portals of unknown origin.
LUT - A table appears 10ft above your target and falls on it dealing 1d6 bludgeoning.
“LOOK! UP! TABLE!”
By pure coincidence it’s also the sounds it makes when dropping on you
Beautiful! It’s also a bonus action reaction cantrip.
Private Void NULL
Isn’t there a film about saving him?
Null pointer sounds like a powerful spell
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?
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Race condition
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Physical Layer
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Fast Fourier Transform
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COBOL
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Penetration testing
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Tiger Team
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Zombie process
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Alice, Bob and Carol (some NPCs)
Race condition is ranger ability after level 3, 5, 9, and 11.
Fortran!
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git clone
Terrible ability. Why would we want to clone gits?
Shielded Twisted Wire rootkit worm recursive loop MAC address( kinda like a true name i guess) Administrator control
Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.
- 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