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Computer science terms that sound like fantasy RPG abilities

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  • Firewall
  • Virtual Memory
  • Single source of truth
  • Lossless Compression (this one sounds really powerful for some reason)

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Hard mode: Try not to include closer to domain-specific things like javascript library names

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[–] 160 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Scroll lock. To protect your scrolls.

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    The orc becomes a pile of gelatin, quivering, you now must choose what it will become.

    Roll for…

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  • [–] 133 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    World wide web would be an OP spell

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    A crack forms below you… and suddenly a tunnel collapses inward beneath your feet.

    After a short while your fall is arrested. You are now snagged in a web, in the dim light lit from where you fell you can see this web goes on, all around you, seemingly forever.

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    I am a level 17 Install Wizard.

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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago
    • Terminal shell
    • Kill daemon
    • Timeshift
    • Cloud hosting
    • Ethernet
    • Overwrite memory
    • Free memory
    • Poison artifical intelligence
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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 56 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Default Gateway

    Split Horizon

    Routing Overhead

    Broadcast Storm

    edit:fkn markdown

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    [–] 54 points 2 years ago*

    Terminal escape

    Privilege escalation

    Command injection

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I had a bit too much fun with these :)

    Magical Items
    • The Bandwidth Cap
      Cursed item that limits the magical power of it's wearer
    • The Token Ring
      Magical ring that allows the wielder to communicate over large distances. They can receive messages from one token ring and send message to another.
    • The Memory Barrier
      Protective charm that shields the mind from intrusion.
    • The Shadow Register
      A magical ledger that records secrets and hidden locations in the immediate area.
    • The Superscalar
      A legendary shimmering sword that can strike multiple foes in a single attack.
    Spells
    • Loopback
      Redirects a spell to its point of origin.
    • Jabber
      Causes the target to produce incoherent speech and lose its train of thought.
    • Branch Prediction
      Gives the caster foresight to predict their opponent's next action.
    • Traceroute
      A tracking spell that reveals the path of a target.
    • Mask
      Hides the caster's true identity.
    • Hypertransport
      Enables instantaneous movement over short distances.
    • Interrupt
      Counterspell to disrupt an enemy's casting.
    Spell modifiers
    • Broadcast
      Modifies spell to affect a large area.
    • Unicast
      Modifies spell to affect a single point with maximum damage.
    • Multicast
      Modfies spell to affect multiple selected targets.
    • Repeater
      Modifies spell to recast itself over multiple turns.
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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (5 children)
    • 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?

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    CAT5e sounds like a fifth-edition ruleset

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)
    • Hypervisor
    • time daemon
    • privilege escalation
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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    Asynchronous Threads

    Port Forward (this one just sounds like a dope place)

    Remote Host

    Domain Controller

    Immutable Type

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)
    • rowhammer
    • rainbow table
    • global interpreter lock
    • race condition (atrocity?)
    • core dump
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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sanity check
    Wildcard
    Merge Bash Overwrite memory
    Key binding
    Class inheritance

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    Memory leak

    Destructor

    Dynamic dispatch

    Execute

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (1 child)
    • Brute Force Attack
    • Markov Chain
    • Singular Matrix
    • Pow
    • map
    • bind
    • variable name (thief's favorite)
    • Ballmer Peak
    • Fourier Transformation (2nd level: FFT)
    • Gaussian Elimination
    • Double
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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)
    • Race condition

    • Physical Layer

    • Fast Fourier Transform

    • COBOL

    • Penetration testing

    • Tiger Team

    • Zombie process

    • Alice, Bob and Carol (some NPCs)

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    [–] 24 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Disconnect Peripheral: Removes someone's limb.

    Critical Vulnerability: Increases critical hit rate.

    Memory buffer: Allows you yo remember things better.

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    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.

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    Agile Method

    Kill

    Clone

    Daemon Process

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    Rust - rusts metal. When miscast, makes the target a crab of some sort

    Go - Same as "command" spell

    Regular Expression - makes any cryptic message understandable in a language you know

    Transfer Protocol - allows the teleportation of one packet to a willing host

    Read Only - cast on a book, scroll or any other thing with written words. Ensures no further words can be written. No scribbles or any sort of artwork will stick either. The object can still be destroyed

    Icon - For a short period, the target of the spell becomes a beloved, or hated, icon of a subject. IE: beloved icon of beauty, hated icon of music.

    Master Boot Record - this magical list contains all the master level boots ever created and their current whereabouts

    Partition Table - allows any object with at least 2 flat sides to be cut into any shape

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago
    • Ring zero
    • Bootkit/Rootkit
    • Attacker in the middle
    • Intercepting proxy
    • Daemon
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    Zero Trust: curse. You become suspicious of your allies.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    LUT - A table appears 10ft above your target and falls on it dealing 1d6 bludgeoning.

    "LOOK! UP! TABLE!"

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Python runtime. Time for you to run from these pythons bitch.

    BSOD. Pretty self-explanatory

    Agile development. Raises Dex everytime a new enemy enters vision.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Deadlock

    Priority inversion

    Debugging

    Source compilation

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ping of death

    Bash

    Vim (clearly a buff)

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