Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs
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Piracy wizards may teach you a homing missile spell of linking a magnet to someone and then sending a torrent of bits and pieces their way.
Lightning wizards can teach you how systematically shocking your minions should to some extent boost their efficiency in the same amount of time. They call it 'over clocking'.
And 'distributed denial of service' or 'dedossery', is a mastery of wizards who are just pissed, means sending a ton of said minions to one particular shitty tavern, ordering something and walking away en masse.
Binary search
Check bit
Control character
Sentinal value
Escape sequence
EDIT:
Git bisect (not sure if this one counts as computer sciency enough though)
Y’all might be interested in the book series by Charles Stross starting with The Atrocity Archives.
Big-o and Little-o notation
FIFO and LIFO
Sanity check
Wildcard
Merge
Bash
Overwrite memory
Key binding
Class inheritance
Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow
This one’s not quite CS but oh well. Spell check - After a series of unfortunate accidents at the magical university, all novel spells must be submitted to the administration in writing to ensure their safety before first casting.
Root access - Access to the Underdark druid communication network, which is transmitted through a continent-wide system of interconnected tree roots.
Command: Line - A creative use of the command spell that forces an affected creature to spend their turn forming or waiting in an orderly line.
Neural net - The system of control used by an elder brain to control and coordinate illithids under its influence.
Guru Meditation
Truncate
Force
Purge
Decimate
Warp transform
Innumerate
Checksum
Out of memory crash
Stuck process
Orphaned process
Killed child process
Force killed child process
Child workers
Deadlock
Priority inversion
Debugging
Source compilation
Priority inversion sounds frighteningly subtle. You might not notice you’re under the effects of the spell because it manipulates priorities rather than bends will directly.
It still feels like your intent, but you’ve been rendered massively ineffective and it may take ages for someone to suspect magical involvement.
That's also exactly how it works in computer science
Spoofing
Cryptojacking
Null
Null Modem
Crossover Cable
Null Modem Cable with Handshake
Request to Send
Edit:
Proxy
Reverse Proxy
Authentication tokens - Some heirloom jewelry or letter of permission from the local royal family used to prove you are on their mission.
Gap analysis - when your party finds a crevasse or pit and determines if they can jump across.
Buffer - party member who casts buffs, usually a bard.
Microservices - when you barter with gnomes to repair your gear.
Unstable Ram
One of those fucked me up real bad in Elden Ring
I feel like an obvious one is missing: oracle
That feels like cheating
Using an oracle always does
Zero Trust: curse. You become suspicious of your allies.
PowerShell
Get-Date
Read-Host
Remove-Alias
Remove-Event
Sort-Object
Remove Event: 5th level spell, cast as a reaction. Instantly negates the previous action. Spell DC wisdom check.
Agile Method
Kill
Clone
Daemon Process
Clone always struck me as something that shouldn't be a spell but is.
Gateway Interplanetary filesystem Netmask Daemon Shadow copy Avatar
Doesn't ipfs stand for interplenary file system?