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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
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- Bootloader
- Filesystem
- Reboot
- Printer (that’s the end boss)
- sudo
- Container
- Virtual Machine
- Fail over
- Backup
- Restore
DRY
- Defragmentation
Dependency injection
Isn’t that just sex?
- Terminal shell
- Kill daemon
- Timeshift
- Cloud hosting
- Ethernet
- Overwrite memory
- Free memory
- Poison artifical intelligence
Y’all might be interested in the book series by Charles Stross starting with The Atrocity Archives.
Memory Leak
Scroll lock. To protect your scrolls.
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.
Sanity check
Wildcard
Merge Bash Overwrite memory
Key binding
Class inheritanceWorld wide web would be an OP spell
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.
Polymorphism
The orc becomes a pile of gelatin, quivering, you now must choose what it will become.
Roll for…
… seduction
You roll a 1.
This causes an unauthorized access exception and a giant bouncer rapidly approaches, screaming in fury.
I love your username
Unstable Ram
One of those fucked me up real bad in Elden Ring
Heartbleed
a list of named vulnerabilities would be a great starter
I cast CVE-2014-0160… at the darkness
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.
