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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

  • andrew_bidlawEnglish
    7•9 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    8•9 months ago

    I always found “The Perceptron” to have such a badass name…. 😅 (Math part was annoying though…)

  • @[email protected]
    10•9 months ago
    • scroll snapping
    • unit tests
    • vulnerability
    • fastboot
    • root access
    • abstraction level
    • unity framework
  • CaptainBlagbird
    14•9 months ago
    • 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)
  • @[email protected]English
    8•9 months ago

    Bounds execption: Allows larger objects to fit in smaller containers, ritual spell effective for 1 day, can be upcast to increase amount of “overfill”, some check when retrieving the item for a chance of “corruption” (small chance to retrieve a different item, or have the “overfill” become something different like have the outer edge of a bar of gold be meat)

    Paralellization: High level time magic, Allows the target multiple turns to be taken simultaneously, but an equivalent cooldown afterwards (waiting for all threads or jobs to return before being able to continue), so 3 turns at once means 2 turns the target can’t do anything after.

    Split brain configuration: Allows focusing on multiple concentration checks/spells at once. This could also be called paralellization, or multithreaded.

    Pass By Reference enchantment: requires two identical items. Once enchanted, changes to one happen to both. Room for all sorts of shenanigans.

    Private field: cast on an area to prevent entry/visibility into it by unauthorized entities. Sounds inside are not audible to unauthorized entities outside of it.

    • @[email protected]
      2•9 months ago

      Parallelization would make high level casters utterly broken. One of my favorite spells, because I made it for 3.5 edition, and I haven’t had a DM criticize the spell, is Unfailing Missiles.

      If I could cast three of them in parallel, I would be able to hit up to 9 targets that are no more than 20° arcs from the last target, each with a missile that does 17d (6+1) points of Force/Sonic Damage split 50/50. Or I can use all of those missile on a single target. If I maximize the spell with 3 12th level spell slots, that’s 1,071 damage or 119 damage per missile. There’s no save, please refer to the name of the spell. This is basically a 9th level Magic Missile. If I see you, I wollop you.

      I would then need to hide for 12 seconds. Not particularly difficult if one has a Contingencied Improved Invisibility, or a Contingencied Screen.

    • @[email protected]
      2•9 months ago

      I would abuse parallelization. Moon druid in owlbear shape with three hits for each action (through druid features and magic items) and a free action each kill (from an elixir), doing three of those at once would end most fights

      Fighters would do more

    • @[email protected]
      2•9 months ago

      Split brain configuration: Allows focusing on multiple concentration checks/spells at once. This could also be called paralellization, or multithreaded.

      Allows you to concentrate on two concentration spells instead of just one. However, the spell itself is concentration.

  • @[email protected]
    4•9 months ago

    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

  • @[email protected]
    8•9 months ago

    Binary search

    Check bit

    Control character

    Sentinal value

    Escape sequence

    EDIT:

    Git bisect (not sure if this one counts as computer sciency enough though)