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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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Mail storm
Perhaps not that deep “cs” but still :D
Boot Loop - ties someone’s shoelaces together
I could actually see this being a cantrip for a bard or arcane trickster. It’s almost innocent in its mischief but would be a worthwhile hindrance on the battlefield.
For shoes without laces and creatures without shoes it could simply loop magical string around them.
Prob just a cut to movement with a dex save at the start of every move (like once per turn but they can avoid it by choosing not to move). Doesn’t need to be a high save, but if they fail, they trip.
Since it’s a cantrip they can remove the string with an action, and they last a number of turns equal to caster level.
I’d also love to see a DM be creative with how much it effects certain creatures. Centipede? Probably a little pissed but not too hindered by stumbling on one pair of legs. 1 legged Pete? Completely unaffected as he jumps at you with his 1 leg.
Boot Loops, when you can’t afford Fruit Loops.
- Terminal shell
- Kill daemon
- Timeshift
- Cloud hosting
- Ethernet
- Overwrite memory
- Free memory
- Poison artifical intelligence
Oomkiller
Bluetooth sounds like a negative effect. Similar to using Bluetooth in real life.
CAT5e sounds like a fifth-edition ruleset
ethernet sounds like some mystical realm
Avatar and icon were similarly stolen from mysticism.
Makes me think of a net you use to capture things that are on the ethereal plane.
Wait, did ethernet come from aether
Same idea as “the cloud.” You’d draw a diagram and the arrows would eventually go to a squiggly representation of someone else’s problem.
Yes.
Yeah, it’s named after the luminiferous aether, the invisible medium light waves were theorised to move in. Turns out photons just do that instead.
Asynchronous Threads
Port Forward (this one just sounds like a dope place)
Remote Host
Domain Controller
Immutable Type
Sanity check
Wildcard
Merge Bash Overwrite memory
Key binding
Class inheritanceMerge Bash Overwrite memory
That’s not an ability, that’s an entire encounter and I love it.
Big-o and Little-o notation
FIFO and LIFO
Unstable Ram
One of those fucked me up real bad in Elden Ring
scrum master
This sounds like fantasy indeed
More like scrotum master, LMAO GOTTEM
- TWAIN
- daemon
- Gopher
- Kerberos
- Oracle
- Patch
- ping
- Perl
- Python
- Samba
- Swing
- troff
- Vim
- zip
- tar
- compress
- deflate
- Opus
- Flac
- Frostwire
- Prodigy
- USENET
- nano
- pico
- Ethernet
- Firewire
- Wayland
Terminal escape
Privilege escalation
Command injection
Null
Null Modem
Crossover Cable
Null Modem Cable with Handshake
Request to SendEdit:
Proxy
Reverse ProxyHeartbleed
a list of named vulnerabilities would be a great starter
I cast CVE-2014-0160… at the darkness
I cast CVE-2015-0565 at the goblin horde.
