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Firbolg in the Playground
help me think of the word
So, I saw the spore thread, and I wanted to use an adjective to describe it, but I’m not sure there is one.
It’s the word for that sense of… constriction/futility you get when you’re playing a game and realize that an option should be valid but is not coded in any way.
It isn’t quite RAILROADING, because railroading is traditionally used to mean «You can’t kill the king because he is an important character!»
I’m talking more about things like reading the box of Fable and seeing «EXPLORE FANTASTIC LANDS» and then encountering the ankle-high stones that keep you on a strict path.
Or if you started up a creature-fighter game and it said «CUSTOMIZE YOUR MINIONS TO PERFECTION» and then it turned out that «Customize» amounted to choosing between two sets of abilities and three hats.
It’s when someone says «Design a castle» and you get an image of a blank sheet of paper and a feather pen. Then you actually get to the design portion, and what they give you is a bunch of pre-made towers and walls that you glue together.
Is this making sense to anyone?
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Titan in the Playground
Re: help me think of the word
Linear. Constricted. Unfinished.
I am trying out LPing. Check out my channel here: Triaxx2
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Ogre in the Playground
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Formerly known as Discord here and Maladin on avatarspirit.net.
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Ogre in the Playground
Re: help me think of the word
Last edited by Jahkaivah; 2010-03-06 at 08:03 PM.
Steamname: Atheist God, if you’re lucky.
Originally Posted by Jibar
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Firbolg in the Playground
Re: help me think of the word
Originally Posted by Jahkaivah
Dumbed Down. Sounds…
You know come to think of it every instance I’ve named could be described as «dumbed down» and every example of «dumbed down» I think of would cause the emotion I’m thinking of.
Yet somehow it doesn’t quite seem to convey the correct experience in the reader’s head, you know?
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Firbolg in the Playground
Re: help me think of the word
Lack of agency? Although that isn’t one word, agency sounds like the property you’re describing. It’s a term some game designers use for the amount of ability the player has to influence the game world.
Or maybe just restricted? Or disillusioned?
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Firbolg in the Playground
Re: help me think of the word
Originally Posted by Trazoi
Lack of agency? Although that isn’t one word, agency sounds like the property you’re describing. It’s a term some game designers use for the amount of ability the player has to influence the game world.
Or maybe just restricted? Or disillusioned?
I feel like there should be Trope for this. So that I can say «Well the game boasted robots but it had way too much *this stuff*» and then link to TVtropes and people will know exactly what i mean.
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Colossus in the Playground
Originally Posted by Inevitability
Greater
ˈgrā-tər
comparative adjective
1. Describing basically the exact same monster but with twice the RHD. Originally Posted by Artanis
I’m going to be honest, «the Welsh became a Great Power and conquered Germany» is almost exactly the opposite of the explanation I was expecting
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Firbolg in the Playground
Re: help me think of the word
Originally Posted by shadow_archmagi
I feel like there should be Trope for this. So that I can say «Well the game boasted robots but it had way too much *this stuff*» and then link to TVtropes and people will know exactly what i mean.
Well, there are tropes that sound like specific examples of what you’re describing, like But Thou Must, Stupidity Is The Only Option, and Insurmountable Waist Height Fence. But in the general sense, I’d probably describe the feeling as overhyped agency for the situations where designers proudly boast «You can do anything you want! (provided it’s on the short list of things we allow you to do)«. Or meaningless choices for where the choice is irrelevant (i.e. you have ultimate freedom to paint your robot however you want!). «Constricted» isn’t a bad word to use too.
Edit: For tropes, there’s also No Sidepaths No Exploration No Freedom.
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Ogre in the Playground
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The closest on tvtropes that I could find was ‘expected someone taller’, and it would be ideal… If not for their description and the phrase being exclusively directed at characters and mistaken identities.
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Ettin in the Playground
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Bugbear in the Playground
Re: help me think of the word
I’d go with «spin» myself. It’s not misrepresentation as they’re not actually lying but it is taking the bare bones of the truth and making a dire aardvark shaped mess out of it. With your Fable example, you do get to explore these lands, from the safety of the road, wheras, from what they said, you’re thinking of being able to roam at will.
Yep, I call that spin.
«What’s in this empty box ?»
«Youth and talent is no match for age and treachery.»
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Firbolg in the Playground
Re: help me think of the word
Originally Posted by Domochevsky
Overhyped Agency sounds good to describe this. Make a trope page about it, Trazoi. Now.
Hey, I just lurk on TV Tropes, I don’t generate them.
Besides, it should be called something like Molyneux Marketing.
help me think of the word
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Hello guys!
Awhile back when I was in the US, I remember watching this female news reporter and showing a video clip of a women who was at her Christmas party which was held at her office. She must have been letting herself go a little too much because the clip shown her ranting at her boss. Unbeknownst to her, her boss was standing right behind her listening to every word she was saying about him.
Now, back to this female reporter, she has said something like «that was **********.»
I don’t know remember what that word was so I would appreciate if any of you could help me out!
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Hello guys!
Awhile back when I was in the US, I remember watching this female news reporter and showing a video clip of a women who was at her Christmas party which was held at her office. She must have been letting herself go a little too much because the clip shown her ranting at her boss. Unbeknownst to her, her boss was standing right behind her listening to every word she was saying about him.
Now, back to this female reporter, she has said something like «that was **********.»
I don’t know remember what that word was so I would appreciate if any of you could help me out!
There are far too many possibilities:
That was embarrassing/humiliating/unfortunate/hilarious/funny/stupid/mortifying/wonderful/spectacular and «probably on You Tube 20 minutes later»!
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I understand that those could work, but what she was an adjective and it was quite a big word actually.
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I understand that those could work, but what she was an adjective and it was quite a big word actually.
All of my examples were adjectives! Some of them were quite big words too. Unless you can find a video of it somewhere on the net for us to watch (or for you to watch again), it will be sheer luck if someone happens to guess the right word.
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«That was awkward» has become a bit of a catch phrase
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All of my examples were adjectives! Some of them were quite big words too. Unless you can find a video of it somewhere on the net for us to watch (or for you to watch again), it will be sheer luck if someone happens to guess the right word.
I know and that was why I said they could work. I don’t have the clip of this anchor showing the video, but the program was live and it was a local FOX channel, so I highly doutb that anyone would cap and reupload it on Youtube…… Thank you regardless though!
«That was awkward» has become a bit of a catch phrase
THANK YOU, but it was not «awkward.» This word that she said that has the meaning which goes by «juicy» and the word was not commonly used(Well, I have not heard a lot of people said it) and that was why I wanted to know find out what it was.
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I know and that was why I said they could work. I don’t have the clip of this anchor showing the video, but the program was live and it was a local FOX channel, so I highly doutb that anyone would cap and reupload it on Youtube…… Thank you regardless though!
THANK YOU, but it was not «awkward.» This word that she said that has the meaning which goes by «juicy» and the word was not commonly used(Well, I have not heard a lot of people said it) and that was why I wanted to know find out what it was.
How do you know that the word means «juicy»? Did you hear it correctly at the time and then look it up, but now you can’t remember what it was?
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How do you know that the word means «juicy»? Did you hear it correctly at the time and then look it up, but now you can’t remember what it was?
I heard the word and I looked it up for the definition ONLINE.
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Have you gone back to the same online dictionary and asked it for a synonym for juicy? It might come up with the word you looked up. Depending on the dictionary and your settings, it might even remember your last few searches.
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You should think of the word ‘depressed’ as ‘deep rest’.
Вы должны думать о слове «депрессия» как о «глубоком отдыхе».
But as I was walking around at work that night feeling very depressed, bits and pieces of the book kept popping into my head and I started to think of the word «stop» just like the book suggested to do.
Но и во время работы и вечером, когда я испытывала сильную депрессию, кусочки и части книги всплывали в моем сознании, и я начала думать о слове «остановить» так, как предлагала книга.
Perhaps this is what many people have in mind when they think of the word faith.
Возможно, именно так думают многие люди, когда слышат слово вера.
When most people think of the word «pride», they usually don’t associate it with virtue.
Когда большинство людей сегодня слышат слово «достоинство», они обычно не ассоциируют его со словом «мужественность».
You might immediately think of the word «brave», but bravo is a bit more complex than that.
Вы могли бы сразу вспомнить слово «brave» («храбрый»), но «bravo» будет сложнее.
They’re not expendable, exactly, I just can’t — I can’t think of the word I’m trying to find.
Они не совсем бесполезные, я просто… не могу вспомнить слово, которое пытаюсь подобрать.
When we think of the word «antioxidant,» we often associate it with health and vitality.
Когда мы думаем о слове «антиоксидант», мы часто связываем его со здоровьем и живучестью.
When you think of the word, you will not doubt have either positive or negative associations with it.
Когда вы думаете о слове, вы не будете сомневаться в положительных или отрицательных связях с ним.
In that sense, I think of the word ‘youth,’ who daringly take on the challenge.
В этом смысле я думаю о слове «молодежь», которая смело принимает вызов».
When you think of the word ‘park,’ you imagine luscious sweeping fields and wooded hillsides.
Когда вы думаете о слове «парк», вы представляете сочные широкие поля и лесистые склоны.
That’s what most people think of the word «refugee.»
When I think of the word «happy,» that rug is the first thing that comes into my head.
Когда я думаю о слове «счастье», то сразу представляю этот коврик.
When people think of the word «lazy», sloths are often one of the first animals to come to mind, and it’s not surprising.
Когда люди думают о слове «ленивый», ленивцы часто являются одними из первых животных, которые приходят на ум, и это неудивительно.
When we think of the word relationship, we think of lovers, husband-and-wife, child and parent.
Когда мы думаем о слове отношения, мы думаем о любимых, муже, жене, ребенке, родителях.
When you think of the word «badge,» you most likely picture the metal shield, star, or similar emblem worn by officers and firefighters.
Когда мы думаем о слове «значок», можно, например, поместить металлический щит, звезду или аналогичную эмблему, которую носят офицеры и пожарные.
That’s important, because when we think of the word «psychopath,» what usually comes to mind first are commonplace media portrayals of crazed killers.
Когда мы думаем о слове «психопат», то, что обычно приходит в голову, сначала являются обычными изображениями СМИ сумасшедших убийц.
At the end of each line, write down any English words or even draw pictures that come to your mind when you think of the word written in the center.
На конце каждой линии запишите любые слова по английскому языку или даже нарисуйте картинки, которые приходят вам в голову, когда вы думаете о слове, написанном в центре.
But in me, now, they have to face an opponent who does not even think of the word «capitulate.»
Но во мне эта сила противостоит противнику, который даже не думает о слове «капитуляция».
When most people think of the word «civil,» they think of «polite.»
Когда большинство людей думает о слове «гражданский», они считают «вежливым».
It’s what is called surrender — which we find so horrible because when we think of the word «surrender» we think of one ego surrendering to another.
Мы находим её столь ужасной, потому что, когда думаем о слове «сдаться», мы считаем, что одно эго сдаётся другому.
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I was composing a sentence and came up with a wonderful one-two punch, but when I sat down to write it, I couldn’t remember the two. Here’s the context: «I don’t mean to say that conventional reading isn’t fun, just that its dynamism is more tacit and _______.» I think the word was along the lines of «implicit» and/or «supressed» and that it started with an S. Or it could be something entirely else because «tacit» sort of takes care of both «implicit» and «suppressed.» GAH, I’m crazified!
― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 21 November 2002 08:01 (twenty years ago) link
understated? although of course that doesn’t start with an «s»
― C J (C J), Thursday, 21 November 2002 08:35 (twenty years ago) link
subliminal? subconscious?
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
Sublime? Solipsistic?
― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:12 (twenty years ago) link
shit?
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:26 (twenty years ago) link
surreptitious? somnambulistic? sedate? fuck it, just put ‘slivovitz’.
― angelo (angelo), Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:43 (twenty years ago) link
Compressed? Compact?
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
what’s ‘dynamism’?
I would put ‘implicit’ in the blank because it almost rhymes and because it’s usually a good word.
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 21 November 2002 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
Subterranean. Subcutaneous.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
but leee the word NEVER ends up actually beginning with the letter you think it does.
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 November 2002 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
subjectif?
― dan (dan), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
i would lose «dynamism»
― dan (dan), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:20 (twenty years ago) link
Obviously I have been studying the dictionary in considerable depth until I found the mot juste, with great dedication, not resting until I found the perfect selection. I think the word you want is clearly ‘aardvark’.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 21 November 2002 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
somnambulsomsomsomnambulisticnambsomnambulisticulisticnambulisticistic
― Mike Hanle y (mike), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
«Nebulous»!
Goodnight everybody! (Thanks to Dan who said «fuzzy» which reminded me.)
― Leee (Leee), Friday, 22 November 2002 06:26 (twenty years ago) link
that doesn’t start with an s, you can’t fool us
― ron (ron), Friday, 22 November 2002 06:30 (twenty years ago) link
seven years pass…
flanks?
― con suelo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
specifically the boundaries…
― con suelo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
vanguard, flanks and arse end
― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
boomzone
― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
theater?
― StanM, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
All Quiet on the Western Boomzone
The other day I was trying to think of the word for the name of what denizens of a certain country are called. For instance, the word for someone who lives in Andorra is «Andorran», but what is the word for what the word «Andorran» is?
― third-strongest mole (corey), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
demonym
― StanM, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
i knew very well that i was on the wrong track there tbh
battlefronts?
― restorin’ my damn eyes (jjjusten), Wednesday, October 6, 2010 11:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yea «battlefront» or just «front» even
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, October 6, 2010 11:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yers, this is exactly it — ty
― dayo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
four years pass…
is there a word or phrase to describe the act of removing the primary description or context for something, leaving only the guts of it exposed? i know that makes zero sense, so three examples:
1) diving straight into the 7th page of a report, without reading the title, abstract, or any other information to provide context
2) watching a news segment starting in the middle, so you don’t know what the actual story is but you’re hearing analysis of it which assumes that you know the basic facts
3) a manuscript with the main text removed, and only the footnotes remain
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 November 2014 21:03 (eight years ago) link
in media res
― 龜, Monday, 3 November 2014 21:04 (eight years ago) link
THANK YOU
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 November 2014 21:06 (eight years ago) link
six years pass…
Is there a word or phrase for a priori argument/reasoning that has a pejorative shade? Basically I’m looking for a word for that thing that people do (largely white dudes it seems) where they just figure they can reason out the answer to something because they are smart even though it’s way outside their lane/experience.
And I don’t mean «mansplaining,» I mean more the kind of thinking that often underlies mansplaining
What, like the Dunning-Kruger effect?
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 April 2021 19:54 (one year ago) link
Not exactly. I’m thinking of when people say stuff like «Well if the virus is airborne then that should mean ____» although they have no expertise in viruses and don’t have any data or study to back up the «____,» or «cryptocurrency will obviously benefit the poor because they are largely unbanked,» with no understanding of what the financial life of a poor person is actually like. Like the fallacy that you can figure out how things in the real world would/should work just by thinking about them.
«Well if the virus is airborne then that should mean ____»
feeling a bit seen here.
presumptuous
― Evan, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:04 (one year ago) link
talking shite
― calzino, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:12 (one year ago) link
unmitigated effrontery
― Evan, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:19 (one year ago) link
audacious uppityness
― Evan, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:28 (one year ago) link
Is there a word or phrase for a priori argument/reasoning that has a pejorative shade? Basically I’m looking for a word for that thing that people do (largely white dudes it seems) where they just figure they can reason out the answer to something because they are smart even though it’s way outside their lane/experience.
I like «tendentious» for this.
Tendentious, to me, means that you have a toolbox of explanations that you revert to all the time. You have a lens you see almost everything through. You have a group of conclusions that you steer almost everything toward.
It’s not necessarily bad, though. You could theoretically be tendentious about empathy or social justice or antiracism or critiquing capitalism, for example.
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 April 2021 22:28 (one year ago) link
Conversational or possibly confident or unwary?
Its to imbue the perjorative thats tricky obv, im sure you will find the right ppl here for that tho
― flagpost fucking (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 00:41 (one year ago) link
Oh wait, that was already ruled out, essentially
rationality poisoning
― rob, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:38 (one year ago) link
rationality poisoning feels sort of close. Maybe there just isn’t a word for this. I feel like it’s a particular type of fallacy or cognitive error maybe?
To me it sounds like you’re describing people who think they can use (their idea of) reason to logically solve any and all problems—basically people who have absorbed a flattened popular narrative about the irrefutable correctness of Enlightenment philosophy + possibly also a confused understanding of the scientific method. So, I’d be pleasantly stunned if there were a formal logical fallacy term for that, as I mostly encounter those fallacy terms when rationality-poisoned people deploy them on social media. The kind of psychological theory that developed the idea of «cognitive biases» also seems too close to the target IMO, as it relies on a perhaps unspoken notion of ideal or correct cognitive processes grounded in logic, but I’m admittedly swerving way out of my lane on that.
If you were in certain corners of academia you could just dismiss this as «liberal humanism» and everyone would know a) what you meant and b) why it was a problem.
― rob, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:17 (one year ago) link
«holding forth on ______» can also have this connotation tho it wants context to work, i think
six months pass…
I need a word that’s a bit like «prescient» but not necessarily predicting the future, more like, «uncanny», «coincidental», «ironic» — something that has a pleasing logic or relationship to another thing.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 12:15 (one year ago) link
are you thinking of ‘apt’?
serendipitous?
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 12:58 (one year ago) link
the word «synchronicity» comes to mind, but there isn’t really an adjective form, is there? Synchronous doesn’t convey the same meaning.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:35 (one year ago) link
^^^ I don’t actually like either of these words as they kind of sneak in authorial special pleading. And they remind me of the use of beloved that I hate: “one of Britain’s most beloved thinkers’ to describe a newspaper columnist.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:05 (one year ago) link
ugh dog latin i feel like I know what word you’re thinking of
but all my brain is coming up with is «it’s like poetry, they rhyme»
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:16 (one year ago) link
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So can you help me think of different places that I could reach out to?
At every stage of my journey, God has always put someone nearby to
confirm things I’m seeing and to help me think outside the limitations of my own previous experience.
На каждой стадии моего пути, Бог всегда помещал кого- то поблизости, чтобы
помочь
утвердиться в тех вещах, которые
я
вижу и помочь мне думать вне ограничений моего собственного предыдущего опыта.
Help me think of heroin nail design that will be suitable for summer slates.
Помоги героине придумать дизайн ногтей, которые будут подходить под летние сланцы.
How to play the game online Help me think of heroin nail design that will be
suitable for summer slates.
Как играть в онлайн игру: Помоги героине придумать дизайн ногтей, которые будут подходить под летние сланцы.
Bruce, Answers to Questions, has really helped me think through many of the controversial issues related to the church traditions
of modern western Christianity.
Брюса« Ответы на вопросы»[ F. F. Bruce, Answers to Questions] действительно помогла мне осмыслить многие спорные вопросы, связанные с церковными
традициями современного западного христианства.
I know that he can help me— l think there’s a dead animal in the elevator.
She might have come to help me because I think I fainted and then woke up on the beach.
Должно быть, она пришла мне на помощь, поскольку
я,
кажется, лишился чувств, а когда пришел в себя, то лежал
на
пляже.
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