this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2024
306 points (100.0% liked)

RPGMemes

250 readers
1 users here now

Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Image transcription:

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

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Davel23@fedia.io 95 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Scroll lock. To protect your scrolls.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] cowdoy@lemmy.ca 83 points 1 month ago

World wide web would be an OP spell

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am a level 17 Install Wizard.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] WadeTheWizard@fedia.io 25 points 1 month ago

One of those fucked me up real bad in Elden Ring

[–] cranberryjam@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 month ago
  • Terminal shell
  • Kill daemon
  • Timeshift
  • Cloud hosting
  • Ethernet
  • Overwrite memory
  • Free memory
  • Poison artifical intelligence
[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 month ago

Halt and Catch Fire

[–] wilecoyote@programming.dev 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Default Gateway

Split Horizon

Routing Overhead

Broadcast Storm

edit:fkn markdown

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • Hypervisor
  • time daemon
  • privilege escalation
[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago

The Privilege Escalation hits hard

[–] Banichan@dormi.zone 29 points 1 month ago

CAT5e sounds like a fifth-edition ruleset

[–] xtrapoletariat 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
  • Brute Force Attack
  • Markov Chain
  • Singular Matrix
  • Pow
  • map
  • bind
  • variable name (thief's favorite)
  • Ballmer Peak
  • Fourier Transformation (2nd level: FFT)
  • Gaussian Elimination
  • Double
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • Big endian (a very powerful NPC)
  • Hardware abstraction (a spell that makes all the stuff disappears)
  • Obfuscation (invisibility spell)
  • Multiplexing (ability to cast several spells as one)
  • Dangling reference (when wrong information is given by somebody)
  • Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (basically crop circles)
  • Pure virtual method (anything somebody learned but will never use)
  • Diamond inheritance (when someone in the party dies and all of their money is spread accross the others)

Can you tell what's my job?

[–] tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] outstanding_bond@mander.xyz 23 points 1 month ago
  • rowhammer
  • rainbow table
  • global interpreter lock
  • race condition (atrocity?)
  • core dump
[–] blibla@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

reap children

[–] I_am_10_squirrels 4 points 1 month ago

I see you play Star Wars ttrpg

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Artificers use assembly language to cast their spells.

1st level wild shape ability byte.
4th level wild shape ability megabyte.
8th level wild shape ability gigabyte.
9th level wild shape ability terabyte

Bonus 0th level ability: nibble

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago

Sanity check
Wildcard
Merge Bash Overwrite memory
Key binding
Class inheritance

[–] psud@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ping of death

Bash

Vim (clearly a buff)

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago

Vim (clearly a buff)

That's some grand wizard who's made some named spells. Vim's Inescapable Hut being the most known one.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rust - rusts metal. When miscast, makes the target a crab of some sort

Go - Same as "command" spell

Regular Expression - makes any cryptic message understandable in a language you know

Transfer Protocol - allows the teleportation of one packet to a willing host

Read Only - cast on a book, scroll or any other thing with written words. Ensures no further words can be written. No scribbles or any sort of artwork will stick either. The object can still be destroyed

Icon - For a short period, the target of the spell becomes a beloved, or hated, icon of a subject. IE: beloved icon of beauty, hated icon of music.

Master Boot Record - this magical list contains all the master level boots ever created and their current whereabouts

Partition Table - allows any object with at least 2 flat sides to be cut into any shape

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Forbo@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago
  • Ring zero
  • Bootkit/Rootkit
  • Attacker in the middle
  • Intercepting proxy
  • Daemon
[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

Kernel Space - banishes the target to a plane of existence filled with corn

B Tree - an AOE summon of a permanent swarm of bees in the targeted area until the bees all die or leave naturally

Monad - device that transmutes one set of spell components into another. These can be strung together to form very complex things.

Extended Backus-Naur Form - Allows one to transform into a memetic form to be carried in the mind of another; also extends to your clothing and any carried items.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

Spoofing

Cryptojacking

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Disconnect Peripheral: Removes someone's limb.

Critical Vulnerability: Increases critical hit rate.

Memory buffer: Allows you yo remember things better.

[–] lkdm@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

spawn daemon

[–] leftenddev@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

Power word: Infinite Recursion

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reroot tree: Tree digs itself out of the ground, walks to another location and takes root, as if it's always been there.

Heap sort: More advanced technique for which Reroot tree is a prerequisite for some reason. Arranges assortments of things into neat piles with only one kind of object per pile. Very useful when looking for things in treasure chambers.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

"I cast heap sort on the owlbear."

"..."

"The owlbear is sorted into neat piles, the first containing hair/nails/claws/beaks, the second feathers, the third bone, the fourth meat, the fifth blood.."

[–] Thyrian@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 month ago
  • scroll snapping
  • unit tests
  • vulnerability
  • fastboot
  • root access
  • abstraction level
  • unity framework
[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Force Merge

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago

Hyperconvergence or hypervisor.

[–] OmegaPillar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Semaphore
  • Spanning tree
  • Spinlock
  • Recursive function
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

Boot Loop - ties someone's shoelaces together

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

Silicium Bug = A insect creature made of quartz.

Gate Array = An ancient holy temple with partially defunct portals of unknown origin.

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BSOD - BLUE SCREEN OF DEAD ☠️

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] apotheotic 7 points 1 month ago

Volatile Memory

PEBCAK

Secrets

Cloud Run

Kubernetes

Flash

Rest endpoint

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago
  • Higher order function
  • Rijndael cypher
  • Serpent cypher
[–] dragonshouter@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 month ago

Shielded Twisted Wire rootkit worm recursive loop MAC address( kinda like a true name i guess) Administrator control

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] nik9000@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago
[–] Matombo@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago
  • kernelspace
  • make all
  • upstream and downstream
[–] Forester@yiffit.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] 8bitMage@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 month ago

Disaster Recovery sounds like a great party name.

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago
load more comments
view more: next ›