Can you think of any others?
Can you think of any others?
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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
- Terminal shell
- Kill daemon
- Timeshift
- Cloud hosting
- Ethernet
- Overwrite memory
- Free memory
- Poison artifical intelligence
Terminal escape
Privilege escalation
Command injection
I had a bit too much fun with these :)
Magical Items
- The Bandwidth Cap
Cursed item that limits the magical power of it's wearer - The Token Ring
Magical ring that allows the wielder to communicate over large distances. They can receive messages from one token ring and send message to another. - The Memory Barrier
Protective charm that shields the mind from intrusion. - The Shadow Register
A magical ledger that records secrets and hidden locations in the immediate area. - The Superscalar
A legendary shimmering sword that can strike multiple foes in a single attack.
Spells
- Loopback
Redirects a spell to its point of origin. - Jabber
Causes the target to produce incoherent speech and lose its train of though.t - Branch Prediction
Gives the caster foresight to predict their opponent's next action. - Traceroute
A tracking spell that reveals the path of a target. - Mask
Hides the caster's true identity. - Hypertransport
Enables instantaneous movement over short distances. - Interrupt
Counterspell to disrupt an enemy's casting.
Spell modifiers
- Broadcast
Modifies spell to affect a large area. - Unicast
Modifies spell to affect a single point with maximum damage. - Multicast
Modfies spell to affect multiple selected targets. - Repeater
Modifies spell to recast itself over multiple turns.
- The Bandwidth Cap
- 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?
Asynchronous Threads
Port Forward (this one just sounds like a dope place)
Remote Host
Domain Controller
Immutable Type
Ethernet
Memory leak
Destructor
Dynamic dispatch
Execute
Disconnect Peripheral: Removes someone's limb.
Critical Vulnerability: Increases critical hit rate.
Memory buffer: Allows you yo remember things better.
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.
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 terabyteBonus 0th level ability: nibble
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
- Ring zero
- Bootkit/Rootkit
- Attacker in the middle
- Intercepting proxy
- Daemon
Zero Trust: curse. You become suspicious of your allies.
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.
Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.
- Cache miss
- Bubble Sort
- Vectorization
- Multithread
- Checksum Mismatch
- Raise Exception
- Zombie Process
- Parallelization
- Segmentation Fault
- Force Commit
- Signal Abort
- Signal Kill
- Balance Nodes
- Stack Overflow
- Core Dump
- Reverse Tunnel
- Dynamic Forwarding
I don't know what kind of spells these would be but I fear the wizard who knows them.
spawn daemon
Force Merge
Power word: Infinite Recursion
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.
- 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)
Spoofing
Cryptojacking
Bluetooth sounds like a negative effect. Similar to using Bluetooth in real life.
Authentication tokens - Some heirloom jewelry or letter of permission from the local royal family used to prove you are on their mission.
Gap analysis - when your party finds a crevasse or pit and determines if they can jump across.
Buffer - party member who casts buffs, usually a bard.
Microservices - when you barter with gnomes to repair your gear.
Hyperconvergence or hypervisor.
Ruby gems
Memory leaks
Layers of abstraction
Master branch
Void function
- Semaphore
- Spanning tree
- Spinlock
- Recursive function
- Knapsack problem
- Pushdown automata
- Zero-knowledge proof
- Late binding
- Borrow checker
- Channel coding
- Tail recursion
- Camel case
- Double float
- Red-black trees
- Quaternions
Lossy compression feels like cheating:
- Block prediction
- Motion compensation
- Chroma subsampling
- Frequency space
- Time domain
Mail storm
Perhaps not that deep "cs" but still :D
Silicium Bug = A insect creature made of quartz.
Gate Array = An ancient holy temple with partially defunct portals of unknown origin.
- Higher order function
- Rijndael cypher
- Serpent cypher
Big-o and Little-o notation
FIFO and LIFO
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.
Deep magic, black art, heavy wizardry, almost feels like cheating.
I don't even know computer stuff, just picked these up via osmosis.
EDIT: blue screen of death is a very powerful abjuration spell
- kernelspace
- make all
- upstream and downstream
I always found "The Perceptron" to have such a badass name…. 😅 (Math part was annoying though…)
Oomkiller
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.
Boot
Shielded Twisted Wire rootkit worm recursive loop MAC address( kinda like a true name i guess) Administrator control
- 28k modem connection sounds *
Guru Meditation
Volatile Memory
PEBCAK
Secrets
Cloud Run
Kubernetes
Flash
Rest endpoint
Disaster Recovery sounds like a great party name.
wine controllaunches Wine's sparse control panel (most options are underwinecfg). You can use it at fancy parties for fun tricks or to make someone puke.Feels like I should DM some Shadowrun or Cryptomancer sessions again. Just to use those.
Null
Null Modem
Crossover Cable
Null Modem Cable with Handshake
Request to SendEdit:
Proxy
Reverse ProxyThis thread feels like someone half remembering playing technomancers in shadowrun.
Superuser
This just reinforces that one short of piratesoftware saying all programmers are wizards.
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Pseudocode
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Daemon Thread
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Ruby on Rails
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Onion Router
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Python Commands
All leap to mind.
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malloc
Tell me that isn't the name of a demon.
I'll just throw out there the old school
halt and catch fire(also the name of a really good show I need to rewatch and actually finish sometime) but also who can't lovelp0 on fire?Linearlizability
Serializability
Strict SerializabilityEpidemic Protocol
Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow
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
Float Double Execute Polymorphism Shell
- 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
i would go with the OSPF Ritual
Some fun ones here you guys can help me think of their purpose
Print spool MAC address System Time IPV4 and IPV6 Air gap Random Access Memory OS Kernal Memory Contoller South bridge North Bridge Corruption Device Manager Encryption SALT API Key System Services Device Drivers
DRY
- Bootloader
- Filesystem
- Reboot
- Printer (that's the end boss)
- sudo
- Container
- Virtual Machine
- Fail over
- Backup
- Restore