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It occurred to me a while ago that explaining the word "expressivemanias" to a normal person who has no knowledge of rhythm games, in way that they can understand, that gives them full contextual understanding of the word is probably one of the most difficult deep-in-rabbit-hole nerd things I know of.

By "full contextual understanding" I mean this:

"it's when you hit song notes to colorful arrows to match feelings"

is sufficiently simplified, in that we as rhythm gamers know what the person means by it and a regular person thinks they do, but they do not have full context whatsoever because they don't know what we mean by half of these things or the social divides that have happened over notechart styles.

Explaining the word involves explaining a whole subculture. In a way, it's like explaining "top kek", but even harder than that.

Can anyone think of a more difficult nerd jargon along the lines of how "expressivemanias" is difficult?

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sperglord

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stock android

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Tech-ing

Actually... no...

Wombo-Combo

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what the heck does expressivemanias mean

and i played them for 10 years

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Dialing the meme notch on a technical file

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TAS

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ZaRtist. For worms armageddon. "`Zooka and Rope Artist" means being incredibly fluent with the difficult movement required to never make mistakes, ninja roping around the terrain effectively in a short time span and taking into account the wind, then firing a bazooka from your swinging rope at the opponent. In another sense it means someone with mastery of the physics engine as a whole, and consistent makes the difference there.

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Try to explain to somewhat what a shine grab out of shield is, if teching would be complicated ;p

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This one can be so frustrating to explain to somebody.

'It stands for Tool-Assisted Speedrun'
'Oh so a computer plays the game for you?'
'No I played the game one frame at a time and the computer plays it back.'
'Oh so you cheated?'
'In a sense yeah, but I didn't add anything to the game that wasn't already there so everything that I did could theoretically be done by someone in real time.'
'Why didn't you do it in real time then?'

That's about when I get too frustrated to keep explaining it to them and I link the SM64 0 Star TAS.

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"tournament winner" is arguably more confusing

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Did he just.. Walk up slowly.. And downsmash?!?!

http://youtu.be/3NMhGCf20i0

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SHFFL

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Waveshine, cave of life.

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april fools day request for comments

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especially some of the earlier ones because you can read shit like the htcpcp (the reason why we have webcams, btw) or the TELNET RANDOMLY LOSE rfcs
but then you have rfcs which are so unabashedly technical where even people who have been in the industry for years and years kinda scratch their head and go "huh?"
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1437

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Obviously, a real politician's skull is more complex than pure iron,
as is its interior, but this simplified example should give the
general flavor of the protocol.

(people should read these)

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telnet subliminal message is probably my favorite

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can y'all elaborate on the terms you provided, if you have the time

some of these I'm totally unfamiliar with and would like explanations myself

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Guess the game

Are you a Stroker or a Cranker?