Results for “in-game time”

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uptime
noun

The window when the boss is actually hittable — make it count.

#mmo#ffxiv#dps#raid
downtime
noun

Dead air in a fight — the boss is untargetable and you can't deal damage.

#mmo#ffxiv#raid#dps
Buck Rogers time
phrase

A sentence so long the parole date sounds like science fiction.

#prison#us#sentence#vintage-slang
Demon Time
phrase

Late-night reckless energy — going hard, on a track or in the streets.

#american#uk#hip-hop#gen-z
game sense
noun

Real-time read on where the enemies are and what they're about to do.

#fps#awareness#tactical#skill
IGL
noun

In-game leader, the player who calls the team's strategy and reads.

#cs2#valorant#esports#team
rune
noun

Timed pickups on the map that hand you a temporary buff — haste, double damage, the lot.

#dota2#moba#buff#map
buyback
noun

Paying gold to respawn instantly instead of waiting out the death timer.

#dota 2#moba#mechanic#respawn
DoT
noun

Damage over time — a debuff that ticks away an enemy's health bit by bit.

#wow#mmo#combat#debuff
RWT
noun, verb

Real-world trading — swapping in-game wealth for actual money.

#osrs#mmo#economy#banned
plank
verb

To die in-game. Flat on the floor, lights out.

#runescape#death#mmo
TTK
noun

Time to kill — how long it takes to drop a target.

#mmo#fps#dps
raidwide
noun

An attack that smacks the entire party at the same time.

#mmo#ffxiv#raid#mechanics
HoT
noun

Healing over time, a heal that ticks you back up gradually instead of all at once.

#mmo#healing#mechanic
shreds
verb

Tears through armour and health in no time.

#battle royale#fps#weapons#damage
Safe jump
noun

A jump-in timed so tight you block their wake-up reversal even if it whiffs.

#fighting games#fgc#okizeme#wakeup
Meaty
noun, adjective

An attack timed to land on its dying active frames as they wake up — max plus frames.

#fighting games#fgc#okizeme#frames
50/50
noun

A coin-flip mixup — block the wrong way and you're guessing right half the time at best.

#fighting games#fgc#mixup#okizeme
Bread and Butter (BnB)
noun

Your character's go-to combo — reliable, easy, the one you'll do a thousand times.

#fighting games#fgc#combo#fundamentals
Meteor smash
noun

A downward-launching hit you can sometimes jump out of, unlike a true spike.

#smash#melee#offstage#downward
RTA
noun

A human speedrun timed in real time, no tools.

#speedrunning#timing#live
splits
noun

Your time logged at each checkpoint of a run.

#speedrunning#timing#livesplit
gold split
noun

Your fastest-ever time for a single segment.

#speedrunning#timing#personal-best
IGT
noun

Run time read straight off the game's own clock.

#speedrunning#timing#in-game
pause buffering
verb

Spamming the pause menu to step the game forward one frame at a time.

#speedrun#technique#frame#retro
frame advance
noun

Stepping a game forward one single frame at a time.

#speedrunning#tas#emulation#retro
luck manipulation
noun

Bending in-game RNG to your will through deliberate inputs.

#speedrunning#tas#rng
A Button Challenge
noun

Beating SM64 while pressing the jump button as few times as possible.

#sm64#speedrunning#challenge run#abc
caravan shooter
noun

A short, timed score-attack shmup — usually a frantic two-to-five-minute run.

#shmup#score attack#hudson
tweeple
noun

Collective noun for Twitter users — the people of the timeline.

#twitter#2000s#collective#platform-slang
hop in VC
phrase

Invitation to jump into a voice channel and talk in real time.

#discord#voice-chat#invitation#gen-z
OG
noun

Original gangster — the long-timer who was there before it was cool.

#discord#hip-hop#community#compliment
all-kill
noun

When a song hits number one on every major Korean music chart at the same time.

#kpop#charts#music-industry#fandom
slow burn
noun phrase

A romance that takes its sweet time getting going.

#booktok#fanfic#tropes#romance
geeked
adjective

Hyped up, buzzing, way too excited — sometimes high.

#aave#tiktok#gen-z#emotion
hench
adjective

Built. Strong. Visibly spent serious time in the gym.

#mle#london#british#body
blem
noun

Cigarette — sometimes a spliff.

#mle#london#british#smoking
merk
verb

To beat, defeat, or humiliate someone — often in a fight, sometimes fatally.

#mle#london#british#violence
currant bun
noun

The Sun newspaper — and sometimes 'son' or 'run'.

#cockney#london#rhyming-slang#british
stop-tap
noun

Welsh-English for last orders — closing time at the pub.

#welsh#wales#pub#drinking
linn
noun

A pool at the foot of a waterfall — sometimes the falls themselves.

#welsh#scottish#dialect#geography
laissez les bons temps rouler
phrase

Let the good times roll — NOLA's unofficial motto.

#nola#french-creole#cajun#mardi-gras
flambeaux
noun

Lit torches carried by walkers in nighttime Mardi Gras parades.

#nola#mardi-gras#carnival#french
bid
noun

A prison sentence — the time you're doing.

#prison#us#sentence#hip-hop
max out
verb

Serve every day of your sentence, no parole, no good time.

#prison#us#sentence#parole
celly
noun

Your cellmate — or, sometimes, the cell itself.

#prison#us#cellmate#inmate
porridge
noun

Doing time in a UK prison.

#prison#uk-prison#british-slang#vintage
whiney primey
phrase

First-time mum who keeps showing up sure she's in labour. She isn't.

#medical#hospital#obstetrics#labour