someone who is capable of immersing into digital environments. There are many kinds of gamers. Some enjoy building up their strength as heroes, and saving worlds alongside beloved allies. Others prefer to play the role of the villain or hoodlum, and revel in the glorious chaos they wreak. Another category of gamer plays to escape, either from negative thoughts and feelings, or for other reasons, not related to such things. All gamers have something they connect with in their game that they enjoy, or occupies their energy. Never assume that any demographic of person can be a better gamer than any other demographic of person. This is a toxic myth that looms over gamer culture, preventing it from reaching its utopia.
(also: utopia)
political advocacy for the rights of men that can disguise itself as a parody when threatened.
(n.) 1) having desirable and admirable masculine characteristics. 2) having contemptible and detestable masculine characteristics.
n. A person more learned in the languages of others than wise in his own.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.
(also: humans)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: humans)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
n. Literally a freedman; hence, one who is in bondage to his passions.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a sour-spirited knave, and his every victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.
Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung
In the dead language of a mummy's tongue,
For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well —
Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell.
Had it been such as consecrates the Bible
Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel.
—Barney Stims
(also: humor)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung
In the dead language of a mummy's tongue,
For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well —
Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell.
Had it been such as consecrates the Bible
Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel.
—Barney Stims
(also: humor)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
Thing for writing
(also: writing)
(also: writing)
nefarious ends
A series of sound that makes sense.
(new yorker slang) place that is not new york; place safe to dump toxic waste
(n.) one who's for hire by anyone with cold hard cash, especially a soldier
(adj.) describing one who's in it for the cold hard cash
(also: privateer)
(adj.) describing one who's in it for the cold hard cash
(also: privateer)
Neohuman (n.): 'New Human'. Typically a general name for superhumans, such as a metahuman or supernatural.
adj. Conforming a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
It is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on one syde of the which certayn conducts are immorall, yet on the other syde they are holden in good esteeme; wherebye the mountayneer is much conveenyenced, for it is given to him to goe downe eyther way and act as it shall suite his moode, withouten offence.
—Gooke's Meditations
(also: moral backsliding)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
It is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on one syde of the which certayn conducts are immorall, yet on the other syde they are holden in good esteeme; wherebye the mountayneer is much conveenyenced, for it is given to him to goe downe eyther way and act as it shall suite his moode, withouten offence.
—Gooke's Meditations
(also: moral backsliding)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(n.) a shaggy, garishly-dressed, drugged up young person who spends his time zoned out of his mind in some kind of psychedelic rock concert and protesting the general state of things and stuff
they were a major source of parental alarm in the 60s and 70s until they were replaced by, oh, let's say punks
they were a major source of parental alarm in the 60s and 70s until they were replaced by, oh, let's say punks
the ancient gaelic harvest festival, held at the midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. by happenstance this causes the date to coincide with the modern holiday of halloween
the word would most properly be pronounced as "so-when," because the irish evidently just do not give a damn
the word would most properly be pronounced as "so-when," because the irish evidently just do not give a damn
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join