farmer
n.— «Although the design staff has good intentions with story line behind the items and why this or that NPC are the only ones who should have them, the unfortunate reality is that most “campers” & “farmers” don’t give a damn about that. They are there only because it makes good money. Not only so, it precludes 90% of the people from getting these items, which means they have to buy it from the farmers. For people that actually give a damn about the plot as to why that particular NPC has it, the illusion is shattered over and over by the farmers who sits to wait for poor Mob to spawn over and over again, only for its items.» —“Sense of Time, Economy, and Camping” by Jeffrey Lin Usenet: alt.games.everquest June 10, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Rod in Alexandria, Louisiana, says that in his real estate business, cut to the chase means to “get to the bottom line.” In the early days of the movie industry, when a sagging plot could be livened up by cutting directly to an exciting...
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...