spinky
adj.— «Anyone found a high resolution (1280×960) messes up the graphics a lot? I dropped it back to 1024 and it’s all spinky now.» —“Re: Did anyone get bored playing BG2?” by Sierro Usenet: alt.games.baldurs-gate May 9, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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