instancing n.— «Many quests allow the player to enter into an “instance” which is a sort of parallel universe in which the player and whatever group they are part of leave the main gameworld and enter a “court” of...
decoherence n.— «If you’re looking for places where the laws of physics allow for information to be injected into the universe, then you must look to quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics has a process called...
ditch in line v.— «“And yes, I’ll be one of the thousands fighting to be first in line for the book.”…“Hey! No ditching in line!”» —“ Re: Stan Lee to do DC characters” by Michael Payton Usenet: rec...
talk out (the side of) one’s neck v. phr.— «Only the sum of all these experiences would be able to make up Universe itself. of course i’m just “talking out of my neck” as we say in Dutch.» —“Synergetics—jitterbug...
hypersigil n. a creative work that via the medium of its artificial universe changes its creator, its observers, the real world, or other things. Etymological Note: hyper ‘over, beyond, or above’ ‘+ sigil ‘a seal or sign claimed to have occult or...
fyborg n.— «A few years ago I wrote a book defending the idea that humans have already evolved into functional cyborgs—fyborgs, if you will. The idea was that through the development of culture, broadly understood, it was impossible to...