Inlovewithabsol's definitions

Bulldog

An individual who validates the stereotypes of their associated group/community, usually in a negative way. Initially adopted by furries to describe individuals with behaviors unbecoming of their fandom, such as racism and pedophilia.

user 1: "yeah, user 3 got banned yesterday"
user 2: "holy fuck why"
user 1: "he was being very hateful to some of the server's minority users"
user 2: "what a fucking bulldog; good riddance"

by Inlovewithabsol January 4, 2023

Wagyuposter

A social media chef that produces high-quality dishes with expensive ingredients, often with hyperactive and/or whimsical personalities. Wagyuposters are also known for using occasional traumatic sponsorblasting to fund their expensive efforts.

Nick DiGiovanni is an archetypical TikTok wagyuposter; seasoned chef with consistent uploads, high-quality content, and more than enough sponsored content to help pay for his endeavors. Many other chefs have since followed in his footsteps, including such popular names as CookingWithKian, itsQCP, and chefrush.

by Inlovewithabsol April 7, 2024

Modern Major General

A song that debuted in an opera called The Pirates of Penzance. It entered popular culture in recent decades following its adaptation in VeggieTales. Nowadays, it's commonly parodied in various memes

"I'm very good with integral and differential calculus,
I know the scientific names of beings animalcules;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern major general!"
(In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
he is the very model of a modern major general!)

by Inlovewithabsol June 15, 2024

Classical argument

A more refined form of argumentation from simpler times. Unlike modern argument, where one party seeks to assert emotional dominance over the other through the employment of manipulative tactics, classical argument involves the pure exchange of information and growth of one's own understanding of the world. The outcome of a classical argument is the mutual growth of logical fluency, where both parties are able to recognize flaws in their own reasoning and leave with an improved philosophical maturity.

"We had a classical argument about the nature of free will in my philosophy class yesterday. It was super informative and really fun!"

by Inlovewithabsol January 23, 2023

Hydra hotfix

When a video game developer, typically Indie, releases an update for their game without performing thorough quality control checks beforehand, causing the update to introduce new bugs in their game. Eager to fix these issues, they release a hotfix to patch the issue, but it only introduces even more bugs to fix. Lacking patience and any sort of effective quality control protocols, the game developer ends up releasing dozens of hotfixes for their previous hotfixes, creating an avoidable amount of hotfixes that would've been unnecessary had the dev taken more time to perform all necessary testing to identify potential flaws with their changes.

user1: "wtf is with all these hotfixes?"
user2: "the dev made a hydra hotfix and had to go on a wild goose chase to get everything fixed"
user1: "ffs does anyone even know what quality control is anymore"

by Inlovewithabsol April 10, 2023

Atonia

A medical term referring to the usually temporary loss of muscle coordination. In the context of sleep science, atonia refers to the natural inhibition of neural impulses to one's skeletal muscles the body undergoes during sleep.

In sleep pathology, atonia that fails to recede upon awakening results in sleep paralysis; conversely, a failure of the brain to properly induce atonia during sleep results in night terrors.

by Inlovewithabsol September 9, 2023

Tabularasaness

The quality of being new to a craft and not having learned the conventions and tropes of it, making it very easy for one to start experimenting with it without getting bogged down in the finer details as veterans of such crafts often will. Applies mostly to the arts, such as drawing and music production. Derived from the term tabula rasa, Latin for 'blank slate', representing the idea of one's mind being a blank slate ready to be populated with new information.

"I used to do art all the time, but delving into all the art meta killed all that tabularasaness that was keeping me going. Now my creative drive is running on fumes if anything at all. It's really depressing."

by Inlovewithabsol December 11, 2023