Self-Directed Learning 

A phenomenon in which you ask yourself why the fuck you just paid $2000 to hear a professor tell you to watch a YouTube video.

Teacher: “all right class, the next hour will be focused on self-directed learning! Here’s the homework, go ahead and self-direct yourself how to do it!”
Student: “...lazy-ass bitch...”

Self-Directed Learning by Pacific Liberator May 14, 2020

Directed by M. Night Shymalan 

A phrase used to point out a major twist in a film, conversation, or story.

The phrase originates from Shymalan's notorious reliance on twist endings. It usually holds a scornful connotation, due to the lackluster quality of many of Shymalan's recent films.

It is most commonly seen on boards such as Reddit, Tumblr, or 4chan.

Person A: "...and then it turned out that he was actually a transsexual midget standing on another midget's shoulders."
Person B: "..."
Person C: "Directed by M. Night Shymalan."

Directed by M. Night Shymalan by cheekytriangle July 7, 2011

Directed Suicide 

A ridiculously awesome freshman-year program in DWM studies at Yale. Officially known as Directed Studies. Every week is essay week. Except especially awesome ones.

There are three classes: History/Political Thought, Philosophy, and Literature; they meet three times a week, with one lecture and two discussion sections each.

Everybody in DS hates DS, but after it's over they love it.

Directed Suicide demonstrates sexiness with dangerous style!

You: Wanna go to the dance on Thursday?
Me: Bitch please, I'm in DS!

Me: Man, now that I'm a senior I'm so glad I took DS.
You: ....

Directed Suicide by Heraclitus December 9, 2008

self-directed 

Acting without taking the opinion of others

Self-directed behavior is observed

self-directed by abody January 26, 2016

directed energy weapon 

Directed energy weapon is a term often used by a bipolar person to explain their delusions and abnormal behaviour.

Bipolar person: it's not my fault, it's the CIA's fault, they keep firing lasers at my head with a directed energy weapon which makes me act strange.

directed energy weapon by Podesta XD June 9, 2018

Directed Energy Weapon 

CIA runs electronic harassment and NSA and Schriever AFB DEWs, V2K, RNM, hologram, voice cloning, capability and DARPA implants and FBI runs gangstalking and Fusion Centers sychronize everything and they use all of their partnerships as partners in crime and flying monkeys to smear campaign, gaslight, harass, attack, and destroy you with plausible deniability.

Non investigative subjects on the FBI's TSDB are all hit with directed energy weapons.

Directed Energy Weapon by TI Satan June 26, 2023

Directed Energy Igniter

The broad, generic term for any device that uses a focused beam of energy (laser, plasma, particle, microwave) to initiate combustion or explosive decomposition in a target. It's the family name for all the above. This is the technical category you'd find in a military procurement catalog when they want to sound clinical about weapons designed to set the world on fire with space-age technology.

The broad, generic term for any device that uses a focused beam of energy (laser, plasma, particle, microwave) to initiate combustion or explosive decomposition in a target. It's the family name for all the above. This is the technical category you'd find in a military procurement catalog when they want to sound clinical about weapons designed to set the world on fire with space-age technology. Directed Energy Igniter

Directed Energy Igniter by Abzunammu February 2, 2026