HIC's definitions

prebuilt

1. Something with little or no assembly required after purchase.

2. Common reference, in the PC industry, to a "branded" PC i.e Dell, HP, Gateway, etc. typically featuring a "Intel" processor with the rest of the machine being assembled from generic & low quality parts and given a premium price tag.

Do not buy a prebuilt, or branded, PC. You can often build your own for less than half price.

by Hic October 7, 2004

riley

an aerodynamic being

as smooth as a riley's leg

by HIC August 2, 2004

Brinker

Or Stealth troll. A type of Internet troll who tries to annoy a message board or chat room as much as possible while staying on the brink of suspension or banning from the site administration. Usual methods include saying, or eluding to, things they know will piss a group of people off but without actually breaking any outright rules rules of the board. A lot of times these people will go out of their way to let it be known.....many, many times, to the people that what they say is "their opinion". Knowing 9 out of 10 ignorant moderators wont moderate any ACTUAL trolls as long as they include the letters "IMO" half a dozen times in their post.

See gamefaqs message boards

by Hic January 24, 2005

g4tv

Soulless "gaming cable television channel" cut in the same mold as MTV.

Terrible off the street idiot hosts with annoying personality and no real gaming knowledge (or interest in gaming for that matter) other than what is on their teleprompter.

Cash influenced reviews and show content.

Entire channel exists not for entertainment but for advertising and exploiting the new surging popularity of gaming and the incompetant 12 year old internet fanboys that now dominate it.

Promotes the same dozen games all day with reruns, even when they only have about 12 hours worth of first run shows on a week. Plenty of extra space for "real" game coverage but they still limit coverage to the same mass marketed "fanboy bait".

Parent company recently bought, erased, and assimilated Tech TV effectively eliminating all intelligent competition to this rubbish channel called G$.

Kewl internet gaming kid: U see G4 dewd? Final Fantasy is tha best GAME E V A R!

Intelligent gamer: No & no.

by Hic October 3, 2004

RPG

Short for Roleplaying Game. Table top or otherwise that allows one or more people to assume a fictious alter-personality, or personalities, and live a story while having the ability to make choices to directly alter the experience and/or the outcome.

Not to be confused with most "Japanese console rpg's" or as the kiddies refer to as "RPG-Lite" games such as Final Fantasy, Wild Arms, Dragon Warrior, Secret of Mana, etc. Such games play on the sensationalizing of the term "RPG" to make a buck in the market and in all actuality offer no authentic "Role Playing" experience.
The most they can be described as is simply "interactive anime" or "pop up books with batles".

Isn't it ironic that 99% of console RPG's don't have any actual Role Playing in them?

by Hic January 12, 2005

g4tv

Now holds the prestige of being the worst rated channel on American Television with a 0.1 Nielsen Rating.

Damn you G4TV/Comcast for what you did to TechTV!

by Hic April 9, 2005

Ultima Underworld

First person RPG that came out around the same time as Wolfenstein 3d but featured a 3d engine, and gameplay, light years more advanced and ahead of it's time.

Ultima Underworld was first and more advanced, but ID has tricked the masses intothinking they invented 3d gaming.

by Hic October 8, 2004