ekolis's definitions

the jigglies

The sexual reward one receives for winning a match of Super Smash Bros. That is, your controller vibrates. You know what to do.

Yeah! I just beat Pikachu with Samus' screw attack! I got the jigglies!

by ekolis December 8, 2013

alert oriented debugging

Debugging JavaScript code using alert statements to determine flow of control and inspect variables.

My browser doesn't have a JavaScript debugger so I have to resort to alert oriented debugging.

by ekolis June 4, 2020

alligator in the cargo bay

A task that was taken on and solved out of a desire to take initiative at work. This is a reference to an episode of The Orville in which Captain Ed Mercer asks Bortus what he has been working on, and Bortus replies that there is an alligator in the cargo bay, but he has crushed it with a chair.

Did I fix the SQL injection vulnerability? Of course, it's an alligator in the cargo bay!

by ekolis January 30, 2020

square hole

A hole into which everything goes.

This is the square. Do you know which hole it goes into? That's right, it goes into the square hole!

This is the rectangle. Which hole does it go into? That's right, it goes into the square hole too!

*5 minutes later*

This is the truncated dodecahedron. Do you know which hole it goes into?

(pause)

That's right! It goes into the square hole too!

by ekolis February 26, 2021

Now you're playing with power

Nintendo marketing slogan from the 1980s and 1990s.

No, Bobby, just because the Nintendo commercial said "Now you're playing with power!" doesn't mean you get to plug this pair of scissors into an electrical outlet!

by ekolis September 23, 2013

HP bucket

In a game, something that takes a lot of damage, then suffers Critical Existence Failure, without gradually losing functionality as it takes damage.

"Characters in D&D are such HP buckets! Play a real RPG that has a proper wound system!"

by ekolis June 27, 2013

'Oumuamua

An interstellar object detected entering the solar system. No one knows for sure what it is - asteroid? comet? derelict alien spaceship? The name is Hawaiian for "scout", since it's the first interstellar object ever detected

I wonder if 'Oumuamua is an alien spaceship? Or is it just a comet?

by ekolis February 12, 2019