metroidvania

A garbage term for a genre that was created entirely by Metroid and for which Castlevania deserves no credit for. """Metroidvania"""s are characterized by their open world environments and their use of upgrades that slowly make more areas of the map accessible. Most games in the genre are two-dimensional.

Gamer: Look at my new Metroidvania game!
Other gamer: Please just call it a Troidlike or whatever...

by poudink January 05, 2021

Troidlike

Superior alternative to the word "metroidvania". Troidlikes are characterized by their large, open environments and use of upgrades that slowly make more parts of the map accessible. Troidlikes are usually 2D games.

Axiom Verge is such a great Troidlike!

by poudink January 05, 2021

alantutorial

The number one source of tutorials on Youtube. His tutorial page has everything ranging from "How to Pick Up a Blue Chair Off the Ground" to "How To Clean Off Elephant Sugar Glue". If you need instructions on something, chances are you'll find them there.

Pleb: Dude how are you so good at leaking on a piece of paper? Did you use wikihow for this?
Legend: Please don't associate me with that terrible excuse of a "tutorial website". alantutorial's tutorial page is where it's at, my dude.

by poudink November 26, 2020

GIF

A hopelessly outdated image format that is nowadays mostly used for animated pictures. Has ridiculous limitations such as a maximum of 256 colors and inefficient compression but keeps being used because none of the superior alternative formats ever caught on. Also, nobody seems to be able to agree on the pronounciation, for some reason.

Person: Woah, nice GIF you got there. Sucks you can see so much banding from those pesky color limitations.
GIPHY: So, are you gonna use a GIF in your definition or not?
Person: Nah, wouldn't be caught dead using one of those things. It's not like GIPHY even really uses GIFs. They're all just looped MP4s.

by poudink December 17, 2020