Farts that enhance your ability to write creatively, corner people into submission, develop your art projects, or perform at various singleplayer or multiplayer games.
Delaney: I just had several gaming farts.
Andrew: You don't play games, and you can't play games.
Delaney: It doesn't matter when you're still making minimum wage... maybe you should call for backup?
Pain causing or resulting from gain. The pain you feel that's not discouraging, but encouraging because it's full of pride and passion so highly related to gain you see it as the result of gain or its precursor.
I'm stoked. I'm sore AF and tired, but it's gain pain.
I'm doing great. I've been studying 12 hours a day for a week, but it's gain pain.
The academic study of the activity of playing games, as opposed to the games themselves—examining player behavior, psychology, and the physical effects of sitting in the same position for eight hours. Gaming sciences investigate why gamers develop "the claw" (hand cramps from gripping controllers too tightly), why "one more turn" syndrome leads to 4 AM bedtimes, and why the phrase "just a minute, I'm at a save point" is universally understood as "I will be available in 45 minutes."
Example: "She studied gaming sciences and wrote her thesis on the physiological effects of marathon gaming sessions. Her findings: dehydration, eye strain, and a condition she called 'gamer posture,' characterized by rounded shoulders and a forward-jutting neck. She then spent three days playing a new RPG and experienced all of these symptoms firsthand, which she called 'participant observation.'"
The hardware and software specifically designed for the act of playing games, from ergonomic controllers that claim to prevent "gamer claw" (they help, slightly) to gaming chairs that look like they belong in a race car and cost as much as one. Gaming technologies also include the streaming setups that turn playing games into a profession, complete with green screens, professional lighting, and a webcam pointed at someone who is definitely not dressed as nicely below the frame. The ultimate gaming technology remains the "pause button," which separates civilized gamers from those who have never known its comfort.
Gaming Technologies *Example: "He built an elaborate gaming technology setup: a custom PC with liquid cooling, a mechanical keyboard that sounded like a typewriter having a seizure, and a mouse with 17 programmable buttons. He used it exclusively to play a 20-year-old game that ran on a toaster. The technologies were overkill, but they made the toaster game look amazing."*