big fish small pond

A game monetization strategy for encouraging player spending by splitting the player base into smaller isolated groups (often servers) that cannot interact with each other within the game, especially in the context of pay-to-win and gacha. Whales will find it easier to top leader boards due to the smaller amount of competition, and non-whales who are surprised to find themselves on the leader boards will feel pressure to spend money to keep their position. Additionally, if casual players begin to lose interest and depopulate servers, low-population servers can be merged (usually without notifying players) to prevent whales from realizing that they are spending money on a dying game.

"Of course I bought the top tier battle pass! I've been in the Top 200 for PvP in this mobile game since it launched!" "Big fish small pond, eh?"

by ukn!und9rep8aph6ABE April 6, 2024

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Get the big fish small pondmug.

small man syndrome

Small man syndrome is the devastatingly disabling inferiority complex invariably associated with the completely and utterly debilitating death sentence disability of manletism (the catastrophically crippling condition of being a manlet, a diminutively dwarfed male shorter than 5ft10). Relentlessly driven to ever-greater extremes of manlet cope, manlet mathematics and guy height by the well-deserved bullying that the microscopic midget manlet constantly endures at the courtesy of disgusted women and laughing manmores for being a small man syndrome-infected Little Napoleon, the severely stunted small man syndrome sissy manlet can often be detected in public while loudly yelling at his mother on the phone because she wore his favorite pair of high heels again, dancing a merry jig atop of a bar stool in front of microbiology labs while dressed like a tiny, little leprechaun, begging for spare change to buy his fix of height boosting insoles in the parking lot of your local Foot Locker and crying tiny tears of manlet rage while furiously dry humping the pole of low clearance signs. Manlets, when will they learn?

Gemma: Lol, why is Kevin "Horrid Homunculus" Hart sobbingly driving around in a toy car while girlishly throwing his massive collection of high heels at that group of, by comparison towering, children over there? Anais: Classic small man syndrome. Short people got no reason. Gemma: Silly manlet boys...

by ManletDepreciator September 29, 2024

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Get the small man syndromemug.

James small

James is a nice person and a bad enemy. When you first meet he will be nervous but once you get to know each other he’s a smart person who will always stand up for you. Never make a James your enemy or you’re in trouble. A James will never let his issues bother you. James is an amazing person

Who was that kid who fell off his chair, must be a james small

by Jameson13 September 12, 2019

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