A phenomenon in which a time traveler unintentionally or intentionally influences a timeline in a loop-like fashion that causes ever increasing differences with each loop around.
Often referred to as a time-loop (inaccurately).
Often referred to as a time-loop (inaccurately).
by bokonon82 January 5, 2019
Get the time-spiralmug. When a high-level technical discussion is derailed by a pernickety exploration of implementation details. Often exacerbated by a lively variety of opinion and speculation.
We were ploughing through our daily stand-up the other day until that bogan plunged us into a tech spiral, costing us 25 minutes with a discussion on the correct means of parsing hashes.
by anonymous January 30, 2024
Get the tech spiralmug. A duration of time that occurs in which a completely asinine and useless topic becomes so adversely discussed that the original point becomes moot. Like when a player in a tabletop group does something completely pointless and describes everything about that, the game master leaves the room in frustration
by McCrispies20 May 4, 2023
Get the Lasagna Spiralmug. Hym "I'm not taking hints. You need to do the thing I said. If your response to me saying that is 'I aLrEaDy DiD iT!' Then whatever you did doesn't actually constitute doing the thing I said. You're a fucking retard. If it's spiraling then YOU DO NEED TO COME HERE, you need to talk to me directly, and then you need to give me the credit and the money and then you need to do the terms of service. There is no half measure that will work. I have written all about your mentally retarded weasel psychology and none of the shit you generate with your mentally retarded minds is going to do anything other than make everything worse for everybody because you suck and are dumb."
by Hym Iam August 27, 2025
Get the Spiralingmug. Hym "But the spiral aside, 1 trillion dollars? For corporate terrorists!? Is that for me? Wow! I can't wait to see how you attempt to avoid giving it here to loophole the contract that can't have any loopholes Elon. That'll be interesting. I'm not corporate at all though. I don't even wear a suit."
by Hym Iam October 23, 2025
Get the The Spiralmug. Yeah, we'll know for sure once the pundits start getting drone struck. I don't know. Are you getting a bunch of weird technical issues? Inexplicable power outages? Planes falling from the sky spontaneously?
Hym "Speaking of spiraling, what happened to that Epstein victim? She feel like she was being watched? What were he conversations like leading up to her death?"
by Hym Iam April 27, 2025
Get the Spiralingmug. And again, I won't submit this one either but is that is going off... You are REALLY not going to want to arrest, detain, kill, or leave me to die... Because that is what it looks like you are trying to do and that is not a very good idea. You really gotta turn that off as quickly as possible because I have no idea how the timeline on that is supposed to work.
Hym "Really. I have no idea hold long the Anti-Spiral intends to go off for before, you know, it's not good. You have to tell me everything. You really can't withhold information. It just isn't going to work. But all I know is that for past for years the people around me have been trying to 'keep me here.' And I have no idea what they hope to achieve by doing it but that might not be a good idea at this point."
by Hym Iam September 10, 2025
Get the Anti-Spiralmug.