armchair developer

1. A video game enthusiast who criticizes a developers' motives/product.

2. A label used by video game developers to dismiss a consumer's requests or suggestions, which may (or may not) actually be a good idea.

We are doing the best we can, stop being armchair developers.
"The armchair developers on this internet."

by Wayback Machine April 19, 2022

Armchair pilot

Someone who has 10,000 hours practice flying an armchair at a maximum flight ceiling of 0 feet above the ground, and who feels like they must never be distracted from their glorious mission of defending their front room. See also: lazy git

I have just been qualified as an armchair pilot, but I can no longer feel my arse cheeks

by Armchair captain 1 June 26, 2024

Armchair Engineer

A person, often who does not hold an engineering degree or does, but has no actual experience with real engineering and ended up in a different technical field. This person can often be found on facebook or other social media platforms criticizing engineers for apparent problems with consumer or other products that they believe could be better. This person is quick to point out obvious faults because they believe engineering is simply envisioning a perfect product, and that makes it happen. They have no understanding/experience with the cost, management, cross-functional team collaboration, qualification requirements, documentation requirements, problems of similar parts, legal regulations, interchangeability with other parts or assemblies, material properties and compatibility, corrosion resistance, lead times of parts and material, production costs, service restrictions and costs, low rate of failures pertaining to the one they unfortunately experienced, or many other constraints that limit the "perfect solution" that they envision.

Armchair engineer: "Its 2024, surely engineers could design a car that never rusts or corrodes, they just want you to pay for repairs and replacements to ensure they maintain profits". Engineer:" Sure, there are materials available to prevent corrosion for a longer time if you want to pay 6-8 figures for your vehicle that gets you A to B and costs 5-7 figures to repair and still requires yearly maintenance to avoid that condition. No rust or other corrosion on cars for the life of the car is a great idea though, not sure why us engineers didnt think of that, where did you get your armchair engineering degree? We should probably go back to your school."

by beer08 July 30, 2024

Armchair Sleuth

A person who tries to solve real life crimes by finding evidence exclusively using their computer.

Usually collaborates with people on Reddit/4chan or other forums.

Young Timmy is too into finding the identity of a cat murderer he found online by finding the IP address of the site the murderer set up and posting it on 4chan. He is an Armchair Sleuth.

by spr_shb September 16, 2021

Armchair Logger

Someone who logs a geocache find, without having actually visited the geocache. Quite often getting a fellow geocacher to sign their name in the logbook, while they are elsewhere.

They may have found a lot of geocaches, but everyone knows they are an armchair logger.

by GLOTCH November 9, 2010

armchair craftsperson

People who watch a lot of Do it Yourself TV-shows but never even attempt to initiate a project.

John is a total armchair craftsperson, loves DIT shows, but does not even own a hammer.

by Andymex June 30, 2017

Armchairs

Fandom name of the toxic part of a.r.m.y which are BTS fans. They like to drag down other groups down, appropriating other fandoms joke, and they have a big superiority complex. They made a.r.m.y dirty and now theyre the most toxic fandom of kpop. F*ck armchairs !

A: They stolen our inside joke again
B: Who ?
A: Armchairs

B: Wtf again ???

by kpopencyclopedia December 1, 2020