The Dungar Effect

The Dungar Effect is the colloquial term for when management blames development for working too slow when in reality, everything is stuck in quality assurance for testing purposes by the users that requested the ticket.
"The CIO wants to hire a new developer to increase throughput, but our department is suffering from the Dungar Effect."
by HRB121 April 06, 2023
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The peashooter effect

The phenomenon that happens in FPS games where you'll be killing enemies, but then when you get to one of the enemies your gun starts feeling like your shooting peas while your enemies gun does enough damage to kill you in what looks like 2-3 shots.
Yo I was grinding my 3 kills without dying camos last night and when I got to my 3rd kill my gun felt like a peashooter while my enemies gun hit like a .50 cal. I think they call it the peashooter effect.
by Bannerlem0n November 22, 2022
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The Sperm Effect

You laugh so hard that you pee out sperm
I had The Sperm Effect
by Jeff The Beast March 23, 2017
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The avatar effect

Based on the the rise, plunge And forgotten popularity of the movie avatar. An Instance when something, especially media,(film, tv, music, book, game, etc), becomes the biggest thing in the world and then vanishes just as quickly with little or no cultural legacy or lasting footprint.
Mary thought avacado toast was the biggest thing ever and ate it all the time, but then the avatar effect happened and now a year later she never eats that and barely remembers that was her thing once.
by V date May 29, 2020
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The Birdy Effect

The process by which any sufficiently timeless song will eventually get a stripped-down, slow tempo acoustic cover, usually featuring ethereal female vocals (à la Birdy or Ellie Goulding).

John Lewis Christmas ads are a gold mine for this.
"Why is this cover of Party Rock Anthem so depressing?" -The Birdy Effect
by Bbeorn October 15, 2020
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The Tom Effect

When a 'Tom" joins a game, and naturally just goes huge without any practicable input into said game.

Pronounced 'The/Tɒm/ɪˈfekt/'
"Ah.. Of Couse.. The Tom Effect"
by BlankyMcBlankBlank November 11, 2020
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GuMiho Effect

The GuMiho effect is a mental condition that occurs when playing Starcraft 2. It is triggered when your opponent plays unpredictable builds that, when one attempts to counter them, one is thrown further off balance by the opponent'sunpredictability, which results in a quick loss.
Astrea suffered a severe case of the GuMiho Effect, as documented in LowkoTV's YouTube video uploaded on 07/09/23 in a best-of-five series.
by Magrue September 07, 2023
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