Playstyle in videogames where a player (see 'flex player') is able to change their play-style in a moments notice.
Flex gaming requires high context awareness and a deep understanding of the game's mechanics. Constant re-evaluation is needed to remain flexible with all decisions. Executing flex gaming is both challenging and exhausting and can therefore rarely be performed for a long time consecutively.
In contrast casual players fixate on a playstyle at the beginning of a game. This behavior is very common and can be explained by "escalating commitment". 'OTP's (one-trick-ponies) are the extreme opposite of flex gaming; they fixate on a playstyle already before a game.
Flex gaming requires high context awareness and a deep understanding of the game's mechanics. Constant re-evaluation is needed to remain flexible with all decisions. Executing flex gaming is both challenging and exhausting and can therefore rarely be performed for a long time consecutively.
In contrast casual players fixate on a playstyle at the beginning of a game. This behavior is very common and can be explained by "escalating commitment". 'OTP's (one-trick-ponies) are the extreme opposite of flex gaming; they fixate on a playstyle already before a game.
Did you see how I seemingly randomly changed my board in the middle of the game! It turned out great at the end, this was peak flex gaming.
by TheRealFrauHolle April 11, 2023
Get the flex gaming mug.Person A: "Oh man, I drank so much last night"
Person B: "Well I drank so much, I can't remember a thing and I'm pretty sure I threw up on my Mum."
Person A: "Dude, why you have to neg flex right now?"
Person B: "Well I drank so much, I can't remember a thing and I'm pretty sure I threw up on my Mum."
Person A: "Dude, why you have to neg flex right now?"
by Odear April 7, 2019
Get the Neg Flex mug.When someone name-drops philosophical and theoretical heavyweights in casual conversation, or babbles at length about some obscure academic idea. A form of showing off one's supposed intelligence. Associated with the pseudo-intellectual and mansplaining types.
at a party
Person 1: "You know, that movie reminds me of something Kant says in the Analytic of the Sublime...'"
Person 2: "I'm just trying to have a good time tonight. I don't need to hear your intellectual flexing."
Person 1: "You know, that movie reminds me of something Kant says in the Analytic of the Sublime...'"
Person 2: "I'm just trying to have a good time tonight. I don't need to hear your intellectual flexing."
by absolutelytheworst October 7, 2019
Get the intellectual flexing mug.by ieatbees November 2, 2020
Get the flex glue mug.To have Been busted with flexing fake clothes before, so whatever you Are flexing now is irrelevant.
by Magnuzilla February 22, 2018
Get the flex lock mug.Tokyo flex Is a racial slur for asians that are abused; hence the word (flex) the bung-hole is flexed so that the father cannot penetrate.
by Do you like nachos? November 8, 2018
Get the tokyo flex mug.The notion of disctracting from a lack of intellectualism by flexing your biceps to a bunch of right wing dumbf***s.
What? You want to hear what I actually know about politics even though I just went through my entire catalog of opinion pieces and buzz words?...
LEMME SHOW U THEM GUNS! *shapiro flexes bi- and/or triceps*
LEMME SHOW U THEM GUNS! *shapiro flexes bi- and/or triceps*
by massiveDmolition August 24, 2021
Get the Shapiro flex mug.