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Old School Gaming

Old School Gaming is the way that real Old School Gamers play The One True Game the Original Dungeons & Dragons in the real authentic old school way. This is the only legitimate application of the term Old School Gaming.
Old School Gaming is not a term that applies in any way to video games.
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Salt your Game

To compromise, sabotage, or interfere with ones 'game'. Game in this context refers typically to scoring, as in sex or in a sport but it could refer to any activity.

It probably derives from salting the earth to prevent growth.
"Step off when I'm making my move or you'll salt my game."

"Don't do it while you're nervous or it will salt your game."
by Eater of Kittens February 2, 2009
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five finger game

An icebreaker game in which one person shamelessly admits five core traits that make them who they are to a complete stranger.
Girl: want to play the five finger game?
Me: sure. I'm ambitious, driven, afraid of disappointing people, slow to relax, and friendly.
by The Man.. February 12, 2014
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JSA Points Game

Otherwise known as the Elistist game, the goal of the JSA points game is to hook up with people at conferences to score points. The higher position someone holds, the more points they are worth. (Founded in the ORV)
Dude, I just hooked up with the PNW governer for ten points! I'm so good at the JSA Points Game!
by actdir January 8, 2010
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Big game fever

BGF stands for Big Game Fever. Wich means the act of wanting a program to do everything, but never finishing it.
<NoelCower> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ <- Awesome compiler.

<misterx> that compiler is too big game fever
by dogzerx December 9, 2008
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Big game fever

BGF stands for Big Game Fever. Wich means the act of wanting a program to do everything, but never finishing it.
<NoelCower> http://fabrice.bellard.fr ee.fr/tcc/ <- Awesome compiler.

<misterx> that compiler is too big game fever
by Dogzer, you know me December 12, 2008
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glass bead game

An activity or field of study so arcane and detached from, and with no application to, the real world that it is rendered absurd. E.g., theology, analytic/linguistic philosophy.

A waste of one's time.

Refers to the recondite game studied and played in the Herman Hesse novel, The Glass Bead Game.
Synonymous idiom: Ivory Tower
The theologians contemplating how many angels can fit on the head of a needle is mere glass bead game.

The study of astrology is a glass bead game.

Postmodernist philosophy is a glass bead game.

Don't waste my time with your Eco-feminist glass bead game.
by Shawlatan September 1, 2014
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