In video games: A process of overriding automatic saves by manually saving your game at points that may prove to be challenging or likely to lead to a death or a game over screen.
Save cycling can also be used to manipulate RNG in order to leave the player with a more favorable item pickup or enemy encounter, and is often done multiple times in a row.
Most importantly, this is not an intended use of the game-save feature and normally requires an exploit such as unlinking auto-save data (often a cloud save), so it cannot be automatically overwritten and requires manual intervention.
See also: save scumming
Save cycling can also be used to manipulate RNG in order to leave the player with a more favorable item pickup or enemy encounter, and is often done multiple times in a row.
Most importantly, this is not an intended use of the game-save feature and normally requires an exploit such as unlinking auto-save data (often a cloud save), so it cannot be automatically overwritten and requires manual intervention.
See also: save scumming
I just couldn't beat the third boss after going through the whole level again, so I save cycled just before the encounter and did it on my third try!
Save cycling was my only option to get the ultra rare spank emote; it took 100 tries, but I got the Platinum trophy!
Save cycling was my only option to get the ultra rare spank emote; it took 100 tries, but I got the Platinum trophy!
by JJSparx May 14, 2022
Get the Save Cyclingmug. He is a person who goes around London and harasses the drivers in London who were using their phones whilst stationary in traffic. He also got abused by his wife which was probably the main reason for him to harass these drivers. Many of his victims include: Chris Eubank SR and other high profile celebrities.
by yeyeyyeyeyeyeykanyehrhf June 13, 2025
Get the Cycling Mikeymug. When you tactically bat one out so that you'll last longer should you be lucky enough to get some action later on.
Joshephina: Wow, honey! You lasted much longer than your standard 45 seconds tonight.
Esteban: Yes, dear. I got my wank cycles right today in the hope of having prolonged sexual intercourse with you this evening. Thanks for noticing. Two minutes is a new record.
Esteban: Yes, dear. I got my wank cycles right today in the hope of having prolonged sexual intercourse with you this evening. Thanks for noticing. Two minutes is a new record.
by Handsome_Cat April 19, 2022
Get the wank cyclesmug. They/Them 1: this themstrural cycle is awful. I can't wait for it to run it's course
They/Them 2: this what?
They/Them 1: oh it's the best way to say menstrual cycle.
They/Them 2: But you were born a guy
They/Them 2: this what?
They/Them 1: oh it's the best way to say menstrual cycle.
They/Them 2: But you were born a guy
by Noremac1981 February 26, 2023
Get the Themstrural Cyclemug. The Cycle Mormons go through once a month that makes them become whiny pissbabies and UBER NPCs because they suck.
Derrek (Cringe mormon): "This sucks! I hate everything, all of you are just main characters!" *Slams table like the whiny bitch he is.*
Chad 1 (Not a mormon): "What's this beta male's problem?"
Chad 2 (Not a mormon): "Oh, it's his mormonstral cycle. It's like a menstrual cycle but for stupid mormons who love eating Josephussy Smithussy dingleberries."
Chad 1 (Not a mormon): "What's this beta male's problem?"
Chad 2 (Not a mormon): "Oh, it's his mormonstral cycle. It's like a menstrual cycle but for stupid mormons who love eating Josephussy Smithussy dingleberries."
by Mind_Goblin_:3 June 14, 2024
Get the Mormonstral Cyclemug. Originally the title of a book, Rust Cycle Tetralogy is a condition in which you feel as if you are being wiped from history piece by piece, slowly over the course of an extended period of time, until you are completely gone. Your friends will forget hanging out with you. Work you've done at your job will simply disappear. That lunch you made earlier and ate? It's back on the kitchen counter, untouched. "I think I'm beginning to disappear".
This condition was first recorded by Bernard Muse, a botanist who set out with the intent of recording and researching the rust cycle in wheat plants on a secluded farm in Utah. Over the course of the winter while trying to study and transcribe the wheat degradation cycle, he would start experiencing the symptoms listed above, and writing them down in his book "The Rust Cycle Tetralogy", which the condition is now named after. His book was found with other personal items when he failed to return home after the allocated time for his stay on the farm finished. Bernard was unfortunately never found.
While the condition does have some similarities to Dementia or other mental degradation diseases, it differs in the fact that other people seem to forget about things you said or did, instead of you yourself forgetting. This condition is speculated to cause a myriad of psychiatric damage to ones self, as you continue to second guess everything you think.
This condition was first recorded by Bernard Muse, a botanist who set out with the intent of recording and researching the rust cycle in wheat plants on a secluded farm in Utah. Over the course of the winter while trying to study and transcribe the wheat degradation cycle, he would start experiencing the symptoms listed above, and writing them down in his book "The Rust Cycle Tetralogy", which the condition is now named after. His book was found with other personal items when he failed to return home after the allocated time for his stay on the farm finished. Bernard was unfortunately never found.
While the condition does have some similarities to Dementia or other mental degradation diseases, it differs in the fact that other people seem to forget about things you said or did, instead of you yourself forgetting. This condition is speculated to cause a myriad of psychiatric damage to ones self, as you continue to second guess everything you think.
"Hey Bill! remember us going the Yankees game last Tuesday night? it was so crazy that they managed to comeback and win like that at the end!"
"What do you mean? After work I watched The Office for the whole evening."
"I think I'm suffering from a case of Rust Cycle Tetralogy"
"What do you mean? After work I watched The Office for the whole evening."
"I think I'm suffering from a case of Rust Cycle Tetralogy"
by Forest DweIIer July 28, 2023
Get the Rust Cycle Tetralogymug. The hydration experience. One must drink lots of water only to have to pee. Through urination, one loses the water and must continue to hydrate.
“Dude, I’m trying to drink more water but I have to use the bathroom all the time now!”
“Ah yes, the age-old Pissyphus Cycle…”
“Ah yes, the age-old Pissyphus Cycle…”
by casual nut enjoyer December 13, 2024
Get the Pissyphus Cyclemug.