When you go at least a week without shaving or combing your hair. You dress completely like Shit and look just out right awful. Then just before a big get together or meeting up with a girl you like, BAM!! You clean up real nice. The contrast from before and after makes you seem so much nicer.
John: Dude, you look like shit, You goin to that party lookin like that tonight?
Mike: Nah man, I'm goin for The BAM Effect
Mike: Nah man, I'm goin for The BAM Effect
by TreeBobJoe November 8, 2009
Get the The BAM Effect mug.A made up reason explaining some phenomenon. Has no real meaning, but is used as a placeholder for BS-ing, especially in computer science.
Sam: Dr. Plank, what causes those strange aberrations in your graph?
Dr. Plank: Don't worry Sam, those are just cache effects.
Dr. Plank: Don't worry Sam, those are just cache effects.
by BTreesEvryDay June 21, 2016
Get the cache effects mug.When a game creator takes a character they made super bitchy in their first appearance, and tries to make them super bad-ass for later appearances, but over-does it so much that they still seem super bitchy, just also over-powered. The original "Raiden Effect" of course being 'Raiden'c from MGS2, later to appear in MGS4 as a super bad-ass cyborg thing.
"Man, remember when Riku was a bitch in the first Kingdom Hearts game? He's got 'Raiden Effect' up the ass now." "Man, they took a weak whiny kid and made him the main character... The Raiden Effect strikes again."
by UekiKousuke April 22, 2013
Get the The Raiden Effect mug.A fallacy in which one recalls a movie or TV show from childhood thinking it was amazing, but upon rewatching it is actually terrible.
Named after the 1994 movie “North”.
Named after the 1994 movie “North”.
Adam experienced The North Effect when he rewatched “North” starring Elijah Wood. After rewatching it as an adult, Adam experienced severe disappointment after realizing the movie was in fact - fucking terrible.
by Atom1cMerlee February 13, 2022
Get the The North Effect mug.The DDR Effect adj.: a member of the male gender doing something thought to be totally 'uncool' in absolutely no attempt to get female attention, but yet attracting the eyes of every female in the room. Doing something your 'mates' would laugh and mock you for, but the female gender find quite 'adorable' or 'sweet' and therefore think of you as a sensitive guy and potential suitor.
those kids that are like massively awesome at ddr are the main inspiration for the ddr effect or guys that take their little siblings to a movie to get them out of their parent's hair for a while potray aspects of the ddr effect LOL. guys should totally try this. it's a total chick magnet :P
by Girllllllllll January 6, 2008
Get the the ddr effect mug.Many of us — mostly total strangers — remember the exact same events with the exact same details. However, our memories are different from what’s in history books, newspaper archives, and so on.
This isn’t a conspiracy, and we’re not talking about “false memories.” Many of us speculate that parallel realities exist, and we’ve been “sliding” between them without realizing it.
This isn’t a conspiracy, and we’re not talking about “false memories.” Many of us speculate that parallel realities exist, and we’ve been “sliding” between them without realizing it.
by Tyler Carreno November 30, 2016
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