Adapt-Gap

The inability to accept and grow along with technology and society.

Adapt-Gap: Insisting on paying bills with paper checks in today's modern age.

by CFBM May 11, 2024

Adaptness

Smug idiot who managed to get moderator on Minehut. I don't think I've ever actually seen him in-game, when I spend my time not being banned for the smallest of reasons.

Adaptness really needs to be reminded that he's not that funny.

by ihateminehutmods February 15, 2024

Adaptability

The stat that you must upgrade in Dark Souls 2. Also know as ADP

- I can't get past Old Iron King!

- Just level Adaptability bro i s w e a r.

by The Garlic Man March 16, 2024

Alien Adaptation

The biological, technological, or cultural changes a terrestrial organism (especially humans) must undergo to survive and thrive in a permanently alien environment. This goes beyond wearing a spacesuit; it's the profound, often irreversible alteration required to call an alien world home. This could mean genetic engineering for higher radiation tolerance, surgical implants to process a different atmospheric mix, or radical societal shifts to live under a foreign sun. It’s the process of ceasing to be purely Earth-born to become something new.

Example: In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, the first colonists undergoing Alien Adaptation include surgical changes to their eyes for the dimmer light, taking drugs to thicken their blood for low pressure, and, over generations, selective breeding for those who can breathe the thin air—eventually leading to a new, Martian-adapted human species distinct from Earthlings.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026