Adjective use definition: Being out of the ordinary in the sense that you live in a development, are very lazy, and are always looking for products and services that are convenient to you, but are just stupid or a waste of time for others. Noun use definition: A development person, or a group of townhouses, row homes, or homes in a caldesac or small area. These homes are usually poorly made and each one can be described as a cardboard cutout of the previous one.
(Adjective). 1. After Tim showed up to the movies in grey sweatpants, his friends laughed at him and said it was very development. 2. Frank claimed to have made homemade crab cakes, but in all reality they were development because he used canned prepared crabmeat. 3. I wish everyone would stop being so development and just give up their ranch dressing obsession.
(Noun). 1. I live in a development where all the houses are the same, and all my neighbors have balconies above their windows purely for show and not for any practical use. 2. That development person is so wasteful, they threw out all the leftovers from thanksgiving dinner, because they assumed if they got hungry they could just go buy more food.
Development Hell is a place where video games take to long in development. Development Hell can be used for any book, film, or project announced or rumored never finished, confirmed finished, or unreleased to the public. Even when the project is finished it is still remembered for it's time such as Mad Max Fury Road might have been an anime movie or Duke Nukem Forever.
Half Life 3 is in Development Hell. We can only hope it is eventually released.
Development Tourette's was once considered a rare and bizarre syndrome, often seen in Computer Programmers and Software Engineers. Most often it is associated with the exclamation of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks while engrossed in an especially crap piece of code. Usually sufferers are unaware that they are actually talking outloud.
An annoyed programmer with Development Tourettes will often be found randomly swearing and screaming at their computer, in such a state of rage that they will not realise they are saying anything.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.