Machinari

A game involving one to seven roles.

Optimizer – The one who maximizes efficiency and gets things running smoothly.

Combat (Mental) – Focused on strategic thinking and mental “fights,” like psychological or intellectual challenges.

Tactician – Plans moves ahead, sees patterns, predicts others’ behavior.

Specialist – Has a niche skill set that’s unique and high-level.

Instigator – Sparks reactions, manipulates situations, or provokes others.

Empath – Reads people’s emotions, senses subtle cues, understands motives.

Watcher/Listener – Observes quietly, gathers information, notices things others miss.

Machinari - Latin translation - "to plan"

The game is more of a type of psychological chess in the way that a person plays one of the roles listed above in day-to-day conversations and activities.

While it can imply manipulation, it often mean ogidni, or a type of "socially acceptable manipulation", with no intentions of malice.

It was/is originally played between two or more people by setting up a false scenario and using real world logic to get to a goal in the conversation.

Machinari is one of the only games you might play on a daily basis and not realize it.

Machinari by IndigoEmpleh February 26, 2026

the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma 

One of the greatest qoutes from the wisest mind of our generation. Other qoutes by him include "Who you calling Pinhead!" and "FINLAAAAAND!!!!". Genius.

Patrick- You may be an open book Spongebob, but I am a bit more complicated than that. The Inner Machinations of my mind are an enigma. (thought bubble appears showing the milk following down as the downfall of society, and how it screwed itself over by the fact that the milk fell by itself. The cloth resembles the high class of society, which carries the milk (society) and gets corrupted by the milk. The enigma is what caused the milk to fall in the first place? This some deep shit patrick)

the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma by DROOOSE!!! January 22, 2012

Deus Ex Machina 

Dates from ancient Greek times, where "deus ex machina" ("god from the machine") in a play referred to the act of lowering a god on stage using a cable device (therefore, a god from a machine) to decide in a dilemma and give fate a nudge, so to say.

These days, deus ex machina has the negative connotation of an utterly improbable, illogical or baseless plot twist that drastically alters the situation, as if the "deus ex machina" came down to give fate that little push.

I liked the movie, but the ending was total crap...they could've come up with a better way to beat the villain than the deus ex machina ending of that guy miraculously coming back to life.

Deus Ex Machina by Fluid October 10, 2003

Deus Ex Machina 

1. An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel.

2. A bullshit way of saving a character in a movie, novel, or play.

1. Man- The bet Peter made in the end of Dodgeball: An Underdog Story is such bullshit Deus Ex Machina!

2. The whole "love" thing from Harry Potter.

Deus Ex Machina by I Like Llamas September 26, 2015

everto ex machina 

The opposite of Deus Ex Machina. Translates to "the demon machine." Occurs in movies when a good guy is killed for no reason.

"Damn, Sam Jackson totally got the Everto Ex Machina in Deep Blue Sea."

everto ex machina by His_Name_Is_Zabo December 22, 2007

Penis Ex Machina 

From Deus Ex Machina, A Penis Ex Machina is when a sex scene is unnecessarily dropped into the plot of an otherwise decent film or story in order to boost the ratings.

Some sex scenes are vital to plot, but this describes only when they blatantly serve no relevant purpose to the story-telling.

Alternatively, it can be used to describe a twist in the plot of a pornographic film in order to bring about the vital sex scene. When a girl in the plot is constantly refusing sex, and then something triggers her suddenly to lust after the male protagonist, this is a Penis Ex Machina.

Person 1: "I heard the movie we're going to has a spicy sex scene!"

Person 2: "Is it part of the plot, or does it come about through Penis Ex Machina?"

Penis Ex Machina by OzzyOswalt July 13, 2009

deuce ex machina

For all those times you were stuck on the john hoping against hell for that number 2 to just slide out nice and easy and end your misery, this would be the expression used.

Inspired by deus ex machina or basically the idea of a god coming down from the sky to end the story.

"Where is a deuce ex machina when you need one? My meeting starts in five minutes!"

"OMG. It must have been by the sweet atoning grace of a deuce ex machina that I passed that shit."

Ex-Lax is the pill form of the deuce ex machina.

deuce ex machina by shizzinator March 31, 2010