When you're playing a video game and the matchmaking puts the absolute worst shitheads on your team, you have been Menked. Named after celebrity Dr. Joshua Menke, the Lead Engagement Designer for Halo 5 and all the terrible matches he's caused after implementing TrueSkill2.0. Excuses he'll use to justify the matchmaking: "Even though their rank is plat and they played like a silver, their mmr is actually onyx," "The population of that playlist was too low, so the mm expanded the parameters and just happened to put everyone bad on your team" and "It's working as intended"
Gamer1: I was doing great! Dropping a 30 bomb! But I got Menked!!!! Each teammate went neg 15! Can you believe it?
Gamer2: Yeah dude, I was getting Menked all last night. Makes me hate Halo these days...
(In football/soccer): to beat your opponent in a one-on-one contest by tapping the ball between his legs and running around him before he/she has realized what happened.
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 flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.