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raytracing

To watch, monitor, or keep a close eye on someone, especially without them realising — like they're being tracked. From the Roblox game Doors, where the entity Rush uses raytracing to detect and kill the player if it spots them.
"Don't talk during class, the teacher's been raytracing us all period."
"Bro stop raytracing me, I know you're watching."
raytracing by theuncancelable September 11, 2026

Ray Tracing 

A computer graphics rendering technique that simulates real-world lighting by simulating light rays being emitted. The rendering starts from the camera and then outward. The result is an image with real-world lighting. This method takes a lot of processing power. It can take a long time to render a single frame on low to mid-end computers.

Ever since NVIDIA released their RTX GPUs, real-time ray tracing is possible now. This caused ray tracing to increase in popularity and is now used in some video games such as Minecraft and Quake II RTX. Due to ray tracing requiring a lot of power, this is only available for high-end GPUs (high-end GeForce or 20 series).

Ray tracing has all of the features in modern game graphics but has much more accurate and real-world like lighting:
Ambient occlusion
Godrays
High quality reflections (phong falls under this too)
High quality shadows
Soft shadows
This game looks really good with ray tracing.
I used ray tracing to render my film.
Ray Tracing by BigBoi Gaming January 16, 2020

Ray Tracing 

person1: Dude have you tried Minecraft with ray tracing?
person2: Yeah, my GPU had a meltdown!
Ray Tracing by cdsdsa February 26, 2022

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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.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
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Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
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