A genre of fiction that encompasses works with supernatural or futuristic elements.
The most notable genres of speculative fiction include fantasy, science fiction, horror, utopian, dystopian, alternate history, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, superhero and supernatural
The word "speculative fiction" was coined by American sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein
When playing a game shooting game, like like the call of duty series, and throwing a grenade as far as you can in the general direction of where the enemy might be in the hope of it being especially lucky and killing someone. Ccan also be done with a tomahawk on call of duty black ops, know as a speculative tomahawk. either can be shortened to spec tommy or spec genade.
A physics engine setting that forces developers to speculate for weeks about mysterious collision bugs, when the solution was literally just setting it to 0.0 the whole time.
The amount of time you'll spend debugging phantom collisions before discovering this setting.
"Dude, I spent a month debugging microbumps in my voxel game. Turns out it was just Speculative margin. I'm never trusting physics engines again."
"My player kept bouncing on flat surfaces and I thought I was losing my mind. Classic case of Speculative margin syndrome."
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.
Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
A "human" that spends so much time playing video games that their posture is level nerd neck. Everytime anyone goes tryhard they hunch down and their neck gets longer there fore a nerd neck is always hunched down cause they're always going try hard. In other words a nerd neck is a try hard, since their neck is 100% longer than the average human being due to playing too many video games and taking them serious, nerd necks are not even considered human anymore but something more sad. Nerd necks are often found on fortnite, their natural habitat usually being tilted towers.