An alternate title the noun "video game" (or "videogame"). Born from deluded ravings in the early morning in a Discord server, the term is used to confuse, complicate, muddle, jumble, over-complicate, garble, blur, obscure, cloud, etc. Works best if you actively deny your use of the word.
1.) "Hey, you done anything cool lately?"
2.) "Well, I recently purchased a really cool video horse called Wild Woody for my Sega CD."
1.) "A what?"
2.) "A video horse."
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.