The Real Driller's definitions

short answer

Any question on an exam that isn't multiple choice or matching. This is every student's worst nightmare and is the most common reason they fail, partly because they have no idea what to write down.

I failed the exam because every question was short answer.

by The Real Driller October 30, 2023

Nippon Ichi

Basically the Japanese version of Electronic Arts (or EA). They were a once great company who started turning to crap in the 2010s. This all started when they would localize licensed games based on anime, manga, and doujin franchises, only to degrade them. Things started getting bushier when they began licensing anime titles with no dubs.

Konata: Hey, did you get Touhou Gensou Rondo?
Susumu: No, that's a crappy Nippon Ichi game. I heard they pulled an LJN on it when localizing it for North America. Basically a long tutorial, bad backgrounds, and nobody online. I'm gonna get the AVGN to review this.

by The Real Driller September 8, 2017

study guide

Pointless sheets of paper that contain information that you obviously know won't be on a quiz or test.

Kyle: Dude, are you going to go to Florida this spring break?
Chris: No, I can't. The teacher that nobody likes assigned me a six-page study guide to complete over spring break. It's awful.

by The Real Driller February 5, 2023

reading assignment

Something that teachers assign nearly every night. Students don't usually give a crap and read the assigned material, only to be in shock when there's a quiz on it the next day. On Rate My Professors, they can easily be denoted if they have the Get Ready to Read tag.

I heard our new teacher's a really tough grader. He puts out reading assignments every class and ends up quizzing you on it the next day.

by The Real Driller November 19, 2023

church parents

Parents who ruin your life on a weekly basis by signing you up for or taking you to crap you don't want. This includes them buying tickets to events you don't care about and they force you into them, ruining your life in every way possible when you can normally be enjoying your own leisure.

If you have a break from school (such as summer or winter), your parents are almost guaranteed to screw it up. This includes planning a vacation over your entire break, essentially making it wasted by the time your break is over.

Kyle: Dude, my spring break was wasted because my stupid church parents planned a vacation on it, taking me to stuff I had no interest in.
Chris: Aww, that sucks crap. Next break, do you want to spend it all with me and play Smash all the way?
Kyle: Why, yes.

by The Real Driller July 6, 2021

sakoku

Japanese word for 'closed country', refers to any country closed to foreigners and foreign influence. Was the name of the policy enacted by the Tokugawa Shogunate.

North Korea is one example of a sakoku country that still exists.

by The Real Driller October 11, 2021

desk banger

The term used when you work on a project with the first part taking so much time or effort whereas the rest of the project taking less time thanks to the frameworks you established.

When I work on a Touhou-style game, the first stage is almost always a desk banger.

by The Real Driller August 9, 2023