Deus Ex Machina

Literally "God from the machine", Deus Ex Machina originally referred to Greek plays, where the "gods" would be lowered onto the stage in order to provide a quick resolution to the story. Today, Deus Ex Machina refers to any improbably and/or overly convenient character or mechanism that comes out of nowhere saves the character(s) from their doom.

For a hilarious send-up of Deus Ex Machina, check out the spaceship scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

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openGL

A graphical API produced by Silicon Graphics that is platform independent, unlike Direct3D. It is also much easier to program 3D applications with, do to the absence of Microsoft Code.

If one wants to learn 3D programming, they should learn OpenGL.

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God works in mysterious ways

An ad hoc hypothesis thrown up by Christians when confronted with intractable contradiction in their absurd belief system. It is nothing more than a veiled confession of ignorance from someone who will say anything rather than question or confront their beliefs. When arguing with a believer, hearing this usually means you've won the debate.

"How can an all-loving god condemn so many people to eternal torment in hell?"
"Simple, god gave us a choice to either accept him or reject him."
"But if God cares so much about us, then why does he need to coerce our devotion with the threat of torture? So why doesn't God reveal himself and warn us about it? Why doesn't he set the non-believers straight? Is our having faith so important to him that he's willing to let millions of people be condemned?"
"Uh...God works in mysterious ways!"

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LOMAC

LOad of Maddening Asinine Crap, otherwise known as Lock On: Modern Air Combat.

A jocular flight sim that is a prime indicator of the sorry state of PC flight sims. Despite the fact that it has no real campaign system, ludicrous system requirements, a lack of detailed avionics modelling, a poorly-coded graphics engine, and more bugs than the Brazilian rainforest, it is still championed by some as the "king of military flight sims" by people who have never played Falcon 4.0

Flight Simmer 1: Hey, have you placed LOMAC?
Flight Simmer 2: No way, I refuse to poison my computer with that shit.

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SSE

Streaming SIMD Extensions. A set of instructions that Intel introduced with the Pentium III that allow one instruction to operate on multiple pieces of data.

I made my program run with SSE! w00t!

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lemon

A pornographic fanfiction that consists of almost nothing but explicit, usually badly-written, sex scenes. This is the kind of stuff that gives all fan fic authors a bad name.

Some idiot fangirl has a whole bunch of lemons on her website.

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childfree

Also known as "childfree by choice," childfree simply means not wanting children and having no desire to take on the burdon of parenthood. The term "childfree" should not be confused with "childless" as that implies a person or couple who desires children but has none. Unfortunately, childfree people are often accused of being selfish (as if having a child that's just another burden on society somehow ISN'T selfish), or "unnatural."

Going childfree means real freedom.

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