alias

Another name that people use to disguise themselves. This can be done anywhere, but is usually online because it is hard to identify someone's true name except through their IP address, which isn't foolproof.

Variations on the word are aliasing, the present tense verb form, and aliaser, referring to the actual person hiding behind their false name, whose identity will never change (in online situations).

Aliasing is frowned upon because people may think that you're a new person, or in small-community games where everybody knows everybody, possibly even cheating. People like to get to know a regular client's personality, and develop a friendship or rivalry with them. Aliasing disrupts this, since you never know if you're talking with friend or foe.

That guy...He must be using an alias.

I think Bob is here, but he's aliasing.

The aliaser is aliasing if he uses an alias.

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Urban Terror

A Quake3 mod, sometimes abbreviated to UrT (because UT is already taken by Unreal Tournament). Do me a favor and go to ns-co.net instead.

Navy Seals - Covert Operations is better than UrT

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Gunbound

A very cool online Korean game that's kind of a mix between Worms and Scorched Earth.

Go to www.gunbound.net and www.gunbound-hq.com to see what it's all about!

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catchall

1. Someone's last name
2. Where a baseball player, or team (though rarely), catches every ball hit to him.

1. John Catchall
2. The baseball game ended last night 26-0 with a catchall.

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palindrome

A word that is spelled the same backwards as it is forwards, such as Kerrek or Radar

Kerrek and Radar are palindromes

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horned

The state of having giant, usually bone, thingamajigers coming out of your head. Not to be confused with horny.

Did you see the horned goat? It had horns!

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brownie points

Recognition for a good, but non-useful suggestion or effort

He failed miserably, but earned brownie points for trying.

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