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DEFINITION: v. To be so immersed in a virtual world that you forget about your responsibilities to the physical world -- like your job, your family, or even feeding and washing yourself. n. A person who lives exclusively in their imagination.
Verboticisms
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Driverational
Created by: peabodymat
Pronunciation: drive irrational
Sentence: He was in his driverational mode, being completely controlling and completely irrational.
Etymology:
Networerized
Created by: Ernie
Pronunciation: Net-Wor-Er-Ized
Sentence: I am online all day every day. I have been fully networerized.
Etymology:
Wippled
Created by: br0wn
Pronunciation: hwĭp'əld
Sentence: I can't go to the store because the (virtual world) has wippled me. This new fiber optic connection has turned me into a wipple.
Etymology: Web, cripple
Slobatronicated
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Slobb-a-tron-i-kay-ted
Sentence: Jerry had become so slobatronicated over the past few months spending so much time on his computer, playing games and contacting his online buddies, that he lost his job, all his real-life friends and his appearance resembled that of a tramp. The worst thing was, he was so engrossed in his cosy virtual world he had hardly noticed.
Etymology: Slob(behving in a slovenly manner) + electronic(relating to or carried out by means of a computer or other electronic device) = Slobatronicated
Laptrapped
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: lap/trap/ed
Sentence: Jenny was no different from many of her friends, laptrapped and totally emersed and esnared in her virtual world, fingers poised at her keyboard ready to discuss and solve all her friends' problems.
Etymology: LAPTRAPPED - verb - from LAPTOP (a portable, battery-powered computer small enough to rest on the user's lap) + TRAPPED (to ensnare, or capture and prevent from escaping, or getting free)
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COMMENTS:
LAPTRAPPED is good.Punchy, bold and dynamic. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-08: 15:46:00
For exercise she could always lap-dance! - Nosila, 2008-07-08: 19:35:00
So many excellent words today. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:31:00
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Microselfed
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: my - kro - selfd
Sentence: Jed was a difficult person to carry on a conversation with. He was so microselfed that he only imagined himself. He felt only truly alive as an avatar and ceased to belive in real friends; only imaginary ones sufficed now. In those few minutes that he did "look up" from his laptop, all we saw was a blank stare and no recognition that he knew who we were either.
Etymology: micro (microcomputer, Microsoft, self
Simsify
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: sims + ih + fie
Sentence: My Sim is about to finally have enough friends to get a better job, and you want me to worry about going to WORK? I'm a little too Simsified for that, my friend.
Etymology: Ever played The Sims?
Digirot
Created by: Kurisu
Pronunciation: 'di-ji&-rät'
Sentence: I had all kinds or real world responsibilities, but chose instead to digirot.
Etymology: Digital: of, relating to, or being data in the form of especially binary digits + Rot: to cause to decompose or deteriorate with or as if with rot
Interweblah
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: in-ter-web-blah
Sentence: Wikipedia is a huge time suck. You start off looking up useful information and four hours of interweblah later and you've ended up extensively editing an article about kitten foot warmers.
Etymology: interweb + blah
Ecivilated
Created by: jrinka
Pronunciation: e-civil-ated
Sentence: He's been ecivilated for months now.
Etymology: electronic, civilization
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short story "Anda's Game" which is published in Overclocked. It was also suggested by HubbMU.
Thank you Cory and HubbMU! ~ James
Weeklink rants again and uncovers a few lost words from last week's verbacious verbuttle. Read: The Cup of Verbotomy, Part Deux.
HubbMU - 2007-05-08: 10:08:00
Thanks for using my definition!
Thank you HubbMu. It's a great definition. A lot of people can relate to it -- especially if they are gamers or bloggers. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-05-08: 12:52:00
Great to see all the new Verbotomists!
ECLUSIONIST is pretty good.
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James
cybersloth - 2010-01-02: 06:40:00
I would like to rebut your comments on the definition of cybersloth seen here (http://www.verbotomy.com/verbottle.php?jargonism_id=6790). 'cybersloth' is methodical and accurate, knows what move to make but it may take time. Not the friend of the impatient. From a theological view point I feel that you are free to think what you will about any subject; however you must be careful because all actions have consequences. Luckily I am not easily offended. I believe that I am not the only cybersloth, I may be the only one that is spelt exclusively with all lower case. By the way, I don’t use social networking sites and spend more time working on local resources both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’, if this does not make sense to you………. cybersloth. 02-01-2010