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DEFINITION: n. A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players. v. To get so caught up in a video game that you cannot stop.
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Simpnosis
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: simp-no-sis
Sentence: Often when people are in a state of simpnonsis, they can respond to attempted interactions with grunts or autmatic answers but don't actually process what is being said to them.
Etymology: from hypnosis + the sims
Sloshatic
Created by: edotanonymous
Pronunciation: Slaw-shuh-tick
Sentence: Despite our 24-hour Call of Duty binge, the crunched-into-the-rug Cheetos and beer stained carpet revealed the sloshatic I had become.
Etymology: Slosh - to agitate/spill -atic - pertaining to the nature of
Geekilepsy
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: geek-i-lepp-si
Sentence: His geekiplesy made him miss what Pulaski wanted to do to his sister.
Etymology: From "geek" meaning pathetic loser who spends too much time in front of a computer (such as myself) and "epilepsy".
Gamezombie
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: gaim-zom-bee
Sentence: As deeply immersed as he was in Zelda, he never noticed his girlfriend leaving, nor missing work. Or eating for that matter. He was a complete gamezombie, and would soon be seen roaming the web, muttering: gaaaimes.....gaaaaaaaaaaames...
Etymology: When you are playing like that, you don't notice anything, and just reply Mhpf, to anything. and always looking for the next game. ;) I am definetively a gamezombie myself!
Consolepsy
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: kon-soh-lehp-say
Sentence: Janet could only hope that Michael would outgrow his juvenile consolepsy...even if, at 36, it seemed unlikely.
Etymology: console + epilepsy/narcolepsy
Videosyncrasies
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: vidēəsingkrəsēz
Sentence: Most people have a particular way of playing their video games. For most it is subtle, maybe a tilt of the head or grunt that accompanies a certain action. For Andrew, it’s much more than that. His collection of videocyncrasies makes it almost impossible for anybody to play with him in person. The local video cafe once called 911 thinking he was having a seisure.
Etymology: video [game] (a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen) + idiosyncrasy (a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual)
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COMMENTS:
love it - galwaywegian, 2011-02-21: 04:45:00
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Ninzendo
Created by: ShaggE
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Hugh was in a state of utter Ninzendo while playing his Wii."
Etymology: Zen + Nintendo.
Wiivulsion
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: wee vull shun
Sentence: Terry was in a full state of wiivulsion which nobody was going to be able to get him out of for several hours.
Etymology: from the wii and convulsion for the twitching and compulsion for the not being able to seperate from it.
Simdrone
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: sim + drone
Sentence: The original diagnosis was acronymosis, but it became clear from his concentration on the console that he had simdrone brought on by extensive use of Sims for PS2, manifesting in a constant moaning about the characters and game commands accompanied by tics.
Etymology: Syndrome (a set of symptoms) + Sims (simulation video game) + drone (continuous noise)
Gamertrance
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: gay-mer-trance
Sentence: Corey was out of it, he had been playing the game for a long time and now he was in a gamertrace and unable to focus on anything else.
Etymology: gamer (one who plays games) + trance (a state of reduced aweness sometimes marked by intense focus)
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COMMENTS:
I wanted to suggest something like this, but I was way to slow ;) - allwise, 2007-03-16: 04:43:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009.
Thank you Lucyof2009! ~ James
wii - this is fun.
wordmeister - 2007-03-16: 08:35:00
Yes, it's exboxellent!
Discoveria - 2007-03-16: 14:26:00
Please, exercise some selfconsole!
Osomatic - 2007-03-16: 18:20:00
Nintendon't go there.
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009. Thank you Lucyof2009. ~ James