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DEFINITION: A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players.

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Notential

Created by: FreeToys

Pronunciation: no - ten' - shul

Sentence: I'm sorry Mrs. Jones, since Bobby has been unable to grasp anything but joystick skills, we're afraid he has notential.

Etymology: no / potential

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Pixelepsy

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: piks-uhl-ep-see

Sentence: He didn't smell the pot roast, nor hear his mother calling him for dinner - David was obviously on the computer suffering from a bout of pixelepsy.

Etymology: pixel, epilepsy

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COMMENTS:

I like it. It particularly conveys the Whole Body Twitching which I completely failed to incorporate into my own word. - Nettle, 2007-09-13: 10:08:00

Great word! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 16:38:00

Suddenly I become pixi-led. Nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-13: 20:08:00

Me likey. Funny, descriptive, sounds real.Goes with the graphic quite nicely as well. - ScrabbledEgg, 2007-09-14: 23:51:00

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Vidgamerstate

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: vid-geym-ur-steyt

Sentence: Ritalin was the only medication that curbed his vidgamerstating behaviour and allowed him to sleep the night. It also halted his evening ritual of tearing apart his bed and using its wooden pieces to beat holes in the wall.

Etymology: vid (short for video)+ gamer + state (as in a particular condition of mind or feeling)

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Obwiiviousness

Created by: trioptimum

Pronunciation: ob-WEE-vee-uhs-ness

Sentence: Wil had to be jolted out of his obwiiviousness by a friend, who grabbed him and politely pointed out the piercing sound of the fire alarm.

Etymology: obliviousness + wii (I hate every single one of the thousands of 'wii' puns that have plagued the games industry for the past few months, so please make me pay for my hypocrisy by not voting for me)

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COMMENTS:

I had to look up what Wii was. So your Wii-ism seems pretty fresh to me! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:59:00

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Pacmannerism

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: pack-MANner-ism

Sentence: Colby's pacmannerism had worsened considerably since the 1980s. It had evolved into captaincomicalysis, but it seemed he always had a frogger in his throat.

Etymology: Pacman + mannerism

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COMMENTS:

I'm old enough to remember Pacman but I had to look up what Wii was! lol - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:53:00

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Autogamenchorea

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: au-to-gam-en-KOR-ee-ah

Sentence: Mike's autogamenchorea prevented him from hearing the timer on the pot stickers that were cooking on the stove and soon the apartment was filled with smoke.

Etymology: auto-(Greek: self, same, spontaneous; directed from within. Used as in autism). gamen (Old English: root of Game) -chorea (Greek: dance; in medicine, it is used to denote a nervous disorder)

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Twiiking

Created by: torpid

Pronunciation: tweeking

Sentence: After buzzing Billy's apartment five times, the pizza deliveryman returned home, not realizing that Billy was there, but twiiking, and thus unable to hear the doorbell.

Etymology: tweak/tweaking (meth and other drug user's hyperactivity) + wii

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