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Hey people,

What is powergamer?And what is alpha strike?

What do they mean?

And it would be nice if you can put other definitions of other words here

Thanks

Alpha Strike: Jetcraft bombing run. In gaming, it came to mean hitting first and hitting hard. In
Battletech, for instance, it meant you were unloading all your guns at once at a single target.

Powergamer: Someone whose goal is to win his games, often at the expense of theme or
army aesthetic.

Alpha Strike, in a 40k sense anyway, is to have an army that relies on getting the first turn and hitting really, really, hard, crippling a large portion of the enemy force on Turn 1 so that it cannot effectively strike back.

Gwar! wrote:Alpha Strike, in a 40k sense anyway, is to have an army that relies on getting the first turn and hitting really, really, hard, crippling a large portion of the enemy force on Turn 1 so that it cannot effectively strike back.

Tactics! Against which your opponent's defense is to deploy deeper in the deployment
zone...and get shot next turn.

Tony The Guardsman wrote:
...And it would be nice if you can put other definitions of other words here

Cool, no problem.

'Dog' - Small, four-legged mammal of the canine variety. Not a cat.

'Orange' - Like a satsuma, but bigger.

'Philatelist' - Someone who collects postage stamps. Usually great fun at parties.


Hope this helps.

LOL,that helped Albatross,thanks
But why do you say dogs are small?Some of them are half-a-human size


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You could've said not as big as humans,but you can't call them small
Small describes a bird or a miniature

Dogs are smaller than ponies.

malfred wrote:Dogs are smaller than ponies.

And ponies are smaller than outhouses, usually.


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I forgot:

Osmosis: The diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane.

Drug: anything ingested, other than a food, that can change the way a person's mind or body works.

Oh oh! I know!

Outhouse: A type of toilet in a small structure separate from the main building which does not have a flush and is not attached to a sewer.

Caterpillar: The larval form of a member of the order Lepidoptera.

moving on to the S's . . .

Sanguinius: n., Primarch of the Red Space Marines, notable for appearances in Castlevania series of video games

sapphic: adj., utterly awesome gayness (amirite?), see also Adepta Sororitas; do not confuse with seraphic

servitor: n., sales person at GW store, syn. redshirt

sissified: adj., the awesome Eldar paint scheme you were sure was going to be awesome (it was awesome dammit!)

Space Marines: n., the army you play in 40k

Squats: +++BY ORDER OF THE HOLY INQUISITION DELETED+++

SWOOSH: 1. n., as in "RAARK-pop-SWOOSH-thud-KRUMP"; that part of the process of firing a boltgun whereupon the individual round ignites, 2. n., in the same context, the onamonapiac word describing the sound of said bolt igniting, 3. n., a symbol of Tiger Wood's pain, regret, and ultimate growth as a son, husband, and athelete (now buy some goddamn shoes)

Osmosis can be used the same way as consume right?

And anyone know what Chifforobe means?

Tony the guardsman wrote:Osmosis can be used the same way as consume right?

And anyone know what Chifforobe means?

Are we doing your HW >.< just asking so i dont feel cheated lol

No,as the OP,it was about alpha strike and powergamer,I would be happy if Im learning this in school

Although it did come into this conversation that involves vocab

I was just kidding ^^;

Ares we tryins ta expand our vocabullary?

nah, that's what this is for:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/290529.page

This thread was created first though

Tony the guardsman wrote:Osmosis can be used the same way as consume right?

No.

Tony the guardsman wrote:
And anyone know what Chifforobe means?

An armoire with an attached chest of drawers.



Antidisestablishmentarianism: A political position defined by its opposition to the dissolution of the Church of England.

Titin: The largest know protein. Its chemical name is 189,819 letters long.

Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoio­siraiobaphetraganopterygon: n., a sort of one-person Greek buffet (according to Aristophanes)

Onomatopoeia: 1. Words that are spelt the same way they sound eg. the aforementioned SWOOSH. 2. The best technical term to talk about when writing an essay for English as you can literally make most of it out of nothing with little to no effort.

Reminds me of the HSC, you actually felt smart for weeks afterwards on stuff like msn because most of your sentences had 4-5 syllable words and near perfect grammar... and so did the other person's sentences

Nostalgia: A yearning for the past, usually in an idealized form.

Nostalgia in my day was much better than yours.

Defenestration: The act of throwing someone out of/through a window.