The Weasel Lexicon

For the sake of clarity, I shall elaborate on some terms that I've tossed around that some of you might not be familiar with.

Proder
n., v. - Shorthand for "preorder", created because "preorder" is hard to type sometimes. See also: prorder, a variant of preorder in which the first two vowel sounds are slurred together. Now deprecated due to my not prordering stuff anymore.

Dammit
int. - Commonly used in relation to the Phoenix Wright series of games. Original phrase: "Why? Because it's Phoenix Wright, dammit!" Now also applied to his successor, Apollo Justice, as well as anything related to Toribash. The Dammit tags are currently on hair-trigger, so they will be applied to posts even when there is only a passing mention.

Igi-ari!
int. - Japanese for "I object!" or "Objection!". Presumably used in the courtroom, but is also occasionally used at weddings. Obviously a pull-over from Phoenix Wright.

Bounty List/Targets of Opportunity List
n. - Refers to a list of games that I intend to search for. Typically the day before I go shopping for games at any retail establishment that I'm certain will be selling them, I do research on the Internet and take notes of games that I am interested in obtaining a copy of. I write these names down on my Bounty List. On the shopping day, I search specifically for those games, making mental notes of any I happen to find surrounding them. Later, I reward myself "points" for how many of them I managed to find and purchase. A variant can be found in the New System Deal List, where I come up with 10 system-exclusive games that will make buying a new game system worth it. Without this list, I refuse to buy a new system.

RAGE
n. - Stands for "Real Arcade Gaming Errge" (pronounced "urge"). When I've played so many emulated arcade games that I get the urge to find an arcade and play the actual machines. Somewhat lessened these days due to my access to several good machines as close as a few blocks away (especially pinball).

The Computers
ZEUS - The name of my Dell XPS 600. Not quite as majestic and powerful as it once was, but a video card upgrade later and it's at least able to play games without overheating. Now dual-boots Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux 8.10. While in Linux, it is referred to as Zeulin (Zeus-Linux).

Lord Greystoke - Also simply "Greystoke", refers to my Pentium 166 MHz DOS/Win95 machine. Was named for the grey desk that it once sat upon (and, kind of, the character by Edgar Rice Burroughs). Formerly named "Warhawk" by its previous owner. Greystoke's fate is presently unknown; all attempts to locate it have proven fruitless. Perhaps it found its way to the jungles of Africa.

Maniac - An IBM Aptiva 486 machine with attached Roland MT-32/MPU-401 MIDI processor. Named after one of the wingmen from Wing Commander. Really lacks RAM, and it can't run most of the stuff that actually supports the Roland. This one was received years ago as a gift from someone my mom used to work for, along with a stack of somewhat hard-to-find game discs (including Full Throttle) that, ironically, the computer can't even run. In 2004 I finally went into Autoexec and neutered all the IBM stuff off of it, making it boot much faster, but with minimal impact on the system's actual performance. Decommissioned as of 2008, with the advent of DOSBox. Now serves as a monitor stand.

Smith-Corona - Currently named for the brand of typewriter, this is the laptop that I bought at a garage sale. A 600 MHz with 128 MB of RAM and Windows 2000, capable of connecting to Wi-Fi and generally doing awesome shit like playing pinball.

WeasyMac - The horrible pun name of my Power Macintosh G3 Blue-and-White. Formerly came loaded with Mac OS X "Panther" 10.3.9, a 350 MHz G3 processor and 512 MB of RAM, but I found OS X to be rather slow and underwhelming and opted to replace it with OS 9.2.2 and slap another hard drive into it. No more Basilisk II or SheepShaver for me! Though I do have a desire to put OS X back on there later on as a dual-boot option, but I will only do so once I get one of those SonnetTech G4 upgrade cards ($300 - ten times as much as I paid for the computer itself). Not currently plugged in; I ran out of monitors and keyboards.

Silvermachine - The retro WinDOS machine, housed in a sweet silver aluminum case. It formerly contained blue LED lights, mercifully unplugged by its previous owner. Came equipped with a Pentium II 233 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, and a "mutilated" mouse. The mouse has since been replaced with another one with a mutilated USB-to-PS/2 adapter (the PS/2 port itself is mutilated), and I've also since added a 3Dfx Voodoo 2 to the mix - all the better to run Incoming!