nobody likes a know-it-all...

aum -

arbitrary unit of mass.

bunny-killer syndrome -

spending an inordinate amount of time killing pathetically weak creatures in the hopes of leveling up a character.

choko -

green, pear-shaped fruit of the American Sechium edule; aka chayote, christophene, mirliton.

Crawl -

cf. Linley's Dungeon Crawl.

dungeon crawl -

gaming tradition prone to (self-)parody where the primary goals are to explore dungeons, kill things, and take stuff.

Dungeon Crawl -

1) cf. Linley's Dungeon Crawl.

2) Dungeon Crawl Software, an electronic entertainment development company.

3) Dungeon Crawl game supplement for Risus: The Anything RPG.

4) Dungeon Crawl ruleset for the Piecepack board game system.

5) TSR Inc. trademark for a series of self-contained print adventures.

Iskenderun -

Turkey's principal port to the Mediterranean Sea; formerly Alexandretta.

Linley's Dungeon Crawl -

roguelike originated in 1995 by Linley Henzell.

lychee -

nutlike fruit of the Chinese Nephelium litchi; alt. spellings: leechee, lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi.

Maxwell's Silver Hammer -

song by The Beatles concerning Maxwell Edison, a medical student.

quokka -

small, herbivorous marsupial (Setonix brachyurus) common to Rottnest Island.

rambutan -

oval, red or yellow fruit of the Malayan Nephelium lappaceum; alt. spellings: ramboostan, rambotan.

rgra -

rec.games.roguelike.announce, a Usenet newsgroup.

rgrm -

rec.games.roguelike.misc, a Usenet newsgroup.

roguelike -

any computer game inspired to some degree by Rogue; alt. spelling: rogue-like.

snozzcumber -

partially edible item described by Roald Dahl in The BFG.

sultana -

dried seedless grape, often of yellow color; key ingredient to Kellogg's Sultana Bran.

Webaganda -

neologism; Web-based propaganda; apparently coined in a Usenet post to rec.travel.europe (Songbird, 28 September 1999); first explicit definition offered in a message to the babel-list email list (Stilltere, 14 September 2001) with reference to an audio essay, The Americans (Gordon Sinclair, 5 June 1973); you're reading the third-known usage of the term (7 February 2002).

Webiprocity -

neologism (7 February 2002); cooperative exchange of favors or privileges on the Web.

Young Poisoner's Handbook -

Benjamin Ross portrayal of Graham Frederick Young, aka Teacup Poisoner, Bovingdon Poisoner, St. Albans Poisoner.

YAPC -

Yet Another Promising Character; public expression of the belief that an active character may, in fact, achieve victory; like all beliefs, it is to be politely tolerated no matter how improbable or illogical.

YASD -

Yet Another Stupid Death; public notice of a favored character's unlikely, untimely, unwarranted, unthinking, or undeserved death; invariably the result of nefarious game design and/or player overconfidence.

YAVP -

Yet Another Victory Post; public notice of successful game completion; commonly met with suspicion, grudging respect, and/or awed silence.