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  2. Video game exploit - Wikipedia

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    In video games, an exploit is the use of a bug or glitch, in a way that gives a substantial unfair advantage to players using it. [1] However, whether particular acts constitute an exploit can be controversial, typically involving the argument that the issues are part of the game, and no changes or external programs are needed to take advantage of them.

  3. Cheating in online games - Wikipedia

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    An aimbot or autoaim is a type of computer game bot most commonly used in first-person shooter games to provide varying levels of automated target acquisition and calibration to the player. They are sometimes used along with a triggerbot, which automatically shoots when an opponent appears within the field-of-view or aiming reticule of the player.

  4. Macro virus - Wikipedia

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    A macro virus can be spread through e-mail attachments, removable media, networks and the Internet, and is notoriously difficult to detect. [1] A common way for a macro virus to infect a computer is by replacing normal macros with a virus. The macro virus replaces regular commands with the same name and runs when the command is selected.

  5. List of video game genres - Wikipedia

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    Games with open or free-roaming worlds typically lack level structures like walls and locked doors, or the invisible walls in more open areas that prevent the player from venturing beyond them; only at the bounds of an open-world game will players be limited by geographic features like vast oceans or impassible mountains. Players typically do ...

  6. Image macro - Wikipedia

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    Originally started with a snowy owl photograph (which is the classic O RLY image macro), [6] it spread out over the Web quickly and was followed by other macros that convey a wide range of emotions. Another style of image macro that has amassed its own separate subculture is the " lolcat ", an image combining a photograph of a cat with text ...

  7. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    The practice of creating a game using 'free' art and audio assets, either from an online marketplace or the default stock of assets included with many game engines. Asset-flips are often of very poor quality designed to catch onto a currently popular theme to turn a quick profit. It mimics the practice of flipping in real estate markets.

  8. Macro (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    An anaphoric macro is a type of programming macro that deliberately captures some form supplied to the macro which may be referred to by an anaphor (an expression referring to another). Anaphoric macros first appeared in Paul Graham's On Lisp and their name is a reference to linguistic anaphora—the use of words as a substitute for preceding ...

  9. WannaCry ransomware attack - Wikipedia

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    Alias: Transformations: Wanna → Wana; Cryptor → Crypt0r; Cryptor → Decryptor; Cryptor → Crypt → Cry; Addition of "2.0" Short names: Wanna → WN → W