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  2. Voice chat in online gaming - Wikipedia

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    The widespread adoption of voice chat in online gaming has also led to several negative consequences. While voice chat has become a big hit in console games, [3] it also leads to problems such as griefing, cyberbullying, harassment, and scams. [9] [10] Voice chat has enabled a new level of toxicity and harassment in online gaming communities ...

  3. Netcode - Wikipedia

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    Netcode is a blanket term most commonly used by gamers relating to networking in online games, often referring to synchronization issues between clients and servers. Players often infer "bad netcodes" when they experience lag or when their inputs are dropped.

  4. Discord - Wikipedia

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    Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".

  5. Game server - Wikipedia

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    A game server (also sometimes referred to as a host) is a server which is the authoritative source of events in a multiplayer video game. The server transmits enough data about its internal state to allow its connected clients to maintain their own accurate version of the game world for display to players. They also receive and process each ...

  6. Gene knockdown - Wikipedia

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    Gene knockdown is an experimental technique by which the expression of one or more of an organism's genes is reduced. The reduction can occur either through genetic modification or by treatment with a reagent such as a short DNA or RNA oligonucleotide that has a sequence complementary to either gene or an mRNA transcript.

  7. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    cloud gaming A cloud gaming server runs the game, receiving controller input actions from and streaming audio and video to the player's thin client. cloud save The player's saved game is stored at a remote server. This may provide a backup, or enable access from a different game system. See also cross-save. clutch

  8. Gene silencing - Wikipedia

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    Gene silencing is often considered the same as gene knockdown. [3] [4] When genes are silenced, their expression is reduced. [3] [4] In contrast, when genes are knocked out, they are completely erased from the organism's genome and, thus, have no expression.

  9. Lag (video games) - Wikipedia

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    For the cloud gaming experience to be acceptable, the round-trip lag of all elements of the cloud gaming system (the thin client, the Internet and/or LAN connection the game server, the game execution on the game server, the video and audio compression and decompression, and the display of the video on a display device) must be low enough that ...