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  2. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    The player-character falling into this void typically results in an instant death (and the loss of a life) for the player, regardless of how much health the character had; although some games may instead take away a percentage of the character's health before respawning them nearby. Bottomless pits can also serve as obstacles that can be ...

  3. End Poem - Wikipedia

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    Wikisource has original text related to this article: End Poem (full text) The end credits of the video game Minecraft include a written work by the Irish writer Julian Gough, conventionally called the End Poem, which is the only narrative text in the mostly unstructured sandbox game. Minecraft's creator Markus "Notch" Persson did not have an ending to the game up until a month before launch ...

  4. Konami Code - Wikipedia

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    The Konami Code. The Konami Code (Japanese: コナミコマンド, Konami Komando, "Konami command"), also commonly referred to as the Contra Code and sometimes the 30 Lives Code, is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, [1] as well as some non-Konami games.

  5. Command-line completion - Wikipedia

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    Commands with long or difficult to spell filenames can be entered by typing the first few characters and pressing a completion key, which completes the command or filename. In the case of multiple possible completions, some command-line interpreters, especially Unix shells, will list all possible completions beginning with those few characters.

  6. Magic string - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of some known incidents where use of a magic string has caused problems. In several different cases, motorists with personalized strings on their vehicle registration plates have received incorrect traffic tickets. In affected ticketing systems, when police officers would fill out a traffic ticket for a car with no ...

  7. Boilerplate code - Wikipedia

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    The first line is a shebang, which identifies the file as a Perl script that can be executed directly on the command line on Unix/Linux systems.The other two are pragmas turning on warnings and strict mode, which are mandated by fashionable Perl programming style.

  8. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    An upright wall within the hull of a ship, particularly a watertight, load-bearing wall. bull ensign. Also boot ensign or George ensign. The senior ensign of a US Navy command (i.e., a ship, squadron or shore activity). bullseye A glass window above the captain's cabin to allow viewing of the sails above deck. bulward bulwark

  9. Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    "Life, the universe, and everything" is a common name for the off-topic section of an Internet forum, and the phrase is invoked in similar ways to mean "anything at all". Many chatbots, when asked about the meaning of life, will answer "42". Several online calculators are also programmed with the Question.