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[bryant]

My current favorite piece of gaming slang is “lasersharking.”

“Hey, you know, that game concept would be better if the sharks had lasers on their head.” Lasersharking. Leave the poor concept alone; not all concepts need lasers to reach their full potential.

Rifts is all lasersharking, all the way to the bottom turtle.

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[bryant]

Nice! I'd been wondering about the origin. Google only knows "lasersharking" from Barbelith and a Neverwinter Nights forum. And, um, 20x20. Heh.

The term is clearly coined after the classic Austin Powers quote (classic?): "All I want is sharks with fricking laser beams on their heads!" All our culture is belong to Mike Meyers.

Jesus, that last sentence just collapsed into a geek culture black hole.

"Jumping the lasershark" is great coinage. lasershark.com is not taken. Hm.