A fork of Rural Dictionary
Adjective. When the difficulty of a given task or set thereof is not due to actual mechanical challenge and testing of skillsets, but instead is "Difficulty by numbers", in which the difficulty comes as a result of simply continuing to stack more and more odds against the tasked. Examples of Lemon Difficulty include video game bosses with massive amounts of health and can kill you in one hit, but otherwise aren't mechanically challenging, and 'runaround' type tasks that involve a lot of tedious backtracking.
"Hell, the Big Bank heist in Payday 2 on stealth really isn't anything more than just Lemon Difficult"
The name for the phenomenon in which if you were to bring a particular item with you somewhere, you won't end up needing it, but should you not bring it, you will need it.
"If I bring my umbrella, it probably won't rain. If I don't, it most certainly will. I guess its just the Talisman Effect at work."
Adjective - A stickler for the pronunciation of words, akin to a Grammar Nazi or Spelling Spetsnaz, but instead for pronunciation instead of either grammar or spelling.
The FSK in the term refers to the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando, often regarded as one of the most well-trained special forces units on Earth.
Person 1: Raskaan metallin Rambona juoksen, ily Sumatran synkan yön! (Pronounced rask-aen metallin instead of ras-kahn metallin)
Person 2: Hang on, that's ras-kahn and not rask-aen,
Person 1: Why do you care so much?!
Person 2: Imagine having a language that isn't so comically broken, there are national televised competitions on spelling its words!! This post was made by the not-english gang!
Person 1: You must be part of the Pronunciation FSK, then!
Person 2: Duel me if you must, but I will die with my honor intact if you beat me!
That little wooden area in a liquor case (usually in a grocery store like Safeway) between the transparent glass panels that it is nigh impossible to see or notice the bottles behind, causing the clerk to search the area around it like a madman while the bottle the customer wants is just out of immediate sight. Thankfully, most of the more commonly sought-after bottles are not there. Unless they want Bailey's Irish cream in half-gallons. That shit is always in that space.
Customer: Can I get a half-gallon of Bailey's?
Clerk: Of course, let me grab it.
(Clerk searches the case for about a minute)
Clerk (under breath): Gods dammit, its in the casevoid.
A literature phenomenon in which the first book of a series does so well, and may even be considered a classic, that subsequent books in the series become staggeringly formulaic, to the point where the only difference between it and the last one are maybe location, names of characters, and point in time the story takes place in.
Named for Piers Anthony, author of the Xanth series, one of the most notable instances of this phenomenon.
"I really liked Frank Herbert's "Dune". It was honestly a well written story, its just that his other books got quite... similar afterwards. Same general plot, message, almost everything but the names."
"Ah, so he contracted Piers Anthony Disease?"
"I'm afraid so..."
The quintessential level-up from humbled, when one is humbled beyond other words.
All of you guys, you'd follow me to the end of time, I'm so shmumbled.
A phenomenon in which a subject thinks of a particular entity or concept, imagines they exist, but they have no idea they actually do exist until it stands right before them.
Jarrek was definitely experiencing the Known Unseen when he had the idea for a drink called Bawls, but he didn't know that it had already been done.