nuker

I think Raph is right that this resistance to social gaming is partly about game designers historically inhabiting a particular gamer subculture where "playing house" is simply beyond the pale, and the "tank-nuker-healer" mechanic is engraved somewhere on sacred stone tablets.

March 2010 2010

I think Raph is right that this resistance to social gaming is partly about game designers historically inhabiting a particular gamer subculture where "playing house" is simply beyond the pale, and the "tank-nuker-healer" mechanic is engraved somewhere on sacred stone tablets.

Farmville = ? 2010

An average potato takes about 4: 30 in the "nuker."

BUSEY NEWS: SETH MACFARLANE JUST CAME 2008

My nuker is kept in a cabinet just in case I actually need it.

Help . . . - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

These would never be used, because everybody knows that nukes have fingerprints that can be tracked without ambiguity back to the source, and therefore the rogue nuker would face utter and immediate annihilation from broadcasting a nuke or two to any place in the world.

Think Progress » Brzezinski: Air Strike on Iran Could ‘Merit the Impeachment of the President’ 2006

Mix it all and heat for 30 seconds in the nuker to marry the flavors.

Sweet & Spicy Jumbo Shrimp New Year's Bonanza 2005

The standard group pattern (tanker-healer-mezzer-nuker) coupled with tacit support for pull-based group tactics (more or less) means that can support much more party diversity than would otherwise expect.

The Zergling Rush (of your dreams) 2005

Mix it all and heat for 30 seconds in the nuker to marry the flavors.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

Kapera Smythe had a ticket to Earth -- well, Earth orbitals, but it was a lot nuker than, say, Deimos or Phobos.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

The microwave beeped five minutes later, and he fished clean dishes out of the dishwasher, poured himself a big glass of Gatorade, plucked an old t-shirt off the back of a chair and wrapped it around his hand, then pulled his breakfast out of the nuker.

The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993