Talk:spade
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Rfv-sense: (videogaming) To collect and statistically analyze data, for the purpose of determining the underlying random number generator structure or numeric formula.
I am not familiar with this term, and my (admittedly cursory) searches came up empty when looking for it. Hopefully someone is familiar, because the suit of cards muddies the results terribly when searching for game or randomness related topics. edit: - This is also an upcoming WOTD so if it seems dubious perhaps we should remove the sense before it makes it to the front page. - TheDaveRoss 13:07, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- Can't find any citable quotes, but the word does seem to be common on videogaming wikis;
- Is there any way to spade the time helmet adventure bonus...[1]
- Could one try to spade the formula as is now [2]
- Post results here to spade the formula for the pogo stick [3]
- Back before NS13, there was the framework for a system whereby people could place bounties on certain things they wanted spaded. [4]
It's only a matter of time before something gets in print. SpinningSpark 17:26, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- I think most of the usage will be from Kingdom of Loathing players. I don't know if they invented the term. DTLHS (talk) 18:06, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- Isn't this just an overspecialization of the following MWOnline definition: "to dig up or out or shape with or as if with a spade", much as our first definition, "To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting", is also an overspecialization?
- This looks like yet another instance of spurious specificity in a loosely used term. DCDuring TALK 19:12, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- I would not be surprised if the meaning was very specific within the very narrow context that Spinningspark referenced, but that context seems too narrow for our purposes. - TheDaveRoss 00:43, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
- RFV failed: no durably archived citations provided. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 23:28, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Time frame?[edit]
Really need a timeframe for noun definition 3. I'm looking at a sentence from 1890 regarding a newspaper:
- "It does not mince matters, but it calls a spade a spade every time."
and don't know if it is the innocent reference call a spade a spade or the reprehensible meaning, since the said subject newspaper was an "Afro-American" newspaper, and the quoted newspaper from Texas. Shenme (talk) 02:01, 21 March 2020 (UTC)