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forumgoer en · NOUN

Etymology

From forum + goer.

Meanings

1. A member or visitor of an Internet forum.
   • Of course, you’ll want to have a fairly beefy PC to render this impeccable lighting. Half-Life may be old, but this lighting doesn’t come cheap on GPU load. Some forumgoers say you may need a 4090 to play at 4K resolution. 2023 February 23, Antonio G. Di Benedetto, “You can now play the original Half-Life with beautiful beams of ray-traced light”, in The Verge:
   • In 2005, a forum-goer named Nathan Poe pronounced one of the most quintessential Internet laws: Without a winkie or other “blatant display of humor,” parodies of extreme views can’t be distinguished from the genuine article. 2015 October 20, Caitlin Dewey, “A YouTube video claims ‘Back to the Future’ predicted 9/11 — and that isn’t even the weird part”, in The Washington Post:

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