PC
Personal computer
Example
Related Slang
| comp | Computer |
| PEBKAC | Problem exists between keyboard and chair |
| PEBCAC | Problem exists between chair and computer |
| hw | Hardware |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| PNP | Plug and Play |
| sysadmin | System administrator |
| RTFM | Read the flippin' manual |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| dc | Disconnect |
| BFU | Bezny Franta uzivatel |
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Player character
In role-playing games (RPGs) and video games, PCs are the characters that the games' players control. For example, in Dungeons & Dragons, each player creates and controls their own unique player character. These PCs interact with each other as well as the fantasy world and non-player characters (NPCs) that the game's Dungeon Master (DM) creates.
As another example, in the Pokémon series of games, players control a character who seeks to become the world's best Pokémon trainer. This largely silent character is also a PC, who interacts with numerous NPCs controlled by the game.
The term PC is most often applied to characters played in RPGs, but technically, any game character that is controlled by a player is a player character. League of Legends, Call of Duty, and Street Fighter players all might refer to the characters they control as PCs.
Example
A PC in World of Warcraft
Related Slang
| RPG | Role-playing game |
| MMORPG | Massively multiplayer online role-playing game |
| D&D | Dungeons and Dragons |
| RP | Roleplay |
| LARP | Live action role-playing |
| WoW | World of Warcraft |
| DM | Dungeon Master |
| lvl | Level |
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Politically correct
An acronym for things that are said or done that intentionally try to minimize offensiveness, but sometimes end up being kind of ridiculous--like calling a garbage man a "garbologist" or a "sanitation engineer."
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A widely-used acronym for the personal computer which is most often associated with computers that run the Windows operating system, as opposed to Mac OS X or Linux.