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Bringing up quotes with game-specific terminology without proper context - like "I got deeper into assassination" - makes me wonder how you could twist the perception of, say, programming in a similar way.

Maybe "She puts children on a tree and removes their parents!".

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I've had a lot of fun explaining why it's important to reap your zombie children on many occasions.

maybe a better example would be anything to with "master" "slave" relationships.

And then there's the Chaos Monkey who randomly kills anything in sight.

Los Angeles county tried to ban master/slave terminology on computer equipment... http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/

A coworker and I were de-duping records in a database. One of us said while pairing on the script "well, every slave needs a master."

An african american woman in the office turned to us and said "maybe it's the master who needs the slave?"

She wasn't really offend or anything and she said it with a sincere smile. She was just calling out our idiotic computer lingo for what it was.

After apologizing feeling like complete idiots we quickly changed our terminology both in words and in the script to parent/child.

"Is there a good way to ensure that all the children are killed when the parent dies?"

"Oh so you believe in automatic garbage collection? You despicable, good for nothing 47%er! Take out your own garbage by hand!"

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