Advance
Back up
Back up verb - Move backwards from a certain position.
Both terms in one sentence
- There are also the Polaris, who are less powerful telepaths with technologies at least a century in advance of the rest of humanity, and use both of those things to back up their isolationism.
Source: Telepathic Spacemen - If you take a long enough break from the game (or, if you're a cheating bastard, advance the PS2's internal clock), he'll have died of old age when you load back up.
Source: Not So Invincible After All - So he merely pretends to be a dangerous combat pragmatist, by progressively using weapons that are more and more dangerous as the fight advance, hoping that people will simply back up, and not trigger his constant blood lust
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