Lag
Stops
Both words in one sentence
- She can do some really impressive tricks with electronic warfare, but denying her access by hardware means or keeping the lag time high enough that her hacks can be dealt with stops her cold.
Source: Literature / The Last Angel - Johann Sebastian Bach does this in the third stanza of the cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden (BWV 4), in which the music stops on the word "nicht" (nothing remains) before continuing.
Source: Stop and Go - Defense of the Ancients: All-Stars and Dota 2, despite being isometric games, have a subtle form of this: making tight turns results in slight lag of a fraction of a second while your character stops moving forwards and accelerates backwards or sideways.
Source: Tank Controls
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