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cthulhic
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/kthoolhik/ , adj. Having the nature of a Cthulhu, the horrific tentacled
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green monstrosity from H.P. Lovecraft's seminal horror fiction. Cthulhu
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sends dreams that drive men mad, feeds on the flesh of screaming victims
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rent limb from limb, and is served by a cult of degenerates. Hackers think
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this describes large proprietary systems such as traditional mainframes,
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installations of SAP and Oracle, or rooms full of Windows servers remarkably
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well, and the adjective is used casually. Compare Shub-Internet and crawling
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horror.
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