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SHODAN, the Glossary

SHODAN, an acronym for Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network, is the main antagonist of Looking Glass Studios's cyberpunk-horror themed video game System Shock.^[1]

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Anthropomorphic video game characters
Artificial intelligence characters in video games
Fiction about narcissism
Fictional female mass murderers
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Abbott and Costello in Hollywood

Abbott and Costello in Hollywood is a 1945 American black-and-white comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello alongside Frances Rafferty.

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Abstraction (computer science)

In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of objects and systems to focus attention on details of greater importance.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.

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Antagonist

An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy and rival of the protagonist.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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BioForge

BioForge is a 1995 action-adventure game developed by Origin Systems and published by Electronic Arts for MS-DOS.

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BioShock

BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K.

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Boss (video games)

In video games, a boss is a significantly powerful non-player character created as an opponent to players. SHODAN and boss (video games) are video game bosses.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Cadence

In Western musical theory, a cadence is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of full or partial resolution, especially in music of the 16th century onwards.Don Michael Randel (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, pp. 105-106.. A harmonic cadence is a progression of two or more chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music.

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Command-line interface

A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.

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Cornucopia

In classical antiquity, the cornucopia, from Latin cornu (horn) and copia (abundance), also called the horn of plenty, was a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, or nuts.

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Crash (computing)

In computing, a crash, or system crash, occurs when a computer program such as a software application or an operating system stops functioning properly and exits.

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Crusader: No Remorse

Crusader: No Remorse is an action game developed by Origin Systems and published by Electronic Arts.

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Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech".

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Cyberspace

Cyberspace is an interconnected digital environment.

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Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986.

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Dominatrix

A dominatrix (or dominatrices), or domme, is a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities.

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Doug Church

Doug Church (born November 16, 1968, in Evanston, Illinois), is an American video game designer and producer.

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Duke University Press

Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.

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Dungeon Master

In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game, the Dungeon Master (DM) is the game organizer and participant in charge of creating the details and challenges of a given adventure, while maintaining a realistic continuity of events.

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An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another — usually electronic — medium.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Empire (magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group.

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Event-driven programming

* In computer programming, event-driven programming is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by external events.

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Experience point

An experience point (often abbreviated as exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in some tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's life experience and progression through the game.

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Faster-than-light

Faster-than-light (superluminal or supercausal) travel and communication are the conjectural propagation of matter or information faster than the speed of light.

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Floppy disk

A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

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Game Informer

Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles.

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GamePro

GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine media company that published online and print content covering the video game industry, video game hardware and video game software.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GamesRadar+

GamesRadar+ (formerly GamesRadar) is an entertainment website for video game-related news, previews, and reviews.

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Ghost in the machine

The "ghost in the machine" is a term originally used to describe and critique the concept of the mind existing alongside and separate from the body.

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GLaDOS

GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is a fictional character from the video game series Portal. SHODAN and GLaDOS are Anthropomorphic video game characters, artificial intelligence characters in video games, Female characters in video games, Robot characters in video games, video game antagonists and video game bosses.

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God complex

A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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HAL 9000

HAL 9000 (or simply HAL or Hal) is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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Ken Levine (game developer)

Kenneth M. Levine (born September 1, 1966) is an American video game developer.

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Kieron Gillen

Kieron Michael Gillen (born 30 September 1975) is a British comic book writer and former video game and music journalist.

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Looking Glass Studios

Looking Glass Studios, Inc. (formerly Blue Sky Productions and LookingGlass Technologies, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Lucifer

The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.

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Mary Josephine Shelly

Mary Josephine Shelly (February 17, 1902 – August 5, 1976) was an American educational and military administrator who led the United States Navy's education for WAVES in World War II.

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Max Headroom

Max Headroom is a fictional character played by actor Matt Frewer.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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Nightdive Studios

Night Dive Studios, Inc. (trade name: Nightdive Studios) is an American video game developer based in Vancouver, Washington.

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Origin Systems

Origin Systems, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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Portal (video game)

Portal is a 2007 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Valve.

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Prima Games

Prima Games is a publishing company of video game strategy guides in the United States.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.

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Richard Rouse III

Richard Rouse III is an American video game designer best known as the designer of The Suffering (2004) and the author of Game Design: Theory & Practice.

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website.

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Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

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Security hacker

A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network.

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Shodan (website)

Shodan is a search engine that lets users search for various types of servers (webcams, routers, servers, etc.) connected to the internet using a variety of filters.

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Space station

A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time.

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System Shock

System Shock is a 1994 first-person action-adventure video game developed by LookingGlass Technologies and published by Origin Systems.

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System Shock (series)

System Shock is a science fiction video game series originally created by Looking Glass Technologies. SHODAN and System Shock (series) are system Shock.

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System Shock 2

System Shock 2 is a 1999 action role-playing survival horror video game designed by Ken Levine and co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios. SHODAN and System Shock 2 are system Shock.

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Terri Brosius

Terri Brosius (née Barous) is an American musician, voice actress, and game designer, best known in gaming circles as the voice of SHODAN in the System Shock series.

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The Silence of the Lambs (film)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name.

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Tribe (band)

Tribe was an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, which was active in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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