Consolations

What do we mean by consolations?

The act of consoling.

The prize or benefit for the loser.

A consolation goal.

A word used by PC gamers to describe the cost-friendly practice of developers in which a video game is clearly designed to accommodate the limited capabilities of console systems. Symptoms include inferior graphics, sluggish gameplay, clumsy user interfaces, checkpoint-based save systems, a lack of dedicated servers, limited customization and simplified game mechanics. Urban Dictionary

A term that unifies “casualization” (from casual), with “consoles”. While in videogames “casualization” means a tendency to make things less complex and accessible to the masses, “consolization” means the “casualization” applied to games that weren’t casual before. It applies to all kind of games who become less complex because of the necessity of convert mouse to pad controls, lower on memory or graphics requeriments, or downgrade any kind of management (losses the x,y axis, big menus, scrolling inventories, auto aim, auto stats, lack of editor or mod support, etc). Urban Dictionary

Relief or comfort in sorrow or suffering. Urban Dictionary

Sympathy for a person who has a different video game console than your own. Urban Dictionary

A form of making out, always in a car, over the center console. Usually, this happens because a girl is too prude to take it to the backseat in the car. This action almost always results in sore ribs, because both people rub their sides against the console while kissing. Urban Dictionary

The act of creating a PC game which contains console game design concepts or gameplay offering more instant gratification. These design concepts include, but are not limited to the following: -Unlockables -Less customization features -Very little control for multiplayer hosts Consolization can often be a result of porting a console game to PC and may often be accompanied by sloppy optimization and widespread technical issues of all kinds. It may also less literally mean "cheapened" or "simplified" and can, as such, sometimes be applied even to certain console games. Urban Dictionary

The belief that one gaming console is better than another and therefore under no circumstance can be better or as good as that console. This belief usually continues to the games of that console and that even if a game is available for multiple consoles, the version of the console which the person believes to be better is better in all ways than the other console versions. Urban Dictionary

1) A text-mode environment, which, depending on the operating system, may be used locally (as is the case for most DOS sessions) or remotely (via ssh). 2) A computer intended for limited user interaction, such as the NES or the Playstation. Such computers are intended only for loading single programs in one session, although newer consoles are able to performs such feats as getting on the internet, networking between other consoles of the same type, and even running various operating systems compiled for its internals. Common input devices for consoles include controllers (also called paddles sometimes), joysticks, or arcade pads. 3) An archaic reference to the user input and output devices on a computer. 4) The dashboard of a car. Urban Dictionary

–verb (used with object), -soled, -sol·ing. to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of something by making out with a smokin' hot girl; give solace or comfort by making out with a smokin' hot girl Urban Dictionary

1. A device used to play video games, popular consoles include Xbox, PlayStation and Wii. 2. An important part of computers, and prompts. 3. Command Prompt let's you access your computers innards. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to consolations:
consolations, consolation, connotations, convolutions, consultations, convocations, consolidations, conflations, consociations, congelations, consolatio, insolations.

Words that rhyme with consolations:
congratulations, abbreviations, communications, implications, relations, ramifications, operations, aspirations, patients, machinations, allegations, nations, expectations, accommodations, telecommunications, tribulations, regulations, reparations, applications, stations, generations, connotations, reservations, qualifications, limitations, impatiens, specifications, renovations, complications, obligations, observations, considerations, innovations, annotations, preparations, affiliations, palpitations, negotiations, aberrations, variations, associations, indications, publications, recommendations, accusations, creations, foundations, revelations, installations, fluctuations, combinations, deliberations, united nations, situations, affirmations, immunizations, adaptations, carnations, manifestations, celebrations, organizations, recriminations, classifications, permutations, public relations, ministrations, appropriations, cations, hallucinations, vacations, depredations, constellations, deviations, appalachians, citations, denominations, allocations, illustrations, alterations, altercations, stipulations, decorations, informations, medications, locations, conversations, denunciations, crustaceans, gyrations, lacerations, sensations, animations, configurations, occupations, ruminations, corporations, vibrations, explanations, calculations, congregations.

Adjectives that are often used to describe consolations:
inward, such, spiritual, many, last, divine, great, religious, few, sweet, heavenly, only, greatest, blessed, strong, sensible, rich, false, sweetest, chief, earthly, usual, precious, christian, abundant, ordinary, richest, traditional, holy, easy, domestic, sublime, peculiar, ineffable, secret, unspeakable, pious, interior, philosophical, vain, soothing, worldly, random, minor, highest, metaphysical, cheap, feeble, eternal, conventional, immense, everlasting, proffered, angry, solid, commonplace, deepest, imaginative, celestial, outward, gentle, vague, illusory, extraordinary, supernatural, philosophic, friendly.

Consonant match to consolations:
cancellations.

Words that sound like consolations:
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