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Re: 2014 Game

Since no one on this thread has yet properly fed the GDC trolls, I guess I will

Ambiphasient Lunar Wane Shaft:
as the definitions appear on dictionary.com. most significant things bolded.

Ambiphasient:
No direct definition, so let's break it down:
/Ambi-/:
a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin, meaning “both” ( ambiguous ) and “around” ( ambient ); used in the formation of compound words
/-Phasi- (root Phase)/:
1. any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
2. a stage in a process of change or development: Each phase of life brings its own joys.
3. a side, aspect, or point of view: This is only one phase of the question.
4. a state of synchronous operation: to put two mechanisms in phase.
5. Astronomy:
a. the particular appearance presented by the moon or a planet at a given time.
b. one of the recurring appearances or states of the moon or a planet in respect to the form, or the absence, of its illuminated disk: the phases of the moon. See diag. under moon.
/-ent/:
causing or performing an action or existing in a certain condition; the agent that performs an action
Lunar:
1. of or pertaining to the moon: the lunar orbit.
2. measured by the moon's revolutions: a lunar month.
3. resembling the moon; round or crescent-shaped.
4. of or pertaining to silver.
Wane:
verb (used without object)
1. to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
2. to decline in power, importance, prosperity, etc.: Colonialism began to wane after World War II.
3. to draw to a close; approach an end: Summer is waning.
4. (of the moon) to decrease periodically in the extent of its illuminated portion after the full moon. Compare wax2 ( def 2 ) .
noun
5. a gradual decrease or decline in strength, intensity, power, etc.
6. the drawing to a close of life, an era, a period, etc.
7. the waning of the moon.
8. a period of waning.
9. a defect in a plank or board characterized by bark or insufficient wood at a corner or along an edge, due to the curvature of the log.
Shaft:
1. a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
2. something directed or barbed as in sharp attack: shafts of sarcasm.
3. a ray or beam: a shaft of sunlight.
4. a long, comparatively straight handle serving as an important or balancing part of an implement or device, as of a hammer, ax, golf club, or other implement.
5. Machinery . a rotating or oscillating round, straight bar for transmitting motion and torque, usually supported on bearings and carrying gears, wheels, or the like, as a propeller shaft on a ship, or a drive shaft of an engine.

As you see, this phrase can be taken to mean a multitude of things. Take it as you wish...
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