To win Burgle Bros 2, players need to explore an unfamiliar casino, revealing tiles and their inhabitants while trying artfully to avoid bouncers or to cause too much commotion. And Ryan Goldsberry’s art really conveys the bright lights and the color you’d expect to see on the Las Vegas strip. You’ll be trading in your masks for costumes and your guards for bouncers and pit bosses if you want to pull off your most daring heist yet.

“What is the etiquette for thread bumping here? There are a couple of threads I find interesting that seemed to have died, and i’d like to bump ’em up in hopes of getting responses.Burgle Bros 2: The Casino Capers successfully ups the ante from its predecessor as it gets the gang back together for a massive Vegas job. Internet bumping is not to be confused with the many other slang senses of bump, including “a hit or dose of drug,” “sexual intercourse,” “a woman’s breast”, “a woman’s abdomen when she is first showing pregnancy,” and “to murder someone.” Forum etiquette especially frowns upon this. Necro-bumping, also called necro-posting, is the practice of bumping a “dead” ( necro) thread. Some users post image macros (e.g., Super Mario bumping a brick) as a clever or creative accompaniment to their bump message.īumping is also sometimes referred to as thread-bumping or bump post. As the practice has become more widespread and common, sometimes the word bump is typed as the very filler word used to bump a post. The term can refer to an instance of bumping (a bump) or the action itself (to bump a post). Some forums limit or even prohibit thread-bumping for this reason.īump is used colloquially in online message boards and discussion forums. Overuse of the practice, especially for mere self-promotion, is considered obnoxious and can sometimes be called spamming. Writing a one-word bump like “Anyone?” can revive the thread and elicit prompt responses. A StraightDope message board titled “Bumping Threads” dates back to 2000, confirming that users were familiar with the term by the turn of the century.Īnyone participating in an online discussion forum can bump, and bumping can be useful if a post hasn’t received an answer as a thread becomes buried by newer posts.

While the first instance isn’t exactly known, the term was in practice by 1998 on Amezou World, a predecessor to the imageboard site 4chan it incorporated bumping into its message-sharing platform. Likely emerging in the mid to late 1990s with the rise of online message boards, bump is popularly said to be a backronym for the phrase “ bring up my post.” The term, however, may have also simply originated as an extension of the word bump (i.e., give something a bump, or boost).

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