turtling

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Tom good-sportingly a little crow for having recently written about game developers stifling players '"turtling" options in real-time strategy games, but

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  • The move is called turtling, and it prevents your opponent from executing any moves. —  GaspingforAirtime
  • Fallout 3 at its worst, most of the enemies being the berserker variety - Mirelurks and the like - best dealt with by turtling and spending vast amounts of ammo. —  Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today
  • As the Cayman Islands lacked the natural resources of other colonial Caribbean locations, residents once relied entirely on fishing, turtling and the export of thatch rope. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The cover (reproduced at the top of this post) looks nice, and my gut impulse is to reward AdHouse for sticking to its publishing guns when there are definitely companies in and especially out of comics are turtling up a bit.
  • If someones turtling just throw hadoukens at them for the chip damage from the other side of the screen. —  Latest from PALGN
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