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glossary

• an "avatar" is the little graphic that represents a zonie's presence in zone
• "/banger" is a chat command that queues a random banger from the bangers playlist
• a "banger" is any good song, or specifically a song present on the bangers playlist, or the chat command /banger
• the "bangers playlist" is a youtube playlist of bangers semi-canonical to zone
• "bitsy" is a game making tool whose aesthetic limitations are the basis for much the visual design of zone. it is also a community of users of the tool, which most zonies are a member of
• "bitsy cat" is the default npc character in a new bitsy world
• a "dj" is a role granted temporarily by admins to allow a zonie to queue and skip videos during event mode
• an "echo" is a ghostly copy of someone's avatar left permanently with a message for others to read
• "!emote" is a reference to the chat commands for emotes in wizmud e.g !headspin, !ragdoll, etc
• "emotes" are the various effects that can be applied to avatars e.g floating, shaking, flashing, spinning
• "event mode" is a state that admins can put zone into to restrict the queueing and skipping of videos to djs
• "jumping" is a reference to the musical genre "jumpstyle" which is associated with a number of bangers
• "/lucky" is a chat command that takes search terms and queues the first video youtube search finds. in the earliest days of zone, all videos were queued this way
• "outer zone" is all areas of zone outside of the initial viewing platform, particularly the structures made by other zonies
• the "popout video" is a feature that lets you see the playing video raw on the web page instead of inside the 3d space of zone
• "the void" is the dark and endless expanse beyond the walkable surfaces of zone
• "wizmud" is a zone-like place that originally inspired the creation of zone
• "wivrave" was a precursor activity to zone where zonies-to-be listened to bangers in wizmud
• "zone" is the particular zone at tinybird.zone, and the software that zone and other instances of zone are running
• a "zonie" is anyone presently zoning, or in particular anyone who zones regularly
• "zoning" is the activity of being present in zone and particularly chatting along the shared music and movies