Instalock is a gaming term that means to quickly lock in your character choice during character selection. Typically, instalocking is a means of preventing an opponent (or in some cases, teammate) from selecting the character you want to play as.

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squawk

To yell out loudly in pain, alarm, or surprise—an onomatopoeia describing that involuntary shriek when something bad happens.

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Punching the drywall

An idiom describing when someone (typically online) works themselves into an irrational rage over a hypothetical situation or minor grievance that they've completely invented. It's the digital equivalent of getting mad at a thought experiment.

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