Comment by interroboink
3 hours ago
> is literally “post death” in Latin
Yes; I think what I described matches that meaning?
Post-death, as in: "it's over," "activity has halted," "no more work being done."
Death does not necessarily have a bad/negative connotation. It's just the end of something.
This is in contrast to the original comment: "something that went so wrong you had to kill it." Death does not imply something went wrong or that it happened forcefully.
I guess "autopsy" generally is talking about "finding the cause of death" so maybe that has a more negative connotation ("something (bad) happened, causing death, let's find it").
Ah, words with their fuzzy meanings (:
> Post-death, as in: "it's over," "activity has halted," "no more work being done”
Which makes even less sense as we all know software is never done, unless it truly is dead.
In the context of a game it applies. A game can be "done", as in shipped, no more updates, patches, etc.