[ SLANG ][ GAMING ][ NOUN ]
A portmanteau of 'hope' and 'opium,' describing the intoxicating, often unrealistic optimism someone clings to about a game, a trade, or a situation clearly going badly.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"We're down 40 gold at 30 minutes and he's still on hopium saying we can throw it back."
LORE & ORIGIN
Coined as the forward-looking sibling of 'copium' β instead of rationalizing a loss after the fact, hopium describes clinging to unfounded hope that things are still about to turn around.
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2018
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