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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

For your viewing pleasure.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Back in my day it was 07734

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    spoiler

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    LFG SP(Shadow Priest)

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    [–] 104 points 1 year ago (33 children)

    I have this problem when people use abreviations for game names. There are so many games that it's impossible for me to understand. And good luck to find out which game it is if it's a new one you never heard of...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It can sometimes work if there are more than one character involved TES:III, F:NV, EU4, CK2, VIC2, HOI4, and CoC are all good examples. Also yes I did use a bunch of paradox games but only the ones I have more than a thousand hours in.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Acronyms are a pet peeve of mine. Basically useless and now you need tribal knowledge to understand what the hell someone is talking about.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's true, but it's also true that within a small community sometimes acronyms are necessary. Like, imagine NASA:

    "Jones exited the AL in his AES but the C4ISP flagged an error either in the LSPG or WFCA."

    vs.

    "Jones exited the air lock in his Anthropometric Extra Vehicular Activity Suit but the Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Systems Protection system flagged an error in the Life Support Power Generation System or Water Flow Control Assembly"

    Insiders can use the acronyms to be much more efficient. Outsiders probably wouldn't even understand what they're talking about even if they did spell things out fully.

    The only problem is when acronyms leak and what's a well known and clear acronym in one group becomes a confusing one to another group, or worse is confused for a different acronym from a different group.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    If the intended reader is a regular person just use normal words, even if it's not 100 % accurate.

    Jones exited the air lock in his space suit but the control system flagged an error with life support or water flow

    All three ways don't mean much to me as an outsider, but the last one at least paints a somewhat understandable picture.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Who's up for some AC?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    And they’re usually such worthless abbreviations and acronyms that save next to no time. Unless you’ve already defined your acronym or someone mentioned it immediately before you, you’re just confusing a smattering of people.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    AC, GoW, EA, POE, CS, DS, so, so many.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Assassins Creed, God of War, No idea, Path of Exile or Pillars of Eternity, Dark Souls.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Damn I would've said Animal Crossing for the first one, but I've never played an Assassin's Creed game so there's that. Also CS makes me think of Counterstrike.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'd've thought EA is just an abbreviation for Electronic Arts.

    Back in the day, a couple of people I knew abbreviated it as EOA to more closely match their original logo.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I was talking with some friends about Dune stuff (after the recent game came out) and was mentioning stuff in the books. I had used the name before, but I type CoD once and they were confused why I was talking about Call of Duty, but it was Children of Dune.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh yeah, for me MW is MechWarrior. Modern Warfare is a BBS door game.

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    • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Headline:

    BLM riots in Manhattan

    Me:

    Well that's pretty out of character for the Bureau of Land Management...

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    • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't wish anyone General Motors

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    • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    People be like LFG and I'm like Looking For Group in which game?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Wait, what else would it mean??

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Let's fucking go.

    Edit: for that matter, "LFG, LFG!" is a grammatically correct acronym sentence.

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    • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    The CEO at my old company really likes the expression "Let's fucking go" for some reason. Lots of "LFG" in the work chat. I guess he eats a lot of LinkedIn slop or something.

    But to me, "LFG" means looking for group. I'm sitting here like why is the CEO spamming for group content during the work day, and he's not even saying what role he's playing.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    Yes. It's bare minimum to name our specialization and what we still need with each request.

    Let's see if I still have my keyboard macro:

    "I'm a shitty under-geared DPS and I am LFG with tank, healer, and decent DPS"

    Yep. My keyboard macro still works.

    Edit: Self own aside, this approach did get me invited to the right groups.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Lol, my running group uses "CD" for cool-down. I'm always confused as to why and how they are cross-dressing for 2 kilometers.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    CD is Change Directory!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    No, that's "cd".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah, CD is for Compact Disc! E.g. CDRdao

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No, Certificate of Deposit!

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    • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    im urbandictionarying stuff all the time, that's how i know it means "group masturbation"

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    • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Game Master?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Thats where my head went too. Does it mean something else?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Gotta be good morning. Seems like a pretty unnecessary abbreviation to me

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For those people you want to know that you care enough about them to wish a good morning, but not enough to type out the full words

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's what bugs me about that one.

    Saying "good morning" or "good evening" or whatever is a salutation. It's not conveying any real information, it's just ritual politeness. I'm not a big fan of ritual politeness. But, if you're going to do it, don't half-ass it. To me, it's impolite and insincere to half-ass or abbreviate a greeting.

    I feel the same way about "GG" and "TX" for thanks. Do it right, or don't do it at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In my friend circle it's very common to use gm as one of the typical greetings

    Maybe it's pointless to abbreviate, but let's not pretend language is all logical and rational. There's reasons for why people use it ranging from it being part of your speech identity, to preferring the flow to it, to it taking less space, and so on

    A lot of it is just vibes based

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    • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    I write my texts like I'm writing a cover letter or a wedding invitation to flex on the less erudite and meticulous.

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