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...
Really? I never would have thought Captain Planet would take up that much space on a hard drive. Are you storing fucking Captain Planet as a 4k video? It was a cartoon from the early 90s. I think 480p would be more than enough! Sure there were 114 episodes, but they weren't that long. How much space can the complete Captain Planet really take up?
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.
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.
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.
I only played about 20-30 minutes of Assassins Creed myself, but you hear the name all the time. I was actually going to put Counterstrike for CS but skipped it somehow.
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.
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.
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.
It's pretty common in CRPGs (computer role playing games) and MOBAs (multiplayer online battle arenas) for an ability that you have to wait before using again.
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.
"ggez" is fine because you're taunting, it's meant to be rude. If you're trying to be polite but say "gg" it reads about the same, that you don't care enough to actually type out a few extra characters.
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
My partner thought “SMH” meant “so much hate”, and “SMDH” meant “so much damn hate”. It worked perfectly in every situation they heard it in. I taught them the real meaning when I realized this about a half decade into dating.
It's ridiculous how lazy people are today - especially that with autocorrect, it's often harder to type the shortened version of something than to let it complete the thing for you.
Voice transcription has gotten good enough, and my thumb has carpal tunnel bad enough, that this shouldn't be a problem anymore.
The other day someone told me they were otp with another person. I'm like, one time password? Google is like, one time password? Finally AI google was like, they mean "on the phone." Sigh I had to do research on this text.
Make up your own abbreviations to reply is always fun. Or use out of context abbreviations. My abbreviation loving colleague was so confused when I used a few military terms they didn't know.
It took a very long time to find out that "five by five" means "all is well." In fact, until I looked it up just now to confirm my memory, I didn't know it was derived from aviation.
My cousin used to post things like that on Facebook/MySpace all the time during his emo phase. They appeared to have been secret messages intended for his crush(es) to decipher, and it made me want to die a little every evening when a new one would manifest.
It would read something like "HILYMTLIAIWTBYH", which (upon decoding) meant, "Hailey I love you more than life itself and I want to be your husband". Whether or not Hailey ever wasted her time on such an obnoxious endeavor is unclear. I certainly hope not.
My gamer self wants to know why you’re crying or insinuating that I’m crying. Oh, quick question? Just fucking ask and stop priming me for your next move.
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...
Man I love CP, if only it didn't take up so much space on my hard drive.
Really? I never would have thought Captain Planet would take up that much space on a hard drive. Are you storing fucking Captain Planet as a 4k video? It was a cartoon from the early 90s. I think 480p would be more than enough! Sure there were 114 episodes, but they weren't that long. How much space can the complete Captain Planet really take up?
32.7 gb at 480 ;)
But it includes the srt files. Get rid of those and it’s probably closer to 32 even.
(I know this was a joke, but it is still pretty big 😉)
When one piece fans have hyped up the villains for Water Seven but saying u are excited to see CP9 is way too sus 💀
I know some of those words.
Acronyms are a pet peeve of mine. Basically useless and now you need tribal knowledge to understand what the hell someone is talking about.
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.
If the intended reader is a regular person just use normal words, even if it's not 100 % accurate.
All three ways don't mean much to me as an outsider, but the last one at least paints a somewhat understandable picture.
TMA is a problem. (too many acronyms)
That's My Ass!
The Mighty Ape!
Somehow, 10% of the acronyms reduce to "TLA". Including the very nice self-explanatory "three letter acronym".
Why are you being so wordy!
"Aaappom. BU and now you need TK to understand WTH someone is TA."
They say /c/fuck_ai butttt damn for ambiguous acronyms…
Exactly! They say AI but what do they mean? GPTs, LLMs, GANs, CNNs....do they hate RAG as well?
/s
AAPPOMBUANYNTKTUWTHSITA
God of War vs Gears of War are my least favorite but there are others like when it’s solo, ie D2.
Guild of Wars? GoW is the initialism in question
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.
Who's up for some AC?
Acceptance Criteria is a must. Just ask QA.
Assetto Corsa? Nah, I'm more of a Forza kind of guy.
Alan Cake is awesome
Thank, my house has pretty good insulation, I don't even have a fan, not to say an AC
Armor Class?
AC, GoW, EA, POE, CS, DS, so, so many.
Assassins Creed, God of War, No idea, Path of Exile or Pillars of Eternity, Dark Souls.
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.
I only played about 20-30 minutes of Assassins Creed myself, but you hear the name all the time. I was actually going to put Counterstrike for CS but skipped it somehow.
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.
That was the first thing that popped into my head, but I thought @[email protected] was just listing game names.
Yeah, mb. EA for Early Access / Electronic Arts.
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.
Oh yeah, for me MW is MechWarrior. Modern Warfare is a BBS door game.
MW was kinda meh, I prefer underground 2, but most of the time I've spent in Porsche Unleashed
Most Wanted Underground 2 let's gooooooo. Amazing soundtrack
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.
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.
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.
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.
CD is Change Directory!
No, that's "cd".
Yeah, CD is for Compact Disc! E.g. CDRdao
No, Certificate of Deposit!
imagine for a second if they trademarked Kompact Disc instead to avoid confusion XD
Mmmmm, KD
No, thats a type of receipt. You're thinking of Corporate Dysfunction.
Look I use CD for cooldown too, but in different context lmao
It's pretty common in CRPGs (computer role playing games) and MOBAs (multiplayer online battle arenas) for an ability that you have to wait before using again.
Compact disk?
"CEO LFG SM"
I'm not bringing that low contributing shit to Scarlet Monastery.. CEOs probably play like healers, but without the heals.
Headline:
Me:
Well that's pretty out of character for the Bureau of Land Management...
If there’s one thing I miss after deleting my social media’s it’s skweezy jibbs
The hero we deserve
Nowadays it's more like the behavior appropriate to the situation.
I wouldn't wish anyone General Motors
What if they're currently Stellantis?
I wouldn't wish Stellantis on anyone either! They own Fiat who owns Jeep! Gross!
People be like LFG and I'm like Looking For Group in which game?
Wait, what else would it mean??
Let's fucking go.
Edit: for that matter, "LFG, LFG!" is a grammatically correct acronym sentence.
Oh no... Whelp that's that. I'm officially old.
Thanks, I hate it. xD
Please tell me this isn't really what this means.
laughing facing genitalia
Leopards Fuck Gently
The game of Life
Game Master?
Thats where my head went too. Does it mean something else?
Gotta be good morning. Seems like a pretty unnecessary abbreviation to me
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
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.
ah, but ggez is classic!
"ggez" is fine because you're taunting, it's meant to be rude. If you're trying to be polite but say "gg" it reads about the same, that you don't care enough to actually type out a few extra characters.
I keep getting "Bon Jour"s from my maman
Here, have a Bon Jovi
Ohhh you're halfway there!
Oooh oh, keep going!
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
I get it. Esp if it was a long night lol
Genetically modified
You and your GM foods
Grand Master in the case of tetris and chess.
Grandmaster?
im urbandictionarying stuff all the time, that's how i know it means "group masturbation"
LFGM
Live for group masturbation?
I write my texts like I'm writing a cover letter or a wedding invitation to flex on the less erudite and meticulous.
I don't know how many times I had to look up "SMH" before I got it.
Then people started using "SMDH", and I could start all over again, because you can't figure simple damn things out after a certain age.
Those are simple. SMH: System Managed Heraldry, SMDH: Shaving my dog here!
My partner thought “SMH” meant “so much hate”, and “SMDH” meant “so much damn hate”. It worked perfectly in every situation they heard it in. I taught them the real meaning when I realized this about a half decade into dating.
Well… do share
What the fuck do they mean? I'm so old I still haven't heard of them
Shaking My Head, Shaking My Damn Head.
Smh my head
Seducing my herpetologist
shitting my hands
Yeh for some reason that one took a really long time to stick. I kept reading it as Sydney Morning Herald.
Smh my head
somehow my head
I always read those as somehow so I'm now stumped by "SMDH". It's starting to sound like a bondage thing.
The thing that taught me this one was when people started writing smh my head. The stupid redundancy helped.
I was really hoping that reading all the comments would inform me about what GM means here
given the context, i suspect it just means 'good morning'
The fact that someone would shorten 'good morning' to 'GM' and go through the trouble to put it in all caps bothers me
Maybe the phone autocorrected it
Maybe, but there's nothing correct about abbreviating "good morning".
The French abbreviated "today" ages ago (aujourd'hui) and they're doing fine.
Thank you. I didn't get why the young uns would be texting Game Master.
"LFG"
Dude, we're already in a group...
It's ridiculous how lazy people are today - especially that with autocorrect, it's often harder to type the shortened version of something than to let it complete the thing for you.
Voice transcription has gotten good enough, and my thumb has carpal tunnel bad enough, that this shouldn't be a problem anymore.
The other day someone told me they were otp with another person. I'm like, one time password? Google is like, one time password? Finally AI google was like, they mean "on the phone." Sigh I had to do research on this text.
ikr
My latest one was rq.
I thought it was a typo.
It stands for 'real quick'.
Idk, I mean can't you just pick it up from context?
Lmk if you genuinely can't.
lick my kitten?
On the first date?
I encourage people to meet expectations. Petting is important. How will you ever get the second date if you don't wear the collar?
196 is that way.
This comment made me RQ
IHNIWTM
"Let Me Know", it's not that uncommon.
I know. I was being facetious.
I hate nobody I want to meme
??
I read it as Request...which was close enough to work.
Assholes can't even type, ammirite?
Rq is a rage quit
Not according to the gen z who I was chatting to. Also, rage quit would have made no sense in that specific context.
“Please talk to me like I’m your grandmother. I’m tired of asking what you mean.”
Ohhh, GM is grandMother!
Make up your own abbreviations to reply is always fun. Or use out of context abbreviations. My abbreviation loving colleague was so confused when I used a few military terms they didn't know.
It took a very long time to find out that "five by five" means "all is well." In fact, until I looked it up just now to confirm my memory, I didn't know it was derived from aviation.
I knew the aviation context before I looked it up because of StarCraft.
Probably I heard it there, as I played extensively as a kid, but I guess I never absorbed it.
edit: I still am not sure if I like FUTO as a keyboard, but I'm not a fan of it randomly inserting words. Here I have removed one of those.
D ppl nt txt lyk dis n e mor
Could someone let me know please? I’ve been wondering.
We have full keyboards now and don't need to use the number pad to have a need to type like that anymore.
It was just a bit of fun really.
J00 5H4LL N0T P455!
-- &4ND4LF
All gd x wbu hun
gr8. so kl I stil no wot u mn.
U wot m8
I mean, there's a dude somewhere here on lemmy who types like that all the time, so I guess it's a thing?
DIGSFBBAWTDHYMMTMIIWFTLGTWHTMDAFIWFSTAIGSNBAWTDHYSIJGTSTWFTILWIBYALOBTITWDLFSDHNSYEBISFIDHNTFCDHNLGPNALOMDFFWHNBBBAFWDHYHYBHYBBBAFWDHY
For those that don't get it... it's copypasta meme from that banana bread rant
My cousin used to post things like that on Facebook/MySpace all the time during his emo phase. They appeared to have been secret messages intended for his crush(es) to decipher, and it made me want to die a little every evening when a new one would manifest.
It would read something like "HILYMTLIAIWTBYH", which (upon decoding) meant, "Hailey I love you more than life itself and I want to be your husband". Whether or not Hailey ever wasted her time on such an obnoxious endeavor is unclear. I certainly hope not.
Oh yeah that's frustrating.
At least the one I posted is easy to identify. (Dude I Got Some Fucking Banana Bread At Work Today...)
How dare you, take that back!!
QQ
My gamer self wants to know why you’re crying or insinuating that I’m crying. Oh, quick question? Just fucking ask and stop priming me for your next move.
I send people to https://nohello.net/en/ all the time
Genetically Modified.
Game Master
George Michael
OMG, TLAs are the worst, there are so many of them
Even worse when you learn a new language, like Indonesian that uses a shitton of abbreviations.
Interestingly, I had a manager twice my age who texted me like that and eventually I just started doing it too. Oh well
Me googling what the abbreviation means ohhh that’s what GIlf stands for!
GA FB UR 599
IDK WTF TAM.
I don't know! What the fuck, Tam!?
They're referring to the Earth Federation's mass-produced mobile suits.
Back in my day it was 07734
I'm pretty sure it's 80085
710 77345
LFG SP(Shadow Priest)
For your viewing pleasure.
This notion confuses me as an old user
My thumbs hurt from spelling ish out for decades
Plus oldies don't care if you misunderstand right?
I just hate "lmao" used as punctuation.
millenials 😂
Millennials are entering their 40's. This is gen z shit
I'm talking about the meme lol
Okay grandpa let's get you to bed