What's With All the Acronyms?! Rant
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BurningDoom
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What's With All the Acronyms?! Rant
Seriously, there are so many used on this board. For like, everything. I seem to be looking acronyms up left and right when I'm here. Stuff that isn't normal. Something like ASAP or FBI is completely common and understandable. But SWKOTOR. How is anyone but a Star Wars fan supposed to know what that means? Or HOMM and HOTD. Any guesses on those ones, people?
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Re: What With All the Acronyms?! Rant
Heroes of Might and Magic.BurningDoom wrote:Or HOMM and HOTD. Any guesses on those ones, people?
House of the Dead.
If in doubt, Google.
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Re: What With All the Acronyms?! Rant
Well yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm just saying if it's not a common acronym, how hard is it to type out?YoshiEgg25 wrote:Heroes of Might and Magic.BurningDoom wrote:Or HOMM and HOTD. Any guesses on those ones, people?
House of the Dead.
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Re: What With All the Acronyms?! Rant
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic is a ridiculous phrase to type. None of my friends are big Star Wars geeks and neither am I, but we all refer to the game(s) as KOTOR.BurningDoom wrote:Well yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm just saying if it's not a common acronym, how hard is it to type out?
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Re: What's With All the Acronyms?! Rant
Yeah, KOTOR, LotR, LoZ, SoM, FF (which can be Final Fantasy or Final Fight), DD (which can be Double Dragon or the size of the waitresses breasts), GoW, WoW, SMB, SNES, GCN, HWTFMIT.BurningDoom wrote:Seriously, there are so many used on this board. For like, everything. I seem to be looking acronyms up left and right when I'm here. Stuff that isn't normal. Something like ASAP or FBI is completely common and understandable. But SWKOTOR. How is anyone but a Star Wars fan supposed to know what that means? Or HOMM and HOTD. Any guesses on those ones, people?
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Re: What With All the Acronyms?! Rant
RYNHOT?*BurningDoom wrote: Well yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm just saying if it's not a common acronym, how hard is it to type out?
*really, you never heard of that?
Re: What's With All the Acronyms?! Rant
RTFM
GoW is the only one that kind of fails, since it could go: God of War or Gears of War.
Other than that I don't think it's a big deal, most of of us here probably know what we're talking about via the context and whatnot. If not it doesn't hurt to politely ask.
GoW is the only one that kind of fails, since it could go: God of War or Gears of War.
Other than that I don't think it's a big deal, most of of us here probably know what we're talking about via the context and whatnot. If not it doesn't hurt to politely ask.
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Honey wouldn't think of farting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology?o.pwuaioc wrote:HWTFMIT.
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Re: What's With All the Acronyms?! Rant
I almost spit out my ravioli.
Re: What's With All the Acronyms?! Rant
Oops, HS, not H. I think I saw M but I've also seen A subsituted for the M.Hobie-wan wrote:Honey wouldn't think of farting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology?o.pwuaioc wrote:HWTFMIT.