So true

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...

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.
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?
- When one piece fans have hyped up the villains for Water Seven but saying u are excited to see CP9 is way too sus 💀
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.
- TMA is a problem. (too many acronyms)
- Why are you being so wordy!
  "Aaappom. BU and now you need TK to understand WTH someone is TA."
- Somehow, 10% of the acronyms reduce to "TLA". Including the very nice self-explanatory "three letter acronym".
- They say /c/fuck_ai butttt damn for ambiguous acronyms…
- AAPPOMBUANYNTKTUWTHSITA
God of War vs Gears of War are my least favorite but there are others like when it’s solo, ie D2.
- No love for guild wars, I see
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.
- Armor Class?
- Thank, my house has pretty good insulation, I don't even have a fan, not to say an AC
- Alan Cake is awesome
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.
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.
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.

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.

ikr
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.

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.

"CEO LFG SM"
I'm not bringing that low contributing shit to Scarlet Monastery.. CEOs probably play like healers, but without the heals.
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!
- Compact disk?
- Look I use CD for cooldown too, but in different context lmao

"LFG"
Dude, we're already in a group...

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

Wait, what else would it mean??
- laughing facing genitalia
- Leopards Fuck Gently
- Let's fucking go.
  Edit: for that matter, "LFG, LFG!" is a grammatically correct acronym sentence.
The game of Life

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

Headline:

BLM riots in Manhattan

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!

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

LFGM
- Live for group masturbation?

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
- Genetically modified
- Grand Master in the case of tetris and chess.
Grandmaster?

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!!

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.
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.
I read it as Request...which was close enough to work.
- Assholes can't even type, ammirite?

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
- Thank you. I didn't get why the young uns would be texting Game Master.

LFG SP(Shadow Priest)

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
I always read those as somehow so I'm now stumped by "SMDH". It's starting to sound like a bondage thing.
shitting my hands
Yeh for some reason that one took a really long time to stick. I kept reading it as Sydney Morning Herald.
What the fuck do they mean? I'm so old I still haven't heard of them
- Shaking My Head, Shaking My Damn Head.
- Seducing my herpetologist
Smh my head
- somehow my head
The thing that taught me this one was when people started writing smh my head. The stupid redundancy helped.

“Please talk to me like I’m your grandmother. I’m tired of asking what you mean.”

Ohhh, GM is grandMother!

Genetically Modified.

Game Master
- George Michael

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.