SNAFU, how it went from chaotic situation to make a blunder?
Also, why are Americans so obsessed with acronyms?
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The Linux Kernel has a specific one, whereby DRM doesn't mean Digital Rights Protection, only thing I could think of.
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D2 is either a type of steel or a great game in 8th grade.
LFG used to mean Look For Group in a lot of games. Now it's let's fucking go.
LucasFilm Games
Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I 'worked on WAP in the early 2000s'.
What is WAP, if not wireless application protocol?
Moist butt cat
MoistCr1tikal?
a pop star made a popular song about it, I too was lost but someone pointed it out.... Wet Ass Pussy
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FTP: free to play, file transfer protocol
SRS: Serious, sex reassignment surgery, social responsiveness scale, etc
LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie
first time I experienced LOL was way back, Early 1990s. When AOL was still in 1.x for the Apple. My buddy and I broke into his brothers work computer and were playing around online in the chat rooms. They told us it was Loser On Line and it was a long time before I understood that wasnt what it was.... those jerks
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LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie
League of Legends
It's not annoying, only quite funny, but every time I see CSM (Chainsaw Man) I can only think of Coño'e su Madre / Cocha'e su Madre (Motherfucker in Latinamerica).
So many people think Mac is an acronym for whatever reason, as in "Do you use MAC or PC?".
I don't know why they think this. It was never formatted that way in any of Apple's marketing materials.
It really annoys me. In my head when I read it I hear "MAC" pronounced in the voice of Gilbert Godfrey.
I'm guessing they're confusing it with MAC addresses? They probably saw the term somewhere and wrongly assumed it had something to do with Apple Macs.
CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.
"Changed Block Tracking" for me.
Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken
This! It's so frustrating trying to fill my hen house
Duh, it’s British Broadcasting Chicken.
Huh, I though it was British Black Chicken!
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Another one that came to mind is TF2. I like Titanfall 2 more than Team Fortress 2 but I associate the acronym with Team Fortress 2.
Ah man another one of these is Monster Hunter World (MHW) and now the new game Monster Hunter Wilds (MHW). 🤦
You just reminded me the confusion I had trying to figure out if people are talking about Battlefield 2 or Battlefront 2 years ago
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All the time. Like at some point SC stopped meaning StarCraft and started meaning Splinter Cell. And don't let me get started about the famous roleplaying game PoE. Yes, or course I mean Pillars of Eternity and not Path of Exile.
To be fair "SC" was replaced by "SC:BW" within like a year.
For me, SC means Supreme Court and PoE means "Power over Ethernet" lol.
Nah, Supreme Court is abbreviated as SCROTUM.
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bruh it's South Carolina
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MTG it's a trading card game and not some dumb ass politician.
I try to pronounce it "Empty G" with a slight emphasis on the "p".
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