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I'm running into this more and more with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Bungo Stray Dogs.

I was wondering if anyone else has run into anything similar?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Ummm...no it isn't. Sorry

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

AC -- alternating current, ass crust

DTF -- downtime failure, discreet time fourier, down to funkyland

SMB -- server message block, some mammamia bros

IANAL -- i am not a lawyer, sure you do

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

LOL: laugh out loud, lots of love, loot or lie

League of Legends

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

AOL: Absent, on leave

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I had a kinder experience and was told LOL was Leg of Lamb. That just left me confused.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

CS2

Counter Strike 2 or Cities Skylines 2?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's weird seeing news articles about the SEC that have nothing to do with college football.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

You mean size exclusion chromatography, surely.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For me, SC means Supreme Court and PoE means "Power over Ethernet" lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nah, Supreme Court is abbreviated as SCROTUM.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

bruh it's South Carolina

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

BotW will always mean Best of the Worst to me. Zelda fans should just get over it and spell it out every time. And I like that game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ooh I've got one! I wanna do a poll within this thread, so please respond with a spoiler tag so you don't influence anyone's answers.

But what does IMHO mean to you?

Comment below and then come back and read this:

spoilerTo me it means in my humble opinion, but it seems more and more these days I see people referring to it as in my honest opinion.

Is this a coincidence? Or a commentary on how people have gotten more rude or self centered? IDK, I'm not qualified to answer. I just think it's really interesting that it means both things, and it completely changes the vibe of what you're saying if someone interprets it one way or the other.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

never thought of the anime as bsd. sorta funny. I have to admit magic the gathering became so popular all of a sudden in the news.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

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).

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