Too old and tired of learning lazy things

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I hate cell phones and I'm getting too old to learn any of this lazy texting crap of lol, rofl, and brb. I think it's rude and when I have to text, I type it out because if it's something I have to say to someone, I make an effort. After the 3rd text, I'm sick of it and just call the person and get it over with. Maybe I'm turning into a fogey early or I'm just too busy with important stuff to have to look up or figure out other peoples laziness. My point is...

All of that made it's way into the hobby that I love. I'm talking about all the abbreviations for the pinball machines. BSD, Totan, Woz... I'm really tired of having to look up what most of these are. Maybe I'm the lazy one, but I have other things like work and family to worry about. Is it too much to ask to type out Wizard of Oz? Really!? Could we at least have a sticky with the abbreviations in alphabetical order to easily look up this crap!? Sorry for the rant, I had to blow off some steam.
 
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I'm tired of the abbreviations too. It's very confusing.

Whenever I see "AFM" I think of Addams Family. Same with "MM", I think of either Marble Madness or Marilyn Monroe.
 
I hate cell phones and I'm getting too old to learn any of this lazy texting crap of lol, rofl, and brb. I think it's rude and when I have to text, I type it out because if it's something I have to say to someone, I make an effort. After the 3rd text, I'm sick of it and just call the person and get it over with. Maybe I'm turning into a fogey early or I'm just too busy with important stuff to have to look up or figure out other peoples laziness. My point is...

All of that made it's way into the hobby that I love. I'm talking about all the abbreviations for the pinball machines. BSD, Totan, Woz... I'm really tired of having to look up what most of these are. Maybe I'm the lazy one, but I have other things like work and family to worry about. Is it too much to ask to type out Wizard of Oz? Really!? Could we at least have a sticky with the abbreviations in alphabetical order to easily look up this crap!? Sorry for the rant, I had to blow off some steam.

Just tell us to get off your lawn already!

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You managed to post an animated .gif on an internet message board. I think you are doing ok buddy. You will probably be replying to this thread in nothing but emoji by tomorrow. :D
 
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...and for all I know, I may have just asked to marry a goat in cantonese.
 
You managed to post an animated .gif on an internet message board. I think you are doing ok buddy. You will probably be replying to this thread in nothing but emoji by tomorrow. :D

Yeah, but, I've been on this message board is 2006. I've picked up a few things. But, I was younger back then.
 
I agree 100%. I honestly think Pinsiders are nuts and won't type anything. I've seen threads where people ask for tech support or try to sell a game with abbreviations and the first 5-6 responses are others asking them what game they are actually referring to. Talk about times when clarity should rise above saving 3 seconds.
 
I agree 100%. I honestly think Pinsiders are nuts and won't type anything. I've seen threads where people ask for tech support or try to sell a game with abbreviations and the first 5-6 responses are others asking them what game they are actually referring to. Talk about times when clarity should rise above saving 3 seconds.

You crack me up. The abbreviations predate pinside. The abbreviations go back to rgp and possibly earlier. The trouble is there is not an easy way to find out since rgp still exists and other sources don't.

BSD became BSD shortly after they figured out it was going to be made. In other words, the acronym for the game has been around longer than the game itself. Blaming pinside for name abbreviations is like blaming espn for saying the babe instead of babe ruth.

The thread is pretty laughable guys. Complaining about having to learn acronyms that have been floating around since the late 80's is just lazy on your parts. What do you guys do for a living anyways? Seems like every industry has acronyms, they persist for a reason.
 
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You crack me up. The abbreviations predate pinside. The abbreviations go back to rgp. BSD became BSD shortly after they figured out it was going to be made. In other words, the acronym for the game has been around longer than the game itself. Blaming pinside for name abbreviations is like blaming espn for saying the babe instead of babe ruth.

I definitely appreciate the background and history. I don't know if I blame Pinside so much as recognize that community as doing it more often than others. Adding your explanation to it I now see why!

I think my post though was more of a comment on how Pinsiders appear to use the abbreviations so religiously to "save time" and actually it costs them time. Ive seen a couple instances where they'll sell or seek support on a game that half the audience can't identify at all and the other half argues about what game they are referring to to begin with. All to "save" seconds of typing. These people forget that many people just ignore something they don't immediately understand or recognize and move on... thus they might miss out on a person who could help answer their tech question!

I'll get off my soapbox since we could discuss clarity all day long on Internet forums. Just open the for sale section here and you will see people selling things with unclear terms no photos and no real description of the item or its location in instances where all these things are extremely helpful if not completely necessary to attract a buyer.
 
I've never been a fan of the abbreviations. They make it simpler for the writer, who has less to write... but push off the work of deciphering it to the reader... so I agree it's a very rude thing to do. If it's something EVERYBODY knows then yeah no big deal, like NASA or USA or UK everybody knows exactly what you're talking about...

If I abbreviate something like "BBBB" , then the reader has to say "Big Bang Bar?" No, that's not it... must be "Big Buck H..." nope, that's not it... what the hell was that one... "Bone Buste.." no... hmm. OH YEAH, there was a Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash pinball machine.

So you force the reader to spend extra time deciphering it... even if it's an easy one you still are doing the same thing.

It just reeks of the elitism that surrounds the modern pinball community.

BTW, typically in the past the community just kind of came up with the abbreviations, and whichever one worked out worked out.

When Jersey Jack launched his "Dialed In" pin last week he made sure to tell everybody what the abbreviation should be. Kind of annoying
 
BY THE WAY only thing worse than the abbreviations is when people PRONOUNCE some abbreviation. For instance, back in the day when the new "Nintendo" system came out, it was named the "Super Nintendo". The internet wasn't around, and everybody called it the "Super Nintendo". As the internet came about people referred to it as the "SNES" or Super Nintendo Entertainment System... so now johnny come latelys call it the "SUHNESS" when they talk about it out loud.


Yuck
 
BY THE WAY only thing worse than the abbreviations is when people PRONOUNCE some abbreviation. For instance, back in the day when the new "Nintendo" system came out, it was named the "Super Nintendo". The internet wasn't around, and everybody called it the "Super Nintendo". As the internet came about people referred to it as the "SNES" or Super Nintendo Entertainment System... so now johnny come latelys call it the "SUHNESS" when they talk about it out loud.


Yuck

I'm a console collector - in the sense that I've kept most of my stuff and reclaimed what I lost but haven't bought much lately. If someone pronounced "SUHNESS" in front of me I'd call them out for that... That's awful.
 
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