Too old and tired of learning lazy things

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


Close, it reeks of the elitism that surrounds the pinball community, not just the modern pinball community.

When I first started collecting coin operated games I only wanted pinball machines. After buying my first pin and getting a vid along with it I approached the online communities. I found the pin community (primarily on rec.gaming.pinball (RGP) but Washington State had a collector community as well) to be complete assholes. If it wasn't for KLOV and local vid collectors I would have stopped collecting. Instead, I focused primarily on vids. Today I have a diverse collection but it is still primarily video games with about a dozen pins and another dozen electromechanical arcade games.


The vid community is still more welcoming and less elitist than the pinball community in my experience.
 
I just google the acronym, followed by 'pinball'.

Or just pick up the damn phone when it rings instead of letting it roll
to voice mail then txting the caller back with some dumbass excuse lol.

"I cant pick up the phone , my wife is peeing on the hood of my car,, but i can txt you
400 times instead" gets old really quick.
 
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.

Except the acronyms are pretty well set by now and granted I tend to run across ones I don't know. For that there is google. Takes the better part of 10 seconds and you learn something new.

Until recently I couldn't tell you what agbgowt stood for, but now that I am buying one and talking to people about it I don't want to type out al's garage band goes on world tour a half dozen times in a conversation.

For those saying it smacks of elitism, why? Most people will happily tell you if you ask. The elitism in pinball tends to be from those buying nib or high end restores. The folks who couldn't tell you the difference between a transistor and a resistor, but by golly they just dropped 10k on some 90's b/w that HEP graced with his presence. Doesn't matter that they can barely play and if it breaks they have to call a tech their wallet was fatter than yours and you better recognize it.
 
Except the acronyms are pretty well set by now and granted I tend to run across ones I don't know. For that there is google. Takes the better part of 10 seconds and you learn something new.

Like I'm going to take the time to google something you said? You must think pretty highly of yoursel.... oh there we are back at the elitism thing.
 
Like I'm going to take the time to google something you said? You must think pretty highly of yoursel.... oh there we are back at the elitism thing.

If I sat down and came up with these then yes. If you have a group of people with an established culture and you sit back and say "I am too lazy to learn the culture do as I say" well then who is acting entitled now?

Face it you are lazy. The ones using the acornyms are also lazy which is why the culture shifted towards acronyms. The only difference is you are complaining about it and are in the minority. Go make this argument on pinside or rgp and see where it gets you. Nowhere, which is about where your complaining in this thread is going to get you. The only thing you have managed to accomplish is stating that you cannot be bothered to do a simple search when you don't understand something.
 
The only thing you have managed to accomplish is stating that you cannot be bothered to do a simple search when you don't understand something.

Then what you're saying is that you can't be bothered to just type the name out instead, you make someone else do the work for you. Is it really that hard? What are you saving? 2 secs and about 10 characters? People speak of laziness, but the laziness starts with the person posting the message, leaving it to someone else to do the work to figure out what they are talking about. Those are the people that claim that the other person is lazy for not doing the search. Chicken or the egg?

Or just pick up the damn phone when it rings instead of letting it roll
to voice mail then txting the caller back with some dumbass excuse lol.

"I cant pick up the phone , my wife is peeing on the hood of my car,, but i can txt you
400 times instead" gets old really quick.
Ha ha ha. I Love this analogy.

I meant no offense to anyone. I will admit, it was just a rant. Someone posted a board for sale and only included the abbreviation. Best of luck to that person selling their board. Don't really care. But, it does get annoying to have to open up another tab, type in the search and figure out what a specific abbreviation is, when the poster could have just typed out Bram Stoker's Dracula. Either way, if it's not well known, someone has to do the typing.

This is a hobby to me. It's not a job. I don't eat, drink, breath or live pinball everyday of my life. That's how I've been able to stick with this hobby for almost 20 years. I've known people that go all out on these games and burn themselves out. We've lost many good Klov'rs that just burnt out and left because they think that have to know everything about every game in intimate detail. When I want to play my games, I play them. When I want to work on my games, I work on them. No time constraints, no deadlines, no customers. Just me. So, I don't have all the pinball abbreviations memorized. That's why it's so annoying to have to do the work for someone else. I just feel in a civilized society where people respect one another, the onus is on the originator to type out what they mean.

With that said, the phone just rang and now I have to text the person a bunch of meaningless acronyms to let them know why I ignored them. ;)
 
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I heard somewhere that abbreviations is what made people quit using Latin, I don't know if that is true or not but I was told that when everything was abbreviated no one could understand what the author was saying.

Rodger Kilgore
 
Go make this argument on pinside or rgp

I googled "rgp" and can't figure out why you're talking about. It says at "Rgp.com" that

"Intellectual Capital on Demand
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Renowned management guru, Peter Drucker, was the first person to refer to us as "Intellectual capital on demand." He recognized that RGP was something truly different in business consulting: an agile source of subject matter and functional expertise.

Our involvement is based on your needs. We can lead an initiative or work as part of your team. We're agile and flexible, moving talent in and out over the life of an engagement to make sure you have the right people with the right skills at the right time.

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." — Winston Churchill"

what the hell is that all about? And what does this have to do with pinball machines?


HELP I'M LOST
 
RGP = rec.games.pinball. It was one of the first internet pinball forum sites predating the rise of the KLOV forum and the existence of Pinside.

I also think game name abbreviations are lazy and annoying.
 
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