Acronym and Abbreviation Overload: Difference between revisions

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** some characters, places, etc (HF, DF, PoNS)

** related websites (Ww, OF)

* The team of ''[[Discworld]]'' wizards who work on [[AI Is a Crapshoot|Hex]] do this a bunch—Hex is a computer [[Bamboo Technology|made out of an ant farm and some common household implements]], including an FTB (fuzzy teddy bear), a CWL (clothes wringer from the laundry), and the like. A number of these acronyms are references to real-life ones, generally from computing (such as "FTB", a play on "[[wikipedia:FTP|FTP]]", an Internet protocol).

* The team of ''[[Discworld]]'' wizards who work on [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|Hex]] do this a bunch—Hex is a computer [[Bamboo Technology|made out of an ant farm and some common household implements]], including an FTB (fuzzy teddy bear), a CWL (clothes wringer from the laundry), and the like. A number of these acronyms are references to real-life ones, generally from computing (such as "FTB", a play on "[[wikipedia:FTP|FTP]]", an Internet protocol).

* ''[[The Dilbert Principle]]'' advises employees to use lots of acronyms in describing their accomplishments because "they sound impressive while conveying no information":

{{quote|'''Boss''': "What was your contribution to the project?"

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== T.B.T.G. ==

* ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]]'': DND tends to suffer from this, because of the number of precise terms; AC, DR, CL (this one's even context-sensitive), DC, etc. etc. Oddly enough, there's no way to abbreviate "Denied your dex bonus to AC" any further.

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'': DND tends to suffer from this, because of the number of precise terms; AC, DR, CL (this one's even context-sensitive), DC, etc. etc. Oddly enough, there's no way to abbreviate "Denied your dex bonus to AC" any further.

* ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]]: [[Dawn of War]]'' wiki has many acronyms made up by players. The Dakkadakka Forum even has tooltips for the most commonly used initialisms.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]: [[Dawn of War]]'' wiki has many acronyms made up by players. The Dakkadakka Forum even has tooltips for the most commonly used initialisms.

* And if you think that's bad, you should see ''[[Exalted]]''. Acronyms like [[Game Breaker|VAP]],<ref>Void Avatar Prana</ref> PoCB,<ref>Protection of Celestial Bliss</ref> SSE,<ref>Seven Shadow Evasion</ref> GSNF<ref>Green Sun Nimbus Flare</ref> and SCS<ref>Solar Circle Sorcery</ref> are all thrown around. ''Exalted'' terminology is so flowery that typing all the Charms out in full could take weeks.

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* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'': [[In-Universe]], actually. Mostly to preserve memory space, but also has a nice futuristic look.

** Its [[Spiritual Successor]] series, ''[[Mega Man Star Force|Starforce]]'', does this on the [[Nintendo DS]], [[Rule of Cool|simply for the latter reason]]. It also forces this on the player, due to little paragraph space for the parts you have to write yourself, such as naming your "Best Combos".

* ''[[~~Starcraft~~]]'': Most of the Goliath's [[Stop Poking Me]] quotes. The Goliath in Starcraft II has many quotes reused, but also has the previous quote from G''oodMorningVietnam''.

* ''[[StarCraft]]'': Most of the Goliath's [[Stop Poking Me]] quotes. The Goliath in Starcraft II has many quotes reused, but also has the previous quote from G''oodMorningVietnam''.

{{quote|'''Goliath:''' Go ahead, TACCOM. Milspec [[RoboCop|ED 209]] on. USDA selected. FDIC approved. Checklist complete... SOB.}}

* The ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'' community has a lot of this. HttT, TSG, AoI, SoF, THoT, DA, HI, WM, ZoC, CtH, HAPMA... almost all campaigns, units and gameplay elements are abbreviated, [http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Wesnoth_Acronyms_and_Slang see also here].