• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My company was developing a product they branded with a “CP” abbreviation. I told then to, you know, not do that, but our marketing said they already internally committed and I was making a deal over nothing.

    Fortunately the product concept was also dumb and failed miserably before anyone in the industry could point it out.

    I also am amazed that IBM branded a whole product line as “SurePOS”.

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      3 months ago

      Cyberpunk Edgerunners (the Netflix anime) is pretty damn great and well worth the watch.

      Cyberpunk 2077 is a pretty decent game too. Not a masterpiece it was originally hyped up to be, and a lot of things in the game just painfully remind me of things that other games do better, but it’s still a pretty damn gripping game with pretty incredible atmosphere and style. Probably pretty high in my best games of the decade list.

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        3 months ago

        I thought the plot and storytelling was heart-wrenching. It’s only like ten episodes where the game is like 60-80 hours of content, and it only follows one specific plot thread, not the dozens in the game. So I feel like it’s unfair to try and draw a one-to-one comparison between the two.

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      3 months ago

      Fun fact: I tried looking up things about cerebral palsy and got warned about illegal activity. Was confused for a while.

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    3 months ago

    Elder Scrolls Online’s xp levels after reaching level 50 are called Champion Points, frequently shortened in and out of game to CP…

    “Bro I got almost 2000CP I’m doing way better than you”

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    3 months ago

    Now look, I like chicken parmesan, but I also know better than to abbreviate it. Not everything needs to be given shorthand. But if you’re going to acronymize something, for gawdsake look it up first.