Abbreviations don't strictly have to follow any specific logic, they just need to be understood. What you're describing is an initialism, where you just take the first letters.
My best guess for pfp is that it's an initialism of the first three syllables because the fourth is unintuitive, three letters was common enough back in the day of BBS and pfp was recognisable enough, while pp is fairly ambiguous. Someone started abbreviating it like this, people picked up on it, and by the time I was old enough to engage with English message boards it was the norm already.
I only watched S1 and the very start of S2, but I would say there is clearly a much worse one. If he just picked her the series would have been over immediately, another big plus.
Join us in the world of cozy/puzzle games, where quick time events can go to die and you don’t have to treat a game like a full time job to be good at it 😄
Stardew Valley (and its many farm sim clones), Slime Rancher, Balatro, and Chicory: A Colorful Tale are just a few off top of my head. I can delve into my games libraries and list a bunch more lol
Edit: From my Steam library alone, mostly what I’ve played lately:
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Power Wash Simulator
Unbox the Room
Wanderstop
And my Switch library:
Moonstone Island
both “Mario + Rabbids” games (puzzle/strategy)
Ooblets
Animal Crossing
Sun Haven
Cattails: Wildwood Story
Sprout Valley
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Calico
The Ace Attorney Trilogy
There’s more in my Steam library that probably fit the bill but I haven’t fully played them yet. All of the above have minimal real time combat/platforming or accessibility options to mitigate it. All can also be played at your own pace, as well :)
Not cozy or puzzle oriented, but Baldur's Gate 3 turns into turn-based mode in combat. Pretty sure the same applies for other Larian games too, but I haven't tried them.
Do you like voxel sandbox games? Luanti is quite nice and relaxing depending on game (Luanti is technically a voxel game engine, and you can find various types of games in the built-in content browser)
If you use some masculine image for your pfp on a forum, there's a good chance you'll blame women something or spout some other anti-woke shit eventually.
I'm a weeb and i'm honored to be described as the final glory of evolution, but no, your comment is factually incorrect. i'm not a crab, and don't intend to become one either.
I have a particular term for certain kinds of edginess I just call “Shadow the Hedgehog writing”, where it’s more likely to come from a teenager trying to seem grown up/cool than an actual adult.
Plenty of anime/VNs have fallen in this category, giving early content warnings that the content will be dark; and then just having non sequitor turnouts like “And then the heroine stepped in a trap that severed her spine. She screamed for hours, praying for help, but none came.”
There’s a particular game whose name rhymes with “Tomato” that did this for me once. You bring some children to safety, and then go fight the attackers sending tanks after them. I came back to the kids, joking to myself “Sorry, hero, it’s too late; we already drowned in our own fear and sadness…!” And then I laughed out loud when my joke turned out right.
Worst part is, there is some grim and depressing stuff in the world, and yet so many grimdark writers don’t see any nuance in it.
I wanted a pfp of what I wanted to be and now it is what I am. I wanted to be read as cool but now I have Many from Honzuki no Gekokuji, because I love literature and I see myself as a small girlie.
The first pfp I used was a cropped FF Advent Children walkpaper of Cloud with sunglasses.
I still use Panty from Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt in some places. In other places I have an anime style OC character from a game I was developing (for which I lost the code to a hard drive crash). Some places have my photo (which I regret).
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NONE_dc@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 253d
First photo: immaturity, longing for status.
Second photo: maturity, longing for happiness.
M137@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 251d
Being a weeb != maturity.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d
Being somewhat older ≈ more mature
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 252d
Anyone old enough to call it an avatar?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 252d
Yes.
Also I don't know what the f in pfp is. If it's supposed to be profile picture, then the acronym should clearly be pp.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 5 pts · 251d
ProFile Picture
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 251d
Profile Picture. PP.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 1 pts · 251d
That would be the initialism, yes, but pfp isn't an initialism.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 251d
Pfp makes no sense though. Why does profile get two letters if it's the same length as picture? Just say an actual word or call it pp.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 4 pts · 251d
Abbreviations don't strictly have to follow any specific logic, they just need to be understood. What you're describing is an initialism, where you just take the first letters.
My best guess for pfp is that it's an initialism of the first three syllables because the fourth is unintuitive, three letters was common enough back in the day of BBS and pfp was recognisable enough, while pp is fairly ambiguous. Someone started abbreviating it like this, people picked up on it, and by the time I was old enough to engage with English message boards it was the norm already.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
Actually.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
ProFile Pic
PFP
It's just the first letters *of the syllables of the shortened saying.
texture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
i found the answer
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
Then what is it??? Wouldn't it be an acronym????
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 1 pts · 251d
That, or just a general abbreviation. If doesn't have to be a specific form of abbreviation.
Radar (Radio Detection And Ranging) also isn't a strict initialism, or it would be called RDAR.
Phrases like etc. (et cetera), & co. (company), vs. (versus), are also generally abbreviations.
texture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
it gets awkward fast wen you say to someone you just met online "hey, i love your pp" or "hey, i noticed you have a cool pp"
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 252d
No but I'm old enough to have custom made my own forum signature banners.
Sebbie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 252d
I'd respect it if she wasnt the literal worst girl.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 252d
I only watched S1 and the very start of S2, but I would say there is clearly a much worse one. If he just picked her the series would have been over immediately, another big plus.
NEILSON_MANDALA@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 253d
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 252d
Join us in the world of cozy/puzzle games, where quick time events can go to die and you don’t have to treat a game like a full time job to be good at it 😄
NEILSON_MANDALA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 252d
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 252d
can you give some examples pls?
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 252d
Baba is you
Patricks parabox
Portal + Portal 2
Outer Wilds
Maize
Linelith
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 252d
god everyone needs to play outer wilds at least once in their life
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 5 pts · 252d
Add Blue Prince to that list! It’s a newer puzzle game that is so insanely deep
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 252d
Oh yes good call!
OmniLotus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 252d
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 252d
Stardew Valley (and its many farm sim clones), Slime Rancher, Balatro, and Chicory: A Colorful Tale are just a few off top of my head. I can delve into my games libraries and list a bunch more lol
Edit: From my Steam library alone, mostly what I’ve played lately:
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Power Wash Simulator
Unbox the Room
Wanderstop
And my Switch library:
Moonstone Island
both “Mario + Rabbids” games (puzzle/strategy)
Ooblets
Animal Crossing
Sun Haven
Cattails: Wildwood Story
Sprout Valley
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Calico
The Ace Attorney Trilogy
There’s more in my Steam library that probably fit the bill but I haven’t fully played them yet. All of the above have minimal real time combat/platforming or accessibility options to mitigate it. All can also be played at your own pace, as well :)
Further edit: almost forgot my epic library too!
Bear and Breakfast
Toem
Garden Story
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 252d
Not cozy or puzzle oriented, but Baldur's Gate 3 turns into turn-based mode in combat. Pretty sure the same applies for other Larian games too, but I haven't tried them.
OmniLotus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 252d
^1^ Maybe Lingo 2 but haven't seen anyone play it or played it myself
^2^ Amazing game but I don't recommend.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 252d
Turn based strategy! Also Paradox RTSes are pausable so almost like TBS if you want it to be.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 252d
Come to the park and play dinosaur with me
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 252d
Do you like voxel sandbox games? Luanti is quite nice and relaxing depending on game (Luanti is technically a voxel game engine, and you can find various types of games in the built-in content browser)
ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 252d
Do not join any of the others. Join ME and together we can rule the galaxy!
mlg@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 252d
Another day of weebs trying to vindicate themselves within the gamer community smh my face
Tilgare@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 252d
Once cringe, always cringe.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 251d
I’ve never been weeb enough to use an anime girl for my avatar.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net · 3 pts · 251d
Good, keep it that way, I’ll come back
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 250d
At this point in my life I’d have to receive a head injury or something to become more weeb.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net · 2 pts · 250d
That's what they all say
next thing you know they're in maid outfits, with body pillows and giant and explicit anime girl figurines
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 250d
Nah, I’m just 39 and have a wife. And also can count the anime’s I’ve watched on one hand. So it would take an unforeseen tragedy at this point.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net · 2 pts · 250d
Alright yea you’re pretty safe
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 252d
People have inferiority complex when they're young so they feel they need to brag with how "badass" they are.
When you're older you understand that true wisdom is in the little things, in the things that don't look like much but make up a healthy society.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
If you use some masculine image for your pfp on a forum, there's a good chance you'll blame women something or spout some other anti-woke shit eventually.
M137@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 251d
Weebs are very much not part of a healthy society. They're cancerous.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
Go back to watching Seinfeld.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 250d
I'm a weeb and i'm honored to be described as the final glory of evolution, but no, your comment is factually incorrect. i'm not a crab, and don't intend to become one either.
Katana314@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d
I have a particular term for certain kinds of edginess I just call “Shadow the Hedgehog writing”, where it’s more likely to come from a teenager trying to seem grown up/cool than an actual adult.
Plenty of anime/VNs have fallen in this category, giving early content warnings that the content will be dark; and then just having non sequitor turnouts like “And then the heroine stepped in a trap that severed her spine. She screamed for hours, praying for help, but none came.”
There’s a particular game whose name rhymes with “Tomato” that did this for me once. You bring some children to safety, and then go fight the attackers sending tanks after them. I came back to the kids, joking to myself “Sorry, hero, it’s too late; we already drowned in our own fear and sadness…!” And then I laughed out loud when my joke turned out right.
Worst part is, there is some grim and depressing stuff in the world, and yet so many grimdark writers don’t see any nuance in it.
NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 250d
What game is that? I'm trying to search for games whose name rhymes with tomato, but it all returns a game called "Mr. Tomato"
KernelTale@programming.dev · 3 pts · 252d
I wanted a pfp of what I wanted to be and now it is what I am. I wanted to be read as cool but now I have Many from Honzuki no Gekokuji, because I love literature and I see myself as a small girlie.
zxqwas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 252d
I've used the same pfp which is a photo of myself with a funny mask since 2007.
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 252d
The first pfp I used was a cropped FF Advent Children walkpaper of Cloud with sunglasses.
I still use Panty from Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt in some places. In other places I have an anime style OC character from a game I was developing (for which I lost the code to a hard drive crash). Some places have my photo (which I regret).
Now I use a photo of my cats.
I don't think I have a pfp on Lemmy
konalt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 252d
You do! It's your cats. Love them!
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 252d
Heh, I do? Voyager doesn't show them and I rarely use the web interface so I completely forgot 😅
Thank you! They are some silly floofs, especially the orange one 😹
Chozo@fedia.io · 2 pts · 253d
I feel called out.