7 Acronyms So Painful They Need an Ice Pack: Commenter Edition 

Outside Xtra Let Jane nerd out about Mass Effect please! I love listening to her

Outside Xtra remember when you did the one where video game characters can't hold there liquor Edward Kenway of assassins creed black flag can't hold his

Flint Luke me too

Outside Extra is OX .-. you failed me

I'd like to propose the argument that MEKA is actually a completely legitimate spelling. You're not supposed to capitalize words like "of" or "the", and Exo-Force can be considered one word.

Ralph Butcher OutsideXbox let Jane be a linguistic nerd

honestly after her discussion of quantum physics of bioshock infinite or whatever,yeah id love to watch another game science discussion,hell all of them are passionate in something so watching one of them discuss something they enjoy would be fun to watch

Ralph Butcher I do too. I made everyone in my family sit down and watch the Bioshock episode. Even my grandmother was impressed.

Savanna Dearing Which episode wuzzat?

I could tell they were about to cut her off, but I love linguistic stuff, and those were all interesting and valid points. It always bugs me when books & movies just have everybody speak English with English phrases in a world that is otherwise well-constructed.

Scotty Enn LOL

im ded XD

give him jet or Psycho let him be a JUNKY

@David Daivdson how dare you reply to a comment 1 year after it was made

@David Daivdson no you don't

@@eldritchlemon Well, he's probably not blind

I like cookies

That puts a bit of emphasis on Charisma, which I get the feeling might not be the most important.

pookywooky42 this was such a great show

I still remember Battle Ready Armor.

@@LocalMaple Wasn't that from the movie where they were all turned into senior zombies?

In The Grim Adventures of the K.N.D Mandy from The Grim Adventures of Billie and Mandy said to numba one’s team that there acronyms were stupid

*Identifying* *Error: Cannot Identify* *Enhancing* *Enhancing* *Object Identified: Team Fortress 2 D.I.R.E.C.T. H.I.T.* *Diabolical Instant Rocket Ejector Carries Teammates by Harming Irritating Turrets*

Sheogorath: BUT THE CHEESE, WHERE IS THE CHEESE IN ALL THIS!?

Caitlin RC The GLOO is a lie

Skyrim 6 delayed becos bethesda employees ptsd caused by Ellen's gloo gun.

Me:...... Yare Yare Daze *Prays to our Lord Sheogorath for help* Sheogorath: SKYRIM 6?.... SKYRIM 6?!. Haha! friend, you'd best hope Ellen's gloo gun gets you first else I'll have that talking grapefuit Stanley beat you with a rusty mace, then you can watch as I jump rope with your entrails!!!! AHAHAHA!. Maybe you were only joking, I've been told I go a bit far.... were you Tommi Honkonen? were you simply jesting by calling it Skyrim 6 instead of Elder Scrolls 6?, I'd hate to have to flay you aliv- Awwww who am I kidding... ID LOVE TO FLAY YOU ALIVE ANYWAY!!!

+Tommi Honkonen Skyrim 6? How did I miss 2 through 5? Is this final fantasy rules now, where the sequels get multiple installations? (it's elder scrolls that's what I'm getting at)

So it does semantically translate!

That's pretty cool. Also makes SO MUCH more sense than SpecTRe...

Wait a sec, Spectre was an acronym?

@@echofifteen714 always have been ;)

@@marekmamot7986 I thought it just supposed to sound cool, like in Ghost Recon

We’re talking real life here, right?

That ones definitely more tongue in cheek than these, considering that NASA regularly has absurd backronyms for some of its less well known projects.

The R.A.P.I.E.R engine stands for Reactive Alternate Propellant Intelligent Engine (for) Rockets

@@drewwagner5227 the R.A.P.I.E.R. is actually a joke referencing the real life SABRE (Synergistic Air Breathing Rocket Engine) engine whose concept it is based on. I personally suspect SABRE is another acronym designed to attract investors.

@@JaelinBezel Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies Yes-- that's from real life, too.

There are no women in the Zone, so this concern is irrelevant.

such is life in the zone

Requiem100500 idk man some of those snorks look pretty feminine who knows what’s under that mask?

Nobody says there aren’t women in the zone, and there might only be men in-game because the developers were lazy

Oh God, NOTHING IS SAFE

US Military in general with their SOCOM

@@echofifteen714 SOCOM makes sense at least

I suppose the US Navy didn't want its submariners pronouncing it "miss" and potentially confusing people during combat?

@@TheSchultinator I don't say it doesn't, I just meant that as acronym it would make more sense for it to be SOC

I would have went with Deadly Armed Vehicle Eliminator, vaporizing doesn't make to much sense there

*SUCKS EGG*

If you've ever heard of Backyard Monsters... One of the units is a little robot creature called D.A.V.E.

Hannah Meader I dig it

YES!!! full-power nerdouts are awesome!

agreed!!

This is why i love that video that's just Jane nerding out about space for the entire time!

Showerthoughts

If he makes that joke again, my reasoning for slashing him in half is totally justified!

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That one's fine tho

Kid MK ... wait, seriously?? Lol

It’s should be called DOM but Whatever

So *THAT'S* why it's allcaps.

I know, it makes me want to Subconsciously Upchuck Banana Salamandroids on Cakewalk Rhinestones Inside Buttery Ebullioscopes!

You took the words out of my mouth.

jacko2131 you know that someone is seriously going to check the meaning of these words right?

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Thats French for Eggplant

Captain koala ... Holy shit it really is.

But then you are a little too close to STARS.

Never noticed that oO. Wuldn't sound as cool as SpecTRes though..

They just pointed out in the video that Spectre has already been taken. Individuality is clearly not a problem.

STAR? You mean Resident Evil and Mass Effect are the same universe 150 years apart?

@Boruch Arnold Homie did you really just reply to a 2 year old comment?

@Boruch Arnold Did you have to put that in two separate replies? My point is that this dude, two years ago, made a comment which you disagreed with and you replied to it Like why? Also you're just wrong British armed forces use the same style of abbreviations Like for example The Common Battlefield Application Toolset is abbreviated to ComBAT and CinC or Commander-In-Chief And that's only the British armed forces I'm sure other countries (who speak English and maybe even some who don't) use a similar style of abbreviating So my point Why?

@Boruch Arnold Well be you know, funny next time Also I think acronyms are supposed to work the way that you think is stupid

Even words that don't seem like acronyms were made this way. RADAR: RAdio Detection And Ranging

@@gman1515 Ditto for laser! Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation! Although that one isn't quite as forced 😅

To whom?

Nice that is a good acronym

S= do U= B= S= C= R= I= B= E= meth

That actually sounds like a Kids Next Door acronym

S=make U=Petscop B S R I B E=2 Wrong channel.

+1 like, also I'm hearing Clarkson saying that in his "some say the stig" voice

Bonus points if you write a memo saying MEFOTKA on it.

What is the name for a word formed from an initialism? For example, when BBC is shortened to "Beeb".

@@dominichoughton8119 laziness.

Jam Dev seriously though

Jam Dev NO! Ellen is way funnier

Andy is king

Insert obligatory “nerd!” or “cool story, bro.”

Awesome

I'm wondering if Fallout and Goat Simulator did a mashup together, would G.O.A.T still be an acronym? Fallout 3 G.O.A.T (Sim) Edition. I'd like to see the goat firing nukes from its Fatman.

Anyone remember T.U.G., "The Ultimate G.O.A.T."? It's an acronym within an acronym!

RokuroCarisu Not really. But I have taken a much easier G.O.A.T. before. It's called the P.U.G which stands for Predominately Underrated GOAT. I hear though passing it also makes the P.U.G a cute pet but Dogmeat wouldn't approve.

Nerdazoid That comment and you're profile pic lined up nicely on this one.

Honestly the rules for acronyms have been completely ignored over the years. Words such as "and", "of", "or", "the", and many more do not get a letter in acronyms. So, "Greatest of all time" should really be G.A.T.

Because that's the same as S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics and Reconaissance Squad) from Resident Evil

Perhaps they didn't want to recruit Superstar Divas?

You joking, resident evils...

@@toangreenlow2229 *rescue squad

Because no one would be scared if a Star operator broke down their door... but if a Spectre broke down your door? You'd have a heart attack.

That would be an epic band name. I'm stealing it. You were warned. But... I'll give ya credit for it.

@@crystaljones1935 go for it, but be prepared for people to think you're big fans of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes lol

DeathByAccident Seriously Though Acronyms Lose Keen Eventual Returns

Nah, better: Soviet Transitory Always Looking to Kill Every Rat

@@KickyFut Thing is... aren't they Russian? Or at least from around that area? I get that the people have to speak english for english audiences, but wouldn't Russia make an acronym in Russian?

Wow... You must be great at parties! Yes, we know *they* are Russian, but *we* unfortunately don't speak it, so our *jokes* have to be in English. Please just enjoy them and have fun.😅

@@KickyFut Lol. Nah, I like making people's skin crawl with my pedantic nitpickery. Dance, puppets, dance!

Yeah seems legit to me too, think they just stuck that one in for the sake of the commenter's Greek food gag. Fair enough really, was a pretty good joke.

MEFKA would be better tho

Yeeeeeeep. And they say the English know 'proper' English.

It would not matter either way because if one is to translate the words into Korean, you would not get M.E.K.A. Instead, you would get B.E.H.Y.[This is a very hastily translated acronym and I am not a professional translator of the Korean language, so treat this with extreme scepticism and suspicion].

Yet we have acronyms like MOAB - Mother Of All Bombs, despite the fact that "Of" should be excluded, like the case in WMD - Weapon of Mass Destruction. Furthermore, the term "radar" actually stands for "RAdio Detection And Ranging" or "RAdio Direction And Ranging". English can be strange at times.

Additional exo-force is hifinated which some people may count as one word

M.E.F.K.A.

Dark souls 2 SOTFS (scholar of the first sin)

@@shadeslayer8631 i did say "NEARLY" everyone

Albister I know

Force is a legit word though...

MEFKA

But because of a dash it's connected to Exo, making it all one word, so it's legit just M.E.K.A

ADemon Slayer Then shouldn't Exo-Force be written as Exo-force? Since it's appearantly one word?

You are right, and 'Exo-Force' is a hyphenated word, so can just be represented by 'E'.

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That isn't an acronym, it's just creating a name out of his designation - CL4P-TRP (if I remember correctly.) This happened a lot in the Borderlands franchise.

Xyxthris I don't have my PhD in oxboxtra-ology but I would guess... all. I mean it would explain a lot of what they do and how they probably didn't sleep during E3

mike,ellen and luke are confirmed robots,though mike is a zombie robot hybrid andy is a vampire and jane is supreme overlady

I thought andy was a sentient planet

As a devoted Sheogorath Worshiper, yes I do keep up with the canon. This universes Jane is an evil Overlord, Mike and Andy are her sleeper agent bots, Luke and Ellen are Stand Users and the Luke in this episode was a disposable android built to fill in for Luke because he was too tired to come in to work today. I would know, Sheogorath told me. However be happy that you have not seen the Oxbox and Oxtra crew of Universe 999.... Overlord Jane murdered King Andy and usurped his throne along with her enforcer Robo Mike. While Ellen and her Stand, Giggles: Xtra, rebel against Jane. This all was perpetrated by Luke 999 and his sweet goatee, he wanted them all to destroy each other so he used his Stand, Storybook: Overwrite to cause little changes in reality to set of this chain of catastrophic events. It took the sacrifice of Afro Luke and Neko Ellen, along with the 8 talismans of Eskathorn to lock Evil Luke away in the deepest depths of Oblivion where he'll spend the rest of eternity there.

Andy is a sentient vampire PLANET. Like Brother Moon.

The could've also used the ACTUAL acronym, STaR.

Yeah, but it's substantially harder to walk around sounding scary when you go around calling yourself a star.

SPECial Tactics and Recon... Which is not how acronyms work bioware

Santosh Bawjee same

Define... normal...

Define... circles... Sure! Please open your books on chapter 3, Geometry and You.

Define... internet browser...

What would be the fun in that?

I'm still waiting for my F.L.A.M.I.N.G.O. shirt too. We seriously need this merch!

@Evangelos Killer mike What does that have to do with what OP is talking about?

@Adam Wilson r/whoosh

It's because of RE's STARS task force.

How about Cunning?

Maybe "covert"?

Citadel?

Concentrated!

Sexy People Exploring Cosmos Taking Risks Every Second

Acronymus

ACRONYMS

JKM395 Is it from a certain game or something? I don't know - just wondering.

Not that I'm aware. I just thought it was pretty.

JKM395 Ah, okay. Cool. Yeah, it is nice. :) Never seen one with printed design around the collar before.

Not remotely.

Dexter Morgan They're talking about the one with the purple shirt and the black printed design around the collar. That would be Ellen. :) Jane has the leaf-patterned black and white top.

Recurvess XD Sounds like it.

When your show's acronyms are so bad they barely even look how they sound. CFVY is pronounced "coffee?" Really??

@@armorfrogentertainment cofveve sounds good to me.

Well the acronym RWBY gets a pass because at least W makes a similar sound to u and the letters do vaguely make out the word Ruby, but the other ones are indeed terrible. JNPR making Juniper? I think not, and CFVY making Coffee is not even close so yeah. Show is great, the acronyms? Not so much, XD

@@fivestarguy100 JNPR is literally Juniper without vowels what are you on?

@@user-rl4tg2mr9n Ehh Sleep deprivation mostly. You right!

Wait, you've played Killing Floor as well?

That is known as a recursive acronym, like PHP, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, or GNU, GNU's Not Unix.

Really? they didn't bother with a semantic localization into Russian? ouch O-o'

That's really interesting

Special excutive coordinating terror, ransom, and extortion if I remember correctly. Mr. Blofeld is not pleased.

You mean like the Talus in BotW? Still can't manage to beat those guys without using a butt-load of healing items, 4 star armor, and buffs, but they just give rocks, which I can honestly just find growing in the sides of Death Mountain.

Well, it would have originally been Special Tactics and Recognisance in the Asari language, then they made the acronym... And then maybe the closest human equivalent is Spectre.

ThunderJunkOC Well, they could even call it STaR, which also sounds better and is probably more fitting (hi Conrad Verner! oh, you meant stars in the sky...?)

i know right, Mind = Blown