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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Fear of missing out" in case anybody was debating if its worth clicking on the headline just to find out what the fuck FOMO is. Or maybe I'm just stupid.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Classic FOMO to have FOMO about the meaning of FOMO.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's FOMO all the way down.

[–] Sturgist 5 points 1 month ago

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 Always has been......

[–] Subscript5676 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Urban Dictionary is useful for lots of modern abbreviations or Internet lingo

[–] KingOfTheCouch 16 points 1 month ago

This one is well established and old enough that it has it's own wikipedia article.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call you stupid because there's always someone who doesn't know something, but this one is surprising to me. I thought FOMO was a pretty well established acronym.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Maybe I was just one of the lucky 10.000 then :-) Also, non native speaker, so I guess there is that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its wild to me that someone here on lemmy didnt know what fomo was. It feels like fomo has invade my life for most of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

And 34 upvotes seem to indicate I wasn't the only one. Well, now we know.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hence why idiots pre order digital games that can’t run out of stock. Fucking morons that keep live service scams running.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Only reason I "preorder" is because I want to pre-load a game I'd buy at launch anyways.

But those stupid boni you get for doing that could all go away as far as I'm concerned.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It's always a good time to become a patient gamer (if you're into single player games).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Don't even get me started with battle pass. I always make fun of my friends that wear the battle pass gear. I ask them if they get that from the debit card quest.

I also don't get the concept of cosmetics in single player games. Like why who is going to see that?