The Player is the Thing

The Player is the Thing

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Joseph T.L. Clark
Aug 01, 2021
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Consider the following:

LF1M DPS H SH/SHH/BF/BM/OHF

This sentence is constructed entirely out of initialisms. Anyone who has played World of Warcraft will likely be able to decipher it; for the rest of us, it has no meaning. In English it would read:

Looking for one more damage per second for Heroic dungeons, we're running either Sethekk Halls, Shattered…

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