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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fungi" data-source="post: 204604" data-attributes="member: 16">In all seriousness, it's because of the subject matter.  In this forum, we often must bring up specific tables as a basis of comparison, contrast, or shorthand.  So, when I want to say how much I love Attack from Mars, and that I like it more than The Addams Family or Creature from the Black Lagoon, I'd want to use the acronyms since the shorthand can be used with this audience.Or if I want to say that Attack from Mars reminds me of Medieval Madness, or that Attack from Mars is much better than Revenge from Mars, the continuous typing out of said titles really does become tedious.  Now let's talk about Bride of Pinbot: The Machine versus Creature from the Black Lagoon.  Now, I realize there really is no business comparing Bride of Pinbot: The Machine to Creature from the Black Lagoon, but you can see where maybe the acronyms start to become necessary.Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to fire up the International Business Machine Personal Computer for some The Pinball Arcade action.  I've got a hankering for some Tales of the Arabian Nights and maybe Ripley's Believe It or Not.  Nah, I'll just go back to Attack from Mars.Hmm... judging by what I just said, apparently I'm a fan of Solid State machines over Electro-Mechanical.  But when it comes to Dot Matrix Displays over Alpha Numeric, I really couldn't care less.Of course, outside of this forum, talking in real life, I would never mention pinballs by their initials.  That's just lame.</blockquote>

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