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FOMO Has "Infected" Many Modern Games, Remedy Says (www.gamespot.com)
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[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 32 points 2 months ago

"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.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 months ago

Classic FOMO to have FOMO about the meaning of FOMO.

[-] Subscript5676@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

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

[-] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

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

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Master@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] DjMeas@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months 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?

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