Jimbob Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 I have a suggestion for the forum, although I have no idea whether or not it is implementable on IP.Board. On some forums I've seen, they detect certain letter combinations (e.g. 'gtg') and format them so that, when moused over, a small box appears next to it saying the meaning of the letters (in this case, Got To Go). My suggestion is to use this, but not with general things like that - I understand that writing such statements out in full is more preferable here - but rather with game titles, for instance LU would represent LEGO Universe. If it is possible to do this, would anyone be in favour of it? I think it'd be a nice little touch and certainly help people who don't know the abbreviations used for all the various LEGO games. Note: I understand there is a BB Code for this, using the acronym tags (e.g. LU) but I just thought it might be nicer to not have to write all that out each time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Auto acronyms do sound rather nice. And for some reason I always forget about that BBcode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowblaze Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 On 12/2/2013 at 5:44 PM, Segatendo said: Auto acronyms do sound rather nice. And for some reason I always forget about that BBcode. Maybe because no one knows about that BBcode Jk, but this really isn't a problem in my opinion, perhaps because I never used that code and I don't know if it's hard to use it or not. It probably is so I think I'll just shut up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fush Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 I think this is a great idea. Small list to get started. Companies TLG DDI ATD TT Games LRR LR1 and LR2 (question, if LR2 wasn't made it's own acronym but LR was, would it show up as LR2?) LI and LI2 (same deal as above) IXS LU LSW LCU Forums RRU (like it's necessary, eh) BZP LMB And many more that I can't think of ATM EDIT: Added a couple more. Will probably keep adding them as I think of them. Jimbob and le717 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbob Posted December 2, 2013 Author Share Posted December 2, 2013 On 12/2/2013 at 6:18 PM, Shadowblaze said: Auto acronyms do sound rather nice. And for some reason I always forget about that BBcode. Maybe because no one knows about that BBcode Jk, but this really isn't a problem in my opinion, perhaps because I never used that code and I don't know if it's hard to use it or not. It probably is so I think I'll just shut up now. For a list of many of the BBCodes, you can click on the third icon from the top-left in the message editor, titled 'Special BBCode'. I'm actually asking for an automatic system unrelated to BBCode, but just used the current acronym BBCode as an example. Glad you like the idea, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 I like it! Good idea! On 12/2/2013 at 6:27 PM, Fushigisaur said: LR and LR2 (question, if LR2 wasn't made it's own acronym but LR was, would it show up as LR2?) Got a good issue there. It would require a bit of logic to make that one work. I'll post how I think that could be solved in code EDIT: >below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 On 12/2/2013 at 6:27 PM, Fushigisaur said: IXS In case you haven't noticed, the E is dropped from Extreme in the spelling of this game. Fush 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fush Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 On 12/2/2013 at 6:58 PM, Segatendo said: IXS In case you haven't noticed, the E is dropped from Extreme in the spelling of this game. Ah, that makes sense. Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbob Posted December 2, 2013 Author Share Posted December 2, 2013 On 12/2/2013 at 6:27 PM, Fushigisaur said: I think this is a great idea. Small list to get started. Reveal hidden contents Companies TLG DDI ATD Games LRR LR1 and LR2 (question, if LR2 wasn't made it's own acronym but LR was, would it show up as LR2?) LI and LI2 (same deal as above) IXS LU LSW LCU Forums RRU (like it's necessary, eh) BZP And many more that I can't think of ATM EDIT: Added a couple more. Will probably keep adding them as I think of them. These are great, and it's also great to hear that people support this idea I just hope it's actually possible to do. On 12/2/2013 at 6:45 PM, le717 said: I like it! Good idea! LR and LR2 (question, if LR2 wasn't made it's own acronym but LR was, would it show up as LR2?) Got a good issue there. It would require a bit of logic to make that one work. I'll post how I think that could be solved in an edit. Well, you could just leave it as LR meaning LEGO Racers, so people would see the 2 and realise it's LEGO Racers 2 (if that makes sense). But I think it should be made a separate acronym. EDIT: Adding onto Fushi's list, how're these? I'm not so sure about a couple of them. DR SR LL AT SM FM LC LCKK TLM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 @Fushigisaur, https://gist.github.com/le717/7757998#file-checkacronym-py If someone would like, I'll see about porting it to JavaScript so perhaps it can be used on the forum. I'm not too sure how the tuple in an dictionary (JS object) will work, but I can try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 I don't know how many times I've misread "Titles" in the title as Tiles today. Jimbob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobaFett2 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 EB (Eurobricks, not the other thing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickulator Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 On 12/2/2013 at 6:58 PM, Segatendo said: IXS In case you haven't noticed, the E is dropped from Extreme in the spelling of this game. Also, it should be LIXS. "LEGO" is part of the title, but I'm not getting into that argument again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 On 12/4/2013 at 6:09 PM, Brickulator said: IXS In case you haven't noticed, the E is dropped from Extreme in the spelling of this game. Also, it should be LIXS. "LEGO" is part of the title, but I'm not getting into that argument again. Since when? All the 2002 LEGO Interactive games (Island Xtreme Stunts, Drome Racers, Soccer/Football Mania, Creator Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) dropped the "LEGO" bit before the name of the game, not only on the box art, but the install directories, logos, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 https://gist.github.com/le717/7757998#file-checkacronym-js I made a JavaScript version. For those who do not code, it is simply an implementation idea for basis of the Jimbob's idea. While the actual code to get the text from the post content, apply any CSS that may denote an acronym and display the tooltip adds more to the script and is not present, this is basically the core of how such a system might work. The script should be able to be ported to pretty much any web language (I know IP.Board uses PHP a lot). I like how the Python version has multiple acronym's for one game stored in an array (which reduces code redundancy and possiblr errors), but I was unable to duplicate that in JavaScript. Jimbob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirevam Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 TF I'm trying to fudge this by using the bad word filter but it doesn't seem to work right. Below is the word "test.filter" minus the period immediately after filtering. Above is what happened after I put the word and edited the post so the BBCode would take. testfilter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 This was a dumb post and I have no idea what I was thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrem Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Certainly sir, you may have auto-acronyms. (Small skin edit done, so F5) Example: DDI Jimbob and le717 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emily Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 On 12/4/2013 at 6:38 PM, jamesster said: IXS In case you haven't noticed, the E is dropped from Extreme in the spelling of this game. Also, it should be LIXS. "LEGO" is part of the title, but I'm not getting into that argument again. Since when? All the 2002 LEGO Interactive games (Island Xtreme Stunts, Drome Racers, Soccer/Football Mania, Creator Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) dropped the "LEGO" bit before the name of the game, not only on the box art, but the install directories, logos, etc. FOCUS released all of the 2002 games in the UK (except maybe Creator Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) with the packaging indicating LEGO is part of the titles. Here's a random eBay listing with an image. If my copy of Galidor from them is any indication, though, the files on the actual disks still indicate that the title lacks 'LEGO.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fush Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 On 12/5/2013 at 4:42 AM, Cyrem said: Certainly sir, you may have auto-acronyms. (Small skin edit done, so F5) Example: DDI So this works now? I'mma try it out. DDI LRR RRU LR2 IXS ATD EDIT: YES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 On 12/5/2013 at 1:35 PM, Tazakk said: IXS In case you haven't noticed, the E is dropped from Extreme in the spelling of this game. Also, it should be LIXS. "LEGO" is part of the title, but I'm not getting into that argument again. Since when? All the 2002 LEGO Interactive games (Island Xtreme Stunts, Drome Racers, Soccer/Football Mania, Creator Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) dropped the "LEGO" bit before the name of the game, not only on the box art, but the install directories, logos, etc.FOCUS released all of the 2002 games in the UK (except maybe Creator Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) with the packaging indicating LEGO is part of the titles. Here's a random eBay listing with an image. If my copy of Galidor from them is any indication, though, the files on the actual disks still indicate that the title lacks 'LEGO.'Yeah, I've seen those. Another thing I remembered last night is that the old LEGO Interactive website dropped "LEGO" from everything, even previous games: http://web.archive.org/web/20040616070337/http://www.lego.com/eng/interactive/default.asp http://web.archive.org/web/20040804161231/http://www.lego.com/eng/interactive/product.asp?Title=Rock+Raiders&Code=PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead_name Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 On 12/5/2013 at 4:42 AM, Cyrem said: Certainly sir, you may have auto-acronyms. (Small skin edit done, so F5) Example: DDI Could we get a list of supported ones? I notice that LR1 doesn't exist, likewise LR3 / DR / LDR for Drome Racers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fush Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 On 12/5/2013 at 4:01 PM, origamiguy said: Certainly sir, you may have auto-acronyms. (Small skin edit done, so F5) Example: DDI Could we get a list of supported ones? I notice that LR1 doesn't exist, likewise LR3 / DR / LDR for Drome Racers I guess all we can do is test them all out. WORK: TLG DDI ATD LRR LR LR2 LI LI2 IXS LU LSW RRU BZP LMB DON'T WORK: LR1 TT LCU DR SR LL AT SM FM LC LCKK TLM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Here's the acronyms I've seen used for various games, in order of release (thanks to wikipedia's handy dandy list of LEGO games), minus some like Bionicle and Friends and stuff because meh. As you can see there's some conflicts: LEGO Island: LI1, LI LEGO Chess: LC (hardly ever seen anybody use this) LEGO Creator: LC, LC1 LEGO Loco: LL LEGO Rock Raiders: LRR, RR LEGOLAND: LL? LEGO Alpha Team: LAT, AT LEGO Creator Knights' Kingdom: LCKK, LC2 LEGO Stunt Rally: LSR, SR LEGO Island 2: LI2 LEGO Racers 2: LR2 Drome Racers: DR, LDR, LR3 Island Xtreme Stunts: IXS, LIXS, LI3 Soccer/Football Mania: SM, FM, LSM, LFM LEGO Knights' Kingdom: LKK (Does anybody even know about this game? I've hardly seen it discussed anywhere) LEGO Battles: LB LEGO Universe: LU LEGO Battles Ninjago: LBN LEGO City Undercover: LCU LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins: Meh, I've mostly just seen people call it "LCU 3DS" or rarely "TCB" LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey: PFFT LEGO Legends of Chima Online: LLoCO, LoCO LEGO Minifigures Online: LMO Licensed stuff: LEGO Creator Harry Potter: LCHP, LC3 Creator Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Let's make our lives easier and just call this LC4 (some files call it that from what I've heard) LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game: LSW, LSW1 LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy: LSW2 LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga: LSW:TCS, sometimes LSW3 before the release of the actual LSW3 LEGO Batman: The Video Game: LB, LB1 LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures: LIJ, LIJ1 LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues: LIJ2 LEGO Rock Band: LRB LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4: LHP1 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7: LHP2 LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game: LPotC LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars: LSW3 LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes: LB2 LEGO The Lord of the Rings: screw it LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: I'm done LEGO The Hobbit: no The LEGO Movie Videogame: I suppose TLMVG or something I don't even care Developers, or at least ones often given acronyms, in whatever order I think of them in: Data Design Interactive: DDI Digital Domain: DD Intelligent Games: IG Silicon Dreams: SD Attention to Detail: ATD High Voltage Software: HVS NetDevil: ND Play Well Studios: PWS Funcom: FC Traveller's Tales: TT (technically TT Games is the overarching group, while Traveller's Tales and TT Fusion are the two studios within it, but whatever) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbob Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 On 12/5/2013 at 4:42 AM, Cyrem said: Certainly sir, you may have auto-acronyms. (Small skin edit done, so F5) Example: DDI Thank you, Lord merCy! That's quite a list jamesster. With regards to the conflicts, the other forums I've seen this on simply list the multiple options together. They're on multiple lines but I'm sure a comma would work to separate them if conflicted acronyms were to be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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