5.2  Appendix 2: Acronymphomania.

    The following primer is a both a glossary and a list of commonly
    used acronyms on a.g.t and in this FAQ.

    :)        - a smiley or 'emoticon'; there are many different types.
    3rdPP     - 3rd Person Perspective game.
    a.f.l-c   - alt.fan.lara-croft
    a.g.t     - alt.games.tombraider
    BAB       - Bimbo Actress Banality.
    <bg>      - Big Grin.
    BN        - Blastable Nasties; the men and monsters that Lara
                shoots.
    Bugsie    - Colloquial anthropomorphic name for the TR 'corner bug'.
    CGI       - Computer Generated Image.
    cutscene  - A cutscene is an ingame scripted sequence using the game
                engine itself to render the scene.
    DC        - Sega Dreamcast; a gaming console.
    Divine Ponytail, The
              - Suitable nickname for Lara Croft.
    FAQ       - Frequently Asked Question.
    fanfic    - Fan fiction; stories written about TR by fans.
    FMV       - Full Motion Video; in between some levels in the TR
                games you get a beautifully rendered movie using an
                external video file.  Can be viewed straight from the CD
                using the appropriate fmv player if you want (Escapeplay
                for TR's 1-3, Bink for TRLR - see section 5.1.4).
    FPS       - First Person Shooter; games like Half-Life, Quake,
                Unreal, Doom, System Shock 2, Soldier of Fortune, etc.
    flame     - a post containing nasty abhorrent abuse of another
                poster.
    JBS       - James Bond Syndrome; a contagious disease that entails
                the fine art of being captured by the badguys in every
                adventure the hero(ine) has.  Lara suffers from this
                disease, or at least she did up until TRLR.
    <g>       - Grin.
    lunchbox, or, the TARDIS
              - terms used for Lara's teeny tiny, yet oh-so-spacious,
                backpack.
    Mac       - A computer with training wheels you can't remove.
    N64       - Nitendo64; another gaming console.
    ng        - newsgroup.
    PC, PeeCee
              - A real machine; IBM/Compatible personal computer.
    PS2       - Playstation 2; Sony's latest gaming console.
    PSX       - Original Playstation console; now only good as a
                doorstop and/or paperweight.
    spam      - Unwanted junk mail advertising that infests newsgroups.
    thread    - A thread is formed by a post and all the subsequent
                followups.
    TR        - Tomb Raider.
    TR1, TR2, TR3, TR4
              - The games: Tomb Raider 1, Tomb Raider 2, Tomb Raider 3,
                Tomb Raider 4.
    TR2G      - Tomb Raider 2 Gold.
    TR3TLA    - Tomb Raider 3: The lost Artifact (aka TR3G -- the 'gold'
                levels for TR3).
    TRC       - Tomb Raider: Chronicles (aka TR5)
    TRG       - Tomb Raider (1) Gold.
    TRLR      - Tomb Raider: Last Revelation (aka TR4)
    TRUB      - Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business.
    troll     - a post by someone who deliberately wants to incite nasty
                arguments within a particular ng.
    UB        - Unfinished Business; the add on missions for TR1.