Everyone knows the acronym LOL, it means 'laugh out loud'.

But not everyone uses it.

I personally do not like to use LOL in my posts, sounds too 'noobish' for some reason...

What is your opinion on LOL? do you use it? why?

Please share!

lol

i don't like it since i can't help reading it as a word instead of an acronym, so it sounds very daft to me. i prefer smilies.

At my mind this is an unneeded exaggeration. I always have a picture of a nerd in front of a screen laughing out loud. And then look into these posts where they use LOL! Often there is nothing funny, not even giving you a smile but they claim to lough out loudly. Sounds unbelievable to me.

LOL lol LoL or whatever, it's sometimes okay, but generally I don't use them.

I use smilies more.

I use it often, LOL or lol. << Some people thinks that LOL means something else -.-
But i like smilies better.

i like the smilies more,too. they look much better and you can see the feeling of the others.

I have to agree.
Smilies give a better impression of how the person is actually feeling.
It's like the difference between a smile and a smirk.

as an offtopic mention, I noticed there's two 14 year olds here... Is that seriously how low level of age in 3D game creation has gone o.O

Yes, i am one of the 14 year olds in this forum.
As it says in my signature:"don't underestimate me"

Taught myself c++ and directx last year, but the development process was just too slow. So i tried other free engines and found these ones:
-Irrlicht
-DarkBasic
-XNA
-Torque
-gameblender
-RADgame
-O3D
-Ogre3D
-CrystalSpace
But they were either not powerful, cost too much, or had a difficult and slow development process

But just before my 14th birthday i found lite-c. Learnt most of the language in a week (c++ experience helps greatly). This engine is BY FAR the best engine i have found on many aspects.

After 3 months of the free lite-c, i saved up for extra, and got myself WED which simplified the development process even more.

Most of my friends could never be bothered doing any of this, they're usually playing games, or listening to ipods, or watching tv...but not me(although i do watch dr who sometimes ).

My reason for starting so early is because i have nothing else to worry about. I'm not being mean to myself, but i don't have a life yet. I'v got no bills to pay, no university projects, no work...

I have all the time in the world for my passion:

Developing games.