I mean… I come from the forum scene and they were always called PMs, as in Private Message. What in the hell does DM stand for and when did things change from people calling them PMs to DMs.

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    DM is direct message and seems to have started around the same time things culturally shifted away from forums and boards more toward social media.

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      And now people don’t even understand me, like I wrote “I’ll PM you” and they said “What 🤨” 🤦.

      Guess I’ll have to shift from using PM to DM… though it seems completely illogical to me, but hey, that’s life I guess.

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        “I’ll Prime Minister you”

        “I’ll prime meridian you”

        “I’ll post mortem you”

        “I’ll prima dona you”

        “I’ll Pringle Mingle you”

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          “I’ll dungeon master you”

          “I’ll deathmatch you”

          That last one was probably used at some point in time though…

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        I somehow never realized it was a shift from forums. I’ve used both terms interchangeably with a bias towards DM. TIL

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        I’ll be you Dungeon Master any day ~~<3

        Playing Tuesdays and Thursdays, bring a barbarian or fighter.