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HP (Does the abbreviation mean Health Points, Hit Points or Hewlett-Packard to you)

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HP? (Does the abbreviation mean Health Points, Hit Points or Hewlett-Packard to you)

• Health points

  Votes: 450 30.6%

• Hit Points

  Votes: 665 45.2%

• Hewlett Packard

  Votes: 355 24.1%

• Total voters 1,470

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TOM 2

Member Oct 28, 2017 1,384 Ghost Planet Spaceship

Giga Man said: Heart Points

Heart Point

HP is a game mechanic that denotes the health of a character or object in numerous role-playing games, including those related to the Super Mario franchise, as well as the Luigi's Mansion series. HP can be restored using healing items such as... www.mariowiki.com Click to expand... Click to shrink...

This. Heart Points or Health Points for Mario RPG & Zelda games.

JulianV

Member Apr 10, 2018 542 My first PC was Hewlett Packard so that's the first thing on my mind. In games when I read HP I know is life, don't even think it on terms of health or hit.

Ceileachair

Banned Oct 27, 2017 189 It's all in the context of the conversation. If your talking about computer's and say HP I know your talking about Hewitt Packard. If you're talking about video games and you say HP then I assume your talking about Hit Points.

jman1954goat

Linked the Fire

Member May 9, 2020 13,645 Words and definitions Evolve over time. That's how language Works.

Tyaren

Character Artist

Verified Oct 25, 2017 26,459 Can mean all of that and depends on the context. ;)

Juryvicious

Member Oct 28, 2017 7,542 Depends on the context and how HP is used in a sentence. To answer the OP's question, Hit Points and Hewlett Packard.

astro

Member Oct 25, 2017 62,938 Hit Points has taken the lead and the world feels a little bit brighter.

Dunan

Member Jun 11, 2018 1,207 It's always been Hit Points for me; that's an OG Dungeons & Dragons abbreviation. Check out page 13 of the original Final Fantasy III (6) manual. HP = Hit Points and, just to get ahead of the people who think MP means Mind Points, MP = Magic Points.

Psittacus

Member Oct 27, 2017 6,294 It's an initialism, it stands for whatever it's defined to stand for.

SiG

Member Oct 25, 2017 6,485 I did not know my printer ink had its own separate status bar!

Juryvicious

Member Oct 28, 2017 7,542

Dunan said: It's always been Hit Points for me; that's an OG Dungeons & Dragons abbreviation. Check out page 13 of the original Final Fantasy III (6) manual. HP = Hit Points and, just to get ahead of the people who think MP means Mind Points, MP = Magic Points. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Nice post, I'm right there with you. OG DnD had its fingers in many pies that's for sure. The original Final Fantasy on the NES also described HP as Hit Points on their chart, as did Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System.

LongLivePlay94

Banned Jul 25, 2020 749 I thought it was Harry Potter or the esteemed author HP Lovecraft.

Shahed

Member Oct 27, 2017 848 UK, Newcastle I'm aware in gaming terminology that HP = Hit Points. But when I first came across HP and MP, I assumed they were Health and Magic Points. H standing for Health seemed logical and obvious, and I would have never considered Hit. Even now knowing it's Hit Points, when playing games and someone is low, Hit never enters my mind. Say I'm playing FFXIV. I'll think 'someone needs more HP' or 'someone needs more health'. HP and health are interchangeable, so unless you factually know HP stands for hit points, it's easy to assume HP equals Health Points. So yeah. Hit Points is correct. But I still think of it as Health Points. Hit just sounds weird amd cumbersome If it makes a difference, I never ame across HP until I played FFVII

Strike

Member Oct 25, 2017 28,913 No Harry Potter option in the poll? Serious answer: Health points.

kmfdmpig

The Fallen Oct 25, 2017 21,479 Hit Points or Hewlett Packard depending on the context. I had never heard Health Points before this thread.

solidr

Member Oct 28, 2017 524 HP is a slur in my country, and this is the first thing i think when i see or hear HP

DanteRavenkin

Member Oct 27, 2017 456 Canada I learned HP in old-school D&D so it's always been 'Hit Points' to me. edit: I forgot that I also quite often expect to see "Lovecraft" after HP

inspectah

"This guy are sick"

Member Oct 28, 2017 1,268 Germany HP is Hans-Peter

Deleted member 24021

User requested account closure

Banned Oct 29, 2017 4,772 All these boomers voting for "hit points" smh

808s & Villainy

Member Oct 27, 2017 44,324 It means whatever is most appropriate given the context. This isn't complicated at all

Dark Knight

One Winged Slayer

Member Oct 25, 2017 20,572 Health Power!

DC5remy

Member Jan 20, 2018 8,584 Denver co

JustinH said: for some reason, seeing "Horse power" instead of "horsepower" made me giggle and think of some jacked horse like... benchpressing a car or something. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Oops .. funny though

vixolus

Prophet of Truth

Member Sep 22, 2020 65,637 Side topic, anyone remember when Runescape changed from Hit Points to Constitution and how much of a stir that caused? HP is Hit points in games to me because of that

Kurita

Member Oct 26, 2017 13,702 La France I always thought it was "Health points" because we call them "Points de vie" in French, I assumed it was a literal translation (well, now that I think about it "vie" isn't literally "health" though lol) Blew my mind when I learned it was Hit

Deleted member 17210

User-requested account closure

Banned Oct 27, 2017 11,569 Hit points for video games. HP sauce for the fridge. Health points? I guess that's not as bad as the kids saying Smash Broze.

HPSauce

Member Jan 10, 2018 3,118 U.K.

AllThingsPurple said: HPSauce we need an expert opinion. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

catswaller

Banned Oct 27, 2017 1,797

DRock said: Has HP ever been called health points in a single video game? Wth... Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Also wanna know this

Shoe

One Winged Slayer

Member Oct 25, 2017 4,381 Probably Hewlett-Packard in a general context. Actually, Harry Potter more than any of them.

Night Hunter

Member Dec 5, 2017 2,907 +1 for D&D Hit Points!

SkyOdin

Member Apr 21, 2018 2,680 If you look at the manual for almost any RPG, it will state that HP is an abbreviation for hit point.

Dary

Member Oct 27, 2017 9,001 The English Wilderness I'm assuming HP as a term became so ingrained in geek/gamer culture that games stopped explaining what it stood for (the death of manuals would have helped), so you now have a generation that can interpret it as health points. Did Pokémon ever define it?

ColdDeckEd

Member Jul 25, 2018 541 Health points? I've heard of a health bar before.

Deleted member 22630

Member Oct 28, 2017 10,000 Depends on the context.

XR.

Member Nov 22, 2018 7,257 "Hit points" makes no sense. Is that an old thing? I've never heard of it.

OrangeNova

Member Oct 30, 2017 13,958 Canada Depends on context. Hit Points and Health Points are the same and used interchangeably. Hewlett-Packard if I'm working with printers or PCs

Amauri14

Member Oct 27, 2017 3,810 Danbury, CT, USA When I saw the thread title my first thought was Hewlett Packard, but honestly, it usually read that as health points if is related to a game.

BK0X

Shinra Employee

Member Oct 28, 2017 803 I've never heard of "Health Point" before.. not in English, at least.

TwinBahamut

Member Jun 8, 2018 1,360 You can call it Hit Points, or just Health, but I've never seen Health Points. But Hit Points Is the original term going back to the very origin of it's use in Dungeons and Dragons. Which makes sense, because HP isn't really meant to represent how much damage a body can take. It is meant to convey an abstract amount of luck, endurance, and plot armor a character has before they take an actual severe hit.

Arex

Member Oct 27, 2017 13,234 Indonesia When I see in games, HP = health points. When I see in non-game (this thread too), I assume HP = Hewlett-Packard In my local language (Indonesian) pronunciation, hp = hand phone lol.

SkyOdin

Member Apr 21, 2018 2,680

XR. said: "Hit points" makes no sense. Is that an old thing? I've never heard of it. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

It is literally the origin of the hp abbreviation in regards to being a numerical counter for how much damage a character can take. It comes from the Dungeons & Dragons game, the original RPG. Every RPG manual that defines hp will define it as hit points. It means "how many hits can a character take before they die".

Future_TraX

Banned Oct 28, 2017 1,926 Basel, Switzerland Health Points because of CS1.6.

XR.

Member Nov 22, 2018 7,257

SkyOdin said: It is literally the origin of the hp abbreviation in regards to being a numerical counter for how much damage a character can take. It comes from the Dungeons & Dragons game, the original RPG. Every RPG manual that defines hp will define it as hit points. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Yeah, I get that but it's weird to me to see everything as how many hits they can take, rather than how much health they have. Not that it matters much, but it's not like hits are the only thing that can damage one's health.

MysteryM

Member Oct 28, 2017 1,861 Context is king.

GamerJM

Banned Nov 8, 2017 16,242 HP because this was on gaming side, but if it was on off-topic I would have said Hewlett Packard.

jaymzi

Member Jul 22, 2019 7,007 Health points since MP is mana points. Health and mana. Not hit and mana.

tarman76

Member Oct 27, 2017 2,182

Patryn said: Context matters. Gaming? Hit Points. Otherwise? Hewlett Packard. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

I dunno, I'm on a video game forum and when I read the title when it just said "HP" I thought it was going to be someone asking if an HP desktop would be good for gaming. Haha

HardRojo

One Winged Slayer

Member Oct 25, 2017 27,675 Peru Depends on context. I prefer health points instead of hit points.

Sanctuary

Member Oct 27, 2017 17,106

TwinBahamut said: You can call it Hit Points, or just Health, but I've never seen Health Points. But Hit Points Is the original term going back to the very origin of it's use in Dungeons and Dragons. Which makes sense, because HP isn't really meant to represent how much damage a body can take. It is meant to convey an abstract amount of luck, endurance, and plot armor a character has before they take an actual severe hit. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Except that it literally does. The rest of its auxiliary functions are just that, and once your HPs hit zero, you are either knocked out or dead.

Edward

▲ Legend ▲

Avenger Oct 30, 2017 5,664 Unless i am having a conversation about electronics/computers it's hit points. I've never heard of health points before.

mztik

Member Oct 25, 2017 3,808 Tokyo, Japan Hijo de Puta Seriously, though, used to be hit points for me back in NES and SNES, but moving from PS/N64 forward, it has changed to health points for me. Prev

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