While you apparently know what AAA means, you apparently don’t know the definition of the word “pedantic”. If you are talking to somebody in the games industry, and you use the word “AAA” you are talking about a large budget game. If by some reason of misunderstanding it later turns out that you really meant “AAA” by…

That’s the problem. If you haven’t planned ahead well enough, you can get into these situations. You can’t just tell them “nah, just take the day off”. They need/want to work and you need to make progress.

I wish gamers would realize this. Unfortunately a lot of gamers out there will pass on a game because it wasn’t made with a huge budget or marketing hype.