I was corrected in that he used allegorical terms, but still. Stuff like that can also be considered a nickname.

Even without Shakespeare I can think of “agua,” “souse,” “sky nectar,” and “wet” all of which are nicknames I heard in the Chicago area in the 80s and 90s.

I didn’t know “souse” also referred to pickling brine or a drunkard until literally 20 minutes ago.

Edit: and “souse” was pronounced like the name of the fat guy in Gravity Falls.

It is really weird how you agreed with me and yet still said I was wrong.

It was the term used by the people that actually isolated the substance but, as England likes to do, they colonized the term to their standards and then pretended that was the right way.

Substance discovered by folks that called it alum or aluminum for literally five centuries then the Brits come galloping in to colonize the accepted name then try to look down on everyone else

…can someone get this guy a history book? Shakespeare alone used 14.

Must be nice to be super hot, very well known, and incredibly wealthy.

GPU prices are what drove me back to consoles. It was time to overhaul my PC as it was getting painfully out of date. Video card alone was gonna be 700. Meanwhile a whole ass PS5 that plays the same games was 500.

It’s been 2 years since and I don’t regret it. I miss mods, but not nearly as much as I thought. It also SOOO nice to play multiplayer games without cheaters everywhere. I actually used to be one of those people who thought controllers gave an unfair advantage but… you can use a M/KB on PS5 and guess what? I do just fine! Turns out that the problem was never controllers, it was the cheaters.

But then there is that. The controller. Oh my lord it’s so much more comfortable than even the best gaming mouse. I’ve done a complete 180 on this. So many game genres are just so terrible to play with M/KB that I now tell people whining about controller players this:

Use gaming equipment for gaming and leave office equipment in the office.

Actual conversation had with my wife, who was watching me play near the end:

“That chick is cute. I bet her romance is adorable!”

“She’s aromantic and asexual, you can’t romance her.”

“I bet her quest line is fun”

“Nope. It’s a really boring fetch quest where you set her up on a date with some bland woman old enough to be her mother. She is also very obviously sexually and romantically attracted to this woman.”

“…huh.”

I love Parvati but Drinking Sapphire Wine is a terrible quest.