@[email protected] to [email protected] • 7 months agoIf a politician was very vocal about the evils of Dungeons and Dragons and it was revealed that he regularly played CRPGs, would the media call the resulting scandal Baldursgate?message-square23fedilinkarrow-up1338arrow-down123starcopymore-verticalflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
arrow-up1315arrow-down1message-squareIf a politician was very vocal about the evils of Dungeons and Dragons and it was revealed that he regularly played CRPGs, would the media call the resulting scandal Baldursgate?@[email protected] to [email protected] • 7 months agomessage-square23fedilinkstarcopymore-verticalflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink16•7 months agoNot sure if you’re joking but the original “-gate” = political scandal was the break-in at the DNC headquarters in the Watergate Hotel by people connected to the Nixon administration. So this is either a TIL or “I met a pedant with no sense of humor on the Internet” moment for you arrow-up116arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareJojolinkfedilink7•7 months agoOh, you mean Watergategate? arrow-up17arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoAt least we didn’t call it Whitewatergate. arrow-up13arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
Not sure if you’re joking but the original “-gate” = political scandal was the break-in at the DNC headquarters in the Watergate Hotel by people connected to the Nixon administration.
So this is either a TIL or “I met a pedant with no sense of humor on the Internet” moment for you
Oh, you mean Watergategate?
At least we didn’t call it Whitewatergate.