SirSamuel@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 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-square18fedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down112
arrow-up1157arrow-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?SirSamuel@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareexplodicle@local106.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 months agoI blame Heaven’s Gate and OceanGate.
minus-squareSirSamuel@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·10 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
I blame Heaven’s Gate and OceanGate.
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