This will be short, but I need to get it off my chest. I’ve accepted that DPS is a role. I’ve begrudgingly accepted that DPS is a verb. You may even hear me use it as such in a sentence.
Stop saying “DPS per second”. You do not do 3,000 damage per second per second. That would require Calculus and derivatives warping the fabric of time in upon itself. You also did not do 400,000 DPS during that last encounter. You did 400,000 damage during that encounter. If you could do 400,000 DPS, your raid group would not need you.
I can’t explain why this bothers me, yet it guts at me like a dull rusted knife to the intestines. Then again, it did take me several years to stop cringing at “lol”, and I still can’t stand to see it used as a replacement for punctuation. I’m a calm person, but I guess we all have our anal hang-ups we can’t explain.
TL;DR version:
DPS per Second is wrong. Stop saying it.
This angry rant brought to you by sleep deprivation. Sleep Deprivation, because Dragon Age: Origins consumed 3,000 seconds per second of my life last night.
