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.
You mean you wouldn’t need your raid :D
And I agree about the lol thing.. I get it’s use, but my ex OVER uses it, sometimes, I’d really like to punch him and tell him that family illnesses do NOT deserve a “lol” >.<
Oops, heh, got that one backwards. One shouldn’t rant while tired, and yet there are few things quite so self-fulfilling in that out-of-brain sort of way while still being legal.
These days, lol only bothers me in those same excessive or inappropriate situations. But, it’s been a long time coming. Its universal adoption baffles me. When I first saw it in the dark, unspeakable past of mine that was AOL chat rooms, I had to inquire. “What is lol?” “laughs out loud” they would say. Who ways “laughs out loud”? How is this the first thing to come to mind when a person typing to another needed to convey their humored state? “Heh” and “haha” have been used in paper literature for ages, and are no more difficult to type. Then it dawned on me. “lol” can be typed with one hand, which is the premise of the Internet, really.
Incidentally, my mother has actually worn the L and O letters off of her keyboard, which is something I enjoy teasing her about every time I go home.