Spyke
piefed.social

The ending "ard" meant being in a specified condition.

Coward- in an easily cowed condition, Dullard- in a dull condition, Drunkard- in a drunk condition, Wizard- in a wise condition

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Bastard is 'having been conceived on a bast', old French word for 'saddle'. I take it to mean something like not having been conceived at home with the usual suspect (the wife) but elsewhere.

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lemmy.world

I like that the bottom one is standing in a town in Skyrim, a world that also has the spell casting kind of wizards.

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As someone currently actively modding Skyrim, your Skyrim will not look like that unless you're applying, at minimum, 2 Gbs of mods and modding utility programs. Not least to change the architecture of a town. And to make the stone textures not look like pixelly mud, and the mud textures not look like pixelly shit.

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slrpnk.net

as an older Australian (60) it was used in my youth by older people to mean very good at eg "they are a wizard at maths". I haven't heard it being used for decades though.

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