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Sounds like ‘Murican propaganda. Everybody knows the original lemonade was Sierra Mist and it came out of an ancient oasis in the desert long before anybody knew how to make diluted juice from squeezing lemons.
Also every single food and beverage in Achaea is left sitting out for days on end and yet is still piping hot and fresh. Apparently food spoilage is just not a thing.
The medieval time period, where Achaea is said to be set went from (roughly) 500 AD to 1500 AD.
Fermentation wasn't discovered until 1855.
Bourbon was 1789.(ish)
The first known usage of toddy was 1786.
Mithril isn't even a thing, but the word wasn't invented until 1937.
I get why people want some consistency.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
But that aside, it really comes down to if the admin that build the world don't believe something fits into the technology/culture/whatever of the games setting, fantasy or historical (or both!) then thats just the way it is.
It's when they say "we're just following standards" as a way to dodge any real responsibility that I have to roll my eyes, or when they defend it saying "medieval technology couldn't do that."
Maybe the cream was functionally pasteurized by a Mhaldorian magi to give it "strength" to later survive hot tea without curdling. We'll call it Mhaldorian cream tea.
Milk, sugar, and anything else is sacrilege.
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
Physics are pretty irrelevant, as it's a fantasy world and they get ignored on a lot more things than if tea and cream will mix or not.
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
conclusions:
A. I care too much about food.
B. Making pizzas for two years in high school was maybe a mistake. File did not get wiped.
I issued:
issue me I'm very confused by #2 in the revisions of the crafting guidelines and wonder if perhaps an error has been made. The punctuation makes me think perhaps something was copied and pasted wrong? I have quite a few grammar reference guides (I'm a comp teacher) and I have never heard of that and which being described in terms of variables and constants. In both American and British references, the only common language I see for 'that' and 'which' is that these relative pronouns are differentiated by whether they are part of restrictive or non-restrictive clauses. That describes a definitive feature of something and doesn't take a comma. "The ring that has blue pearls" would mean a ring where the blue pearls are an important and identifying feature of the ring. "The ring, which has blue pearls,.." takes commas because the relative clause is giving additional information about the ring. I understand that some aspects of grammar vary between American and British, and that some language used to describe grammar has inconsistencies, but 'that' versus 'which' is a very common topic for grammar instruction and I cannot find any reference anywhere to the variable vs. constant language. Defining anything about a piece of jewellery as a constant seems confusing. Not all rings have blue pearls, so should we never use 'which' in any description of a crafted item? I'm not trying to nit-pick, honestly. I know reviewing crafting is a thankless and terrible job. I'm an English teacher, I grade essays every day and I'm sure my students find some of my grading frustrating. But this is the second thing listed in the crafting guidelines and as a person with even a basic knowledge of grammar, I would find your explanation of 'that' versus 'which' in the scroll completely out of left field. Thanks for listening.
The response I received: Message #2775 Sent by Lycon
2019/10/08/15:06 Greetings! In regards to issue #86411: Item #2 on the crafting guidelines is not a revision, it has been in place for over eight real life years! Please feel free to ISSUE ME (issue) if you have any further questions or concerns.
That is a COMPLETE non-response. Fine, it wasn't revised. It's still wrong. I checked Oxford, Fowler's, and Cambridge just to make sure some usage guide somewhere didn't use that 'variable' and 'constant' language, and nobody does.
We're expected to just roll with inconsistent and arbitrary rejection decisions, but the actual scroll that supposedly gives guidelines for crafting not only butchers the grammatical error it's supposed to explain, but also has completely screwed up punctuation. (Hi! This is how you capitalize and punctuate a complete sentence inside parentheses.) And the fact that they posted about a revised scroll, and then when I noticed a major error they didn't even bother to meaningfully check, just dismissed it because it wasn't part of what was revised, really pisses me off.
I get that y'all don't get paid enough for this. I'm a teacher, I promise I do. But the document you use to tell crafters how to craft should be correct. It's two sentences and would take five minutes to fix this entry.