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[Jennestia]

Gridania in itself is not a "wasteland":

An uninhabited wilderness

FFVII's desert under Golden Saucer? That's a wasteland -- a better word to describe Gridania's situation would be lifeless.

[Chrees]

Gridania in itself is not a "wasteland":



FFVII's desert under Golden Saucer? That's a wasteland -- a better word to describe Gridania's situation would be lifeless.

I'm pretty sure everyone knew what we meant when we said "wasteland," even if it isn't the dictionary definition of it. But even then, we were just using it as a metaphor. Plus you missed the rest of the definition, which would further enhance the metaphor:

barren: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

No need to get your panties all up in a bunch over technical stuff.

[Jennestia]

I'm pretty sure everyone knew what we meant when we said "wasteland," even if it isn't the dictionary definition of it. But even then, we were just using it as a metaphor. Plus you missed the rest of the definition, which would further enhance the metaphor
No need to get your panties all up in a bunch over technical stuff.

Yet:

Plus you missed the rest of the definition

Isn't that "getting caught up over technical stuff"? Also I grew up on a farm, pretty sure Gridania and Black Shroud isn't COMPLETELY worthless for cultivation.

I'm not English native, so no, not "everyone knows what is meant by using a certain term". Maybe people who speak English natively could link it to a metaphor, but nonnatives tend to read the word and context more closely in order to understand and the way I read it, it can't realistically be called a wasteland, but lifeless more than anything, since while there's NPCs and the like, it lacks "life".

[Chrees]

Yet:

Isn't that "getting caught up over technical stuff"? Also I grew up on a farm, pretty sure Gridania and Black Shroud isn't COMPLETELY worthless for cultivation.

I'm not English native, so no, not "everyone knows what is meant by using a certain term". Maybe people who speak English natively could link it to a metaphor, but nonnatives tend to read the word and context more closely in order to understand and the way I read it, it can't realistically be called a wasteland, but lifeless more than anything, since while there's NPCs and the like, it lacks "life".

I'm sorry that I wasn't aware of your background, and I'm also sorry for just trying to clarify by adding the rest of the definition that you had left out. I realize that kind of defeats what I had said, haha. Again, the "worthless for cultivation" would just be a part of the metaphor, implying there isn't anything Gridania has available to "cultivate," or offer, aside from the guilds, which even then are still empty most of the time.

My apologies. I didn't mean to come off as being rude.