I mean there's also something to say for not being interested in flirting and wanting to be there for the event? They started touching him without permission. He, or anyone else, would be absolutely justified in not wanting that.

I feel like the closest in the deep south is just "preaching to the choir". A redundant task which ignores a probably better path or explaining something to someone who doesn't need it explained to them.

Also, if you're not in a rush, just email the authors!

A vast majority of professors and researchers hate the publishing industry as much as anyone, and will be happy to shoot you a pdf if you're interested in their work!

It's definitely not a contraction.

-er is the agent suffix in English. Effectively it turns words into those who do something related to that word.

Hawk > Hawker = One who "hawks" Run > Runner = One who "runs"

In principle this implies the existance of a verbal form of the root word, such as the two above examples.

Witcher, as used by the fantasy series, is a weird one because it's actually not related to the agent suffix.

The Polish title of The Witcher is Wiedźma which just means "witch". When it was translated to English they adopted "witcher" as a masculine form to the oft feminine "witch" by using the ability for the -er suffix to indicate a profession or association with a noun in English i.e. Cash > Cashier, someone who handles cash/payments (actually derived from french with the -ier suffix, but point still stands). In the cass of Witcher it is one who works as/with witches or else one who is associated with Witches.

I'm both a gamer and HP fan.

I thought the game was great, and I didn't really realize the depths of people's distaste for it, I guess.

Was it crazy revolutionary? No, but it was fun.

Yea very similar:

Padme Amidala: [steps away]I can't believe what I'm hearing. Obi-Wan was right. You've changed.

Darth Vader: I don't want to hear any more about Obi-Wan. The Jedi turned against me, don't you turn against me.

Padme Amidala: I don't know you anymore. Anakin, you're breaking my heart. You're going down a path I can't follow.

You csn hate a company and like a product. They aren't mutually exclusive.

I'm extremely anti-gatekeeping any hobby, and I've never gotten any bad vibes off him. He nearly always addresses the fact that many of the minutae that he focuses on are for the extreme nerds with extra money/time to spare. He even regularly talks about how many of the ideal processes he talks about, he doesn't do because it's a PITA.

He's very slow to recommend expensive/time consuming products, and he's quick to offer more reasonable alternatives.

That said, he's a coffee nerd with money to spare, so he definitely gets excited and involved with things that are a bit beyond your average bear.

Look I know it's called historyporn, but that's supposed to be a euphemism lol

It's an attempt to align with the West. Most Western countries are protestant/catholic and celebrate on the 25th, so if your goal is to westernize not only politically, but culturally, it's a step towards alienating those who cling to The Old Ways lol