https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/couple-few-several-use

Couple is used to refer to two things, but is also often used for a small number greater than two.

by the 1500s, it was also being used in the phrase a couple of to refer to an indefinite but still small number of people or things

Verdict: couple is used of small numbers most of the time, but usually at least two or more.

So yeah, the meaning of “at least two but possibly a bit more than that” has been around for a loooooong time.

Doesn’t that exclude 2?

Church of Jesus Christ? More like Church of “Jesus Christ!”

I’d guess OnePlus. Been a while since I bought my current Samsung, but I miss their better interface and battery saving often.

Though it truly is a shame that they started putting the fingerprint sensors under the screen, too. The meh sensor on the Samsung is possibly my biggest irritant. But reportedly at least the OnePlus one is better.

I honestly expected the reverse. I’m vegetarian and I’d always thought I ate proportionally more carbs than the average person because of it.

Oh yeah. My fridge is in the corner, and my kitchen isn’t that large. Swapping the door would make it nearly impossible to use.

Not really on topic but wait just a gosh darn second.

This person is playing and reviewing (what might be called) the prettiest, most demanding game ever made, and they’re doing it on a Steam Deck, on Low?

But still, the visuals are the main thing they praise about it?

I’m a bit surprised? Confused? Anyway that’s a little weird.

Huh. I would’ve never guessed! Maybe that distinction doesn’t exist in French, which might explain why I’ve never heard of that before? Interesting!

Aw come on, those are two very different meanings of the word in my book. As it happens, the couple of eggs I took out of the fridge aren’t in a romantic relationship.

It’s pronounced niche, not niche, damn it.

Lol I bet humanity is 50-50 on that one. Some annoyed by the mistake; others by the correction. No middle ground.

😠✊

Don’t diss my pesto pear caramelized onion pizza.

Disagree. I’ve always understood it to mean approximately two. Usually 2-3; 4 isn’t outlandish.

Unless that’s the meaning, the expression doesn’t have a reason to exist. So that’s how I decide to interpret it.

I’m gonna be representative of the idiots here and ask:

I don’t get the difference. Please help.

Rogue was the first, and thus the trend was named after it. There would need to be something extremely significant to override that. Someone would need to invent a catchier name and popularize it to the point that it starts competing with the old one and eventually overtake it.

It would need to be like what happened to the term “Doom clone”.

I wonder if the same will happen with the term “soulslike”.

To be honest I just look at the state of the world and laugh like I’m watching a sad comedy.

And I avoid thinking about how I’m in it and I have basically zero power over it.

I vote for whomever is the least bad candidate and try not to think about it too much the rest of the time.

Hey not just the EU. There are smaller initiatives in other countries, including Canada.

So, once I saw the beginning of a fight. Which was stopped after like a minute by the guard ladies.

Yeah, my school was tame as hell.

Elden Ring with the Seamless Coop mod looks like great fun if you enjoy that type of game. I’ve wanted to try it for a long time.