| ▲ | Swizec 7 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
“for want of” in this context means “because of not having” or “for lack of” It’s an older way of writing English. But not like super old. Basically the kingdom was lost because of 1 missing nail. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | iwontberude 7 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
It’s so contrived and yet needs so many leaps of abstraction that I don’t think it makes its point well at all. “Bro my controller totally didn’t work that time! We would’ve won the match otherwise I promise.” Do you really think it was the controller that lost the match? | |||||||||||||||||
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