Answered Hustle is a Goofy Name

Am I the only person that thinks "Hustle" is a silly name for a runeword? Surely "Haste", "Swift", "Celerity", or something similar would have been a better tonal match with the rest of the runeword canon? I feel very strongly about this, but at this point there's not much to be done for it. It'd just be nice to know I'm not the only one indignant about it.

I agree, I think it's a dumb name. Ah well

If they had added reduced vendor selling prices, it would make more sense

I also agree.

And my characters agree, but at this point they would not want the name to be changed. When they have one equipped, they get way too much enjoyment out of running around and singing "do the Hustle!"

On the plus side, at least it wasn't "Hustler."

x'D

Doesn't anyone know the most common meaning of the word?

-"Come on people, Hustle!" equates to -"Hurry up people, get moving".

It can also refer to urgent/urgency, expedite, hasten, make haste, bump/buffet/jog, force/press/rush and crowding...

Maybe I'm part of the minority but I like it. Reminds me of the song 'The Hustle' and dance that came up from it

"Do the Hustle!!"

"Haste" would have been a more Diablo-esque sounding word. Hustle sounds too modern and slangish. I blame too much rap & hip hop culture in society =P

halflife wrote: 2 months ago

"Haste" would have been a more Diablo-esque sounding word. Hustle sounds too modern and slangish. I blame too much rap & hip hop culture in society =P

If it is named after the song 'The Hustle', that was released in 1975...and its a disco song, not rap or hip-hop...

Knappogue wrote: 2 months ago

halflife wrote: 2 months ago

"Haste" would have been a more Diablo-esque sounding word. Hustle sounds too modern and slangish. I blame too much rap & hip hop culture in society =P

If it is named after the song 'The Hustle', that was released in 1975...and its a disco song, not rap or hip-hop...

But do we know that it is named after that 1975 song? It's open to individual interpretation it seems.

halflife wrote: 2 months ago

Knappogue wrote: 2 months ago

halflife wrote: 2 months ago

"Haste" would have been a more Diablo-esque sounding word. Hustle sounds too modern and slangish. I blame too much rap & hip hop culture in society =P

If it is named after the song 'The Hustle', that was released in 1975...and its a disco song, not rap or hip-hop...

But do we know that it is named after that 1975 song? It's open to individual interpretation it seems.

We don't know, that's why I started my statement with an 'If'.

FULCRUM75 wrote: 2 months ago

Doesn't anyone know the most common meaning of the word?

-"Come on people, Hustle!" equates to -"Hurry up people, get moving".

It can also refer to urgent/urgency, expedite, hasten, make haste, bump/buffet/jog, force/press/rush and crowding...

But that use of "Hustle" is an imperative. Every other runeword is a noun or noun phrase.

Aelanwyr wrote: 2 months ago

But that use of "Hustle" is an imperative. Every other runeword is a noun or noun phrase.

Based on the fire buffs associated with Temper, I'd say it's named after the verb of Temper and not the noun usage

Knappogue wrote: 2 months ago

Reminds me of the song 'The Hustle' and dance that came up from it

"Do the Hustle!!"

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Knappogue wrote: 2 months ago

Aelanwyr wrote: 2 months ago

But that use of "Hustle" is an imperative. Every other runeword is a noun or noun phrase.

Based on the fire buffs associated with Temper, I'd say it's named after the verb of Temper and not the noun usage

A metal object's Temper is a reference to the properties it obtained as a consequence of the forging process, including its resilience to heat. I'd say it still fits the mold.

halflife wrote: 2 months ago

"Haste" would have been a more Diablo-esque sounding word. Hustle sounds too modern and slangish. I blame too much rap & hip hop culture in society =P

If you consider the first known use of Hustle in 1684 in English to be modern, suuure?
Taken from the Dutch "hutselen", meaning "to shake", it had "changed to its modern meaning of hurry or move quickly by 1812".

Aelanwyr wrote: 2 months ago

FULCRUM75 wrote: 2 months ago

Doesn't anyone know the most common meaning of the word?

-"Come on people, Hustle!" equates to -"Hurry up people, get moving".

It can also refer to urgent/urgency, expedite, hasten, make haste, bump/buffet/jog, force/press/rush and crowding...

But that use of "Hustle" is an imperative. Every other runeword is a noun or noun phrase.

Uh, Hustle is also a noun in that use...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hustle
>>>Hustle
2 of 2
noun
1
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: energetic activity<<<

Aelanwyr wrote: 2 months ago

Knappogue wrote: 2 months ago

Aelanwyr wrote: 2 months ago

But that use of "Hustle" is an imperative. Every other runeword is a noun or noun phrase.

Based on the fire buffs associated with Temper, I'd say it's named after the verb of Temper and not the noun usage

A metal object's Temper is a reference to the properties it obtained as a consequence of the forging process, including its resilience to heat. I'd say it still fits the mold.

Along that same thought process we can use Hustle as a noun: the act of hustling.

Knappogue wrote: 2 months ago

halflife wrote: 2 months ago

Hustle sounds too modern and slangish. I blame too much rap & hip hop culture in society =P

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Yes ofc. Same as how this thread exists that Hustle for a RW name is "goofy." My opinion is that Hustle sounds "too modern" for D2, but that's my view of it, there is no objective basis for this other than my own subjective interpretation.

FULCRUM75 wrote: 2 months ago

Doesn't anyone know the most common meaning of the word?

-"Come on people, Hustle!" equates to -"Hurry up people, get moving".

It can also refer to urgent/urgency, expedite, hasten, make haste, bump/buffet/jog, force/press/rush and crowding...

To expand on my previous point, the noun meanings of "Hustle" are (1) the component of the phrase "Hustle and bustle" that almost never appears without its idiomatic partner and (2) a fraud or swindle, and the more modern derivatives of that use case. Neither definition is what the runeword appears to be appealing to. And if it is, it feels anachronistic, as both are, to my mind, connotatively linked to post-industrial society.