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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4095315" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Cool is subjective. That to me looks extremely uncool. It is in fact in my opinion, lame. This is closer to my cool.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.uoregon.edu/~klio/maps/gr/peltast2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> </p><p></p><p>Realism to me is cool, because something really kicking @$$ is cooler than pretending something kicks @$$. MMA is cooler than Wuxia. I got so sick of hearing about how cool Kung Fu was. There are few things that have given me quite the satisfaction of watching traditional martial artists get beat down by something that is actually cool. You don't look so cool with blood streaming from your face and this dazed look that says, "I thought I was cool? What happened?" Assault rifles are cooler than belts of poorly balanced throwing knives. Simply taking down your opponent without alot of fuss is cooler than showmanship. A well choreographed stage fight as far as I'm concerned involves lots of very small, very fast, very hard to follow movements. I could care less if someone that can't fence doesn't think that what I think is cool is cool. A well choreographed fire fight involves keeping your head down. That's cool. Adventurers wearing garb that looks like it could actually be used in an adventure is cooler than the adventurer wearing spotless fashion accessories. I crawl around in caves, and it makes me laugh to think of the sort of lame 'adventurers' supposedly doing so in most modern D&D art. Armor that looks like it might actually protect you is cooler than spiky bondage wear designed to nicely frame the exposed flesh. Someone that actually looks like he could fight is cooler than metrosexual glam boys and tarted up girls in poses that have more to do with come hither than killing things. Reality is cooler than fantasy, even in a fantasy.</p><p></p><p>Opinions of course differ.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 4095315, member: 4937"] Cool is subjective. That to me looks extremely uncool. It is in fact in my opinion, lame. This is closer to my cool. [IMG]http://www.uoregon.edu/~klio/maps/gr/peltast2.jpg[/IMG] Realism to me is cool, because something really kicking @$$ is cooler than pretending something kicks @$$. MMA is cooler than Wuxia. I got so sick of hearing about how cool Kung Fu was. There are few things that have given me quite the satisfaction of watching traditional martial artists get beat down by something that is actually cool. You don't look so cool with blood streaming from your face and this dazed look that says, "I thought I was cool? What happened?" Assault rifles are cooler than belts of poorly balanced throwing knives. Simply taking down your opponent without alot of fuss is cooler than showmanship. A well choreographed stage fight as far as I'm concerned involves lots of very small, very fast, very hard to follow movements. I could care less if someone that can't fence doesn't think that what I think is cool is cool. A well choreographed fire fight involves keeping your head down. That's cool. Adventurers wearing garb that looks like it could actually be used in an adventure is cooler than the adventurer wearing spotless fashion accessories. I crawl around in caves, and it makes me laugh to think of the sort of lame 'adventurers' supposedly doing so in most modern D&D art. Armor that looks like it might actually protect you is cooler than spiky bondage wear designed to nicely frame the exposed flesh. Someone that actually looks like he could fight is cooler than metrosexual glam boys and tarted up girls in poses that have more to do with come hither than killing things. Reality is cooler than fantasy, even in a fantasy. Opinions of course differ. [/QUOTE]
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