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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9119042" data-attributes="member: 86653">Well, that’s the problem. You’re using the wrong dictionary definition and, as already stated, it’s wrong. This is a piece of jargon.Merriam Webster, definition 4. a magazine or book printed on cheap paper (such as newsprint) and often dealing with sensational material. Note how the word trashy is not there. Pulp and pulpy. From the pulp paper used in the pulp magazines of the late 19th and early 20th century. Inexpensive and mass produced. Sensationalist fiction, typically of the action-adventure, mystery, and horror genres. But there were pulp magazines for every genre. Recognizable pop culture stuff that originated in the pulps: Doc Savage. The Shadow. The Phantom. Tarzan. Zorro. Sam Spade. Hard-boiled detective fiction. Conan. The Cthulhu Mythos.Modern stuff that’s recognizably pulp: Superheroes. Indiana Jones. Star Wars. The Rocketeer. Action movies. In gaming contexts it generally refers to over-the-top action-adventure.People with their noses stuck in the air might have a negative connotation to the word pulp, but there’s no negative implied when most people use it. Especially when self applied or in gaming contexts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9119042, member: 86653"] Well, that’s the problem. You’re using the wrong dictionary definition and, as already stated, it’s wrong. This is a piece of jargon. Merriam Webster, definition 4. a magazine or book printed on cheap paper (such as newsprint) and often dealing with sensational material. Note how the word trashy is not there. Pulp and pulpy. From the pulp paper used in the pulp magazines of the late 19th and early 20th century. Inexpensive and mass produced. Sensationalist fiction, typically of the action-adventure, mystery, and horror genres. But there were pulp magazines for every genre. Recognizable pop culture stuff that originated in the pulps: Doc Savage. The Shadow. The Phantom. Tarzan. Zorro. Sam Spade. Hard-boiled detective fiction. Conan. The Cthulhu Mythos. Modern stuff that’s recognizably pulp: Superheroes. Indiana Jones. Star Wars. The Rocketeer. Action movies. In gaming contexts it generally refers to over-the-top action-adventure. People with their noses stuck in the air might have a negative connotation to the word pulp, but there’s no negative implied when most people use it. Especially when self applied or in gaming contexts. [/QUOTE]

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