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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rallek" data-source="post: 4015984" data-attributes="member: 8463">Stogoe -My problem with the developers constant use of the word "cool" is this; they're the developers, they developed whatever it is I'm about to read/hear about. I'm going into that assuming that they like it. I doubt that they're going to say, "This mechanic sucks.... it's really lame how we did this, but none of us could think of anything better, and we kind of want 4e to be terrible, so we did it this way." They made it, they kept it, is it a stretch to believe that they like it? "Cool", in its pop-culture sense, is just an adjective denoting something that the speaker likes, and I already assume that they like it.Beyond that, I'm about to read/listen to whatever it is that they have to say. If it really is cool, after I've finished reading/hearing about it I'll probably think something along the lines of, "hmmm... that seems pretty cool.", and if I don't think it's cool the developers assuring me that it is many many times is not going to change my mind. If they want to try and convince me that I'm mistaken, and it is cool after all, then they can do that by giving me some more information on it, or perhaps expanding the context of their example, not just by parroting "cool cool cool" at me.Lately it's been more restrained, and I am glad of that. I can't speak for anyone else, but that is my "problem with that word", at least in the context of WoTC and 4e.</blockquote>

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