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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jedi_Solo" data-source="post: 3614686" data-attributes="member: 40245">You mean you've never heard someone use Steampunk as a put-down to a setting or style?  I've heard it quite a bit.  As far as D&D goes I've heard it used as a derogatory term a lot in conjunction with Eberron.I've heard people try to use it as one.  I will admit that in most (if not all) of these cases the person was referring more to the DragonBall or Naruto style and knew they were "anime" so they assumed all anime was like that.I've seen multiple people try to use it as an insult to the early 3.0 D&D art.And I've heard people use chocolate as an insult for someone who was "ooey-gooey sickeningly sweet". (I am not joking.)You are correct in that anything and everything can be used as an insult and a put down and quite often it is.  Telling something that they are 'great' and 'excellant' can be a put down if it said in a sarcastic tone of voice.  It's absolutely scary how good people are at cutting others down.Magic Wal-Mart has been used as an insult and not just on message boards (so I was able to confirm that is what the person was intending to do and I heard the tone-of-voice).  It was used to downgrade the target's choice of play style and make the speaker feel superior that they were "role-playing" the shopping encounters and not just "roll-playing" the combats.As far as I know everytime I have heard Magic Wal-Mart or MagicMart used (until this thread anyway) it has been used as an insult to another play style (it may have been that I incorrectly guessed the intention of the speaker/poster based on that personal experience but the 'insult' seemed to fit the context).</blockquote>

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