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<blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3624313" data-attributes="member: 30001">I don't find them offensive (not that you asked me).&nbsp; However, some terms do raise a red flag to me that I'm dealing with a partisan person in an edition war thread and I have a tendency to lower my expectation of having a civil conversation when I see them.&quot;Magic Wallmart&quot; IMO is much more foolish than &quot;MagicMart&quot; (which is a fine term IMO).&nbsp; &quot;Wallmart&quot; is almost totally useless when taken literally.&nbsp; The issue certainly isn't that someone has a store in their campaign world named &quot;wallmart&quot;.&nbsp; And there's no real identifying characteristic of wallmart, as opposed to Sears or whatever that indicates why that word was used.&nbsp; The reason it is used IMO is because it's a snide jab - it doesn't really make any sense to me otherwise.&nbsp; IMO MagicMart is perfectly fine - and doesn't introduce a distracting and poorly-applied analogy to a real-world store.Pokemount is similarly confusing and inflammatory.&nbsp; There's no reason AFAIK that the 3.5E Paladin Mount is any more similar to Pokemon than it is Summon Monster V, mechanics wise.&nbsp; But it's not called &quot;Summon Monster Mount&quot; because, like &quot;Magic Wallmart&quot;, the analogy has connotations that goes beyond the simple reading of the rules.&nbsp; As pointed out above, &quot;Pokemon&quot; was chosen intentionally as a jab because of things that have no obvious connection to the 3.5 rule.So if someone calls you an &quot;ogre&quot;, we can probably weasel our way to some sort of explanation, based on an rational examination of body hair and size issues.&nbsp; This sort of thing is especially easy to do on the internet where I can make all kinds of ridiculous statements without have to look anyone on the eye and tell them that I seriously don't get why &quot;ogre&quot; is insulting.&nbsp; Just because I can construct some theoretical crazy person that can take offense to my use of the word &quot;carrot&quot; doesn't mean that it makes sense for me to call people ogres and act like I don't know what's going on or that their reaction is not my problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gizmo33, post: 3624313, member: 30001"] I don't find them offensive (not that you asked me). However, some terms do raise a red flag to me that I'm dealing with a partisan person in an edition war thread and I have a tendency to lower my expectation of having a civil conversation when I see them. "Magic Wallmart" IMO is much more foolish than "MagicMart" (which is a fine term IMO). "Wallmart" is almost totally useless when taken literally. The issue certainly isn't that someone has a store in their campaign world named "wallmart". And there's no real identifying characteristic of wallmart, as opposed to Sears or whatever that indicates why that word was used. The reason it is used IMO is because it's a snide jab - it doesn't really make any sense to me otherwise. IMO MagicMart is perfectly fine - and doesn't introduce a distracting and poorly-applied analogy to a real-world store. Pokemount is similarly confusing and inflammatory. There's no reason AFAIK that the 3.5E Paladin Mount is any more similar to Pokemon than it is Summon Monster V, mechanics wise. But it's not called "Summon Monster Mount" because, like "Magic Wallmart", the analogy has connotations that goes beyond the simple reading of the rules. As pointed out above, "Pokemon" was chosen intentionally as a jab because of things that have no obvious connection to the 3.5 rule. So if someone calls you an "ogre", we can probably weasel our way to some sort of explanation, based on an rational examination of body hair and size issues. This sort of thing is especially easy to do on the internet where I can make all kinds of ridiculous statements without have to look anyone on the eye and tell them that I seriously don't get why "ogre" is insulting. Just because I can construct some theoretical crazy person that can take offense to my use of the word "carrot" doesn't mean that it makes sense for me to call people ogres and act like I don't know what's going on or that their reaction is not my problem. [/QUOTE]

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