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Originally Posted by malloyd
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A lot of things that people label cool weapons seem barely usable, if not excellent ways to hurt yourself without touching the enemy, so functionality, let alone how the functionality is produced, clearly isn't always a big factor.
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The D&D double swords look hysterical to me, but are beloved by many players. The rule of cool isn't quite everything cool to my view.
I find sleek unadorned anime plate armor incredibly cool, and that was the height of armor technology in the renaissance.
But I also find acrobatic Shaolin Kung fu cool despite it being rather inefficient in a difficulty to defensive effect ratio.
(Punctuation question: should there be a comma before despite in that sentence?)