thoughtwanderer--disqus
Turbotastic
thoughtwanderer--disqus

All these problems are great! It's the people asking us to fix them that are ruining everything!

That's an inevitable consequence of the way it was filmed, though. "This movie took 12 years to make" is a much more interesting hook than "this movie is about some well-off suburban kid growing up."

The thing is, all of those words do that. Any new word will just be regarded the same way. The problem isn't the words themselves, or the use of them, it's that people don't like being called out on their crap, and it's easier to whine about the use of the word than to examine why it might apply to your behavior.

The only game I can think of that explored this was the PS2 title Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. It was an RPG with the premise that Gandalf had the good sense to assemble a backup Fellowship in case Frodo's group ended up getting killed. You played a group of original characters who were supposed to shadow the