"I really wish FFG would stop using the word "impactful"" Topic

'Cause it means, "Hi! I'm a marketing weenie caught up in buzzwords!"

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Their paradigm needs a plethora of user-friendly, one-stop shop, multi-disciplinary, customer-focused, value-added evolutions to better meet the changing dynamic, steep learning curve-filled market landscape. Gannt charts presented via, at least, weekly project management reviews would be a force multiplier in achieving such objectives.

Pushing the outside of the envelope, think-outside-the-box real-time solutions to take it to the next level…

By the way, what is FFG?

…it's a meme.

The only buzzwords wargamers like are:
"Fast playing"
"realistic"
"revised"
and
"playtested"

:-)

FFG has been pretty good at Monetizing things. You'd think they formed Cross-Platform Multi-Disciplinary teams that Pinged each other when they needed to Circle Back Around on an idea.

They've been pretty Impactful in the board game Space probably because they Reach Out to so many gamers. By thinking Outside the Box they've been able to put a Value-Added product on the shelf.

Let's just hope we don't see them Kicking the Can down the Road, otherwise we might have to Look Under the Kimono and get a good understanding about what happens Where the Rubber Meets the Road.

I think that one should have dies out in the late '80s – early '90s.

The purpose of buzzwords depends on who says them:

Grunt level employee – Wants to be manager.

Manager – Wants to be corporate.

Corporate – Wants to send your job to the Phillipines but would like you to still do 50 hours a week until then.

The only buzzwords wargamers like are:
"Fast playing"
"realistic"
"revised" and
"playtested"

There's always: "Ohhh, Shiny!"

"Ohhh, Shiny!" isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life.

Rob

"By the way, what is FFG?"

Fantasy Flight Games, I think.

One of my least favorite words. I hear it all the time.

DM

Damn. Vince beat me to "outside the box".

Now let's blue sky this whole impactful paradigm before we push the edge of the envelope here. No need to have a Chinese wall around the wargaming space and…

I can't take it any more, I am going to my happy place now.

But I still have wings on a pig and running it up the flagpole to see who salutes it.

This may be controversial, but I really, really hate "granular."

Look something can be finer grained, or coarser grained, but "more granular" means nothing. The problem is that "granular" has been used both ways--more detail and less detail. When a word can have two opposite meanings, it is completely valueless.

Consider sugar: granulated sugar is coarse-grained, while powdered sugar is fine-grained. So, which one is "more granular"? The question is meaningless because the phrase is meaningless.

Somebody just didn't want to use the word "detailed," probably because it was too scary.

I'm sure they'll first address any low-hanging fruit.

At least they don't describe their products as impacted.

Could be worse, they could talk about "factions" in everything :)

I am sick of hearing the words "dialogue" and "passion".

Don't forget "Synergy" and "workflow" and "lean inventory".

At least its professionally painted.

It's time we had a national conversation about this.

"When a word can have two opposite meanings, it is completely valueless".

Or, priceless to politicians.

Sound like a bad side effect to a Digestion Treatment

Imp-act-ful

Derived from Old English. A contraction of the saying where a junior demon or devil plays the part of a clown "the imp doth act the fule".

If FFG's :'s are impactful, they'd better have a doctor look at them…

I think FFG needs to turn things around and think outside the envelope, or at the very least, push the edge of the box.

My least favorite word has become "athletecism" as overused by football color commentators.

I loathe "prepone"…

I also hate this tendency to put "ist" on the end of everything. Example is Artillerist. Er, don't you mean gunner??? And it's done to so many other words too… 8^(

By the way, what is FFG?

Nice one, etotheipi!

How about At The End of The Day….

And for s sake, stop adding "-gate" to every scandal.

Zargon saYs, "Slish" so can he be 'Slishful?' ;)

I do sort of hope that 2015 gives us a scandal involving a gate, just to watch the idiots try to decide if gate-gate is the right headline.

Zargon wants to be known as full of slish? I'm in!

Back to the first poster, beyond 'impactful' which, I will point out, my spellcheck is hemorrhaging over, just about any use of 'impact' that's currently in vogue.

Really, I understand getting 'effect' and 'affect' straight is tricky, but a heck of a lot of news anchors have degrees. I don't, and I soldier on.

Sorry to laser in on this…

Doug

PS Just looked up the definitions of affected; second one seemed too good not to share, given the discussion.

2. artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress

SF Discussion message board?

I'd say a fair call, Judge, though I wouldn't like to see the term used in literature, either.

Doug

"SF Discussion message board?"

Judge,

Because I'm pulling directly from the latest Star Wars: Armada preview.