Why are people still stuck on this? It was a small part of a response relating to a very specific discussion from the purely hypothetical Koko OU debate awhile back. One you continued with me in DMs until you got tired of it or whatever. If you have some feelings about it, feel free to DM me.Bold School was the one who claimed to have game design knowledge (and thus claimed to understand it better than the average person) before anyone so I don't know why you're singling Buzzwole out for this.
BTW surprise factor alone does not make something "good", it needs to have real consistent and applicable value beyond initial surprise or else it loses any effectiveness once any kind of awareness of it catches on.
Otherwise, I already had my response to you and the rest on this. It's derailing the thread. Stuff like this really make one not want to post on here so much when things are constantly taken wrong.
I thought you were originally criticizing him for one upping or something. His context was quite different than mine. Anyways...Fair. Both are out of their depths.
While this strange focus of the discussion in of itself long ran its course, it should be stated that not everybody needs to be a top tier player to have an understanding of the mechanics in a game. In sports, a coach can understand the game but not be able to play the game at a professional level. A fan could have a great understanding of the game but not have the interpersonal skills to coach. And so on. That obviously doesn't guarantee proper understanding, either. But the spectrum of knowledge and views can sometime be broader than some on here want to admit.
Before someone takes this out of context, again, this isn't me trying to say I'm a know it all or I know better than you just because of a background. That was never the point. Hopefully, we can move on now.