cool car tax
The extra amount of money you have to pay to your insurance or on tickets due to your car “looking fast” or cool
Guy 1: I swear I get more tickets from cops ever since I dropped my car and got the new paint job, I’m driving the exact same though.
Guy 2: yeah, you don’t look like regular traffic anymore. You can’t forget to budget for the cool car tax.
Guy 2: yeah, you don’t look like regular traffic anymore. You can’t forget to budget for the cool car tax.
Cool Tax
A gaming term for when a character wants to do something neat or flashy, but in order to do so must spend a disproportionate amount of resources to do so for marginal gain. Effectively, a resource tax on a player to do something cool.
Brilliant Weapons are cool taxed to hell, the effect doesn't even work on most monsters yet it's price is one of the highest in the book.