One absolute fool, checking in. Thank you for the clarification.

I did a big write up about how this is a thought-terminating cliche, but it felt too much like preachy lecturing, so I’ll try a different tack: why do you feel that subjectivity cannot be rationalized?

how is prangent formed?

Feels like that could be a minor villain from Captain America’s Silver Age rogues gallery.

Not OP but overexplaining jokes is my PaSsIoN.

If you do a raw substitution of Roman numerals for Arabic numerals when writing FF15, you wind up with FFIV. Of course, because of the way Roman numerals work, FFIV ≠ FF15 (as that is properly written as FFXV). Instead, FFIV refers to Final Fantasy 4.

The joke is that the only way you can make FF15 (or FFXV, if you prefer) good is to misunderstand the numbering and play a different game instead.

Edit: aw beans someone beat me to it.

Sympathies. That tightrope walk of dealing with someone who is misinformed but not malicious is tough. It’s important to challenge them, but not so stridently as to teach them not to engage with you, as you don’t want them to retreat further into that space. I wish I were more successful at it, but my mouth tends to outrun my brain. How did your colleague react to that reality check?