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What's more interesting to me is the hoops that people will jump through to try and argue that a player affecting the direction of the...

Obviously. Einstein being more likely than me to be right isn't because he causes the world to be as he thinks it is, but because he...

What do you mean by "already established"? I mean, of course the Cunning Expert is basing their conjecture on the things they know and...

I wasn't happy with this answer, so I called customer service to complain, and Yog Sothoth answered. In the form of an infinite...

No turtles? Bummer, I'll have to change my avatar.

I see you've somehow acquired it my yet-to-be-published game, Skin Suit, the RPG. You'll be hearing from my lawyers, sir.

Mmmmm, that was a butter knife!

Rolemaster is for cowards and communists. Real simulationists play HârnMaster. (Full disclosure: I love HârnMaster on paper. I still...

You won't hear me argue otherwise. As for the diegetic argument, you may notice my distinct absence.

Now you've done gone and said it, the unasprechlichen! That raspy sound you hear is the knives being sharpened. Something is going to...

Simulation is simply fake cover for 'GM says' which facilitates railroady GMs to appeal to their own authority. It's a doublethink...

Oh please. TSR-era D&D was about as far from simulation as you could get. It was pure wargame. Good grief, your character can't even...

Why was the cook there? Because it was uncertain whether or not the cook might be there. When there's uncertainty, the DM sets a...

Not necessarily. The character might have fallen because magical pixies made him trip. He might have fallen because the rock face...

Well, there are a billion-and-one adventures for DW. They should pretty much all go into a dumpster with some gasoline. The people...