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What do you hope to achieve by this comment? It doesn't seem to pertain to anything I wrote. There is a wonderful scene in "The Golden...

As a software developer, I feel compelled to ask you, what first paragraph do you mean by that? Also what thing is it that you do? I...

One of the many problems with @EzekielRaiden 's definition being dependent on "consent" is it makes it very hard to communicate to...

For the post you don't understand? The premise is pretty simple, and it's in the post. "If the players end up where I wanted them to...

Well, one of us doesn't. So? Even if we accept your imperfect understanding, if the players end up where I wanted them to be the fact...

They in fact do. If they don't then your definition actually has some extra personal caveats that you are hiding, which is probable...

Funny how my personal definition is the same as the one you offered.

Even if that was what I had said, you can't now complain about it because your own definition means that unless the players consent to...

I'm a bit baffled by this. It's obviously about agency. The issue is how do you have agency as a player if the GM is effectively all...

So I have been thinking hard about the question of whether it's possible to have a time skip or hand wave that is not an act of...

So first of all, I really like how you are thinking about this. Well, maybe everything does then. Let's look at a concrete example...

I really am unsure what you mean here. In a game that is a railroad, the tracks very much do go somewhere. If they only mostly go...

I think it's really interesting to see how different systems deal with this problem. In trad systems (which is what I run), I have...

If nothing else some of the discussion in this thread has at least given me some idea as to why certain systems include meta currency...

Once again, stuck on the qualitative fallacy. And that's another fallacy. You've here substituted "getting what they want" (what I...