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I'm not Hussar, but no, that would not pass muster for me. By that standard, everything is always diegetic so long as we can...

RE: bolded bit, this is where my greatest frustration lies. Because that thing--that thing right there--is precisely what "process" sim...

Let me try this from a different direction. In Ironsworn (sorry to bring this up again, but, it fits my example well and ... well... I...

While true, as I have previously argued, the actual issue with picking a lock is not whether you are capable of doing so. As long as...

Isn't it just an abstraction/simplification? As in, all locks and traps are about the same in their mechanical complexity. The AD&D DMG...

If it can be simulationist for Wolverine's player to declare I met this person in the past, why can't it be simulationist for a...

Maybe you could think about the game mechanics as like the film mechanisms... the projector, say? No projector, no film. That doesn't...

I think you were right the first time!

While I think it is possible to read it this way, I would personally disagree. Sauron is incredibly confident when he thinks Aragorn is...

You said the Alignment was pure Tolkien. Myself and others noted that you were wrong about that. As previously said, Alignment in D&D...

Nice post. I did want to comment on your take of Frodo. I think part of Tolkien's point is that literally no one could have truly...

Again, you bring up this thing which simply does not matter. The fact that WE elected to insert an abstraction which halts play until...

But climbing can exist without climbing rules. Your argument is built on a falsehood. Yes, it literally is. Utterly, totally...

Er...doesn't...Frodo actually succumb to the temptation of the Ring? Hard to call that "Christ-like" when he literally did choose to be...

We used taped together Hot Wheels tracks! Those stung but broomsticks must have really hurt. I agree about the broad sources but I...