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That's an interesting line of investigation. To tease out a possible confound, suppose arguendo that i) players can have purposes for...

Okay, so simulation isn’t the goal, it’s the biggest method in simulation games. Which then brings me back to my question, shouldn’t...

I'm not entirely clear what you mean here, but based on previous posts I will hazard a guess and say not necessarily. I think you can...

Yes. Exactly this! If viewed as trying to differentiate narrativism from every other style of play it makes a lot of sense...

Really GNS exists as a way to carve out space for narrativism. I've always thought of it as sort of like a weird manifesto presented as...

What I’m saying is that simulation isn’t the primary goal of simulationist play, it’s just a necessary component. You can reframe...

I don’t think I’m suggesting anything incompatible with him. I don’t agree that only narrativist and gamist are the only agendas for...

That doesn’t seem like the critical response to that observation. The critical response would be that we have mislabeled something...

Shouldn’t Player goals be THE agenda?

For the sake of argument, why can't it be both? Someone who was an abolitionist was called that because of something they pursued. An...

I think it’s very clear when used that way it refers to people who prefer the one creative agenda over the other. I guess I could see...

Things codified are things expected to followed by all participants. They set expectations you might not want to feel forced to meet.

Why?

1) There’s no common language to share play experiences in, nor 2) have I ever seen any shared play experiences of any style really...

Much much better than before. My energy levels are higher. Though a bit lower than they were a month into the diet and exercise change.