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Thought experiment time. Suppose an actual author creates a simulation and then writes a novel based on the simulation results. Hes...

That’s not precisely true, when we give fictional meanings to real world events and artifacts in non-authorial ways then those granted...

Yep. This is the map of meaning I keep bringing up. We give fictional meaning to non-fictional things - specifically in a simulative and...

That's why I say that there are diegetic mechanics. The climb mechanics of D&D are the representation of the climb occurring in the...

The mechanics represent the act that is occurring in the fiction. The character is climbing. The climbing mechanics support that...

Wikipedia: Diegetic music, also called source music, is music that is part of the fictional world portrayed in a narrative (such as a...

Anything that happens in the fiction and is only in the fiction is diegetic. If the minor character exists in the fiction they are...

I know. I am saying that your claim, "X is independent of Y", does not follow when X causes Y.

I am not sure if my take on this equates with yours. Top of mind is that what is diegetic in TTRPG will be different in some respects...

I take playing a TTRPG to entail becoming author, actor and audience. Player as actor makes themselves part of the fiction. They make...

I rather think it is pretty big part of it, yes. Of course it is not the only defining feature. There is no difference. It is a...

But then that would mean that diegetic has no meaning because in any fiction, there is an author of the fiction. Probably no...

Wouldn’t rolling up the worlds be a separation?

The widespread view in this thread appears to be that, of necessity, those episodes of play could not be or involve simulationism...

Diegetic music: the characters in the film an also hear it. So? The character falling off the cliff also knows they're falling. Show...