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You don't need to terminate the design intent, but that's where I terminate the definition of word "simulation." I you want to have a...

Not sure I quite understand what you mean. "Played experience" immersion etc, is very subjective. I don't think that has bearing on...

Yes, but genres almost always contain things that are not diegetic to the world.

At that point wouldn’t a world in which genre was the world truth, wouldn’t simulating those genre elements through process be...

I hereby declare the two previously posted mechanics the entirety of my new "game". I call it "The diegetic dumpster fire" (TDDF). I am...

Then no world with magic, dragons and wizards can be a simulation?

But using conjecture even more highlights the difference between d&d and the runes because we can easily spot the differences from...

I’m not sure I understand the difference?

This tangent was taken from discussions of fail forward techniques. There's nothing wrong with those techniques (even if I don't really...

"Every time a player sneezes (trigger), the torches to go out (result) as the god of fire briefly feints (information of how the result...

Exactly. You so you see the danger of using imprecise language? I was using the word "seed" in the other extreme interpretation, I guess...

People should be free to make that type of game. I'm not interested in playing it. It's not a game for me. People should be free to...

I think being unaware is probably more common than buying into mainstream media lies. Like, I'm not big into anime, and what I do watch...

Exactly. From a simulationist perspective a roll isn’t simply to establish whatever new fiction the player/dm desires (within...

Problem with the runes example was not that it was made up on the spot. If the GM had decided on the spot before any roll was made what...