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I've noticed a distinct sense of superiority about "traditional GM" play, about "simulation", about a bunch of things in this thread...

I'm not sure that all do. For instance, some "cozy" RPGs seem to emphasise tea parties and the like. Some dungeon crawls, also, don't...

The comparison to how things work in the real world was made, and that's what I've been addressing when I've asked people to look at it...

No, I said describing things that way outside the context of an RPG makes no sense. Please stop making these leaps about what you think...

No he's not! In the paragraph I quoted he (i) mentions Fate (a game which most naturally supports simulationist play) and (ii) expressly...

Or, if we want to, I dunno, be more gracious in our reading, it suggests that their experience without it has had many boring bits...

It means the characters fit the situations - they have a stake in them, care about how they turn out, have some internal conflicts...

It's competence in terms of situation - not compared to the rest of the world. What we want are characters who will be faced with...

Okay? Not sure what that has to do with what I said. This seems to imply that the world waits for the character to decide what to do...

Narrativist play is not hard to achieve. All the table has to do is (i) establish a moral line, and (ii) allow the players to establish...

They don't. The PC chooses to read them, and learns what they say. They haven't changed depending on who reads them. If you mean the...

Again, I think that this atomization of tasks is something that’s only being done for game purposes. It seems like a very unnatural way...

The hero we deserve, but not the hero we need.

Call of Cthulhu is pretty bleak, you character is likely to die or go insane, and the ancient Gods can and do wipe people or entire...

The underlaying setting of Blades in the Dark is pretty bleak as well. The sun has vanished. The seas are ink-black but transparent...