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“Well there’s no leak boss but we can remove this ugly tape for you!”

I very strongly disagree. Standing there and having a club bounce off of your face is much more ridiculous.

This is less simulationism and more post-hoc rationalization of game mechanics that likely gets "grandfather claused" in simply as a...

If the katana isn't doing at least 2d20 damage, they're both wrong. :)

No. They just mean that they'd prefer you not fill up the thread with an argument about how simulation is a dysfunctional play style...

My favorite part of GNS theory is the separation of creative agenda from the particular techniques that we've come up with so far to...

To me, simulation refers to a focus on the mechanics of the game. The mechanics are approximating something that we have seen elsewhere...

There's a difference between "could survive" and "no chance of dying" at least if some attempt at modeling reality is the goal. There...

In my experience simulation means I'm going to find the game tedious.

Indeed! An important thing to recognize is that what seems real to people, and what happens in actual reality, are often at odds...

In a nutshell: some general ballpark of plausibility-of-outcome and in-world consistency for how things work. Even if fantastic foes...

With respect, I feel like you really want to point at pretty trivial elements, and say, "Hey, look! It's simulation!" Yes, there's...

I think it's a little deeper than that. A lot of the support for simulationism comes with the attached idea of "I want to feel like...

Simulation seems to be something attempting to copy the real world. A flight simulator or golf simulator attempts to copy the real...

A couple very popular examples are Deus Ex and Dishonored. Skyrim is often considered close to an ImSim, moreso than Fallout 4, but many...