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The KS model has moved from its inception. Now many if not most companies use it as a marketing tool with artificially low goals.

I mean, realistically kickstarting games has the same relationship to preordering them as Uber does to taxis. It is functionally the...

I don't think you can skip the rhetorical step where you persuade people you're right. You either have to do that, and convince everyone...

I've often thought all three of those first three would be better served by being different people, but that also probably makes it...

Except, as I have repeatedly pointed out, those are two very different things. OK, let's go with this: you go to your local grocery...

There are lots of things I can’t afford. I have to go without them. If all you can afford is to use a tool which uses stolen art and...

Ugh.

Yeah. There might be an argument with the second clause there ("all") but when you include "any" you've decided to privledge a...

I came a little late to this, but I think it's probably best to start from the first post. I think this is a bit redundant (any rule...

I disagree. It is an incredibly weak definition, which focuses most on where agency comes from instead of on what agency IS. The...

This feels like confusion around the word "face" somehow, and drives at that doublethink around play objectives I was talking about...

I think I misinterpreted @thefutilist there, that question at the end of the post I was responding to seemed targeted at the narrativist...

Sure, they are not always at odds. Now playing "optimally" might lead to boring gameplay, and that is one thing, but it goes beyond...

That's what the role-playing is for, that's the whole reason you set up genre constraints and build characters within a milieu and all...

I honestly still don't get it. If you're into challenge based play I can see the need for a 'win/goal' state to make the process...