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I've come to believe you can't evaluate agency, in the sense of gameplay, without explaining the goal and the evaluation of victory...

Yeah a lot of "meta" currencies are really just an abstraction for "spend extra effort" with some unusual uses outside of trying harder...

Yes, I prefer when metacurrencies are diegetic like Willpower. Destiny in FFGSW kinda falls into this for me due the framing of it...

The immediate thing that comes to mind is leading questions and how some GMs/players/games cross the line with them. (The link is John...

Actually, I think the first example about the ears is a great case for precisely this kind of undesirable influence. In the kind of...

Unless it's something I don't want, that's worse than nothing!

This is the same line I tried earlier, suggesting it was incorrect to present modifiers that would be used this way as representative of...

I'd argue most narrative-support mechanics are somewhat gamist (and I should know, far as I know I essentially invented an early one...

Yes, I use this quite a bit as well, but in this case my grammar for how to correctly apply this wasn't strong enough. I am not native...

I think it's best practice to use "they" until the matter is clarified, both to avoid getting it wrong and also to avoid assumption from...

As apprehensive as it makes me to throw the term into any of these conversations... This is exactly why I've pushed for a mechanical...

I'm drawing a parallel between dismissals of player guided exploration as "mere color" and the no true Scottsman dismissal of...

I'm not sure citing persons who self-identified simulationists reject as having mischaracterised their playstyle is a particularly good...

I think this shows a similar idiosyncrasy to mine with roll-under. There's acknowledgement that it's not born of logic, but...

I think the contention stems from the fact that not only in their view should players affect the world in a Watsonian/diegetic manner...