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Oh, I definitely think the result of an arbitrary algorithm still counts as a simulation. Any one of the 5 billion planets generated... -
Pedantic reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread What Does "Simulation" Mean To You? [+] with
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Simulation means to me that we take seriously the imagined fictional universe as a real place and we try to imagine and inform the... -
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...
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That would be how I think of them, yes. They're designed mechanics to avoid even the appearance of "contrivance". From many years of...
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I don't think about simulationism in TTRPG as really about "modeling". To me, it's more about introducing procedures into play that...
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To me, simulation is (mostly) creation/use of a systematically-driven model of something. The thing being simulated may not have much...
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Pedantic reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Its more the kind of kind of repeated hand-wringing about it that gets a little odd, man. I mean, my taste in game design isn't exactly...
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Pedantic reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Then you're reading the wrong fantasy. The Discworld, Earthsea, and the Curse of Chalion series all say hi.
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Pedantic reacted to InVinoVeritas's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
For lore to matter, it must affect players' decision making. Which means that the decisions made must be different from what they would...
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Pedantic replied to the thread Immersion?.We're already running into definitions. I prefer to understand immersion as a scale that measures the distance between character and...
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Pedantic replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.I had no grudge against Minnesota until I learned this. I could even have understood a different bird.... But there's a whole extra...
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Pedantic reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I hate that the people i might be most in agreement with also express their opinion in ways that make me rethink if I should agree...
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Pedantic reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Hierarchy of Authenticity with Like.
I think the problem here is "believability" is a moving target, not only on the viewer, but on genre and setting. Things that might be...
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See, I didnt think it needed a villain. Really it needed situation of the week. The separatist group was a great example of the kind of...
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Pedantic replied to the thread New "Stargate" series announced.I admit, I was expecting something more inspiring than a zoom call here, but this is good news! I was pretty disappointed in Universe...