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I've recently come to the conclusion that every element in an RPG is essentially lore. The simple choice of which classes and ancestries and spells and magic items are included in the core rules create lore. People just don't tend to think of that way due to defaultism. You're so used to the...

The idea that the game only supports players within a narrow band of tastes is very, very silly.

Why would you start with one rather than designing both in conjunction with each other?

Cool. That doesn't change my point.

"Hard-core" being a meaningless self-identifying term, how could they?

Could be a good lesson in that: don't use deliberately provocative titles. Don't blame others if they respond to something you wrote that way.

Yeah, generalizing from one's own experience is rarely a good idea.

I suggested a better way to present the book - that it makes an argument. Which is what it does. Your first paragraph here is an argument from authority. Your second paragraph is a blatant misrepresentation. In fact what I said was WHAT IF someone doesn't consider that work authoritative...

This is a blatant misrepresentation of my post, of course.

And if one does not accept this as authoritative? A better description would probably be "argues that games are a form of art." That doesn't carry the connotation of necessary correctness.

There were acquisitions between those two events. So the set of assets sold in the two transactions were not the same. That would explain at least part of the difference.

Sure, if you ignore the actual context of this discussion, this might be relevant. In this discussion, however, "fantasy" is clearly being used in the "elves and wizards" sense.

I for one am very surprised to learn that some people who play RPGs prefer to play them in ways that I don't, but at least I can rest assured that I'm the one actually playing the game while they're just doing something that I can poo-poo.

I don't see anywhere where they're claiming that Braunstein is fantasy.

That Braunstein is in the fantasy genre.

Did they claim that? Were they not referring to D&D?

This response is mind-boggling. The post you quoted explicitly states, multiple times over, that's it's all about their personal preferences. It could not be any clearer that they are speaking for themselves. The fact that you read it otherwise is on you.

As is the idea that old things are always better than new things.

If there are soulless self-aware beings, then souls are clearly not key in differentiating self-awareness. And in such a case, the attitude that they are "just robots" is gross, which was my point.

My recollection is that there was a fair bit of back and forth first where people did explain themselves quite clearly.