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If your liver is in danger from hearing about a person being a doofus... there's several billion doofuses (doofi?) on the planet. Dodging this one isn't going to save you.

The problem is that this generated player frustration, not character angst. Design hint: Don't make your game such that you can't actually play the game - players ragequit, and don't buy any more.

Might want to be a little careful about this question. I can start with: I think the game is plenty interesting as presented - you don't need to buy and use rulebooks of other games for it to be interesting. But, even as presented, the game gives you an entire setting, and that setting has...

I countered with three high-profile examples of tools enabling large-scale infringement that WERE found complicit: Napster, Kazaa and The Pirate Bay.

Of the thing being simulated.

I reject your attempt to get me to oversimplify my answer.

That's because that's not how copyright enforcement works. It isn't done "generally". It is done in specific. So, peer-to-peer filesharing technology isn't illegal, but Napster and Kazaa both died under the weight of their lawsuit losses, and the British Government has ordered The Pirate Bay...

In the past, tools that demonstrably enable large scale infringement have been found to be complicit in that infringement.

And it is in that point that Disney will probably win against Midjourney - it sounds like Disney is brining evidence of Midjourney directly reproducing Disney artwork, and effectively advertising their services based on that ability. That, if true, will scuttle the transformative defense.

I think at this point we have reached "yes it is/no it isn't" territory, and I feel no compulsion to spend further effort to disabuse you of your notion.

Technically, perhaps. But that's a game on the same level of, "I have six chocloate chip cookies, when do I want to eat them." It isn't usually a particularly deep, difficult, or satisfying game. In some games (say, D&D, with Inspiration) that game devolves into people forgetting the darned...

Didn't the whole cook thing come up as a "fail forward" or "success with complications" example? This seems more like critical failure - not only do you not get the lock open, but something else bad is brewing behind the door.

Discussion of other places usually eventually takes the form of trash-talking, which we aren't okay with. .

Was that Giantlands, or one of the other "games" NuTSR claimed to publish after Dinehart left?

I watched it. On the scale of insanity this multi-year things has spawned... nah, not really all that insane, especially if we set the "starting NuTSR" thing aside as just more of the usual grasping for legitimacy. In the video, he admits that association with NuTSR ruined his game design...

It is not what I need. It is what is necessary for your "fact of the English language" assertion to have truth. Trying to claim there is clarity, by invoking a thing you have not actually defined, is... sub-optimal argument design. :) If you really want to know what I need? Well, I think...

Where did that one grain of sand come from, pemerton? No, that that one - the other one. The one there, next to that bit of shell. No, the other bit of shell, not the one near the pebble... You seem to suggest that every single detail of your games is explicitly stated - and that's laughable...

Please do not present the English language, or all things, as a black-and-white arbiter of any discussion. It will fail you. In this case, it failed you when you used the phrase, "...choosing the right stats...". Define "right". Until you do, there's a lot of wiggle-room in there to debate.

And, note that this is not the feature working as intended. We don't really want ignoring (or being ignored by) the person who started a thread to make the entire thread invisible to you, and if Xenforo fixes it, that behavior will end.

So what? I mean, in theory, anything a player does in a session of play may serve an unlimited number of different player-goals at the same time. But, let us back up a bit. Why do we play games qua games? Like, why do we play Catan, or Go? While there's a stack of reasons, several of them...