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Short answer: no. Long answer: his thoughts and feelings surrounding this whole thing are complicated and a big part of later in the manga. All surrounding the broader themes of the work, in particular "what does it mean to desire something".

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I fortunately do not have this issue. We finish a game, we play another game, or maybe another campaign in that first game. There's so many games out there and most of them are pretty easy to learn! It'd be like limiting yourself to one video game.

I think this is a very goofy opinion to have. People don't accidentally write a hundred pages of heavy crunch. If they had a "disdain for mechanics" or did not think the mechanics mattered, they would simply not have written them. Game designers do, in fact, design games. I'd say Starship...

Probably the bit where you start talking about the Great Replacement Except Happening To Gamers and very directly use the word "inclusivity" as a negative thing.

This too - stop staking your whole identity on corporate media, people. They were corporate when you were a kid, too.

Yes. Unambiguously, yes. The things previously referred to as "paraliterature" in works like Delaney's Shorter Views - that which was at the time decried by the mainstream as "not literature", such as pornography, comic books, and science fiction broadly are the predominant modes of culture...

We should go back to the much funnier debate over if it's unethical for a player to declare that other people exist, like the "I want to punch the nearest person in the bar" discussion.

And what does this have to do with art that treats the feminine body as something to be ogled at and to be titillated by?

Fine's Shared Fantasy is every bit as important as Peterson's work, and highly recommend Ranged Touch's Game Studies Study Buddies episode on the book (as well as episodes 46 and 47, about The Elusive Shift and White's history of The Forge) if you want primers on it. Otherwise I am deeply...

Skyrim's radiant quests are not made in any way similar to the random text generation of an LLM. Everything that can be made as a quest in the game falls under certain parameters. "Go fight [bandit] in [cave]." type stuff. An "AI" (large language model random text generator) GM would simply be...

Sometimes you google a guy's name and the only results are either bad things he did or Certain Websites being like "they're trying to CANCEL Frank Mentzer over at rpgnet!". It took more time to actually figure out what his credits were...

Oh hey, this thread wasn't nuked by the time I got home. Fun fact: the Frank Mentzer (how curious that he misspelled his name in a way that may make it inconvenient to google him!) mentioned by Now-Banned-Guy is an infamous serial sexual harasser who would wield the fact he was buds with Gygax...

There is very much a sense in the "the GM is the sole authority" camp in this thread that if you permit players to be proactive, they will somehow ruin the game and turn in to selfish monsters who just want to "win the game". First off, I would love for you to tell your friends that you believe...

Why do you assume that the only reason a person may make a character-based decision, or engage with the fiction in a way explicitly defined by the GM, as "removing obstacles"? I feel like almost every example in this thread has been about people wanting MORE obstacles to deal with...

Can the discussion perhaps be moved away from immersion? Debating over a term that has no concrete universal definition is not going to benefit anyone, because different people mean different things by immersion due to it being a solely subjective experience.

132 pages of some people saying "different things are possible" and others saying "nu uh". Truly impressive... This thread has drifted to like 6 different topics at this point.

The game designers' intent and goals in creating the game you are playing, by necessity, makes them almost an invisible player in your session - their decisions shape everything you do in a game.

I would love for some of the people in this thread to go play a GMless game like Orbital or Dream Askew or For the Queen just to experience something outside of the strict, regimented idea that there must be a GM or that sole authority must be present in the game at all.

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