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He's not talking about "long tedious rules debates" being mature. He's talking about talking problems out with the group as being mature, whereas table-flipping (or its verbal equivalents) to be immature. If you leave a game and just ghost the DM, that's immature. If you leave a game and say "I...

The difference is the fiction. Because the actual game exists only in the imagination, it's up to us to justify why anything works the way it does. In a sim game that justification was done by the writers who created a table or otherwise listed why something acts or doesn't act the way it does...

Not me. I've had bad GMs, but their bad GMing was unrelated to the style of game. Narrative games are, for me, just what I really enjoy.

To be fair, Hope/Fear and Stress aren't class-based metacurrencies. They're generic metacurrencies that are used across all classes and by the GM as well.

In order to get data for social science, you still have to perform structured experiments. You need to define the variables, actually design the experiment, analyze the data, and so forth. The gaming table is not a structured experiment, and I doubt that many, if any, players or GMs have...

It's well known now how bees fly--they flap their wings in figure eights. Amusingly, the dragons--or at least the swam dragons--in the Discworld books do fly like jets. With propulsion flames coming out of their butts.

And if the more experienced GMs and players are actually really bad at what they do?

So how would you suggest that new GMs learn these responsibilities?

And that's why PbtA and similar games have lists of GM agendas, principles, and moves--so they either have a way to unlearn that mentality, or never acquire it in the first place.

If the combat has been going on for more than a couple of rounds, and there have already been successful attacks against someone, then the slick spot is a pool of blood. You're not having a combat in a featureless room; you're out in the wilderness or in a cave or something like that, and you...

Maybe people need to talk about the Geek Social Fallacies more often.

The social contract is binding for everyone. If you have a player who "has all the power" and takes advantage of it, then you don't play with them anymore.

No, because you can still fail outside of a critical failure. I've failed rolls in 5e where I have a +10 to the roll, and that's a really good skill bonus, and nearly as high as you can get in that game (at least at mid-levels), but that won't help you if you roll low enough. So if a person...

There is something that prevents it: player buy-in (with the GM being one of the players). Will the players accept the idea that it was pixies? Unless pixies have been established as at least a possibility for the area, then no. If the players continue to not accept these rulings, then they...

While I've been not paying much attention to this particular argument and don't know where @EzekielRaiden is going, I feel the need to point out that actual history is often pretty awful to a large number of people of all sorts, and thus not always all that entertaining. So, you kind of have to...