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Examine again the last four words of the post you responded to.

This is the point. True quality and innovation doesn't care about target customers and market research. Make something you personally think is f'ing cool, commit to it fully, and hope people like it.

To be fair this is the correct definition of the word innovation - to applaud something while at a drinking establishment Edit: at least that's what ChatGPT told me

It was the best of times it was the blurst of times

Agreed completely. I want to see unique things that have a vision and don't compromise on delivering it.

It's literally the opposite of innovation

'Tainted' would be the accurate word

Do you... do you think people have been arguing that narr games have no subjective components?

I think Arnie did get a lot better

In my games yes

I dunno I find trying to define fiat removes the ineffable magic of it 😉

To answer this from a non-AW narr perspective: i) you bake the details of the mystery so that they echo and/or directly impact or provoke the PC's own issues. The PC is focused on issues around maintaining relations with their family? The murder victim also had a fraught relationship with their...

If the GM determines which of several methods is used to get to the outcome, to some extent that itself is fiat, no? 'I decree this one will be a coin flip'

I think the Lynch version of Dune is better than the Villneuve version (which I also like)

Yes it is?

Is saying that one style of play has an objective truth to it and another does not meant to be value-neutral?

So... an approximation of Narnia exists, we might say. A shared concept of it. Similarly, the worlds we play in do not exist. An approximation exists in our notes and our shared concepts of them.

I agree with you, but it doesn't change my point, which is that because it is possible to do this, Wan's Stew Shop is not real.

Whether it's good GMing or not, if something has a real objective existence it cannot be unexisted by an act of thought. I think again this comes down to 'the GM's notes' being given an artificial sense of gravitas by using language that invokes some kind of simulated world.

What happens if the GM decides that Wan's Mutton Stew shop exists while the player characters are 8 cities away, and then decides that nah it doesn't exist after all when the players are 1 city away? Did it exist and then not exist? Did it never exist? Does it still exist?