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Aren't you the guy who was complaining that when you went to The Forge for clarification they told you "you just don't get it, stop posting?" I'm using quotation marks to set some concept of a thing off from its pure physical reality, in a rather obvious way, or at least I thought so. If you...

Which is a lot simpler than a description of what gaming is, though still, I think, rather unanswerable without appeal to a lot of things that aren't internal to RPGs in themselves (so outside the scope of your inquiry). Then again, you're asking people what they do, on the one hand, and saying...

"These people" being the people at The Forge, who are apparently entirely dismissive of points of view that challenge their own. I'm basing this judgment off of anecdotal evidence from TB, fusangite and others. My point is simply that grand metanarratives about gaming are useless. They don't...

What Forge-speak? I've been to The Forge once, based on a ten-second google search/ctrl-F to get that link for WayneLigon. That's the extent of my contact with this place. I think there's a turn in my argument that just isn't making it through. Let's say you think gaming = GNS. I know you...

And if you want to give the argument up and say I'm just not gaming, more power to you. Obviously, that doesn't affect me in the least. But from the point of view of this argument, the idea of gaming is being theorized in much more complex terms than "like-minded people gathering to play games...

Of the uncountable distortions of mythological figures in D&D, why does this one in particular bother you?

I'm going to disagree with you here and say that yes, while the aboutness of things can certainly be multidirectional, no, it doesn't have to be. A good example would be certain kinds of allegory. Now, if you want to say that I'm wrong, that I'm not gaming without my gaming being about gaming...

Here you go, Wayne.

The problem you're running into is this idea of a thing being itself. It makes sense and is absolutely fine, in casual conversation, to talk about things this way (I'm sitting at a desk; that's what it is). It's posed a problem for thinking, though, since the beginning, which is why you get...

Unfortunately it's exactly the opposite. For years my friends and I used gaming as an excuse to do other things. We'd always start out gaming, but we never finished any game we started. To jump back to mythusmage, he replaced eyebeams' "fun" with "engagement." I still don't buy it. I don't...

Gaming doesn't have to be about anything. Gaming doesn't even have to be about gaming. "Hobby" is just a part of the rhetoric (not in any pejorative sense) that's been attached to what most gamers do. The idea of "fun" itself is a bit reductive for my tastes. People can take gaming more or less...

So good gaming is having fun without impinging on the fun of the group or the game, but this always ongoing negotiation on the part of the players never has the force of a contract, not even in the categorical form you have given it here? If I understand where you're going with this (and really...

I have. I don't care for them, but I don't care for the Potter books either and I still enjoy those movies. Narnia, on the other hand, was not improved by the translation. Gave it a 3.

Wasn't that on Lex's dime?

White Weenie was the strongest beatdown deck in Kamigawa, and since Mirrodin rotated out with the release of Ravnica it's become the strongest beatdown deck in Standard.

Yes.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=152888 Nub.

Everyone who's ever listened to Wagner, at least. Still not many these days, I suppose, but not too long ago everybody would've known them.

So far I've liked the odd-numbered episodes and been disappointed by the evens. I definitely prefer that they explore new directions when using common material, which they did with Bloody Mary (but not with the Wendigo, and for me that makes a huge difference). Well, what we on these boards...

I like ubermenschen when they're well done, like Black Willow in Buffy, John Preston in Equilibrium, Clark (at times) in Smallville, etc. I'm all for unstoppable forces of nature, as long as they're interesting.