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The Handmaid's Tale. I'd seen the first three seasons before and then dropped off, so I'm starting again and I'm nearly at the end of season 3 and about to hit new stuff. Man it's bleak and powerful, although season 3 isn't as good as 1 and 2. (Which is why I dropped off, I guess.) What's...

I would rather wither away and die of sadness like Yoda

Wait, I realise the disconnect now. I wasn't saying that a module as a published artefact is a story*. I was saying that [playing] a module can be 'playing through a [pre-cooked] story' in the same way that playing a video game is. * Not saying it isn't either

Doesn't all of that apply to a video game?

That is never going to work dude, the glasses would have been much more effective

The great thing about Jared Leto's acting is

I don't think all RPG experiences are the same in this regard. It seems to me that you are talking about 'story now' versus 'story before'. I think you can absolutely 'play through' a story in a TTRPG in a similar way to a video game. This is exactly what modules are.

I don't even let the players rest. 'Now what? An owlbear attacks you, what do you do? Put down your phone! Look at me! [strikes player] You take seven damage! The owlbear goes to eat your sandwiches! [strikes player] Stop crying! No eating! Attack! Block! Attack! Block!'. Games should be an...

You may be aware but there's a format called Premodern that has absolutely blown up in popularity over the last year or so, precisely because it offers a refuge from WotC's short termist and exploitative business practices. Premodern is all cards printed between 4th edition and Scourge (so 1995...

But is genuine art rather than a cheap retread

Is this something that happens? Are there games that make this happen?

Too niche

OK, but we know that things like willpower, anger, stamina etc all exist IRL, we just don't know how to measure their effect, or to control their effect (to even the extent to which we can control them). So is any metacurrency called those things OK? We also know that luck exists, in the sense...

Sorry man, this is what peak performance looks like

I don't know which games have metacurrencies based on player birthdays. If 'calling it something that exists in the gameworld' is all that's required to turn a metacurrency into not a metacurrency then I'm not sure there are any metacurrencies in existence. Surely the characters in the...

Well, we accept that physical exhaustion is a thing, and that people can't maintain peak performance and do the exact same thing over and over all day long without a rest. So are encounter and daily martial powers diegetic?

But pretty much all metacurrencies loosely represent something that exists in the setting, the issue is just in how they represent them. Couldn't you make the same argument about 5e inspiration, luck, willpower, fate points in WFRP, etc.

Well, to be clear, I don't particularly voice those criticisms. I certainly don't storm into positive conversations and say them. I was simply objecting to the assertion that people must not voice those criticisms and must instead always be positive.

New editions and reboots are mostly trash. IP vultures are mostly trash. The original works by the original creators are always the best.

People are under no obligation to keep quiet about their criticisms in a public forum, to always be constructive, or to simply accept whatever IP holders shovel at them.