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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8282174" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Ok, psychological tests are “games?”Let’s see how far down this rabbit hole goes.* Tests to measure cognitive capacity or deficiency are games?* Placement tests are games?* Tests to measure neurological impairment are games?* Tests to falsify or verify aspects of Theory of Mind are games?* Tests to measure physical fitness are games?* Tests to measure physical impairment are games?[HR][/HR]I don’t know how far down this rabbit hole goes, but let me just agree with you for a moment (I don’t, but let me do so).Removing all of the above from the subset of “games”...(ALSO remove the multiple times I GM's 5e for a group of teenagers left in the lurch because their dad-as-GM flaked on them because I did not GM those games for fun...I did not have fun...I GMed them as charity)...how many games are left...in all the world (the history of the world really)...which have “fun” at the very top of their taxonomical hierarchy of purpose for playing? 10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000? More?Related...aliens come to earth and ask you “what are humans?” My guess is your answer would NOT be “you guys probably know the single-called organism prokaryotes? You guys must have those back home? Yeah, We’re basically that.”</blockquote>