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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5126766" data-attributes="member: 22779">Without any starting point, every conversation winds up getting bogged down in semantics as each side tries to understand the viewpoint of the other side and ultimately failing because they don't share enough common understanding.  While GNS may not be the greatest thing in the world, it at least provides a common starting point.  The problem comes when people start bludgeoning each other with the theory in an attempt to "prove" that one point of the triangle is better than another, or that Game X is bad because it doesn't fit nicely into the model.It's a model.  Like any genre model, it's imprecise and porous as all heck.  But, if you look at it as just a starting point, then it works reasonably well.</blockquote>