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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7586442" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>You see, now we are at an impasse, because a big part of my "self-indulgent rant" was pointing out how devoid of meaning terms like "Story Now" actually are and how impossible it is for anyone to grasp what someone that throws out Forge speak like that particularly means by it, since even the term's creators never settled on a meaning that satisfied them. Nor has GNS actually held up as a framework over time, and I'm not sure anyone seriously considers it the big picture any more. And the reason I don't debate this sort of thing with pemerton is that I got tired of his frequently self-contradictory word salad of Forge speak, where at some point I stopped being convinced pemerton even had private definitions for the words he was using. I was all too frequently reminded of that Bill Watterson script where Calvin says, "The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!" </p><p></p><p>My take on this is you haven't actually said a darn thing in this thread that is cogent. You are just thread crapping because you don't like that someone doesn't like a module you do like, and so you're more interested in being insulting to the participants than actually developing your own ideas.</p><p></p><p>So, again, we are at an impasse. You think I'm obscuring a lack of meaning with verbosity, and I think you're obscuring a lack of meaning behind vapid jargon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7586442, member: 4937"] You see, now we are at an impasse, because a big part of my "self-indulgent rant" was pointing out how devoid of meaning terms like "Story Now" actually are and how impossible it is for anyone to grasp what someone that throws out Forge speak like that particularly means by it, since even the term's creators never settled on a meaning that satisfied them. Nor has GNS actually held up as a framework over time, and I'm not sure anyone seriously considers it the big picture any more. And the reason I don't debate this sort of thing with pemerton is that I got tired of his frequently self-contradictory word salad of Forge speak, where at some point I stopped being convinced pemerton even had private definitions for the words he was using. I was all too frequently reminded of that Bill Watterson script where Calvin says, "The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!" My take on this is you haven't actually said a darn thing in this thread that is cogent. You are just thread crapping because you don't like that someone doesn't like a module you do like, and so you're more interested in being insulting to the participants than actually developing your own ideas. So, again, we are at an impasse. You think I'm obscuring a lack of meaning with verbosity, and I think you're obscuring a lack of meaning behind vapid jargon. [/QUOTE]
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