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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8942996" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Well, like most terms, its gone its own evolutionary route in RPGs, and isn't even used the same way by different groups.  As noted, when you first saw it it was used in a fashion that was vaguely synonymous with a particular version of "cheating".However the people I was referring to using it were doing so in regard to things that in a more negative usage might have been called "disassociated" by some, but in their case were just things that were being done for Authorial or gameplay support and thus "above" the IC/in-setting game elements.  This is from people who do not consider genre, or gameplay specific elements automatically a bad thing, so it didn't have the more negative connotations.</blockquote>