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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9315206" data-attributes="member: 177">I'm sorry, but the video goes into "what games are about", and positing that games are about things not actually in the game.  The phrase "can be" is used a couple of times, but I find they fall into the common trap of stating things without clear qualifiers.It's like saying Monopoly is about what per-turn percentage rate players charge each other for loans within the game.  Sure, you can play Monopoly that way, at your own coffee table, but that doesn't go beyond your table. Brennan, and everyone else, is free to use games to be about whatever they want to be about.  But that doesn't mean the game, in general is about those things.</blockquote>