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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8629879" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Because it privileges certain kinds of distinctions while ignoring others, and begs the question whether that's a useful thing to do in a model.The fact it can sometimes be used in a useful analytical way does not mean the overall model works; it just means parts of it work for some purposes (and that's almost tautological, or it never would develop a following in the first place).&nbsp; But I repeat, once you get outside of Nar, I have little evidence that much the GNS Threefold works for people who are not in that corner.&nbsp; It doesn't actively work against Gamists (but it also doesn't support them the way N does for its proponents) and it actively works against a rather decent sized number of people who could connect with the D in GDS, and whatever remaining old-school style Simulationists out there.So while Nar may well work to do functional description of what its doing, most of the other parts of the GNS Threefold only seem to work for people not primarily doing them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8629879, member: 7026617"] Because it privileges certain kinds of distinctions while ignoring others, and begs the question whether that's a useful thing to do in a model. The fact it can sometimes be used in a useful analytical way does not mean the overall model works; it just means parts of it work for some purposes (and that's almost tautological, or it never would develop a following in the first place). But I repeat, once you get outside of Nar, I have little evidence that much the GNS Threefold works for people who are not in that corner. It doesn't actively work against Gamists (but it also doesn't support them the way N does for its proponents) and it actively works against a rather decent sized number of people who could connect with the D in GDS, and whatever remaining old-school style Simulationists out there. So while Nar may well work to do functional description of what its doing, most of the other parts of the GNS Threefold only seem to work for people not primarily doing them. [/QUOTE]

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