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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9500872" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Oh I know that is the hypothesis.&nbsp; But me say this:* Although I have been accused of it aplenty, I am no &quot;adherent to a movement&quot; (as you put it).&nbsp; Anyone who knows me at all (including those who have engaged with me on here to any degree) has to know that deep down.&nbsp; Because I don't denounce a movement (which is basically the tacit demand put forth), in this case The Forge and Narrativism, doesn't mean I'm an &quot;adherent to a movement.&quot;&nbsp; I categorically reject that framing of myself.I have been many different things in my professional life.&nbsp; I have absorbed and engaged with so many different disciplines within games and all manner of specific games (ball sports, martial arts, board games, TTRPGs, card games, parlor games).&nbsp; I have run so many TTRPGs and the overwhelming majority of my life has been devoted to running Pawn Stance D&amp;D dungeon crawls...yet folks on here will try to cast me as &quot;one of them&quot;...that I'm an &quot;adherent to a movement (Forge Narrativism).&quot;* The other thing?&nbsp; I don't dicker over terminology.&nbsp; That ain't me.&nbsp; If someone asks me about a piece of technical language, I'll sincerely and carefully try to explain the concept to them.&nbsp; If someone deploys some language or concepts (like Pedantic's usage of &quot;parasitic design&quot;) I don't understand or someone introduces something I'm not familar with like &quot;The Cultures of Pla&quot;y essay...I don't complain about exclusionary language...or cast them as an elitist jerk...or just generate an environment that is hostile to interrogation of ideas and free exchange.&nbsp; I ask them about it.&nbsp; I read about it.&nbsp; I learn about it as best I'm able.&nbsp; And I use the term, the concept, or the essay in the way I find most useful (even if I disagree around the edges).[HR][/HR]Net:&nbsp; What you're depicting above is for sure true at a sufficient level of zoom.&nbsp; But it really fails to capture the dynamics of the micro-locale and the specifics of a given individual's orientation to and behavior around the function or dysfunction of the conversation (whether that be a given exchange, a given thread, or years and years of threads accreted).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 9500872, member: 6696971"] Oh I know that is the hypothesis. But me say this: * Although I have been accused of it aplenty, I am no "adherent to a movement" (as you put it). Anyone who knows me at all (including those who have engaged with me on here to any degree) has to know that deep down. Because I don't denounce a movement (which is basically the tacit demand put forth), in this case The Forge and Narrativism, doesn't mean I'm an "adherent to a movement." I categorically reject that framing of myself. I have been many different things in my professional life. I have absorbed and engaged with so many different disciplines within games and all manner of specific games (ball sports, martial arts, board games, TTRPGs, card games, parlor games). I have run so many TTRPGs and the overwhelming majority of my life has been devoted to running Pawn Stance D&D dungeon crawls...yet folks on here will try to cast me as "one of them"...that I'm an "adherent to a movement (Forge Narrativism)." * The other thing? I don't dicker over terminology. That ain't me. If someone asks me about a piece of technical language, I'll sincerely and carefully try to explain the concept to them. If someone deploys some language or concepts (like Pedantic's usage of "parasitic design") I don't understand or someone introduces something I'm not familar with like "The Cultures of Pla"y essay...I don't complain about exclusionary language...or cast them as an elitist jerk...or just generate an environment that is hostile to interrogation of ideas and free exchange. I ask them about it. I read about it. I learn about it as best I'm able. And I use the term, the concept, or the essay in the way I find most useful (even if I disagree around the edges). [HR][/HR] Net: What you're depicting above is for sure true at a sufficient level of zoom. But it really fails to capture the dynamics of the micro-locale and the specifics of a given individual's orientation to and behavior around the function or dysfunction of the conversation (whether that be a given exchange, a given thread, or years and years of threads accreted). [/QUOTE]

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