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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5105974" data-attributes="member: 177">Um, dude.  Dismissing a whole category of argument like that is also a tactic to control the conversation.  Please, let us not get into pot/kettle territory.There's at least one entire class of word that currently has no current meaning to speak of, other than to insult - the racial epithet.  Sure, the words have an origin, at one time it may have meant something, but at this point they really mean only, "that dirty somethingorother".Not that "videogamey" is quite at that level.  I won't claim it is meaningless.  I would claim that it is rather too broad to be particularly useful.  It requires someone to ask you for more detail to understand the particular feelings.  I would just prefer that if folks have an opinion, they choose words that convey it more completely and clearly.Sure, you can say, 'It is too videogamey," and mean something.  But with minimal extra effort, you could instead say, "The power structure reminds me of MMORPGs like 'City of Heroes', and I find that uninspiring in a tabletop game."  Or maybe, "It seems to me too focused on the combat action, one encounter after another.  Relentless, like a side-scroller videogame, with too little focus on the narrative we're trying to create."No, I don't need a dissertation.  But if you want to express your opinions to other people, you should at least not force them to ask inevitable questions.Unless, of course, you want your opinions to be pigeonholed. If so, by all means, use a quick and easy term that requires no thought and leads others want to just stack your opinions with all the others expressed in exactly the same way.You have individual thoughts and feelings and opinions that are worth expressing? Then express them as individual thoughts and feelings and opinions.  Don't lump them in with everyone else's.</blockquote>

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