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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5106262" data-attributes="member: 4937">Do you consider it amazing how you can abstract my walls of text down to such terse statements and still accurately capture what I said?  Because if you could really do that, it would be amazing and I'd feel really silly for bothering to write so much to try to explain myself.If you are going to simplify me down to the point where your paraphrase doesn't really look like what I said, please at least make some acknowledgement of the fact that you are vastly simplifying what I said.  If I thought the terms 'simplified' or 'doesn't have enough choices' captured the idea (by themselves), I would have used them earlier and been done with it.  And I claim that there might be just such a concept, or least, a small group of related concepts which when they appear together create the experience people are calling 'videogamey'.  This concept is likely neither obvious nor easy to articulate, else the people using the term 'videogamey' would have reached for more readily understood and specific words like 'simple'.I seriously doubt there is a one word definition here.  I very much doubt that there is a single unawkward sentense that can serve as a defintion.  Think for a moment of precise definitions for words like 'novel' (the literary form, not the synonym for 'new') or 'role playing game'.  It's very unlikely that 'videogamey' has a more concise definition than either.</blockquote>

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