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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5107213" data-attributes="member: 710">So the discussion is Orwelly? Or Big Brotherian? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />A little more seriously - the attempt to avoid the term videogame is not to limit the abilities to communicate, but to improve them. To clarify what you are saying. Newspeak is all about removing <s>bad</s>ungood words so people cannot <s>express rebellous thoughts</s> commit thought crimes. Newspseak would be saying that you can only use "videogamey" to express your dislike of an Roleplaying Game, thus making it impossible for you to desribe what exactly is wrong with it. The thought crime would be saying: "I don't like a system with pre-packed combat actions like powers, as they tend to limit creativity as people only try to use the powers given to them, instead of imagining themselves in the situation desribed in the game." A little more wordy than necessary perhaps, but it also explains why Newspeak might prefer "videogamey" as a term - our person in question is now restricted from describing the game as related to "creativity" and "imagination", two certainly ungood terms that <s>might give the population ungood ideas</s> lead to thought crimes.</blockquote>