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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9097979" data-attributes="member: 23751">All of those things are aspects of agency, not whether agency is high or low. Basketball(narrative play) is very different from Soccer(traditional play). I you like basketball and not soccer, you might be tempted to say that soccer is a low scoring game and basketball is a high scoring game.  However, that's the wrong way to look at it.  Each of those games has agency and each values different aspects of agency to arrive at how they score their games.Within basketball a team who scores 70 points in a low(low agency) scoring game.  A team that scores 130 is in a high(high agency) scoring game.  Go to soccer and if a team scores 1 it's a low(low agency) score, but a team scoring 6 points has a high(high agency) score. If you who like basketball were to play in a soccer game with it's different sort agency,  you might be tempted to think, "I have lower agency in this game. It's a much lower scoring game." The fact is, though, that you have full agency to score in soccer under that style of play.  It just FEELS lower to you, because you value the agency that is used to score in basketball.  The same would go for me who values the kind of scoring used in soccer. My agency in a narrative game would feel less, because I value different aspects of agency than you do.In both instances we have full agency.  Agency is all or nothing.  You have it or you do not.  Whether it feels high or low to you depends on what aspects you value out of agency.</blockquote>

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