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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8657515" data-attributes="member: 5142">I think that it's a more accurate assessment, at least on my part, to say that while the questions that interest hobbyists and academics overlap, they are not necessarily synonymous. So it is not that the academic jargon or frameworks are &quot;too serious,&quot; but, rather, that a lot of the principles, frameworks, and concepts behind the jargon that hobbyists developed tend to be a little more helpful for developing and honing my own play preferences and aesthetics. Maybe that constitutes Goldilocks style &quot;just right,&quot; but it's not necessarily because the academic frameworks are &quot;too serious,&quot; but, rather, because they typically have a different focus and purpose. As an obvious point where we likely agree: it's difficult to recollect debates that many hobbyists never participated in for a variety of reasons (e.g., age, discussion venues, etc.), and a general lack of access to those past records make it difficult to familiarize themselves with what debate came before. It's likely that a reason why theory-crafting from the Forge has the resilience it does (for better or worse) has to do with the medium in which it was discussed and disseminated&nbsp; (i.e., the Internet). And likewise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 8657515, member: 5142"] I think that it's a more accurate assessment, at least on my part, to say that while the questions that interest hobbyists and academics overlap, they are not necessarily synonymous. So it is not that the academic jargon or frameworks are "too serious," but, rather, that a lot of the principles, frameworks, and concepts behind the jargon that hobbyists developed tend to be a little more helpful for developing and honing my own play preferences and aesthetics. Maybe that constitutes Goldilocks style "just right," but it's not necessarily because the academic frameworks are "too serious," but, rather, because they typically have a different focus and purpose. As an obvious point where we likely agree: it's difficult to recollect debates that many hobbyists never participated in for a variety of reasons (e.g., age, discussion venues, etc.), and a general lack of access to those past records make it difficult to familiarize themselves with what debate came before. It's likely that a reason why theory-crafting from the Forge has the resilience it does (for better or worse) has to do with the medium in which it was discussed and disseminated (i.e., the Internet). And likewise. [/QUOTE]

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