@mechapoetic i have some vague hope that post-GG ppl have a clearer idea of what The Man Keeping You Down looks like & how it's not critique
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@mechapoetic oh, didn't mean that. just hoping that thinking systems and agency are important will no longer be the mark of the oppressor.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mechapoetic so one can display qualities that might identify one as a dread formalist and not be understood as the crushing fist of evil.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chaosprime a) don't listen to what we have to say and b) dismiss it as some kind of weird anti-formalist posture which it's not1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mechapoetic hrm. that seems pretty at odds with the rhetoric i saw flying in Formalism Wars v1, but maybe that's not so important now.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chaosprime even make sense. NARRATIVE *IS* FORM, AESTHETICS *ARE* FORM. christ.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mechapoetic *nod* the debate around narrative is highly weird to me. the point of agency as i see it is in producing narrative.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chaosprime "agency" implies a certain level of decision-making primacy but games don't offer that, they offer dialog within a "system"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mechapoetic i imagine that's why i like complex systems that promote emergent behaviors and emergent gameplay.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@mechapoetic i mean, agency doesn't occur outside of the constraints of the systems forming its context in IRL or anything.
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Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime i'm skeptical "agency" is a thing in IRL systems anyway! i think it's MOSTLY a matter of performativity of social ritual0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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