@St_Rev Fair points. What does the "right-intersectionalist" in your profile mean?
@St_Rev where i felt that considering agency relevant was IDing me as one of the evil formalists keeping the brave personal narratives down.
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@St_Rev hm. well, there was an assertion that players were better understood as actors in the theatrical sense, and that theatre crit in… -
@St_Rev …general was a superior lens for analyzing games. (kind of thing that makes me feel kind of fucking colonized, tbqf.) -
@St_Rev an argument against agency was that deponent experienced none or very little of it IRL, which seemed to make representing it in… -
@St_Rev …games bad, possibly because depicting a more privileged and therefore unrelatable viewpoint?
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@St_Rev agency was definitely seen as 1) fake 2) a Bro Thing. wondering if that's part of a construction of agency as a Bro Thing in general -
@chaosprime I would really like to hear more detail about this. That is a scene I am unfamiliar with. -
@chaosprime "agency is a Bro Thing" <-->#GiveYourMoneyToWomen? -
@St_Rev maybe? doesn't seem inconsistent, anyway. -
@chaosprime oh GOD the theater crit theory. Like the influence of the Forge on RPGs. I fucking loathe those guys. -
@chaosprime "We don't understand what you're doing with these RPGs, therefore we are going to come up with an abstract-incoherent theory... -
@chaosprime "...and declare that you are trying to obey our rules, but failing miserably because you are awful" -
@St_Rev oh boy. that sounds like an RPG-world trash fire i'm not sad i missed. - 6 more replies
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