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Because I'm too polite.

posted by [personal profile] benlehman at 04:52pm on 30/11/2004
More Forge responses that I can't post there. This time, I responding to people who are saying that Narrativist play is clearly just like writing a novel. These people have clearly never written a novel.

"I'm sick and tired of hearing people say that their particular way of gaming is 'like writing novels.' It isn't, unless your style of gaming involves sitting alone in a room and making sentences on your word processor or in your notebook. Further, it doesn't give you any cred. It just makes it look like you are trying to ape another artform, and frankly I find it a little pathetic.

Jesus Christ, people, why don't you just game on your own terms? You don't see me saying that my gaming is just like ballet choreography."
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posted by [identity profile] relevance.livejournal.com at 03:09am on 01/12/2004
My... my gaming is just like ballet choreography... oh God...
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posted by [identity profile] funwithrage.livejournal.com at 06:04am on 01/12/2004
If any of your future games require tutus, I'm going to beat you with a hardcover copy of The Stand .
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posted by [identity profile] relevance.livejournal.com at 09:32pm on 01/12/2004
You know you'd play it anyway.
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posted by [identity profile] funwithrage.livejournal.com at 01:47am on 02/12/2004
See...maybe. But I'd hate you forever for seducing me down a dark, dark path of tutu-clad gaming.
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posted by [identity profile] relevance.livejournal.com at 02:30am on 02/12/2004
Once you embrace it, you will come to love it. It will become your father and mother, your sister, all that you hold dear...
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 07:12am on 02/12/2004
Adam --

If you design a game which is like ballet choreography in the manner that these people think their gaming is like fiction writing, I will not only play, I will wear *any color of tutu you so desire*

yrs--
--Ben
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posted by [identity profile] relevance.livejournal.com at 09:01pm on 03/12/2004
Do they make paisley tutus?
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 07:45am on 01/12/2004
And, frankly, there's nothing wrong with that :-)
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posted by [identity profile] xiombarg.livejournal.com at 07:28pm on 01/12/2004
Really, that's no worse than a few things I've seen Raven post. You should post it.
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 07:35pm on 01/12/2004
It may turn into a seperate manifesto a few months from now, once I get back from a hiatus. I just think things are a little too hot right now.

Also, I try to remain one of the more polite people on the Forge. Because, frankly, I think some people (no names), even when they post things I agree with, act like gits far too often. As someone who is going to have a rather public persona in the future, I'd rather avoid acting like a git.
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