This is a good video (hopefully it works in all browsers, GDC's site is weird) about fairness in games. And by extension, stories.

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025683/Board-Game-Design-Day-King

Preferences are preferences, but some of them are much stronger than that. Things that feel wrong to us. Like we want to say, "that's not how stories should go!"

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I love the Internet.

So I discovered this thing on YouTube called Postmodern Jukebox:

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I need help from Latin scholars. I'm reading The Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukács. It's remarkably prescient in describing the aims of post-modern literature. In fact, it's so prescient that I think it must have created post-modern literature, since as far as I know, no literature of the kind it describes existed when Lukács wrote it in 1914-15 at age 29, and he didn't mention any 20th-century

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In my last blog post, I wrote that people in the SCA have the super-power of being able to “study people from a distant time and place and try to understand them.”

I spoke too soon.

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I'll be the first to admit that I'm not exactly an active user of this site. It's often enough that I wish I were. Unfortunately, real life tends to eclipse my pony writing projects, though I hope to get some more content up on FiMFiction before the end of the year, at least. In the last couple of months, I have been absent entirely from this site. When I came back, I found that the prominent writer darf had left again, and taken his stories with

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I'm reading Marie-Pierre Pouly's (MPP's) "Anatomy of a 'quality' bestseller", Poetics 59 (2016): 20-34, and I'm too angry to finish it before I start writing this blog.

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Trigger warning: Extreme nerdiness

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