The Culture: Beast Can't Read

Grifting Beast is again ankle-biting the Bros and promoting Cargo Cult Dogma because he needs the Cult to buy shit he shills.

No, it's not Calvinball. It's not a folk tradition. It's no different than Chess; it's a game with a strict ruleset that is there to be used and obeyed. Using it wrong--"folk traditions"--doesn't stop being wrong because you did the meme.

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Because no, Grifty-Boi, you can't read. So many of you can't, so you resort to Calvinball to cope with being unable to read what Gary wrote and comprehend what he said.

Proper gameplay means that all of your problems cease to exist.

• You can play when you want, how you want, for as long as you want because there are gamemodes and procedures that focus on it- Schedule Your Fun isn't an issue.
• Strict Timekeeping means that the world is always in motion and thus opportunities for Happenings to play out are always there, and mandatory upkeep costs keeps all mans on the map focused on securing and protecting their logistics lest they be knocked out of play.
• No Calvinball. The rules say what they say, they are what they are, and everyone is bound by them- including the publisher. The Word Is The Authority, not the Referee, the publisher, or any other man. They can be read, studied, known, and mastered- same as Chess, UNO, Scrabble, or any other game because that's what this is.
• The focus is on being an independent actor operating under a Fog of War pursuing objectives. Some are individual mans, some control factions, and there are no permanent parties so you mix up who you play and who you play with on a regular basis.

This is presuming that Grifty does suffer a reading a comprehension problem. Far more likely is that he's doing this shit again.

These people don't know a goddamn thing about game design, so they fuck with things things that they shouldn't and then wonder why shit doesn't work.

Initative is one of them. It's there to manage information flows in combat by keeping things confined to one subset at a time; the more granular the procedure, the worse things are at the table and the more you argue for digitization and automation (i.e. Vidya) instead because that level of complexity is better done in competing media but that would mean that Grifty can (a) read and (b) consider Second and Third Order effects, and we see that he can't.

Shut up already.