thread: 2009-06-22 : Secrets: the Smelly Chamberlain
On 2009-06-24, Joel wrote:
O-o-oh, OK! Gotcha, Ben. I guess your statement looked kinda similar to others' comments here recently that WERE about the primacy of "Individual Imagined Space" or whatever. I'm good now, I think.
Vincent—influence, gotcha. Makes absolute sense to me. Like I said, it strikes me that "what happened before" is important precisely because we (may) want to build on it, not because it's "objectively true" or "real" or any such thing.
Which, illuminates a lot of the bitter disputes in my roleplaying history in a new way. I thought they were about one thing, but they were really about another thing. interesting. . .
Peace,
-Joel