thread: 2005-11-10 : Open House: Ask a Frequent Question...
On 2005-11-30, Vincent wrote:
Ethan: "Remind me why you hate 'SIS'?"
Because when you use the words "Shared Imagined Space" to mean the game's fiction:
a) You lose one quarter of your audience - BAM! - to "imagination can't ever be truly shared"; and
b) You lose one quarter of your audience - BAM! - to "your character is your avatar in the game space."
If you're LUCKY, that's half of your audience gone. If you aren't lucky, that's half of your audience intent on screwing up the conversation for the other half.
This makes JCL go "that's why..."
... I started using the Fiction instead of SIS. especially after Jonathan Walton started a thread discussing what "Shared Imagined Space" really meant.
This makes WMW go "You lose something when you lose the term, too."
Shared. Without the Shared in there to cause trouble, it's really easy for people to keep up their denial about the necessary and inevitable social component of What It Is That We Do. But I sympathise with the desire to just stop quibbling and move on.
This makes MB go "Shared Fiction?"
What problems does this ^ phrase cause?
