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::::IMO this is a story that should be invalid until proven otherwise and the forum to do that in doesn't currently exist. I just want to make sure we all agree to that before I put the invalid tag on it. Similar to [[Doctor Who Comes to MINECRAFT! (webcast)]]. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:53, 12 September 2022 (UTC) | ::::IMO this is a story that should be invalid until proven otherwise and the forum to do that in doesn't currently exist. I just want to make sure we all agree to that before I put the invalid tag on it. Similar to [[Doctor Who Comes to MINECRAFT! (webcast)]]. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:53, 12 September 2022 (UTC) | ||
:: I'm still not sold, though I'd bow to a consensus against me. It just seems to me that "CYOA game" are a genre, and we have decided to exclude that genre, while still allowing in things from valid genres (e.g. short stories or Big Finish audio plays) that pastiche the style as a gimmick. Obverse ''didn't'' publish this as a CYOA game; they published it as a short story, in a short story collection. I think it would be unnecessarily pedantic of us to exclude it. (Compare ''Book of the War'' pastiching a reference book, or even a RPG sourcebook, but actually being in-universe and being marketed by Mad Norwegian as a novel!) <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 18:10, 12 September 2022 (UTC) | :: I'm still not sold, though I'd bow to a consensus against me. It just seems to me that "CYOA game" are a genre, and we have decided to exclude that genre, while still allowing in things from valid genres (e.g. short stories or Big Finish audio plays) that pastiche the style as a gimmick. Obverse ''didn't'' publish this as a CYOA game; they published it as a short story, in a short story collection. I think it would be unnecessarily pedantic of us to exclude it. (Compare ''Book of the War'' pastiching a reference book, or even a RPG sourcebook, but actually being in-universe and being marketed by Mad Norwegian as a novel!) <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 18:10, 12 September 2022 (UTC) | ||
:::From my perspective I don't think my ask would prompt as much discussion if the forums were with us and the actual inclusion debate could happen. idk, both this and the Minecraft thing seem like obvious cases of ''prima facie'' invalidity, we stick an invalid tag on them, then discuss them in the forums. It's just that because forums ded, we can't do that last part, so nobody wants to rule something as invalid for an arbitrarily long period of time and these cursory discussions turn into pseudo inclusion debates. Which I get. But it's frustrating, since I want to do coverage of this anthology and leaving this story unresolved is going to eat at me. And, fair warning, I'm absolutely not going to give a full summary for it. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:57, 12 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
