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Quotes by Jon Peterson

A certain amount of histrionics is doubtless a necessary price for authentic role-playing, and within limits it should probably not be discouraged.

– Jon Peterson
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There is a vast conceptual distance between a prediction and a simulation. A prediction will prove either right or wrong, but a simulation is neither, it is merely a fictional outcome which derives from a set of inputs that approximate, with a greater or lesser degree of realism, a targeted circumstance.

– Jon Peterson
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This is a very seductive approach; it is much easier to envision oneself as a real person in some other world than it is to believe that one is all of the German eastern front commanders.

– Jon Peterson
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[…] the microcosm of the game board, a simple model of real-world events which can be explored inconsequentially.

– Jon Peterson
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