[ SECRET POST #2756 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2756 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Tabletop gaming (board games, miniatures games, RPGs, etc.) tend to come by the term 'fluff' by a different derivation than most fandoms. In them, the 'crunch' is the rules and game mechanics that are the core of the experience, while the 'fluff' is the story elements around it that may or may not grab the imagination of the players, but doesn't have any effects on the actual way the game playes. (i.e. it doesn't matter that your WH40K commissar is madly in forbidden love with one of his Space Marines, you won't get any bonuses or penalties for it either way.) It doesn't indicate the tone of the 'fluff' at all -- it can be dramatic, heartwarming, silly, or whatever.

Most other fandoms come to 'fluff' from an entirely different angle -- it describes the tone of a work entirely, from the idea of being 'light and fluffy.' Which makes a certain amount of sense -- most books, TV shows, anime, or whatever don't have any need for the term 'crunch' because there's no rules or gameplay to them. So without crunch, there's no reason to label the fluff in opposition to it, and that frees up the term for other uses.

And thus we get one term meaning two things due to differing derivations. Language and fandom sure are complicated!

[world_eater]

Not sure why you explain that to me. (not angry, i know lack of smileys can be deceiving~)

[nyxelestia]

I didn't see the AYRT's post until now, but I suspect it would be for the benefit of others on this thread, because I now understand why fluff has taken on that meaning in Wh40k fandom, and why it's so different from other fandoms. (So on that note, feel free the ignore my other comment, I didn't realize that your fandom was a table-top game, or what 'fluff' would mean in a tabletop game.).

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's why I explained it -- that and the fact that I love spreading information that I'm not entirely sure everyone in a discussion already knows. If it came across as didactic, or saying what people already know, I'm sorry -- I just get carried away with fun things like sharing etymologies. (Seriously. I have weird ideas of fun.)

[nyxelestia]

a.) Never apologize for spreading information. You never know what other people don't know.

b.) I'm an amateur linguist. I fucking LOVE hearing about cultural context of words, etymologies, history, etc. :) I don't see what's so weird about that version of fun at all. :P