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Theatre Sports (competitive collaborative dramatic improvisation) has the concepts of offer, accept, and block. Accepting an offer means to build on it in some

Theatre Sports (competitive collaborative dramatic improvisation) has the concepts of offer, accept, and block. Accepting an offer means to build on it in some way, as a real part of the scene - in the way you mean. A block is when you ignore or undermine the offer, denying it instead of building on it. There's temptation to do so for a cheap laugh. The uncharitable negativity of HN seems similar.

jlees 12y ago
One thing that took me a while to understand as a player - accepting doesn't always mean ignoring conflict. If you offer me something, I accept that your version of reality is true; I don't have to agree with specific parts of it. For example, if someone starts a scene with "Isn't it lovely to be here in Paris?", I accept that we are in Paris, but I don't have to think it's lovely. The takeaway from this to non-improv discussions is that I'm more aware of the fact that although I might disagree with the comment someone makes, I accept that the writer has that opinion and that they believe it to be true, and if I want to challenge any part of it then I'm going to have a much better time of it if I start from their version of reality.
- pain 12y ago
  Accepting means logging|auditing?
- andrea_sdl 12y ago
  I hope the order in which these comments lead to yours will stay this way in the future. for reference: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh6gdqlm8jargi4/Screenshot%202015-04-04%2015.47.29.png?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh6gdqlm8jargi4/Screenshot%202015-... Why? They perfectly highlight what's the "good common-sense reply" is like, how we should measure with each other opinions and how to handle disagreements. HN might as well included the conversation as an example.
cdr 12y ago
Sounds not dissimilar to the "bid/turn towards/turn away" terminology in Gottman relationship theory.
pain 12y ago
Log is an act we miss. (Change is act limited by log law.) The steelmanning combinatorially #buildingmentalhealth and emotional regulation while mods are drone operators hiddren unrestricted violently cutting and copping audit logs to get page views clear for what depth of order of self empowerment determination? [1] http://web.archive.org/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916 http://web.archive.org/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i... [2] https://archive.today/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916 https://archive.today/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9... [3] http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1428133249694151 http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1428133249694151
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jlees 12y ago

One thing that took me a while to understand as a player - accepting doesn't always mean ignoring conflict. If you offer me something, I accept that your version of reality is true; I don't have to agree with specific parts of it. For example, if someone starts a scene with "Isn't it lovely to be here in Paris?", I accept that we are in Paris, but I don't have to think it's lovely. The takeaway from this to non-improv discussions is that I'm more aware of the fact that although I might disagree with the comment someone makes, I accept that the writer has that opinion and that they believe it to be true, and if I want to challenge any part of it then I'm going to have a much better time of it if I start from their version of reality.

pain 12y ago
Accepting means logging|auditing?
andrea_sdl 12y ago
I hope the order in which these comments lead to yours will stay this way in the future. for reference: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh6gdqlm8jargi4/Screenshot%202015-04-04%2015.47.29.png?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh6gdqlm8jargi4/Screenshot%202015-... Why? They perfectly highlight what's the "good common-sense reply" is like, how we should measure with each other opinions and how to handle disagreements. HN might as well included the conversation as an example.

cdr 12y ago

Sounds not dissimilar to the "bid/turn towards/turn away" terminology in Gottman relationship theory.

pain 12y ago

Log is an act we miss. (Change is act limited by log law.) The steelmanning combinatorially #buildingmentalhealth and emotional regulation while mods are drone operators hiddren unrestricted violently cutting and copping audit logs to get page views clear for what depth of order of self empowerment determination? [1] http://web.archive.org/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916 http://web.archive.org/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i... [2] https://archive.today/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916 https://archive.today/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9... [3] http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1428133249694151 http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1428133249694151

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