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> Except of course that that would make it completely boring to play

Yeah. Because that's what it is.

> It's the part of the game that's encoded socially rather than algorithmically that make it unique and interesting.

For board games maybe. This is a video game, a different medium, and it doesn't work that way. The player can and will do anything the game program allows them to do.

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Including enforcing their own challenges. Hey, there are people playing Mario 64 without using the A button (the jump button).