XCOM - Is now a Genre

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction. It looks like a weird definition, but that's how tags work.
No. People do not abide by this kind of approach. What is tagged beef meat is not beef meat whatever happens.
It could pretend to work that way if people were not that quick to dismiss that kind of approach as soon it works against them.
That's exactly why all the vain attempts to precisely define what RPG is are vowed to fail, it's mechanically easier to extend a tag than to restrict it. And no despotic fan community will stop other people to use the RPG tag.
No. That is the opposite. No matter what products are tagged as RPGs, it will not change what RPG was characterized to be.

People can try as much as they want, it wont work. Especially when they are first to jump out of the boat at the first opportunity. Labelling donkey meat as beef meat will not turn it into beef meat.

It is a very strong display of magical thinking, of magical thought. Societies were crushed in the past because they were assessed to rely on magical thinking.
Yet, they never reach the intensity of magical thinking as it can be witnessed these days.
 
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Life and history show tags aren't fixed in marble it's much larger than that, and RPG tag for video games is a perfect example. That you deny it won't change history.

You are making a confusion here between reality and what you think, no there's no fixed in marble definition of XCOM genre nor of RPG. It could be fixed for you, but not for the world and no way you are the guy who "know the truth".
 
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There is no confusion.

People do not apply this kind of approach, especially people who profess it. They are usually the first to bail out of that thought pattern.

For example, people can not take responsibility for their consumption and the by products that come with it.
They issue a demand for cars to be less pollutant. Builders failed to deliver and tagged their cars as pollutant as wished for.

The tag changed nothing. And obviously, a lot of people came to think likewise. No confusion here.

People can profit from tagging a product for what it is not. Yet it does not change what the product is. Never will.
 
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Your error is to believe everybody has your opinion or even should have. Ok if you refuse get what a tag is in reality, fine, I can't force you and extract you from your illusions. Swim deep it won't change reality.
 
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No.
There is no personal opinion being expressed.

Only the observation and report of other people's opinion.

Tagging cars as non pollutant was not enough to make those cars passed the test. This was the opinion of thousands of people.

That is a an effort to turn tables.
 
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No.
There is no personal opinion being expressed.

Only the observation and report of other people's opinion.

Tagging cars as non pollutant was not enough to make those cars passed the test. This was the opinion of thousands of people.

That is a an effort to turn tables.
You just brought an argument to my affirmation that a tags evolves, you brought an example even if not is a same category.

What was tagged pollutant in 1990 isn't what is tagged pollutant 20 years after.

It's not about tables, it's you can't get out of your own point of view, typical from a bot. :p

Nope your believing of what is a tag exactly isn't the same than what believes your neighbor, just believing, no science.
 
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The example underlines that tags are irrelevant.

What was tagged as pollutants in the 1990s and no longer tagged in the 2010s means nothing apart a change in name.
 
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